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Special Interest Group Announcement
by Daniele Bovio 15 Jun '93

15 Jun '93

Folks, I would really appreciate to have your contribution in this work we are starting out. The purpose of the group is entirely positive, no religious wars accepted, ;-) Regards PS Remember to store your maps| ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************* ***** EARN Special Interest Group Announcement ****** ***** Call for volunteers ****** ******************************************************* An EARN Special Interest Group, open to all, is started to define the protocol of an unsolicited file transfer mechanism similar to SENDFILE for the Internet. The goal is to have a powerful, generic protocol able to support VM, VMS, and UNIX file systems, finalized within a year at most. Once the protocol is defined it will be published and implementers will be encouraged to provide a working prototype. If the prototypes proves to work, the protocol will be submitted as an RFC to the Internet. Volunteers are welcome to join the group and participate in the definition phase. RATIONALE --------- It seems to be wise to start thinking about the future of the key EARN/BITNET services in order to be able to preserve them even without NJE. After all, sendfile services not requiring the availability of NJE would be immediately valuable, particularly in those parts of the world (UK, Australia) where NJE is not used at all. This appears of particular importance if applied to distribute services. In theory, it does not seem difficult to base the exchange of distribution jobs between pairs of LISTSERVs on SMTP transport (using base64 encoding for binary files) rather than NJE. There is already a prototype version of LISTSERV that can provide the entire range of LISTSERV services without NJE (peered lists, list of lists, automatic command forwarding, but of course not interactive messages or delivery of arbitrary binary files which today are not available on the Internet). In practice, however, it is difficult to build a service with the same level of reliability using SMTP as transport mechanism, because of the lack of reliability of certain mail gateways and because of the problem of message size limits (most SMTP relays reject messages larger than 100k). The prototype Internet LISTSERV requires that the two VM systems can establish a direct SMTP connection (no MX or intermediate gateway), and assumes that the message size limit is high enough not to cause rejection of LISTSERV-to-LISTSERV traffic. This is reasonable for a prototype service, but a full production service would need a more robust solution. Because LISTSERV is not the only application which may need to send files larger than 100k and containing binaries to peer servers, this solution should not be implemented in LISTSERV but as a layered service similar to the NJE SENDFILE, which could be used by anyone. Thus, an EARN Special Interest Group, open to all, is started to define the protocol of an unsolicited file transfer mechanism similar to SENDFILE for the Internet. The protocol will become public domain. The group will work through the mailing list: UFT-L(a)EARNCC.BITNET Volunteers are welcome to subscribe to the list. Send a mail message to LISTSERV@EARNCC with the string: "sub UFT-L Firstname Lastname" in the body of the message. d.

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BETEL Deliverable 1 (D01) available from dxcoms.cern.ch
by Olivier Martin 14 Jun '93

14 Jun '93

Please note that deliverable 1 of the BETEL project (Demonstrator Specifications) is available via anonymous ftp from dxcoms.cern.ch: /pub/betel/betel-d01.ps (753787 bytes) /pub/betel/betel-d01.ps.Z (266007 bytes) The document is fairly big (70 pages), and was converted to Postscript from Words 5.0 on a Mac. It has also been successfully printed on an Apple Laser Writer printer. BETEL is one of the 4 projets selected in DIVON as a result of the DION call for proposals, and the short summary below has already been posted onto various distribution lists. Olivier, H. Martin - CERN CN Division ------------------------------------- ..................................... I2003 - BETEL (Boadband Exchange over Trans-European Links) ----------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the BETEL project is to demonstrate over optical fiber links multimedia applications with high data rate transmissions. The optical platform will interconnect CERN (Geneva), IN2P3 (Lyon), EPFL (Lausanne) and Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis).............................

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ACM Multimedia'93
by acm-mm93＠cs.ucsd.edu 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

Enclosed please find detailed hotel and conference registration information for ACM Multimedia '93, plus the advance program. Sincere apologies if you get multiple copies of this note (since this has been mailed to multiple mailing lists). If you do not want to be in multimedia related mailing lists, please send a message to: acm-mm93(a)cs.ucsd.edu ************************** ACM MULTIMEDIA 93 **************************** FIRST ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA (co-located with SIGGRAPH 93) (SIGBIO, SIGCHI, SIGCOMM, SIGGRAPH, SIGIR, SIGLINK, and SIGOIS) 1-6 August 1993, Anaheim, California General Chair: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, University of California, Santa Cruz and SRI International Steering Comm. Chair: E.A. Fox, Virginia Poly. Inst. State Univ. Program Chair: P.V. Rangan, University of California, San Diego ************************************************************************** *********************** REGISTRATION INFORMATION ************************* REGISTRATION FORM SIGGRAPH 93 and Multimedia 93 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Identification. Your badge will read exactly as shown here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ First name Middle initial Last name _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Job title Telephone (area code, number _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Organization _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Street address _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ City State/province Postal code Country _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ______________________________ Fax Email _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____Non-member(NM) ____Student (SM) ACM or SIG IEEE Member # Must attach a copy of ACM Membership card or valid student identification card. REGISTRATION INFORMATION l. Complete both sides of this form. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. Enclose payment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See the page opposite the table of contents for what's included in your registration. Fees are shown on the other side of this form. Checks and money orders ($US) should be made payable to "ACM SIGGRAPH 93". No forms are processed without accompanying payment. Payment must equal the amount indicated at the bottom of the other side of this form. Refund requests must be made in writing and postmarked on or before 12 July. There is a processing fee of $50. 3. Mail or fax before the deadline 25 June Early registration discount ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ l2 July Advance registration ~~~~~~~ Registration forms received after l2 July cannot be processed in time for the conference. For registration received after 12 July, you are required to repay your registration fees on site and apply for a refund of the original payment. Send form and payment to: ACM SIGGRAPH 93 P.O. Box 953l6 Chicago, IL 60694-53l6 USA Or fax both sides of this form with credit card information to : 312.321.6876 For more information, call: SIGGRAPH 93 Conference Management 312.321.6830 4. Fax early ~~~~~~~~~ If you pay by credit card, you may fax your registration form. Both sides of your completed registration form must be faxed to process your registration. Keep a copy of your fax transmission report to verify that your fax was received by SIGGRAPH in the event there is a problem. It is strongly recommended that you fax your registration well in advance of the Friday, 25 June early registration discount deadline. Heavy fax volume is expected at this time and SIGGRAPH 93 is not responsible for faxes not received due to busy phone lines. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ ___ Do not include my name or address on any published list of attendees.(NL) ___ Do not include my telephone number on any published list of attendees.(PL) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ If, due to a disability, you have special needs or requirements, please let us know in the space provided below, and we will do our best to accomodate you. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Registration Form Continued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Full name MULTIMEDIA REGISTRATION ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Multimedia papers/panels (Wednesday - Friday) Includes Multimedia papers/panels, papers/panels reception; exhibition; and one copy of the "Multimedia 93 Conference Proceedings". Fees Postmarked Member Non-Member Student on or before 25 June $275 $370 $l05 after 25 June 345 4l5 l40 Multimedia plus (Tuesday - Friday) Includes Multimedia and SIGGRAPH papers/panels, papers/panels reception; exhibition; one electronic theater ticket; and one copy of the "Multimedia 93 Conference Proceedings". Fees Postmarked Member Non-Member Student on or before 25 June $370 S495 S185 after 25 June 460 550 235 MULTIMEDIA REGISTRATION FEE ----------- | | ---------- Electronic Theater One ticket per person, not per registration category, is included with registration. Please circle the showing you prefer. We will attempt to accomodate your request. Circle one: Tues. 7:30P PM Wed. 7:30 PM Thurs. 7:30 PM PAYMENT ~~~~~~~ _______ Payment is enclosed. Make check or money order ($US) payable to "ACM SIGGRAPH 93". _____American Express _____MasterCard _____Visa Number ______________________ Exp. date _______ Name exactly as it appears on the credit card: ______________________________________________ Total Payment (SUS) REGISTRATION FEES __________ Billing address ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Signature ____________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************** *************************** HOTEL INFORMATION **************************** ATI Travel Management is the official housing coordinator for SIGGRAPH93 and MULTIMEDIA 93. Reservations at discounted conference rates are available ONLY through ATI. All reservation information should be mailed, or sent by email BEFORE 30 June 1993 to: ATI TRAVEL MANAGEMENT, INC. 401 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60611-4267, USA FAX: 312.644.6369 EMAIL: travel.s93(a)siggraph.org Confirmations, Cancellations, and Changes: Reservtions are confirmed by mail. Any cancellations and changes may be made directly with ATI Travel Management by calling 800.477.7514 (United States and Canada, excluding Illinois) or 312.644.6642; by fax 312.644.6369; or by email: travel.s93(a)siggraph.org Special Requirements: If due to a disability, you have special needs or requirements, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you. ========================================================================= HOTEL RESERVATION FORM (Please print or type) NAME: __________________________________________________________ Organization:____________________________________________________ Street Address:__________________________________________________ City:__________________ State/province:__________________ Postal Code:___________ Country:_________________ Area code and phone number:______________________________________ Fax number:_______________________________________ HOTEL PREFERENCE AND RATE CHOICE: ATI will do its best to accommodate you at your first hotel choice. However, in the event that is not possible, please indicate a second choice. Frist Choice: Hotel: ______________________________________________ Room Rate: __________________________________________ Second Choice: Hotel: ______________________________________________ Room Rate: __________________________________________ RESERVATION REQUEST: Please supply the following information for each room required Arrival Date: ____________________________ Departure Date: __________________________ Single:______ Double: _________ Rate Requested:____________________ Share Room with:______________________________________ RESERVATION GUARANTEE: It is necessary to guarantee your first night's stay by credit card. Credit Card Name: _________________________________________ Credit Card Number: _______________________________________ Expiration Date: __________________________ Signature: ________________________________________________ ========================================================================== ANAHEIM HOTELS Hotel Single Double Parking -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anaheim Hilton and Towers (Standard) $115 $127 $6/day self 714-750-4321 (Deluxe) 132 143 $8 valet (Lanai) l43 154 in/out priv. Anaheim International Inn*/** 59 59 N/C 714-971-9393 Anaheim Marriott l09 l09 $5 self 714-750-8000 $12 valet HEADQUARTERS HOTEL in/out priv. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ Conestoga Hotel** 79 85 N/C 714-535-0300 Convention Center Inn* 44 54 N/C 714-740-2500 Disneyland Hotel** 105 115 $10 self 714-778-6600 $13 valet in/out priv. Doubletree Hotel** 105 115 $4/day self 714-634-4500 $6 valet in/out priv. The Grand Hotel** 88 94 N/C 714-772-7777 Holiday Inn Anaheim** 77 84 N/C 714-750-2801 Hyatt Regency Alicante** 98 108 $4/day self 714-750-1234 $8 valet in/out priv. Inn at the Park 95 95 $1/hour 714-750-1811 $7 max/24 hrs. in/out priv. Jolly Roger Inn (Economy) 70 75 N/C 714-772-7621 (Deluxe) 80 85 Pan Pacific Hotel** 85 85 $6/day self 714-999-0990 $8/day valet in/out priv. Plaza Hotel** 82 82 $4/day self 714-772-5900 in/out priv. Quality Hotel 85 85 $4/day self 714-750-3131 in/out priv. Raffles Inn*/** 54 54 N/C 714-750-6100 Sheraton Anaheim** 99 99 N/C 714-778-1700 Stardust Best Western*/** 44 44 N/C 714-774-7600 Travelodge Convention Side 55 55 N/C 714-774-8065 Travelodge Maingate** 55 55 N/C 714-635-6550 * Includes complimentary continental breakfast ** Includes SIGGRAPH 93 shuttle service ************************************************************************* **************************** ADVANCE PROGRAM **************************** Monday, 2 August 1993: Courses Designing Multimedia Environments for Children (Full Day), A. Druin, Scitex America, and C. Solomon, Wheeling Jesuit College Multimedia Systems: A Guided Tour (Full Day), B. Furht, Florida Atlantic Univ., and M. Milenkovic, IBM Concept of Color, Video, and Compression (Full Day), C.A. Poynton, Sun MCC, D. Farber, Sonrisa, E.F. Morrison, Ampex Corp. Tuesday, 3 August 1993: Courses Survey of Formal Standards for Multimedia Systems (Full Day), B.J. Shepherd (Organizer), IBM Corp. Copyright Protection for Software, Graphics, and Multimedia (Half Day), P. Samuelson, Univ. of Pittsburg Multimedia and Multimodal Parsing (Half Day), K. Wittenburg, Bellcore Structured Design of Hypermedia Applications (Half Day), F. Garzotto and P. Paolini, Politecnico di Milano Large Multimedia Databases (Half Day) R. Jain, Univ. of California, San Diego Wednesday, 4 August 1993 10:15-12:00 Noon: Keynote Session Chair: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UC Santa Cruz SRI Int'l Keynote Speaker: Trip Hawkins, President and CEO, The 3DO Company 1:30-3:15 PM: Communication Protocols Chair: H. Terada, Osaka University Optimistic Strategies for Large-Scale Dissemination of Multimedia Information, R. Yavatkar, L. Manoj, Univ. of Kentucky MCAM: An Application Layer Protocol for Movie Control, Access, and Management, R. Keller, W. Effelsberg, Univ. of Manheim Synchronous Bandwidth Allocation in FDDI Networks, Q. Zheng, K.G. Shin, Univ. of Michigan 1:30-3:15 PM, Panel: Digital Libraries of the Future Chair: E.A. Fox, Virginia Poly. Inst. State Univ. 3:30-5:00 PM: Compression and Coding Chair: G. Wallace, The 3DO Company Real-Time Software-Based Video Coder for Multimedia Communication Systems, H.C. Huang, J.H. Huang, J.L. Wu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Performance of a Software MPEG Video Decoder, K. Patel, B.C. Smith, and L.A. Rowe, University of California, Berkeley Transform Coding of Arbitrarily-Shaped Image Segments, S.F. Chang and D.G. Messerschmitt, University of California, Berkeley 3:30-5:00 PM: Content-Based Retrieval Chair: P. Mantey, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Salient Video Stills: Content and Context Preserved, L. Teodosio and W. Bender, MIT Media laboratory Facial Image Retrieval, Identification, and Inference System J.K. Wu, Y.H. Ang, P. Lam, K. Moorthy, and A.D. Narasimhalu, ISS, National University of Singapore, Singapore A Multimedia Mineral Retrieval System D. Cakmakov and D. Davcev, Kiril and Metodij University, Macedonia. Thursday, 5 August 1993 8:30-10:15 AM: Communication Systems Chair: J.R. Cox, Washington Univ. High-Bandwidth Multimedia Conferencing through a Long-Haul Packet Network, C. Elliott, BBN Systems and Technologies Media Scaling with HeiTS, L. Delgrossi, C. Halstrick, D. Hehmann, R.G. Herrtwich, O. Krone, J. Sandvoss, C. Vogt, IBM European Networking Center, Germany A Multimedia Client to the IBM LAN Server, M. Baugher, S. French, A. Stephens, I. Van Horn, IBM LAN Systems The Vidboard: A Video Capture and Processing Peripheral for a Distributed Multimedia System, J.F. Adam and D.L. Tennenhouse, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 8:30-10:15 AM: Hypermedia Chair: I. Ritchie, Owl International An Introduction to the Future MHEG International Standard for Hypermedia Object Interchange, R. Price, CER IBM-France, France HyOctane: A HyTime Engine for an MMIS, J. F. Koegel, L.W. Rutledge, J.L. Rutledge, and C. Keskin, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Open Architecture for Multimedia Documents, B.R. Gaines, University of Calgary, Canada 10:30-12:00 Noon: Media Synchronization Chair: J.O. Limb, Hewlett Packard A Synchronization and Communication Model for Distributed Multimedia Objects, N.U. Qazi, M. Woo, and A. Ghafoor, Purdue Univ. Synchronization Models for Multimedia Presentation with User Participation, B. Prabhakaran and S.V. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras Specification of Multimedia Composition and a Visual Programming Environment, S. Eun, E.S. No, H.C. Kim, H. Yoon, S.R. Maeng, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 10:30-12:00 Noon, Panel: Networked Multimedia Emerging Software Architectures Co-Chairs: R. Pearson, Sun Microsystems Computer Corp., R. Aronoff, Sunsoft 10:30-12:00 Noon: Multimedia Toolkits Chair: M. Brown, DEC Systems Research Center Toolkit for Shared Hypermedia on a Distributed Object Oriented Architecture, R. Trehan, N. Sawashima, K. Yamaguchi, and K. Hasebe, Toshiba Research and Development Center, Japan CMIFed: A Presentation Environment for Portable Hypermedia Documents, G. van Rossum, J. Jansen, K.S. Mullender, and D.C.A. Butlerman, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands Programming the Multimodal Interface, E.P. Glinert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.M. Blattner, University of California, Davis 1:30-3:15 PM: Delay-Sensitive Retrieval Chair: P.B. Berra, Syracuse University Multimedia Network File Servers: Multi-Channel Delay Sensitive Data Retrieval, D.J. Gemmell, Simon Fraser University Optimization of the grouped Sweeping Scheduling (GSS) with Heterogeneous Multimedia Streams, M.S. Cheng, P.S. Yu, D.D. Kandlur, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Disk Scheduling in a Multimedia I/O System, A.L. Narasimha Reddy and J. Wyllie, IBM Almaden Research Center 1:30-3:15 PM: Using Video in Group Collaboration Chair: J. Rosenberg, Bellcore What Video Can and Can't Do for Collaboration, E.A. Isaacs and J.C. Tang, SunSoft Where We Were: Making and Using Near-Synchronous, Pre-narrative Video, S.L. Minneman and S.R. Harrison, Xerox PARC Architectures for Multi-Source Multi-User Video Compositing, L.C. Yun, University of California, Berkeley 3:30-5:00 PM: Video Processing Chair: D. DeGroot, Texas Instruments Projection Detecting Filter for Video Cut Detection, K. Otsuji and Y. Tonomura, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Japan MPEGTool: An X Window Based MPEG Encoder and Statistics Tool, T. Urabe, H. Afzal, G. Ho, P. Pancha, M. El Zarki, Univerity of Pennsylvania Image Processing on Compressed Data for Large Video Databases, F. Arman, A. Hsu, and M.Y. Chiu, Siemens Corporate Research 3:30-5:00 PM, Panel: Multimedia Publishing Chair: R. Rada, University of Liverpool Friday, 6 August 1993 8:30-10:15 AM: Network Performance Chair: A. Lazar, Columbia University Analysis of Video Conferencing on a Token Ring Local Area Network, S.M. Crimmins, IBM and Duke University Algorithms and Performance Evaluation of the Xphone Multimedia Communication System, A. Eleftheriadis, S. Pejhan, and D. Anastassiou, Columbia University A Performance Analysis of the IBM Subsystem Control Block Architecture in a Video Conferencing Environment, K. Huynh, IBM Corp. and T. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University 8:30-10:15 AM: Authoring Chair: P. Dewan, Purdue University Object Composition and playback Model for Handling Multimedia Data, R. Hamakawa and J. Rekimoto, NEC Corp., Japan Structured Multimedia Authoring, L. Hardman, G. van Rossum, D.C.A. Bulterman, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands A Multimedia Testbed, V. de Mey and S. Gibbs, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland 10:30-12 Noon: Documents Chair: E. Hoffert, Apple Computer Synchronization in the MAEstro Multimedia Authoring Environment, G.D. Drapeau, Stanford University Automatic Temporal layout Mechanisms, ` M.C. Buchanan and P.T. Zellweger, Xerox PARC CircusTalk: An Orchestration Service for Distributed Multimedia, Y.S. Gutfreund, J. Diaz-Gonzales, R. Sasnett, and V. Phuah, GTE Laboratories 10:30-12 Noon, Panel: The Future of Video Dial Tone: Chair: Gene Miller, NYNEX 1:30-3:15 PM: Video Servers Chair: S. Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete News On-Demand for Multimedia Networks, G. Miller, NYNEX, G. Baber, and M. Gilliland, Dow Jones Streaming RAID: A Disk Storage System for Video and Audio Files, F.A. Tobagi, J. Pang, R. Baird, and M. Gang, Starlight Networks Multi-resolution Video Representation for Parallel Disk Arrays, T. Chiueh, State University of New York 1:30-3:15 PM: Information Access Chair: F. Golshani, Arizona State University Panoramic Overviews for navigational Real-World Scenes, L. Teodosio, Media Lab, M. Mills, Apple Computer Design of an Information Skimming Space, M. Ohkubo, N. Kobayashi, and T. Nakagawa, NTT Human Interface laboratories, Japan Phoneshell: The Telephone as a Computer Terminal, C. Schmandt, MIT Media Laboratory 3:30-5:00 PM: Collaboration Systems Chair: S. Ahuja, AT T Bell Laboratories CECED: A System for Informal Multimedia Collaboration, E.J. Craighill,, R. Lang, K. Skinner, and M. Fong, SRI International Collaborative Multimedia Scientific Design in SHASTRA, V. Anupam and C.L. Bajaj, Purdue University The BERKOM Multimedia Collaboration Service, M. Alternfofen, DEC CEC, et al. 3:30-5:00 PM: Support for Video Applications Chair: G. Davenport, MIT Media Lab Integrating Video into an Application Framework, P. Schnorf, Canon Information Systems VideoScheme: A Programmable Video Editing System for Automation and Media Recognition, J. Matthews, Dartmouth College, P. Gloor, MIT, F. Makedon, Dartmouth College A Digital On-Demand Video Service Supporting Content-Based Queries, T.D.C. Little, R.J. Folz, F.W. Reeve, D.H. Schelleng, and S.D. Venkatesh, Boston University

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Invitation - INTEROP Europe BOFs
by Dennis Jennings 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

Dear Colleagues, Perhaps this message may be of interest to those of you who plan to attend INTEROP Europe 93 in Paris in October. Apologies in advance to those who may receive multiple postings. Dennis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) INTEROP Europe Paris, 27-29, October, 1993. Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) will provide INTEROP Europe 93 attendees with an opportunity to discuss networking issues in an informal, after hours, atmosphere. These sessions are not intended for formal presentations, and certainly not for vendor product presentations, but rather as a forum for discussions of "unsolved problems". BOFs are open to all INTEROP Europe 93 attendees, including Exhibition attendees, and no special registration is necessary. Examples of some BOF topics from INTEROP Spring 92 in Washington DC include: o Building Network Management Solutions o Commercial Internet Implementations o Very Fast Networks (150-1000 Mbps) o Networked Multimedia Systems o Resource Location o Harvard Performance Tests - Spring 1992: FDDI and Token Ring o Social and Political Issues on the Electronic Frontier o CERT Status To suggest a topic for a BOF at INTEROP Europe 93 in Paris, or to propose that you moderate a BOF session, please send a 50 word abstract to Dennis Jennings at Interop Europe - either fax your abstract to +353-1-904845, or send an e-mail message to DJennings(a)Interop.Com. To be included in the INTEROP Europe 93 Final Programme, BOF Proposals must be received no later that Friday, 9 July, 1993. However, there are only a few BOF session time slots available in Paris, and they will be allocated on a first come / first served basis, so get your proposals in now. For your information, the following is a sample BOF description: Networked Multimedia BOF ------------------------------ Network architects, enterprise LAN managers and telecom execs beware - 1992 is the year workstation video adapters will bring CODEC and multimedia technology to the desktop. This informal BOF will offer discussion on new and emerging multimedia technologies and their potential impact on corporate, agency and campus networks. Compression technologies, traffic characteristics, multimedia workstations, network standards activity and other issues will be presented. Come prepared to participate in lively discussion and debate on this important topic.

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Invitation - INTEROP Europe BOFs
by Dennis Jennings 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

Dear Colleagues, I hope you don't mind me sending you a reminder about the INTEROP Europe BOFs in Paris. Due to finger trouble some e-mail may have been lost - If you responded to the earlier invitation - please resend. Many thanks Dennis ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Perhaps this message may be of interest to those of you who plan to attend INTEROP Europe 93 in Paris in October. Apologies in advance to those who may receive multiple postings. Dennis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) INTEROP Europe Paris, 27-29, October, 1993. Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) will provide INTEROP Europe 93 attendees with an opportunity to discuss networking issues in an informal, after hours, atmosphere. These sessions are not intended for formal presentations, and certainly not for vendor product presentations, but rather as a forum for discussions of "unsolved problems". BOFs are open to all INTEROP Europe 93 attendees, including Exhibition attendees, and no special registration is necessary. Examples of some BOF topics from INTEROP Spring 92 in Washington DC include: o Building Network Management Solutions o Commercial Internet Implementations o Very Fast Networks (150-1000 Mbps) o Networked Multimedia Systems o Resource Location o Harvard Performance Tests - Spring 1992: FDDI and Token Ring o Social and Political Issues on the Electronic Frontier o CERT Status To suggest a topic for a BOF at INTEROP Europe 93 in Paris, or to propose that you moderate a BOF session, please send a 50 word abstract to Dennis Jennings at Interop Europe - either fax your abstract to +353-1-904845, or send an e-mail message to DJennings(a)Interop.Com. To be included in the INTEROP Europe 93 Final Programme, BOF Proposals must be received no later that Friday, 9 July, 1993. However, there are only a few BOF session time slots available in Paris, and they will be allocated on a first come / first served basis, so get your proposals in now. For your information, the following is a sample BOF description: Networked Multimedia BOF ------------------------------ Network architects, enterprise LAN managers and telecom execs beware - 1992 is the year workstation video adapters will bring CODEC and multimedia technology to the desktop. This informal BOF will offer discussion on new and emerging multimedia technologies and their potential impact on corporate, agency and campus networks. Compression technologies, traffic characteristics, multimedia workstations, network standards activity and other issues will be presented. Come prepared to participate in lively discussion and debate on this important topic.

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Call for Papers - RARE/EARN journal / 1st issue
by bersee＠rare.nl 07 Jun '93

07 Jun '93

C A L L F O R P A P E R S - C O N T I N U O U S - COMPUTER NETWORKS FOR RESEARCH IN EUROPE is a new, joint publication by RARE and EARN. It will be published as a quarterly supplement to the Elsevier North-Holland journal "Computer Networks and ISDN Systems". The editorial board consists of high-level representatives from national and international research networking organizations and is chaired by Tomaz Kalin, RARE Secretary-General and Paul Bryant, EARN Secretary-General. The colofon reads as follows: "Scope COMPUTER NETWORKS for RESEARCH in EUROPE is a publication vehicle for coverage of topics of interest to those involved in the area. The audience includes staff from networking service providers of all sizes as well as application developers, policy makers and representatives of funding bodies, advanced user groups and standards organizations. Subject coverage Material on aspects of design, implementation, use and management of computer networks for reseach and education. Specifically included are non-technical topics related to economic, legal and regulatory issues and social impact of using network services in the research and education community. In addition, both RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) and EARN (European Academic and Research Network) report on developments in their organizations. Types of contributions considered The purpose of the journal is to publish complete papers covering a specific topic or project of practical use to interested readers. The journal is meant to be a source of information on all aspects of computer networks for research and education and will also include news items in addition to the regular contributions discussed above." - Submission of material - Preferred format for submitting papers: RTF or ascii text (+ separate graphs and tables). All material will be formatted in a standard "Elsevier" layout. Preferred length: around 3500 words. For more detailed information on submission procedures send a message to cnre(a)rare.nl. - Review procedure - The editorial board will review submitted material for publication or appoint expert reviewers to do the review on its behalf. If you intend to submit a paper for an issue later this year (deadlines: September 1 and November 1) we would appreciate to be informed as early as possible. - DEADLINE FIRST ISSUE: JULY 1st, 1993 -

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Full!! Amsterdam IETF Social Event
by Erik Huizer 04 Jun '93

04 Jun '93

This to inform you that the Amsterdam IETF Social Event (The monday night train through the Netherlands) is fully booked. The waitinglist is also full. Please do not send any more requests for addition to the list. Thanks, Anne Cozanet (RARE) Erik Huizer (SURFnet bv)

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RIPE NCC review
by k13＠nikhef.nl 04 Jun '93

04 Jun '93

Dear Colleagues, at the last RIPE meeting we decided that a review of the first year of operations of the RIPE NCC should take place. It was also decided that the review panel would initially consist of: o the RIPE Chairs o the RIPE WG Chairs o the RIPE NCC Manager The review is open to any RIPE participant, but the above mentioned persons are explicitly tasked to do some work. The work will consist in evaluating the first 12 months of operations of the RIPE NCC. In order to do this in a structured way, the following documents serve as mandatory reading material: o ripe-35 RIPE NCC Activity Plan o ripe-62 RIPE NCC Quarterly report Issue 1 o ripe-73 RIPE NCC Quarterly report Issue 2 o ripe-79 RIPE NCC Quarterly report Issue 3 o ripe-87 RIPE NCC Quarterly report Issue 4 The result of this exercise will be a report stating o which activities have been succesfully implemented o which activities are behind schedule o which activities have been taken up, though they were not foreseen in the original activity plan o conclusions The intended time schedule for this work is to have a report ready by the end of June. In order to facilitate an orderly discussion, a distribution list has been created at the RIPE NCC: ncc-review(a)ripe.net To be put on the list, send mail to ncc-review-request(a)ripe.net Thank you for your cooperation, greetings, Rob Blokzijl

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Amsterdam IETF Information Server
by Erik Huizer 04 Jun '93

04 Jun '93

SURFnet is pleased to announce the availabillity of information on the Amsterdam IETF, Amsterdam and The Netherlands on its InfoServer. We hope that the information that is presented here is of use to you and will answer your most urgent questions. A short summary of available info is appended at the end of this message. Here's the announcement for users: *********************************** Information on the Amsterdam IETF, Amsterdam and the Netherlands can be found on the SURFnet InfoServer: GOPHER access: -------------- gopher.nic.surfnet.nl port 70 FTP access ---------- Server: ftp.nic.surfnet.nl Directory: /ams-ietf MAIL access: ------------ Send mail to mailserv(a)nic.surfnet.nl with in the body of the mail: help index ietf ************************************ And this is for people who maintain InfoServers themselves: ************************************ NOTE: The info in the subdirectory tourist-info is under CopyRight by the Amsterdam Tourist Office and may NOT be reproduced on other InfoServers. The following information is for Gopher managers who want to create their own menu-entry on the Amsterdam IETF: (note the port number) Gopher link information: Name=Amsterdam IETF information Type=1 Port=71 Path=1/surfnet/external/ams-ietf Host=ftp.nic.surfnet.nl ************************************* This is the kind of info that can be found: ************************************* ftp> cd ams-ietf 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls -l 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 288 -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 1907 Jun 02 08:37 Alternative-hotels -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 2328 Jun 02 08:37 Ams-local-transport -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 3727 Jun 02 08:37 Arrival-and-entry-info -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 1369 Jun 02 08:37 At-a-glance -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 31068 Jun 02 08:37 Audio-video-cast -rw-rw-r-- 1 7002 staff 390 Jun 04 11:44 Climate -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 10152 Jun 04 11:59 Draft-agenda -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 482 Jun 02 08:37 Electricity -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 2385 Jun 02 08:37 Food-and-drinks -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 4688 Jun 02 08:37 Hotel-reservation -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 1439 Jun 02 08:37 IETF-announcement -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 10903 Jun 02 08:37 Internet-access-and-modems -rw-rw-r-- 1 7002 staff 487 Jun 04 11:41 Language -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 986 Jun 02 08:37 Money -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 3003 Jun 02 08:37 Rai-area-map -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 3518 Jun 02 08:37 Registration-form -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 6426 Jun 02 08:37 Restaurants -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 4404 Jun 02 08:37 Social-event-info -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 477 Jun 03 15:14 Sponsors -rw-r--r-- 1 7002 surfnet 546 Jun 02 08:37 Telephone -rw-rw-r-- 1 7002 staff 602 Jun 04 11:41 Units-and-time drwxr-xr-x 3 7002 surfnet 1024 Jun 04 11:45 tourist-info 226 Transfer complete. remote: -l 1547 bytes received in 0.36 seconds (4.2 Kbytes/s) *********************************** The observing readers will note that it must be possible to use the following command in E-mail: send Money or rather more commanding with ftp: get Money SURFnet wishes to thank the Amsterdam VVV and the Netherlands Tourist Board for their permission to use some of their info for this service. Erik Huizer

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Amsterdam IETF Social Event update
by Erik Huizer 02 Jun '93

02 Jun '93

Registrations for the Trainride through The Netherlands have been overwhelming. Fortunately we managed to get an additional coach on the Train, so we can accomodate 225 people. Digital Equipment Netherlands has acted on this as an additional sponsor to SURFnet bv and RARE. The first 225 people to register have had a confirmation by now. We have a waiting list of max. 40 people who are allowed to fill in places that have not been occupied (i.e. people who have not picked up their tickets) by noon 12th july (monday). There are currently 17 people on the waiting list, so there is still room (send mail to <train(a)rare.nl>). Anne Cozanet (RARE) Erik Huizer (SURFnet bv)

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