Dear Ripe members... The document, wich I pass along some parts of, seems to be a proposal to get money to extend the connectivity in eastern Europe. I'm a naive user, living in a remote place of the earth called Sweden, but I have the posibilities of sending E-mail, getting NETnews, do remote login to exotic places like the Ripe NCC in the Netherlands. I sometimes receives mail from the UK, Japan, Estonia and Russia. I really don't knew how, but it works. Last week I learned about audio- conferencing, a great tool to speed up cooperative work among users on different locations. Well, the wole paper I found, did not say a word about that, they talk about X25, X400 and X500, wich I don't knew what it stands for. The people in the room next to me talks about RFC-822, multicast-routing and BGP-4. I don't knew what that is either... But I can read my mail, talk to remote computers and all I needed basically came with my PC. So, why are not Ripe and others that really makes Europe comunicate mentioned in this proposal??! I suggest that Ripe submitts a request for resources from the CEC to extend the user-functionality I have to the rest of europe. Globally connected networks should be a human right! -Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Dear coleagues, This is an electronic copy of the APPLICATION. The final edited version was prepared by XYW word processor and therefore I can't guaranty that those are identical. As far as the ANNEX is concerned it will be printed tomorrow so if there is something important to say, please do it. Regards/Laszlo
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1. SCIENTIFIC THEME
The theme of the cooperation is the sharing of knowledge in installation, management and utilization of "message handling systems" and "directory databases".
The objective is to establish open data communication networks in CEE countries and their interconnection with networks of the Community as part of the common scientific infrastructure in Europe, by providing message delivery and directory database services.
With this infrastructure this project will significantly enhance scientific and technological cooperation in Europe.
10. OBJECTIVES OF THE SCIENTIFIC NETWORK AND MOTIVATION
The objectives of the participants in the M&DS network are to promote the pan European scientific community by providing well managed, reliable services for their daily work in a computer network supported electronic way. It is a objective too that a forum would be created for the scientists, technical people and managers working in the CEE-Countries and are involved in the computer communications field which helps them to smoothly integrate into the existing and evolving pan European forums.
13. EXISTING AND PLANNED INFRASTRUCTURE
The MHS WEP and the Directory DSA in each CEE-Coutry will be connected to the COSINE system either via IXI or other suitable means.
The final solution will be elaborated during the lifetime of the project and it is the subject of an other proposal submitted to the