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- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
-
- INET'93 - Towards a Global Community
- International Networking Conference
- Internet Society
- San Francisco, CA 17-20 August 1993
-
- The International Networking Conference is the annual conference of the
- Internet Society, a new professional society serving the Internet
- community. Following the very successful INET'92, INET'93 will be held
- on 17-20 August 1993 in San Francisco. Focusing on worldwide issues of
- research and academic networking, the goal of INET'93 is to bring
- together individuals from university, industry and government who are
- involved with planning, developing, implementing, managing and funding
- national, regional and international research, academic, and commercial
- networks.
-
- The official language of the conference is English. The conference
- agenda will include plans and status reports on research and academic
- networks throughout the world. In addition, possible topics for
- conference sessions include but are not limited to the following:
-
- Network Technology: Advances in the Network Technology Base
- -- Progress toward international open network protocols
- -- Security, management and authentication in managing networks
- -- Transmission, routing, and transport technologies
- -- Technologies of the '90s and 21st century
- -- Very high speed networks
-
- Network Engineering: Building the Global Infrastructure
- -- Application of network technology to provide networking services
- -- Interoperability among existing national and international networks
- -- Network management systems and methods
- -- Reliability and performance engineering
- -- Issues related to scaling
-
- Application Technology: Enabling Technologies for Distributed
- Applications
- -- Collaboration technologies
- -- Multimedia issues
- -- Networked information retrieval
- -- Mail and directory services
- -- Workstation teleconferencing
- -- Computer supported collaborated work
- -- Interoperability of application services
-
- User Applications: Support for International Communities of Interest
- -- Support of international collaboration
- -- Access to scientific papers and data across national boundaries
- -- Supercomputing
- -- High energy physics, atmospheric modeling, and other scientific
- applications
- -- Education/distance learning
- -- Medical research and clinical applications
- -- Libraries
- -- Work and play in Cyberspace: How networks are changing the social
- nature of work and play
- -- Networking and the arts
- -- High payoff application areas to support national and international
- development
-
- Regional Issues: Networking Around the Globe
- -- Unique regional issues and approaches such as multilingual and
- national character set accommodation
- -- Asia-Pacific Rim -- Latin America
- -- Eastern Europe -- North America
- -- Europe -- Africa
- -- Former Soviet Republics -- Special Issues for the Third World
-
- Policy Issues: Governance, Management, and Financing of International
- Networks
- -- Globalization of services
- -- Commercialization, privatization and public access
- -- Coordination of international resources
- -- Copyright and intellectual property rights
- -- Appropriate use and speech restrictions
- -- International security policy
- -- Privacy and data protection
- -- Telecommunications policy
-
- The conference will be held immediately preceding INTEROP 93 Fall, the
- leading conference and exhibition for Internet technologies. This will
- make possible attending both events as well as tutorials given as part
- of INTEROP 93 Fall.
-
- The conference will be held in one of the most beautiful cities in the
- world. Social events will be arranged during the conference to take
- advantage of the unique environment San Francisco provides. In
- addition, assistance will be provided to attendees wishing to see more
- of this unique area.
-
-
- Information for Paper Submission
-
- Submission of papers for review by electronic mail is preferred. These
- papers should be in ASCII (text-only) format, and should be sent to
-
- Submission@inet93.stanford.edu
-
- Papers may also be submitted in hard copy. Please submit 6 copies (in
- English) of double-spaced typed manuscript (maximum of 20 pages) with an
- abstract to:
-
- USRA
- ATTN: INET'93
- 625 Ellis Street, Suite 205
- Mountain View, CA 94043
-
- Important dates:
-
- -- March 1, 1993 Manuscript due
- -- May 1, 1993 Notification of acceptance to authors
- -- June 10, 1993 Camera-ready papers due
-
-
-
- Workshop for Developing Countries
-
- A workshop designed to assist developing countries in their installation
- and use of networking technology and services is being organized and will
- take place during the week before the conference in the San Francisco Bay
- Area.
-
-
- INET'93 Points of Contact:
-
- Conference Chair: Eric Benhamou
-
- Regional Coordinators: Dennis Tsichritzis (Western Europe)
- John Demco (North America)
- Haruhisa Ishida (Asia Pacific)
- Ahmed Abdel-Bassit (Africa)
- Xavier Baquero (Latin America)
- Geoff Huston (South Pacific)
- Other regions to be announced
-
- Program Co-Chairs: Barry Leiner & William Yundt
-
- Program Area Organizers: Christian Huitema & Phill Gross (Network Technology)
- Elise Gerich & Francois Fluckiger (Network Engineering)
- Eric Hood & John Hine (Application Technology)
- Laura Breeden & Rolf Nordhagen (User Applications)
- Haruhisa Ishida & Steve Goldstein (Policy Issues)
- Richard Mandelbaum & Tomaz Kalin (Regional Issues)
- George Sadowsky & Enzo Puliatti (Workshop)
- David Farber (Tutorial Coordination)
-
- Internet Society Liaison: Larry Landweber
-
-
-
- General Inquiries
-
- To be added to the conference mailing list or for other requests, send
- mail, fax or E-mail to:
-
- USRA
- ATTN: INET'93
- 625 Ellis Street, Suite 205
- Mountain View, CA 94043
- tel: +1 415 390-0317
- fax: +1 415 390-0318
- Request@inet93.stanford.edu
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-
- INET'93 Interest Form
- International Networking Conference
- Internet Society
- San Francisco, CA 17-20 August 1993
-
- To assist us in planning for the upcoming INET'93 Conference, we
- would appreciate your filling in the following.
-
- Last Name:
- First Name:
- Preferred Title (e.g. Prof., Ms.):
- Organization:
- Street Address:
-
- City:
- State/Zip/Zone/Region:
- Country:
- Email address:
- Telephone:
- Fax:
-
- Please return to:
-
- Request@inet93.stanford.edu
-
- Thank you for your assistance.
-
-
-