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Date:         Sun, 11 Oct 1992 15:58:37 EDT
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject:      INET'93 Call for Participation (from COSNDISC)

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:52:42 EDT
From: JRC@bitnic.bitnet
To: Multiple recipients of list COSNDISC <COSNDISC@bitnic.bitnet>
Subject: INET'93 Call for Participation

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

INET'93
International Networking Conference
Internet Society
San Francisco, CA  17-20 August 1993

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 Fall Interop '93,
the leading trade show for Internet technologies. This will make
possible attending both events as well as tutorials given as part of
Interop '93.

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

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

You may also submit an electronic (ASCII, please) version of your
paper by e-mail to:

Submission@inet93.stanford.edu

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 is being organized and
will take place during the week before the conference in the San
Francisco Bay Area.

Points of Contact:

Conference Chair:               Eric Benhamou

Program Co-Chairs:              Barry Leiner
                                William Yundt

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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