While UCL will be one of the parties to this Coalition System, an important role will to act as a facilitator to the other partners - in the provision of secured applications, infrastructure, and practical assistance. These tests have shown that it is possible to establish the links in such a way that conferencing can be carried with good performance on the same link as less urgent traffic by using QoS with Class-based Queuing DiffServ. During the current period, the conferencing tools RAT, VIC and NTE were made IPv6 capable, when linked with the relevant IPv6 stacks. The tools listed in the developers' versions on the UCL Web page have this capability. It has been extended also to include the normal SAP, so that unsecured announcements can be cached also on the SCS server.
Users only have access to the information for the groups to which they belong.
The server is accessed securely from a normal Web browser, and Applets allow automatic initiation of the conferences. These developments should make secure IPv6 conferencing much easier to deploy. These will become a movable proxy cache recorder, a movable player, and a movable transcoding gateway. As a result of this activity, the components will be deployable in the IPv6 environment, as soon as JAVA becomes IPv6-aware. This should allow our QoS environment to be compatible with that intended for the rest of this project - and the next generation of Internet deployment.