INET '94, the Annual Conference of the Internet Society
held in conjunction with the
5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5)
Jointly organized by the Internet Society and RARE
Prague, Czech Republic, 15-17 June 1994
The Internet Society (ISOC) and Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche
Europeenne (RARE) have joined forces to organize a global networking
conference. It will take place on 13 - 17 June 1994, in Prague, the
capital of the Czech Republic. Focusing on worldwide issues of com-
puter-based networking, the goal of the conference is to bring together
individuals from academia, industry and government who are involved
with planning, developing, implementing, managing, funding, and using
national, regional and international research, academic, and commercial
computer networks.
The official language of the conference is English. Topics include but
are not limited to the following:
1. Network Technology: Advances in the Network Technology Base
- Progress towards 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
- LAN/WAN integration and interworking
- Support for mobility
2. Network Engineering and Operation: Building and Operating 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
- Emergency response organizations and support
- Resource allocation and control
3. Distributed Applications and Their Enabling Technologies
- Collaboration technologies
- Multimedia issues
- Mail and directory services
- Workstation teleconferencing
- Computer supported collaborative work
- Interoperability of application services
- Management protocols, systems and methods for distributed
applications
- Security aspects of distributed applications
- Distributed application development environments
- Visions for the future of internationalized services
(application platforms, functionality and tools)
4. Support and Training for International Communities of Interest
- Support of international collaboration
- Globalization of user support services (including support for
multiple
languages and character sets in applications and information
systems)
- 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
- Tools for user education and training
5. User Information
- Networked information retrieval
- User documentation
- Navigation services
- Document delivery services
- Library services
6. Regional Issues: Networking Around the Globe
- Africa
- Asia-Pacific Rim
- Former Soviet Republics
- Latin America
- North America
- Western and Central Europe
7. 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
- Enhancing information and coordination between network
users/providers and suppliers/policy makers
- Interworking issues between commercial and academic
network providers
Points of Contact
Conference Chair : Geoff Manning <GM1@ib.rl.ac.uk>
Program Chair : Bernhard Plattner <plattner@komsys.tik.ethz.ch>
Program Chair Deputy : Hannes P. Lubich <lubich@komsys.tik.ethz.ch>
Local Organization Chair : Jan Gruntorad <tkjg@earn.cvut.cs>
Internet Society Liaison : Lawrence H. Landweber <landweber@cs.wisc.edu>
RARE Liaison : Tomaz Kalin <kalin@rare.nl>
General Inquiries
To be added to the conference e-mail distribution list send a message to:
<inet-info@rare.nl>
For further information contact:
INET-JENC Secretariat
c/o RARE Secretariat
Singel 466-468
NL-1017 AW AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
Tel. : +31 20 639 1131
Fax : +31 20 639 3289
Email : inet-info@rare.nl
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