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14 Mar 1994
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
International Networking Conference'94: Why go?
The Internet Society is the international organiza-
tion for global cooperation and coordination for the
Internet and its internetworking technologies and
applications.
Every year, the Society convenes the International
Networking Conference (INET) to bring together an
extensive cross-section of the Internet community
to focus on developments in different regions,
countries, user communities, and technologies, to
consider the associated issues, and to coordinate
plans for the coming year. It is the only global
international forum dealing with the entire breadth
of Internet developments and constituencies.
WHO ATTENDS AND SUPPORTS INETS?
Attendees - nearly a thousand of them - mirror the
worldwide Internet environment: individuals and
organizations, private sector and public, providers
and users, academics and commercial entrepre-
neurs. A number of major vendors of services,
hardware and software in the computer and
telecommunication industries also provide signifi-
cant grants, equipment, and Internet connectivity
to support INET. It is the single most valuable way
to be visible and to become familiar with the global
Internet community.
WHERE AND WHEN IS INET'94?
Prague, Czech Republic, 15-17 June 1994. The con-
ference rotates each year by region. INET'95 is in
Singapore.
WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA?
In addition to keynote addresses by prominent
individuals, the agenda consists of the following
concurrent session tracks:
USER SUPPORT AND TRAINING : Building
and Supporting Electronic Communities, Training
for the Network Citizen, Enabling users to help
themselves, Electronic Documents, Networked In-
formation Tools and Access, Issues in building the
Virtual Library
DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS : MultiMedia,
Dial-up Applications, How the Automotive Industry
uses the Internet, Networked Simulation and Virtual
Reality, Directory Services
POLICY ISSUES : Privacy, European CERT
Activities, National and regional policies, The Eco-
nomics of Networks and Network Growth, Interna-
tional Coordination of Internet Standards, Internet
and the Press
REGIONAL ISSUES : Networking assists Societal
Stability/Networking, Internationalization of Net-
work Applications, Eastern Europe and CIS, Pacific
Rim and Latin America, Africa and the Middle East,
National Research and Education Networks, Tele-
phone Companies and PTT's.
NETWORK ENGINEERING : Routing and
Addressing, Performance Analysis, Heterogeneous
Networks, Network management, Quality Assurance
NETWORK TECHNOLOGY : Mobile IP, Future
Generations of Internet Technology, Broadband
Technology, Broadband deployment and experi-
ments
WHAT ARE THE INET WORKSHOPS?
The INETs are made even more valuable because
of the Technologically Emerging Country Work-
shops held a week prior to the conference. About
100 enthusiastic attendees are brought from
countries with minimal internetwork infrastructure
to receive one week of intensive instruction in how
to build and grow internets back home. Attendees
actually setup and operate a network, learn how to
do the same thing in their native environment, and
frequently provide hardware and software to bring
back.
This work is supported through the generosity and
cooperation of several companies, foundations,
public organizations and UN agencies.
HOW DO I GET MORE INFORMATION?
Additional information and registration informa-
tion is available from:
RARE Secretariat ISOC Secretariat
Singel 466-468 12020 Sunrise Vly Dr #270
1017 AW Amsterdam Reston VA 22091
The Netherlands USA
Tel: +31 20 639 1131 Tel: +1 703 648 9888
Tel: 800 648 9507
Fax: +31 20 639 3289 Fax: +1 703 648 9887
Email: inet-jenc-sec@rare.nl Email: inet@isoc.org
A complete set of information, forms, and tem-
plates are available in several different formats by
FTP or Gopher at:
URLs:
ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/INET94/
gopher://gopher.isoc.org:70/11/isoc.and.ietf/INET94/
FAQ 94-010 v.1.0
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