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- 015.20.2 Australia by Bob Kummerfeld <bob@cs.su.oz.au>
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- The annual Australian Networkshop was held in Hobart, Tasmania from Monday 2nd
- to Wednesday 4th of December. These workshops began in the early 1980's when a
- small group met at the University of Sydney to discuss the state of academic
- and research networking in Australia. This was followed by meetings in
- Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra in 1990. This series of
- workshops has been used to develop the technical design, organisational
- structure and funding method for the Australian Academic and Research Network,
- AARNet. The workshop continues to provide a forum for the development of the
- network. The 1991 meeting was attended by more than 200 people from all parts
- of Australia representing a wide range of interests in network research,
- development and application. Sessions included status reports on AARnet in
- general, regional hubs and international connectivity, a technical stream
- concentrating on the X500 directory pilot, a stream discussing library
- applications and sessions on security, management issues and high speed
- networking. Invited guest speaker for the meeting was Peter Deutsch from
- McGill University who described the Archie Project. As well as the history and
- current status of the project, Peter gave an overview of work on network wide
- information systems and resource discovery systems. Peter's talk was
- inspirational and provided a glimpse of the future of network services.
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- A session was devoted to reports for AARNet development projects. These
- projects are funded by AARNet to carry out work of benefit to the whole AARNet
- community. The projects described were: a survey of email to fax gateway
- systems for AARNet, an AARNet resource guide, the feasibility of AARNet wide
- access to the Australian Associated Press wire service, a message based file
- transfer system, a link to the Australian Antarctic base and a project to
- establish an AARNet archive service. The AARNet project to establish an
- Australian X500 directory service pilot is larger scale and was discussed in a
- separate session. This group invited Paul Barker from University College
- London to speak on the Paradise directory project in Europe. Many of the
- speakers for the meeting submitted full papers and these will be available from
- an archive at the University of Tasmania. For details send a request to
- netws@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au.
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- Bob Kummerfeld
- University of Sydney
- Australia
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