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012.43 Spain
by Jose Barbera <jose.barbera@iris-dcp.es>
Organization
Since 1991 *RedIRIS* is the National Research and Academic Network organization
sponsored by the Higher Education and Research funding bodies to provide
services for universities and research centers in Spain. The network is managed
by Fundesco, a non-profit organization dealing with Information Technology and
Telecommunication activities. Fundesco has been involved in the definition and
implementation of the initial networking program along the preceeding years.
Operation of various services is done either by Fundesco's Technical Team or
else by subcontracting them to a suitable organization.
Policy
In order to create a nation-wide homogeneous networking environment RedIRIS
fosters the use of open communication protocols. When reliable products to
implement RedIRIS application services exist OSI standards are preferred.
Otherwise the equivalent TCP/IP services are used. Some OSI services are being
introduced by an experimental pilot phase before full-extension is reached.
RedIRIS takes also into account specific needs from user groups for proprietary
protocols, provided they are cost-effective and technically feasible.
Services
All application services are supported on a 64 Kbps. X.25 backbone linking the
main R&D sites; connection to the PPSDN is also provided. Over the common
backbone infrastructure an IP network service is "tunneled"; thus LAN
interconnection is possible on WAN facilities. In a similar way a CLNS (ISO IP)
service is provided for experimental purposes at this stage.
Remote terminal service is accomplished by XXX and TELNET; there is also a
central XXX/TELNET gateway. MHS X.400 is widely used for electronic mail;
RFC 987 conversion and application level mail gateways are provided as well to
communicate with non-OSI networks. For file transfer FTP is extensively used.
There is a central FTAM/FTP gateway as part of an FTAM pilot service.
X.500 Directory service is being implemented on an experimental basis. Over the
common X.25 backbone DECNET services -required by the HEP community- as well as
NJE/IP services -typical of EARN- are supported too.
All OSI services are managed in coordination with the COSINE Project.
International cooperation
International communications are established through the COSINE IXI network and
recently through EASInet. RedIRIS has joined the Ebone 92 initiative for
international IP and CLNS services.
RedIRIS (IRIS-Net) is part of the Internet since 1990. Access to the
North-American Internet is done via the UK-US intercontinental fat-pipe. For
Internet services in Europe RedIRIS cooperates with RIPE.
RedIRIS is the National Member representing Spain in the RARE Association and
participates in the COSINE Project.
RedIRIS collaborates with other international networks such as EUnet and SPAN
through the corresponding national branches. Agreements to share common
transport infrastructure have been reached with them.