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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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