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- Subject: N-1-4-040.90
- News from the RARE Technical Committee
-
- Kees Neggers
- <neggers@surfnet.nl>
-
-
- The third meeting of the RARE Technical Committee (RTC) took place on
- 1 November 1992 in Pisa, Italy. This was the first meeting of the RTC since
- the decision to formally separate the RARE and RIPE organizations, and one
- of the most significant items of discussion was the need to
- continue the technical co-operation between these bodies. RIPE and the RTC
- were happy to agree on an arrangement by which a RIPE representative
- (currently Rob Blokzijl, RIPE chairman) will have a place on the RTC to
- facilitate technical interchange.
-
- The RTC acts as a technical and financial clearing house for projects which
- benefit from a certain amount of funding. The RTC was pleased to note that
- funding for 1992/1993 has been derived not only from member's
- contributions, but also grants from other organizations (including SURFnet
- and the CEC) to support specific activities. Amongst the projects finalized
- at the meeting were:
-
- <BULLET> a CEC-sponsored project to promote the establishment of Computer
- Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) within Europe, which has been awarded to the
- University of Essex, UK;
-
- <BULLET> an activity sponsored by SURFnet to produce define a set of criteria for
- measuring the quality of IP service provision;
-
- <BULLET> the production of proposals to continue and develop the OSI CLNS pilot
- service within Europe;
-
- <BULLET> an activity to promote and co-ordinate European discussion on IP version
- 7.
-
- The RTC continues to provide support for European participation in other
- technical networking groups in the world, including the IEPG and IETF. The
- RTC particularly looks forward to the IETF meeting to take place in
- Amsterdam in July, 1993 as an opportunity for more Europeans to
- experience and participate in this forum.
-
- 4th JENC in Trondheim, Norway
-
- In 1993 RARE organizes its 4th Joint European Networking Conference in
- cooperation with ACM Sigcomm, EARN, EUnet/EurOpen, IFIP TC6, IAB, Internet
- Society, NORDUnet and UNINETT. The event will take place in Trondheim,
- Norway, from 10-13 May 1993. This year the conference will focus on the
- position of Europe in a global networking context. Cooperation between
- members of different networking communities will again receive ample
- attention. Besides paper presentations, a poster session and
- demonstrations, next years conference will feature tutorials as well.
- Tutorials will be held at the end of the conference, on Thursday afternoon
- and Friday morning.
-
- Operational Unit in Cambridge
-
- Preparations for the establishment of an "Operational Unit" for the
- provision of pan-European Networking Services to the research community are
- progressing. On 17 November 1992, shareholders of the Operational Unit
- decided that the OU will be located in Cambridge in the UK. The next step
- will be to finalize which services will be provided in the first phase of
- the OU's operations.
-
- New publications
-
- RARE Technical Reports 2, 3, and 4 have been published in October 1992.
- RTR2, "Mapping between X.400 (1988) / ISO 10021 and RFC 822", describes a
- set of mappings which will enable interworking between systems operating
- the X.400 mail protocol and systems using the RFC 822 mail protocol. RTR3,
- "X.400 1988 to 1984 downgrading", considers downgrading issues in an
- environment containing both X.400 (1988) and X.400 (1984) components. RTR2
- and RTR3 are hard copies of RFC 1327 and 1328. RTR4, "State of the Union",
- introduces the members of RARE, their current activities and future plans.
-
- The second edition of RTR1 "User Support and Information Services in
- Europe, A Status Report" is available electronically from the RARE document server.
- Information from 10 more network organizations has been included in this
- edition. A printed version will be produced in Spring 1993. Furthermore,
- Proceedings of the 3rd Joint European Networking Conference, which took
- place in Innsbruck, Austria, in May 1992, appeared in a special issue of
- Computer Networks and ISDN Systems .
-
- All publications are available from the RARE Secretariat. RTRs are
- available from the RARE Document Server as well. Via anonymous ftp:
- raredoc.rare.nl (RTRs can be found in directory /rare/rtr). Via e-mail:
- send mail to: mailserv@file.nic.surfnet.nl, type <help> in body mail to
- receive instructions. For specific information on RTRs send electronic mail
- to: rtr-info@rare.nl.
-