(Apologies if you receive this more than once!) ------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME AND INVITATION - JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference Tel Aviv, Israel, May 15-18, 1995 Organised by TERENA Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (Established by the merger of RARE and EARN) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Jose Barbera, Fundesco, Spain Chairman Judith Kiers, TERENA Secretariat, The Netherlands Programme Support Marieke Dekker, TERENA Secretariat, The Netherlands Conference Support Steve Druck, Weizmann Institute, Israel Local Organisation Luis Rodriguez Rosello, EU, Belgium European Union Liaison Tony Rutkowski, ISOC Reston VA, USA Internet Society Liaison Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland TERENA VP Conferences John Dyer, UKERNA, United Kingdom Track I Jeroen Houttuin, TERENA Secretariat, The Netherlands Track I Manfred Bogen, GMD St. Augustin, Germany Track II Hannes Lubich, SWITCH, Switzerland Track II Ruediger Grimm, GMD Darmstadt, Germany Track III Rogelio Montanana, University of Valencia, Spain Track IV David Sitman, Tel Aviv University, Israel Track IV & VI Glenn Kowack, EUnet, The Netherlands Track IV, V & VI Lajos Balint, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Track V & VI Antoine Barthel, RESTENA, Luxembourg Track V & VI LOCAL ORGANISATION: Steve Druck, Weizmann Institute, Israel Chairman Avi Cohen, Tel Aviv University, Israel IIUC Liaison Moshe Gotlieb, Bar Ilan University, Israel IIUC Liaison Motti Dinar, Weizmann Institute, Israel Local Area Network Hank Nussbacher, IIUC, Israel Metropolitan & Wide Area Network Morty Taragin, Weizmann Institute, Israel MBONE David Sitman, Tel Aviv University, Israel Demonstration Chair CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTORS Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, MCI, NETCOM & Novell SESSION DESCRIPTIONS and OUTLINE The programme is divided into six subject tracks, with two or three sessions per track. There will be two or three parallel streams of sessions. - TRACK I: NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING - TRACK II: COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR COOPERATIVE WORK - TRACK III: SECURITY AND PRIVACY - TRACK IV: PROVIDING AND ACCESSING INFORMATION - TRACK V: POLICY RELATED ISSUES - TRACK VI: REGIONAL ISSUES - 'Towards networked communities' MONDAY, May 15 01. 14:00-15:30 Opening Plenary Welcome Addresses Chair: Jose Barbera, Fundesco, Spain Keynote-Speaker: - Walter De Backer, Chief Advisor DG XIII, European Commission 02. 16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions Session I-1: Mobile computing and intermittent connectivity Chair: Jeroen Houttuin, TERENA Secretariat, The Netherlands This session examines the technology needed for home working and working whilst on the move. It also looks at the technological requirements for small sites that do not require permanent connectivity via leased lines. 111 - Mobile computing via portability. Yakov Rekhter, T.J. Watson Research Center (IBM Corp.), United States 112 - The Pico Terminal Network: Portable communications via satellite. F.J. Ruiz, J. Aracil, A. Ruiz, J. Perez, J. Carral, C. Garcia, A. Fernandez, C. Miguel, L. Vidaller and A. Martinez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain 113 - The SURF-it project: Access to SURFnet Internet services through ISDN. Peter Jurg and Roel Rexwinkel, SURFnet BV, The Netherlands Session III-1: Security architectures and infrastructures Chair: Ruediger Grimm, GMD Darmstadt, Germany This session presents papers on requirements for service, technical design and structure of security systems and public key certification authorities. 311 - A security platform for future telecommunication applications and services. Michael Gehrke, DeTeBerkom GmbH, Germany 312 - Reference models and procedures for security infrastructures. Denis Trcek and Borka Jerman-Blazic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia 313 - Improving the security infrastructure without extending X.509 base certificate. F. Jordan and M. Medina, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain TUESDAY, May 16 03. 09:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions Session II-1: Enabling technologies for Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Chair: Prof. Sylvia Wilbur, Queen Mary and Westfield College, United Kingdom This session deals with underlying software technologies necessary to design effective CSCW applications. 211 - Aleph: A large scale CSCW environment. Leandro Navarro and Gerard Rodriguez, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain 212 - Protocols for efficient multiparty multimedia applications. I. Miloucheva and T. Kerschat, Technical University of Berlin, Germany 213 - E-mail quality as a prerequisite for CSCW applications. J. Altmayer-Pizzorno, M. Bogen and C. Wermelskirchen, GMD St. Augustin, Germany Session V-2: Views and visions of European service providers Chair: Francois Fluckiger, CERN, Switzerland Pan-European service providers have been asked to express their views and visions on how the requirements of the research and academic community may be met today and in the future. DANTE: Howard Davies, Managing Director Ebone: Frode Greisen, President EUnet: Glenn Kowack, Chief Executive PIPEX: Peter Dawe, Chief Executive UNISOURCE: Toon Vrins, Unit Manager UBN P&S DEC: David Probert, European Business Development Manager 04. 11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions Session IV-1: World-Wide Web applications: the cutting edge Chair: Rogelio Montanana, University of Valencia, Spain New developments in the use and management of the World-Wide Web. 411 - From World-Wide Web to information super-highways. Francois Fluckiger, CERN, Switzerland 412 - The Webscape in Germany. Thomas Baker, Lothar Klein, Inke Kolb and Michael Lenz, GMD St. Augustin, Germany 413 - Management of a WWW server using SNMP. Carlos Picoto and Pedro Veiga, University of Lisbon, Portugal Session V-1: Networking for Europe Chair: Tomaz Kalin, TERENA Secretariat, The Netherlands Building a high speed networking infrastructure for the European research and academic community is a key activity in the mid-90's. The selection of presentations will disseminate information about the latest results and plans. 511 - Strategic steps in advancing Europe's research and education computer networking capabilities. Alistair Chalmers, University of Sussex, United Kingdom and Chris Duxbury, SYSTEC, Belgium 512 - Setting up a high speed network infrastructure for the European research community: The commercial challenge. Dai Davies, DANTE, United Kingdom 513 - Technical options for a high speed backbone. Michael Behringer, DANTE, United Kingdom 12:30-14:00 LUNCH 05. 14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions Session II-2: CSCW integration Chair: Manfred Bogen, GMD St. Augustin, Germany The combination of existing communication services with cooperation and coordination tools is presented in this session. 221 - Hotline and consulting in a metropolitan area network - The HotCon approach to integrated services. Lutz Nentwig, Sonia Manhart and Kurt Sandkuhl, Fraunhofer Institute for software engineering and systems engineering (ISST), Germany 222 - Cooperative Learning over broadband networks. Encarna Pastor, David Fernandez and Luis Bellido, Technical University of Madrid, Spain 223 - Cooperative design: Requirements on network technology and document architecture. Stephan Jacobs and Oliver Hermanns, Technical University of Aachen, Germany Session I-2: Network performance issues Chair: Victor Reijs, SURFnet BV, The Netherlands Examines the performance of ATM and IP networks with a view to the requirements of group and multimedia working, including the specialist requirements of video. 121 - Performance investigations of the IP multicast architecture. Oliver Hermanns and Marko Schuba, Technical University of Aachen, Germany 122 - Hierarchical network management: A concept and its prototype in SNMPv2. Manfred Siegl and George Trausmuth, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 123 - A flexible traffic shaper with adjustable burstiness for high speed networks. S. Radhakrishnan and S.V. Radhavan, Indian Institute of Technology, India and Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, United States Session VI-1: Building the national infrastructure Chair: Peter Bakonyi, HUNGARNET, Hungary Session VI-1 provides a forum for a number of brief presentations as well as a discussion about emerging activities toward the establishment of solid national and/or regional networking infrastructures and information services in developing areas. The expected short introductory talks, prepared by the authors listed below, will be delivered by participants coming from or speaking about the following academic and research communities: 611 - Albanian academic and research community G.Beqiraj and N.Frasheri, Tirana Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics 612 - Algerian academic and research community D.Hammal, D.E.Legheraba and M.Diboun, USTHB-I.C.I. 613 - Azerbaijan academic and research community A.M.Abbasov, R.M.Alguliev and F.F.Farmanov, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences 614 - Croatian academic and research community M.Vedris, B.Ljubas and D.Meter, Zagreb University Computing Centre 615 - Estonian academic and research community M.Kurm, National Library of Estonia 616 - Lithuanian academic and research community J.Strom, Manchester Metropolitan University 617 - Palestinian academic and research community S.G.Zougbi, Bethlehem University and Palestinian Academic Network 618 - Romanian academic and research community V.Dadarlat, K.Pusztai and M.Joldos, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca 619 - Russian academic and research community A.M.Robachevsky, V.N.Vasilyev, Yu.V.Gugel and Yu.G.Kirchin, RUNNet Following the sequence of these concise presentations, the discussion will be open to all participants of the session. Speakers and attendants will have the opportunity of raising and answering questions, formulating and reflecting comments as well as bringing up ideas and suggestions. The aim is to exchange as much information as possible, to the benefit of the rapid and efficient development of communication networks and information services for academic and research communities in the related developing regions. 06. 16:00-17:30 Interactive Plenary: Bringing the world to the desktop Moderator: Erik Huizer, SURFnet BV, The Netherlands WEDNESDAY, May 17 12:30-14:00 LUNCH 07. 14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions Session IV-2: Advances in directory services Chair: Vasco Freitas, University of Minho, Portugal New ways of manipulating X.500. 421 - X.500 index DSAs. Paul Barker, University College London, United Kingdom 422 - ORQ: A tool for including corporate databases into the directory. Diego Lopez, CICA, Spain 423 - Providing multiple external views on directory user interfaces. Rui Jose, Antonio Costa, Joaquim Macedo and Vasco Freitas, University of Minho, Portugal Session VI-2: High performance networking and services in regional and metropolitan areas Chair: Antoine Barthel, RESTENA, Luxembourg The papers presented in this session aim to give an overview of those different activities devoted to upgrading, expanding and enhancing regional and metropolitan area networking infrastructures and information services. 621 - Lessons learned from a MAN. Hank Nussbacher, Tel Aviv University, Israel 622 - G-Ming: A high performance multi-service telecommunications infrastructure for the greater Manchester educational community. Peter Mills and Jim Strom, University of Manchester, United Kingdom 623 - Novosibirsk Akademgorodok Internet project overview. Serge Belov, Sergey Bredikhin, Semen Musher, George Piskunov, Siberian Divison of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia and Rob Blokzijl, NIKHEF, The Netherlands 624 - Prague academic network migration towards high speed technologies. Zbynek Linhart, Charles University, Czech Republic Session V-3: European Commission actions and policies on research networking Chair: Luis R.Rosello, EU DG-XIII/C, Belgium The session will address how the Commission has and will support the development of the network services needed for research in Europe, how research networks are viewed as a building block in the transformation of society in Eastern and Central Europe and beyond, and how the results of the research networks are applied in other areas. The European Union is placing great emphasis on the use of technology to serve the needs of society. Research programmes aim at deepening and broadening the use of technology to improve the quality of life of the citizen, both directly through improvements in the delivery of education, health care, etc., and indirectly by strengthening the competitiveness of European industry so ensuring future prosperity. Research networks are recognised as a motor force in developing and testing the use of technology which will become central in the achievement of the global information society. 531 - A user's view of the EU research programmes. Peter Kirstein, University College London, United Kingdom 532 - The role of research networking in other EU research programmes. Simon Bensasson, EU DG-III, Belgium 533 - Using research networks to support international cooperation. Hans-Peter Axmann, Ministry of Research, Austria 08. 16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions Session II-3: Information aspects of CSCW Chair: Hannes Lubich, SWITCH, Switzerland In this session, aspects of generic representation of information required for CSCW applications and environments are discussed. 231 - New ways with video: Creative approaches to multimedia collaboration. Sylvia Wilbur and Sarom Ing, Queen Mary and Westfield College, United Kingdom 232 - Providing integrated enterprise information in CSCW. Hugh Smith, Nottingham University and Paul Harvey, NEXOR, United Kingdom 233 - Handling and interchange of structured multimedia documents containing application specific information. Jose J. Acebron and Jaime Delgado, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Session I-3: ATM implementations Chair: John Dyer, UKERNA, United Kingdom Practical issues from networking groups that have implemented ATM networks. 131 - Adaptive routing of video traffic in ATM networks. Anastasios Economides, University of Macedonia, Greece 132 - SURFnet4: ATM and its applications in the Netherlands. Victor Reijs, SURFnet BV, The Netherlands 133 - ATM switch design and the impact of ABR services. David Drury, FORE Systems Inc., United Kingdom THURSDAY, May 18 09. 09:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions Session IV-3: Electronic publishing and information retrieval Chair: David Sitman, Tel Aviv University, Israel The changing face of publishing and retrieving information over the net. 431 - A framework for broadcasting and management of URIs. Miguel Rio, Antonio Costa, Joaquim Macedo and Vasco Freitas, University of Minho, Portugal 432 - Publishing in the Internet environment. Alan Emtage, Bunyip Information Systems Inc., Canada 433 - The information footprint. K. Jonas, H. Jungblut, J. Kaeber, M. Kaul, I. Muller, H. Santo, J. Schafer and Ralf Wegner, GMD St. Augustin, Germany Session III-2: Security applications Chair: Manel Medina, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain This session presents papers on experiences with the implementation of secure commmunication applications, in particular network management and document exchange. 321 - Security policies in OSI-management: Experiences from DeTeBerkom project BMSec. Ruediger Grimm and Thomas Hetschold, GMD Darmstadt, Germany 322 - Some experiences with secure management. Graham Knight and Saleem Bhatti, University College London, United Kingdom 323 - Securing document interchange - A secure document user agent. Yoshiki Sameshima, Hitachi Software, Japan and Peter Kirstein, University College London, United Kingdom 10. 11:00-12:30 Closing Plenary Closing Addresses Chair: Jose Barbera, Fundesco, Spain