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015.20.2 Australia by Bob Kummerfeld <bob@cs.su.oz.au>
Status: R
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.
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.
Bob Kummerfeld
University of Sydney
Australia