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91FALL
TO
FEATURE
MAJOR
ANNOUNCEMENT
ON
STANDARDSAVAILABILITYVIAINTERNATIONAL
VIDEOLlNK
rru
SpontlonExperimenttoAllow
CCnT
Stondanh
to
be
Dutribuled
at
No
Charge
on
theInternet
Mountain
Vi
....
CalIfornia
(September
18,
1991)
-A
special.livevideolink
aelsionbetweenGeneva,Switzerland
and
San
Jose,Califomiawill
be
held
onOctober11,
at
INTEROP91Fall
to
discuss
the
generalavailability
of
ccrrr
atanciardJ....
t
no
charge-
over
the
Intemet.
Participating
(TOm
Geneva
at
Telecom91willbeDr.
Pekb
Tarjanne.
Secretary
General
of
the
International
TelecommunicationsUnion
(ITU).
In
SanJose,participants
willincludeDr.VmtonCerr,
Chairmanofthe
Internet
ActivitiesBoard
and
several
other
key
playen
inthe
,tandarda
arena.
U.8.
Sprint
i,
providing
the
video
link
for
thismajor
standarda
announcement.
The
leslion,
which
begin.
at
8:30
a.m.
PDT,
win
featureanannouncement
by
Dr.
Tarjanne
deacribinc
an
uperiment
the
ITU
haa
endorsed
to
allow
theentire
ccrrr
standards
set
(known
as
the
-alue
Book")
to
be
distributed.
at
nochargeon
theIntemeL
People
alloverthe
worldwill
be
able
to
acceu
these
standardJ
from
a
widevariety
of
computer
networb
aueh
AI
the
Intemet
itaelC,
BITNET,
Mel
Mail,
ATIIr
Mail
and
Compu$erve.
The
ccrrr
ltandards
are
key
to
deaeribinghowopensylt.eml
are
to
be
eonJtructed.
Includedin
the
IQOre
than
20,000pageBlue
Book
are
theintemational
specificationsfor
. ~
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Intcrop.
Inc
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SanAr*lolo
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SuJIt
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SI"ndardo
10
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Diolribuledon
llIUmel
:1/:1/:1
highspeedmodems
(V
series),
X.215
packetswitehednetwork&,ISDN
and
BroadbandISDN,X.400message
handling
systems,
fax,
telex,teletes
and
the
X.500globaldirectory.Untilnow,
these
documentshaveonlybeenavailable
inpaper
form
at
a
fairly
substantial
charge.
The
purpose
of
this
experiment
i,
to
investigate
whether
or
not
tool,like
the
Intemet
will.infact.providewider
dillemination
of
thesecrucial
.tandard.l.The
Intemet,
with
over3.5
millionlUers.
i,
the
largest
network
in
the
world
and
provides
ptewayl
and
links
to
most
otherkey
networks.
According
to
Dr.
Tarjanneofthe
ITU,
"We
are
investigatingall
pollible
ways
to
make
lure
people
can
aceen
thesestandards.
The
Intemet
iaanimportant
channel
and
we
believe
this
experimentwillanow
ourstandards
to
Teachawideraudience."
Coordination
of
this
experimentwill
be
provided
by
the
DigitalResource
Institute
(DRI),a
non-profitresearchgrouplocatedinBoulder,Colorado.DR!iapreparing
the
doeumentl
and
convertingthemforuseon
the
Internet
at
no
charge.
Sun
Microsystemshaaprovidedaserverwithtwogigabytes
of
diskspacetohouse
the
standards.
It
i.
expec:ted
that
manysitesaround
the
worldwillalsohousecopies
rL
these
documents.Formorespecificinformationon
this
announcement,pleasecontact
any
of
the
IOUReS
listedon
the
attachedcontactsheet.
...
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n
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480
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AntonioRoad,MountainView,California,94040.Formoreinformation
on
INTEROP91Falland/ortoregister,contactInterop,Inc.
at
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