ANC-92-053

ANC-92-053 1992.6.20 Kilnam Chon Subject: INET'92 Report ______________________________________________________________________________ The second INET Conference took place in Kobe in 1992.6.15-18 with 600 participants from 69 countries. It started with DoD/Darpa - NATO joint network meeting in late 70s. It grew to Academic Networkshop in early 80s, which, in turn grew to the first INET in Copenhagen in 1991. The INET 93 will take place in San Francisco. INET'94 may be in Egypt in October 1995. The following are some of my observation; (1) Organization The Kobe meeting set a new standard. It was well organized with good computing facility and evening events. Asian participation was weak, too. (2) Dr. Doi of Sony Dr. Doi did a very impressive opening speech focused on emotional information processing. It is aligned with multi media technology as well as Real World Computing Project. (Text v.s. Multi Media) v.s. (Logic v.s. Emotion) is the major issue. He stated that Xerox PARC was unique because it focused on study of human being rather than computers. He asked A. Kay on this matter. He listed Suzuki Method as his primary reference for Xerox PARC activities. He demonstrated difference on text and multi media communications in terms of emotional information processing with video. The price is also very steep. Text 500 Byte/sec Still Image + Voice 9.7 MB/sec Motion Picture 1.36 GB/sec(= Text * 3 M) (3) Asia-Pacific I met many people from Asia and Pacific regions this time due to APCCIRN activities. The countries I contacted are as follows; Australia, Hawaii, Canada, USA, New Zealands, Thailands, Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan, UNESCO(Bangkok) It was a good way to start on APCCIRN. Variety and eagerness symbolize atmosphere. I will report more on this matter as APCCIRN/Internet Society activities take place in this part of the world. it is about time to look into issues from the continental perspective. I plan to allocate some of my time on this matter for time being. (4) Internet Society Internet Society effectively took over Internet activities. It had the first Council and Member Meetings this week. The next two to three years are critical period on capability and viability of Internet Society. We need to actively interact with various Internet Society activities. (5) Winter Meeting We have many summer events such as JWCC and PACCOM. As INET takes place every summer, we need to have a good week-long winter event for the Asia- Pacific region. We may move some of the existing regional meeting to winter. We may also collaborate with Internet Society on this matter. The model I have in my mind is (Euro) Networkshop. (6) High Speed Networking US moved to T3 network with Giga Testbeds with sight on the giga bps network to be implemented in 1997. France, UK, Sweden and Germany are also moving into E1 ~ E3 networks. France: E1 in 1992 followed by E3 soon. UK: SuperJanet with 20 M pounds per year for 20 universities (5 million pounds per year for R&D) Germany:E1 then E3 with STDM to ATM bypassing frame relay Sweden: giga bps R&D In addition, EC is asking Link Committee on High Performance Computing Project with 200 Mecu as a part of the next Framework Program. (7) IX v.s. Bone US along IEPG and IETF are looking into Internet Eexchange hubs such as GIX and FIX whereas Europe looks into backbones such as Ebond and its forthcoming superset("RARE operational unit"). We need to assess their merit and demerit in our cased; Korea and Asia/Pacific. The hub may make more sense for Asia/Pacific as several hubs are emerging such as Australia, Hawaii/PACCOM, Japan and Korea(?). For Korea to be a hub, we need to look into North East Asia networking seriously. I also personally believe in the hub approach for Korea, too. (8) Developing Countries Many Asian countries as well as other continents are actively pursuing computer networking. We need more orchestrated effort and would like to see Korea as well as Japan to play an active role on this matter. It was pity to see European instructors teaching audiences during INET Workshop for Developing Countries in Asia(Kobe) with examples on Africa. (9) 512 Kbps line from Japan to Europe MITI proposed the 512 Kbps line from Japan to somewhere Europe as a part of Real World Computing Project. It will be decided in a few months and be operational by 1993.3. The contact point is Tashiro of MITI(dispatched from ETL on the project). It would be a fat pipe between Asia-Pacific and Europe. This is the first time MITI is getting into research/academic networking. In addition, it has the Asia Net Plan. (10) NFS's View on Future Network NFS proposed the plan on architecture of future networks with Network Access Point such as GIX and/or FIX as the separation vehicle of global/national networks from regional networks. NFS is requesting the public review on the concept. See the relevant document for further information. (11) Internet Statistics No. of Countries Connected 107 No. of Users 5 Million No. of Host 918,500 Bitnet 3,500 Fidonet 12,000 UUCP 13,000 IP 890,000 The forecasting for Year 2000 by V. Cerf is as follows; Conventional Ubiquitous Hosts ~ 10E8 10E10 Nets ~ 3*10M 10E8 Users ~ 10E9 10E9 Routers ~ 3*10E6 10E8 (Service providers are ~10E3 ~ 10E4)