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Network and infrastructure user requirements for transatlantic research collaboration: Brussels, July 16-18, and Washington July 24-25, 1990
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Network Working Group V. Cerf
Request for Comments: 1210 CNRI
P. Kirstein
UCL
B. Randell
Newcastle on Tyne
Editors
March 1991
Network and Infrastructure User Requirements for
Transatlantic Research Collaboration
Brussels, July 16-18, and Washington July 24-25, 1990
Status of this Memo
This report complements a shorter printed version which appeared in a
summary report of all the committees which met in Brussels and
Washington last July, 1990. This memo provides information for the
Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This report summarises user requirements for networking and related
infrastructure facilities needed to enable effective cooperation
between US and European research teams participating in the planned
ESPRIT-DARPA/NSF programme of collaborative research in Information
Science and Technology. It analyses the problems and disparities of
the current facilities, and suggests appropriate one and three year
targets for improvements. It proposes a number of initial actions
aimed at achieving these targets. Finally, the workshop has
identified a non-exhaustive set of important issues upon which
support of future research will depend. These issues could be
studied in the short term, with the aim of initiating a programme of
joint research in collaboration technology within the next year.
SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND TARGETS
EMAIL (6.1) Initiate an intercontinental email operations forum
involving email service providers in the US and Europe to define and
implement operational procedures leading to high reliability. The
forum should be tasked with analysing interoperability problems in
the existing email systems, and with developing functional and
performance specifications for email gateways (relays). In addition
an international email user support group should be organized. The
target would be to achieve, within one year, routine expectation of
proper and timely (less than one hour campus to campus) delivery of
Cerf, Kirstein, & Randell
