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THE I S O C FORUM
international electronic publication of the Internet Society
22 April 1998 * * * * * * * * * Vol. 4, No. 04
Wendy Rickard Bollentin
editor@isoc.org
http://www.isoc.org
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Membership in the Internet Society helps ensure the open
evolution of the global Internet and its related
internetworking technologies. Show your support. Join the
Internet Society today! For individual membership, send e-
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REGISTER BEFORE 1 JUNE AND SAVE $100!
On 21-24 July, the Internet Society presents INET'98 -- the
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Meet and mix with the experts who are building and designing
the Internet... Gain a deeper understanding of the cultural,
economic, and social issues that are changing -- and being
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and associates and having gained new skills. Register today
at http://www.isoc.org/inet98.
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"If it's unconstitutional for libraries to filter material
themselves, then it would certainly be unconstitutional for
governments to require filtering." -- Eugene Volokh, law
professor at UCLA.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980318S0019.
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IN THIS ISSUE...
NEWS FROM ISOC
* 1998 Board of Trustees Elections
* Marconi Award Presented to Dr. Vinton G. Cerf
ISOC WEB UPDATE
NETWORK NEWS
* Hacker Pleads Guilty
* British Postal Service Adopts Internet Letters
* White House Backs Internet Filtering Legislation
* White House Unveils Plans for Next Generation
Internet
RESEARCH REPORTER
* SMEs Attribute Sales Growth to the Internet
* Internet No Longer Elitist in Brazil
CHAPTER UPDATES
* DS-ISOC Plans Next Meeting
NEW ISOC ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS
* Hall Dickler Kent Friedman & Wood
* Lucent Technologies
* SoftCom Technology Consulting, Inc.
* Telecom Italia
INTERNET SOCIETY CALENDAR
ISOC STAFF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
SPECIAL CONFERENCE OFFERS FOR ISOC MEMBERS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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NEWS FROM ISOC
* 1998 BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTIONS
On 26 March, ballots were sent by postal mail to all current
members of ISOC as of 1 March 1998. The mailing contains
complete instructions for voting by paper ballot, by fax, or
electronically. The deadline for the receipt of all ballots
at the ISOC Secretariat is 29 May 1998. The slate of
candidates is available at
http://www.isoc.org/members/vote/98election/98candinfo.shtml
* MACARONI AWARD PRESENTED TO DR. VINTON G. CERF
The Internet Society takes great pride in announcing the
award of the 1998 Marconi International Fellowship to
Society Trustee and Vice President of ISOC Chapters, Dr.
Vinton G. Cerf at the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library,
Columbia University on 15 April 1998. Dr. Cerf received this
unique international honor "for the technical achievements
and ambassadorial leadership that have been such major
factors in the creation and evolution of the Internet." The
citation was presented by President George Rupp of Columbia.
Dr. Cerf is the second Internet Society Trustee recipient of
the award. Dr. Robert E. Kahn, former Internet Society
Trustee received the award in 1994. See
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/media/releases/cerf.shtml.
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ISOC WEB UPDATE
The ISOC Web site continues to undergo dramatic change.
Please visit and send suggestions, ideas, and comments to
webmaster@isoc.org.
Updated Internet News Page
http://www.isoc.org/internet/news/
New Section on Internet Spamming
http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/spamming/
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NETWORK NEWS
* HACKER PLEADS GUILTY
Eugene Kashpureff, the domain name system hacker who
successfully rerouted millions of Web users last year,
pleaded guilty to federal charges of computer fraud. As part
of the plea, Kashpureff admitted causing damages of only
$15,000, considerably less than the "hundreds of thousands
of dollars" in damages cited in original charges, one of his
attorneys said. The charges stemmed from Kashpureff's
actions last summer, when he rerouted all Web traffic headed
for Network Solutions' InterNIC page to his own AlterNIC
page in protest over InterNIC's claim of ownership of .com,
org, and .net. (Net Insider, 20 March 1998)
* BRITISH POSTAL SERVICE ADOPTS INTERNET LETTERS
In an agreement with Microsoft Network (MSN), the British
postal service said recently that it is using the Internet
to convert electronic documents and messages into paper
letters that are then delivered by letter carriers. The
service, called RelayOne, will allow Internet users to send
short messages or multipage documents, including pictures,
from the RelayOne Web site to a chosen street address. The
messages are then printed out by the postal service, sealed
in an envelope, and delivered with the recipient's regular
mail. (TechWeb, 2 April 1998)
* WHITE HOUSE BACKS INTERNET FILTERING LEGISLATION
Vice President Al Gore urged Congress to pass legislation
that would require schools and libraries using federal
subsidies for Internet access to block inappropriate
material from children. "As we connect every school and
classroom to the Internet, we must protect our children from
the red-light districts of cyberspace," Gore said. Schools
and libraries in the United States pay a discounted fee for
Internet access. The discount, called e-rate, provides as
much as $2.25 billion a year to connect schools and
libraries to the Internet. The Internet School Filtering Act
(S.1619) mandates that schools with federally funded Net
access filter out improper content. The bill was recently
amended to include flexibility so that the local community
can decide which filtering system is used and what content
is inappropriate. (TechWeb, 23 March 1998)
* WHITE HOUSE UNVEILS PLANS FOR NEXT GENERATION INTERNET
Vice President Al Gore announced on 14 April plans to
construct the most advanced, high-speed computer research
network connecting U.S. universities. The IP network, called
Abilene, is being developed by the University Corporation
for Advanced Internet Development, or UCAID. The Abilene
research and education network will become the most advanced
native IP backbone network available to the 122 universities
participating in the project, called Internet2. The advanced
network -- backed by a $500 million investment from
corporations -- will operate at speeds 1,000 times faster
than today's connections and reportedly, will be able to
handle the rocketing growth that is causing bottlenecks in
the Internet now. See
http://www.isoc.org/internet/news/index.shtml. (TechWeb 14
April 1998)
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RESEARCH REPORTER
* SMEs ATTRIBUTE SALES GROWTH TO THE INTERNET
According to a new survey conducted by Cyberdialogue/findsvp
in association with C+C Data, Inc., more than a quarter of
small businesses online today attribute sales increases to
their online presence. The U.S. Small Business Internet
Survey is the first nationally (US) projectable survey to
verify that the Internet has had a direct positive impact on
small business sales. Overall, the survey found that 37
percent of all U.S. small business now conduct business
online, totaling 2.6 million businesses. In addition,
another 1 million small business are likely to come online
in 1998, implying that half of all businesses could be
online by year's end. See http://www.cyberdialogue.com (NUA
Internet Surveys, 6 April 1998)
* INTERNET NO LONGER ELITIST IN BRAZIL
Brazil's financial daily, Gazeta Mercantil, reported that a
growing variety of Brazilians are using the Internet,
according to Reuters on 3 April. Internet access is still
the domain of the elite, but is beginning to become more
accessible, despite the relative low density of telephones.
For more information see
http://www.techserver.com/newsroom/ntn/info/040398/info9_14502_noframes.html. (N
UA Internet Surveys 14 April 1998)
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CHAPTER UPDATES
* DC-ISOC PLANS NEXT MEETING
The next meeting of DC-ISOC will be held on 11 May 1998 from
6:30-9:30 pm at the Hyatt Dulles in Herndon, Virginia.
Confirmed speakers include ISOC President Donald Heath and
MCI senior vice president and ISOC trustee Vint Cerf. The
Internet has continued to grow at an astonishing rate. This
diverse expansion has attracted the interests of several
regulating organizations and governments. Are the industry
self-governing groups, such as ISOC, the IAB, the IANA, and
others sufficient? Or is there a role for governmental
bodies. Come to the meeting and participate in discussions.
Sponsored by InternetMCI. For more information, see
http://www.dcisoc.org.
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NEW ISOC ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS
* HALL DICKLER KENT FRIEDMAN & WOOD
Hall Dickler Kent Friedman & Wood is a full-service law firm
involved in sophisticated transactions and complex
litigation of all types. Its years of dedicated service to
the advertising and marketing industries have helped
establish the firm as a nationally recognized leader.
Expertise in the legal, legislative, and regulatory issues
confronting marketers doing business online is an integral
part of the firm's unique practice. As legal counsel to
advertising and marketing companies that have invested
millions of dollars in the Internet, the company regularly
provide clients with an analysis of emerging legal issues.
Through its relationship with the Internet Society, the
company's hopes to further enhance its ability to serve its
client in these areas. For more information visit
http://www.halldickler.com.
* LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
Headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Lucent
Technologies designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of
public and private networks, communications systems and
software, data networking systems, business telephone
systems and microelectronic components. Bell Laboratories,
recognized worldwide for its scientific discoveries and
technological innovation, is the research and development
arm for the company. Lucent Technologies recognizes the
importance of the Internet Society in promoting the healthy
growth and evolution of the Internet. In particular, it sees
the open Internet standards developed in the IETF as a major
catalyst for such growth and evolution. Lucent has
participated actively in the IETF for some time and looks
forward to participating in other ISOC activities as well.
For more information visit http://www.lucent.com.
* SOFTCOM TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING INC. -- ISOC EXECUTIVE
MEMBER
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc. provides complete turnkey
Internet and intranet solutions to clients. In addition to
project management and consulting, SoftCom is investing in
the innovation of new Internet-based technologies. One of
its R&D products, Mail2Web, is already available to users.
This Web site (http://www.mail2web.com/) enables Internet
users to reach their e-mail while traveling or from behind
firewalls. SoftCom believes that innovation in technology
must be less complex than before. This is why SoftCom
engineers are working on many new projects that will make
the lives of Internet users easier. In addition, SoftCom
offers low-cost, high-quality virtual Web site hosting
facilities for individuals and companies. The company's
association with the Internet Society is expected to
contribute to the ISOC's policies and activities as well as
to play a key role in the next generation of the Internet.
For more information visit http://www.softcomca.com/.
* TELECOM ITALIA
Telecom Italia is the main Italian telecommunications
operator and one of the largest worldwide with a range of
activities spanning from residential and business services
to mobile services. Presently, Telecom Italia provides an
extensive set of Internet services to cater to specific
customer needs. Telecom Italia believes its association with
the Internet Society can witness the importance of this
organization for the future steady growth of the Internet in
a context where issues of globalization and international
cooperation are becoming increasingly important and urgent.
As all the discussions about the future of DNS management
clearly show, this is a critical moment for the future of
the Internet and Telecom Italia believes the ISOC is
uniquely positioned to promote the development of a fair and
shared solution. For more information, see
http://www.telecomitalia.it.
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INTERNET SOCIETY CALENDAR
* Network Technology Workshop (INET'98 Preconference
Workshop). 12-19 July 1998. Geneva, Switzerland. Contact:
http://www.isoc.org/inet98/net.shtml
* Internet Technical Tutorials (INET'98 Preconference
Event). 20-21 July 1998. Geneva, Switzerland. Contact:
http://www.isoc.org/inet98/tech.shtml
* K-12 (Primary/Secondary) Workshop (INET'98 Preconference
Event). 21 July 1998. Geneva, Switzerland. Contact:
http://www.isoc.org/inet98/event.shtml
* Developing Countries Networking Symposium (INET'98
Preconference Event). 20-21 July 1998. Geneva. Switzerland.
Contact: http://www.isoc.org/inet98/devconf.shtml
* INET'98: The Internet Summit. 21-24 July 1998. Exhibition:
22-24 July 1998. Geneva, Switzerland. Contact:
http://www.isoc.org/inet98
* Internet Society Chapter Development Workshop (INET'98
Post-Conference Event). 24 July 1998. Geneva, Switzerland.
Contact: http://www.isoc.org/inet98/chapter.shtml
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ISOC STAFF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Event: The Citizen and the Global Information Society
Date: 21-22 April 1998
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Speaker: Don Heath
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**SPECIAL CONFERENCE OFFERS FOR ISOC MEMBERS
* Global Opportunities for Internet via Satellite - Special
Offer for ISOC Members. 24-25 June 1998. Washington, DC
ISOC members are offered a 15 percent discount when
registering for the conference and workshop and a 10 percent
discount when registering for the conference only. Members
should mention their ISOC membership when registering to
qualify for the discount. For more information, call 800-
817-8601, 781-939-2500, or see http://www.worldcongress.com.
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CONFERENCE SPOTLIGHT
* NORDUnet'98
This year's NORDUnet'98 conference will take place in
Tromso, Norway, with a focus on technical as well as user-
oriented developments in academic networking. The conference
targets IT specialists, policy and decision makers, as well
as end users. The conference is scheduled for 28 June - 1
July 1998. More information can be found at
http://www.nordu.net/nordunet98.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
***MAY 1998
*@d:tech.chicago. 6-8 May 1998. Hyatt Regency, Chicago,
Illinois, USA. Contact: http://www.ad-tech.com/.
*3rd Conference on Design Management in the Digital
Environment, "Digital Enterprise by Design." 6-8 May 1998.
Redwood City, California, USA. Contact:
http://www.dmi.org/conferences.
*ACM Policy98. 10-12 May 1998. Washington, DC, USA. Contact:
http://www.acm.org/usacm/events/policy98/.
*First Electronic Publication Congress. 15-17 May 1998.
Barcelona, Spain. Contact: http://www.gpd.org/maig98.
*9th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks.
17-20 May 1998. Banff, Alberta, Canada. Contact:
http://boa.crl.mcmaster.ca/~lanman98.
*6th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service
(IWQoS'98). 18-20 May 1998. Napa, California, USA. Contact:
http://www-ece.rice.edu/conf/iwqos98/.
*ICDCS-18: The 18th International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems. 26-29 May 1998. Hotel Mercure, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. Contact:
http://ICDCS.fernuni-hagen.de/welcome.html.
***JUNE 1998
*UCLA Extension presents "Using Design Patterns, Frameworks,
and CORBA to Develop Object-Oriented Communication Systems."
1-3 June 1998. UCLA campus, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Contact: mhenness@unex.ucla.edu or
http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses.
*NetworkAsia, the 4th Asian International Networking
Exhibition and Conference. 2-5 June 1998. Singapore Suntec
Centre, Singapore. Contact: jc@sesmontnet.com or see
http://www.sesmontmet.com.
*Networks'98. 3-6 June 1998. Bangalore, India. Contact:
Gunvant@shakti.ncst.ernet.in.
*ENCOM-98. 7 June 1998. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Contact:
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/encom/98/.
*Information Society: Looking Ahead -- Promises and
Achievements. 10-12 June 1998. Strasbourg, France. Contact:
nolod@ccr.jussieu.fr.
*Wiring the World: The Impact of Information Technology on
Society. 13-14 June 1998. South Bend, Indiana, USA. Contact:
kperusich@iusb.edu.
*Information Networks and Data Communications'98. 15-17 June
1998. Aveiro, Portugal. Contact:
http://www.inesca.pt/indc98/.
*23rd Annual USENIX Technical Conference and Expo. 15-19
June 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Contact:
http://www.usenix.org/events/no98/.
*3rd International WWW Caching Workshop. 15-17 June 1998.
Manchester, England. Contact:
http://wwwcache.ja.net/events/workshop/.
*10th International Conference on Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering. 18-20 June 1998. Hotel Sofitel, San
Francisco Bay, California, USA. Contact:
http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke98.html.
*Information Technologies and Social Development. 23-24 June
1998. Geneva, Switzerland. Contact:
http://www.unrisd.org/infotech/conferen/conf.htm or send e-
mail to infotech@unrisd.org.
*Computer Graphics International: Conference & Exhibition.
22-26 June 1998. Hannover, Germany. Contact:
http://www-c.informatik.uni-hannover.de/cgi98.
*Digital Libraries '98. 23-26 June 1998. Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, USA. Contact: dl98@ks.com.
*Global Opportunities for Internet via Satellite. 24-25 June
1998. Washington, DC, USA. Contact:
http://www.worldcongress.com. SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON
REGISTRATION FOR ISOC MEMBERS.
*Teaching Research Ethics. 24-27 June 1998. Bloomington,
Indiana, USA. Contact: http://www.indiana.edu/~poynter.
*UKUUG Linux Conference98. 27-28 June 1998. UMIST Conference
Centre, Manchester, England. Contact:
http://www.ukuug.org/sigs/linux/linux_conf.shtml.
*17th NORDUnet Conference. 28 June - 1 July 1998. Tromsoe,
Norway. Contact: http://www.nordu.net/nordunet98.
***JULY 1998
*NATO Advanced Study Institute on Signal Processing for
Multimedia. 5-18 July 1998. Ciocco Resort Hotel, Tuscany,
Italy. Contact: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~asi/.
*E-GOV'98: The National Electronic Government Conference and
Exposition. 7-10 July 1998. Washington Convention Center,
Washington, DC, USA. Contact: http://www.e-gov.com.
*INET'98. 21-24 JULY 1998. PALEXPO CONFERENCE CENTER,
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND. CONTACT:
HTTP://WWW.ISOC.ORG/INET98.
***AUGUST 1998
*2nd Large Installation Systems Administration of Windows NT
Conference. 5-7 August 1998. Seattle, Washington, USA.
Contact: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa-nt98/.
*4th International Workshop on Multimedia Database
Management Systems (IW-MMDBMS'98). 5-7 August 1998. Holiday
Inn, Dayton/Fairborn, Ohio, USA. Contact:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~nwosu/mmdbms98/.
*Convergence in the Digital Age: Challenges for Libraries,
Museums and Archives. 13-14 September 1998. Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Contact:
http://www2.echo.lu/libraries.en/ifla98.html.
*Advances in Social Informatics and Information Systems. 14-
16 August 1998. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Contact:
http://info.cwru.edu/rlamb/ais98cfp.htm.
*PERL Conference 2.0. 17-20 August 1998. Fairmont Hotel, San
Jose, California, USA. Contact:
http://www.conference.perl.com/.
*42nd IETF Meeting. 23-28 August 1998. Chicago, Illinois,
USA. Contact: http://www.ietf.org.
*37th European Telecommunications Congress: Divering Roles
in a Converging Marketplace. 24-28 August 1998. London,
England. Contact:
http://www1b.btwebworld.com/fitce98/enhome.htm.
*2nd Workshop on Electronic Commerce. 31 August - 3
September 1998. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Contact:
http://www.usenix.org/events/ec98/.
***SEPTEMBER 1998
*5th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed
Multimedia Systems and Telecommunications Services. 8-11
September 1998. Oslo, Norway. Contact:
http://www.unik.no/~idms98.
*ACM Multimedia'98: 6th ACM International Multimedia
Conference. 12-16 September 1998. Bristol, United Kingdom.
Contact: http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM98/
http://www.kom.e-technik.tudarmstadt.de/pr/workshop/chair/ACMMM98/.
*2nd European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology
for Digital Libraries. 19-23 September 1998. Herkalion,
Crete, Greece. Contact: http://www.csi.forth.gr/2EuroDL.
*Telework'98: The 5th International Assembly on Telework and
New Ways of Working. 23-25 September 1998. Lisbon, Portugal.
Contact: http://www.teleman.pt/telework98.
***OCTOBER 1998
*TERENA Networking Conference 1998 (TNC'98). 5-8 October
1998. Dresden, Germany. Contact: tnc98-sec@terena.nl or
http://www.terena.nl/tnc98/.
*The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 5-9 October 1998.
Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact: http://hfes.org.
*CPSR Annual Conference: Internet Governance. 10-11 October
1998. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Contact:
http://www.cpsr.org.
*MoMuC'98: 5th International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia
Communication. 12-14 October 1998. Berlin, Germany. Contact:
tnc98-sec@terena.nl or http://momuc98.ee.tu-berlin.de.
*International Telecommunication Union's 1998
Plenipotentiary Conference. 12 October - 6 November 1998.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Contact: http://www.itu.ch or
http://www.minneapolis.org/itu/.
*Africom'98/CCDC'98. 20-22 October 1998. Tunis, Tunisia.
Contact: http://www.ensi.rnrt.tn/Africom-CCDC98.
*@d:tech.east. 26-28 October 1998. Marriott Marquis, New
York, New York, USA. Contact: http://www.ad-tech.com/.
*9th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed
Systems: Operations & Management. 26-28 October 1998.
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA. Contact:
dsom98@eecis.udel.edu.
*10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Computing and Systems: Special Session on Communication and
Computing for Distributed Multimedia Systems. 28-31 October
1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact:
http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/matiquzz/.
*From the Universities to the Marketplace: The Business
Ethics Journey. 29-31 October 1998. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Contact: lpincus@wpost.depaul.edu.
***NOVEMBER 1998
*PDC'98. 12-14 November 1998. Seattle, Washington, USA.
Contact http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc98.
*INET-TR'98: Fourth Internet in Turkey Conference. 13-15
November 1998. Istanbul, Turkey. Contact:
http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/inetconf4/.
*Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 14-18 November 1998.
Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact:
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw98/.
*The National Telephone Cooperative Association. 30
November-2 December 1998. Washington, DC, USA. Contact:
International@ntca.org.
***DECEMBER 1998
*12th USENIX Systems Administration Conference (LISA'98). 6-
11 December 1998. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Contact:
http://www.usenix.org.
*6th Comms India'98 Conference and Exhibition. 9-11 December
1998. Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India. Contact: Exhibitions
India, C-390 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024, India.
*** JANUARY 1999
*Data Semantics-8 (DS-8): Semantic Issues in Multimedia
Systems. 5-8 January 1999. Rotorua, New Zealand. Contact:
http://zulu.cs.rmit.edu/au/~ds8.
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