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THE INTERNET LETTER
On Corporate Users, Internetworking & Information Services
Vol.1, No.1 A Net Week Inc. Publication October 1993
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This is the premiere issue of The Internet Letter. The Internet Letter --
the first commercial newsletter on the Internet -- will premiere at INET
93 and INTEROP(r)93, and a hard copy version will be available at Booth
#1334 (InterCon Systems Corp.) in the South Hall of the Moscone Center.
Permission granted to freely distribute this newsletter.
The editor is Jayne Levin (
[email protected]). Levin was former
deputy bureau chief of Institutional Investor in Washington, D.C., and has
written on the Internet for The Washington Post and Infoworld. Tony
Rutkowski (
[email protected]) is special adviser. Rutkowski is founder
and vice president of the Internet Society and director of technology
assessment at Sprint Corp. He was former editor-in-chief and publisher of
Telecommunications magazine. Levin will be availble for interviews at
INTEROP. Contact INTEROP press relations.
=============================== IN THIS ISSUE ===============================
001) INTERNET EXPERIENCING AN INFORMATION EXPLOSION
002) COMPANIES TAP INTERNET'S POWER
003) THE TOP 150 COMMERCIAL USERS ON INTERNET -- CHART
004) CIA, US GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES DEVELOP INTERNET LINK
005) REALTY FIRM IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET SPEEDS REALTY TRANSACTIONS
006) MULTIMEDIA MAGAZINE TO DEBUT ON INTERNET
007) TASK FORCE PROPOSES STANDARD TO SECURE CONTENTS OF E-MAIL
008) INTERNET MERCANTILE STANDARDS EXPLORED
009) GOPHER LICENSING FEE SPARKS DISPUTE
010) FINDING GOPHER & GN
011) FROM SOFTWARE TO MAGAZINES, BUYING ELECTRONICALLY
012) CIX LAUNCHES COMMERCIAL "INFORMATION" EXCHANGE
013) SOME COMPANIES PREFER WAIS FOR BUILDING IN-HOUSE DATABASES
014) MORE ON WAIS
015) INTERNET TO ASSIST BETHANY IN ADOPTION SERVICES
016) FAQ
017) PROVIDERS' CIRCUIT
018) CIX CONTACTS -- CHART
019) TIPS & TECHNIQUES
020) POINTERS
021) TALK OF THE NET
022) WASHINGTON
023) READ ALL ABOUT IT
024) DATEBOOK
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001) INTERNET EXPERIENCING AN INFORMATION EXPLOSION
There is an information revolution going on, and the Internet is
leading the way.
As the variety of business needs increases each year, more
networks are springing up to meet those demands. The number of networks
that passed traffic through the NSFNet (National Science Foundation
network), the largest of the Internet's backbones, has more than doubled
in the last two years -- 9,240 networks in June 1993, compared with 3,971
networks two years ago.
Twenty-nine percent of the networks identified by type --
commercial, research, educational, military or government -- are
classified as commercial. This designation is made when the network is
registered with the Internet central registration authority to obtain a
globally unique IP (Internet Protocol) network number.
Many of the networks classified as "research" also are owned by
commercial companies. However, these research internets are not included
here. Commercial networks are the fastest-growing segment of the Internet
networks. From March to June of this year, NSFNet figures showed that the
number of commercially connected networks jumped to 1,590 from 485.
Reasons for this growth include:
*The use of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/IP) as the
internal internetworking platform for computers and networks.
*The need to communicate and share information with staff members,
companies and federal and regulatory agencies.
*The rapid expansion and broad range of services on the Internet.
With so many corporations having internal TCP/IP "internets,"
their connection to the Internet is simply "plug and play" with a favorite
Internet backbone service provider. Thus, thousands of companies use the
Internet in innovative ways.
Under the NSF's existing Acceptable Use Policy, the NSF encourages
this wide range of activity.
Next year, a new national Internet architecture will be put into
place after the NSF phases out its NSFNet backbone.
The new architecture will rely primarily on commercial national
backbone providers for long-haul Internet transport. Some major carriers,
such as Sprint Corp., already have entered the marketplace.
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002) COMPANIES TAP INTERNET'S POWER
Among the thousands of companies on the Internet, one group stands
out in terms of the tremendous amount of information sent and received --
the power users.
These companies have significant connectivity and, in some cases,
own major Internet backbones.
The Internet has attracted a broad range of corporate power users,
including computer manufacturers, information services firms and
telecommunications companies.
Other power users depend heavily on scientific information and
collaboration, such as genetic research, and include high-technology
manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and oil producers. Even investment
banking firms have found a need for the Internet.
Each Internet power user transmitted from 1.5 gigabytes to 75
gigabytes of traffic on the NSFNet backbone in June 1993. The traffic of
the top 150 companies totaled a whopping 912 gigabytes in June, up 11%
>from March to June.
The traffic of some companies, including Motorola
Manufacturing Center, AT&T Data Communications Services, Molecular
Simulations Inc., Siemens Corporate Research Inc. and General Dynamics
Corp., exceeded 100% during the same time period.
Companies, in many cases, provide Internet connectivity to the
backbone or offer regional, gateway and local dial-up access.
This Internet characteristic, where providers and users are one
and the same, makes the Internet world unique and enhances the level of
cooperation to keep performance high and costs low.
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003) THE TOP 150 COMMERCIAL USERS ON INTERNET
Here are the top 150 companies sending the most traffic through
the NSFNet backbone in June 1993. These companies have significant
connections on the Internet.
Company Hosts Reachable
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A.C. Nielsen Co. 748
a2i communications 7
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. 65
Advantis 3
American Cybercasting Corp. 2
Amgen Inc. 2476
Anasazi Inc. 3
Andersen Consulting 125
Apple Computer Inc. 830
ARCO Oil and Gas Co. 16
ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Division 6
AT&T Bell Laboratories 3
AT&T Data Communications Services 4
Bell Communications Research 6158
BiiN Corp.
Biosym Technologies Inc. 221
Biotechnet 15
Borland International 582
BP Research 2
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Inst. 1988
Cadence Design Systems 3573
CERFnet 25
Cisco Systems Inc. 2832
Community News Service 4
Compaq Computer Corp. 10
CompuServe Inc. 571
Computer Services Centre 3063
COMSAT Laboratories 456
Connected Inc. 29
Contel Wohlstetter Technology Park 714
Cray Research Inc. 2321
CTS Network Services 183
Data Research Associates Inc. 216
Datacomp Systems Inc. 11
Dell Computer Corp. 3530
Demon Systems Limited 1666
Dialog Information Services 3
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society 3
Digital Equipment Corp. 11
Digital Express Group Inc. 66
Dow Jones 5
DuPont 3
Eastman Kodak Co. 28
Eli Lilly and Co 2
Emulex Corp. 510
Ericsson Telecom 2
Evans & Sutherland Computer Division 15
F.Hoffmann-La Roche
Farallon Computing Inc. 40
FTP Software Inc. 1389
FXD/Telerate
USA Mountain View 4
General Dynamics 1188
General Electric Co. 5
General Motors Research Laboratories 1090
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. 3
Hal Computer Systems Inc. 3
Halliburton Co. 2
Harris Semiconductor 1552
Honeywell Inc. 2603
Horizon Research Inc. 109
IBM Corp. 76
IBM Information Network 3
Information Access Technologies Inc. 15
Integrated Systems Inc. 220
INTEL/Components Research 2
Intergraph Corp. 132
International Lisp Associates Inc. 493
JP Morgan 5
Lehman Brothers
LSI Logic Corp. 4
McDonnell Douglas Corp. 6652
MCI Communications 368
MDCME Unigraphics 1418
Mead Data Central 6
Mentat Inc. 1
Mentor Graphics Corp. 3
Metaphor Computer Systems 544
Microsoft Corp. 11
Mobil Exploration and Producing Services Inc. 18
Molecular Simulations Inc. 59
Monsanto 1204
Morning Star Technologies Inc. 160
Motorola Manufacturing Center 2227
Motorola Network Computing Services 1
MSEN Inc. 75
MV Communications 41
NationalInstruments Corp. 614
National Semiconductor 11
NCR Corp. 3
Netcom - Online Communication Services 81
Network Solutions Inc. 14
Network Systems Corp. 1035
NeXT Inc. 7
Northern Telecom/Bell Northern Research 2
Northrop Research and Technology Center 324
NSTN Inc. 91
NYNEX Science and Technology 286
OpenConnect Systems 8
Oracle Corp. 1
Pacific Bell 81
Pacific Power 597
Performance Systems International 2933
Philips Laboratories 1
Pixar 350
Portal Communications Co. 46
Prime Computer Inc. 2946
PSI 21
Public Access Networks Corp. 5
Pyramid Technology Corp. 3148
Qualcomm Inc. 1638
Red Electrica De Espana S.A. Spain
Sevilla Research Systems Inc. 1
Rockwell International Corp. 2201
SAS Institute 3
Schlumberger-Doll Research 1728
Science Applications International Corp. 2350
Sequent Computer Systems 24
Siemens Corporate Research Inc. 351
Silicon Graphics Inc. 10
Software Tool & Die 33
Software Transformation Inc. 56
Solbourne Computer Inc. 6
Sprint
SPSS Inc. 5
ST System Corp. 44
Sterling Software FSG/IMD 3
Stratus Computer Inc. 3554
Sun Microsystems Inc. 6
Sunquest Information Systems 198
SURFnet at KU Nijmegen 5
Swanson Analysis Systems Inc. 1
Systems Center Inc. 2
Teacher's Insurance and Annuities Association 451
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz 948
Texas Instruments Computer Science Center 4
Texas Metronet Inc. 7
TGV Inc. 101
The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. 1307
Transarc Corp. 251
US West 475
Usenix 52
Walnut Creek CDROM 24
Walt Disney Imagineering 34
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis 135
West Services Inc. 2
Wicat Systems 41
Widener University 98
Wolfram Research Inc. 431
Xerox Corp. 4765
Source: National Science Foundation/The Internet Letter
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004) CIA, U.S. GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES DEVELOP INTERNET LINK
Fourteen U.S. government intelligence agencies, led by the Central
Intelligence Agency, are developing plans that would allow them to share
unclassified information via the Internet.
"Everyone is using it [the Internet]," said Paul Wallner, CIA
Intelligence Community Open Source coordinator, in an exclusive interview
with The Internet Letter. "Why not take advantage of it ourselves and use it.
"We're not looking at the Internet as a way to gather intelligence,"
Wallner said. "The Internet is not viewed as a source of information for
us."
The agencies that would use Internet to exchange "public"
information are part of the National Foreign Intelligence program. They
include the National Security Agency, CIA and the Defense Intelligence
Agency.
The intelligence community will use the Internet to share
information and ideas among themselves and the academic community, Wallner
said. For example, if the CIA were asked about the nuclear waste problem
in Russia, "a good way" to find out would be to talk to the scientific
community on the Internet, he said.
The system in place now is inadequate. While each agency has its
own internal electronic communications network, two intelligence analysts
working at different agencies but on the same project cannot send E-mail
to one another. There also are no electronic links between the
intelligence and academic communities. Communication is carried out mostly
by telephone.
Because of security concerns, the internal community network will
not be connected directly to the Internet, Wallner said. The CIA plans to
address the issue of security by creating "air gaps" between classified
and unclassified information. An air gap would create a physical space
between an agency's internal network and an Internet link.
"That allows us to have another check on hackers and potential
viruses," Wallner said. He characterized the tone of the discussion over
security as "technical."
There are three phases to the project, and the first phase is
expected to start next spring. It involves establishing nine prototype
Internet "nodes" that will connect to an Internet backbone. The CIA plans
to seek engineering support from private industry to help design the
network's overall architecture.
Unclassified materials produced by the Foreign Broadcast
Information Service (FBIS) may be available for anonymous FTP (file
transfer protocol). No decision has been made on whether a Gopher or WAIS
(Wide Area Information Server) server will be used, Wallner said.
The government is grappling with whether public distribution of
FBIS publications via the Internet would violate copyright law. Selected
FBIS publications now are available in print and microfiche to government
agencies and universities. FBIS publishes eight daily reports, one for
each geographic region of the world.
The information is gleaned from news accounts, commentaries and
government statements from foreign broadcasts, and it is translated into
English from more than 80 languages.
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005) REALTY FIRM IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET SPEEDS REALTY TRANSACTIONS
Tucked away in a corner of Silicon Valley, Alain Pinel Realtors'
co-owner Mark Richards is trying to persuade nearly every segment of the
real estate industry to establish a link to the Internet.
Richards already has lined up several title companies to use the
Internet in business transactions, including the Santa Clara and Title Co.
and Fidelity National Title Co.
"We said, `If you want to do business with us, this is how we do
business.'"
Richards' push to put the industry on the Internet stems from a
desire to position Alain Pinel Realtors as a technical leader in real
estate.
Alain, which established a link to the Internet three years ago,
has dial-up access to the Internet through Netcom - Online Communications
Inc., a service provider in San Jose. The firm plans to obtain soon a
direct connection to the Internet.
Using the Internet in real estate transactions canreduce the time
needed to complete and approve a mortgage application," Richards said.
Alain agents, for example, can set up an escrow account and send
the information via the Internet to Santa Clara Land Title. The title
company then can assign the account a number and confirm with Alain via
E-mail that a new escrow account has been established. Alain agents also
can update information in the account as E-mail.
Without the Internet, Alain in Saratoga, Calif., and Santa Clara
in San Jose, Calif., would be unable to inter-communicate. "It's a way of
doing business that's exciting because it's different, and it's a quick
way to communicate," said Michele Whicker, systems administrator at Santa
Clara. "It seems to be the way of the future."
E-mail can create an electronic history of memorandums, letters
and records, which Whicker said is "great when you're in the business of
documenting everything." The electronic trail also reduces the chance for
misunderstanding.
Richards pointed out that an important next step is to connect
mortgage companies with the Internet. He is working with Elliot Ames Inc.
and First Intercity Mortgage.
The Internet also offers Alain a benefit in added clients. "I've
probably picked up three to four buyers every couple of months just from
E-mail," said Alain agent Jeff Barnett.
All of Alain's 250 agents have an Internet address on their
business card. When clients see the Internet address on a business card,
Richards says, they are very impressed.
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006) MULTIMEDIA MAGAZINE TO DEBUT ON INTERNET
First there was "Internet Talk Radio," a weekly radio talk show
broadcast to listeners tuned to their desktop computers.
Now, get ready for The Electric Eclectic, the first Internet
talking magazine.
Nathaniel Borenstein, the magazine's creator and a member of the
technical staff of Bellcore Corp. in Morristown, N.J., describes his
creation as a multimedia "metamagazine."
"I'm thinking more and more in terms of The Electric Eclectic not
being so much a magazine as a do-it-yourself magazine construction kit,"
Borenstein said. Subscribers will be able to design their own virtual
magazine based on continually evolving topics , or "threads," and choose
the frequency of delivery.
Computer-delivered magazines are not viewed as a threat to
traditional magazines, according to some publishers. "It will be not so
much a direct competitor as it will be for the customer's time," said
Malcom S. Forbes Jr., president and chief executive of Forbes magazine.
"The consumer is going to have more choices."
Forbes adds, "We're looking and sniffing and willing to
experiment. We're not wedded to the post office."
The Electric Eclectic, to debut later this year as a
non-commercial service to the Internet community, will display pictures,
sound and text on a computer screen.
Vinton G. Cerf, president of the Internet Society, plans to
contribute an article, using sound, that shows how hearing-impaired people
can benefit from computing and networking technology. Cerf is close to the
subject -- he is hard of hearing and his wife is deaf.
Borenstein said anyone with a PC or Macintosh and a few common
hardware and software items should be able to experience The Electric
Eclectic's multimedia attributes.
Magazine threads will be transmitted using "store and forward," a
technology that allows users to receive high-bandwidth materials on a low
bit-rate modem by stretching out the transfer time. After the material is
loaded into computer memory, it can be accessed and played back in real
time.
Information: To join a discussion list, send E-mail to
[email protected] with "subscribe" in the subject line (no
quotes).
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007) TASK FORCE PROPOSES STANDARD TO SECURE CONTENTS OF E-MAIL
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently proposed an
Internet standard, called PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail), to verify a person's
identity, and a message's validity.
Currently, when a message is sent over the Internet using standard
A22 E-mail, the receiving party is unable to authenticate, say, a credit
card holder. There also is the danger that the contents of the message
could fall into the wrong hands.
PEM uses cryptographic techniques to secure E-mail. It can tell
when a message has been altered and keep it secret from unintended
recipients. Making the Internet safe for electronic transactions of goods
and services also will help guard against credit card fraud and abuse.
Only a few companies operating on the Internet accept credit cards
at this time. Tabor Griffin Communications in San Diego sells HPC
(High-Performance Computing) Select News over the Internet, and CARL
(Colorado Association of Research Libraries) allows patrons to use credit
cards to pay for document delivery services.
Neither has ever had a problem. "Some people are very leery about
giving their [credit card number] over the Internet," said Jennifer Tabor,
manager of Tabor Griffin. However, "the only one that has access to it
[the number] is our accounting department, " Tabor said.
Despite PEM's new encryption methods, the banking industry does
not recognize it.
"It's worthless insofar as proving to a bank that a person made a
credit card transaction," said Sean Donelan, a programmer at Data Research
Associates, which sells a software package that includes features for
taking on-line credit card orders.
The American Bankers Association does not have a committee
studying network use of credit cards because it does not consider the
market big enough. Credit card giants, such as VISA U.S.A., though, are
concerned with this potential problem.
"Our operations and risk management departments share the same
security concerns...that this type of network, not being private, could be
susceptible to hacking," said Albert Coscia, a VISA spokesman. VISA is
evaluating new methods of encrypting data for electronic transactions for a
home shopping-type network.
The IETF plans to vote next month on whether to make PEM a draft
standard. Information: PEM is available via anonymous FTP, but federal
regulations restrict its use in the United States and Canada. FTP:
ftp.tis.com. Login: anonymous. Directory path: pub/P EM. Get: README,
LICENSE and BUGS.
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008) INTERNET MERCANTILE STANDARDS EXPLORED
The Internet took another step to build a framework for electronic
commerce. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) plans to use existing
Internet standards and and adapt them to create an Internet infrastructure
for conducting business.
The IETF recently met in Amsterdam for a "birds-of-a-feather"
session to discuss Internet Mercantile Protocols (IMP). IMP would offer
Internet consumers and companies a common way to automate and complete
transactions using PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) and MIME (Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions).
"By leveraging PEM and MIME, we can do commerce over the Internet,"
said James "Chuck" Davin, a member of the technical staff of Bellcore
Corp. who helped initiate the IMP project.
Davin envisions a standard messaging format for companies to sell
and deliver products in the form of bits, such as .GIF files or software,
over the Internet.
"But we're also thinking about the equivalent of a home shoppers'
club over the Internet, where you're buying Elvis figurines over the
Internet," Davin added. "Obviously, the Elvis figurines would be delivered
by UPS."
Information: Two mailing lists have been set up to discuss IMP:
[email protected] and
[email protected]. The minutes of the Amersterdam
BOF meeting are available via anonymous FTP from thumper.bellcore.com.
Directory path: pub/devetzis/imp. Get: imp-archive.
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009) GOPHER LICENSING FEE SPARKS DISPUTE
Companies are shying away from paying the University of Minnesota
a software licensing fee to use Gopher, instead taking advantage of rival
freeware versions or not living up to the honor system.
"They [companies] haven't given me a penny yet," said Shi-Pau Yen,
director of computer and information service at the University of
Minnesota, which developed Gopher. "What can I do? The university doesn't
have the money to sue them."
Companies such as Dacom R&D in South Korea and the computer book
publisher O'Reilly & Associates use Gopher for marketing products, human
resources, strategic planning and information center support.
Last winter the university, faced with budget cutbacks, began charging
companies that wanted to use its Gopher server code for commercial
purposes. Companies are on the honor system to pay U of M when they
retrieve the software from the university's anonymous FTP database.
The decision to charge sparked heated debate in the business and
academic communities that helped the university develop Gopher. Some
groups were upset that they would be charged a user fee for pieces of
their own code used in a product .
"I don't know of anyone in business or academia who begrudges the
University of Minnesota's receiving a revenue stream to support Gopher
development," said Rich Wiggins, Gopher coordinator at Michigan State
University. "It is the manner in which the commercial fees were imposed
that concerns some people."
Wiggins said the University of Minnesota, the sports teams of which are
nicknamed the Golden Gophers, should create a completely voluntary
"Internet Gopher Consortium," with low annual fees for individuals and
organizations. "I believe such a consortium would easily draw thousands of
members, providing a revenue stream in six figures," Wiggins said.
As a result, John Franks, a mathematician at Northwestern
University, wrote a competing product, called GN, and offered it for free
on the Internet. GN is the only free UNIX server.
"It was a bad decision on their part and hurt the use of Gopher,"
Franks said, referring to Minnesota's Gopher development team. The licensing
fee "is going to deter most commercial enterprises that might do something
pro bono."
Under the site license, companies that want to use the
university's Gopher server are required to pay an annual fee of $100 even
if the information provided is a public service to the Internet community.
For companies that intend to sell goods and services, the fee is
higher. Companies with an annual gross income of up to $3 million are
required to pay either $500 a year, or 2.5 percent of gross sales,
whichever is bigger.
Those with an annual gross income of more than $3 million pay the
higher of either $2,500 or 2.5 percent of gross sales, not on the entire
company but on the product or service sold on the Internet.Yen defended
the site license, saying "it's very reasonable."
A handful of companies are paying for a site license, though Yen
could not recall which companies are paying a fee.
"So why would you come to me?" said Mark McCahill, project leader
of Minnesota's Gopher development team. "Mine works under high-volume
conditions, and it will let you do neater stuff."
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010) FINDING GOPHER & GN
To find new and current releases of Gopher and GN, contact the
following:
GOPHER: E-mail the University of Minnesota Gopher developers at
[email protected]. New releases of Gopher software are
announced on the gopher-news mailing list. To subscribe to the list, send
an E-mail request to
[email protected] cro.umn.edu. There
also is a USENET newsgroup (comp.infosystems.gopher) devoted to gopher
technology. The gopher software is available via anonymous FTP from
boombox.micro.umn.edu in the pub/gopher directory.
GN: GN software is available via anonymous FTP from hopf.math.nwu.edu in
the pub/GN directory. The best way to find out about GN is to point your
Gopher at hopf.math.nwu.edu. The menu will display a complete directory of
information, including installatio n manual and philosophy statement. Or
contact
[email protected].
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011) FROM SOFTWARE TO MAGAZINES, BUYING ELECTRONICALLY
The Internet is opening doors for electronic storefronts -- and
business is booming.
So far, about eight commercial firms have created virtual stores
using a Gopher server. They include Counterpoint Publishing, O'Reilly &
Associates, The Internet Co., Novell Inc. and Whole Earth 'Lectronic
Magazine.
The stores allow consumers to buy products, mainly software and
computer-related books, download technical manuals and browse through
company information and services.
The latest Internet merchant is Electronic Newsstand Inc., which
sells magazine subscriptions and offers sample articles from each
publication.
"Magazine publishers are always looking for ways to acquire
circulation," said Jeffrey Dearth, founder and chief executive of
Electronic Newsstand.
Publishing companies pay an annual fee of $2,500 to $5,000,
depending on the frequency and size of the publication. For each
subscription generated, companies are charged an additional $5 to $10.
Electronic Newsstand takes 40 percent of the cover price for single-issue
sales.
In the view of traditional circulation expenses, "that's peanuts,"
said Dearth, who also is president of The New Republic magazine.
Dearth said he envisions creating different virtual magazine
shelves: sports, travel, politics, history, business and news.
SunSITE, a service of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. of Mountain
View, Calif., appears to be one of the most popular electronic
storefronts. More than 14,500 files are downloaded daily from SunSITE, and
about 50 countries, including Croatia, Latvia and South Africa, have used
the free service, according to figures supplied by Sun. The biggest users
are the United Kingdom, followed by Germany and Canada.
Although SunSITE does not sell merchandise directly, the service
has improved hardware sales, said Judy Gallegos, Sun's manager of
strategic initiatives.
On SunSITE, for example, there is "SunFlash," the company's
newsletter, "sunspots," an electronic forum for exchanging information
about Sun systems and "sun-managers," an electronic discussion group that
provides network managers a quick response to technical problems.
Establishing a global SunSITE network is Sun's over-arching plan,
Gallegos said. Sun plans to create affiliate sites in Mexico, Hong Kong,
Japan and in parts of Europe. These sites would offer software written in
foreign languages and mirror many of the files at SunSITE, at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Information: To access Electronic Newsstand, point your Gopher at
gopher.netsys.com 2100 or telnet to gopher.netsys.com. Login: enews.
For SunSITE access, Gopher to SunSITE.unc.edu (152.2.22.81).
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012) CIX LAUNCHES COMMERCIAL "INFORMATION" EXCHANGE
The Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) is about to launch the
Commercial "Information" Exchange, a new billboard service for businesses
to advertise products and services via the Internet.
The CIX will allow companies to post prices, product lines,
services, specification sheets and related company materials. Companies
will be required to pay a "modest" fee to maintain the database, and no
fluffy ad copy is allowed.
"Our hope is that it will support a culture which allows for
commercial information but doesn't turn it into junk mail,
and...antagonize people," said Bill Washburn, executive director of the
CIX.
The CIX is a nonprofit trade association of 19 Internet providers
that share the goal of providing unrestricted commercial Internet access.
Washburn said many companies are reluctant to advertise their
products because they "don't want to be flamed to death. They are very
antsy."
The quality of merchandise and services will be monitored through
the use of customer satisfaction questionaires. "Once we got any
information that was negative, we would pull the plug," he said.
The CIX database, similar to a phone book's yellow pages, will be
divided into several categories, with items cross-categorized. It still is
under construction.
Contact: Bill Washburn,
[email protected]. Or point your Gopher at
cix.org.
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013) SOME COMPANIES PREFER WAIS FOR BUILDING IN-HOUSE DATABASES
Increasingly, companies are building their own internal databases
with WAIS (Wide Area Information Server).
KPMG Peat Marwick recently unveiled a WAIS (pronounced wayz)
database for internal use. Other companies that use WAIS include Lockheed
Corp. and Booz Allen and Hamilton Inc.
The database allows Peat Marwick partners and consultants, for
example, to gather information on prospective clients or find employees
with specific job skills. It is divided into sections, including resumes,
reports, skills, proposals and work-in-progre ss.
"Information is our business," said Jeff Ott, manager of Peat
Marwick's client server consulting group. "It's critical in an
organization our size that the right hand know what the left hand is
doing."
Robin Palmer, senior manager of the client serve consulting group,
said the accounting firm chose WAIS over Gopher for two key reasons:
*Its simplicity in constructing searches using plain English
queries.
*Its ability to feed back information after a first search in order
to conduct a secondary search.
"It could be thousands of words in a document, and you can feed
that back in," Palmer said. "That is very, very powerful."
It is unclear whether Peat Marwick will make part of its WAIS
database publicly available once its San Francisco bay area offices
establish a 56Kb per second Internet connection via BARRnet. Said Ott: "We
have not decided whether we want to be [accountin g] information
publishers yet. It may be a little too progressive at this time."
Peat Marwick is the only big accounting firm to use WAIS.
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014) MORE ON WAIS
For a bibliography of WAIS-related documents, contact Barbara
Lincoln Brooks: WAIS Inc.; 1040 Noel Dr.; Menlo Park, Calif. 94025,
[email protected] or +1 415 327 WAIS. For information on WAIS freewar e,
contact Jane Smith of the Clearinghouse of Networked Information Discovery
and Retrieval (CNIDR),
[email protected] or +1 919 248 9213.The
freeware director is George Brett at
[email protected] or +1 919 962
1000.
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015) INTERNET TO ASSIST BETHANY IN ADOPTION SERVICES
Plans to set up a global network among adoption agencies and
governments via the Internet is underway at Bethany Christian Services in
Grand Rapids, Mich.
"We're trying to reach out to countries that are floundering in
this area and give them some direction," said Andy Bass, Bethany's systems
administrator.
Bethany works with the governments of Vietnam, South Korea,
Colombia and Romania to establish adoption-type agencies and teach them
adoption procedures.
"There's a lot of back and forth" when communicating with overseas
governments about their adoption procedures and regulations, Bass said.
E-mail via the Internet would eliminate telephone tag and the need
for employees to get up at night to reach someone in a different time
zone. It also would make information sharing more efficient and thus
facilitate adoptions.
Bethany finds homes for a few hundred foreign children every year,
both in the United States and aboard. It also places several hundred U.S.
children in homes throughout the United States each year.
Bethany, a MichNet customer since March, is in the process of
connecting its 55 branch offices across the United States with UUCP
(UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy) links to the Internet. UUCP will give the offices the
ability to communicate via E-mail and to receive news feeds but not to
telnet or FTP (file transfer protocol). The organization's main office has
a 56 Kb per second line to MichNet, a statewide network operated by Merit,
a group of Michigan universities.
Bethany also plans to use the Internet to find people who are
interested in adoption.
Bass is setting up a Gopher server for internal use, with an eye
toward making it available publicly on the Internet. He wants to include
listings of Bethany's branch offices, general adoption information and
other services, including foster care and pregnancy counseling.
"Right now, a lot of what we're doing is in the planning stages,
tossing around ideas," Bass said, adding that the Internet "has a lot of
potential."
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016) FAQ
Q: Why would a company want to have an IP (Internet Protocol)
network address?
A: Most companies actually already have them. As TCP/IP (Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) has become the most prevalent solution
for companies to tie together all their diverse information systems and
computers, their Information Systems d epartments have typically obtained
registered unique IP network addresses as the first step in building their
internal networks. (A few unfortunate companies have made up their own
addresses and face major administrative problems when they try to connect
to the "outside world.") If a company has not already obtained an IP
address, it's likely they will soon, as virtually all computer operating
systems now come bundled with TCP/IP for networking and device management.
Q: How does a company get an "official" IP address?
A: InterNIC (Network Information Center) Registration Services registers
domains, IP organizations and autonomous systems. Network addresses are
free, and you don't need an Internet connection to get one. InterNIC
assigns between 1,000 and 8,000 IP (Inter net Protocol) network addresses
every month.
Registration forms and instructions are available via anonymous
FTP at rs.internic.net. The templates directory contains the registration
forms. Use FTP as your login and password.
Completed forms can be sent to InterNIC via electronic mail, facsimile
(+1 703 742 4811), or through the snail mail at Network Solutions;
InterNIC Registration Services; 505 Huntmar Park Dr.; Herndon, Va. 22070.
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017) PROVIDERS' CIRCUIT
Thousands of companies, large and small, are using the Internet to
exchange E-mail and other data with corporate partners around the globe.
Yet many simply don't know how to connect. For some it is a
security concern; others aren't aware of the vast array of services
available on-line. But many more simply don't know "how" to connect.
There are three basic connection options. The simplest and least
expensive -- typically $10 to $25 a month -- is dial-up access to a
connection service. Here you don't actually connect to the Internet
yourself. Instead, you run a terminal emulation that gives you access to
E-mail, sometimes FTP and telnet. Generally, this type of service is
adequate for small firms. The main drawback is that you cannot perform
more than one task at a time. That means you won't be able to download a
file and log in to a remote database for an interactive session all at the
same time.
The next upgrade is either SL(Serial Line Interface Protocol) or
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol), an Internet standard that is more robust
than SLIP. SLIP or PPP also is a dial-up service. A modem on your local
area network (LAN ) connects to a provider's host, which is connected
directly to the Internet. The speed of the link is limited to the
capability of the modem.
The price jumps considerably with SLIP, but still is reasonable
when compared with a dedicated line. Cost: about $160 to $250 a month,
with a one-time installation fee of $1,500.
The most costly option is to get a dedicated line, making your LAN
an actual Internet node. Monthly fees range from about $500 a month for
19.2Kb per second to $5,000 a month for 1.544MB (T-1).
While a dedicated connection is a low-cost way to create a wide
area network (WAN), it also places your communications at the mercy of
overall network activity, and throughput can fail from time to time.
There's also the issue of security. The answer is to configure
your routers to filter out unwanted packets.
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018) CIX CONTACTS
Commercial Internet Exchange: Access Providers
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AlterNet/UUNET Technologies Inc. (Falls Church, Va.); 800 488 6384, 703
204 8000 or
[email protected]; U.S./International.
BARRnet (San Francisco); 415 723 3104 or
[email protected];
Northern/Central California.
CERFNet (San Diego) 800 876 2373, 619 455 3900 or
[email protected]; Western
U.S./International. Connected Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.); 206 820 6639 or
[email protected]; Pacific NW.
Demon Internet Systems/Demon Internet Ltd. (London) +44 (0)81 349 0063
or
[email protected]; London/United Kingdom.
EUnet (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); +31 20 592 5109 or
[email protected]; Europe,
former Soviet Union and Northern Africa.
Global Enterprise Services Inc., network JvNCNet (Princeton); 800 35TIGER,
609 897 7300 or
[email protected]; U.S./International.
Hong Kong Supernet +852 358 6994 or
[email protected]; Southeast Asia and
China.
Iowanet (Des Moines); 515 830 0486 or
[email protected]; Midwest.
NEARnet (Cambridge, Mass.); 617 873 8730 or
[email protected]; NE
U.S.
Netcom - Online Communications Inc. (San Jose); 408 554 8649 or
[email protected]; U.S.
NORDUnet (Denmark) +45 45 938355 or
[email protected]; Nordic
countries.
NorthWestNet (Bellevue, Wash.); 206 562 3000 or
[email protected]; Canada
and NW U.S.
PIPEX (Cambridge, U.K.); +44 223 250120 or
[email protected]; United
Kingdom. PSINet (Reston, Va.); 800 827 7482, 703 620 6651 or
[email protected];
U.S./International.
THEnet (Austin, Tex.); 512 471 2400 or
[email protected]; Texas.
Sprint/Sprintlink (Herndon, Va.); 703 904 2167 or
[email protected];
U.S./International.
WestNet (Fort Collins, Colo.); 303 491 1577 or
[email protected]; Wyoming,
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah.
World dot Net (Vancouver); 206 576 7147 or
[email protected]; Pacific
Northwest.
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019) TIP & TECHNIQUES
Meet Rick Gates, former director of library automation at the
University of Santa Barbara and now a student and lecturer at the
University of Arizona. To Internet users, Gates is better known as
the "Huntstigator" of "The Internet Hu nt."
Gates explains that "The Hunt is a game of sorts." Every month he
pulls together 10 questions that can be answered using freely accessible,
publicly available Net resources. He ranks them for difficulty, from 1
(very easy) to 10 (very difficult).
The questions are posted on the Internet, and Gates gives
contestants a week to send him their E-mail entries, then posts the
winners and the results.
Gates launched the "Hunt" in September 1992 as an instructional
game that would help people learn about the variety of information
available on the Net. However, only a few dozen players participate each
month.
By far, the most popular use of the "Hunt" has been by people who
use it as an instructional tool. The "Hunt" results always give the exact
steps used to arrive at an answer. "This also provides a handy path for
novices to follow and learn from," he said.
Gates said the most interesting "Hunt" to date was in June when
participants were given the E-mail address of
[email protected]
and asked to find out as much information about the person as possible.
Turns out the man behind the Internet address is Dr. Ross Stapleton, who
happens to work for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Information: To join the "Hunt," gopher to CICNet in Ann Arbor,
Mich., at gopher.cic.net 70 for questions and answers, or FTP the files
>from ftp.cic.net in the pub/internet-hunt/about directory and get
00readme.txt.
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020) POINTERS
Iowa flood information is available in a temporary section of the
ES-Gopher of Iowa State University Extension. Telnet: exnet.iastate.edu
(129.186.20.200). Login: flood.
The U.S. Commerce Department is offering Internetters free use of its
Economic Bulletin Board until September 30. Telnet: ebb.stat-usa.gov
(192.239.70.201). Login: trial; no password is required. You can search 16
general topic areas containing more than 2,000 files covering such topics
as general economic indicators, foreign trade, U.S. Treasury auction
results and regional economic statistics. Beginning Oct. 1, registration
and usage fees will apply. Information:
[email protected] or +1 202
482 1986.
Five Democrats and two Republicans of the U.S. House of Representatives
are participating in the Constitutent Electronic Mail System, a pilot
project. The Democratic members include Reps. Sam Gejdenson (Conn.),
George Miller (Calif.), Charlie Rose (N.C.), Pete Stark (Calif.) and Mel
Watt (N.C.). Reps. Newton Gingrich (Ga.) and Jay Dickey (Ark.) are the
Republicans. To get their E-mail addresses, you must write for them. The
U.S. Capitol switchboard (+1 202 224 3121) will direct your call so you
can get th e complete snail mail address. Contact: Congressional Comment
Desk,
[email protected] to leave comments and suggestions.
Receive White House releases on press briefings, executive orders, photo
ops, through the Almanac Information Serve Extension Service of the U.S.
Department of Agricultuture. To subscribe to thisservice, send E-mail to
[email protected]. In the body of t he message, type: subscribe
wh-summary.
New White House E-mail lists are available. Send E-mail to
[email protected]. In the subject line, type RECEIVE followed by
a subject: economy, foreign, social, speeches or news. To get off the
list, type REMOVE and the subject .
The Center for Electronic Records of the U.S. National Archives has
prepared a description of reference services, including information on
Securities and Exchange Commission data files, registration offering
statistics and a list of corporations with annu al reports on file with
the SEC. FTP: ftp.cu.nih.gov (128.231.64.7). Login: anonymous. Password:
guest. Directory path: nara_electronic. Get file: CENTER, SERVICES and
TITLE.LIST.JUL1693. Contact:
[email protected] or +1 202 501 5579.
The Library of Congress (LC) recently unveiled its own Gopher, called LC
MARVEL (Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library).
LC MARVEL is experimental and respresents a fraction of the library's
collection. Telnet: marvel.loc.gov. Log in: marvel. Contact: LC MARVEL
Design Team,
[email protected] with your comments or to offer
information for publishing on LC MARVEL.
The Nasdaq Financial Executive Journal (NFEJ), circulated in print to CEOs
and CFOs of Nasdaq companies quarterly, is available electronically via
Internet. NFEJ is a joint-study project of the Nasdaq Stock Market and the
Legal Information Institute at Co rnell Law School. Telnet:
fatty.law.cornell.edu (132.236.108.5).
The Oak Software Repository is an experimental FTP server that contains
the desktop publishing software used to design the hard copy version of
The Internet Letter. The repository, a service of Oakland University in
Rochester, Mich., has a vast collection of MS-DOS software. Use NcFTP to
bypass login and passworrd. At prompt: ncftp oak.oakland.edu. Directory
path: pub/msdos. Contact: Keith Peterson,
[email protected] for
details on how to submit programs to the repository and subscribe to a
mailing list on new MS-DOS uplo ads.
The HEALTHLINE Gopher of the University of Montana Student Health Services
offers information on mental health, sexuality, drug and alcohol
addiction, as well as pointers to information for the disabled. HEALTHLINE
is not meant to replace seeing a doctor but to provide general health and
medical information. Gopher: selway.umt.edu 700. Telnet:
consultant.micro.umn.edu. Login: gopher. Then follow the menus: Other
Gophers and Information Servers, North America, Montana, HEALTHLINE.
Contact: John-David Child s,
[email protected],
[email protected].
The Directory of U.S. Government Software for Mainframes and
Microcomputers lists more than 800 pieces of government-developed
software. Send $65, plus $3 shipping, to the National Technical
Information Service. Information: +1 703 487 4650.
RISKNet is a new electronic discussion list, that covers such topics as
corporate risk management, underwriting cycles, insurance solvency and
regulation and globalization of insurance markets. To join RISKNet, a
service of the finance department at the U niversity of Texas at Austin,
send E-mail to
[email protected]. In the body of the message,
type: Subscribe RISKNet <your E-mail address> <your first and last name>.
Contact: James R. Garven,
[email protected].
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021) TALK OF THE NET
PRESIDENT CLINTON's E-mail address is
[email protected].
But the messages are actually received more than 30 miles away in
Glenwood, Md., at Trusted Information Systems Inc. (TIS).
The computers that hold Clinton's E-mail are being left at TIS
until the White House, which began accepting E-mail from the public in
June, clears floor space in the New Executive Office building.
"The plan is moving ahead to move it down to the White House
proper," said Fred Avolio, TIS leader for the White House E-mail project.
TIS is involved in devising a secure link from the White House to the
Internet.
"I wouldn't have any comment on that," said Jonathan Gill, White
House director of public access E-mail.
TIS receives between 1,000 and 6,000 E-mail messages for the White
House every day. Executive Office staff take the computer tapes to the
White House to sort and transcribe them.
COMPANIES RUSH to secure Internet trademarks. More than 54
trademarks using the word Internet are pending at the U.S. Patent &
Trademark Office.
Almost all of them were filed within the last three years. Some
April filings included: Internet Express, filed by Community News Service
Inc. to provide on-line computer services; and Internet Expo, filed by
International Data Group Inc., to organize an d sponsor conferences and
expositions for network users. Internet Inc. in Reston, Va., sought to
register five trademarks, including Internet Most -- a system that would
manage the transmission of electronic data for financial and
telecommunications servi ces.
DACOM R&D REVEALS its strategic plans in a Gopher server on the
Internet. The R&D center in South Korea calls itself the "nerve center"
for telecommunications development. It is composed of the "highest level
intellectuals," according to information con tained on the server. Dacom
plans to develop radio communications services to allow users to exchange
voice, data and images with other parties. Users will simply carry
terminals and be connected to one another by a radio link -- any time and
anywhere.
In the information communications field, Dacom said it expects
data communications to develop into enhanced intelligent data
communications network services. Research also is underway to develop an
information retrieval system and an automated document distribution
system that would provide the latest technical information. A Dacom
official declined a request for an E-mail interview.
TECHNO-THRILLER SHAREWARE novel is available on the Internet via
anonymous FTP. FTP: wuarchive.wustl.edu. Directory path: doc/misc. Get:
termcomp.zip.
PUBLIC OUTCRY over plans to put a mile-long inflatable billboard
in Earth orbit has prompted the House and Senate to introduce legislation
to ban space advertising. The Space Advertising Prohibition Act would deny
launch licenses for space billboards, ban import of products advertised on
space billboards and ask the president to seek an international agreement
banning space advertising.
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022) WASHINGTON
The Clinton administration still is fighting a federal court
decision that would force the executive branch to archive E-mail messages.
At stake, according to lawyers familiar with the case, is the
discretionary rights of the White House to discard E-mail, both internal
and external.
U.S. District Judge Charles Richey prohibited the White House in
January from purging computer backup tapes that contain E-mail messages
>from the Reagan and Bush administrations. The administration appealed the
ruling in June. A decision by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia is expected by year-end.
This ruling raises the question of how much E-mail should be saved
in the private sector.
Influencing Richey's decision was E-mail used by investigators
during the Iran-Contra scandal. The E-mail helped prosecutors fill in vast
gaps in their case.
Richey said the messages were historically significant and
therefore must be maintained.
"The fact is, any message sent to the White House could end up in
the public domain," said Mike Godwin, counsel to the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
"I would advise people who are concerned about sensitive
information to think long and hard about putting it in writing at all,"
Godwin said. "Anyone who thinks they can send E-mail to the White House
and control what happens after that should talk to Ol lie North."
Steven Metalitz, vice president and general counsel of the
Information Industry Association, said E-mail has the same legal privacy
protections as paper mail except when electronic correspondence is sent
within a company.
"It (electronic mail) may come back to haunt you because of the
internal system," Metalitz said. He advised companies to establish
policies on internal E-mail. Company policies "are not as widespread as
they should be." It is estimated that about 30% of companies have them.
"It's a sleeper issue for many companies," he said.
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023) READ ALL ABOUT IT
Doing Business on the Internet: How the Electronic Highway Is Transforming
American Companies, by Dr. Mary Cronin. Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
ISBN 0-442-01770-7. Price: $29.95. Contact: Cronin,
[email protected]
or +1 617 552 3195.
The Internet Navigator: A Guide to Network Exploration for the Individual
Dial-Up User, by Paul A. Gilster. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN
0-471-59782-1. Price: $24.95. Contact: Paul Farrell, +1 212 850 8633 .
The Mac Internet Tour Guide, by Michael Fraase. Publisher: Ventana Press.
ISBN: 1-566-04062-0. Price: $27.95. Contact: Diane Lennox,
[email protected] or +1 919 942 0220.
The Information Infrastructure Sourcebook, a single-volume reference
source on efforts to define and develop a national information
infrastructure. Price: $40. Contact: Graceann Todaro, Harvard Kennedy
School of Government,
[email protected], +1 617 496 4042.
The Online World, a shareware book on using the Interent and other
networks, by Odd de Presno. Available via anonymous FTP: oak.oakland.edu.
Directory path: pub/msdos/info. Get: ONLINE10.ZIP. Contact: Odd de
Presno, +47 370 31378,
[email protected].
Internet Connections: A Librarian's Guide to Dial-Up Access and Use, by
Mary E. Engle, Marilyn Lutz, William W. Jones Jr. and Genevieve Engel.
Publisher: ALA Publishing Services. ISBN 0-838-97677-8. Price: $22.
Contact: ALA Publishing, +1 312 280 5108 or 800 545 2433.
Send submissions and review copies to
[email protected], or Net
Week Inc., PO Box 33024, Washington, DC 20033-0024.
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024) DATEBOOK
Sept. 1-3--Learning Technologies for Educators, three-day workshop
sponsored by Northwestern University's Academic Computing and Network
Services, University Library and Apple Computer. Northwestern University,
Chicago, Ill. Information:
[email protected] or +1 708 467 2443.
Sept. 10, 24; Oct. 8, 22; Nov. 5 and Dec. 10--Federal Information Policy,
an 18-credit certificate program on Information Resources Management in
the Federal Government, offered by Syracuse University. The Greenburg
House, Washington, D.C. Information: Linda Bennett,
[email protected]
or +1 315 443 2911.
Sept. 13--Copyright Law in the Age of Technology, sponsored by the
University of Iowa School of Library & Information Science. Days Inn
Ironmen, Coralville, Iowa. Instructor: Laura N. Gasaway, director of law
library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Information:
Ethel Bloesch,
[email protected] or +1 319 335 5707. Oct.
13-15--Global Telecommunications Strategies Conference and Exhibition,
sponsored by Pace University. Rye Town Hilton, Rye Brook, N.Y.
Information: Scott Schlegel or David Wylie or
[email protected] or 800 546
3157.
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