neufeld@cs.ubc.ca (Gerald Neufeld) 14 Jul 91 00:01:04 GMT University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media,comp.protocols.iso,comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,news.announce.conferences CALL FOR PAPERS 1992 IFIP International Conference on UPPER LAYER PROTOCOLS, ARCHITECTURES AND APPLICATIONS May 20 to 22, 1992 University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Sponsored by: IFIP Working Group 6.5 Hosted by: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and OSIWARE Inc., Vancouver, Canada Conference outline The purpose of the conference is to provide an international forum for the exchange of information on the technical, economic, and social impacts and experiences with upper layer protocols, architectures and distributed applications. The conference format will be two and a half days of conference paper presentations combined with one half a day of workshops. Papers are desired in - but not restricted to - the following topic areas: * Design, implementation, and experience with distributed applications * Application layer user agent models and designs * Application layer architectures * Application layer programming environments * Application communication protocols such as RPC, RO, RTS and multicast * Group communication models and services * Multimedia applications and communications * Interconnection of upper layer and application entities * Upper layer conformance and interoperability testing activities * Security and privacy * Management and operation of distributed services * Mobile communications and the application layer protocols * Upper layer network management and naming * Presentation and session layer issues * Abstract syntax notations and transfer syntaxes * The impact of very high-speed networking on the upper layers protocols Instructions to Authors Prospective authors are invited to submit for review, unpublished original contributions (not exceeding 5000 words) which describe recent research results or developments on any design or service aspect of upper layer protocols, architectures or distributed applications. Publication Papers that are accepted will be published by North-Holland. A preprint of the proceedings will be provided to attendees. Deadlines Today: Send a message, letter or phone any of the contacts below stating your intention to submit a paper, or stating your general interest in the conference. December 1, 1991: Full version of papers due for review. March 1, 1992: Notification of acceptance/rejection. April 15, 1992: Camera-ready papers required for publication. Please submit five copies of your paper to: Dr. Gerald Neufeld Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C, Canada, V6T 1W5 Telephone: +1 604 228 4806 Facsimile: +1 604 228 5485 Internet: neufeld@cs.ubc.ca X.400: S=Neufeld; OU=CS; O=UBC; P=cdn; A=telecom.canada; C=ca or to: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner Laboratory of Computer Engineering and Networks Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) ETH-Zentrum CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Telephone: +41 1 254 7000 Facsimile: +41 1 262 3973 Internet: plattner@komsys.tik.ethz.ch X.400: S=Plattner; OU=komsys; OU=tik; O=ethz; P=switch; A=arcom; C=ch Program Committee Co-Chairs Gerald Neufeld (CA) North American CoChair Bernhard Plattner (CH) European CoChair Program Committee (provisional list) Jun Adachi (JP) Raj Ananthanpillai (US) Gregor Bochmann (CA) David Chappell (US) Frank Ferrante (US) James M. Galvin (US) Ruediger Grimm (DE) Christian Huitema (FR) Erik Huizer (NL) Neil Koorland (CA) Hannes Lubich (CH) James McHugh (US) Manuel Medina (ES) Barbara Nelson (US) Juan Saras (ES) Peter Schicker (CH) Einar Stefferud (US) Mike Schwartz (US) Marshall Rose (US) Douglas Terry (US) Pedro Veiga (PT) Brian Wideen (CA) Organizing Committee Neil Koorland (Chair) Network Mail Contacts Gerald Neufeld Bernhard Plattner Program Committee (distribution list) Conference General Co-Chairs Einar Stefferud IFIP Working Group 6.5 Chair Christian Huitema IFIP Working Group 6.5 Vice-Chair Tutorials On May 18 and 19, 1992, time and space is reserved for a number of tutorials. The following topics are being considered: * Upper Layer/Application Layer Architecture * Security Models, Mechanisms and Systems * Message Handling X.400 (1992) * Directory Services X.500 (1992) * Network Management * ASN.1 * Coexistence and Transition to OSI Applications * Distributed Application Programming Environments