Dear TC6 members,
Please find the proposed agenda for the Cape Town meeting in attach.
The meeting will start on May 31st at 9.00 am and finishes on June 1st
at around 3.00 pm. There is a welcome party on May 30th at 5.00 pm.
Please send me the WG reports until May 18th as requested. I acknowledge
the reception of the reports from WG 6.3 and 6.6.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
Dear Augusto,
>
>I am preparing the agenda for the next TC6 meeting. If you would like to
>discuss some item in particular please indicate it until this Thursday
>(8/5/01) in order that I can include it in the agenda.
>
As already mentioned, I deeply regret that I will not be able to attend the
meeting in Cape Town due to a serious date conflict.
For the CapeTown meeting it is too late (today is 11 may) but I would like to draw your
attention to a topic whioch is described below in more detail.
Maybe it is better to wait for this item (if you consider it as interesting)
until the meeting in Zurich where I will be present.
Best regards
Otto
cc.: TC6 delegates
****************************************************************************
A discussion point for IFIP TC6
"The slow disappearance of conference series"
(and what do do against that)?
The observation:
1. I received yesterday a paper version of the "invitation and programme"
for "CMS 2001(Communication and Multimedia Security)"
May 21-22, 2001 at GMD, Germany.
The event should be announced on the web via
http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/mobile/cms/start.html/prog.html
but these pages are still "under construction" (ten days before the event!).
2. Nothing to object against the conference programme but:
- IFIP visibility is rather poor (only logo number 4 out of four logos:
(GMD TU Darmstadt, GMDIPSI, and therafter: IFIP).
- it is mentioned that the events is number six in a series which
started 1995 - but IFIP is not mentioned here at all.
3. Involvement of IFIP TC6 is practically nonexisting:
Nobody from TC6 is in the programme committee which consists of
24 people [a certain exception could be R. Grimm who was
WG 6.5 co-chair some years ago but who has no relation any more
with IFIP TC6].
4. Thus IFIP didn't do anything (apparently) for the conference.
No paper reviewing, no participation in the programme, nothing!!
Did we sign a contract? Will we get some revenue from the publication?
5. On the other hand, P. Horster is once again deeply involved
(he was the man who cancelled last year the predecessor conference
in Klagenfurt some days before the event for very dubious reasons;
remember what Reinhard Posch told us in Beijing!).
To a certain extent, I feel responsible for this development since
the event is going to be held in Germany. But I didn't have any information
and I was not contacted.
Shouldn't we establish a rule that the conference organisors have to
contact the national delegate well before the event in order to
discuss IFIP's participation correctly?
My observation is that we risk to loose some well established conference
series (there are at least three or for similar other examples!)
and, on the other hand, we do not get enough compensating events.
I would like to discuss these problems in Zurich.
---------------------------------------------------------------
[Our apologies if you receive multiple postings of this CfP]
Please find enclosed the CfP for the International Workshop on
Multimedia Middleware that will take place on October 5th in
conjunction with the ACM Multimedia conference. After many
requests the deadline for paper submissions have been extended
with 10 days to May 25th.
-------------------------------------------------------------
M3W'01
International Workshop on Multimedia Middleware
October 5th, 2001, Ottawa, Canada
in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2001
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~m3w
Middleware technologies like the Common Object Request Broker (CORBA)
implementations, Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model
(DCOM), and Java RMI have proved their suitability for "standard"
client-server applications. Middleware abstracts from particular
network services and allows application developers to focus on the
application. However, it is well known in the research community, that
today's middleware solutions are not suited for distributed multimedia
systems, and do not provide the required levels of adaptation and
configurability that is needed to accommodate the diversity of modern
distributed multimedia applications. The goal of the workshop is to
bring together researchers from academia and industry to identify why
today's middleware technologies and standards fail to appropriately
support multimedia applications and especially to discuss new
requirements, approaches, and solutions.
Areas of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited
to) the following topics:
- Experiences with middleware platforms in multimedia
application domains
- The design and implementation of multimedia middleware platforms
- Performance analysis of multimedia middleware platforms
- Quality of Service and Realtime support in middleware platforms
- Stream support in middleware platforms
- Support for persistent multimedia objects
- Resolving heterogeneity in multimedia middleware platforms
- Services and APIs for multimedia application development (incl.
security and management)
Format of the workshop:
-----------------------
To enable a highly interactive workshop, attendance will be limited to
about 50 participants. Participants will be invited based on the
originality, technical merit and topical relevance of their
submissions, as well as the likelihood that the ideas expressed in
their submissions will lead to insightful technical discussions at the
workshop.
Proceedings and submission guidelines:
-----------------------------------------
We seek short paper submissions describing original and unpublished
work. The page limit for submissions is four pages. All accepted
papers will be published in a proceeding printed by ACM. We strongly
encurage electronic submissions via the workshop's web page
(http://www.ifi.uio.no/~m3w).
Important dates:
-----------------
Submission Deadline: May 25th (Extended)
Notification: June 15th
Final version: July 15th
Workshop Co-Chairs:
-------------------
T. Plagemann, U of Oslo
F. Eliassen, Simula RL
Publicity Chair:
----------------
T. Kristensen, U of Oslo
Program Committee:
--------------------
G. Blair, Lancaster U
V. Cahill, Trinity C. Dublin
A. Campbell, Columbia U
R. Campbell, U of Illinois at UC
V. Goebel, U of Oslo
D. Ionescu, U of Ottawa
D. Karr, BBN
D. Schmidt, DARPA
M. v. Sinderen, U of Enschede
B. Thuraisingham, MITRE
W. Yu, U of Tromsø
Hi all,
Sorry for the "homepage" virus but it is brand new and it came from
Amsterdam via Wits University and was only detected and resolved by Norton
about 4 hours after I received it. It was also on the radio and TV
yesterday.
It is easy to fix with yesterday's Norton updates and is not causing any
damage to your computer.
Regards
Koos Koen
*********************************************************************
IFIP AFRICOM'2001 - International Conference on Communication Systems.
Cape Town 28 - 30 May 2001. Be There!!
http://www.sbs.co.za
*********************************************************************
-----Original Message-----
From: Imraan Haniff [mailto:Haniff.I@mgmt.wits.ac.za]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:41 PM
To: AllStaff(a)mgmt.wits.ac.za
Subject: ANOTHER VIRUS WARNING
** Proprietary **
** High Priority **
Hi All,
Please be extra careful during this period.
Beware on 15 May...
Beware on 15 May...
Attention Virus NastyFriend99
There is a new virus which will be infecting computers on
* May 15. This virus will take all your email contacts and ICQ contacts
and send to other contacts. Do not open any email with the subject: "HI MY
FRIEND!!!"
It is not know yet what this virus is capable of doing so PLEASE be extra
carefull and DO NOT IGNORE THIS WARNING...
Thank You
IT Staff
Imraan Haniff
University Of Witwatersrand
Faculty of Management
imraan(a)zeus.mgmt.wits.ac.za
I've just had two e-mails purporting to come from Koos via the TC6 mailing
lists with a subject of "HomePage".
These look to contain a virus - delete before opening!!
Peter
---------------- Virus Warning Message (on relay.rwth-aachen.de)
Found virus VBS_HOMEPAGE.A in file homepage.HTML.vbs
The file homepage.HTML.vbs is moved to /etc/iscan/virus/virUWAYHaq6t.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi!
You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O)
---------------- Virus Warning Message (on relay.rwth-aachen.de)
homepage.HTML.vbs is removed from here because it contains a virus.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
*** Note: The paper submission deadline has been extended to
May 14, 5pm (your local time).
There will be no further extensions after May 14.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALL FOR PAPERS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
9th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2001)
Mission Inn, Riverside, California
November 11-14, 2001
http://www.cis.udel.edu/icnp2001/
In just eight years, ICNP has established itself as one of the premier
conferences in the computer networking field. ICNP deals with all
aspects of communication protocols, from design and specification, to
verification, testing, performance analysis, and implementation. Protocol
functions of interest include network access, switching, routing, flow and
congestion control, multimedia transport, wireless and mobile networks,
network security, web protocols and applications, electronic commerce,
network management, interoperability, internetworking, home computing and
networks and digital broadcasting.
ICNP 2001 will be held in Riverside, California, at the Mission Inn, a place
filled with history. Riverside is located in the Sunny Southern California,
60 miles from Los Angeles, 45 miles from Palm Springs and 40 miles from
Disney Land. The city is served by three nearby airports: Los Angeles,
Ontario (California) and Orange County Airport.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- network access
- switching
- routing
- flow and congestion control
- multimedia transport protocols
- wireless and mobile networks
- network security
- web protocols and applications
- electronic commerce
- network management
- interoperability, internetworking
- home computing and networking
- digital broadcasting
- QoS and service differentiation
- network measurements
- protocols for distributed games
- peer-to-peer communication protocols
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: May 14, 2001 (NEW DEADLINE)
Tutorial Submission Deadline: May 7, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: July 13, 2001
Camera Ready Due: August 8, 2001
Tutorials: November 11, 2001
Conference: November 12 - 14, 2001
Information for authors:
Papers must be written in English, and they have to be in Postscript,
PDF, or Word format. The complete manuscript should be no more than
12 pages of double-spaced text with 11pt fonts.
If you have any questions, you can contact us at icnp(a)ics.uci.edu.
To register and submit your paper, visit the URL:
http://violin.ics.uci.edu/~icnp/ConfMan/REG-paper/
General Chair
Satish K. Tripathi, University of California - Riverside
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine
Klara Narhstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Pravin Bhagwat, ReefEdge, Inc
Ed Knightly, Rice University
Local Arrangement and Registration Co-Chairs
Michalis Faloutsos, University of California - Riverside
Srikant Krishnamurthy, University of California - Riverside
Publicity Co-Chairs
Constantinos Dovrolis, University of Delaware
Samar Singh, La Trobe University, Australia
Technical Program Committee
Alex Petrenko (CRIM, Computer Research Institute of Montreal)
Ana Rosa CAVALLI (Institut National des Telecommunications, France)
Mart, Molle (University of California, Riverside)
Andrew T. Campbell (Columbia University)
Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland)
Christophe Diot (Sprint)
Cormac J. Sreenan (University College, Cork, Ireland)
David Hutchison (Lancaster University)
David Su (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
David, Yau (Computer Science, Purdue University)
Edward Knightly (Rice University )
Ellen L. Hahne (AT&T Labs - Research)
Geert Heijenk (Ericsson)
Gene Tsudik (UC, Irvine)
Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School)
Ernst W. Biersack (Institut EURECOM)
Gunnar Karlsson (KTH Dpt. of Microelectronics and Info.Technology, Sweden)
Hartmut Koenig (BTU Cottbus, Germany
Hasan Ural (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Ibrahim Matta (Boston University)
Jennifer Hou (Ohio State University)
Jorg Lieberherr (University of Virginia)
Jorge Cobb (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Ken Calvert (University of Kentucky)
Kevin Almeroth (UC-Santa Barbara)
Kirshna Sivalingam (Washington State University / Jasmine Networks)
Lars Wolf (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Lixia Zhang (UCLA)
Ljiljana Trajkovic (Simon Fraser University)
Luigi RIZZO (Dip. Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa (ITALY))
Marco Schneider (SBC Technology Resources Inc.)
Martha Steenstrup (Stow Research L.L.C.)
Martina Zittterbart (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)
Melody Moh (Dept. of Math. and Computer Science, San Jose State Univ.)
Mohamed G. Gouda (University of Texas at Austin)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine)
Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan (University of Texas)
Ness B. Shroff (Purdue University)
Nina Bhatti (Nokia)
Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Shigang Chen (Cisco Systems)
Songwu Lu (UCLA)
Stanislaw Budkowski (Institut National des Telecommunications (INT), France)
Terry Todd (McMaster University, Canada)
Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan)
Timothy Roscoe (Sprint Advanced Technology Labs)
William Tezlaff (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Yoshiaki Kakuda (Hiroshima City University, Japan)
Yow-Jian Lin (Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies)
Yuval Shavitt (Bell Labs and Tel-Aviv University , Israel)
Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University)
ICNP Steering Committee
Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Insitute of Technology
Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin
Simon Lam, University of Texas at Austin
David Lee, Bell Labs
Ming T. (Mike) Liu, Ohio State University
Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, College Park
Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs
