Message-ID: <9609171301.AA13511@lan.vita.org> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:01:01 EDT From: Gary Garriott <mailto:garyg@VITA.ORG> Subject: New wire<-->wireless list! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
INVITATION TO JOIN "GATEWAY"
Over the past couple of years, it has become clear that
linking radio-based digital communications systems to wireline-
based email and "on-line" services, and eventually to the
Internet, is an area of great interest, especially for
organizations serving "copper-challenged" urban centers and
remote rural areas of developing countries. Some groups have
already developed links on their own. For example, Mission
Aviation Fellowship's MLINK system connects various VHF and HF
packet/TOR modes with Lotus' cc:Mail.
There doesn't seem to be any one place, though, where the
pros and cons of various efforts including implementation details
and problems encountered can be hammered out and shared. So VITA
is hosting the "Gateway" conference for the purpose of ferreting
out who has or is doing or planning store-and-forward
("off-line") and real-time ("on-line") links to wireline
services.
Topics (and cross-topics) will include:
Protocols (eg., TCP/IP, AX.25, PACTOR)
Frequencies (UHF, VHF, HF)
Hardware (radios), including TNCs (eg., CODAN 9002)
Software and its availability (private, commercial,
public domain)
Speed (eg., 56kbs GRAPES, 1200 bps PSK)
Cost
What works, what doesn't
Who is trying/using what?
How to fund "research"
"Gateway" will function, for the moment, as an unmoderated
list with anybody able to contribute within the broad range of
topics suggested above. Eventually, we hope to be able to
moderate the discussion and, a few months down the road,
produce one or more "state-of-the-art" documents, based on
collated comments and contributions for wider distribution.
So what are you waiting for? Subscribe already!
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