ACTS

The Handbook on Communication Services

It aims to guide you through the evolving information infrastructure and networks. For new and inexperienced users the objective is to provide advice and recommendations on best practice. In order to make life easier for participants in international research the EC had launched the SONAH project (Services on National Hosts) - a co-operative project whose aim was to produce a set of recommendations and services which enabled European research project participants to use electronic communications most efficiently. These recommendations have been maintained and updated by the two follow-up ACTS projects InfoWin (Information Window for ACTS and National Hosts) and NICE (National Host Interconnection Experiments). All recommendations are based are based on standardised formats, either legal or de facto. The recommendations have been developed for participants in ACTS (Advanced Communications Technology and Services), a Forth Framework Programme of the EC but the recommendations have an impact far beyond this particular target group and out to many different types of user groups.

Objectives of the User's Guide

Definition of Communication Services

• 2.1 LS1 - Electronic Mail
• 2.2 LS2 - Archive and Search-Retrieval
  • 2.2.1 Archive and Retrieval based on Links
  • 2.2.2 Archive and Retrieval based on Menus
  • 2.2.3 Archive and Retrieval based on Queries
• 2.3 LS3 - Co-operative Work
• 2.4 LS4 - Voice Conference
• 2.5 Security

Recommendations

• 3.1 LS1 - Electronic Mail
  • 3.1.1 Recommended Solutions
    • 3.1.1.1 Tools
    • 3.1.1.2 Formats
    • 3.1.1.3 Rendering Tools
    • 3.1.1.4 Coding Tools
    • 3.1.1.5 Packing Tools
  • 3.1.2 Recommendations on Security
  • • 3.1.2.1 Security Services
    • 3.1.2.2 Tools
    • 3.1.2.3 Utilization
    • 3.1.2.4 Legal Aspects
• 3.2 LS2 - Archive and Search-Retrieval
• • 3.2.1 Recommended WWW-Solutions
    • 3.2.1.1 WWW Clients
    • 3.2.1.2 WWW Servers
    • 3.2.1.3 HTML Editors
    • 3.2.1.4 HTML Converters
  • 3.2.2 FTP Tools
  • 3.2.3 Cataloguing Tools
  • 3.2.4 Recommendations on Security
• 3.3 LS3 - Co-operative Work
• • 3.3.1 Recommendations on Narrowband Solutions for Co-operative Work
    • 3.3.1.1 Tools
    • 3.3.1.2 Recommended Solution ISDN File Transfer
    • 3.3.1.3 The Deployment of the T.120 Series Standard
    • 3.3.1.4 Multipoint Conference
    • 3.3.1.5 Other Features of VC-Solutions
    • 3.3.1.6 Recommended Solution for Co-operative Work
    • 3.3.1.7 Internet Solutions
  • 3.3.2 Recommendations on Broadband Solutions for Co-operative work
    • 3.3.2.1 Hardware Requirements
    • 3.3.2.2 Multimedia Collaboration (MMC)
    • 3.3.2.3 ISABEL (Distributed Multimedia Application)
    • 3.3.2.4 Videoconference over Mbone
• 3.4 LS4 - Voice Conference
• • 3.4.1 Austria
  • 3.4.2 Belgium
  • 3.4.3 Denmark
  • 3.4.4 Finland
  • 3.4.5 France
  • 3.4.6 Germany
  • 3.4.7 Greece
  • 3.4.8 Iceland
  • 3.4.9 Ireland
  • 3.4.10 Italy
  • 3.4.11 Netherlands
  • 3.4.12 Norway
  • 3.4.13 Portugal
  • 3.4.14 Spain
  • 3.4.15 Sweden
  • 3.4.16 Switzerland
  • 3.4.17 UK
• 3.5 Security Aspects
• • 3.5.1 Objectives
  • 3.5.2 SecurityCategories
    • 3.5.2.1 Peer Entity Authentication
    • 3.5.2.2 Access Control
    • 3.5.2.3 Data Integrity
    • 3.5.2.4 Data Confidentiality
    • 3.5.2.5 Non-Repudiation
  • 3.5.3 Basic Structure
    • 3.5.3.1 Security Applications
  • 3.5.4 InfoWin's Security Servics

Information Window for ACTS

• 4.1 InfoWin Services
• 4.2 InfoWin Products
  • 4.2.1 ACTS NewsClip
  • 4.2.2 InfoWin Bulletin
  • 4.2.3 ACTS 97 Yearbook
  • 4.2.4 Thematic Issues

Publishing Guidelines

• 5.1 Web Design
  • 5.1.1 Document handling
  • 5.1.2 Graphics
  • 5.1.3 Sound and video
  • 5.1.4 Imagemaps
  • 5.1.5 Shockwave
  • 5.1.6 JavaScript
  • 5.1.7 VisualBasicScript
  • 5.1.8 ActiveX
  • 5.1.9 Java applets
  • 5.1.10 ServersScripts - CGI, Server Side Include, Active Server Pages

• 5.2 Graphics in connection with printing

Peter Christ
Deutsche Telekom Berkom GmbH
Goslarer Ufer 35
D 10589 Berlin
P.Christ@Berkom.de