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!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] ([COSINE]) objectives are to establish a pan-European computer-based network infrastructure that enables research workers to communicate with each other using Open Systems facilitate the introduction of and contribute to the market pull for [Open Systems Interconnection] ([OSI]) ensure that the infrastructure established becomes financially self-supporting.
The project began with a specification phase undertaken by RARE (Rseaux Associs pour la Recherche Europenne) which concluded in autumn [1988|Year 1988]. During 1989, work began on the implementation phase, again undertaken by RARE, which has established the [COSINE] Project Management Unit (CPMU) to carry out the work on its behalf.
[COSINE] includes a number of subprojects and pilot services. The first pilot service to be available was the IXI [X.25] backbone network. Several more are now underway, expanding on the ser vices already used at local and national level to bring Europe-wide connectivity in electronic mail, directories and information services. Further sub-projects and services are being established. The aim is that the complete infrastructure should be self-sustaining by the end of the COSINE implementation phase.
The sub-projects being implemented are:
* ftam north american gateway
* international [x.500] directory services (paradise)
* support and information service (concise)
* activities to support typical international user groups
* osi connectionless-mode network service trials.
Contracts for ftam interoperability testing and full-screen terminal services sub-projects are under negotiation, and one on security mechanisms is being prepared. The pilot services provided to the user community are ixi and [x.400] mhs message-handling services (interworking of national R&D management domains and US gateway).
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