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@majorheading[GEC-CUA Network Special Interest Group]
@heading{Minutes of the 12th meeting held during the CUA Convention
on the 9th and 10th September 1985}
@begin[verbatim]
   Present         Organisation               Interest

  D. Atkin        University of York          CPSE
  S. Bassill      GEC                           -
  G. Beemes       Travicom                    PSE + Net.Management
  P. Black        Queen's Univ. Belfast       CPSE
  P. Black        U.L.C.C.                    CPSE
  R. Brandwood    Rutherford & Appleton Lab.  CPSE
  P. Brett        GEC CL                      General
  P. Brown        GEC Avionics                General
  I. Campbell     University of Exeter        CPSE
  M. Capp         GEC CL                      General
  L. Clyne        J.N.T.
  J. Deegan       Bradford University         CPSE
  M. Finch        B.T. Prestel                General
  W. Fingland     GEC CL                        -
  J. Foster       Newcastle University        CPSE
  B. Gilmore      E.R.C.C.                      -
  D. Hank         GEC                           -
  J. Haning       GEC CL                      General
  D. Harvey       U.L.C.C.                    CPSE
  J. Hill         Heriot Watt University      CPSE
  C. Jennings     Travicom                    PSE + Net.Management
  T. Jones        GEC CL                      General
  D. Knight       U.C.L.                      CPSE/General
  P. Lane         GEC CL                        -
  M. Lang         Southampton University      PSE + Net.Management
  I. Leitch       Lab.of the Govr.Chemist     PSE
  P. Lyner        Q.M.C.                      CPSE
  F. Newton       I.C.I.                      X.25 WANs
  G. Penning      GEC CL                      CPSE
  A. Powell       University of Bath          CPSE
  M. Prowse       GEC CL                      General
  D. Rowford      GEC CL                      CPSE
  C. Ray          I.C.I.                      X.25 WANs
  A. Smith        National Physical Lab.      PSE + Net.Management
  I. Smith        J.A.N.E.T.                  PSE + Net.Management
  G. Train        Travicom                    PSE + Net.Management
  M. Turner       NERC                        PSE
  J. Wood         GEC CL                      General
@end[verbatim]
@newpage

The business was conducted as a series of talks and a short description
or copy of the slides, is given below:-
@section(Comms Overview)
Bob Padley, GEC-CL Engineering gave a Comms Overview.  The major points he raised were:
@begin[itemize]
An MCC has been installed on a customer site and that customer is using
it over a megastream link.

No technical difficulties in implementation of X.25 (1984).

Type 3 software is now stable.

Next type 2 release (T2R6) is the last development release of type 2.

Type 3 lst release will contain T2R6 functionality; OS4000 Op. Sys;
User Group Enhancements; Automatic log collection.
@end[itemize]
On the question of the User Group Enhancement, the following were
being implemented
@begin[itemize]
P1   -  Config details

P3   -  Better Console Messages

N17  -  Improved Error Messages

E11  -  Help facilities

N15  -  Monitor of calls (Static only)
@end[itemize]
@section[Exeter GEC Packet Switch]
Ian Campbell from Exeter university gave a very interesting description
of his experiences with the GEC packet switch at Exeter, his notes are
appended as @B{Appendix 1}.
@section{JANET Progress}
Ian Smith (Network Executive) described the progress of JANET including
the transition to the use of GEC only software, his slides are reproduced
as @B{Appendix 2}.
@section(GEC CL Marketing)
Peter Lane (GEC CL marketing) answered questions on the future strategy
of the company.
@section(User Support)
Karen Duff (GEC CL - User Support) described the change which was in User
Support and detailed the support position over SIRs.
@section[University of York]
David Atkins (University of York) described the progress York was making
as a final site for the JNT enhancements, although York's brief was only to test
out the load sharing aspects.
@section{SWURCC}
John Thomas (SWURCC descrived the progress with the Ethernet Gateway
enhancement software, @B{see Appendix 3}.
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                                                Issued by  Brian Gilmore
                                                              E.R.C.C.
                                                           February 1986
@end[verbatim]