Topic> npr Station: Internet Multicasting Service Channel: Internet Town Hall Program: National Public Radio meets the Internet Release: May 21, 1993, 2-3PM EDT Content: Talk of the Nation/Science Friday On May 21, we will be joining the Internet to National Public Radio for a special edition of Talk of the Nation/Science Friday. Host Ira Flatow will field questions from users sitting in front of computers as well as users sitting next to telephones. Questions from the Internet will come from videoconferencing tools on the Multicast Backbone (MBONE) using a gateway provided by Ron Fredrick and Steve Deering of Xerox PARC. (If you don't have MBONE connectivity now, you probably won't have it by Friday. To learn more about the multicast backbone, ftp to isi.edu and get the file /mbone/faq.txt. If you do have MBONE connectivity, check SD for a listing for Internet Town Hall.) In addition to the audio link, we will have two other ways to participate. First, starting now, you can send mail to ira@radio.com with your comments and questions. Some of this mail may be read as part of the show. We encourage you to narrow your your comments to the subject of the Internet, how it is used, and the future of networking in the western world. Second, with the help of Rick Gates, we will be conducting an Internet Treasure Hunt and reading the results over the air. The purpose of the hunt is to illustrate the diversity of methods and data available on the network. The questions will be posted on the network 24 hours before the show and will be read by Ira Flatow at the beginning of the show. Even if you don't participate with a computer for this show, we hope you will listen to your local National Public Radio affiliate. Guests will include Carl Malamud, Brewster Kahle, and Tim O'Reilly. For those of you that have computers but no NPR affiliate, we will tape the show and send it out as an audio file approximately 48 hours after it airs. Participants in the Internet Town Hall include Cornell University, the National Press Club, the National Science Foundation, O'Reilly & Associates, Sun Microsystems, WAIS, Inc., Xerox PARC, and many others. Network connectivity for the Internet Town Hall is provided by UUNET Technologies. For information on Internet Talk Radio, write to info@radio.com. More information on Internet Town Hall will be available shortly. For a current, partial listing of sites, write to sites@radio.com. corwin