Prompted by Hal's post I send the following FTP info on Information Sciences Institute. This is their README file. There is much more there, based on a quick look, juicy DoD stuff for the disloyal. John ------------------- USC INFORMATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS Welcome to USC Information Sciences Institute FTP publications directory. When logging in, please use your complete email address as a password. For example: % ftp ftp.isi.edu NAME: anonymous PASSWORD: techlib@isi.edu (your_email_address@your_machine) ftp> cd isi-pubs ftp> use the standard ftp commands, such as "dir", "get", "cd", etc. ftp> "quit" when finished A few of our technical reports are now available, in postcript format, through ANONYMOUS FTP from ftp.isi.edu. If you would like to order hard copies of ISI technical reports, please send email to "techlib@isi.edu" or written requests can be sent to: USC Information Sciences Institute Library 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 ATTN: Document Distribution If our stock has been depleted, you will be referred to the National Technical Information Service, NTIS. Here is a brief description of the files currently available online: -------------- -------------------------------------------------- ---- filename description -------------- -------------------------------------------------- ---- pubrec.ps This file contains a listing of all the technical reports published by ISI with abstracts. Approximately 50 pages. newpubs0794.ps This is our semi-annual publications announcement newpubs0194.ps newsletter and order form. It is published in January and July. Subsequent newsletters will follow the same filename format, newpubsMMYY.ps, e.g. newpubs0194.ps, newpubs0794.ps. isi-sr-93-374.ps Zoned Analog Personal Teleconferencing (ZAPT) isi-sr-93-374.ps.Z by J.D. Touch December 1993, 23 pages isi-rr-93-372.ps Employing Knowledge Resources in a New Text Planner Architecture by E. Hovy, J. Lavid, E. Maier, V. Mittal, C. Paris, 1992 (Not yet available online. Hard copy only.) 14 pages isi-rr-93-366.ps Synthesis of Asynchronous Systems from Data isi-rr-93-366.ps.Z Flow Specifications by T.-Y. Wuu, S.B.K. Vrudhula December 1993, 73 pages isi-rs-93-364.ps Security Services for Multimedia Conferencing by S. Stubblebine November 1993, 9 pages isi-rs-93-363.ps ATOMIC: A Low-Cost, Very High-Speed, Local Communication Architecture by D. Cohen, G. Finn, R. Felderman, A. DeSchon November 1993, 12 pages isi-rs-93-360.ps The Impact of Scaling on a Multimedia Connection Architecture by E. Schooler August 1993, 14 pages isi-rs-93-359.ps Case Study: Multimedia Conference Control in a Packet-Switched Teleconferencing System by Schooler August 1993, 18 pages isi-sr-93-358.ps The ISI "Tunnel" by A. DeSchon, D. Cohen October 1993 39 pages isi-rs-93-342.ps Parallel Communication by J. Touch March 1993, 12 pages isi-rs-93-301.ps Physics Analogs in Communication Models by J. Touch January 1993, 10 pages isi-rs-92-294.ps An Architecture for Multimedia Connection Management, by E. Schooler, S. Casner August 1992, 8 pages isi-rs-92-293.ps First IETF Internet Audiocast, by S. Casner, S. Deering July 1992, 6 pages isi-rr-92-291.ps ATOMIC: A Low-Cost, Very High-Speed LAN by D. Cohen, G. Finn, R. Felderman, A. DeSchon September 1992, 21 pages isi-rr-91-289.ps A Distributed Architecture for Multimedia Conference Control by E. Schooler November 1991, 18 pages isi-rs-91-286.ps Multimedia Conferencing: Has it Come of Age, by E. Schooler, S. Casner, J. Postel August 1991, 10 pages isi-rs-90-252.ps N-Way Conferencing with Packet Video, by S. Casner, K. Seo, W. Edmond, C. Topolcic April 1990, 10 pages