Technology

Issue for Investigation

Time for Resolution

• Secure synchronisation of staff and student authentication data to enable consistency and integrity of administrative data across the sector

Email

• Style Guidelines to assist the readability of emails:
  • Quoting styles
  • An operational guideline on the "Re: " subject line prefix used when replying to emails.
• Access to allow users to access their email from a variety of locations:
  • External accessibility of email accounts
  • Arrangements for providing web access to email accounts
  • Adoption of IMAP4 access to email servers.

September1999

Groupware

• Groupware workflow with the object of implementing mailing list services in the short term

• The state of maturity of standards for the following groupware components:
  • Diary functions
    • vCalendar (Internet Mail Consortium)
    • iCalendar (IETF)
    • Address lists
    • vCard (Internet Mail Consortium)
  • Document management
    •  
    • ODMA - Open Document Management API
    • DEN - Document Enabled Networking
    • Shamrock (for libraries)
    • JDDS – document delivery software.
  • Workflow
    • ODMA extension for workflow
    • Distributed workflow architecture API (Workflow Coalition)

as a basis for interworking of components between collaborating institutes and the VET Groupware Service Provider.

• The possibility of linking the VPN to the AARNET and/or State initiatives.

September 1999

 
September 1999

• Cascading Style Sheets and XML, as part of reviewing acceptance of HTML 4.0 instead of 3.2.
• Web server functionality and administration.
• Use of cookies (short pieces of text which are stored by a server on the browser's hard disk of information, and which may raise privacy and security problems).

March 2000

• The technology for realising transportable storage greater than that available from a floppy disk , for the Advanced PC

• H323 - IP and LAN developments, is it yet viable for a production option?
• H324 - viability for analog access to homes on the general telephone network
• T.120 for datasharing and whiteboarding
• Internet and hybrid delivery of videoconferencing
  • Web based quality of service
  • Virtual private circuits
• WAN trends in owned networks and use of excess capacity for videoconferencing applications
• Techno-economic aspects of metropolitan videoconferencing
• Polling systems - multiple choice keypad devices
• Video streaming: one-way, – return chat text
• IP addressability

• Feasibility of deploying these innovations in order to reduce the costs.to end users by
  • simplifying the equipment required by end users and
  • reducing the hardware upgrades required.