It has been just about a year since the IEEE Computer Society approved our Technical Committee on the Internet, and two years since the original Task Force on Internetworking was formed. 

While the TCI newsletter has been slow ``coming to press,'' the TCI itself has been quite active. We've been successful in starting some conferences: the Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP'99) last summer; an Agent Systems and Applications conference, merged with an existing Mobile Agents conference to become ASA/MA'99 in the fall; and the new flagship conference of the TC, the Symposium on Applications and the Internet, cosponsored with the IPSJ. I am very pleased that Mike Liu, who has a long history of organizing IEEE-CS conferences such as ICDCS, and Iwao Toda, the chair of the IPSJ, will be general co-chairs, and that Katsuo Ikeda of Kyoto University and I will be program co-chairs. The conference will take place in San Diego in January, 2001, and papers are due this spring. Please refer to the SAINT'2001 home page for details.

 I think the full list of conferences is pretty impressive for a new technical committee:

• The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, February, 1999, cosponsored by TCOS. A summary of this workshop is available as part of the first issue of the TCI bulletin. 
• 18th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC'99), February, 1999, cosponsored with the IEEE Communications Society. 
• The 1999 Workshop on Internet Applications, July, 1999. 
• ASA/MA'99, the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents, featuring the Third Dartmouth Workshop on Transportable Agents; in October, 1999. We were the primary sponsor with several cosponsors. 
• The 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, October 1999, primarily sponsored by USENIX. 

Jim Isaak (who is both the TCI standards chair and the chair of the IEEE-CS Technical Activities Board) reports that the Internet Best Practice Standards Committee gained approval of their first standard (web page engineering), is actively pursuing projects on Internet Security, and is presenting location information in web pages as well as a revision of the web page enginering work. 

Outside of conference sponsorship and standards, I'm afraid that results within the TC are more disappointing. Last summer our first webmaster, Steve Chapin, passed the torch to Javed Khan at Kent State University. Javed reorganized the web pages, and it is now more current with respect to useful conference information. This letter from the chair is to be included in the first issue of the TCI bulletin, along with the report from WMCSA'99 and perhaps some book reviews. Volunteers for more content for this newsletter are needed; please contact Javed. 

Finally, I hope that anyone who reads this and who is not already a member will sign up with the Computer Society. Our overall membership is exceptionally low for a TC covering such an important area. 

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