1995.11.07 Internet Inroads ---------------- The Internet is still growing rapidly. The growth is global, on traffic volume, and on population as well as variety of applications. The Internet reaches 148 out of 185 UN member countries; 86 percents in 1995, compared with 73 out of 159 UN member countries; 46 percents in 1991. The backbone speeds are 155 and 622 Mbps in advanced countries now and moving toward giga bps and beyond from the past speeds of 64 Kbps and 1.5 Mbps. The number of users and computers are also growing very rapidly with the annual growth rate of 100 percents or so. User applications covers various areas; from technical to commercial, cultural, and education. The World-Wide Web(WWW) phenomenon is fueling the rapid growth of the Internet now. The WWW is growing at astounding rate now, and is the second most popular application after the file transfer, surpassing news and mail applications. The WWW may be the second wave of the information infrastructure buildup after the first wave of the Internet. To capture the spirit of these phenomena, the International Networking Conference (INET'95) made Global Information Infrastructure(GII) as the conference theme, and the WWW as its thread. INET'95 was organized by the Internet Society and was held in Honolulu in June 1995. INET'95 attracted over 1900 participants from 116 countries. The conference covered wide range of topics; Application and Network Technology Application and Network Engineering Commercial and Business Aspects Education Policy Regional Issues Users In addition to the main conference and tutorials, INET'95 had the week-long Developing Country Workshop, and School Networking Colloquium. For further information including the conference proceedings, please contact http://www.isoc.org. The conference proceedings are available at http://www.isoc.org, and other sites throughout the world. The online, hypermeida proceedings were available months before the conference took place. It also contains various multimedia extensions to the proceedings such as the abstracts read by the voice synthesizer, and video presentation. We begin this special issue on Internet Inroads by discussing the next generation Internet Protocol(IPng) by Robert Hinden. He chaired the panel session on the next generation Internet Protocol. The current Internet Protocol(IP) is running out of its life time, and IPng is expected to solve various shortcomings of the current IP such as scaling problem, needs of new markets. IPng solves these issues in an evolving way. Peter Kirstein describes on the experience of online access to large multimedia database based on large number of technical documents. The documents are represented in two formats; Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML), and Open Document Architecture(ODA). Tim O'Reilly described on various business models on the Internet commerce such as publishing, cable television, software, and telephone services. He describes similarity between the print publishing and the Internet commerce. Bruno Mannoni of Ministry of Culture, France describes on digital online cultural activities in France. He comments on the experience on network aspects of museum operations. The Ministry of Culture offers access to online cultural activities in WWW as well as Minitel. Peng Hwa Ang discusses on censorship and the Internet, in particular on Singapore perspective. I would like to thank the authors in this issues. The INET'95 track leaders and other program committee members provided valuable comments on the selection and review of the articles - thanks and appreciation to: Tommi Chen, Shigeki Goto, Michele Huston, John Hine, Hans Klein, Bob Kummerfeld, Barry Leiner, Ken-ichiro Murakami, Richard Perlman, Joyce Reynolds, Kathy Rutkowski, Kilnam Chon is a professor of Computer Science Department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST), and a member of Center for Artificial Intelligence Research(CAIR). The most program committee work on INET'95 was done while he was spending his sabbatical leave at Stanford University. His current interests includes internetworking, distributed processing and information infrastructure. Reference [1] Peng Hwa Ang, "Censorship and the Internet: A Singapore Perspective." [2] Robert Hinden, "Internet Protocol: Next Generation." [3] Peter Kirstein, "Experiences with On-line Access to Chemical Journal." [4] Bruno Mannoni, "Bringing Museums On Line." [5] Tim O'Reilly, "Publishing Models for Internet Commerce."