RELIABILITY ASSOCIATICI ISSN 1010-8149 Vol. 6 - No 3 - December 1989 Improvement to the reliability Contents Improvement to the reliability and and security of researchers' security of researchers' communications 1 communications About the author 2 ES RA news 3 Richard Sanderson, DG XIII, Brussels ES RA sponsored events - Call for papersprotocols which ensure that comData communications is a field ESRRDA news 4 puter equipment from different manwhich is rapidly increasing its EC activity news 5 ufacturers may be networked toinfluence on our daily lives. The Review of important events 6 gether. introduction of new technologies 'GREY' literature 7 coinciding with an accelerated reTechnical contributionsMany European countries are alquirement for the exchange of inforGuidelines & recommendations 9 ready preparing for migration of their mation from increasing sophisticated Proceedings 10 R&D community computer netuser demands will lead us over the Reports1 works from non-standard to OSI-next few years to witness the masBooks2 conformant networks. The number sive computer power currently availForthcoming courses/work of connectable sites in Europe is able from super-computers being shops/seminars3 rapidly increasing as OSI-software exploited via high bandwidth optical New computer programs 14 products improve and gain accepfibre links to a multitude of tasks Training & educationtance.