CRN Introduction (By Xiaofan Zhao, CRN director) Date: 13 Apr 92 8:11 +0800 From: Xiaofan ZHAO The Chinese Research Network (CRN), founded in 1987, aims at * Providing electronic communication means, based on the PSDN and any available communication networks, to the Chineses scientsts, engineers, professors and other reaserchers to facilitate them in exchanging information and coordinating cooperation with their partners in China and abroad. * Supporting and coordinating the development and promotion of OSI conformable applications ammong Chinese scientific and research community. * Organizing the cooperation among CRN members and their foreign partners. Eight members of CRN have been interconnected at present, including research institutes, universities and academic organizations in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Shijiazhuang. More institutions will join CRN in the future. MHS (email), VT (PAD), FTAM, X.11 have been installed at the member institutions on VAX/VMS, VAX/ULTRIX, SUN/UNIX and APOLLO/UNIX. CRN has established more than ten direct MHS connections with the member countries of European Research Networks (RARE), including Germany, Norway and Switchland, and could exchange e-mails with almost all the research networks, eg Internet, in the world via RARE gateways. Chinese MHS (CMHS), dased on DFN-EAN and enhanced by CRN, with Chenese character and encryption capability has been also installed at some CRN's member institutions on VAX/VMS and SUN/UNIX systems. The CRN Board consists of the representatives from her member organizations, which is responsible for * Developing CRN's plans and rules * Helping academic and research institutions to join CRN * Maintaining the services provided by CRN * Helping CRN's members to solve technical problems * Organizig and coordinating the development projects * Contacting and coopreating, on behalf of CRN, with the peers in China and abroad Help desk addresses are: Beijing: CRN's Help Desk North China Institute of Computer Tech. China Academy of Electr. & Info. Tech. Computer System Engineering Institute Shanghai: Fudan University Shanghai JiaoTong University Shijiazhuang: Shijiazhuang Communication Lab Chengdu: Southwest Communication Institute