Report on the EUROGRAPHICS/ARGOSI Workshop on Graphics and Networking

Four sessions of papers were presented on the second day. The two sessions in the morning concentrated on access to large volumes of remotely stored graphics with six presentations covering a number of topics. In the first session the standards requirements for MIS systems for road transport management6, the BERKOM broadband interconnect trial7 and the PIC metafile formatX were presented. The second session looked at the various aspects of the CGM standard's applicability in networked applications with presentations describing CGM's relation to the FTAM standardy and to the concept of application profleslO, and the use of access to subunits within CGMsl'.