1999.04.26
To: 	 GIBN Members
From:    Kilnam Chon, APAN Chair
Subject: Millennium Celebration Project Proposal

The millennium changeover in 1999.12.31 - 2000.01.01 will be celebrated all
over the world.  We would like to propose to celebrate the millennium
changeover through the Internet, in particular through the high performance
Internet.

The millennium celebration project was originally proposed by APAN Korea
together with Korea  System, the public television corporation to
APAN, which agreed to participate in principle, and the detail to be worked
out later.  The following countries tentatively agreed to participate so far;

	Canada
	Japan
	Korea
	USA

We are looking for more countries to join the celebration through high
performance network application demonstration, which will be mullticasted
to the global high performance networks and some of public broadcasting
stations.  Please see the candidate cities for demonstration according to
our plan. 

Technically speaking, the primary media would be MPEG 2 with 6-8 Mbps with
optional media of MPEG 1 and digital video as appropriate.  Most of the 
demonstrations will be done in realtime, but some of them may be done in
non-realtime such as video-on-demand.

If you are interested in the participation, please contact

	apan-sec@apan.net

If you know any other similar projects, please let us know as we would like to
collaborate other similar projects.


Appendix 1: Candidate Cities for Demonstration 

	KST/JST		City			Remark

	23:00		Sydney/Canberra 	MPEG1
	24:00		Tokyo/Seoul		MPEG2/Digital Video
	01:00		Beijing/Singapore	MPEG1
	06:00		Jerusalem		MPEG1
	08:00		Paris/Rome/Berlin	MPEG2
	09:00		London			MPEG2
	12:00		Brazil			MPEG1
	14:00		New York		MPEG2
	15:00		Bloomington		MPEG2
	17:00		Vancouver/Los Angeles	MPEG2




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