Name: Alan Barrett
Email Address: barrett@ee.und.ac.za

My involvement with Internet-related activities began in 1989, when I
set up an electronic mail link via X.25 between the University of Natal
in Durban, South Africa and a university in the USA.  In that year, I
also set up electronic mail links between the University of Natal in
Durban and other parts of South Africa's academic network, UNINET-ZA,
using a variety of non-Internet transports, but with Internet message
formats.  At that time, Rhodes University was operating a complex set of
email gateways that provided connectivity with the outside world using
Fidonet as a transport.

Over the next year or two, I played a major part in the establishment
of IP routing within UNINET-ZA, and the establishment at the end of
1991 of an IP link between UNINET-ZA and the Internet.  Since then I
have continued my involvement in the technical side of UNINET-ZA and of
the wider Internet.  I have contributed to various widely used software
packages, participated in discussions of protocols and standards (but
have never been able to attend an IETF meeting), presented papers at two
INET conferences, and I was a member of the training team at the INET'94
workshop for developing countries.

In 1993, I co-founded South Africa's first commercial Internet service
provider, TICSA, which has since joined forces with one of its
ex-customers to form Internet Africa.  I would like to see affordable
Internet access become readily available throughout Africa.