Hi Jean and Peter (since its night time in Europe, I dont expect you to read this email for a couple of hours). If we're serious about our project, then we need to start with the requirements faze. I've prepared a few links which will assist us with gathering information about the design of network architectures, which should be compulsory reading during the next few weeks. 1) First, a lot of papers from the MIT Computer Science Institute on Next Generation Internet Architectures: http://www.isi.edu/newarch/docs.html http://www.ana.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/papers.html 2)The compulsory BMessage and newsletter archieves: http://www.be.com/developers/bmessage/ 3) From your favourite book store: TCP/IP volumes 1,2 and 3, Dougles Comer TCP/IP Network Protocol (Operating System Source Code Secrets, Vol 4), Lynne G Jolitz 4) Finally, the various open source distributions (ie. Linux / FreeBSD / Darwin) ie Linux kernel documentation http://www.linux.org/dist/kernel.html Feel free to recommend other links which you may consider to be helpful. ---------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ---------------------- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300.