012.43 Spain by Jose Barbera Organization Since 1991 *RedIRIS* is the National Research and Academic Network organization sponsored by the Higher Education and Research funding bodies to provide services for universities and research centers in Spain. The network is managed by Fundesco, a non-profit organization dealing with Information Technology and Telecommunication activities. Fundesco has been involved in the definition and implementation of the initial networking program along the preceeding years. Operation of various services is done either by Fundesco's Technical Team or else by subcontracting them to a suitable organization. Policy In order to create a nation-wide homogeneous networking environment RedIRIS fosters the use of open communication protocols. When reliable products to implement RedIRIS application services exist OSI standards are preferred. Otherwise the equivalent TCP/IP services are used. Some OSI services are being introduced by an experimental pilot phase before full-extension is reached. RedIRIS takes also into account specific needs from user groups for proprietary protocols, provided they are cost-effective and technically feasible. Services All application services are supported on a 64 Kbps. X.25 backbone linking the main R&D sites; connection to the PPSDN is also provided. Over the common backbone infrastructure an IP network service is "tunneled"; thus LAN interconnection is possible on WAN facilities. In a similar way a CLNS (ISO IP) service is provided for experimental purposes at this stage. Remote terminal service is accomplished by XXX and TELNET; there is also a central XXX/TELNET gateway. MHS X.400 is widely used for electronic mail; RFC 987 conversion and application level mail gateways are provided as well to communicate with non-OSI networks. For file transfer FTP is extensively used. There is a central FTAM/FTP gateway as part of an FTAM pilot service. X.500 Directory service is being implemented on an experimental basis. Over the common X.25 backbone DECNET services -required by the HEP community- as well as NJE/IP services -typical of EARN- are supported too. All OSI services are managed in coordination with the COSINE Project. International cooperation International communications are established through the COSINE IXI network and recently through EASInet. RedIRIS has joined the Ebone 92 initiative for international IP and CLNS services. RedIRIS (IRIS-Net) is part of the Internet since 1990. Access to the North-American Internet is done via the UK-US intercontinental fat-pipe. For Internet services in Europe RedIRIS cooperates with RIPE. RedIRIS is the National Member representing Spain in the RARE Association and participates in the COSINE Project. RedIRIS collaborates with other international networks such as EUnet and SPAN through the corresponding national branches. Agreements to share common transport infrastructure have been reached with them.