Invited Paper -- The Internet 2 QBONE Project Architecture and Phase 1 Implementation -- Network QoS -- Hardware Acceleration inside a Differentiated Services Access Node -- REDO RSVP: Efficient Signalling for Multimedia in the Internet -- QoS-aware Active Gateway for Multimedia Communication -- Application QoS -- A Study of the Impact of Network Loss and Burst Size on Video Streaming Quality and Acceptability -- Transport of MPEG-2 Video in a Routed IP Network -- Specification and Realization of the QoS Required by a Distributed Interactive Simulation Application in a New Generation Internet -- Mbone and Multicast -- A Multicasting Scheme Using Multiple MCSs in ATM Networks -- A Platform for the Study of Reliable Multicasting Extensions to CORBA Event Service -- MBone2Tel - Telephone Users Meeting the MBone -- Quality of Service Management for Teleteaching Applications Using the MPEG-4/DMIF -- Invited Paper -- IP Services Deployment: A US Carrier Strategy -- Adaptive Applications and Networks -- Network-Diffused Media Scaling for Multimedia Content Services -- Extended Package-Segment Model and Adaptable Applications -- Tailoring Protocols for Dynamic Network Conditions and User Requirements -- Design of an Integrated Environment for Adaptive Multimedia Document Presentation Through Real Time Monitoring -- New Trends in IDMS -- Authoring of Teletext Applications for Digital Television Broadcast -- Middleware Support for Multimedia Collaborative Applications over the Web: A Case Study -- The "Virtual Interactive Presenter": A Conversational Interface for Interactive Television -- Advances in Coding -- A Video Compression Algorithm for ATM Networks with ABR Service, Using Visual Criteria -- Content-Fragile Watermarking Based on Content-Based Digital Signatures -- Invited Paper -- New Structures for the Next Generation of IDMS -- Conferencing -- Multi-drop VPs for Multiparty Videoconferencing on SONET/ATM Rings -- Architectural Design and Bandwidth Demand Analysis -- A Generic Scheme for the Recording of Interactive Media Streams -- A Framework for High Quality/Low Cost Conferencing Systems -- Video Servers -- A Novel Replica Placement Strategy for Video Servers -- Network Bandwidth Allocation and Admission Control for a Continuous Media File Server -- Design and Evaluation of Ring-Based Video Servers -- Position Papers -- Pricing for Differentiated Internet Services -- An Agent-Based Adaptive QoS Management Framework and Its Applications -- Improving the Quality of Recorded Mbone Sessions Using a Distributed Model.