With the Internet much of a buzzword recently, and otherwise serious people joyriding along the \Informational Superhighway," computer networking seems to be moving toward the status of TV sets and microwave ovens. The Internet is recently getting an unusually high media coverage, and social science majors are descending on Usenet newsgroups to conduct researches on the \Internet Culture." Carrier companies are working to introduce new transmission techniques like ATM that o er many times the bandwidth the average network link of today has
