The papers collected here address problems connected with the networking of information systems. This is the mainstream of current development activities by computer professionals working in practical data processing. It is also a hot topic in the development laboratories of manufacturers and software houses, as well as in universities and research institutes. There are two areas where the INDC-92 conference program is believed to be especially strong: open distributed systems and high-speed networking. Corporate information technology architectures are covered in several papers and some excellent contributions are related to protocol engineering. There is a balance between submitted papers, deep and specific, and invited reports covering various information networking and data communication application areas.