A workshop focused on major research issues in networking and communications. This report defines the context for research priorities and initiatives and deals with issues in networking and communications. Fifteen major research priorities and four research specific initiatives were identified by participants as areas that should be pursued over the next several years. Priorities identified for basic research are: (1) coding and coded modulation; (2) information theory; (3) communications signal processing; (4) protocol theory, design, and engineering; (5) dynamic network control; (6) internetworking; (7) optical networks; (8) security; (9) reliable networks; (10) switching networks; (11) wireless networks and access; (12) data storage systems; (13) video, speech, image, and data compression; (14) mobile and nomadic computing; and (15) satellite systems. (SLD)