I. History.- The First Ten Years.- II. Raw Materials and Purity.- High Purity Components for Fluorozirconate Glass Optical Fibers.- Chemical Analysis of Trace Impurities.- Role of Impurities in Halide Glasses.- III. Structure.- Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies of Halide Glass Structure.- Diffraction Studies of Halide Glasses.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Fluorozirconate Glass Structure.- IV. Thermal and Mechanical Behavior.- Viscosity Behavior of Halide Glasses and Melts.- The Thermal Properties of Fluoride Glass.- Structural Relaxation in Fluoride Glasses.- Crystallization Behavior of Fluorozirconate Glasses.- Physical, Chemical Properties and Crystallization Tendency of the New Fluoroaluminate glasses.- Surface Chemistry and Slow-Crack Growth Behavior of Fluorozirconate glasses.- V. Optical Properties of Glasses and Fibers.- Optical Properties of Fluoride Glasses.- Optical Properties of Rare-Earth and Transition Metal Ions in Fluoride glasses.- Loss Mechanisms in ZrF4 Based IR Fibres.- VI. Fiber Fabrication.- Fluoride Glass Optical Fibers in France.- Progress in Fiber Preparation in Japan.- Vapor Deposition of Fluoride Glasses.- VII. Fiber Systems.- Waveguide Systems Development.- Applications of Infrared Waveguides in Remote Gas-Spectroscopy.- VIII. Other Vitreous Halides.- Zirconium-Free Fluoride Glasses.- Chemical Durability of a BaF2-ThF4 Based Glass.- Transition Metal Fluoride Glasses (TMFG), Synthesis, Properties, Structure.- Chloride, Bromide and Iodide Glasses.- IX. Related Fields.- Halide Glasses and Chalcogenide Glasses for Ultra Low Loss Fibre Applications - a Comparison.- Interactions with Other Fields.- Short Communications.- Glass Formation in Halide Systems.- Preparation of Fluoronitride Glasses.- PL measurements on fluorozirconate glasses.-Concluding Remarks.- List of Participants.