~ December 1993 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. This report is for Internet information purposes only, and is not to be quoted in other publications without permission from the submitter. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to: Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) NSF Regional reports - To obtain the procedure describing how to submit information for the Internet Monthly Report, send an email message to mailserv@is.internic.net and put "send imr-procedure" in the body of the message (add only that one line; do not put a signature). Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 8 ILAN - ISRAELI NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 MERIT/MICHNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 MRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 SURFNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30 WISCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 USER SERVICES REPORT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 49 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 51 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly REPORT for December, 1993 1. The 28th meeting of the IETF, co-hosted by SESQUINET and Rice University, was held in Houston, Texas from November 1-5, 1993. The first meeting of the IETF in 1994 will be held in Seattle, Washington from March 29 through April 1, 1994. This meeting is being hosted by NorthWestNet. Following the March 1994 meeting, it looks like the IETF will be in Toronto in July, and in the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall. Once the final arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. 2. Fred Baker has accepted the Chairmanship of the IAB/IESG Nomination Committee. This is the group that will search for candidates and make nominations for half of the IAB and IESG members. The new members are to take office following the IETF meeting in Seattle. 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 11 Protocol Actions during the month of December, 1993: o Multiprotocol Interconnect on X.25 and ISDN in the Packet Mode is now a Draft Standard. o Classical IP and ARP over ATM is now a Proposed Standard. o PPP LCP Extensions is now a Proposed Standard. o Extensions to the Generic-Interface MIB is reclassified as Historic. o DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions is now a Draft Standard. o Network Services Monitoring MIB is now a Proposed Standard. o Mail Monitoring MIB is now a Proposed Standard. o X.500 Directory Monitoring MIB is now a Proposed Standard. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II is now a Proposed Standard. o FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked "Primary and Secondary School Internet User" Questions be published as an Informational RFC. o Essential Tools for the OSI Internet be published as an Informational RFC. 4. The IESG issued 9 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of December, 1993: o Multiprotocol Interconnect on X.25 and ISDN in the Packet Mode being considered as a Draft Standard o Extensions to the Generic-Interface MIB to be reclassified as Historic. o Network Services Monitoring MIB being considered for Proposed Standard. o Mail Monitoring MIB being considered for Proposed Standard. o X.500 Directory Monitoring MIB being considered for Proposed Standard. o Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits being considered for Proposed Standard. o Protocol Analysis for Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits being considered as an Informational Document. o PPP LCP Extensions being considered for Proposed Standard. o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II being considered for Proposed Standard. Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 5. One Working Group was created during this period: RSVP - Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (rsvp) And one Working Group was concluded: DECnet Phase IV MIB (decnetiv) 6. A total of 34 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of December, 1993: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (bgp) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type (bgp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway Protocol (Version 4) (bgp) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction (none) o IP and ARP on Fibre Channel (FC) (none) o Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits (none) o DNS NSAP Resource Records (x400ops) o Using the Internet DNS to distribute RFC1327 Address Mapping Tables (avt) o Packetization of H.261 video streams (sip) o SIPP Program Interfaces for BSD Systems (sip) o SIPP Neighbor Discovery (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service (madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB (ifmib) o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II (atm) o Classical IP and ARP over ATM (madman) o Mail Monitoring MIB Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 (madman) o X.500 Directory Monitoring MIB (none) o Protocol Analysis for Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits (upsmib) o UPS Management Information Base (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management Version 4.0 (none) o Selecting an Indirect Provider (pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) (dns) o Incremental Transfer and Fast Convergence in DNS (pppext) o The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP) (osinsap) o Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet (imm) + Network Access to Multimedia Information (ripv2) + RIP Version 2 Protocol Analysis (pppext) + PPP Predictor Compression Protocol (none) + MIME Application/EDI-X12: A Working Draft Proposal (none) + Language tags for MIME content portions (none) + Simple Object Look-up protocol (SOLO) (tpix) + Common Architecture Technology for Next-generation Internet Protocol (none) + Post Office Protocol - Version 3 7. There were 16 RFC's published during the month of December, 1993: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1547 I (pppext) Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol RFC1548 DS (pppext) The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) RFC1549 DS (pppext) PPP in HDLC Framing Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 RFC1550 I (none) IP: Next Generation (IPng) White Paper Solicitation RFC1551 I (none) Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN) RFC1552 PS (pppext) The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control Protocol (IPXCP) RFC1553 PS (pppext) Compressing IPX Headers Over WAN Media (CIPX) RFC1554 I (none) ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP RFC1555 I (none) Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages RFC1556 I (none) Handling of Bi-directional Texts in MIME RFC1557 I (none) Korean Character Encoding for Internet Messages RFC1558 I (none) A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters RFC1559 DS (decnetiv) DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions RFC1560 I (iab) The MultiProtocol Internet RFC1561 E (tuba) Use of ISO CLNP in TUBA Environments RFC1562 I (none) Naming Guidelines for the AARNet X.500 Directory Service St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== During December '93, the ANSnet Phase-5 T3 network upgrade was completed. The first production gated systems (including the BGP4 protocol) were installed on the RS/6000 based routers that support the T1 trans-atlantic link (CERN - MAE-East). An extended fiber outage occurred in Michigan on December 3rd due to a fiber cut. December Backbone Traffic and Routing Statistics ================================================ The total inbound packet count for the T3 network (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 46,029,222,164 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 3.0% from November. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 52,282,909,913 down 1.1% from November. The maximum number of destinations announced to the T3 network during December was 14,802, up 6.6% from November. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the T3 network but were never announced (silent nets) during November was 4,978. T3 Network Upgrade Progress/Status ================================== On December 18th, we successfully completed the Phase 5 ANSNet deployment. The major changes accomplished in this upgrade were: o Upgrade of all DS3/HSSI router serial interface adapters (T3 CNSS and ENSS) to support full DS3 bandwidth. The router adapter bus interface cards were also upgraded to double the packet switching rates per interface. o The T3 DSUs on each DS3 interface were replaced with T3Plus BMX45 bandwidth managers on T3 CNSS-CNSS circuits and Larscom Access-T45 DSUs on a T3 ENSS-CNSS circuit. o The architecture for interconnection among CNSS routers at each MCI POP location was upgraded to a common FDDI ring from the original point-to-point links architecture. Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 As a result of this upgrade, we now have 17 backbone links and 21 customer attachments running at full T3: Seattle - Denver Backbone Link Seattle - San Francisco Backbone Link San Francisco - Chicago Backbone Link San Francisco - Los Angeles Backbone Link Los-Angeles - Albuquerque Backbone Link Albuquerque - Houston Backbone Link Houston - Atlanta Backbone Link Atlanta - Greensboro Backbone Link Wash DC - Greensboro Backbone Link New York - Wash DC Backbone Link Houston - St. Louis Backbone Link Denver - St. Louis Backbone Link St. Louis - Chicago Backbone Link Chicago - Cleveland Backbone Link Cleveland - New York Backbone Link Hartford - Cleveland Backbone Link New York - Hartford Backbone Link ENSS128 at Palo Alto (BARRnet, Stanford University) ENSS129 at Champaign (UIUC, CICnet) ENSS130 at Argonne (Argonne National Lab, CICNet) ENSS131 at Ann Arbor (ANS AA, Michnet, CICnet, etc.) ENSS132 at Pittsburgh (PSCnet, PREPnet, CMU, etc.). ENSS133 at Ithaca (PSI, Cornell) ENSS134 at Cambridge (NEARnet, Alternet, MIT) ENSS135 at San Diego (CERFnet, SDSC, etc.) ENSS136 at College Park (SURAnet, Alternet, MAE-East, UM) ENSS137 at Princeton (Princeton University, JVNCnet) ENSS138 at Atlanta (Georgia Tech, SURAnet) ENSS139 at Houston (Sesquinet, Rice University) ENSS140 at Lincoln (MIDnet, Westnet, etc.) ENSS141 at Boulder (Westnet, NCAR, U of Colorado, etc.) ENSS142 at Salt Lake City (WestNet, U of Utah, etc.) ENSS143 at Seattle (NorthWestNet, U of Washington, etc.) ENSS144 at Moffett Field (FIX-West) ENSS145 at College Park (FIX-East) ENSS146 at Arlington (ARPA) ENSS172 at Albuquerque (Phillips Laboratory) ENSS179 at Albuquerque (Sandia National Labs) Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes =================================== Toward the end of November rcp_routed began experiencing problems where system paging slowed down rcp_routed causing it to allocate memory to defer work, which in turn causes more paging. Several Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 new rcp_routed versions were deployed on ENSS136 to reduce the memory requirements. Problems on ENSS136 have been eliminated by adding more memory and rcp_routed changes to avoid triggering the condition. Release notes are available for anonymous ftp at: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/t3-rcp_routed/Release-Notes. Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration or less). This is intended as a measure of stability rather than complete connectivity. December stability dropped to levels observed in July and August due to problems with rcp_routed, and phase-5 scheduled outages. MONTH overall excluding configs ------ ------- ----------------- January 99.1% 99.5% February 99.0% 99.5% March 97.5% 99.1% April 96.1% 97.2% May 97.4% 98.0% June 95.5% 96.6% July 97.3% 97.7% August 97.5% 97.9% September 98.1% 98.5% October 98.0% 98.3% November 97.2% N/A December 96.6% N/A Due primarily to paging problems, few nodes experienced less than 30 minutes of instability for the month. Significant perturbations such as the phase 5 activity on Dec 4, Dec 11, and Dec 18 caused paging elsewhere and secondary instability. On a few occasions core circuit link state changes triggered problems. ENSS136 was the most affected node, though also affected were ENSS135, CNSS11, CNSS65, ENSS139, ENSS131, and to a lesser extent others. There were also the usual site power problems. The breakdown by sites is as follows (these figures include instabilities recorded during configuration runs): Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min <98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97% ------------------------------------------------------------ January 0 0 1 8 19 55 February 0 0 1 24 19 41 March 0 4 18 23 23 22 April 2 2 3 13 12 57 May 0 4 33 32 15 5 June 3 21 35 18 12 3 July 0 12 28 44 6 1 August 1 5 28 21 17 15 September 1 38 25 10 4 13 October 0 3 3 10 25 50 November 1 2 15 25 24 26 December 0 8 24 46 9 3 There has been steady increase in the external route flap over the course of the year. The measurement method is described in: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/ExternalRouteFlapReports The number of times networks are announced as unreachable is collected. The following represents the monthly totals in terms of number of networks declared unreachable per hour. January 844 May 1134 September 2395 February 876 June 1560 October 2272 March 1104 July 1815 November 2321 April 1038 August 1874 December 2008 Plots of the internal routing stability, external peer session stability and external route flap are available as the files: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/internal.ps ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/external.ps ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/flap.ps A slight reduction in the external route flap in December, and a clear reduction in the size of route flap peaks is believed to be at least partly due to limited fixed timer based route dampening at the ENSSs. The data itself is collected at a CNSS and so reflects the flap after dampening by the ENSS and reflects the load redistributed to AS 690 peers taking full routing. External peer stability data in December was dominated by the RIPE RS peer. This peer is experimental and does not introduce any routes to AS 690. It is a gated peer and has a configuration that Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 has now grown in terms of route restrictions to the point where gated is unable to remain stable in the presence of route flap. Changes to gated to address this are expected to be deployed soon. This peer and the ANS experimental gated peers will be removed from the raw data in future reports. Gated BGP4/CIDR Deployment Update ================================= ANS has been working to meet the proposed BGP4 deployment schedule. We have participated on the BGP4 testbed, and in early December we deployed gated with BGP4 on the production AS1133 routers (DANTE/ANS service between CERN and MAE-East). We continue to test gated with SLSP (AS690 IGP) support on the NSFNET/ANSnet testbed. We have had some problems with the Gated SLSP IGP protocol code due to performance enhancements that were made in the Gated base code that has been successfully deployed on the AS1133 routers. Since overall network stability is the major goal, we have not yet begun deployment of Gated on the AS690 routers. This version of Gated is designed to interoperate with the rcp_routed software (the IGP and internal BGP). The SLSP support in Gated allows us to deploy Gated without an IGP "flag day" on AS690 routers. We expect to get Gated fully deployed on ANSNET/NSFNET routers in time for a CIDR transition (class-based routes stop getting announced) in mid-February. We are exploring two contingency plan options to provide continued full connectivity in the event that other backbones cease announcing class-based routes via BGP4 and announce only the aggregates. The first option is to have the AS690 routers point default to our AS1133 router at MAE-East, which supports BGP4 now. Since Rcp_routed (current AS690 routing software) has never supported default, this is being added and tested, and should be ready in time. The second contingency plan option we are exploring is to establish BGP4 peering sessions between AS 1133 and other BGP4 capable systems at MAE-East. AS 1133 could accept aggregate announcements from its BGP4 peers and be configured to announce the class-based routes within the aggregates to AS 690. Either of these contingency options could serve as an interim step while AS 690 completes deployment of gated. We hope that it will be unnecessary to resort to any contingency plan, but realize that some ASs are faced with overwhelming loads on their routers and that those AS may have to begin to only announce aggregates rather than the dual announcements of aggregates and class-based routes by the mid-February timeframe. Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Notable Outages in December '93 =============================== E131 (Ann Arbor) suffered an extended outage due to fiber cut on 12/03 (see details below). E257 (Creative Cybernetics) suffered an extended power outage on 12/04 E129 (Champaign), E140 (Lincoln) and E138 (Lincoln) underwent Phase V upgrade on 12/04 E131 (Ann Arbor), E132 (Pittsburgh), E137 (Princeton) underwent Phase V upgrade on 12/11 E133 (Ithaca), E134 (Boston), E136 (College Park), E145 (Fix-East), E146 (ARPA) underwent Phase V upgrade on 12/18 E257 (Creative Cybernetics) suffered extended downtime due to circuit maintenance on 12/22 E179 (Sandia Labs) suffered extended downtime for maintenance on 12/27 Michigan Fiber Cut (12/3): ------------------------- A fiber cut occurred in Michigan on 12/03 fiber due to a contractor backhoe. This affected 87 MCI DS3's. The outage lasted from 11:45 to 17:25 EST for a total of 5 hours and 40 minutes downtime. While the Network Operations Center in Ann Arbor was isolated from the national network, network monitoring continued from the ANS backup NOC in Elmsford. There was some blockage of calls to the 1-800 number due to reduced capacity into the Michigan area. To avoid future outages of a similar nature, MCI has implemented a T1 restoration capability that will be coincident with their signalling restoration process. Presently this requires manual intervention, but should only take a few minutes to implement. A full automated restoration capability will be in-place by mid July 1994. Jordan Becker, ANS (becker@ans.net) Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 ILAN - ISRAELI NETWORK ----------------------- ILAN is currently in the final acceptance stages of a 256kb satellite line to PSI to replace our existing 128kb. We still maintain a 64kb fiber line to Europe. On a national scale, ILAN has outgrown its 128kb leased line backbone and has signed an agreement with the national PTT to be the first customer to use its MAN service. The seven university backbone will run on 10Mb/sec Ethernet speeds via the MAN service (the only service offered by our PTT - no SMDS yet). The first two sites are expected to be operational in February 1994, with one site following every month thereafter. Hank Nussbacher INTERNIC -------- INFORMATION SERVICES Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Toll-free hotline +1 800 444-4345 email info@internic.net Fax +1 619 455-4640 InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints Suggestions suggestions@internic.net Complaints complaints@internic.net NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net newsletter comments newsletter-comments@internic.net Seminar Series seminars@internic.net Listserv lists net-happenings listserv@internic.net net-resources listserv@is.internic.net nics listserv@is.internic.net Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 InfoSource Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 TRAINING RESIDENTS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE The InterNIC Seminar Series ---------------------------------------- InterNIC Information Services announces the availability of a series of seminars covering a range of topics for beginning, intermediate, and advanced Internet users. Below is the present list of seminars: 1. Welcome to the Global Village: An Introduction to the Internet 2. Using Network Tools Effectively 3. Building an Electronic Network Information Center 4. Internet Naming and Directory Services 5. Hello Internet: Tools for the Classroom 6. Making and Managing Global Learning Projects For more information on the Seminar Series, email to seminars@internic.net or call our hotline at 800-444-4345. More information, including full class descriptions and the Calendar, will be made available in the InfoSource at the addresses above. NSF Network News ---------------- An integral and popular part of the _NSF Network News_ is the 6- page fold-out map of U.S. Internet Connectivity sites. In the past, regional and midlevel networks contributed statistics on the number and identity of its connections and customers, as well as the number of dialup customers for inclusion in the Map. In order to update the Map for future issues of the _NSF Network News_, updated statistics are needed from all network NICs. Networks which have contributed to past versions of the Map are: Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 BARRNet CERFnet CICNET CONCERT JcNCnet Los Nettos MIDNET Merit/MichNet MRNet MCSAnet NEARnet NorthWestNet NSFNET Backbone Sites NYSERNet OARnet PREPnet PSCNET PSInet SDSCNET SESQUINET SURAnet THEnet UIUC/net VERnet WESTNET WiscNet Please contact the Publications Department of Information Services at +1 619 455-3941, +1 619 455-3934 or newsletter- comments@internic.net for more information on updating or adding your listing to the Internet Connectivity Map. Reference Desk -------------- The following table gives a summary of the Reference Desk contacts for December. The Reference Desk remained in operation, with reduced hours, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., December 27-31. Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 406 14.5 Phone 2164 77.3 Fax 209 7.5 US Mail 10 <1 Other 7 <1 ------- -------- --------- Total 2796 100 by Karen D. Frazer DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES InterNIC Directory and Database Services recently redesigned our guest user login to make the menu match our Gopher menu more closely. To try out this interface, telnet to our server (ds.internic.net) and log in as "guest" or "newuser". No password is required. Once you have logged in, a menu will be presented. You can choose the item you want by entering its number. You should choose item 1 (User Tutorial) if you haven't used this interface before. The guest login allows telnet users to do WAIS searches of our Directory of Directories, search for Internet documents (RFCs, etc.) by name (e.g. "rfc1234") or by content (using WAIS), search for individuals (using X.500, WHOIS, or Netfind), and search for specific files using archie. You can also access a telnet-based Gopher client and use it to browse through the InterNIC Gopher. We are interested in comments on the interface and on our services; when you leave the guest login you will be asked if you would like to leave a comment. If you would like a reply, please include your email address as part of your comment. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. by Rick Huber Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 REGISTRATION SERVICES Significant Events ------------------ InterNIC Registration Services operated as usual in the month of December. Even with the holidays our workload and the amount of users accessing rs.internic.net remained very high. We still received over 3,058 email messages to hostmaster@internic.net and registered over 1,143 domains during the month of December. Registration Statistics for December Hostmaster Email 3,058 Postal/Fax Applications 233 Telephone Calls 1,258 Domain Registered 1,143 Inverse Addresses 479 Class C's Assigned 7,700 Class B's Assigned 43 ASN Assigned 217 Connections Retrievals Gopher Sessions 48,319 17,535 Wais Sessions 19,443 35,093 Ftp Sessions 6,274 27,319 Telnet Sessions 44,783 Mail Server 1,025 by John Zalubski (johnz@rs.internic.net) ISI --- GIGABIT NETWORKING Infrastructure Deborah Estrin invited speaker at the ARPA review of T II meeting in Washington, DC, December 14-15. Walt Prue attended a CISCO seminar at the LAX Airport Hotel, December 7, 1993. Joe Touch attended the Infocom '94 committee meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania December 7-8, 1993. 16 RFCs were published this month. RFC 1547: D. Perkins, "Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol", Carnegie Mellon University, December 1993. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 RFC 1548: Simpson, W., "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)", Daydreamer, December 1993. RFC 1549: Simpson, W., (Editor) "PPP in HDLC Framing" Daydreamer, December 1993. RFC 1550: Bradner, S., (Harvard Univ), A. Mankin (NRL), "IP: Next Generation (IPng) White Paper Solicitation" RFC 1551: Allen, M., "Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN)" Novell, Inc., December 1993. RFC 1552: Simpson, W., "The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control Protocol (IPXCP)" Daydreamer, December 1993. RFC 1553: Mathur, S., "Compressing IPX Headers Over WAN Media (CIPX) Telebit Corporation, December 1993. RFC 1554: Ohta, M., Tokyo Institute of Technology, K. Handa, "ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP", December 1993. RFC 1555: Nussbacher, H., Israeli Inter-University, Y. Bourvine, (Hebrew University), "Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages", December 1993. RFC 1556: Nussbacher, H., Israeli Inter-University, "Handling of Bi-directional Texts in MIME", December 1993. RFC 1557: Choi, U., K. Chon, (Kaist), H. Park, (Solvit Chosun Media ) "Korean Character Encoding for Internet Messages", December 1993. RFC 1558: Howes, T., "A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters" University of Michigan, December 1993. RFC 1559: Saperia, J., "DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions" Digital Equipment Corporation, December 1993. RFC 1560: Leiner, B. (USRA), Y. Rekhter (IBM), "The Multi- Protocol Internet", December 1993. RFC 1561: Piscitello, D. "Use of ISO CLNP in TUBA Environments" Core Competence, December 1993. RFC 1562: Michaelson, G., (Univ. of Queensland), M. Prior, (Univ. of Adelaide), "Naming Guidelines for the AARNet X.500 Directory Service", December 1993. Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX/PHONE 352 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 352 DELEGATIONS: 23 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 29 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 300 --------------------------- Total 352 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- K12.AL.US Alabama K12 Schools CC.CA.US California Community Colleges (reassigned) STATE.CA.US California State Government GEN.ID.US General branch of US Domain K12.ID.US Idaho K12 Schools LIB.ID.US Idaho Libraries STATE.ID.US Idaho State Gov't Agencies K12.IN.US Indiana K12 Schools (re-assigned) STATE.MI.US Michigan State Departments CC.NE.US Nebraska Community Colleges TEC.NY.US New York Technical Schools INDEPENDENCE.OH.US Locality of Independence, Ohio NORTH-OLMSTEAD.OH.US Locality of North Olmstead, Ohio EAC.CC.AZ.US Eastern Arizona College SACCW.CC.AR.US South Arkansas Community College TDEC.STATE.TN.US Tennessee Dept. Environ. and Conserv. CO.RAMSEY.ND.US Ramsey County, ND, Gov't Agencies CO.STUTSMAN.ND.US Stutsman County, ND, Gov't Agencies CO.BURLEIGH.ND.US Burleigh County, ND, Gov't Agencies CO.RANSOM.ND.US Ransom County, ND, Gov't Agencies CO.McCLEAN.ND.US McClean County, ND, Gov't Agencies CO.MORTON.ND.US Morton County, ND, Gov't Agencies CO.MERCER.ND.US Mercer County, ND, Gov't Agencies Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 DELEGATED ZONES UNDER .US K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK AL AR X AS AZ X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X X CO X X X X CT DC ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X X X X X FL X X X X X GA X X X X HI ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X ID X X X X IL X X X X IN X X X X KS ----------------------------------------------------------- KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA ME X MI X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MN X X X X X X X MO X X X X MS X X MT NC X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- ND X X NE X X X X NH X X NJ X NM X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- NV NY X X X OH X X X X X X X OK OR X X ----------------------------------------------------------- PA X RI X SC X X X X X SD X X ----------------------------------------------------------- TN TX X X X X UT X X X VA ----------------------------------------------------------- VI VT X X WA WI X X X WV X X X X X X X WY X =========================================================== For more information about the US Domain please request an application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to RFC- INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application". For example: To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU Subject: US Domain Application help: us_domain_application Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING The mmcc session orchestration tool was first released in October to run on Sun Sparcs. It allows a caller to explictly invite others to participate in a point-to-point or multipoint teleconference, and alerts them to accept or decline. It automatically spawns underlying audio, video and groupware programs among members of a session, then tears them down at session completion. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Mmcc has now been ported run on SGIs running IRIX, HPs running HPUX, IBM PCs running Mach3.0, Dec 5000's running Ultrix V4.3, and Dec Alphas running OSF. The release software will be available from ftp.isi.edu:confctrl/mmcc, as files mmcc-{sparc,sgi,dec5k,decalpha,intel,hp}.tar.Z. The ports have been tested more thoroughly on some configurations than others. Feedback would be welcomed. Steve Casner, Joe Touch, Eve Schooler (Casner@ISI.EDU, Touch@ISI.EDU, Schooler@ISI.EDU) MERIT/MICHNET ------------- Whirlpool Corporation of Benton Harbor, Albion College, and Grand Rapids Baptist College and Seminary became new MichNet affiliates during the month of December. Whirlpool will initially have a 9.6Kbps direct dial-up line through Andrews University. The Albion College proposal to the National Science Foundation for Connections grant funding was approved, and work on a 56Kbps link to the MichNet backbone has begun. Grand Rapids Baptist College, an institution of Christian higher education serving over 1,000 students from more than 20 states and eight countries, will also have a 56Kbps link to MichNet. Activity to upgrade MichNet links from 56Kbps to T1 at both the University of Michigan's Dearborn campus and Eastern Michigan University is also underway. Michigan's Governor John Engler has signed Executive Orders entitled "Michigan Council on Telecommunications Services for Public Education," which address the need for educational telecommunications projects that will promote the development of integrated educational telecommunications networks, distance learning, video conferencing and data networks, and make such distance learning technologies available to Michigan students, educators, governmental agencies, health providers, and businesses. The funding for this state-wide distance learning initiative totals $23,230,000, plus interest, and resulted from a Michigan Public Service Commission order that Michigan Bell Telephone Company either refund $10.5 million of its ratepayers' shareable earnings plus interest, or match that sum with a voluntary contribution of $10.5 million and the sum total would be used to fund educational telecommunications projects. The Commission found that such a settlement agreement was in the public interest, and will provide significant funds for such educational telecommunications projects. Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Dana Sitzler, coordinator of MichNet's K-12 Outreach projects, gave a hands-on demonstration of Internet tools and resources at the Michigan Education Association December conference in Dearborn. Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu) MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES --------------------------------- In December, the National Science Foundation requested that traffic from the countries of the former Soviet Union satisfying the NSFNET Backbone Acceptable Use Policy guidelines be routed by the NSFNET Backbone Service. Traffic from the countries of the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine is now carried on the NSFNET. Foreign networks now number 9,042 of a total 21,430 networks announced to the NSFNET backbone. Growth as the number of domestic and foreign networks having announcement to the NSFNET infrastructures, as well as network distribution by country over the term of the NSFNET project, are available as /nsfnet/statistics/history.netcount and /nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.country respectively on nic.merit.edu. The resources of nic.merit.edu are available through Anonymous FTP, electronic mail query and a Gopher client connecting to the Merit Network Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70. New information available on nic.merit.edu includes Announcement of the Information Infrastructure Task Force Gopher/Bulletin Board, available as /nren/iitf.bbs Table of Contents for the Information Infrastructure Sourcebook, Version 2.0 (December, 1993), edited by Brian Kahin. Available as /nren/ii.sourcebook Announcement of the Council on Competitiveness report, Competition Policy: Unlocking the National Information Infrastructure. Available as /nren/nii.1994/competition Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication, Release 3.15 by John December. An updated list of pointers to information describing the Internet, computer networks, and issues related to computer-mediated communication (CMC). Available as /introducing.the.internet/information.sources Internet Tools Summary, Release 1.35 by John December. A list of tools available on the Internet that are used for network information retrieval (NIR), Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), or other services. Available as /introducing.the.internet/internet.tools.summary Merit will present another in its series of Networking Seminars January 27-28, 1994, in Orlando, Florida. "Making Your Internet Connection Count: Technology, Tools and Resources" will be held at the Walt Disney World Yacht Club Resort. Scheduled topics and speakers include "Moving Toward the Information Superhighway," the keynote address by Robert Heterick, President, EDUCOM; "Navigating the Internet: Network Tools," Alan Emtage, VP Bunyip; "Information Delivery on the Internet: What's Next for Gopher," Mark McCahill, Gopher Developer at the University of Minnesota; "University of Michigan Weather Underground," Perry Samson, Professor Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan; "Electronic Democracy," Jean Armour Polly, Manager of Network Development and User Training NYSERNet, Inc.; "NSFNET and the NII," Priscilla Huston, NSFNET Project Director, NSF; "The New Networking Infrastructure for Education Program," Art St. George, Program Director, Applications of Advanced Technologies, NSF; "Disney's Applications of Advanced Technology," Lou Kompare, Director of Telecommunications and Technology, Walt Disney World Attractions; and "Networking and Visualization: Roadblocks and Solutions," by Donna Cox, Director of Numerical Lab Programs, NCSA. Internet connectivity will be available in a hands-on demonstration room, where seminar attendees can access the many resources on the Internet using the latest information delivery tools. The registration fee is $595. This fee includes the two-day seminar, all seminar materials, receptions on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, lunches on Thursday and Friday, refreshments and access to Internet-connected computers. For more information, send an e-mail message to nic-info@nic.merit.edu with the text send next.seminar Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 This information is also available as the document /nsfnet/next.seminar on nic.merit.edu for retrieval using Anonymous FTP or in the Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70, as Next Merit/NSFNET Seminar--Jan. '94. Jo Ann Ward (jward@merit.edu) MRNET ----- We are pleased to announce the following staff additions to the Minnesota regional network for the expansion of client services and engineering operations: Ms. Margo Berg, Director of Client Services for Education Ms. Marti Palmer, Director of Client Services for Business & Government Mr. Chris Elmquist, Network Engineer Mr. Gregg Brekke, Network Engineer New hub sites have been established in: Moorhead, MN Mankato, MN St. Cloud, MN Recent new member attachments include: The Northern Lights Library Network Lamb, Inc. Minnesota Center for Arts Education Medtronic HealthPartners William Mitchell College of Law Exchange Data & Decision Systems Total attached membership is 63 organizations. Contact: info@MR.Net for any further information. Dennis Fazio, Executive Director Minnesota Regional Network Minneapolis, MN (612) 342-2570 by Dennis Fazio Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 NORTHWESTNET ------------ Dr. Eric Hood attended the first National Advisory Council meeting for the Teachers' Enhancement Network in Bozeman, Montana on December 2 and 3. This NSF-sponsored program will develop and offer continuing education opportunities to primary and secondary science and math teachers. Washington State Representative Bill Finkbeiner spent several sessions with NorthWestNet staff learning about the Internet, its services, and applications. Rep. Finkbeiner gladly interacts via e-mail with his constituents through his Internet account. NorthWestNet welcomes PacNet, Inc., of Mercer Island, Washington, as a new Member Vendor Partner. The NorthWestNet User Services Committee has elected a new committee chair. Keiko Pitter, Director of Academic Computing at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon will serve as chair throughout 1994. The User Services Committee also began the first of a series of targeted-topic teleconference meetings. The first in this series was held on December 16. Twelve committee representatives participated in the discussion topic, "Exploring Connections Between Libraries and Computing Services Groups." ----------------- NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000 Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822 Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington. Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 SURFNET ------- THE DIGITAL CITY (DE DIGITALE STAD) Amsterdam, Netherlands 3 January 1994 THE DIGITAL CITY In the Netherlands on the 15th of January 1994 a new city will be born, a digital city. This digital city can be visited by compu- ter and modem, and is connected to the worldwide computernetwork called Internet. The Digital City is an initiative of Cultural Center The Balie and Hacktic Netwerk and is supported by the city of Amsterdam. The aim of the Digital City is to investigate the possible contribution of (data)communication to debates about the future of the city. The project runs from the 15th of January 1994 till the end of March and covers the period, in which local elections will be held in Amsterdam. The Digital City can be reached on phone number +31-20-6225222 (by modem); access is free, apart from the normal telephone costs. Internet address: telnet dds.hacktic.nl Public terminals Visitors can call in by their own computer, but there will also be a few public terminals in Amsterdam, from where you can reach the Digital City. These terminals will be placed in the city hall, the public library, the Amsterdam Medical Centre, De Balie, the Stedelijk Museum and other locations. Internet The Digital City explores a new territory for the Netherlands, while at the same time it is using the knowledge and experience which have been gathered in the United States during the past ten years. At the present moment there are some 15 million users of the Internet, among which most Dutch universities. The Digital City is constructed along the lines of the so-called 'Freenet- systems' that exist in the U.S. These are free information servi- ces, which give citizens access to various networkfacilities. Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 The Amsterdam city hall 'on line' The Amsterdam city hall will be part of the network. Administra- tive information of the city council will be accessible in the Digital City. Various members of the city council and other political representatives will participate in the discussions which will take place in the Digital City. In the Digital City all parties will have their own offices, from where they can distribute their election programmes, positions on current issues and other information in digital form. Participation in electronic discussions In the Digital City the visitor can also join discussion groups, apart from looking through digital archives. Discussions will be held about Schiphol (the Amsterdam airport), cultural issues, building and breaking in the city, the elections, income poli- tics, etc. Exploring the Internet Visitors can explore the Internet. Whether you are interested in libraries in Japan or in Finland, or in paying a visit to the White House, or in the latest NASA-information: you just have to hit a few keys on your computer and you can travel around the world. Visitors can become builders The Digital City offers organisations and individuals the oppor- tunity to develop new territories. The citizens can react, bring in new ideas and propose changes. The Digital City will partly be built in cooperation with its residents and visitors. Information brochure In the second week of January 1994 an extensive information brochure will appear. Apart from that there will be a Dutch manual for the Digital City and a 'helpdesk' where you can ask questions during the project. Other activities / Smart TV Various activities will take place in the orbit of the project. Smart TV will broadcast four programmes on the local television channel of Salto (on the 15th of January, the 5th and the 26th of February and the 26th of March 1994), which will deal with the developments surrounding the new information technologies. On the 26th of March 1994 a symposium will be held in De Balie. Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Thanks The Digital City was made possible by (among others) the city of Amsterdam, the NLnet Foundation, Tornado Modems and Dataman. Technical data The Digital City will be run at Hacktic Netwerk on a Solair 10/30 with 4.8 GB of diskvolume. 12 Tornado HighSpeed modems are connected to it through a terminalserver. The Solair is running Solaris 1.1 Unix with FreeNet software on it. A Gopher-client is used for the connection with the Internet, which is made possible by the NLnet Foundation. The modems are lent out for the period of the project by Tornado. Persons to contact For additional information you can contact: Marleen Stikker: stikker@hacktic.nl Rop Gonggrijp: rop@hacktic.nl Felipe Rodriquez: felipe@hacktic.nl SnailMail: The Digital City c/o De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10 NL 1017 RR Amsterdam Phone: +31-20-6233673 Fax: +31-20-6384489 Erik Huizer UCL ---- The end of MICE 1 project demonstration featured multisite, multiprotocol, multimedia conferencing across a large portion of Europe with some input from the US (thanks to LBL). Although international bandwidth is still insuffiient for really good quality conferences, the feasiability was shown clearly enough, and the plans for 34Mbps and better IP and ATM connectivity will be boosted by such demonstrations. A simple tool for monitoring mbone quality for continuous media traffic was made available to the Internet community for trials. Further tools are very near completion and will be released early in the new year. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 WISCNET ------- WiscNet welcomes twelve new members in January 1994. With help from a National Science Foundation Connections Program grant, the following sites joined the net... Cardinal Stritch College Concordia University Mount Senario College Northland College Viterbo College Wisconsin Board, Technical Colleges Chippewa Valley Technical College Madison Area Technical College Moraine Park Technical College Waukesha County Technical College Western Wisconsin Technical College Carthage College also joined in January. Michael Dorl (608) 262-0466 fax (608) 262-4679 dorl@vms.macc.wisc.edu MACC / University of Wisconsin - Madison dorl@wiscmacc.bitnet 1210 W. Dayton St. / Madison, WI 53706 USER SERVICES REPORT -------------------- Trip Report EARN's Network Services Conference and the RARE WG3 Meetings Warsaw, Poland, October 1993 Joyce K. Reynolds USC/Information Sciences Institute 1. EARN's Network Services Conference 1.1 User Support Session 1 1.1.1 David Hartland, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne "Sowing the Networking Seed: The Gardener's Experience" The networking world is continuing to grow at a fast rate and there are still a large number of disciplines in the academic and research community which have yet to discover and benefit from them. The User Support Activities of the Networked Information Services Project (NISP) intends to plant the seeds of computer networking in some of these disciplines and nurture the seeds to Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 grow. One of NISP's goals is to support and encourage common training materials. One way NISP is accomplishing this is to globally search for other materials to incorporate into their materials. Many groups experience frustration when the tools don't work or aren't available. It is the user support groups' responsibility to assist in finding the right sources. Some common problems NISP has encountered is that computer literacy isn't, at times, on the highest level. Additionally, some sites have poor or very poor connectivity. Lack of documentation is another problem, along with support people having the lack of time to produce documentation. One suggestion to this dilemma is that target groups should be encouraged to use mailbase services at all different stages and at all levels. The social sciences field is the best group to work with, as they have reference cards, documentation, networked information office postings, and work closely with the NISP. The librarian community has the initial contact with JANET (Joint Academic Network). JANET is an organized, central group that concentrates on the training aspect. JANET also has joint activities with NISP. The higher education administration is the group that is the hardest to get started, basically because there are lots of suspicions to overcome in this community. Security aspects are what they are most concerned about. The key features of NISP is that they do have limited resources, the mailbase factor, and liase with other national projects in the UK. The key factors in working with groups in other disciplines are: first contact focal point publicity training and support The passport to success includes: good connectivity geographically spread the need to communicate coordinated group funding getting key people involved enthusiasm and persistence Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 1.1.2 Margaret Issacs - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne "Issues in Training Users to Use the Network" Issues in training users to use the network and general issues in network training was the format of this talk, with specific reference to the work of the UK Network Training Materials Project, which is developing a generic mix and match set of network training materials for users in UK universities. The general issues include the increase in demand for training, various user requirements, the hazards of being on-line, and the effectiveness of training. There is an enormous widening spectrum of users as the network grows. The expectations of users are rising along with the volatility of network service, as there are constant changes. The network trainer needs to address this issue as well as the continuous upgrades of hardware and software. The main hazard of going on-line is that many things can go wrong, including the network, remote services, and local conditions. In the effectiveness of training, a lot of resources and investment and the increase of community awareness make it effective. Within the Network Training Materials Project is the Informational Technology Training Initiative (ITTI). In the UK context, the initiative's intent is to stimulate the use of computers, computing, teaching and training, and increased requirements and demands. For example, The JANET IP services have come on-line, and dominates its use with Telnet, FTP, Gopher, WWW, etc. In addressing the issues, the scope is to optimize the investment in network training by looking at the training materials that are already developed in the international community, to seek out community input, and then pooling this material. The ITTI team seeks community input and feedback, and shares the information. Generic network training materials are used extensively by trainers at local sites. The materials have a copyright, specifically for non-commercial users. The pooling of on-line materials is obtained via anonymous FTP. In regards to dealing with volatility issues, it is most important to keep current through mailing lists, conferences, and to help to keep the trainers up to date. Coping with on-line hazards requires testing, testing, testing! (Included in the effectiveness is to get feedback from users.) Always evaluate! In summary, there is an increased demand for training and centralized production of training materials. Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 1.1.3 Daniele Bovio - EARN "The EARN Help Desk: A Pilot in International End User Support" NETHELP is an international net-consulting Help Desk service accessible via email for user support personnel and end-users alike. This service is available to EARN (European and Academic Research Network) members. The NETHELP services filters users, creates tickets, ACKs receipts, and handles "help" mailings. There is a Network Consultation Team (NCT) that is made up of four consultants (IT, BE, HU, US). Five people are on staff that work through LISTSERV and handle questions. The result is that NETHELP fielded 200 tickets from 25 countries. All were received and all were answered. Quality of service is stressed in this endeavor. Each query was always answered with a dated receipt, and there was never an answer of, "we don't know the answer". 95% of the global queries were answered on the same weekday. Most questions were fielded from Romania and Russia, as the large majority of ticket work came from countries that are still organizing their countries. The most frequently asked question was, "How do I get this person's email address?". A program called, "trickle" allows you to receive information about PC software. Trickle was the most frequently used program, and had the most queries in this pilot, as the EARN members have the largest ratio of PCs. In addition, many users do not have full Internet access, just email services. The results of this pilot was that this service did not take off in advanced countries, as it was not advertised as much. The countries who had local help services available felt that the EARN's NETHELP service was competition. There was also a language problem from country to country, as EARN's official language is English. The service was quite popular in countries that didn't have local help desks. The main conclusion is that this service needs advertisement. EARN published a leaflet that was available at this conference that explained about NETHELP and what it is. 1.2 Directory Services Session 1.2.1 Erik Huizer - SURFnet "Before We Deliver Directory Services to the End-User..." Implementations of X.500 are hard to find, but they are out there. What are the current issues? Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Technical Issues fine tuning the standard profiling of the standard interworking security Political-Economical Issues multiple services providers multiple sources for Directory entries how to make money out of Directory services does every organization want a Directory Service? Organizational Issues how do you fill the directory how do you update the directory how do you ensure the quality of the database synchronizing directories replacing existing directories security - access control Legal Issues dataprotection laws privacy laws security (encryption) User Issues - What Users Want reliability quality of data consistency performance integration a) of user interfaces b) with information servers Training/Education Documentation Solutions Paradise Pilots National Pilots Central Directory System Agents (DSA) pilots Operational Agreements Services Level Agreements Performance Studies IETF/RARE WGs Listening to Pilot Users Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 1.2.2 David Goodman - University College London "Paradise in Transition" X.500 towards a global directory...is this a dream or reality? Can it be done? The Paradise Project shows the foundation can be done, but will the end result of X.500's intent be seen in our lifetime? Do we really want it? Or, does it smack of Orwell's "1984"? In the last 26 months, COSINE has provided the funding for the Paradise Project. The criteria for success was the X.500 pilots and a market for X.500 products. This has not yet been satisfied. Another project is needed, including a transition phase which would include: continuation of control services enhancement interworking testing international coordination transition - DANTE to take control of coordination external liaisons The role of the "Giant Tortoise" DSA sits on the Directory Tree Running two DSAs Act as a registration authority The use of Quipu - 95% of DSAs use Quipu Profile of Paradise A White Pages Listing - a listing of organizations and people and who are in them Predominately academic and research (20% commercial) Different restrictions in each country One first level DSA per country Limited guidelines - problems of user expectations and difficulty in enforcing guidelines Statistics In 1990, there were 9 experimental pilots. There are now 26 pilots. There is a fairly complete picture of national pilots in Western and Central Europe. There is a world directory with 47 pilots, with the US being the largest. There are 600 interconnected Directory Services worldwide. 50% in Europe and 20% in the US. The rest is scattered throughout the world. Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 X.500 in the Paradise Project Demonstrates: X.500 works There will be a next year continuation of Paradise Coordination by research networks Focused user oriented guidelines Quality control of the Directory Guidelines need to be given Look at diverse application of X.500 Yellow Pages Security certification authorities A European Directory Forum has been established. Therefore, a global directory is both a dream and a reality. The technology exists, but there are still lots of problems. Vendors are slow to respond. It will take a five to ten year timeframe to provide a coherent directory. This is due to cultural, not technical problems. There was a question from Rolf Nordhagen (NO) about the differences between X.500, WHOIS and WHOIS++. David responded that the two protocols haven't met face to face yet, but that there will be a confrontation eventually. X.500 is slow to come around, and WHOIS was not considered competitive until about a year ago. 1.3 Network for Schools Session 1.3.1 Panel Session - "Internet School Networking: A Global Perspective" Unfortunately, three of the four slated panelists were not at the conference. 1.3.2 European School Project - Henk Sigre The European School Project (ESP) is a support system for secondary schools to explore application of educational telematics. ESP wanted to use the network to enhance education, and started with this project. The project started in 1989 with two schools, one in Amsterdam and another in a small town in British Columbia, Canada. The two schools were connected to communicate about their schools. Both schools are totally different in their environments. The network connection was not just made for the benefit of the students to just chat about the weather, etc. "Teletrips" were developed in this program. Before a Teletrip could begin, the teachers would communicate with each other over the network about the agenda for each Teletrip session. These Teletrips were also Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 conducted in different foreign languages. Teletrips Subjects Included: educational projects local research conversation topics exchange of results foreign language electronic mail Teletrip Examples Included: show your portrait remembering humor-different or... a teenager in... holidays traditions the image of the other everyday life literature school and spare time everyday statistics chemistry school newspaper astronomy school and home life The Implementation of ESP Included: Organizational Teacher Meetings Country Coordinators RISC (Resource Information and Support Center) Survival Teacher meetings were initiated in 1988, with 5 people participating. A teacher's meeting was held in 1993 in Germany, with an attendance of 105 people. RISC supplies the following: inventory - projects, schools, projects/proposals support - supply and demand, techniques acquisition - schools, countries information - newsletters, flyers, information packets, and publications School Environment Data Communication Computer Equipment Restrictions in curriculum, language, time Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Technical Implementations Included: Focus on email processing Using the Internet File Storage Local Resources Mail Front Ends Technical Support (Technical support is very difficult. This type of support is needed in schools to help teachers with data communication.) Technical Problems Included: Non-ASCII Characters Technocentric User Interfaces Computer Equipment Restricted Format of Messages Data Communication Reliability of the Connection In summary, remember to be flexible and not afraid to change things. George Brett (US) mentioned in this session that in the United States there is an effort underway called, "The Global Schoolhouse", and that he was willing to discuss this project off-line with the session attendees. 1.3.3 Lee Caldwell (US) from Novell provided a demonstration of the use of the Internet in school networking. 1.4 User Support Session 2 1.4.1 Robert Cailliau - CERN "World Wide Web (WWW)" Robert demonstrated WWW at various sites around the globe. From Honolulu to Chicago he showed how easy it was to go around the world using WWW. WWW is a general hypertext model, with the ability to search. Robert used the Honolulu Community College site as an example. The architecture of WWW is that it splits the servers from the clients. The travel is between an SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) document. It has a gateway to get to other services via a gateway metro (archie, WAIS, Gopher, WWW, FTP, Internet News, etc.) Documents are spread all over the net, via links. If there are slow links, there are slow responses. Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Robert announced the formation of the European Consortium of WWW. He is forming it, as he sees a need to develop a commercial quality software group of existing professionals in Europe. Why? Concentrate efforts and resources. How does ATM influence it? Needs better reliability. Robert stated that WWW is a welcome and necessary edition to schools and libraries. There was a discussion between George Brett and Robert Cailliau in regards to commercial versus non-profit environments. George mentioned that CNIDR (Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval) was founded to prevent orphan software, and that the software is freely available to the public, and from a non-profit environment, not just specifically coming from the commercial sector. Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 1.4.2 David Sitman - EARN "EARN Documents" EARN document availability is by electronic mail via: listserv@EARNCC.BITNET. get DOC file List get EARN brochure get NETTOOLS.TXT EARN documentation started two years ago, and is specifically concerned with NJE (Network Job Entry) users. The EARN User Support group is not protocol bound, as not everyone has FTP, Telnet, or NJE. However, everyone does have email. EARN's "Guide to Network Resource Tools" is in its second edition, and was made available at this conference. 1.4.3 Joyce K. Reynolds - Information Sciences Institute "Panel Discussion on User Support Issues" Joyce Reynolds (US) chaired the user support forum session, which included the following panelists: Bert Stals (NL), Jill Foster (UK), David Sitman (IL), and Robert Cailliau (CH/F) The session encouraged audience participation, besides participation from the panelists. Issues included: - What has become of last year's conclusions (i.e., closer cooperation with the networking community and librarians)? - Flea market versus department store - Cost of information versus free information (and the relation with quality) - Have we lost control of the network? During the allotted time, there was a spirited round robin discussion of the above issues, with each panelist making a brief opening statement, then opening up the discussion to the audience. Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 2. The RARE ISUS Working Group Meetings The RARE Information Services and User Support (ISUS) Working Group, chaired by Jill Foster, met in tandem with EARN's Network Services Conference (NSC). The first meeting was held all day on the 11 October. The second meeting was held the afternoon of 15 October. Introductions were made around the meeting room and the agenda items were discussed. ISUS identified points for collaboration: Start small - identify 2-3 concrete items Get volunteers who will work as a two way link Network "mentors" - are overloaded, but are experts in their field Take part within European countries Enlighten people within local countries about ISUS' work Raise national projects to a European level Look inwards and outwards Consider an ISUS group in your own country. 2.1 Documentation Task Force Bert gave an overview of the progress of the Documentation Task Force. Defining goals and writing the short introductory pamphlets on WAIS, WWW, Gopher, email, etc., had been successful. However, the short guides had not really taken off and had been overtaken by events. Judy Koren (IL) mentioned that there is a real need for documentation in other languages than the "default" language of English. Will this ISUS Task Force assist in this need? Jill commented that the aim of this Task Force is to provide short leaflets and that other countries can feel free to translate the leaflets for their own user groups, with the stipulation that they put the results out on the network. Bert added that it is not the intention to set up a new line of documentation, but to improve existing material. 2.2 Brief report on Document Delivery by Maria Heijne (NL) A Document Delivery Task Force was supposed to be formed back at the NSC meetings in Pisa, Italy. Maria submitted a report, but with no response back except from the UK. Last June, Maria submitted another report, and did receive some response, but not from any of the ISUS group. She is now asking again for ideas. Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 2.3 ISUS Newsletter Anders Gillner was producing one, but did a lot of the work by himself. He needs assistance. Maria volunteered to help by sending items of interest to the ISUS list. 2.4 INET/JENC94 Meeting in Prague Jill announced that she was asked to Chair the "User Support and Applications" track of the INET/JENC94 meetings in Prague. She has accepted and asked Joyce Reynolds to co-chair with her in this endeavor. Joyce has accepted the invitation to co-chair. Jill and Joyce requested ideas on papers from the ISUS WG. 2.5 Coordination of Information Services in Europe Anders Gillner and Tom Verschuren (NL) led a discussion on the Gopher issues. There is a European Gopher structure set up. Stockholm is the starting place with national entry points. Additional discussion included: Status reports Coordination National Veronicas National Entry Points Quality of Service Maintaining information Next Generation of Gopher - more to do? The IETF's "Integrated Information Architecture" concept was brought up by Erik Huizer (NL) and Joyce Reynolds. More discussion on this topic will be at the Houston IETF. Anders queried if there were any CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) type initiatives in Europe. No one currently knew of any. Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 2.6 Reports on EARN, IETF and RARE activities Current reports were presented by representatives of EARN, RARE, and the IETF in the area of user support. 2.6.1 David Sitman (EARN) David stated that EARN covers a larger geographical area than RARE which includes Europe, the Middle East and Africa. EARNINFO meetings are usually attended by those also attending the EARN technical group meetings, and are not specifically made up of user support people. The real work is performed by a paid staff. EARNINFO focuses on general end user issues and makes no distinction between the NJE and the Internet users. As the use of NJE is still growing in new countries (NJE still proves to be a good, quick startup for international networking) there is still a need for documentation. As to the issue of EARN cooperation with RARE/ISUS initiatives, David stated that a merger between the two is not impossible and could be desirable, but on the other hand something may also be said of healthy competition. 2.6.2 Jill Foster (RARE) RARE ISUS Working Group covers a broad range of people and activities where most of the work is done in task forces. It is a volunteer effort and is open to everyone interested in participating. Current activities and task forces include: - RARE Technical Report 1 (RTR1): an up to date status report of user support and information services in Europe - UNITE: User Network Interface To Everything - MultiMedia Information Services - Networked Information Retrieval (Tools and Groups) report - Co-ordination of Networked Information Retrieval Services in Europe - User Documentation - Document Delivery - Network Training Materials - Support for Special Interest Groups - User Requirements of Automatic Mail Based Servers Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 2.6.3 Joyce Reynolds (IETF) The IETF was originally a technically oriented group, but as of March 1990, User Services efforts were formed as its own separate area. The IETF User Services Area is made up of a User Services Area Council, the User Services Working Group (USWG), which is the umbrella group that spawns new working groups in this area, and various other working groups. The aim of the User Services Area is to enhance the cooperation of user support in internetworking. The User Services Area provides information for the people doing the first level user support. It is seen as a second level provider of user support. Joyce mentioned the following list of working groups and projects that are currently underway as part of the IETF User Services Area: - IAFA (Internet Anonymous FTP Archives) - IDS (Integrated Directory Services) - IIIR (Integration of Internet Information Resources) - ISN (Internet School Networking) - NIR (Network Information Retrieval) - NISI (Network Information Services Infrastructure) - TRAINMAT (Network Training Materials) - URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers) - USERDOC (User Documentation) - USWG (User Services Working Group) - WNILS (WHOIS and Network Information Lookup Service) Many of these projects and activities have produced documentation that have been published as "FYI RFCs" (For Your Information). FYIs are a subseries of the RFC series of notes. FYIs are introductory and overview documents for network users. Their purpose is to make available general information, rather than the protocol specifications or standards that is typical of other RFCs. Joyce commented that there are currently 21 FYIs, including FYI 19, "FYI on Introducing the Internet-- A Short Bibliography of Introductory Internetworking Readings", (Also RFC 1463), May 1993. The IETF User Services Area and the RARE ISUS WG continue to work in parallel and in a complementary fashion, with coordination between Jill and Joyce. 2.7 Network Training Materials Task Force Jill introduced the Network Training Materials Task Force which is a joint Working Group with the IETF and liaises with Australian groups. This work is based heavily on the UK's NISP/ITTI Network Training Materials Project based in Newcastle (see section 1.1.2 Cooper [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 for further information). Margaret Issacs (UK), the Project Officer, gave an overview of this work. The aims of the RARE/IETF Network Training Materials Task Force/Working Group and the ITTI Project activities are to make a catalogue of already available training materials and make this available to the network community. The catalogue will soon be available as an Internet- Draft. The Newcastle group is also developing the following network training materials: Item 1: "The World From Your Desk Top" This is already available with: - Presentations - Demos - Handouts - Workshop material Item 2: "Slicing Through the Maze of Networked Information Item 3: "Electronic Mail" Margaret made a call for volunteers to update the collection that has already been put together for the catalogue and to provide feedback on the Training Pack. 2.8 Support Discussion Subject Groups Task Force - Jill Foster 2.8.1 United Kingdom David Hartland (UK) reported that NISP target groups have been set up (see section 1.1.1 for further information). 2.8.2 The Netherlands Bert gave a status report on support activities for SIGs (Special Interest Groups). SURFnet has a low profile attitude, and they wait for groups to come to them. If SURFnet receives a help request from a potential SIG, they can assist in making project plans. Two projects have already been completed and two are still running. Cooper [Page 46] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 2.8.3 Germany Monika Roesler (DE) reported that in some cases, group support from DFN is in the form of hardware and software. They have one person funded for two years for training and motivating members, and to hold meetings. They've discovered that user groups would die out once the project leader departed. 2.8.4 United Kingdom Nicky Ferguson (UK) is the Networked Information Officer for the ESRC (Economic and Social Sciences Research Council). He encourages the use of networked information in the social science community. He works in collaboration with David Hartland of the NISP. He has produced a card referring to services over JANET that are of relevance to social scientists. This has been distributed very widely. Nicky also runs hands-on sessions so computer naive users can get accustomed to the computers, provides interaction with faculty members, and attention to the resources. There has also been an establishment of a social sciences Gopher. A National Information on Software and Services (NISS) group has been funded by the "Funding Body for Social Sciences", with Jill's assistance. 2.9 The Euromath Project - Flemming Topsoe (DK) This project was started in Warsaw and is ten years old. The aim is to create a homogeneous workstation environment for editing mathematical documents and for email. This includes the creation of a homogenus workstation and DTDs (Document Type Definitions) with the main emphasis on the editing side. On-going work includes a hypertext help system and an electronic mailer. It runs full SGML and the development portion is available. Euromath Version 1 will be released January 1994, which will include Gopher, WAIS and WWW. Ongoing work includes: hypertext help system electronic mailer personal file system (for accessing and creating databases) Cooper [Page 47] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 2.10 U.N.I.T.E. - George Munroe (UK) George Munroe led the UNITE (User Network Interface To Everything) discussion. UNITE started as a small closed group, but became an ISUS Task Force one year ago at the NSC in Pisa. It is an idea of a total service in the sense that the user would not have to learn many different interfaces or to know which tool to use to find the information he/she is looking for on the network. The scope and goals included: What an ideal interface should be? (Started last November) What systems are already out there? Benchmark tests for evaluating systems Evaluate these solutions Only 8-9 catalogue of review Dissemination of reports Question from George, "Should we continue? If so, how?" UNITE files Evaluation reports (in the UNITE archive) Evaluation of UNITE - new things or stay as they are? Protocols essential for networking people - that's it Put it out to a "real" user - any volunteers? Any topics to introduce on the list Not much input on information management Should UNITE be thinking about it? - Probably YES. The attendees agreed that the UNITE work should go on. The work and discussions on the list are highly appreciated and George was thanked for his efforts. Cooper [Page 48] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 CALENDAR -------- Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send your submissions to (cooper@isi.edu). 1994 CALENDAR ------------- Jan 10-13 IEEE P802.11 Interim San Jose Area Jan 1-14 IEEE POSIX Jan 12-14 RSA Data Security Conf. Redwood Shores, CA Jan 16-18 Worldwide Elect. Commerce New York, NY Jan 17-21 USENIX, Hilton San Francisco, CA Feb 3-4 ISOC Network & Distributed San Diego, CA System Security (nessett@llnl.gov) Feb 6-10 High-speed netwrking & multimedia apps San Jose, CA Feb 14-17 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb 14-17 IEEE/IFIP Ntw Ops/Mgt Orlando, FL Feb 20-25 SHARE Anaheim, CA Mar 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Vancouver, BC Mar 14-16 5th W/s on VHSN Baltimore, MD Mar 15-18 ARPA HPCC Symposium Alexandria, VA Mar 16-23 CeBIT 94 Hannover, Germany Mar 23-26 Comp, Freedom & Priv Chicago, IL Mar 24-27 2nd Intl Conf on Telecom Syst modelling & anaysis Nashville, TN Mar 28-Apr 1 29th IETF Seattle, WA Apr 6-8 National Net '94 Washington, D.C. Apr 11-15 High Performance Computing La Jolla, CA Apr 18-20 European Exhb. HP Comp/Ntwk Munich, Germany Apr 18-22 IEEE POSIX Apr 18-22 INTEROP94 Washington, DC May 2-6 NetWorld+INTEROP 94 Las Vegas, Nevada Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) May 4-6 IFIP '94 Hamburg, Germany May 9-12 IEEE P802.11 Interim Oshawa, Ontario Jun 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 ULPAA Barcelona, Spain Einar Stefferud (stef@nma.com) Jun 6-10 NetWorld+INTEROP 94 Berlin, Germany Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Jun 6-10 USENIX, Hynes Convention Ctr. Boston, MA Jun 13-17 INET '94 Prague, Czech Jun 20-Jul 1 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Helsinki Jun 27-Jul 1 HPN '94 Grenoble, France Jun 27-Jul 1 Home-oriented informatics Copenhagen, Denmark Cooper [Page 49] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 Jul 11-15 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Orlando, FL Jul. 13-14 W/S on Community Networking Millbrae, CA Jul 25-29 30th IETF Toronto, Canada Jul 25-29 Sigraph 94 Orlando, FL Jul 25-29 NetWorld+INTEROP 94 Tokyo, Japan Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Aug 7-12 SHARE (IBM) Boston, MA Aug 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Computer Congress Hamburg, Germany Aug 29-Sep 2 ACM SIGCOMM 94, UCL London, England Contact J. Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk. or ACM Sep IEEE P802.11 Interim TBD Sep 12-14 NetWorld+INTEROP 94 Atlanta, Georgia Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Sep 12-16 INTEROP94/f San Francisco, Ca. Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN Oct 24-28 NetWorld+INTEROP 94 Paris, France Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Nov 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV Nov 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, D.C. Nov 28-Dec 2 Email World Boston, MA Nov 14-18 31st IETF (possibly dec 5-9) San Francisco, CA 1995 CALENDAR ------------- Jan 16-20 USENIX Marriott New Orleans, LA Feb 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb 26-Mar 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA Mar 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary Tentative Mar 13-17 32nd IETF Australia (very tentative) Mar 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, Japan Mar 27-31 Email World Chicago, IL May 8-12 INTEROP 95 Washington, DC Jun 19-22 USENIX San Francisco, CA Jun INET95 Jul 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary (tentative) Sep 18-22 INTEROP 95 San Francisco, CA Oct 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct 9-13 Email World San Jose, CA Nov 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (tentative) 1996 CALENDAR ------------- Mar 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Sep 2-6 14th IFIP Congress Canberra, Australia ======================================================================== Cooper [Page 50] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 RARE LIST OF MEETINGS --------------------- Ref. RSec(94)001-ac This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the RARE Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet (e.mail address: cozanet@rare.nl). ********************************************************************** MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== RARE Executive Committee ------------------------ 27 January (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Geneva 28 January Geneva 29 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) RARE Council of Administration ------------------------------ 3/4 February 1994 Brussels 19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv RARE Technical Committee ------------------------ 17 January Telephone Meeting 3/4 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 12 June Prague, Czech RARE Working Groups ------------------- WG-ISUS 13/14 June Prague, Czech WG-SEC 25 or 26 January (TBC) UCL London (TBC) PASSWORD pilot day 25 January UCL London RIPE ---- 24-26 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF) 16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF) Cooper [Page 51] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 VARIOUS ------- Euro-CAIRN DANTE Technical Advisory Group 18 January Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) DANTE Steering Committee 4 February Brussels DANTE Shareholders 25 March TBD EBONE Management Committee 10 January Copenhagen EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 19 January Amsterdam EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 28 February/1 March KTH Stockholm Euro-CCIRN TBD CCIRN 20/21 June TBD (in Europe) INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 13/14 June Prague, Czech IETF 29 March - 1 April Seattle 25-29 July Toronto Autumn San Francisco EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 1-2 March Brussels 17-18 May Brussels 13-14 September Brussels 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 15 March Brussels 7 June Brussels 27 September Brussels Cooper [Page 52] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 6 December Brussels Workshops 17-21 January Brussels 11-15 April Brussels 27 June - 1 July Brussels 10-14 October Brussels ECTUA ----- ETSI ---- General Assembly 24/25 March Nice, France 22/23 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 21-23 March Nice, France 21/22 June Nice, France 18-20 October Nice, France EARN Board of Directors 18-19 May Darmstadt INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders 17 February Zuerich INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee 21 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) ******************************************************************* INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5) 13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic The annual conference of the Internet Society held in conjunction with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference. To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to . Deadline for submission of contributions and proposals for demonstrations is 15 December 1993 - email . ******************************************************************* Cooper [Page 53] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 OTHER CONFERENCES (nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available from the RARE Document Store under the directory calendar, in which case the file name is specified under the information presented below. The files may be retrieved via: anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl Email : server@rare.nl Gopher : gopher.rare.nl) 3rd SYMPOSIUM on HIGH SPEED NETWORKING FOR RESEARCH IN EUROPE ------------------------------------------------------------- organised by RARE with support from the CEC on 2 February 1994 in Brussels *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** to be sent to the High Speed Symposium Secretariat before 21 November 1993. Participation is free of charge; registration forms can be obtained from . To be added to the symposium email distribution list, send a message to . INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY --------------------------------------------------------------------- on 3 and 4 February 1994 at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego, California more information from Mr. Robert Shirey of the MITRE Corporation email (also on RARE Document Store, file name ) NETWORKSHOP 22 -------------- from 29 till 31 March 1994 at the University of Plymouth, Devon, England organised by the Joint Network Team and the University of Plymouth Email EUROPEAN CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING --------------------------------------------------------------- 18 till 20 April 1994 in Munich, Germnay Email INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION NETWORKS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ from 18 to 21 April 1994 in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** For information, please email Prof. Pedro Veiga Cooper [Page 54] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 IFIP WG10.3 - WORKING CONFERENCE ON PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR MASSIVELY PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ---------------------------------------------------------------- from 25 till 30 April 1994 in Ascona, Switzerland Email MediaActive 94 - "Harnessing Multimedia for Higher Education" ------------------------------------------------------------- from 4 till 6 May 1994 in Liverpool, England *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 10 January 1994 Email FIRST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY ----------------------------------------------------- from 25 till 30 April 1994 in Nancy, France Email FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB --------------------------------------------------- from 24 till 26 May 1994 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland For information, email 15TH INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATICS AND PSYCHOLOGY ------------------------------------------------------------- organised by the Computer Science Department of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, in cooperation with the European Association for Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) from 24 till 26 May 1994 in Schaerding, Austria *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 15 January 1994 For further information, contact Michel Tauber . NORDUnet 94 ----------- from 31 May to 2 June 1994 in Umea, Sweden for information, email INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY ----------------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 June 1994 at the Czech Technical University in Prague *** apply for admission before 1 March 1994 *** Email Cooper [Page 55] Internet Monthly Report December 1993 ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - ECT 94 -------------------------------------------- 4th International Russian Forum organised by the Academy of National Economy of Moscow, Russia; the International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information; and the Russian-American JV "Ecotrends". from 27 June till 2 July *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 15 January 1994 For further information, contact Juri Gornostaev or Juri Andrianov Email 8th ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUPERCOMPUTING -------------------------------------------------- from 11 till 15 July 1994 in Manchester, England Email 13TH WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS - IFIP CONGRESS 94 ----------------------------------------------- from 28 August till 2 September 1994, in Hamburg, Germany Tel. +49 40 3569 2242 - Fax. +49 40 3569 2343 ACM SIGCOMM'94 -------------- Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications organised by University College London from 31 August till 2 September (Tutorials and Workshops on 30 August) ***CALL FOR PAPERS*** deadline 1 February 1994 For further information, contact NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 (provisional) ------------------------------ from 18 to 20 October 1994 in Bournemouth (UK) ********************************************************************** EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ASSOCIATION (EEMA) ********************************************************************** Cooper [Page 56]