~ April 1994 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 April 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 8 DANTE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 MERIT/MICHNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 36 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. The next meeting of the IETF will be held in Toronto, Canada from July 25 through July 29, 1994. This meeting is being hosted by The University of Toronto. Following the July 1994 meeting, IETF will meet in San Jose from December 5-9, with the newcomer's orientation and registration reception on Sunday, December 4th. 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. At the IETF meeting in Seattle last month, new members of the IESG were announced. The current members of the IESG are: Paul Mockapetris Chair of the IETF/IESG Scott Bradner Operational Requirements A. Lyman Chapin Standards Joel Halpern Routing Erik Huizer Applications John Klensin Applications Stev Knowles Internet Allison Mankin Transport Services Mike O'Dell Operational Requirements Joyce K. Reynolds User Services Marshall T. Rose Network Management Jeff Schiller Security Claudio Topolcic Internet 3. The IESG issued five Last Calls to the IETF during the month of April, 1994: o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types for consideration as an Internet Standard. o SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport for consideration as a Draft Standard. o SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration for consideration as a Draft Standard. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 o SMTP Service Extensions for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 for consideration as a Draft Standard. 4. Two Working Groups were concluded during this period: Network OSI Operations (noop) Network Joint Management (njm) 5. A total of 61 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of April, 1994: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (bgp) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (bgp) o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet (none) o IP and ARP on Fibre Channel (FC) (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (x400ops) o Using the Internet DNS to distribute RFC1327 Address Mapping Tables (pppext) o PPP in Frame Relay (none) o Randomness Requirements for Security (sipp) o SIPP Program Interfaces for BSD Systems (uri) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL) A Syntax for the Expression of Access Information of Objects on the Network (tn3270e) o TN3270 Enhancements (pppext) o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) (none) o Selecting an Indirect Provider (ids) o A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations (smtpext) + SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (none) o Selecting a Direct Provider Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 (none) o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 (rreq) o Requirements for IP Routers (sipp) o SIPP Security Architecture (sipp) o SIPP Authentication Header (sipp) o SIPP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (pppext) o PPP LCP Option for Data Encapsulation Selection (rdbmsmib) o RDBMS-MIB (none) o A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode (ospf) o IP Forwarding Table MIB (none) o Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update (none) + A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web (pppext) o PPP in HDLC-like Framing (pppext) o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support (none) + Procedures for Formalization, Evolution, and Maintenance of the Internet X.500 Directory Schema (none) + Modeling and Simulation Requirements for IPng (none) + Market Viability as a IPng Criteria (none) + Maintaining Presentation Guidelines on MIME Messages (isn) o Acceptable Use Policy Definition (nasreq) + Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) (iab) + Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between the Internet Society and ISO/IEC JTC-1/SC6 (none) + ISO/IEC 10747 Protocol for the Exchange of Inter-Domain Routing Information among Intermediate Systems to Support Forwarding of ISO 8473 PDUs Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 (dns) + DNS Support for Load Balancing (none) + TCP Embedded Trailer Checksum (ifmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types (smtpext) + SMTP Service Extensions (smtpext) + SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport (smtpext) + SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration (wg-msg) o Bombs series: Behaviour of Mail Based Servers Part 1: C-bombs Classification of Breeds of Mail Based Servers (ifmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types (wnils) + Architecture of the WHOIS++ service (atm) + ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM (none) + TACTICAL RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR NEXT GENERATION INTERNET PROTOCOLS (pppext) + Proposal for Callback Control Protocol (CBCP). (none) + Accounting Requirements for IPng (uri) + Specification of Uniform Resource Characteristics (none) + IP Router Alert Option (none) + A cellular industry view of IPng (uri) + URN to URC resolution scenario (none) + HPN Working Group Input to the IPng Requirements Solicitation (none) + TUBA as IPng: A White Paper (none) + Electric Power Research Institute Response to RFC 1550 (none) + CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 (poised) + Procedure to Select and Confirm Individuals Serving on the IAB and IESG (none) + A Chemical Primary MIME Type. (wg-msg) + Bombs series: Behaviour of Mail Based Servers Part 2: A-bombs Answering servers 6. There were three RFC's published during the month of April, 1994 (all on April first): RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1605 I (none) SONET to Sonnet Translation RFC1606 I (none) A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9 RFC1607 I (none) A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY 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 April 1994 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== ANSnet total packet traffic grew by over 5% in April '94. The process of CIDR aggregation continued in April. A decrease in the ANSnet forwarding table growth was observed (1.72%) for the month due to the withdrawal of 2,954 class based destinations. April Backbone Traffic Statistics ================================= The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 58,015,017,839 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 2.03% from March. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 68,132,330,845 up 4.99% from March. Router Forwarding Table Statistics ================================== The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during April was 19,721 up 1.72% from March. This decrease in the monthly forwarding table growth rate is attributed to CIDR aggregation. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but were never announced (silent nets) during April was 10,558. BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status =========================== The following autonomous systems are currently exchanging routing information with ANSnet via the BGP-4 protocol: 3 MIT 22 NOSC 86 SURANet 101 NorthWestNet 114 SESQUINet 185 MERIT-OFFNET 195 SDSC 200 BARRNet Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 204 PSCNet 237 MichNet 266 CICNet 267 CICNet 279 SURANet 293 ESNet 297 NASA 372 NASA 560 NEARNet 577 CA*Net 600 OARNet 685 NorthWestNet 701 AlterNet 771 NASA 1133 Dante 1206 PSCNet 1225 CICNet 1240 ICMNet 1263 NASA (test) 1321 ANS (San Francisco) 1322 ANS (Los Angeles) 1323 ANS (Chicago) 1324 ANS (New York) 1325 ANS (Cleveland) 1326 ANS (Hartford) 1327 ANS (Washington DC) 1328 ANS (Houston) 1329 ANS (Greensboro) 1330 ANS (St. Louis) 1331 ANS (Seattle) 1332 ANS (Denver) 1333 ANS (Atlanta) 1670 ANS (test) 1674 Dante 1681 ANS (Ann Arbor) 1740 CERFNet 1800 ICMNet 1838 CERFNet 1879 EUROPE-RS 1957 ANS-CIX 2002 IBM Packet Video 2149 PSINet 2548 Digital Express 2551 Netcom 2882 COREN-ONE 3354 THENet 9010 ANS (test) Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 As of early May '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 2,954 class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables that are now represented by 435 configured aggregates. Among these 37 configured aggregates: 398 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another aggregate). 184 of these are actively announced to ANSnet. 162 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other 22 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements). 142 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one configured more specific route. 136 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their configured more specific routes. 116 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+) of their more specific routes. For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings. Other gated software changes will be deployed over the next couple of months to improve policy processing (required to support some advanced forms of proxy aggregation). Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ The three different routing stability measurements that have been reported on over the past year were based on rcp_routed log file entries. Gated software was deployed at the end of February to replace rcp_routed. These routing stability reports have not yet been converted to use gated logging. No data is available for the month of April. Data collection is expected to resume shortly. Notable Outages for April '94 ============================= E134 (Boston) suffered an extended outage due to hardware problems on 04/02. E136 (College Park) suffered an extended outage due to software problems on 04/04. Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 E137 (Princeton) was unreachable via T3 due to hardware problems on 04/06. E172 (Phillips Labs) suffered an extended outage due to power problems on 04/12. E181 (WLN) was down for an extended time due to site move on 04/13. E137 (Princeton) was unreachable via T3 due to hardware problems on 04/17. UNAM suffered an extended circuit outage on 04/24. E173 (ITESM) and UNAM suffered extended circuit outages on 04/28. Jordan Becker, ANS (becker@ans.net) DANTE ----- __________________________________________________________________ * * A bi-monthly electronic news bulletin * * reporting on the activities of DANTE, * the company that provides international * telecommunications services for the THE WORKS OF D A N T E European research community. No.3, April 1994 Editor: Josefien Bersee __________________________________________________________________ * DANTE SHAREHOLDING EXPANDED * On 25 March 1994, the DANTE Shareholders meeting took place in Amsterdam. At the meeting the ownership of the company was formally transferred from RARE to the Shareholders. RARE had been the legal owner and only shareholder of DANTE in the first year of its existence. During the meeting RARE was formally discharged of all responsibility for the company, with the new Shareholders acknowledging RARE's important role in setting it up. The chairman thanked RARE for its support. When issuing the Shareholder Certificates to the organisations which had signed the final Shareholders Agreement the company secretary, Boudewijn Nederkoorn from SURFnet, said: "This is an historic occasion which marks a major step forward in pan-European service provision for the research community". Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 The following persons were appointed on the new Board of Directors: Klaus Ullmann (DFN, DE) as a Director for a period of three years and as Chairman of the Board; Boudewijn Nederkoorn (SURFnet, NL) and Fernando Liello (CNUCE, IT) as Directors for a period of three years, and Juergen Harms (SWITCH, CH) as a Director for a period of two years. The new Board will make a proposal for a fifth Director, who is to be approved by the Shareholders. The Operational Unit Steering Committee, which was originally set up by potential shareholders of DANTE to manage the creation of the company, will be wound up as it has now completed its task. The organisations which had signed the Shareholders Agreement at the time of the meeting were: SWITCH (Switzerland), DFN (Germany), HUNGARNET (Hungary), CNUCE (Italy), SURFnet (Netherlands), NORDUnet (Nordic countries), FCCN (Portugal), ARNES (Slovenia), HEFC(E) (on behalf of the UK). Organisations from other countries, including Belgium, Spain and Greece, which had been unable to sign the Agreement before the meeting, are still expected to do so. * EuropaNET: THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS * In co-operation with CEENet, the Central and Eastern European Networking Association set up in January 1994, DANTE has prepared a plan for the development of international connectivity in Central and Eastern Europe. The plan takes account of the financial and other support that is likely to be available from ACOnet, NORDUnet and the CEC's PHARE Programme. Implementation of the plan, which outlines general principles as well as details for individual countries, would represent a significant step forwards. DANTE has offered to set up all the interconnections which include EuropaNET if the plan goes ahead. The document is available from the DANTE gopher server (EuropaNET directory). The 2 Mbps line between Amsterdam and Washington (finally) came into operation on 17 March 1994. Dai Davies, DANTE general manager, commented: "This was an unusually challenging activity and the effort required from DANTE to do so is a sad reflection on the difficulties that still exist in getting international line providers to organise simple things." The line was ordered in November 1993 and was originally planned to be operational by January 1994. Since the beginning of April, EuropaNET is capable of exchanging routing information with its peers on the basis of the new version of the Border-Gateway-Protocol (BGP-4). Version 3 of the protocol does not support Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR), which offers routers the possibility to aggregate routing entries. As routing tables in the Internet were becoming too big to be handled within a Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 router, there was an urgent need to migrate to BGP-4. * CALL FOR TENDER MailFLOW * An open Call for Tender for the provision MHS-Coordination, MailFLOW, has been issued by DANTE. MailFLOW is currently provided on behalf of DANTE by SWITCH, the Swiss research network. The purpose of the tender is twofold: on the one hand to give other providers a chance to step forward and on the other hand to introduce a competitive element in the Service provision. Tender requirements are available from the DANTE gopher server, in the MailFLOW directory (under Applications Services). The deadline for submitting proposals is 30 June 1994. * HIGH SPEED PROGRESS * As reported in the previous "Works", in January DANTE secured approval in principle from the EuroCAIRN (European Co-operation for Academic and Industrial Research Networking, a EUREKA Project) Project Board for a proposal to produce a study report, the target of which is to specify information and requirements necessary to support funding proposals and the formal procurement of a high- speed backbone. EuroCAIRN now has enough financial commitments to pay for the proposed study report. Preliminary contract negotiations have already started with the CEC. DANTE is prepared to start work immediately following the next EuroCAIRN meeting if a contract is approved. * DISCUS, NEW NAME FOR A FAMILIAR SERVICE * Last month CONCISE, the information server set up as part of the COSINE project, was renamed DISCUS. A new name has been introduced to mark the beginning of a new period: in 1994 Level-7 will be providing the service on behalf of DANTE. The main issue in the Information Services area is to define which role DANTE should play in offering pan-European information services which are not yet available from other sources (and which would be commercially viable). In parallel, the future possibilities of DISCUS will be addressed. * DANTE GOPHER INSTALLED * A first set of information on the company, staff and services is now electronically available from the DANTE gopher server Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 , see "Information on DANTE and its activities". An important future aim of the information server is to present on a regular basis a range of relevant statistics relating to EuropaNET. DANTE is currently looking into the definition and production of such statistics. * EuropaNET POSTER AVAILABLE FROM DANTE * A full-colour poster of the EuropaNET network is now available and can be obtained by sending a message to DANTE (dante@dante.org.uk). __________________________________________________________________ DANTE - Lockton House - Clarendon Road - Cambridge - CB2 2BH - UK tel +44 223 302992 fax +44 223 303005 e-mail dante@dante.org.uk __________________________________________________________________ Josefien Bersee DANTE Publicity Manager 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 NICLink Information info@is.internic.net NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net newsletter comments newsletter-comments@internic.net InterNIC Seminar Series seminars@internic.net or +1 800 444-4345 Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 Listserv lists net-happenings listserv@internic.net net-resources listserv@is.internic.net nics listserv@is.internic.net InfoGuide Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. 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Total distribution includes members of Internet organizations such as FARNET and the Internet Society, national, regional and midlevel service providers, network information centers, and national supercomputer centers as well as a wide variety of individual subscribers from the Internet community. Articles in the Mar/Apr issue include a feature article on the Global Schoolhouse Project, a news brief on the new NSFNET architecture rebid results, an update on the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center, a first peek at InterNIC Information Services' new InfoGuide, and much, much more. The _NSF Network News_ is also available on the WorldWideWeb at http://www.internic.net/newsletter. Be sure to check it out! Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 The May/June issue is in preproduction and will feature an interview with the new Executive Director of the Internet Society, Tony Rutkowski. 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REFERENCE DESK The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for April: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 85 2.5 Phone 2755 81.9 Fax 119 3.5 US Mail 11 <1 Other 394 11.7 ------- -------- --------- Total 3364 100.0 by Karen D. Frazer DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The Directory and Database Services WorldWideWeb server provides access to our RFC collection through an HTTP interface. To use this interface, select "InterNIC Directory and Database Services", "Internet Documentation", and then "IETF Request for Comment Documents" from our home page (http://ds.internic.net/). The index has been broken up into groups of 500 RFCs to make the individual sections somewhat more managable for those with slow connections to the Internet. The index entries contain HTTP pointers to the RFC itself (with a separate pointer to the PostScript version if any). In the case of RFCs that have been Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 made obsolete by a more recent RFC, there is also an HTTP pointer to the newer RFC. A recent addition to the public databases available through our WWW server is a hypertext document providing information about Z39.50 resources. Z39.50 is the official name of the protocol used by WAIS and other text search systems. The document gives information on the different versions of Z39.50 that are available and gives pointers to additional information. To access this document, select "InterNIC Directory and Database Services", "InterNIC Database Services (Public Databases)", and "Information about Z39.50" from our home page. 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 REGISTRATION SERVICES Significant Events --------------------- InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 10,264 network addresses and registered 1,376 new top and second level domains. Top-level domains for Bahrain (BH), Moldova (MD) and Zambia (ZM) were registered this month. One (1) class A address and A block of sixteen class B addresses were reserved for and issued to the IANA in response to a request for network address space in support of RFC1597 - "Address Allocation for Private Internets". I. Registration Statistics March April Hostmaster Email 4,695 3,520 Postal/Fax Applications 295 264 Telephone Calls 2,622 1,962 Domain Registered 1,376 1,079 Inverse Addresses 739 471 Class C's Assigned 10,180 5,832 Class B's Assigned 84 56 ASN Assigned 56 56 Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 March April Connections Retrievals Connections Retrievals Gopher Sessions 60,840 24,893 57,405 24,393 Wais Sessions 26,505 42,759 23,871 31,779 Ftp Sessions 8,527 38,026 7,885 33,698 Telnet 58,767 55,167 Mailserver 1,325 1,240 Whois Queries Client Server 200,822 816,535 Scott Williamson ISI --- Netstation ---------- The objective of the Netstation project is to demonstrate that both I/O and peripheral device control can be effectively accomplished by substituting a gigabit LAN for the system bus. To that end we shall bitmap display and camera, and control them via remote procedure calls (RPCs). High Performance RPC Because a network dedicated device has direct access to its own network output buffer memory, it can create a stencil of the packets that it sends within that memory and be assured that this stencil will not overwritten. The task of sending successive RPC messages for the display process consists of changing only those locations in the stencil that are altered from call to call. These are: (1) Destination addresses, in LAN and IP headers (2) Source and destination UDP ports in the UDP header (3) Packet lengths, in LAN and IP headers (4) Checksums, in LAN and IP header (5) Procedure and program indexes, in the RPC header and finally, (6) Supply procedure arguments at the end of the stencil We showed at the end of March that the techniques developed for high- performance RPC based upon this technique produced a level of performance at least ten times greater that that offered by the standard UNIX stack in a SPARCstation-10. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 We expect that performance obtained in the specialized display and camera devices that we are building will perform at least as well, and probably, substantially better. A question arises. At what level does the interface to a 'remote' display belong? This project postulates that the coming advances in VLSI, when combined with gigabit LAN performance, allow that interface to be made very low. We are replacing the system bus with a gigabit network. Thus we should interface to the display much lower than the level used in the X-windows interface. An approach which is being considered seriously is to rewrite the device dependent portion of the X-windows server code. In particular, to rewrite the Pixblit code, so that its rasterop procedure calls are transformed into RPCs that are sent across the ATOMIC network to the display device for execution. In this approach, no windowing system assumed by the network display device whatsoever. The display is only required to implement a battery of RPCs. The virtual interface presented to the network will initially be a very simple one. Subsequent to this, experimentation with multiple JPEG streams will occur. JPEG data may not use an RPC model for data delivery. This remains to be determined. At a later stage it will be necessary to implement security and access restrictions to the display device. Display Network Virtual Device Bruce Parham, an EE formerly with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was hired to design the display and camera network virtual devices. The broad design outlines are to develop a display that allows two JPEG streams plus device and raster graphics commands to arrive over an ATOMIC gigabit LAN port. The display should be capable of rendering two NTSC video windows in real-time. To achieve this the display will include a LANai gigabit network interface, a graphics DSP, and JPEG chips. The design of a 1280x1024 24-bit color CRT display is held hostage by the pixel rate. Modern computer CRT displays are progressively scanned. Human factors engineering decrees that refresh rate must be at least 60 frame/sec. Currently, a rate somewhat higher, in the low 70s, is favored to eliminate all trace of image flicker. A rate of 72 frame/sec results in a pixel rate of approximately 90 Mpels/sec, or 11 ns/pel. Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 The principal design problem is therefore one of memory organization. If it is desired to allow the frame buffer to be updated by real-time video sources, the frame buffer memory bandwidth must approximate twice that required by refresh. An analysis of available memory parts and organizations is underway to determine what the most cost effective current engineering solution to this is. Previously, a good choice for the video DSP would have been the TMS 32040 from Texas Instruments, which contained a video/VRAM refresh controller and a graphics-oriented CPU. Unfortunately, within the last month it has been withdrawn from support. Its replacement is the TMS320C8x. This is a multi-DSP 2 GOPs processing chip that is designed to carry out JPEG or MPEG-II decode in real-time. At $1500/part and not yet truly available, it is tantalizing, but inappropriate. This is primarily because it does not come with publicly available JPEG/MPEG. The programming resources required to embed those algorithms is outside the current scope of the NAAAN contract. This is an issue that deserves some consideration at a higher level. If this is indeed a appropriately powerful, fixing on a standard DSP/video chip, and making publicly available a standard suite of JPEG/MPEG software for it, could speed the spread of HDS hardware development and so its applications. We have decided to replace the TMS 34020 with two chips: A TMS 320C40 (which is a similarly numbered chip - but quite different internally) and a graphics controller chip that is yet to be determined. The 320C40 is a super-scalar DSP with dual-bus support. It promises to be endlessly fascinating to program, that is, if we can ever figure out why we need to use parallel multiply/add/index instructions. Seriously though, its dual-bus support provides a Harvard architecture, allowing dedication of one bus to data transfer. That bus will be used largely to transfer network packets in/out of 320C40 memory, provide compressed JPEG input to the CL560 chip FIFOs, and to perform frame-buffer rasterop update. Details of the display design will be made available in subsequent reports. Greg Finn Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 Infrastructure -------------- Joyce Reynolds was the opening Keynote speaker at UCTLIG '94 at the University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland presentation topic "Internetworking in the United States: Past, Present, and Future Endeavors". Joyce Rynolds was the invited speaker at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, England, presenting talk on "Internetworking in the United States: Past, Present, and Future Endeavors". Joe Touch attended Interop 94 for "Telecommuting BOF" Greenbelt, MD - NASA conference to present research paper. Joyce Reynolds attended the IESG meetings in Reston,VAm April 24-27. Jon Postel, Walt Prue and Joe Touch attended the Networld Interop, May 3-6, 1994 in Las Vegas. Greg Finn presented paper at Interop'94, in Las Vegas, NV, May 3-6, 1994. Three RFCs were published this month. RFC 1605: Shakespeare, W., "SONET to Sonnet Translation", Globe Communications, April 1994. RFC 1606: Onions, J., "A Historical Perspective on the Usage of IP Version 9", Nexor Ltd., April 1994. RFC 1607: Cerf, V., "A View from the 21st Century", Internet Society, April 1994. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 387 PHONE 52 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 439 DELEGATIONS 38 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 34 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 367 --------------------------- Total 439 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 Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 whois listings. Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- CC.AZ.US Arizona Community Colleges SIERRA-VISTA.AZ.US Sierra Vista, Arizona, locality STATE.CO.US Colorado, State Gov't Agencies MUS.CO.US Colorado musuems GEN.CO.US Colorado general branch LONGMONT.CO.US Longmont, Colorado, locality MORRISON.CO.US Morrison, Colorado, locality BRECKENRIDGE.CO.US Breckenridge, Colorado, locality MUS.FL.US Florida Museums GEN.FL.US Florida, General branch FT.WAYNE.IN.US Ft. Wayne, Indiana, city gov't agencies K12.ME.US Maine K12 Schools TEC.MN.US Minnesota State Gov't TEC.ND.US North Dakoa Technical schools CC.ND.US North Dakoa Community Colleges MUS.ND.US North Dakoa Museums GEN.ND.US North Dakoa General Branch LIB.ND.US North Dakota Libraries CC.NY.US New York Community Colleges STATE.SD.US South Dakota State Gov't WESTERVILLE.OH.US Westerville, Ohio ROGERS.OH.US Rogers, Ohio, locality LAWEWOOD, OH Lakewood, Ohio, Locality CLV.PROB.FED.US. US probation Office, Cleveland OTAN.DNI.US Outreach & Technical Assistance Network Other US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------- CI.SLC.UT.US Salt Lake City, City Gov't Agencies CO.VENTURA.CA.US Ventura CA, County Gov't Agenciies CO.SANTA-CLARA.CA.US Santa Clara, County Gov't Agencies HIGHWAY.SLC.UT.US Utah Information Highway Co., SLC DODGE-CITY.CC.KS.US Dodge City Community College, Kansas CAMBRIDGE.LIB.MA.US Cambridge Public Library CPS.K12.TN.US Chattanooga Public Schools VANNET.K12.WA.US Vancouver School District, Vancouver, WA GUPPY.MORRISTON.NY.US Nathaniel Borrenstein, Morriston, NY MEDNET.BURLINGTON.VT.US Medical Center Hospital of Vermont TNET.STATE.TN.US State of TN Office of Information Resources DELO.NYC.NY.US. Select Technology, INC. WATER.CI.DETROIN.MI.US Detroit Water and Sewerage Dept. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK AL X AR X AZ X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X X X CO X X X X X X X CT DC X ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X FL X X X X X GA X X X X HI ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X ID X X X X X X X IL X X X X IN X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- KS X KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA ----------------------------------------------------------- ME X X MI X X X X X MN X X X X X X X MO X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MS X X MT X NC X X X X X ND X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- NE X X X X NH X X NJ X NM X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- NV NY X X X X OH X X X X X X X OK Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- OR X X X X X X X PA X RI X X X SC X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- SD X X TN TX X X X X UT X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- VA X X X X 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) MERIT/MICHNET ------------- New MichNet affiliates include Lake Superior State University, Adrian College, Lansing Community College, Macomb Community College, West Shore Community College, Northland Library Cooperative, Library Cooperative of Macomb, Caledonia Community Schools, the Lenawee Intermediate School District, Wayne County RESA, the Michigan Department of State, Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, the Observer & Eccentric Newspapers, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and MERRA. MichNet affiliate organizations now number 85, in addition to the 11 member universities. Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 Merit Network's MichNet Seminar, enthusiastically received by member and affiliate organizations at its introduction in Ann Arbor in late February, will be offered on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant on 19 May. Designed primarily with new affiliate needs in mind, topics include an overview of the Internet; MichNet and Merit Services; Merit's Cruise of the Internet; and Internet tools, including FTP, Gopher and WWW. Merit held a series of Internet Briefings and Open Houses for Michigan's K-12 communities in March and April. The eight, day- long Internet Briefings hosted throughout the state by MichNet member and affiliate institutions, were planned to familiarize teachers and administrators with the benefits of direct Internet access and to provide details on new funding opportunities. With the settlement of the "Michigan Bell Rebate Case," more than $26 million is available for educational telecommunications projects. The governor-appointed Michigan Council on Telecommunications Services for Public Education issued a "Request for Pre-Proposal," inviting proposals for allocating approximately $9 million of the total funds, and encouraging collaborative efforts between groups of organizations. Merit's increased K-12 outreach initiatives were designed to help schools respond to the "Request for Pre-Proposal," enhancing the opportunity to expand programs already developed in partnership with the Michigan schools. Merit is working with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) on the Cooperative Network for Dual Use Information Technologies (CoNDUIT) project. Funded by a $24.3 million Technology Reinvestment Program grant, the new program aims to provide small manufacturing businesses with training using network infrastructure. CoNDUIT will develop a network that will allow full implementation of teleconferencing, remote library access, and daily communication among business and educational facilities. A central resource for the network will be an Industry NIC (I-NIC), providing business with human and online support systems for understanding and using network technologies. Multi-media training will be a significant I-NIC offering. Merit is also participating in the Michigan Industrial Extension Partnership, a 1993 TRP award made to Michigan State University to provide network services to industrial extension agents in the state. Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu) Merit Network, Inc. Information Services Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ The report summarizes recent activities of Merit's NSFNET Project Internet Engineering and Network Management groups. Routing Registry ---------------- Merit is happy to announce the Merit Routing Registry. Whereas Merit designed and manages the PRDB (Policy Routing Data Base) for the NSFNET service, RIPE pioneered a policy routing registry for the European community. The RIPE Routing Registry is based on the document, RIPE-81. With RIPE's collaboration, Merit installed RIPE-81 software and then extended the policy descriptions in order to realize more complex policies. The Merit Routing Registry will be a companion registry to the RIPE Routing Registry and is intended to serve the community that is not served by RIPE. This is a new service and we consider ourselves still in the beta phase. Registrations may be basic policy descriptions defined in RIPE-81 or complex routing policy descriptions defined in the Extended Policy Syntax document by Chen, Gerich, Joncheray, and Yu. The Extended Policy Syntax document may be found on rrdb.merit.edu:pub/meritrr/policy_syntax.txt. Documentation for using the MeritRR can be found on rrdb.merit.edu:pub/meritrr. Merit and RIPE anticipate that the combined registries will provide a more comprehensive picture of the routing interactions in the Internet. We are working together to allow the two registries to appear like one virtual registry to the various tools that are developed. We welcome your comments on all aspects of this project. For more information, please respond to rradmin@rrdb.merit.edu. Several new tools are also available for anonymous ftp from rrdb.merit.edu:/pub/meritrr and include: -astrace.tar.Z: The new prtraceroute to use with the NARR registry -aggrwalk.tar.Z: A tool to expand aggregates into sub components -alc.tar.Z: The Routing Policy Server code Policy Routing Data Base ------------------------ Several enhancements have been made to the Policy Routing Data Base (PRDB). These include: Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 - "Fake ASs" are no longer required for peers which need attach to AS690 in more than one place. A new syntax "metric:AS(NSS)" has been created to support this, for use in the PRDB AS-metric lists. All PRDB reports (including whois and ftpable reports) will soon include this syntax; it will soon be accepted on NACRs as well. - A new "NOCONFIG" option has been added. This option allows nets to be registered in the PRDB without passing knowledge of those specific nets on to the Gated config files and the backbone routers. The initial use of this feature has been to suppress the configuration of more-specific-subnets of announced aggregates. - The "whois -h prdb.merit.edu 'aggchk '" command has been modified to include information about whether the aggregates and their more-specific subnets are being announced. Flags in the left of the report mark currently-announced nets with "+", never-announced nets with " ", and nets that have been withdrawn N days ago with a the number N. Nets which have had the "NOCONFIGURE" option are marked with the flag "U"; Proxy nets are marked with "P". - Two new temporary reports are available on merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr. "nestings.announced" lists all aggregates registered in the PRDB, along with their more- specific-subnets and their offnet status (see above). "cidr_savings" gives a summary of the same information by aggregate. - Proxy aggregation at a single ENSS is currently supported in the PRDB; final testing of the feature is awaiting deployment of GateD Proxy code. - A new "flags" field has been added to the output of "whois -h prdb.merit.edu ". This "flags" field shows the status of the "NOCONFIG" and "Proxy" flags, and will hold future flag values. CIDR Progress ------------- IE staff are working with the remaining non-CIDR compatible NSFNET regional networks to upgrade to BGP4, to begin announcing CIDR aggregates, and to withdraw specific routes covered by those aggregates. The approximately 18,450 routes currently announced include 276 aggregates and 3,275 more specific routes have been withdrawn from routing announcement. Merit's offnet reports Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 provide a historical data series that since April includes the impact of specific network announcement withdrawals. The data is available for anonymous ftp from merit.edu:~ftp/pub/nsfnet/offnet/ with postscript files of the charted data have names in the format: Month1.ps, Month2.ps, and two files with cumulative table data named "r_tab" and "path." IDRP Project ------------ Continued development and testing have followed release of version 1.0 of the IDRP software. Merit's Inter-Domain Routing Policy Project for the US-FAA is an implementation of OSI-IDRP for gated. A generic PATRICIA trie implementation supports multiple independent tries of several critical data structures including RDIs. The software is available for anonymous ftp from: merit.edu:pub/iso/idrp/faa/gated-idrp.0.9.6.tar.Z K-12 Domain Count ----------------- An analysis was performed for NSF on the number of K-12 names in the US domain. The listing of was prepared by walking the US DNS tree and is available for anonymous ftp from twain.merit.edu:pub/k12.uniq.Z Kenneth T. Latta, II (klatta@merit.edu) NEARNET ------- NEARNET'S MEMBERSHIP EXPANDS As of April 30, 1994, NEARNET has grown to a total of 313 member organizations. NEARNET would like to welcome the following new members who have joined NEARNET during the month of April: Southeast Regional Education Service Center (SERESC) of Derry, NH EMC Corporation of Hopkinton, MA Bay State Medical Center of Springfield, MA NERAC, Inc. of Tolland, CT Steinbrecher Associates of Burlington, MA Aavid Engineering of Laconia, NH Security Dynamics of Cambridge, MA Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 NEARNET 1994 MINI-SEMINARS UPDATE "A Mini-Seminar Focuses on NEARNET Security Services" A second NEARNET Mini-Seminar entitled "An Introduction to NEARNET Security Services" was held on April 13, 1994 also in BBN's Newman Auditorium. Focusing on Internet security issues, this seminar included an overview of NEARNET's improved security services, including the design of security packet filters and firewalls. Also included was an update on Kerberos and Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) by Jeffrey Schiller of MIT, and an overview of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) by Ed DeHart, Technical Coordinator at CERT. "Business and the Internet on May 25" The third NEARNET Mini-Seminar for 1994, entitled "Business and the Internet" will be held on May 25, 1994 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM at BBN's Newman Auditorium, 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA. This seminar will address how and why organizations are increasingly using the Internet to offer business services. It will be presented in a panel format and will include the following presenters: John Curran, NEARNET product manager; Daniel Dern, Internet analyst and author of "The Internet Guide for New Users"; Laura Fillmore, president of Editorial Inc. and the Online Bookstore, Michael Strangelove, editor of the "Internet Business Journal", and author of the soon-to-be published book, "How to Advertise on the Internet". NEARNET members who wish to attend any of the NEARNET Mini-Seminars should send mail to: nearnet-seminars@near.net. Additional information on future mini-seminars for 1994 will be announced shortly. NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE The Spring set of NEARNET Training Courses is scheduled for May 11, 12 and 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium. The three full-day set of courses include: (Day 1) An Introduction to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New NEARNET Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet Technology. All three days of training are available free of charge to new Standard Installation sites. The Internet Resources and Internet Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 Technology courses are available for existing sites and non-members for a $250.00 fee (per day/per attendee). The NEARNET Orientation is free to all NEARNET sites. For more information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-us@near.net or call 617-873-8730. NEARNET COSPONSORS INTERNET SEMINAR FOR EDUCATORS NEARNET and Cisco Systems, Inc. cosponsored a one-day seminar organized by Editorial Inc. and the Online BookStore (OBS). The seminar, entitled "An Educator's Introduction and Guide to the Internet:Catching the Internet Wave," was held April 7, 1994 at BBN's Newman Auditorium in Cambridge, MA. Seminar leaders included Laura Fillmore, President of Editorial Inc. and OBS in Rockport, MA. Tracy LaQuey Parker, author of the bestselling book "The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking" and Education Development Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Daniel Fleming, a high school and middle school principal in Rockport and an avid proponent of the use of technology in schools. Also participating in the seminar were Juliette Avots, a teacher at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, MA; James Warner, Manager of Prospect Innovation Network; and Martin Huntley of the Educational Technologies Department at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. The closing remarks were delivered by Dr. Richard Rowe of the Massachusetts' State Board of Education, who also leads the State Task Force on Education Reform. Each of the seminar participants received a complimentary copy of "The Internet Companion" as part of the seminar proceedings. NEARNET members can borrow videotapes of the seminar by sending an email request to nearnet-us@near.net. NEARNET also maintains an interest-group mailing list for K-12 activities. To be added to the nearnet-k12@near.net list, send a message to nearnet- us@near.net. NEARNET USER SERVICES STEERING COMMITTEE UPDATE The NEARNET User Services Steering Committee (USSC) provides guidance to NEARNET's User Services staff. The USSC also advises the NEARNET Steering Committee on user-service related areas, including: policy, information services, packages, training and seminars. The USSC is made up of 20 people from NEARNET member organizations. The fourth USSC meeting was held on April 25. The next meeting will be held on June 13. Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 The April USSC meeting focused on the continued improvement of NEARNET online information services. by NEARNET Client Services NORTHWESTNET ------------ In mid-April, the User Services group provided three Internet classes for 8 staff members from the King County Library System. They will take the information they have learned in these classes and apply it to the development of Internet services within their organization. The King County Library System serves over 40 sites in the Puget Sound region. This was also a busy month for the User Services Committee. On April 21, Jan Eveleth (director of User Services at NorthWestNet) moderated the monthly teleconference discussion, "Exploring Legal Issues on the Internet." As always, this topic produced spirited discussion. The following week, regional committee meetings were held at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon and at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The discussion topic, "Coping with Diversity," and agenda were duplicated at each meeting. Participants highlighted many areas in which diversity affects their work in supporting the Internet. Where diversity has created challenges, the group shared their ideas and experiences. Upcoming: The NorthWestNet training facility will open its doors for the first in a series of scheduled Internet classes in May and June. These for-fee classes are open to the public as well as NorthWestNet member organizations. Each three hour class will combine lecture, demonstration, and hands-on lessons exploring the Internet and accessing online resources and services. Subjects include introduction to the Internet, electronic mail, FTP, Telnet, and Gopher. For more information, send mail to training@nwnet.net or call our offices at (206) 562-3000. On May 17th, NorthWestNet is cosponsoring with Cisco Systems and the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory a one-day seminar on K-12 and the Internet. This seminar will be held at the Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education in Beaverton, Oregon. For more information, contact our offices at (206) 562-3000. NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000 Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822 Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 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. UCL ---- Replacement of the (10-30% lossy) Ethernet at ULCC by a Hub means that our International Internet Access is radically improved, especially for Mbone events. We helped Cambridge University to setup the mbone casting of their weekly saeminar series. Crowcroft proposed a modest modification to IP to meet the current IPng requirements, called I PING, that permits mutual use of routers by IP and IPng. It was proposed as a trivial strawman to measure and burn other proposals against, rather than a serious candidate. UCL Hosted the SIGCOMM 94 Program Committee meeting, whose deliberations will be forthcoming around now. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 CALENDAR -------- Last update: 4/20/94 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: 1994 ------------ Apr. 18-20 European Exhb. HP Comp/Ntwk Munich, Germany Apr. 18-22 IEEE POSIX Apr. 18-22 '94 TCP/IP Windows Sockets and PPP Bake-Off Apr. 23-24 DIAC-94 Developing an Equitable and Open Info. Infrastructure Cambridge, MA Apr. 25-29 Africa Telecom 94 Forum Cairo, Egypt May 2-6 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV May 4-6 IFIP '94 Hamburg, Germany May 9-12 IEEE P802.11 Interim Oshawa, Ontario May 9-13 X3T5-OSI Upper Layers Rockville, MD May 10-13 ATM Forum Munich, Germany May 16-18 RIPE Amsterdam, NL May 19-20 RARE Council of Admn. Darmstadt May 30-31 IFIP WG 6.5 Tutorials Barcelona, Spain Jun. 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 Conference Barcelona, Spain Jun. 6-8 Digital World Los Angeles, CA Jun. 8-10 Seybold Paris Jun. 6-10 USENIX Hynes CC, Boston, MA Jun. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Berlin Jun. 12 RARE Technical Committee Prague Jun. 13-17 INET94/JENC Prague Jun. 13-17 OIW Jun. 20-Jul. 1 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Helsinki Jun. 27-Jul. 1 High Performance Ntwg-HPN '94 Grenoble, France Jun. 27-Jul. 1 Home-oriented informatics Copenhagen, Denmark Jul. 6-7 X3T5 Gaithersburg, MD Jul. 11-15 8th ACM Intntl Supercomputing Manchester, England Jul. 11-15 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Orlando, FL Jul. 13-14 Intntl W/S Community Networking Integrated Multimedia Svs. Santa Clara, CA Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 Jul. 25-29 30th IETF Toronto, Canada Jul. 25-29 Sigraph 94 Orlando, FL Jul. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, JP Aug. (mid) SNOWMASS Aug. 1-2 USENIX Berkeley, CA Aug. 7-12 SHARE (IBM) Boston, MA Aug. 10-12 IFIP Protocols Vancouver, BC Aug. 22-26 6th Joint EPS-APS Phyicics Lugano, Switzerland Aug. 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Congress Hamburg, Germany Aug. 29-Sep 2 SIGCOMM 94 London, England Sep. IEEE P802.11 Interim TBD Sep. 7-9 Windows Solutions San Francisco, CA. Sep. 12-16 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 12-16 OIW Sep. 13-16 Seybold San Francisco, CA Sep. 14-16 4th Int'l CCHP Vienna, Austria Sep. 26-28 2nd IWACA Heidelberg, Germany Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN Oct. 6-8 Parallel & Dist. Compt. Sys Las Vegas, NV Oct. 15-20 ACM Conference on Multimedia San Francisco, CA Oct. 16-20 ACM SIGUCCS Oct. 24-28 NetWorld+Interop '94 Paris, France October/November Windows Solutions Germany Oct. 31-Nov. 1 1st Intntl ACM/SIGCAPH Conf. Assistive Technolgies (ASSETS) Marina del Rey, CA Oct. 31-Nov. 3 EDUCOM Nov. 2-4 Gigabit testbed jamboree Reston, VA Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause Dec. 5-7 Australian Telecom Networks and Applications Conf. ATNAC 94 Melbourne, AU Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 5-9 10th Comp. Sec. Applications Orlando, FL Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico Dec. 12-16 OIW Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 1995 --------- Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA Feb. 16-17 PSRG - ISOC Symposium 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 OIW Mar. 13-17 Email World (Probable) Santa Clara, CA Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 20-24 32nd IETF (Tentative) Mar. 27-31 Email World Chicago, IL (likely to be replaced by Mar 13-17 dates) Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV April 19-21 5th Network & Operating System Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel Jun. ISOC Wkshop for Tech. Emerging Countries Jun. 12-16 INET '95 (tentative) Singapore Jun. 12-16 OIW Jun. 19-22 USENIX San Francisco, CA Jun. INET95 Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden Jul. 31 - Aug. 4 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden Sep. 11-15 OIW Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 9-13 Email World San Jose, CA (likely to be replaced by Nov. 27-Dec. 1 dates) Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) Nov. 13-17 34th IETF (Tentative) Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Probable) Boston, MA Dec. 4-8 OIW Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Tentative) Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Possible) Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 1996 ----------- Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 18-22 OIW Jun. 10-14 OIW Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW Dec. 9-13 OIW 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA ---- Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories Via gopher: "Internet Society / IETF / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us ===================================================================== RARE LIST OF MEETINGS may 94 edition --------------------- 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 ------------------------ 17 June afternoon (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Prague 30 June Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 1 September Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 2 September (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 RARE Council of Administration ------------------------------ 19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt (19 May joint with EARN BOD) 27/28 October 1994 TBC 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors --------------------------------------- 12 June afternoon Prague RARE'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE IVth FRAMEWORK - Open Plenary ------------------------------------------------------- 14 June afternoon Prague RARE Working Groups ------------------- ATM (closed group) 13 June afternoon Prague WG-CHAR 14 June morning Prague WG-IMM 14 June morning Prague WG-ISUS 13/14 June Prague WG-LLT 14 June morning Prague WG-MSG 13 June afternoon Prague WG-NAP 13 June Prague WG-NOP 14 June morning Prague WG-SEC 13 June morning Prague JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING 1-2 December London (after NSC'94) Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 RIPE ---- 16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF) September (tbc) Lisboa VARIOUS ------- EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 23 June Amsterdam EBONE Management Committee 16 May Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) June (tbc) Prague EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 2-3 May Vienna (ACOnet) EARN Board of Directors 18-19 May Darmstadt (19 May joint with RARE CoA) 30 November - 2 December London DANTE Shareholders 20 September TBC Euro-CCIRN CCIRN 20/21 June Amsterdam INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 13/14 June Prague IETF 25-29 July Toronto 5-9 December San Jose, California Summer 1995 Stockholm, Sweden EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 17-18 May Brussels 13-14 September Brussels Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 7 June Brussels 27 September Brussels 6 December Brussels Workshops 27 June - 1 July Brussels 10-14 October Brussels ETSI ---- General Assembly 22/23 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 18-20 October Nice, France INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee 9 May telephone meeting ******************************************************************* 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 . For information, email . ******************************************************************* 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) Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 MediaActive 94 - "Harnessing Multimedia for Higher Education" ------------------------------------------------------------- from 4 till 6 May 1994 in Liverpool, England 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 For further information, contact Michel Tauber . FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB --------------------------------------------------- The conference will include tutorials, topical workshops, panels, presentation of formal papers on WWW technology and theory, user and provider experiences plus a series of special sessions for delegates from business and non- academic organisations. from 25 till 27 May 1994 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland For information, email NORDUnet 94 ----------- from 31 May to 2 June 1994 in Umea, Sweden for information, email ULPAA'94 -------- from 30 May till 3 June 1994 (tutorials on 30/31 May; conference from 1st till 3rd June) hosted by Universidat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. IFIP 6.5 International Working Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications. *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* more information by anonymous ftp.ac.upc.es in the /pub/conferences/ifip6.5 directory. INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY ----------------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 June 1994 at the Czech Technical University in Prague Email Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 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 For further information, contact Juri Gornostaev or Juri Andrianov Email First INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTANCE EDUCATION in Russia -------------------------------------------------------------- Distance Learning and New Technologies in Education, and the exhibition BUILDING AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT organised by the State Committee for Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Informationa Systems Research Institute of Russia, Russian Academy of Administration and VIRTUS Institute, USA. from 5 till 8 July 1994 in Moscow *CALL FOR PAPERS* For further information, email . SECOND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADVANCED BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS --------------------------------- from 11 till 15 July 1994 as part of the RACE project BRAIN. the school will be distributed to at least four different sites in Spain. for further information, please 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 Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 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) For further information, contact THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (ICCCN'94) from 11-14 September 1994, San Fransisco, U.S.A. Conference Chairman: Prof. T. Suda OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.) --------------------------------------------------------- from 8-11 November in Munich For further information contact the DIGI board via email: vorstand@digi.de CEN/CENELEC/ETSI CONFERENCE 1994 -------------------------------- on 15 and 16 November 1994 in the European Parliament, Brussels. Information from Kristien Van Ingelgem, fax.+32 2 519 6819 NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 ------------------------------ from 28 to 30 November 1994 in London (UK) *CALL FOR PAPERS* deadline 1 July 1994. For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via email: A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet Paper submissions to: NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING ----------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA *CALL FOR PAPERS* -> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995 deadline 11 July 1994 Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445 Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report April 1994 EEMA MEETINGS ------------- Pre-conference Tutorial & EEMA subcommittees 14 June Stockholm 8th Annual General Assembly 14 June Stockholm 7th Annual EEMA Conference Global Messaging '94 15-17 June Stockholm Autumn Conference September (tbc) Madrid Winter Conference November (tbc) Luxembourg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/4/94 Cooper [Page 43]