~ January 1995 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 January 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 CHICAGO NETWORK ACCESS POINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30 Rare List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. The IETF meetings for 1995 have firmed up. The IETF will be meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) from April 3-7, 1995. The summer IETF meeting will be held in Stockholm, Sweden the week of July 17-21, 1995. Due to the meeting costs, the IETF attendance fee for the Stockholm meeting will be US$300. The final meeting for 1995 will be held in Dallas, Texas the first week of December (December 4-8, 1995). 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. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: December 22, 1994 (iesg.94-12-22) January 12, 1995 (iesg.95-01-12) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following four Protocol Actions during the month of January, 1995: o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base be published as a Draft Standard. o Printer MIB be published as a Proposed Standard. o ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM be published as Proposed Standard. o Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators be published as an Informational RFC. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 4. The IESG issued 18 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of January, 1995: o Experience with the BGP-4 protocol for consideration as an Informational RFC. o The PPP DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol (DNCP) for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Tags for the identification of languages for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o BGP-4 Protocol Analysis for consideration as an Informational RFC. o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet for consideration as a Draft Standard. o The PPP Banyan Vines Control Protocol (BVCP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP XNS IDP Control Protocol (XNSCP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o TFTP Option Extension for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o TFTP Blocksize Option for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o TFTP Option Negotiation Analysis for consideration as an Informational RFC. o TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol for consideration as a Draft Standard. o The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A String Representation of Distinguished Names for consideration as a Draft Standard. o MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Two Working Groups were created during this period: HyperText Transfer Protocol (http) Standard Generalized Markup Language (mimesgml) 6. A total of 55 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of January, 1995: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (sdr) o Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and Forwarding Specification (Version 1). (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (iplpdn) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification (edi) o MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 (mailext) o Tags for the identification of languages (dnssec) o Domain Name System Protocol Security Extensions (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Protocol Specification (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Motivation and Architecture (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support (wnils) o Architecture of the WHOIS++ service (pem) o Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted (uri) o Functional Requirements for Internet Resource Locators (notary) o The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages (none) o Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header (none) o Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet Domains (2nd Revision) (idr) o Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS) (mailext) o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (uri) o Relative Uniform Resource Locators (ipatm) o Support for Multicast over UNI 3.1 based ATM Networks. (none) o IPv6 Neighbor Discovery -- ICMP Message Formats (sdr) o Explicit Routing Protocol (ERP) for IPv6 (opstat) o The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics Retrieval (none) o Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (dnssec) o Mapping Autonomous Systems Number into the Domain Name System (none) o An IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format (idr) o IDRP for IPv6 Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 (ospf) o OSPF Database Overflow (notary) o Enhanced Mail System Status Codes (ipngwg) + ICMP for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (none) o The ESP DES-CBC Transform (none) + IPv4 Encapsulating Security Payload (4ESP) (none) + IPv4 Authentication Header (4AH) (none) o Authentication with Keyed MD5 (none) + A Profile for the Transmission of Video Data over RTP (none) + Overview of Game technology (none) + The Proxy Solution to the Multiple Component Problem (none) + Options for Mobility Support in IPv6 (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Interfaces (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Repeater Devices (pppext) + The PPP DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol (DNCP) (mailext) + Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent checklist (uri) + Mailserver URL Specification (mailext) + Requirements for Internet Mail Transport Agents (none) + IP Architecture Extensions for ATM (none) + IPv6 Security API for BSD Sockets (none) + The ESP Triple DES-CBC Transform (none) + Strata-based Aggregation of Routing Information (none) + Authentication with Keyed SHA (snmp) + Cisco ISDN MIB Extensions (none) + The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 (none) + CID: The Content-ID Uniform Resource Locator (snmp) + SNMP MIB Extension for an ISDN Controller (html) + A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image Maps 7. There were 7 RFC's published during the month of January, 1995: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1742 PS (appleip) AppleTalk Management Information Base II RFC1746 I (isn) Ways to Define User Expectations (actually announced December 30, 1994) RFC1747 PS (snadlc) Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: SDLC RFC1752 PS (none) The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol RFC1753 I (none) IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod Routing and Addressing Architecture RFC1754 I (ipatm) IP over ATM Working Group's Recommendations for the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF Version 1 RFC1756 E (none) REMOTE WRITE PROTOCOL - VERSION 1.0 St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET ------- Network Status Summary ======================= ANSnet total packet traffic decreased by about 6.44% in January '95. This decrease is attributable to the removal of NSFNET service traffic. An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 4.6% was observed during the month of January. January Backbone Traffic Statistics =================================== The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 71,091,174,730 on T3 ENSS interfaces, down 9.32% from December. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 83,266,055,416 down 6.44% from December. Router Forwarding Table Statistics ================================== The maximum number of destinations announced to ANSnet during January was 21,186 up 4.6% from December. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during January was 22,094. Jordan Becker, (becker@ans.net) CHICAGO NETWORK ACCESS POINT ---------------------------- Ameritech Advanced Data Services 2/5/95 The NAP is operational, with traffic still in "experimental" mode due to problems experienced with the ATM DSUs. Below is a list of connected network providers, along with a "contingency plan" describing our steps to work around the DSU problems. Connected: Routing Arbiter/Merit/ISI/Route Server Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 MCI Internet ANS Alpha.Net Installations in progress: Network 99 NETCOM On-Line Argonne Fermi U-Chicago (UOC) U-Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Letters of intent received: AGIS Databank Sprint Inquiries: We have received inquiries about connecting to the NAP from many Internet providers. Please e-mail to nap-info@aads.net for more information. Chicago NAP Contingency Plan Description The target configuration for the AADS Chicago NAP is ATM, at either DS3 or OC3c rates. However, due to a problem with the ATM DSU's being used, causing performance degradation, AADS is implementing an interim configuration. To allow the NSFNET transition traffic to be carried without performance problems, the MCI, ANS, and Sprint routers along with the Routing Arbiter's route server, will be connected via a local FDDI ring in the AADS Chicago facility. In order to implement this plan, the following steps are being taken: 1. AADS has ordered 3 cisco 7010 routers with 1 FDDI and 2 HSSI cards; 3 DS3 CSU/DSUs; and 3 DS3 ATM DSUs. These will be installed in the switch room in Chicago. An additional FDDI card may be needed for the Route Server configuration to connect to the ring. 2. The Sprint, ANS and MCI DS3 lines will be moved from the ATM switch to the HSSI ports on the routers; and the routers will be connected to each other via a local physical fiber FDDI ring. The Route Server Sun/Cisco can be connected to this ring. 3. The second router HSSI port and ADSU for each would be connected to the ATM ports on the switch, allowing the routers to communicate both via FDDI and ATM. This will allow the NAP to come up right away using FDDI, and ATM connections to be used simultaneously. NAP customers connected by Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 ATM would be able to communicate with the FDDI NAP customers using these second ports. AADS does intend to continue to expedite testing and implementation of the new Kentrox ADSUs and ATM configuration. We intend for this FDDI contingency configuration to be used only as an interim plan until these problems are resolved. Mark Knopper (mak@aads.net) INTERNIC -------- INFORMATION SERVICES Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Phone +1 619 455-4600 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 NICLink General Information info@internic.net Problems/bugs niclink-bugs@is.internic.net InterNIC Seminar Series General Information seminars@internic.net Listserv lists net-happenings majordomo@is.internic.net net-resources majordomo@is.internic.net scout-report majordomo@is.internic.net InfoGuide Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 URL: http://www.internic.net/ Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 THE InterNIC INFOGUIDE The InterNIC InfoGuide is a comprehensive online information service which provides information about the Internet and online Internet resources. Accessible through gopher and the WorldWideWeb, the InterNIC InfoGuide replaces the older InterNIC information server, the InfoSource. The InfoGuide includes new services such as the Scout Report and an online hypertext version of the _NSF Network News_. To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html or your gopher client to: is.internic.net NET-HAPPENINGS The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the community announcements of interest to network staffers and end users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers, publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources and concentrates them onto one list. To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to: is.internic.net and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings. THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights At last count the Scout Report was reaching over 21,000 subscribers and the HTML versions on the InfoGuide are still receiving Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 thousands of accesses each week. A new and improved version of the Scout Report is in the works. The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the Internet during the previous week. The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats -- electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb. WorldWideWeb versions of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing instantaneous browsing of items of interest. Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout@internic.net. How to Get the Scout Report To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail to: majordomo@is.internic.net In the body of the message, type: subscribe scout-report youremailaddress To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html Gopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES "Learning the Whole Internet" is now available for users needing Internet training. The InterNIC has already presented a beta version of the course which includeded a copy of _The Whole Internet_ as well as class handouts of the PowerPoint presentation. NSF NETWORK NEWS The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 5 is in the works. This newsletter will spotlight legal issues presently revolving around Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 the Internet. Projected highlights are: the future of domain registration; a seminar spotlight; and the regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and news briefs. To subscribe, send email to newsletter- request@internic.net. The September/October issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the WorldWideWeb at http://www.internic.net/newsletter/sep-oct94/index.html http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html Gopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES "Learning the Whole Internet" is now available for users needing Internet training. The InterNIC has already presented a beta version of the course which includeded a copy of _The Whole Internet_ as well as class handouts of the PowerPoint presentation. NSF NETWORK NEWS The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 5 is in the works. This newsletter will spotlight legal issues presently revolving around the Internet. Projected highlights are: the future of domain registration; a seminar spotlight; and the regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and news briefs. To subscribe, send email to newsletter- request@internic.net. The September/October issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the WorldWideWeb at http://www.internic.net/newsletter/sep-oct94/index.html The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the message: get /about-internic/newsletter/nsfnews-aug94.txt Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 REFERENCE DESK The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for January: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 343 51 Phone 58 9 Fax 49 7 US Mail 17 2 Referral 208 31 ------- -------- --------- Total 675 100.0 by Anna Knittle INTERNIC REGISTRATION SERVICES Progress Report for period January 1, 1995 through January 31, 1995 I. Significant Events InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 40,077 network addresses and registered over 4,099 domains. Three top level domains were registered this month for Ghana (GH), Monaco (MC), and Nepal (NP). II. Current Status During the month of January 1995, InterNIC Registration Services received communications as shown below. The majority of the correspondence concerned the assignment and re-assignment of network numbers and the registration or change of domain names. E-mail 12,396 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 291 (primarily IP number requests) Phone 1,907 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of December. Connections Retrievals Gopher 70,228 54,134 WAIS 120,193 88,674 FTP 14,864 65,734 Mailserv 6,358 Telnet 71,061 Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 418,886 1,257,366 Debbie Fuller ISI --- ATOMIC-2 --------- ATOMIC-2 FILE SERVER PROGRESS We previously measured the performance of NFS and FTP over ATOMIC, and found (as expected) that the disk bandwidth is the bottleneck of each. Prior measurements indicate that Ethernet performance is network-limited to 7-8 Mbps, but the ATOMIC LAN provides disk- limited 18 Mbps FTP and 19 Mbps NFS. Native packet memory-memory bandwidth over ATOMIC via the Myrinet API is 220 Mbps, TCP is 48 Mbps, and UDP is 58 Mbps. We have been able to determine the limit of NFS in the absence of disk-limited bottlenecks, which remains near 20 Mbps, precluding NFS cache hits, which can increase read bandwidths to 275 Mbps. The bottleneck appears to be related to Sun RPC. The most efficient NFS is only slightly (5-10%) faster than the user-level RPC performance, possibly due to avoiding a kernel boundary swap. We are currently implementing a lightweight reliable transport mechanism, to be integrated into NFS. It is related to a lightweight reliable transport mechanism being developed in the Netstation project. ATOMIC-2 GATEWAY PROGRESS We are currently designing a host-based gateway using Fore SBA-200 ATM interfaces and Myrinet host interfaces, in a Sun SPARC 20/61 platform. Preliminary measurements indicate that the SPARC can route packets between these interfaces at rates limited by the IP bandwidth of the host interfaces themselves. We are investigating methods of increasing the IP bandwidth on these host interfaces individually. We are also using multiple interfaces to attempt to determine the routing capacity of the SPARC gateway. Work is continuing on our evaluation of the x-Kernel (Peterson, Arizona) as a possible vehicle for protocol experiments that bypass Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 the current BSD implementations of TCP/IP. We have ported the ISI "blast" program, which measures TCP and UDP performance in memory- to-memory data transfers, to run as part of the x-Kernel. In SunOS 4.1.3, the blast gets 35 Mbps TCP in loopback mode. The same program in the X-Kernel measured only 3 Mbps. X-Kernel researchers are working with ISI to determine the cause of this performance gap. We are awaiting these results to determine whether the SunOS user-space X-Kernel environment is suitable for our host-based gateway design. ATOMIC-2 HIGH PERFORMANCE SECURITY ISSUES This month we submitted a paper to Sigcomm '95 entitled "Performance Analysis of MD5", based on our Internet Draft (IMR Nov. 1994). The draft is available at the usual places, including: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-touch-md5-performance- 00.txt The submitted file is being held pending double-blind review, until April 7. Please contact touch@isi.edu for further information. Results indicate that a Dec Alpha (190 Mhz) can run MD5 at 87 Mbps. Previous reports of 100 Mbps on the Alpha relied on on-chip cache performance, i.e., that the data was preloaded and remained in the on-chip cache. Our measurements indicate that the following performance of manually-optimized code: MACHINE CLOCK MD5 RATE IPv4 -------------------------------------------------------------- Dec Alpha 190 Mhz 87 Mbps 100 Mbps (TCP) SGI 4400 150 Mhz 51 Mbps Intel Pentium 66 Mhz 44 Mbps Sun 20/61 60 Mhz 38 Mbps 83 Mbps HP PA (Snake) 66 Mhz 33 Mbps (only some IPv4-related numbers are reported here) We also show analysis that indicates that this performance is within 10% of the upper-bound in software. We show a CMOS hardware design that can achieve 175 Mbps in a multi-chip (PLD) design, and 400-600 Mbps in custom VLSI. Because these rates are lower than current IPv4 rates, we recommend that the inclusion of MD5 as a "required option" in IPv6 be reconsidered. Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 ATOMIC-2 LAN INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION We have developed plans for the installation of a rich topology ATOMIC LAN to replace the Ethernet in all 63 HPCC Division Sun SPARCS. The topology uses 12 8-port switches in an overlapped 4- ring system, such that each host has two independent paths to the gateway, the primary path is no longer than 3 hops away, and the secondary is no longer than 5 hops away. The topology resembles the following (see Legend). The spur " *---+---* * | | | | | +---G---+ | | | * | # | *---+---* Legend --------------------------- G gateway switch (hub of hubs only) # 7-host switch (spur hub) * 6-host switch (ring hub) + 5-host switch (joint hub) We have received most of the drop-cables required for this installation, and are awaiting the trunk-cables, switches, and host interfaces. We currently have a small network running in the lab. Joe Touch , Annette DeSchon Hong Xu , Ted Faber RSVP ---- At the December IETF meeting in San Jose, we set a target of an early release of RSVP in January, 1995 and agreed on a list of features for this release. We have released this version, RSVP version 2.01, on January 31 containing the following additional capabilities over the previous Multimedia '94 limited release. (1) API Version 2 The first version of the RSVP spec defined a generic API that opened separate channels (Unix sockets) for sender and receiver. It was later realized that this API (known as version 1) was awkward and unnatural. The latest RVSP spec defines a version 2 Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 API that uses a single channel between application and rsvpd. Version 2.01 supports API version 2. (2) UDP Encapsulation To ease installation of rsvpd on any host system, this release supports the UDP encapsulation of RSVP messages between host and the first-hop router. It is expected that eventually all hosts which support multicasting will also support the normal raw mode for RSVP messages, and then UDP encapsulation will no longer be necessary. (3) Byte order code This release includes a version of "little-endian" byte-order code. (4) Data structure reorganization The data structure was reorganized to support immediate reduction of reservation levels and to simplify some of the algorithms. (5) Token Bucket Filter This version of rsvpd will invoke traffic policing, in the form of a Token Bucket Filter (TBF), at the first hop RSVP router and at every point where packets from multiple sources are mixed into a single reservation. When multiple sources are mixed, the TBF that is applied is the "max" of the Tspecs defining the sources. (6) Merging Whenever two flowspecs are compared, there are five possible results: less, equal, greater, least-upper-bound (LUB), or incompatible. The LUB case means that a third flowspec has been constructed that is "greater" than either of the comparands. This version of rsvpd implements all these choices in an appropriate manner. A major revision of the RSVP protocol specification document was begun, to incorporate the changes agreed upon at the San Jose IETF meeting. We hope to release the first draft of the new specification early in February. Steven Berson and Daniel Zappala wrote a note about a proposed solution to the self-regenerating property of wildcard filter reservations. This problem causes reservations to remain in place even after all receivers have closed their reservations. This solution would also apply to a similar problem with dynamic filter Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 reservations. Shai Herzog is writing a draft document on RSVP authorization and integrity, and designing a prototype cost allocation module for RSVP. Steven Berson (berson@isi.edu), Bob Braden (braden@isi.edu) INFRASTRUCTURE Joyce Reynolds attended the RIPE meetings in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 23 - 27th. Jon Postel attended the Message Way meeting at the University of Utah, January 22-24th. Paul Mockapetris attended New Orleans IETF meeting January 18-23rd, and to Washington DC to attend ARPA & IETF Secretariat meetings January 23-27th. THE US DOMAIN ============= US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 517 PHONE 173 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 690 DELEGATIONS 121 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 12 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 557 --------------------------- Total 690 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. The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 registrations in the US Domain. To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp. Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- K12.AK.US Alaska, K12 schools STATE.CT.US Connecticut, State Gov't STATE.FL.US Florida, State Gov't STATE.FL.US Florida, State gov't STATE.MA.US Massachusetts, State Government COG.MN.US Minnesota, COG DST.MN.US Minnesota, Districts TEC.MO.US Missouri, Technical schools K12.NE.US Nebraska, K12 schools CC.NE.US Nebraska, community colleges STATE.NE.US Nebraska, state gov't agencies LIB.NE.US Nebraska, libraries K12.NV.US Nevada, K12 schools CC.NV.US Nevada, Community Colleges TEC.NV.US Nevada, Technical Schools GEN.NV.US Nevada, general independent entities MUS.NV.US Nevada, museums LIB.NV.US Nevada, libraries COG.NV.US Nevada, councils of government DST.NV.US Nevada, districts COG.SC.US South Carolina, councils of government DST.SC.US South Carolina, districts DST.TX.US Texas, Districts K12.VI.US Virgin Island, K12 schools CC.VI.US Virgin Island, Community Colleges TEC.VI.US Virgin Island, Technical Schools LIB.VI.US Virgin Island, Libraries STATE.VI.US Virgin Island, State, Gov't agencies MUS.VI.US Virgin Island, Museums GEN.VI.US Virgin Island, General Independent Entities COG.VI.US Virgin Island, Councils of Government DST.VI.US Virgin Island, districts STT.VI.US Virgin Island, St. Thomas, locality STJ.VI.US Virgin Island, St. John, locality STX.VI.US Virgin Island, St. Croix, locality DAVIS.CA.US Davis, CA, locality CHESHIRE.CT.US Cheshire, Connecticut, locality ASHLAND.MA.US Ashland, MA, locality DOVER.MA.US Dover, MA, locality Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 FRAMINGHAM.MA.US Framingham, MA, locality HOLLISTON.MA.US Holliston, MA, locality MEDFIELD.MA.US Medfield, MA, locality MILLIS.MA.US Millis, MA, locality NATICK.MA.US Natick, MA, locality WALTHAM.MA.US Waltham, MA, locality WAYLAND.MA.US Wayland, MA, locality WELLESLEY.MA.US Wellesley, MA, locality PAPILLION.NE.US Papillion, Nebraska, locality CHURCHILL.NV.US Churchill, Nevada, locality CLARK.NV.US Clark, Nevada, locality DOUGLAS.NV.US Douglas, Nevada, locality ESMERALDA.NV.US Esmeralda, Nevada, locality EUREKA.NV.US Eureka, Nevada, locality HUMBOLT.NV.US Humbolt, Nevada, locality LANDER.NV.US Lander, Nevada, locality LINCOLN.NV.US Lincoln, Nevada, locality LYON.NV.US Lyon, Nevada, locality MINERAL.NV.US Mineral, Nevada, locality NYE.NV.US Nye, Nevada, locality PERSHING.NV.US Pershing, Nevada, locality STOREY.NV.US Storey, Nevada, locality WHITE-PINE.NV.US White Pine, Nevada, locality RICHMOND.OH.US Richmond, Ohio, locality BENTON.OR.US Benton, Oregon, locality LANE.OR.US Lane, Oregon, locality EUGENE.OR.US Eugene, Oregon, locality SPRINGFIELD.OR.US Springfield, Oregon, locality ELROY.WI.US Elroy, Wisconsin SARATOGA. NY.US Saratoga, New York, locality ROTTERDAM. NY.US Rotterdam, New York, locality Other Direct US Domain Delegations this month --------------------------------------------- RGV.LIB.NM.US Rio Grande Valley Library System, NM SACRED.SF.CA.US Schools of the Sacred Heart, SF, CA AIDB.STATE.AL.US Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind PUC.CI.SF.CA.US San Francisco, Public Utilities POLARNET.FNSB.AK.US POLARNET Fairbanks North Star Bourough, AK FOOTHILLS.CAVE-CREEK.AZ.US The Foothills Academy, AZ ATS.WILMORE.KY.US Asbury Theology Seminary, Wilmore, KY TEMPLE-ISRAEL.WEST-BLOOMFIELD.MI.US Temple Israel, of W. Bloomfield VES.LYNCHBURG.VA.US Virginia Episcopal School, VA MNCPPC.STATE.MD.US Maryland National Park & Planning AUST.EMB.NW.DC.US Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC HARRIER.SCOL.PA.US Nittany Valley Hash House Harriers, PA ARMADILLO.HUNTSVILLE.AL.US Armadillo, Alabama Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 ASIC.CC.AK.US Arctic Sivunmun Ilisagvik College, AK WASP.REED-CITY.MI.US Private Individual SBS.STONY-BROOK.NY.US Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, NY EDC.COG.VA.US Winchester-Frederick Cty Economic Dev. Comm. STAMFORDPL.LIB.CT.US Stamford public library, CT RCN.RICHARDSON.TX.US Richardson Community Network,Richardson, TX KING.BRISTOL.TN.US King College, Bristol Tenn. EPC.CO.HILLSBOROUGH.FL.US Hillsborough County Env. Protect. Comm. GS.SANTA-CLARA.CA.US Private Individual USPRO.FAIRFAX.VA.US U.S.Product Data Association, VA CI.MESA.AZ.US City of Mesa, Arizona, government CI.CORAL-SPRINGS.FL.US City of Coral-Springs, Florida, gov't CI.MOBILE.AL.US City of Mobile, Alabama, gov't CI.OMAHA.NE.US City of Omaha, Nebraska, gov't CI.SJ.CA.US City of San Jose, California, Gov't PTI.NW.DC.US Public Technology Inc., DC CO.ALACHUA.FL.US County of Alachua, Florida, gov't agencies CO.CATAWBA.NC.US City of Catawba County Gov't SRVCA.DANVILLE.CA.US San Ramon Valley Christian Academy MDARCHIVES.STATE.MD.US Maryland State Archives MILLIGAN.MILLIGAN-COLLEGE.TN.US Milligan College CI.MANCHESTER.CT.US Town of Manchester, CT, gov't BRHS.GEN.TN.US Bristol Regional Health System, TN BRHS.GEN.VA.US Bristol Regional Health System, VA EMORY-HENRY.emory.va.us Emory & Henry College, VA COMPTECH.TEC.PA.US School of Computer Technology, Pitts. PA DARKSTAR.LOWELL.MA.US Private Individual KUWAIT-INFO.NW.DC.US Kuwait Information Office, Wash. DC EDSI.APPLETON.WI.US Enterprise Data Systems Inc, Appleton, WI AACU.NW.DC.US Association of American Colleges and Univ. CADINST.PHOENIX.AZ.US CAD Institute, Phoenix, AZ GCCC.CC.AR.US Garland County Community College, AR CHAMBER.RICHMOND.CA.US Richmond Chamber of Commerce ECLS.LIB.PA.US Erie County Library System, Erie, PA CTI.KNOX.TN.US Control Technology, Inc. Knox. TN RESULTS.ABQ.NM.US Results! Computer Consulting Co. NM Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK X X AL X AR X X AZ X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X X CO X X X X X X X CT X DC X ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X FL X X X X X X X GA X X X X HI X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X X ID X X X X X X X IL X X X X X IN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- KS X X X X KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MD X X X X ME X X X X MI X X X X X MN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MO X X X X X X X MS X X 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 X ----------------------------------------------------------- NM X X X NV X X X X X X X NY X X X X X X X OH X X X X X X X Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 ----------------------------------------------------------- OK OR X X X X X X X PA X X RI X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- SC X X X X X X X SD X X X X X TN X TX X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- UT X X X X VA X X X X VI X X X X X X X VT X ----------------------------------------------------------- WA X X WI X X X WV X X X X X X X WY X 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/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering and Network Management groups on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) Project and the NSFNET Backbone Service Project. The Central Network Management System (CNMS) at the University of Michigan ROC is now performing preliminary monitoring of the Route Server at the Ameritech NAP, as well as the Route Servers at the PacBell NAP and on the MAE-East Ethernet. All three Route Servers are now running the latest version of the Discovery Rover code, which will use a hybrid SNMPv1/v2 agent to monitor the NAPs. The Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 Rover code will be modified regularly as the ROC and the RA staff gain experience with these new technologies. The RA Project's Route Server on the MAE-East Ethernet now has active sessions with six BGP peers: ANS, Alternet, Interpath, Netcom, Net99, and PIPEX. Merit has been working with AADS to develop a routing design for the contingency NAP's FDDI and ATM connections. The RA team has been translating Policy Routing Database data into a test Routing Arbiter Database (RADB) and generating test configuration files for the Route Servers. The tool used for this purpose, known as "peval", was developed by Andy Adams of Merit and Cengiz Alaettinoglu of ISI. Peval is now being used by CA*net to generate its production router configurations. Jessica Yu of Merit has been working closely with Internet Service Providers to collect information about their routing policies, enter the data into the test RADB, and use the data to test RADB policy analysis and configuration generation tools. MichNet, BARRNET, CICNet, SURAnet, and NEARNET have completed their transition from the NSFNET backbone service, and are obtaining interregional Internet service from MCInet. Ethernet interface problems caused ENSS 145 at FIX-East to go down towards the end of the month. FIX-East is carrying more traffic than usual as regionals move off the ANS/NSFNET backbone and connect to alternate service providers. FIX-East provides an interconnection between the service providers. As of January 23, Merit has begun to use an automated filter to check and sort incoming e-mail to nsfnet-admin@merit.edu. The nsfnet-admin address is most commonly used for submitting Network Announcement Change Requests, or NACRs. The filter implements the revised NACR procedures which were publicized in Merit's messages of Friday, January 13 to nwg@merit.edu and nanog@merit.edu. If the filter recognizes a message as containing a NACR, it checks it for syntactic accuracy. If syntax checks are passed, the filter checks to make sure that the NACR's submitter is authorized for the primary or home AS of every net contained in the NACR. If any of the checks are failed, the NACR is bounced and never processed. If all checks succeed, Merit is able to give the NACR quicker handling. The process of submitting NACRs which can be automatically checked is somewhat analogous to using ZIP+4 and bar coding on your paper mail -- it lets us handle it more quickly and Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 accurately. During the first day the filter was in use, several bugs were found and corrected. No NACRs were lost as a result of the bugs, though several spurious "bounce" messages were sent. We now believe that the filter code is quite stable. The Merit config staff's workload has already decreased substantially as a result of the automatic checking and sorting of incoming NACRs. We expect that this will help us keep up with the greatly increased number of NACRs we have been receiving as a result of the NSFNET transition. For the most part, NACR submitters seem to have adapted quite easily to submitting NACRs which will be automatically pre- processed. The two most common problems we have observed are: - NACRs submitted from unauthorized persons or unauthorized accounts. It's important to note that Merit's authorization database lists contacts by e-mail address and performs validation the same way. In the past, when humans did the validation, they were able to figure out that foo@ws1.bletch.com was the same as foo@bletch.com. The filter doesn't do this -- as a result, you must be more careful to submit NACRs from your registered e-mail address, or to register the one you will be using. - NACRs missing required fields. The required fields are listed in the NACR specification available in: ftp://nis.nsf.net/nsfnet/announced.networks template.net.README However, if you are submitting a change you need only list the changed fields and if you are submitting a delete you need only list the netnums you wish to delete from the PRDB. The action field is always required. Some suggestions for NACR submitters: - Check your authorized submitters list (using "whois -h prdb.merit.edu contact ") and update it if need be, before you have a NACR rejected for lack of authorization. - Submit your NACRs as early as possible. Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 - If possible, when a NACR is bounced, fix the problem and resubmit it so that it can be automatically parsed, instead of using the "dont- parse" flag. If you do this, your NACR will be spooled with the "good NACRs," which are given priority handling. - Don't "quote" NACRs with characters down the left side of the message, unless you want to hide them from the filter. If you send in a quoted NACR, it will not be given priority handling. - When a network changes service providers, either a representative of the network's Home AS or a representative of the OLD service provider typically must submit the NACR for the change. This might be accomplished by the new service provider filling out a NACR and sending it to one of the above for forwarding to nsfnet-admin. (But note the warning about "quote" characters in NACRs.) Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) NORTHWESTNET ------------ The NorthWestNet User Services Committee met via teleconference on January 19th. The topic of the conversation was "The Help Desk." The session was moderated by Vicki Pengelly, Information Systems Specialist at the University of Montana. Attendees represented a broad range of organizations including higher ed, business, health care, public libraries, and regional networks. Despite this diversity, there was no problem among the participants in relating to the frustrations and challenges posed by offering a help desk service. Issues compared and discussed included support lists (products that fall within the scope of the Help Desk), non-support lists (items that are specifically *not* supported), hours of service, staffing, staff education and professional development, referral processes, problem tracking, marketing or awareness building for the service, transitional challenges (mainframe to desktop systems; stand-alone computers to Internet-connected computers; "esoteric" applications to the "every day" applications), dispersed vs. centralized services, and techniques to get the users to access non-human support resources such as manuals and online databases. The meeting succeeded in highlighting the major issues associated with development and management of a Help Desk service. NorthWestNet's in-house training program proceeded on schedule this month. For more information on NorthWestNet services and products: Gopher://gopher.nwnet.net:3333 Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 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. UCL ---- We have written a unix decoder for the recently announced experiemntal PC Video conferencing tool from FTP software. We may integrate this with NV or Vic depending on the takeup for the PC end. We can operate the receiver as multicast, or using the CuSeeMe style requestor (Can I See Request) approach. We have done quite a bit of work on a Photo-server from INRIA, applying the ideas of Application Layer Framing and Integrated Layer Processing - the speedup is immense, but this is not really the interesting result so much as the set of implementation tricks (aka techniques). A paper on this has been submitted to the IFIP conference on High Speed Protocols. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 CALENDAR -------- Last update 2/6/95 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: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. FYI - New Dates for U.S. APPC/APPN (AATC) Technical Conf. moved from July to May 1995. - New Dates for ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, 1995 NOW Dec. 11-15, 1995 ************************************************************************ 1995 --------- Feb. 5-10 ATM Forum San Francisco, CA Feb. 5-11 IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging San Jose, CA Feb. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk & Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 20 Int'l Internet OGs Meetings San Diego Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb. 21-22 Int'l Internet Ops Conference San Diego Feb. 22-24 ICODP '95 Brisbane Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 5-9 IEEE COMPCON '95 San Francisco, CA Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) West Palm Beach, FL Mar. 6-10 SNMP Test Summit III Mar. 13-17 OIW (Firm) Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 16-19 3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN Mar. 20-21 6th MD Wkshp on Very High Speed Networks Baltimore, MD Mar. 26-29 7th IEEE Wkshp on Local and Metro Area Netwks Marathon, FL Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV Mar. 28-31 Seybold Seminars Boston, MA Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 Apr. 2-6 IEEE Infocom '95 Boston, MA Apr. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 Monterey, CA Apr. 3-7 32nd IETF (Definite) Danvers, MA Apr. 4-5 Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee Arlington, VA Apr. 9-14 ATM Forum Denver, CO Apr. 17-21 Email World (Firm) Santa Clara, CA Apr. 19-21 5th Network & Operating System Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA Apr. 24-25 IFIP TC6 Wkshp Personal Wireless Commun. Prague, Czech Republic May 1-5 Fourth IFIP/IEEE Intl Symp. on Integrated Ntwk Mgt ISINM95 Santa Barbara, CA May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel May 22-25 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Chicago, IL May 28-Jun. 2 NetWorld+Interop '95 Frankfurt, Germany Jun. ATM Forum Europe Jun. 5-7 Digital World Los Angeles, CA Jun. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Rochester, MN Jun. 12-16 OIW (Firm) Jun. 13-16 IFIP WG6.1 PSTV-XV Warsaw Jun. 16-17 CCIRN Singapore Jun. 18-22 ICC '95 Seattle, WA Jun. 18-24 ISOC Developing Country Wkshp Hawaii Jun. 20-22 2nd Intntl Wkshp on Community Netwkg multimedia to the home Princeton, NJ Jun. 25-27 ISOC K-12 Workshop Hawaii Jun. 26-27 ISOC Trustees & Council Hawaii Jun. 28-30 INET '95 Hawaii Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 10-13 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Maui, HI JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 13-14 1st Intntl Wkshp on Intellig. & Multimodality in Multimedia Interface Edinburgh, Scotland Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF Stockholm, Sweden Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan Jul. 17-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 Ottawa, Ontario Aug. 1-4 4th IEEE Symp. on High Perform. Distributed Computing (HPDC-4) Pentagon City, VA Aug. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 19-21 14th Intntl Conf. on AI (IJCAI-95) Montreal, CA Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA Aug. 30-Sep. 1 ACM SIGCOMM '95 Cambridge, MA Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 SEPTEMBER Windows Solutions Paris Paris, France Sep. 25-29 7th SDL Forum Oslo, Sweden FALL 1995 Seybold Europe Sep. 4-6 8th IFIP WG6.1 Intntl Wkshp on Protocol Test Systems Every, France Sep. 4-7 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) London, England Sep. 11-15 6th IFIP High Performance Networking, HPN'95 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Sep. 11-15 OIW (Firm) Sep. 20-23 4th Intntl Conf. Computer Commun. & Networks (IC3N'95) Las Vegas, NV Sep. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 26-29 Seybold San Francisco San Francisco, CA Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 10-11 ANSI X3T11 Oct. 15-18 20th Conf. on Local Computer Netwks (sponsored by IEEE) Minneapolis, MN Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, Australia Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Nov. 7-10 ICNP '95 Tokyo, Japan Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM '95 Singapore Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm) Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Firm) Dallas, TX Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Firm) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Windows Solutions Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Dec. 4-8 X/Open Security Dec. 10-15 ATM Forum Orlando, FL Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU 1996 ----------- Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Apr. 8-13 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 May. 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Jun. 24-27 ICC '96 Dallas, TX Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) 1998 ----------- Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary --------- Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories Via gopher: "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 Subject: TERENA Calendar - February'95 Ref. TSec(95)001 February 1995 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 TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail . ********************************************************************** MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 21 February Amsterdam TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA3 18/19 May Tel Aviv TERENA Technical Committee -------------------------- 7 February Amsterdam TERENA Working Groups --------------------- European MIME Week (TERENA/EEMA/DANTE) 6-9 March Amsterdam RIPE ---- 8-10 May Rome April/May 1996 Berlin VARIOUS ======= DANTE Shareholders Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 ------------------ 3 February Amsterdam European Commission Workshop ------------------- 16 February Brussels ECCO (Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations) 26 April Paris EMC (Ebone Management Committee) 21 March Amsterdam EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 10 March Prague CCIRN ----- TBD TBD IETF ---- 3-7 April Danvers, Massachusetts 17-21 July Stockholm, Sweden 4-8 December Dallas Texas, USA ECTUA/INTUG ----------- 8-9 February London EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 28/2-1/3 Brussels 16/17 May Brussels 19/20 September Brussels 12/13 December Brussels Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 Steering Committee 14 March Brussels 6 June Brussels 26 September Brussels 19 December Brussels ETSI ---- General Assembly 30/31 March Nice, France 5/6 December Nice, France Technical Assembly 27-29 March Nice, France 7-9 November Nice, France CONFERENCES ******************************************************************* JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference 15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to . For information, email . JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference 13-16 May 1996 in Budapest, Hungary ******************************************************************* OTHER CONFERENCES nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available from the TERENA 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.terena.nl Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 Email: server@terena.nl Gopher: gopher.terena.nl World Wide Web: http:/www.terena.nl/ IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING ----------------------------------------- from 5-11 February San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA -> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995 Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445 MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING & NETWORKING --------------------------------- from 6-8 February San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA for registration and info, email DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION: ALGORITHMS & TECHNOLOGIES ---------------------------------------------------- from 7-10 February San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA for registration and info, email TEDIS - EDITT / EDI TRUSTED THIRD PARTIES WORKSHOP -------------------------------------------------- from 8-10 February (tutorials on 7 February) University Polytechnics Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Subjects: certification and registration, legal and audit aspects of EDI. Sponsor: the Commission of the European Union (TEDIS Programme) Programme Committee Chairman: Manuel Medina email EEMA Integrating the Air Transport Industry through Messaging -------------------------------------------------------- 14-16 February Cavalieri Hilton, Rome, Italy Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 registration and info., tel: +44 386 793 028. fax: +44 386 793 268 INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY ----------------------------------------------------- 16-17 February Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California USA Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 1994. For further information, email David Balenson CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (fwd. from Edupage/Educom) ----------------------------------------------- 25-26 February, Brussels for information contact: gopher.ntia.doc.gov, or www.ntia.doc.gov, or ftp.ntia.doc.gov JANET WORKSHOP 23 ----------------- from 28-30 March at the University of Leicester in England Deadline for proposals 13 January Deadline for abstracts + authors' biography 17 February. Email FIRST AUSTRALIAN WWW CONFERENCE / AusWeb95 ------------------------------------------ from 29 April - 2 May Ballina Beach Resort, Ballina, Far North Coast of New South Wales, Australia Abstracts for full papers due on 23 January Registration http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/ For further information, email THIRD ANNUAL RURAL DATAFICATION CONFERENCE ------------------------------------------ 22-24 May Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation) Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 Deadline for submission of papers is 15 January . Submit to 1995 INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ----------------------------------------- 18-24 June Manoa Campus, University of Hawaii, Honolulu Apply preferably before 15 January . Further information from or contact George Sadowksy Tel.+1 212 998 3040, fax.+1 212 995 4120. INET 95 ------- 28-30 June in Honolulu, Hawaii Extended abstracts for papers to be submitted by 13 January to Programme Committee Internet Society Secretariat 95 FIRST Conference/Workshop ---------------------------- The Forum of Incident Handling and Security Teams (FIRST) will hold its annual conference from: 18-22 September University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Abstracts due by 1 April For info. contact Christoph Fischer tel: +49 721 37 64 22 fax: +49 721 32 550 1995 IFIP International Working Conference on User Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications (ULPAA) --------------------------------------------------------------- 11-15 December in Sydney, Australia Deadline for submission of papers by 15 May For further info-> http:/www.ee.uts.edu.au/ifip/ULPAA95.html Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report January 1995 INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- Broadband Communiations: Networks, Services, Applications, Future Directions 19-23 February 1996 Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland Deadline for submission of papers is 15 May 1995 For further information, email Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner , fax.+41 1 632 1035 Call for Papers on TERENA Document Server under rare/information/calendar. The file is called izs96-cfp.txt. ================== updated 31.01.1995 ================== ========================== Madeleine Oberholzer TERENA Secretary Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association TERENA - Established by merger of RARE and EARN TERENA Secretariat Singel 466 - 468 NL - 1017 AW AMSTERDAM Voice : + 31 20 639 11 31 Fax : + 31 20 639 32 89 Email : secretariat@terena.nl - for general matters bookkeeping@terena.nl - for financial matters Cooper [Page 40]