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INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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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
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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 <draft-ietf-ifmib-ethmib-smiv1-00> for
consideration as an Internet Standard.
o SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
<draft-ietf-smtpext-8bitmime-00> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
<draft-ietf-smtpext-size-00> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
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o SMTP Service Extensions <draft-ietf-smtpext-extensions-00>
for consideration as a Draft Standard.
o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 <draft-rose-pop3-again-01>
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)
<draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4-09.txt>
(bgp) o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the
Internet <draft-ietf-bgp-application-04.txt>
(none) o IP and ARP on Fibre Channel (FC)
<draft-rekhter-fibre-channel-03.txt>
(ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-ospf-mib-03.txt>
(x400ops) o Using the Internet DNS to distribute RFC1327 Address
Mapping Tables
<draft-ietf-x400ops-dnsx400maps-05.txt>
(pppext) o PPP in Frame Relay
<draft-ietf-pppext-frame-relay-03.txt>
(none) o Randomness Requirements for Security
<draft-ietf-security-randomness-01.txt>
(sipp) o SIPP Program Interfaces for BSD Systems
<draft-ietf-sipp-bsd-api-02.txt>
(uri) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL) A Syntax for the
Expression of Access Information of Objects on the
Network <draft-ietf-uri-url-03.txt, .ps>
(tn3270e) o TN3270 Enhancements
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-enhancements-04.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-multilink-08.txt>
(none) o Selecting an Indirect Provider
<draft-rekhter-select-providers-02.txt>
(ids) o A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
<draft-ietf-ids-catalog-02.txt>
(smtpext) + SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
<draft-ietf-smtpext-pipeline-00.txt>
(none) o Selecting a Direct Provider
<draft-rekhter-direct-provider-01.txt>
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(none) o Post Office Protocol - Version 3
<draft-rose-pop3-again-01.txt>
(rreq) o Requirements for IP Routers
<draft-ietf-rreq-iprouters-require-01.txt>
(sipp) o SIPP Security Architecture
<draft-ietf-sipp-sa-02.txt>
(sipp) o SIPP Authentication Header
<draft-ietf-sipp-ap-03.txt>
(sipp) o SIPP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
<draft-ietf-sipp-esp-02.txt>
(pppext) o PPP LCP Option for Data Encapsulation Selection
<draft-ietf-pppext-dataencap-02.txt>
(rdbmsmib) o RDBMS-MIB <draft-ietf-rdbmsmib-mib-03.txt>
(none) o A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode
<draft-goldsmith-mime-utf7-03.txt, .ps>
(ospf) o IP Forwarding Table MIB
<draft-ietf-ospf-cidr-route-mib-02.txt>
(none) o Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental
Update <draft-anil-incremental-checksum-01.txt>
(none) + A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and
Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the
World-Wide Web <draft-bernerslee-www-uri-00.txt,
.ps>
(pppext) o PPP in HDLC-like Framing
<draft-ietf-pppext-hdlc-fs-01.txt>
(pppext) o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-lcp-fs-01.txt>
(mobileip) o IP Mobility Support
<draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-01.txt>
(none) + Procedures for Formalization, Evolution, and
Maintenance of the Internet X.500 Directory Schema
<draft-howes-x500-schema-00.txt>
(none) + Modeling and Simulation Requirements for IPng
<draft-symington-ipng-model-00.txt>
(none) + Market Viability as a IPng Criteria
<draft-curran-ipng-viability-00.txt>
(none) + Maintaining Presentation Guidelines on MIME Messages
<draft-pritchett-mime-guidelines-00.txt>
(isn) o Acceptable Use Policy Definition
<draft-ietf-isn-aup-01.txt>
(nasreq) + Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
<draft-ietf-nasreq-radius-00.txt>
(iab) + Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between the
Internet Society and ISO/IEC JTC-1/SC6
<draft-iab-mou2jtc1-00.txt>
(none) + ISO/IEC 10747 Protocol for the Exchange of
Inter-Domain Routing Information among Intermediate
Systems to Support Forwarding of ISO 8473 PDUs
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<draft-kunzinger-idrp-ISO10747-00.txt>
(dns) + DNS Support for Load Balancing
<draft-ietf-dns-lb-00.txt>
(none) + TCP Embedded Trailer Checksum
<draft-bridges-tcp-checksum-00.txt>
(ifmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like
Interface Types
<draft-ietf-ifmib-ethmib-smiv1-00.txt>
(smtpext) + SMTP Service Extensions
<draft-ietf-smtpext-extensions-00.txt>
(smtpext) + SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
<draft-ietf-smtpext-8bitmime-00.txt>
(smtpext) + SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
<draft-ietf-smtpext-size-00.txt>
(wg-msg) o Bombs series: Behaviour of Mail Based Servers Part
1: C-bombs Classification of Breeds of Mail Based
Servers <draft-rare-msg-c-bombs-01.txt>
(ifmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like
Interface Types
<draft-ietf-ifmib-ethmib-smiv2-00.txt>
(wnils) + Architecture of the WHOIS++ service
<draft-ietf-wnils-whois-arch-00.txt>
(atm) + ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM
<draft-ietf-atm-sig-00.txt>
(none) + TACTICAL RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS
FOR NEXT GENERATION INTERNET PROTOCOLS
<draft-adamson-ipng-radio-req-00.txt>
(pppext) + Proposal for Callback Control Protocol (CBCP).
<draft-ietf-pppext-callback-cp-00.txt>
(none) + Accounting Requirements for IPng
<draft-brownlee-ipng-acct-req-00.txt>
(uri) + Specification of Uniform Resource Characteristics
<draft-ietf-uri-urc-00.txt>
(none) + IP Router Alert Option
<draft-katz-router-alert-00.txt>
(none) + A cellular industry view of IPng
<draft-taylor-ipng-cdpd-viewpt-00.txt>
(uri) + URN to URC resolution scenario
<draft-ietf-uri-urn2urc-00.txt>
(none) + HPN Working Group Input to the IPng Requirements
Solicitation <draft-green-ipng-navy-hpn-00.txt>
(none) + TUBA as IPng: A White Paper
<draft-ford-ipng-tuba-whitepaper-00.txt>
(none) + Electric Power Research Institute Response to RFC
1550 <draft-skelton-ipng-epri-00.txt>
(none) + CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet
<draft-mcgovern-ipng-catnip-wpaper-00.txt>
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(poised) + Procedure to Select and Confirm Individuals Serving
on the IAB and IESG
<draft-ietf-poised-nomcomm-00.txt>
(none) + A Chemical Primary MIME Type.
<draft-rzepa-chemical-mime-type-00.txt>
(wg-msg) + Bombs series: Behaviour of Mail Based Servers Part
2: A-bombs Answering servers
<draft-rare-msg-a-bombs-00.txt>
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)
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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
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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)
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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.
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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".
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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
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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
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<gopher.dante.net>, 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 <j.bersee@dante.org.uk>
DANTE Publicity Manager
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http://www.internic.net/newsletter. Be sure to check it out!
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The May/June issue is in preproduction and will feature an
interview with the new Executive Director of the Internet Society,
Tony Rutkowski. This upcoming issue will also include a full-
length article explaining the new NSFNET architecture; a Regional
NIC Report from NorthWestNet on their work with the Internet and
health care; a news brief on current and pending National
Information Infrastructure (NII) legislation; and a feature story
on Maven, a new Internet communications tool. It will also include
permanent features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC
Event Calendar and new connectivity maps. If you are interested in
contributing to the _NSF Network News_, please contact the
Publications department at newsletter-comments@internic.net.
The newsletter is available on a subscription basis in ASCII or
hardcopy as well as the WorldWideWeb. To subscribe, send email to
newsletter-request@internic.net. Please include your postal address
if you want hardcopy.
REFERENCE DESK
The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts
for April:
Method Contacts % of Total
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Email 85 2.5
Phone 2755 81.9
Fax 119 3.5
US Mail 11 <1
Other 394 11.7
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Total 3364 100.0
by Karen D. Frazer <kfrazer@is.internic.net>
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
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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 <rvh@ds.internic.net>
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
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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 <scottw@internic.net>
ISI
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Netstation
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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.
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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.
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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 <finn@isi.edu>
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Infrastructure
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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
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Total Contacts 439
DELEGATIONS 38
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 34
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 367
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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
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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
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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.
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TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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AK
AL X
AR X
AZ X X X X X X
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CA X X X X
CO X X X X X X X
CT
DC X
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DE X
FL X X X X X
GA X X X X
HI
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IA X X X X
ID X X X X X X X
IL X X X X
IN X X X X
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KS X
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
MA
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ME X X
MI X X X X X
MN X X X X X X X
MO X X X X X
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MS X X
MT X
NC X X X X X
ND X X X X X X X
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NE X X X X
NH X X
NJ X
NM X X X
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NV
NY X X X X
OH X X X X X X X
OK
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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OR X X X X X X X
PA X
RI X X X
SC X X X X X
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SD X X
TN
TX X X X X
UT X X X X
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VA X X X X
VI
VT X X
WA
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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.
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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
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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:
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- "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 <aggregate>'" 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 <net>". 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The April USSC meeting focused on the continued improvement of
NEARNET online information services.
by NEARNET Client Services <nearnet-us@nic.near.net>
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
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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)
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CALENDAR
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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:
<meeting-planning@cnri.reston.va.us>
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
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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
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1995
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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)
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1996
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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)
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RARE Council of Administration
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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)
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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
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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 <inet-jenc-request@rare.nl>. For information, email
<inet-jenc-sec@rare.nl>.
*******************************************************************
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)
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MediaActive 94 - "Harnessing Multimedia for Higher Education"
-------------------------------------------------------------
from 4 till 6 May 1994 in Liverpool, England
Email <MedAct94@livjm.ac.uk>
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
<tauber@uni-paderborn.de>.
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 <cailliau@www1.cern.ch>
NORDUnet 94
-----------
from 31 May to 2 June 1994
in Umea, Sweden
for information, email <nordunet94@umdac.umu.se>
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 <workshop-apply@nyu.edu>
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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 <enir@ccic.icsti.msk.su>
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 <DE_RUSSIA_1994@AIE.MSK.SU>.
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 <ss94@dit.upm.es>
8th ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUPERCOMPUTING
--------------------------------------------------
from 11 till 15 July 1994 in Manchester, England
Email <jalby@irisa.fr)
6th JOINT EPS-APS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS COMPUTING
---------------------------------------------------------------
from 22 till 26 August 1994 in Lugano, Switzerland
Email <pc94@cscs.ch>
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
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ACM SIGCOMM'94
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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 <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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 <suda@ics.uci.edu>
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
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EEMA MEETINGS
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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
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