Internet Monthly Report for October, 1996
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October 1996 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. 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 "IMR@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ IMR Editor [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD --------------------------- The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for October, 1996 1. The IETF returns to San Jose, California on December 9-13, 1996. Our local host will be cisco Systems. The Secretariat will open for registrations the first part of October. The IETF opens 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 1997. Following Memphis, the IETF is we returning to Europe and will met in Munich, Germany August 11-15, 1997, hosted by Digi/ISOC.DE. The Secretariat is still working on the final meeting of 1997. Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.org 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: September 19, 1996 (iesg.96-09-19) October 3, 1996 (iesg.96-10-03) October 17, 1996 (iesg.96-10-17) IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol Actions during the month of October, 1996: o IMAP4 QUOTA extension be published as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 non-synchroniziong literals be published as a Proposed Standard. o TFTP Multicast Option be published as an Experimental Protocol. o IMAP4 ACL extension be published as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) be published as a Proposed Standard. o TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms be published as a Proposed Standard. o Triggered Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits be published as a Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG issued nine Last Calls to the IETF during the month of October, 1996: o XDR: External Data Representation Standard <RFC1832> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0 Bundle Interface Type <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds0-mib-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds3-mib-04> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds1-mib-05> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices <draft-ietf-hubmib-repeater-dev-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o ISO Transport Service on top of TCP (ITOT) <draft-pouffary-itot-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 o Telnet window size option <RFC1073> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet terminal-type option <RFC1091> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Multicast pruning a necessity <draft-ietf-mboned-pruning-01> for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. 5. Two Working Groups were created during this period: Calendaring and Scheduling (calsch) Physical Topology MIB (ptopomib) and one working group concluded: Network Training Materials (trainmat) 6. A total of 98 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of October, 1996: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (avt) o RTP payload format for H.261 video streams <draft-ietf-avt-h261-03.txt> (ion) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) <draft-ietf-rolc-nhrp-10.txt> (ospf) o IP Forwarding Table MIB <draft-ietf-ospf-cidr-route-mib-06.txt> (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Motivation and Architecture <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-arch-03.txt, .ps> (none) o TCP MD5 Signature Option <draft-heffernan-tcp-md5-02.txt> (mailext) o Common Internet Message Headers <draft-ietf-mailext-mail-attributes-06.txt> (cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos <draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-02.txt> (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication <draft-myers-smtp-auth-03.txt> (cat) o Simple GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism <draft-ietf-cat-snego-02.txt> (none) o Guidelines for IETF Meeting Sites <draft-prior-future-host-guidelines-01.txt> (atommib) o Definitions of Textual Conventions and OBJECT-IDENTITIES for ATM Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm2TC-05.txt> IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 (avt) o RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video <draft-ietf-avt-mpeg-02.txt> (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 <draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-v2-05.txt> (none) o Simple Authentication and Security Layer <draft-myers-auth-sasl-05.txt> (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-sm-spec-08.txt, .ps> (none) o Universal Payment Preamble <draft-eastlake-universal-payment-03.txt> (rip) o Protocol Analysis for Triggered RIP <draft-ietf-rip-trigger-analysis-02.txt> (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds1-mib-05.txt> (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds3-mib-04.txt> (ipngwg) o Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-tunnel-04.txt> (st2) o Internet Stream Protocol Version 2 (ST2) Protocol State Machines - Version ST2+ <draft-ietf-st2-state-02.txt, .ps> (pktway) o Proposed Specification for the PacketWay Protocol <draft-ietf-pktway-protocol-spec-02.txt> (ids) o X.500 Implementations Catalog-96 <draft-ietf-ids-x500-imps-04.txt> (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Applications <draft-ietf-applmib-sysapplmib-04.txt> (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 <draft-crispin-imap-base-07.txt> (dhc) o Interaction between DHCP and DNS <draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-dns-02.txt> (none) o VEMMI URL Specification <draft-mavrakis-vemmi-url-spec-02.txt> (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Standard and Pilot Attribute Definitions <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-attributes-03.txt> (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-protocol-03.txt> (drums) o Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF <draft-ietf-drums-abnf-01.txt> (idr) o Configuring IDRP Confederations <draft-ietf-idr-rdc-config-01.txt> (none) o Mail Ubiquitous Security Extensions (MUSE) <draft-eastlake-muse-01.txt> (none) + Introduction to IP Multicast Routing <draft-rfced-info-semeria-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 (madman) o Mail and Directory Alarms <draft-ietf-madman-alarmmib-01.txt> (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm1ng-02.txt> (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type <draft-ietf-atommib-sonetng-02.txt> (atommib) o Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals <draft-ietf-atommib-perfhistTC-01.txt> (pier) o Router Renumbering Guide <draft-ietf-pier-rr-03.txt> (mhtml) o MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) <draft-ietf-mhtml-spec-04.txt> (ipsec) o HMAC-MD5 IP Authentication with Replay Prevention <draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-hmac-md5-03.txt> (ipsec) o HMAC-SHA IP Authentication with Replay Prevention <draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-hmac-sha-03.txt> (mhtml) o Sending HTML in E-mail, an informational supplement to RFC ???: MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML) <draft-ietf-mhtml-info-04.txt> (ids) o Best Current Practice for the Internet White Pages Service <draft-ietf-ids-ds-bcp-01.txt> (ids) o Finding Stuff (Providing information to support service discovery) <draft-ietf-ids-discovery-02.txt> (none) o Quality of Sevice (QoS)-Based Routing in the Internet - Some Issues <draft-nair-qos-based-routing-01.txt> (none) o Dialup Roaming Requirements <draft-zorn-dial-roam-req-02.txt> (none) + Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System <draft-ietf-urn-naptr-00.txt> (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Extensions for Dynamic Directory Services <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3ext-02.txt> (mhtml) o Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators <draft-ietf-mhtml-cid-02.txt> (ripv2) o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information <draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-v2-01.txt> (none) o IPv4 Address Behaviour Today <draft-iab-ip-ad-today-01.txt> (otp) o OTP Extended Responses <draft-ietf-otp-ext-01.txt> (none) + A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools and Utilities <draft-kessler-primer-v2-00.txt> (none) + EARTH - EAsy IP multicast Routing THrough ATM clouds <draft-smirnov-ion-earth-00.txt> (none) + Network News Transport Protocol <draft-barber-nntp-news-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 (none) + Network Ingress Filtering <draft-ferguson-ingress-filtering-00.txt> (none) + The TACACS+ Protocol <draft-grant-tacacs-00.txt> (none) o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks. <draft-souvatzis-ipv6-arcnet-01.txt> (ipcdn) + IP Over Cable Data Network Service <draft-ietf-ipcdn-ipcabledata-spec-00.txt> (none) + Internet Secure Electronic Mail: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers for FORTEZZA Cryptography <draft-balenson-secure-email-00.txt> (none) + NFS URL Scheme <draft-callaghan-url-nfs-00.txt> (none) o IMAP URL Scheme <draft-newman-url-imap-01.txt> (none) o NNTP Full-text Search Enhancements <draft-hernacki-nntpsrch-01.txt> (none) + Use of Flow Label for Tag Switching <draft-baker-flow-label-00.txt> (none) + WebNFS Server Specification <draft-callaghan-webnfs-server-00.txt> (none) + Use of Tag Switching With ATM <draft-davie-tag-switching-atm-00.txt> (none) + Defending Against IP Source Address Spoofing <draft-rfced-info-senie-00.txt> (none) + Data Link Switching Remote Access Protocol <draft-rfced-info-chiang-00.txt> (none) + WebNFS Client Specification <draft-callaghan-webnfs-client-00.txt> (none) + Responsible Network Management Guidelines <draft-donelan-netmgt-guidelines-00.txt> (none) + Real Time Streaming Protocol(RTSP) <draft-rao-rtsp-00.txt> (none) + The AM Domain <draft-rfced-info-edd-00.txt> (none) + The LDAP Application Program Interface <draft-howes-ldap-api-00.txt> (none) + Management Information Base for IP Version 6 <draft-haskin-onishi-ipv6-mib-00.txt> (none) o FTP Extensions for Variable Protocol Specification <draft-allman-ftp-variable-02.txt> (asid) + A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters <draft-ietf-asid-string-filter-v2-00.txt> (none) + The Safe Response Header <draft-holtman-http-safe-00.txt> (none) + MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Words: Character Sets, Language, and Continuations <draft-freed-pvcsc-00.txt> (none) + A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode <draft-goldsmith-utf7-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 (ipngwg) + IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments <draft-ietf-ipngwg-multicast-assgn-00.txt> (none) + Multicast Synchronization Protocol (MSP) <draft-mannie-stc-ion-msp-00.txt> (none) + The Simple Record Framing Protocol <draft-odell-srfp-00.txt> (none) + Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 <draft-stevens-advanced-api-00.txt> (none) + NNTP LIST Additions <draft-hernacki-nntplist-00.txt> (ediint) o MIME-based Secure EDI <draft-ietf-ediint-as1-01.txt> (none) + Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch Networks <draft-waterman-rmonmib-smon-00.txt> (none) + Wrapping MIME Objects: Application/MIME <draft-crocker-wrap-00.txt> (none) + Combined 3DES-CBC, LZS Compression, HMAC, and Replay Prevention ESP Transform <draft-sabin-esp-des3-lzs-md5-00.txt> (mboned) o The Use of SNTP as a Multicast Heartbeat <draft-ietf-mboned-sntp-heart-01.txt> (none) + 8+8 - An Alternate Addressing Architecture for IPv6 <draft-odell-8+8-00.txt> (none) + Simple Hit-Metering for HTTP Preliminary Draft <draft-mogul-http-hit-metering-00.txt> (ipngwg) + IPv6 Routing Table Size Issues <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-routing-00.txt> (none) + Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTE Extensions for SVC's over Frame Relay <draft-cochrane-frmib-dte-svc-00.txt> (none) + Management Information Base for Frame Relay DCP DTE Extensions for Data Compression over Frame Relay <draft-kashef-frmib-dte-dcp-00.txt> (urn) + URN Syntax <draft-ietf-urn-syntax-00.txt> (http) + Feature Tag Registration Procedures <draft-ietf-http-feature-reg-00.txt> (none) + Payload Format for HTTP Encoding in RTP <draft-aboba-rtp-http-00.txt> (none) + Restricting the External Archiving of Email <draft-kahle-mail-archive-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 7. There were 40 RFCs published during the month of October, 1996: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC2002 PS (mobileip) IP Mobility Support RFC2003 PS (mobileip) IP Encapsulation within IP RFC2004 PS (mobileip) Minimal Encapsulation within IP RFC2005 PS (mobileip) Applicability Statement for IP Mobility Support RFC2006 PS (mobileip) The Definitions of Managed Objects for IP Mobility Support using SMIv2 RFC2007 I (trainmat) Catalogue of Network Training Materials RFC2008 B (cidrd) Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet Routing RFC2010 I (none) Operational Criteria for Root Name Servers RFC2014 B (none) IRTF Research Group Guidelines and Procedures RFC2015 PS (none) MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) RFC2016 E (none) Uniform Resource Agents (URAs) RFC2017 PS (mailext) Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type RFC2018 PS (tcplw) TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options RFC2019 PS (ipngwg) Transmission of IPv6 Packets Over FDDI RFC2020 PS (vgmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Interfaces RFC2023 PS (ipngwg) IP Version 6 over PPP RFC2024 PS (dlswmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for Data Link Switching using SNMPv2 RFC2025 PS (cat) The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM) RFC2026 B (poised95) The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3 RFC2027 B (poised95) IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees RFC2028 B (poised95) The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process RFC2029 PS (avt) RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video Encoding RFC2030 I (none) Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI RFC2031 I (poised95) IETF-ISOC relationship RFC2032 PS (avt) RTP payload format for H.261 video streams RFC2033 I (none) Local Mail Transfer Protocol IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 RFC2034 PS (none) SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes RFC2035 PS (avt) RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video RFC2036 I (cidrd) Observations on the use of Components of the Class A Address Space within the Internet RFC2037 PS (entmib) Entity MIB RFC2038 PS (avt) RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video RFC2040 I (none) The RC5, RC5-CBC, RC5-CBC-Pad, and RC5-CTS Algorithms RFC2041 I (none) Mobile Network Tracing RFC2043 PS (pppext) The PPP SNA Control Protocol (SNACP) RFC2044 I (none) UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646 RFC2051 PS (snanau) Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC RFC2052 E (none) A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) RFC2053 I (none) The AM (Armenia) Domain RFC2054 I (none) WebNFS Client Specification RFC2055 I (none) WebNFS Server Specification St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya <scoya@ietf.org> IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES I. Significant Events Help Desk Support The following foreign language skills are now available in the Call/Processing Center: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindu, Urdu, Punjabi, English, and Canadian; five CSRs are available to support the pending Latin NIC with Spanish/Portuguese. Presentations were viewed by four telecommunications vendors regarding available technology for a new PBX/ACD system. 16 new staff were trained regarding Billing customer service. Increasing reports were received indicating that customers are receiving busy signals when they call or are being put on hold for excessively long times; this was caused by the rapid growth in registrations plus the large numbers of invoices and 15-Day Final Invoices being sent out; plans are being implemented to correct the problems. Name Registration Support DomReg software enhancements have reduced the number of requests that need to be processed manually from about 1,000 to 700 (30% improvement). The majority of registration processing work was taken over by night shift personnel, thereby freeing up more staff to answer Help Desk calls during regular business hours. Billing Support A contract was negotiated and executed to outsource printing and mailing of invoices to Osprey Imaging; start date is targeted for early November. IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 A contract was negotiated and executed to outsource the process of receiving telephone credit card payments to First Data Call Interactive; an automated voice response system will be used; start date is targeted for late November. A contract was negotiated and executed to outsource the function of processing credit card payments with the associated credit card companies. First Data Merchant Services is the company involved; credit cards to be accepted are VISA, Master Card, American Express, Discover/NOVA, Diners Club, and JCB; start date is targeted for late November. Workloads continued to accelerate; additional temporary staff was added to use all available PCs on the night shift (6 p.m. to midnight) and on Saturdays and Sundays. IP Support Kim Hubbard met with Jon Postel (IANA), David Conrad (APNIC) and Daniel Karrenberg (RIPE) in California to discuss IP issues. Kim attended the NANOG meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Information Services Support The process of notifying Admin Contacts for all domain names about Revision 2 of the Name Dispute Policy was completed, including a minimum of one attempt for each of 291,673 contacts. The 15-Minute Training Series was promoted at the EDUCOM 96 conference in Philadelphia and the ACM-SIGUCCS meeting. Possible partners are being explored for implementing a Spanish version of the 15-Minute Series. Technical work is ongoing to implement First Virtual Two new web specialists were hired. IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 II. Current Status October: Email: 246,727 Postal/Fax: 3,466 Phone: 41,672 Gopher connections: n/a retrievals: 33,623 WAIS connections: 44,908 retrievals: 29,780 FTP connections: 62,227 retrievals: 122,014 Mailserv: n/a Telnet: 93,804 Http: 4,092,824 Whois client: 330,124 Whois server: 8,686,336 Rich Landers <richl@internic.net> INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES For some time, InterNIC Directory and Database Services has been storing the IETF sessions that are broadcast on the MBONE. These sessions could be downloaded and played back at a later time. This helped participants who could not listen to the sessions live because of other commitments or because of time zone differences. The system was somewhat awkward to use because the VAT/RTP format used on the MBONE produced multi-megabyte files that had to be downloaded to the listener's machine and played back in full. We have now implemented a web-accessible version of the recordings using Real Audio format. Using this format, users can listen to parts of a session via the web and skip over sections that are not of interest. The Real Audio MBONE recordings may be found at: http://ds.internic.net/mbone/mbone.html The current recordings were used during our testing and are from the March IETF meeting. Recordings from the upcoming San Jose IETF will be available in December. IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 To listen to the Real Audio versions, users will have to install a Real Audio player. A free version of the player is available from Progressive Networks for a number of different processor/operating system combinations at the following URL: http://www.realaudio.com/products/player/download.html 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. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net> THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ---------------------- The US Domain now has an online line registration form. Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator for that locality. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). A new policy has been added to the criteria for delegating domain names under the US Domain: It is the intention that the delegation of third level (for example, locality) domain names be wide spread to many registries. It is undesirable for one person or organization to manage a large part of the third level names in any particular geographic or logical area. No individual or organization shall have more than 500 delegations total in the US Domain as a whole, or more than 50 delegation in any particuilar second level (for example, a state). IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 About the special domains under the state codes. The K12, CC, TEC, LIB, STATE, DST, COG and GEN domain under each state are established for special purposes (see RFC 1480). In addition to the constaint to use them only for the defined purpose, each of these special domains is also to delegated only to a manager within the state, and the operation of the delegated registry should be non-profit. The LIB domain should be managed by a govermental or educational library organization. Further, it is most appropriate for the K12, CC, and TEC, domains to be managed by an educational organization (for example, a university or a department of education). The STATE domain is most appropriately managed by an agency of the state government. DST and COG should be managed by a goverment agency. The GEN domain may be delegated to any organization that will provide the registration service for free (and remember the purpose of the GEN domain is to register statewide non-profit organizations). To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains not administered by the US Domain Registrar, get the file "us-domain-delegated.txt". URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 3163 PHONE 450 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3613 DELEGATIONS 133 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS:1129 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 2351 --------------------------- Total 3613 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. In addition, and not listed below, another 1052 localities have been delegated in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Michigan , Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Vermont, Illinois, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming this month. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 37 34 47 39 24 24 9 5 =================================================================== IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 ----------------------- THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ----------------------- MUS.IA.US. Museums, Iowa. COG.IA.US. Council of Governments, Iowa. LOCALITIES ========== WALKER.MI.US. ROCKFORD.MI.US. ADA.MI.US. JACKSON.WY.US. MOOSE.WY.US. WILSON.WY.US. ENTERPRISE.OK.US. WILBURTON.OK.US. POTEAU.OK.US. SEABROOK.NH.US. NEWINGTON.NH.US. NEWMARKET.NH.US. GREENLAND.NH.US. MABEL.MN.US. ORTONVILLE.MN.US. LONDONDERRY.NH.US. MANCHESTER.NH.US. SENECA.NY.US. SCHUYLER.NY.US. CLEAR-LAKE.IA.US. STORM-LAKE.IA.US. AMANA.IA.US. OKOBOJI.IA.US. SPIRIT-LAKE.IA.US. LEAD.SD.US. WHITEWOOD.SD.US. BELLE-FOURCHE.SD.US. MITCHELL.SD.US. EVANSTON.IL.US. WAUKEGAN.IL.US. MERRILLVILLE.IN.US. PUYALLUP.NSN.US. OLIVIA.MN.US. NEW-YORK.NY.US. ALLEN.TX.US. MARTHAS-VINEYARD.MA.US. STEAMBOAT-SPRINGS.CO.US. ARAPAHOE.CO.US. LODI.CA.US. ENGLEWOOD.OH.US. PLUMAS.CA.US. ALBANY.CA.US. WESTCHESTER.CA.US. STURGIS.SD.US. ALBEMARLE.VA.US. LAKE.CA.US. FAIRFIELD.IA.US. WAHOO.NE.US. WASHINGTON.UT.US. PALATINE.IL.US. CARTHAGE.NC.US. MOUNT-AIRY.MD.US. LAFAYETTE.CA.US. PLATTEVILLE.WI.US. IONIA.MI.US. MARYVILLE.MO.US. FLEMING.CO.US. ALPHARETTA.GA.US. RAYTOWN.MO.US. BREVARD.NC.US. MCCALL.ID.US. LUDLOW.VT.US. DANVILLE.IL.US. BIG-ISLAND.VA.US. NEWARK.CA.US. CREVE-COEUR.MO.US. HAMPDEN.PA.US. LAUREL.MD.US. VINALHAVEN.ME.US. SANDUSKY.OH.US. SUTTER-CREEK.CA.US. IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- BORO.ZELIENOPLE.PA.US. FREEDOM.WASHINGTON.DC.US. ENVIRON.STATE.DC.US. CO.GOOCHLAND.VA.US. CENTRALSAN.DST.CA.US. PVWMA.DST.CA.US. BIZ.CI.WEST-POINT.MS.US. JOE.LISLE.IL.US. AMPHIGORY.MONTICELLO.IN.US. ARPA.ST-CLAIR-SHORES.MI.US. PD.CHICAGO-HEIGHTS.IL.US. PD.STREAMWOOD.IL.US. PD.JUSTICE.IL.US. CREATIVEDESIGN.COLLEGE.MD.US. HCST.TEC.NJ.US. HEALTH.CO.YATES.NY.US. CO.CHEMUNG.NY.US. CO.STEUBEN.NY.US. HEALTH.CO.GENESEE.NY.US. HEALTH.CO.ALLEGANY.NY.US. HEALTH.CO.FULTON.NY.US. CO.CAPE-MAY.NJ.US. WADLEIGH.LIB.NH.US. AMHERST.LIB.NH.US. CI.WYMORE.NE.US. CROSSROAD.BRODHEAD.WI.US. CO.ITAWAMBA.MS.US. KUA.DST.FL.US. COA.WRENTHAM.MA.US. TOWNSHIP.DELTA.MI.US. GECAP.SALT-LAKE-CITY.UT.US. CI.RICHWOOD.WV.US. MVRTA.DST.OH.US. CI.PONCA.NE.US. CI.DESHLER.NE.US. CI.TILDEN.NE.US. HORTON.MADISON.AL.US. TRAVELWAYS.WAYZATA.MN.US. NETINC.HUMBLE.TX.US. FISHING.HILTON-HEAD-ISLAND.SC.US. ZERO.GEN.CA.US. CI.MONTEBELLO.CA.US. INTERSURF.HIGHLAND.IN.US. THINKNET.GARDEN-GROVE.CA.US. DIALOGNET.GARDEN-GROVE.CA.US. CI.CEDAR-HILLS.TX.US. CI.LEBANON.OR.US. GSSA.GEN.GA.US. NEOAM.CC.OK.US. SPALEK.MOUNTAIN-VIEW.CA.US. CO.BALDWIN.AL.US. BEMA.TOWN.BELMONT.MA.US. INTERIORS.ALAMEDA.CA.US. REDLANDS.CC.OK.US. DRINKARD.MADISON.AL.US. KENTWOODCC.GEN.MI.US. HOPENETWORK.GEN.MI.US. TRICOUNTYTECH.TEC.OK.US. POLICE.JACKSON.OH.US. CHAMBER.HILTON-HEAD-ISLAND.SC.US. ----------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes October 1996 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Based on feedback from providers at the exchange points, Jake Khuon has developed a mechanism that gives ISPs increased control over their Route Server peering sessions. Two new fields in the Route Server Peering Request Template, rs-in and rs-out, can be used to specify exactly which routes the Route Server should import and export on behalf of each peer. The new fields can also be used to enable route-flap dampening and specify whether the RS=92s AS number should be inserted into route announcements to the peer. The new fields will eventually be proposed as an extension to the RIPE inet-rtr object. Further details are available from: http://www.ra.net/peering.template.html Volunteer sites are still needed for Merit's Network Probe Daemon (NPD) project, a study of Internet routing patterns using a global traceroute matrix. Sites participating in the project are asked to run the NPD software, which runs on any standard Unix system. For more information, see: http://compute.merit.edu/stats/npd/npd.html The NPD software is available from ftp://nic.merit.edu/routing.arbiter/tools/npd-1.0.tar.Z. If you are interested in participating, please send e-mail to Dun Liu (dunl@merit.edu.) Your help is greatly appreciated! IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 Merit hosted the eighth North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Ann Arbor on October 24-25. Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the meeting; they are available through Merit's Web site (http://www.nanog.org). Bill Norton of Merit moderated the meeting, which featured the following presentations: >STATE OF THE INTERNET: NAPs PacBell NAP Warren Williams, PacBell Sprint NAP Steve Schnell, Sprint Ameritech NAP Andy Schmidt, Ameritech The MAEs Steve Feldman, MFS Datanet >STATE OF THE INTERNET: NSPs Sprint Benham Malcom, Sprint IBM Global Network Dimitri Krinos and Scott Blandford, IBM ANS Curtis Villamizer, ANS AGIS Peter Kline, AGIS=20 >New Exchange Point Matt Zimmerman, Netrail Announcement >Some Economics Issues for Jeff Mackie-Mason, the Future Internet Univ. of Mich. >vBNS Overview and Status John Jamison, MCI/vBNS >Broadening vBNS Access: Mark Luker, NSF, and the New Connections Program Jim Williams, FARNET >STATE OF THE INTERNET: Statistical Research, Part 1 Network Probe Daemon Dun Liu and Sue Hares, Merit Routing Stability Craig Labovitz, Merit Analysis >Customer Requirements for Sue Hares, Merit Future Routers - What's Next? (moderator) 3Com Corporation Cyndi Jung, 3Com Cisco Systems Dave O'Leary, Cisco NetStar Jeff Wabik, Ascend Bay Networks Jeff Burgan, Bay IMR Editor [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 >RA Update Bill Manning, ISI Brian Renaud, Merit >STATE OF THE INTERNET: Statistical Research, Part 2 Flow Switching Overview John Hawkinson, BBN Planet, and Daniel McRobb, ANS Current Efforts in Kim Claffy, SDSC Statistics/Metrics Research and Practice >New Tools from the RA: Craig Labovitz, Merit NetNow and IPN (Inter- Provider Notification) >MBoneD Working Group Update Dave Meyer, Univ. of Oregon >Source Spoofing and SYN Avi Freedman, Net Access, Flooding: Problems, Moderator Solutions, Community Views, and Discussion >Scalable Support for Multi- Yakov Rekhter, Cisco homed, Multi-provider Systems Connectivity >Multi-homing: Overview, Pros and Cons, Community Views Curtis Villamizer, ANS Avi Freedman, Net Access Randy Bush, RGnet >Trans-Atlantic IP Over SONET Peter Lothberg The NANOG sessions were followed by a Route Flap BOF and a Routing Arbiter tutorial, covering various aspects of peering with the Route Servers and registering in the RADB. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 UCL ---- Finally, we released the windows versions of our audio tool and LBL's video tool, as well as versions of sdr and nte - these last two were the "parting gift" from Mark Handley, who has now moved from UCL, to ISI (North East). http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/rat/ http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/I.Kouvelas/vic and the MICE FTP Area for other tools ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/ Crowcroft presented a keynote on QoS at the Protocol's for High Speed Networks workshop at INRIA in France, and a paper on Charging in the Internet at an IEE Colloquium - see http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/hipparch/hipparch.html for pointers to papers. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 CALENDAR -------- Last update 11/8/96 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@ietf.org> Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- <http://www.ietf.org/home.html> Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1996 ---------- Nov. 10-12 2nd annual of ACM's MobiCom '96 Rye, New York Nov. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hotel Vancouver Vancouver, BC Canada Nov. 12-15 3rd Int'l Conf. on Multimedia Modeling Toulouse, France Nov. 13 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA IMR Editor [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 Nov. 13 TERENA Tech. Committee Brussels Nov. 18-20 2nd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce Oakland, CA Nov. 18-22 ACM Multimedia '96 Boston, MA Nov. 18-22 IEEE Globecom 96 London, England Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Nov. 20-21 IEEE Global Internet '96 London, UK Nov. 20-22 W3C Web Int'l & Multilingualism Symposium Sevilla, Spain Nov. 25-28 EITC'96 - European IT Conference Brussels, Belgium Nov. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia Dec. 2-4 Web World San Diego, CA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 (host by IBM) Minneapolis, MN Dec. 2-6 ATM Forum Vancover, BC Dec. 4 JENC8 Programme Committee Amsterdam Dec. 4-6 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 Boston, MA Dec. 9-12 Internet World '96 Baltimore, MD Dec. 9-13 37th IETF (host by cisco) San Jose, CA Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Dec. 10-12 EEMA (Electronic Communications) London Dec. 10-13 Fall Internet World '96 New York, NY Dec. 12 Internet Security for System & Network Administrators Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 13 Commercenet Albuquerque, NM Dec. 17 TERENA Executive Committee Amsterdam 1997 ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 6-10 USENIX '97 Annual Technical Conf. Anaheim, CA Jan. 6-10 USELINUX: Linux Appl. Dev. Anaheim, CA Jan. 7-10 13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf on Systems Sciences Maui, Hawaii Jan. 7-10 Internet World Canada '97 Toronto, Canada Jan. 20-22 RIPE 26 Amsterdam Jan. 21-23 Internet World Shanghai-China Shanghai, China Jan. 21-25 Internet World Singapore Intl Singapore Jan. 22 TERENA Tech. Committee Amsterdam Jan. 28-30 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Orlando, FL Jan. 28-31 RSA Data Security Conf San Francisco Feb. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 (host by Sun) San Jose, CA Feb. 9-14 ATM Forum San Diego, CA Feb. 10-11 ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 10-12 Multimedia Computing & Networking 1997 San Jose, CA Feb. 17-19 Internet Expo & EMail World San Jose, CA IMR Editor [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 Mar. 1-5 ACM '97: The Next 50 yrs. of Computing San Jose, CA Mar. 10-11 10th Int'l Unicode Conf & Global Computing Showcase Mainz, Germany Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 '97 Irvine?/Albuguerque Mar. 11-14 Spring Internet World '97 Los Angeles, CA Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Mar. 17-19 1st Euromicro Working Conf. on Software Maintenance & Reengineering Berlin, Germany Mar. 19-21 Internet World Asia '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mar. 24-27 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Apr. 7-10 EMA'97 Philadelphia, PA Apr. 7-11 38th IETF (host by Fed. Exp) Memphis, TN Apr. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Brocade) Palm Springs, CA Apr. 7-11 IEEE INFOCOM '97 Kobe, Japan Apr. 7-12 W3C "Accessibility" 6th Int'l WWW Conference Santa Clara, CA Apr. 9-11 ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on Autonmous Decentralized Sys. Berlin, Germany Apr. 22-24 Internet Expo & EMail World Chicago, IL Apr. 27-May 2 ATM Forum Chicago, IL May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 May 5-9 NATO Workshop Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-15 8th JENC8 Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-16 IFIP/IEEE San Diego, CA May 15-16 TERENA General Assembly Edinburgh, Scotland May 19-21 7th Int'l Workshop on Ntwk & Oper for Digital Audio & Video St. Louis, MO May 21-23 RIPE 27 Dublin May 27-29 IS&N '97 4th Int'l Conf. on Intelligence in Services & Networks Como, Italy May 28-30 Web Developer '97 Chicago, IL Jun. 2-6 IEEE Multimedia Systems '97 Ottawa, CANADA Jun. 3-5 Internet World Mexico '97 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 (joint with ENM) Montreal, CANADA Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jun. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (host by Boeing) Seattle, WA Jun. 16-18 EEMA'97 Netherlands Jun. 24-27 INET '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jul. 14-17 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Jul. 20-25 ATM Forum Montreal, CANADA Aug. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (host by Hitachi) Honolulu, HI IMR Editor [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 Aug. 11-15 39th IETF (host by German ISOC) Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 (tenative) Internet Expo & EMail World Boston, MA Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Sep. 21-26 ATM Forum Paris, France Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 (host by FSI) Tucson, AZ Oct. 7-10 Internet Forum Europe (IFE) & Object World Frankfurt (OWF) Frankfurt, Germany Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (tentative) Univ. of Hawaii Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) 1998 ----------- Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum TBA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum TBA SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum TBA Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum TBA Dec. 6-11 ATM Forum TBA 1999 ----- Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland IMR Editor [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 TERENA List of Meetings CALENDAR updated 1 November 1996 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 <secretariat@terena.nl>. ********************************************************************** NAME / DATE LOCATION TERENA General Assembly GA7 15-16 May 1997 Edinburgh TERENA Executive Committee 17 December Amsterdam TERENA Technical Committee 13 November Brussels 22 January 1997 Amsterdam JENC8 Conference Committee 8 November Edinburgh Programme Committee 4 December Amsterdam SCIMITAR -------- Concertation 14 November Brussels TF-CACHE -------- 23 January 1997 Amsterdam IMR Editor [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 ============================================================= CCIRN ----- 12 or 13 December (tbc) San Jose EEMA ---- Electronic Communications 10-12 December London Spring Conference and Exhibition February 1997 Berlin ENPG ---- 10 January 1997 Amsterdam ETSI ---- GA24 10-11 December Nice, France TA25 23-25 October " EWOS ---- TA35, 3-4 December Brussels TA36, 25-26 February 1997 " TA37, 13-14 May 1997 " TA38, 16-17 September 1997 " TA39, 2-3 December 1997 " SC - 17 December Workshops 36: 20-24 January 1997 Brussels 37: 7-11 April 1997 " 38: 16-20 June 1997 " 39: 27-31 October 1997 " ICT Partnership - General Meeting --------------------------------- 29 January 1997 (tbc) Brussels IMR Editor [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 IETF ---- 9-13 December San Jose, CA 7-11 April 1997 Memphis, Tenn. 11-15 August 1997 Munich, Germany NATO ---- Workshop 5-9 May 1997 Edinburgh RIPE ---- RIPE 26 20-22 January 1997 Amsterdam RIPE27 21-23 May 1997 Dublin RIPE IR Training 11 November Berlin 12 November " +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES Call for Papers JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference "Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape" 12-15 May 1997 Edinburgh, Scotland This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele- communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications, and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is currently being developed Subject Areas: * Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering * User Support, Training and Education IMR Editor [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 * Security and Management Issues * Information Systems and Distributed Applications * Economic and Political Issues Deadline for paper submission 10 November 1996 to: <jen8-submit@terena.nl> For information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 email: <jenc8-sec@terena.nl> http://www.terena.nl/jenc8 or JENC8 Local Organization c/o Concorde Services Ltd Unit 5, SECC Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland email: <jenc8@ed.ac.uk> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OTHER CONFERENCES 6th CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conference 1996 ------------------------------------ 5-6 November Sheraton Brussels Hotel, Brussels, Belgium Theme of this conference is "Standards on Trial: Case Studies in European Standardization" Deadline for abstracts is 13 Sept. For further information: c/o CENELAC, Tel: +32 2 519 6871 Fax: +32 2 519 6919 IMR Editor [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 IDATE96 18th International Conference of IDATE -------------------------------------- 6-8 November Montpellier, France An opportunity for professional contacts with major industrial group leaders, users and clients, researchers and academics, administrators and politians. Full details of the conference available on the Web: http://www.idate.fr CEN/TC304 - Character Set Technology Workshop --------------------------------------------- 11-12 November Bled, Slovenia Providing multilingual support in middleware: Implementing the Universal Character Set ISO 10646 in the European Information Society For information look up URL: http://www.e5.ijs.si/i18n/ws-bled.html "The Telematics Revolution, Consequences for Individuals and Organisations" -------------------------------------------- 13 November University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Theme of the conference is that progress of information and telecommunication technologies do create a huge number of questions, be it social, jurisdictional, economic or technical. Parallel sessions will deal with: interactive scientific visualisation, tele-learning, user aspects of multimedia, distant consultation and using of laboratories. For all information and to receive brochure, contact Mr. Marc Fleskens at email address <telematics@tue.nl> IEEE Global Internet 1996 ------------------------- 20-21 November Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London This mini-conference will provide an open forum for the communications and computer networking communities to review the state-of-the-art technologies and applications of the evolving Global Internet. Deadline paper submissions 15 May to: http://gaia.cs.umass.edu:80/tccc/internet96/ or email Jon Crowcroft <jon@cs.ucl.ac.uk> IMR Editor [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 WEB INTERNATIONALIZATION & MULTILINGUISM SYMPOSIUM -------------------------------------------------- 20-22 November Sevilla, Spain Organized by Sadiel and the WWW Consortium, with the support of the European Commission. The object of this symposium is the advancement of the internationalization and multilingualism of the Web, as well as to seek agreement on the relevant standards. Registration from 15 September. For further information see: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/International/Sevilla-96 EITC'96 - European IT Conference ------------------------------------------ 25-27 November Congress Centre, Brussels, Belgium "Doing Business in the Information Society" Electronic commerce, provides the focus for sessions on IT applications, enabling technologies and international initiatives. For further information contact European Commission, DGIII or look up WWW: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/eitc96.htm EITC'96 - Post-Conference workshops ------------------------------------- 28 November Congress Centre, Brussels, Belgium "Promoting Networking Best Practice in Industry" Registration Forms on WWW: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/wrkfrm96.htm (to be filled in and returned by 8 November) For further information contact Franck Boissiere of the European Commission DGIII F5 at email <Franck.Boissier@dg3.cec.be> ASIAN'96 - Asian Computing Science Conference --------------------------------------------- 2-5 December Singapore Themes of this conference is: - Programming (sematics, languages, systems, ...) - Concurrency & Parallelism (algorithms, formalisms, systems ...) - Networking & Security (algorithms, protocols, formalisms, ...) Additional information available from: http://www.escs.nus.sg/~asian96 IMR Editor [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 COREC - "Interregional Cooperation in RTD - Challenges and Opportunities for Regions in Economic Conversion" ----------------------------------------------------------- 16-17 December Bremen, Germany This conference is about "Interregional Cooperation in Research and Technological Development and its Impact on Regional Economies". Background is the experience of the community initiative STRIDE and other programmes of the European Commission. Agenda is available on the Internet under: http://www.bremen.de Any further information may be obtained from: Mr. Wolfgang Petzold <wmte@uni-bremen.de> Senator fur Wirtschaft, Mittelstand, Technologie und Europeangelegenheiten Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997 ---------------------------------------- 10-12 February 1997 San Jose, CA, USA The object of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia computing and networking. Paper submission by 16 July 1996. For further information email <mmcn@cs.utexas.edu> IEEE INFOCOM '97 16th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer & Communications Societies --------------------------------------------------- 7-11 April 1997 Kobe, Japan Paper submissions by 14 June 1997. For further information contact http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom/ http:// arpeggio.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/infocom.html IMR Editor [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 ISADS 97 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems --------------------------------------------------------------- 9-11 April 1997 Berlin, Germany Supported by Hitachi, DeTeBerkom, NEC, Digital, GMD-FOCUS, Hewlett Packard, IBM. The focus will be on advancements and innovations in ADS platforms and applications. Integration of telecommunication and computing aspects into a uniform concept for providing an open distributed processing environment. For information see WWW: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ws/isads97/ IS&N '97 4th International Conference on Intelligence in Services & Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------- 27-29 May 1997 Como, Italy Title: "Technology for Co-operative Competition". The conference will provide a forum for the discussion of issues and the exchange of outstanding technical results related to the engineering of advanced communication services and experiments on their use. Sponsored by the European Commission and Italtel, and supported by ACTS projects in IS&N domain. Further information is available on WWW: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/SONAH/Acts/domain5 EEMA'97 10th Annual Conference of European Electronic Messaging Association ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-18 June 1997 Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands Issues of the conference will be: Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services; Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European Initiatives; Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology & Management Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots. For information contact WWW: http://www.eema.org/ IMR Editor [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report October 1996 INET'97 ------- 24-27 June 1997 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education, commerce and societies throughout the world. Abstracts of papers to be submitted by 10 October. - for details of submission procedure email <inet-programe-interest@isoc.org> - for program information email <inet-program-chair@isoc.org> - for general information email <inet'97@isoc.org> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMR Editor [Page 36]
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