Internet Monthly Report - June 1994
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INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
PRIVACY AND SECURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26
NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
NYSERNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
USER SERVICES REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 54
Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 57
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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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PRIVACY AND SECURITY
--------------------
The Privacy and Security Research Group (PSRG) met at South Lake
Tahoe on June 26-29. The PSRG reviewed the preparations for the
Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System
Security, sceheduled for February 16-17, 1995 in San Diego. Jim
Ellis, the symposium general chair, joined the discussion via
phone from Pittsburg, and provided a status update. The group
also recieved briefings my members on various topics, including
the ACM Crypto Policy panel, DoD Goal Security Architecture
documents, Secure HTTP, a software key escrow proposal from TIS,
the SILS (IEEE 802.10) key management protocol, and the followon
to the RACE program in the EU. The group reviewed the status of
the Internet Security Architecture document and made plans to
revise and release several of the chapters of this document
later in 1994. Finally, the PSRG devoted some time to
discussion of security requirements and mechanisms for use with
autonomous information retrieval agents (e.g., Knowbots), and
made plans to continue discussion of that topic in the future.
The next meeting of the PSRG is schedule for late September or
early October at NIST.
Steve Kent <kent@BBN.COM>
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
1. Let me remind everyone that 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. The
Newcomers' Orientation and Registration Reception will be on
Sunday, July 24. Logisitic messages and registration forms have
already been sent to the IETF Announcement list.
Following the July meeting, the IETF will be in San Jose from
December 5-9. We currently working on the IETF meetings in 1995.
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.
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2. The IESG approved or recommended the following 20 Protocol
Actions during the month of June, 1994:
o Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations is now a Proposed
Standard.
o Operational Requirements for X.400 Management Domains in the
GO-MHS Community be publised as an Informational RFC.
o Using the Internet DNS to distribute RFC1327 Address Mapping
Tables be published as an Experimental protocol.
o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) is now a Proposed
Standard.
o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
is now a Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) is now a Proposed Standard.
o BGP-4 protocol document roadmap and implementation experience
be publised as an Informational RFC.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like
Interface Types is now an Internet Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs is now a Proposed
Standard.
o Character MIB is now a Draft Standard.
o Parallel-printer-like MIB is now a Draft Standard.
o RS-232-like MIB is now a Draft Standard.
o TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection be
publised as an Informational RFC.
o TN3270 Enhancements is now a Proposed Standard.
o SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport is now a Draft
Standard.
o SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration is now
a Draft Standard.
o SMTP Service Extensions is now a Draft Standard.
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o PPP in HDLC-like Framing is now an Internet Standard.
o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is now an Internet
Standard.
o PPP Reliable Transmission is now a Proposed Standard.
3. The IESG issued 11 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
June, 1994:
o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-multilink-09> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces
<draft-ietf-ifmib-sipmib-01> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o Character MIB <draft-ietf-charmib-mib-02> for consideration
as a Draft Standard.
o Parallel-printer-like MIB <draft-ietf-charmib-ppl-mib-02>
for consideration as a Draft Standard.
o RS-232-like MIB <draft-ietf-charmib-rs232-mib-03> for
consideration as a Draft Standard.
o Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux)
<draft-cameron-tmux-03> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o PPP in Frame Relay <draft-ietf-pppext-frame-relay-03> for
consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o PPP LCP Option for Data Encapsulation Selection
<draft-ietf-pppext-dataencap-02> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management Version
8.0 <draft-ietf-atommib-atm-07> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o RDBMS-MIB <draft-ietf-rdbmsmib-mib-05> for consideration as
a Proposed Standard.
o Modem MIB <draft-ietf-modemmgt-mdmmib-03> for consideration
as a Proposed Standard.
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4. Three Working Groups were created during this period:
Access/Synchronization of the Internet Directories (asid)
Internet White Pages Requirements (whip)
DNS IXFR, Notification, and Dynamic Update (dnsind)
Additionally, two Working Groups were concluded:
X.400 Operations (x400ops)
Telnet TN3270 Enhancements (tn3270e)
5. A total of 33 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of June, 1994:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
WG I-D Title <Filename>
------ ------------------------------------------------
(pem) o PEM Security Services and MIME
<draft-ietf-pem-mime-05.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management
Version 8.0 <draft-ietf-atommib-atm-07.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-netbios-fcp-05.txt>
(none) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large
and Binary MIME Messages
<draft-vaudreuil-smtp-binary-04.txt>
(snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link
Control: SDLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-sdlc-mib-04.txt>
(modemmgt) o Modem MIB <draft-ietf-modemmgt-mdmmib-03.txt>
(none) o Post Office Protocol - Version 3
<draft-rose-pop3-again-02.txt>
(rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information
Base <draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonmib-02.txt>
(ifmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces
<draft-ietf-ifmib-sipmib-01.txt>
(imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
<draft-ietf-imap-imap4-03.txt>
(rdbmsmib) o RDBMS-MIB <draft-ietf-rdbmsmib-mib-05.txt>
(none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric in
Fibre Channel Standard <draft-chu-fabric-mib-01.txt>
(mobileip) o IP Mobility Support
<draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-04.txt>
(none) o Technical Criteria for Choosing IP:The Next
Generation (IPng)
<draft-kastenholz-ipng-criteria-02.txt>
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(nasreq) o Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
<draft-ietf-nasreq-radius-01.txt>
(pppext) o Proposal for Callback Control Protocol (CBCP).
<draft-ietf-pppext-callback-cp-01.txt>
(tuba) o CLNP Path MTU Discovery <draft-ietf-tuba-mtu-01.txt>
(822ext) + MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part
One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the
Format of Internet Message Bodies
<draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imb-00.txt, .ps>
(oncrpc) + Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2
<draft-ietf-oncrpc-bind-00.txt>
(pem) + Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and
Multipart/Encrypted <draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-00.txt>
(iab) + The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3.1
<draft-iab-standards-processv3-00.txt>
(imap) o IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms
<draft-ietf-imap-auth-01.txt>
(printmib) o Printer MIB <draft-ietf-printmib-printer-mib-01.txt>
(none) + MIME and File Transfer Body Parts
<draft-freed-ftbp-00.txt>
(none) + Shared Media Architecture for the Internet
<draft-ohta-shared-media-00.txt>
(none) + An Architecture for BigTen Address Allocation
<draft-rekhter-bigten-addr-arch-00.txt>
(none) + Naming Parts in MIME
<draft-pritchett-namingparts-mime-00.txt>
(none) + BigTen Address Format Selectors and Preferred
Address Formats <draft-li-bigten-addr-format-00.txt>
(uri) + Functional Requirements for Internet Resource
Locators <draft-ietf-uri-irl-fun-req-00.txt>
(none) + POP3 AUTHentication command
<draft-myers-pop3-auth-00.txt>
(imap) + IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2 AND IMAP2BIS
<draft-ietf-imap-compat-00.txt>
(imap) + SYNCHRONIZATION OPERATIONS FOR DISCONNECTED IMAP4
CLIENTS <draft-ietf-imap-disc-00.txt>
(none) + Socks Protocol Version 4
<draft-leech-socks-protocol-v4-00.txt>
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7. There were 8 RFC's published during the month of June, 1994:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1625 I (iiir) WAIS over Z39.50-1988
RFC1630 I (none) Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW:
A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of
Names and Addresses of Objects on the
Network as used in the World-Wide Web
RFC1633 I (none) Integrated Services in the Internet
Architecture: an Overview.
RFC1636 I (iab) Report of IAB Workshop on Security in the
Internet Architecture - February 8-10,
1994
RFC1637 E (none) DNS NSAP Resource Records
RFC1638 PS (pppext) PPP Bridging Control Protocol(BCP)
RFC1639 E (none) FTP Operation Over Big Address Records
(FOOBAR)
RFC1640 I (poised) The Process for Organization of Internet
Standards Working Group (POISED)
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 decreased by about 0.75% in June'94.
The process of CIDR aggregation continued in June. An increase in
the ANSnet forwarding table size of 1% was observed during the
month of June.
April Backbone Traffic Statistics
==============================
The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 61,782,591,066 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up
2.62% from May. The total packet count into the network including
all ENSS serial interfaces was 70,462,985,795 down .81% from May.
Router Forwarding Table Statistics
================================
The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during
June was 17,791 up 1% from May. This modest increase in the
monthly forwarding table size indicates the possible slowing of
CIDR aggregation.
The number of network destinations configured for announcement to
the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during June was
14,265.
BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status
============================
No new autonomous systems began exchanging routing information with
ANSnet via the BGP-4 protocol during June.
As of July 6 '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 6,081 class
based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables that
are now represented by 952 configured aggregates. Among these
configured aggregates:
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862 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another
ggregate).
751 of these are actively announced to ANSnet.
653 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other 98
may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements).
540 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one
configured more specific route.
526 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their
configured more specific routes.
510 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+) of
their more specific routes.
For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu:
pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr-savings.
For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see
merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings.
Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network
============================================
Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring
short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration
or less). This is intended as a measure of overall system
stability rather than complete connectivity. These measurements
had previously been based on rcp_routing logs and had not been
collected since February '94 when gated was deployed. The month of
June is the first complete month to be covered by this report since
then. June was the most stable month recorded since this data was
collected (since January 1993).
Month Overall Excluding Configs.
----- ------- -----------------
January 99.1% 99.5%
February 99.0% 99.5%
March 97.5% 99.1%
April 96.1% 97.2%
May 97.4% 98.0%
June 95.5% 96.6%
July 97.3% 97.7%
August 97.5% 97.9%
September 98.1% 98.5%
October 98.0% 98.3%
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November 97.2% N/A
December 96.6% N/A
January 98.7% N/A
February 96.6% N/A
...
June 99.5% N/A
This histogram of overall stability recorded by each node over the
last 12 months is as follows:
MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min
<98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97%
----------------------------------------------------
January 0 0 1 8 19 5
February 0 0 1 24 19 41
March 0 4 18 23 23 22
April 2 2 3 13 12 57
May 0 4 33 32 15 5
June 3 21 35 18 12 3
July 0 12 28 44 6 1
August 1 5 28 21 17 15
September 1 38 25 10 4 13
October 0 3 3 10 25 50
November 1 2 15 25 24 26
December 0 8 24 46 9 3
January 0 0 4 9 15 54
February 0 4 6 23 40 20
June 0 0 0 5 5 67
The histograms for June again reflected the best AS 690 internal
stability on record. This was due to there being no new router
system software deployment, no new routing software deployment,
fully dynamic reconfiguration, and no major circuit or equipment
problems in the ANS backbone.
External route flap reports have been completely rewritten to
accomodate differences in the way routes are withdrawn in BGP-4
(there is never an AS path included) and the support of CIDR. The
previous reports are described in:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/ExternalRouteFlapReports
The improved reports have been sent to AS~s bordering AS 690 since
late May. Reliable data is available for Jun 8th on. The monthly
summary reporting programs have not yet been fully converted.
Summaries will be available in the July report. A brief
description file and the notable unstable networks for each day
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from June 8th on can be found in the directory:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/daily-reports
Notable Outages for June '94
============================
UNAM suffered extended circuit outages on 06/06 and 06/18.
E222 (InterNIC) suffered an extended circuit outage on 06/17.
E158 (MHPCC) suffered an extended outage due to site maintenance on
06/18.
E138 (Atlanta) lost T3 connectivity due to hardware problems on
06/25.
UNAM suffered an extended outage due to site maintenance on 06/29.
Jordan Becker (becker@ans.net)
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
----------------------------
Current BBN Projects Include:
-----------------------------
"Nimrod," an architecture for next-generation internet routing and
addressing;
Point of contact: Martha Steenstrup, msteenstrup@bbn.com
Multicast and Multipath routing enhancements to Inter-Domain Policy
Routing;
Point of contact: Martha Steenstrup, msteenstrup@bbn.com
Enhancements to the Flow Synchronization Protocol, e.g. enabling it
to work over TCP and RTP, making it compatible with the latest
version of NeVoT, and adding a GUI for configuration and
performance monitoring.
Point of contact: Julio Escobar, jescobar@bbn.com
Determination of token bucket parameters necessary to meet service
requirements of some observed TCP flows. Results could be used,
for example, to guide the future configuration of traffic-shaping
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network interfaces.
Point of contact: Craig Partridge, craig@bbn.com
More complete reports of the above projects will be provided in the
future. This month, BBN provides a more elaborate report of its
Scalability project. The goals of this project are to study the
internetworking requirements of distributed interactive simulation
(DIS) and the capabilities of alternative internet
technologies/architectures to fulfill these requirements.
Scalability
With the pressing need to ensure that the Defense Simulation
Internet (DSI) is ready to support this Fall's STOW-Europe (STOW-E)
exercises, emphasis on BBN's Scalability Task has shifted.
Earlier, we were focusing almost exclusively on the long-term
networking requirements of distributed interactive simulation
(DIS). These days, we are focusing on finding the convergence
between current DSI capabilities and STOW-E capacity and latency
requirements.
The DSI is complex and has many configuration options. Moreover,
it is undergoing multiple upgrades. The bandwidth of the U.S.
backbone has recently been doubled (to 2xT1), and there are plans
to increase the bandwidth of the European segment, so that it will
be uniformly provisioned with links of at least T1 capacity. The
NES end-to-end encryption units are being upgraded to enable an
approximate 50% increase in throughput capacity. New software is
being deployed in the BBN T/20 gateways, and one of the benefits of
this new software is the ability to use multiple NESes in parallel,
thereby further increasing the capacity of the simulation site
access links.
While these changes are occurring, BBN is testing the performance
of DSI technology in the laboratory. Over the past month, we have
been subjecting individual DSI components to throughput testing in
which we have identified both unidirectional and bidirectional
throughput limits for a variety of packet sizes. Currently,
testbed configurations of typical DSI end-to-end paths are being
assembled, and traffic generators are being used to find the upper
limits of loss-free throughput. We are also recommending
additional changes to DSI configuration to enable the accommodation
of greater numbers of participating sites and higher volumes of
traffic. In early July, we will be constructing traffic generators
that represent the Government's best predictions of actual STOW-E
traffic volumes, packet sizes, and arrival behavior. These will be
applied to laboratory set-ups to further tune DSI capacity to meet
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the needs of STOW-E.
Josh Seeger (jseeger@bbn.com)
INTERNIC
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textsearch-and-retrieval capability for powerful searches on the
information contained on the disk.
The introductory issue is being offered free to qualified US
research and education institutions. For more information about the
free offer and NICLink, including ordering information, send email
to the Publications Department at wilsonp@is.internic.net
THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS...
"The Internet As A Strategic Business Tool"
Presented by Joel Maloff
InterNIC Information Services is proud to introduce its latest
seminar, "The Internet as a Strategic Business Tool", presented by
Joel Maloff. Joel has been involved in leading-edge
telecommunications for the past twenty years and with the Internet
for the past eight years. As Executive Director of CICNet (the Big
Ten universities research network) and later as Vice President of
Client Services for Advanced Network & Services (ANS), Joel has
been a leader in helping people to understand the benefits derived
from the Internet. In his seminar for the InterNIC, Joel will use
actual case studies to demonstrate many ways in which the Internet
can enhance an institution's long-range strategic plan, as long as
the goals, costs and benefits are well considered.
The seminar will be offered in various locations throughout the
summer. For more information, including cost, dates and times,
send email to seminars@internic.net.
NSF NETWORK NEWS
The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 2 (May/June 1994) has been
published and the new online version is up and running. It features
an interview with the new Executive Director of the Internet
Society, Tony Rutkowski, as well as a full-length article about the
new NSFNET architecture, with a topology map; a Regional NIC Report
from NorthWestNet about health care providers and the Internet; a
news brief on current and pending National Information
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Infrastructure (NII) legislation; and regular features of the _NSF
Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and updates from
InterNIC partners. To subscribe, send email to newsletter-
request@internic.net. Please include your postal address if you
want hardcopy.
The May/June issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the
WorldWideWeb at
http://www.internic.net/newsletter/may-june94/index.html
The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC
InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to
mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the
message:
get /about-internic/newsletter/archives/nsfnews-mar-94.txt
or
get /about-internic/newsletter/archives/nsfnews-sep-93.txt
As InterNIC Information Services' bimonthly publication for the
Internet community, the _NSF Network News_ is being distributed to
over 5,000 subscribers in 44 different countries and the United
States. Total distribution includes members of Internet
organizations such as FARNET and the Internet Society, national,
regional and midlevel service providers, network information
centers, and national supercomputer centers as well as a wide
variety of individual subscribers from the Internet community. The
goal of the _NSF Network News_ is to educate Internet users about
network issues, resources, and tools; announce new and innovative
uses of the Internet; and inform the Internet community about the
activities of the InterNIC.
REFERENCE DESK
The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for
June:
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 110 3.5
Phone 2894 91.7
Fax 138 4.4
US Mail 11 <1
Referral 2 <1
------- -------- ---------
Total 3155 100.0
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by Karen D. Frazer <kfrazer@is.internic.net>
DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
-------------------------------
Our users frequently ask us why various well-known organizations
cannot be found in our whitepages directory services.
We use a number of different tools to provide whitepages service.
They have various advantages, but they also have some
disadvantages.
One of the tools we use is X.500. X.500 is a directory service
based on international standards. Its model of the world is a tree
- the top of the tree consists of entries for countries, and
organizations can be entered under the countries. In some
countries, there are entries for geographical subdivisions (e.g.
states in the USA), and organizations can be entered under these
subdivisions.
Our X.500 server is part of a world-wide directory tree that
includes more than 1 million entries for individuals. Still, we
must remember that these 1,000,000+ entries do not contain everyone
on the Internet.
These entries are maintained by various organizations that run
X.500 servers for their own users. Since not every organization on
the Internet runs an X.500 server, there are many people who cannot
be found in X.500. If you have tried to find someone in X.500 and
received a message saying that the organization cannot be found, it
does not mean that the organization does not exist or that it is
not connected to the Internet - it probably just means that the
organization does not support an X.500 server.
Another popular tool we support is Netfind. Netfind was developed
at the University of Colorado by Mike Schwartz, and makes use of
common Internet tools like "finger" to find people. It does not
depend on directories that have been built by organizations
connected to the Internet; rather, it searches through a number of
machines on the net, looking for a machine that knows about the
target person of the search. It uses various rules and information
it has gathered to narrow the search to a likely set of machines.
Because Netfind does not depend on directories set up by
organizations attached to the Internet, it can find people that
aren't in any directory. However, Netfind does depend on tools
like finger, and many installations have turned off finger for
because of privacy or security concerns. For this reason, Netfind
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too can fail to find people even though they are connected to the
Internet.
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>
REGISTRATIONS SERVICES
----------------------
I. Significant Events
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 6000 network addresses
and registered over 2000 domains, including a top-level domain for
Panama. Blocks of 256 Class C addresses were assigned to
Sprint/Centel, Integrated Network Systems, Internet Public Access,
So. New England Telephone, THEnic, MCI, MRnet, INFONET, New
Brunswick Schools, CANET, and NCERN.
I. Registration Statistics For June
Hostmaster Email 5,236
Postal/Fax Applications 292
Telephone Calls 2,048
Domain Registered 2,061
Inverse Addresses 667
Class C's Assigned 6,742
Class B's Assigned 20
ASN Assigned 56
The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
of information retrieval requests during the month of Jun.
Connections Retrievals
Gopher 48,095 25,996
WAIS 28,471 36,647
FTP 9,180 38,916
Mailserv 2,154
In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:
Client Server
192,312 550,576
Scott Williamson <scottw@rs.internic.net>
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ISI
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NETSTATION
----------
Work this month has focused primarily on software investigation and
development.
Display Server Investigation
----------------------------
A graduate student, Munnangi S. K. Reddy, was hired to investigate
how to partition the X11 Display Server. The objective is to split
the server into two parts: "higher" and "lower". He will them
implement a server along those lines.
The "lower", or more fundamental bitmap manipulation portion of the
server, we desire to closely associate with the frame buffer,
interfacing it to the network, so that the physical display device
becomes a network peripheral. The analogy would be to transform
the bitmap-manipulation procedures within the X-server into remote
procedure calls (RPCs).
With the advent of gigabit LANs, the focus on minimizing network
traffic is no longer as important. One of the research questions
that we are asking is: Is it practical to substitute a gigabit LAN
for a system bus? In terms of a display interface design, this
asks whether or not the raster-op level routines can be called via
RPCs.
Evidently, X is not ideally partitioned for this as was the Sun
Pixrect display driver. However, X has become a standard and it
does not seem realistic to use anything but X at this juncture.
The implementation will not be strightforward. Many procedures
need to be ported and the server partition made at a point where
few up-calls will occur from the lower part of the server to the
upper part, yet the partition must be low enough to fairly test bus
substitution.
LANai 1.1 Software Development
------------------------------
The focus of LANai development during the past month has been on
implementing a light-weight reliable-packet protocol. In this
case, the protocol executes "inside" the LAN. A higher-layer
protocol that passes a packet to it, inherits reliable transmission
properties. This offloads that task from the host itself.
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This work is designed to test the proposition that a better
approach to obtaining higher RPC performance within a gigabit LAN
may be to perform the reliability function within the LAN itself,
with the retransmission timeout and retransmission taking place
underneath the host. Since RPCs are the cornerstone of message-
based distributed computing, the success of this approach would
have strong positive effect on cluster computing.
RPCs tend to be small packets. The focus of performance here
shifts from TCP's focus on reliability and high bandwidth, to a
focus on reliability and a high number of packets per second.
This partitioning is made possible with the new facilites of the
LANai. It is accomplished by utilizing a time-event driven
facility within the LANai, which was discussed last month, and by
adopting a light-weight source-interface to destination-interface
protocol that allows one unacknowledged reliable message packet to
be outstanding on a connection. While that is not a good idea on
slower or long-haul networks due to its negative effect upon
throughput, for a gigabit LAN the round-trip delay can be
sufficiently short that for RPCs the limitation may be more
theoretical than practical.
The merits/failings of this approach will be closely tied to the
performance of the system. Implementation is more or less complete
and debugging is underway. Performance figures should be available
by the time the next monthly report is written.
Greg Finn <finn@isi.edu>
Eight RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1625: St. Pierre, M., (WAIS,Inc.), J. Fullton (CNIDR),
K. Gamiel (CNIDR), J. Goldman (Thinking Machines
Corp.), B. Kahle, (WAIS, Inc.), J. Kunze (UC
Berkeley) H. Morris (WAIS, Inc.), F. Schiettecatte
(FS Consulting) " WAIS OVer Z39.50-1988", June 1994.
RFC 1630: Berners-Lee, T., "Universal Resource Identifiers in
WWW", CERN, June 1994.
RFC 1633: Braden, R. (ISI), D. Clark (MIT), S. Shenker
(Xerox PARC), "Integrated Services in the Internet
Architecture: an Overview", June 1994.
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RFC 1636: Braden, R., (ISI) D. Clark (MIT), S. Crocker (TIS),
C. Huitema (INRIA, IAB Chair), " Report of IAB
Workshop on Security in the Internet Architecture,
February 8-10, 1994", June 1994.
RFC 1637: Manning, B., (RICE University), R. Colella (NIST)
"DNS NSAP Resource Records", June 1994.
RFC 1638: Baker, F., (ACC), R. Bowen (IBM), "PPP Bridging
Control Protocol (BCP), June 1994.
RFC 1639: Piscitello, D., (Core Competence, Inc.) FTP Operation
Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR), June 1994.
RFC 1640: Crocker, S. (TIS), "The Process for Organization
of Internet Standards Working Group (POISED)",
TIS June 1994.
THE US DOMAIN
Domain Names for Local Government Agencies
The locality based domain names are the fundamental concept for
naming in the US Domain.
<host>.<locality>.<state-code>.US.
Within the locality namespace are cities and counties.
<host>.CI.<locality>.<state-code>.US.
<host>.CO.<locality>.<state-code>.US.
A "CI" branch was created for city government agencies, and "CO"
was created for county government agencies. Due to the fact that
GOV is designed for Federal agencies only, many local governments
have already begun registering in the US Domain. To find out how
to register a domain name for your local government, send a message
to us-domain@isi.edu.
Examples of cities and counties registered.
CI.NYC.NY.US
CI.PHOENIX.AZ.US
CI.SANTA-MONICA.CA.US
CO.DONA-ANA.NM.US
CI.LAS-CRUCES.NM.US
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Examples of departments registered under CI and CO governments.
LIB.CI.SCOTTSDALE.AZ.US
ED.CO.TULARE.CA.US
Admin.CO.MARTIN.FL.US
CATGIS.DEP.CI.NYC.NY.US
US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX 449
PHONE 61
----------------------------
Total Contacts 510
DELEGATIONS 27
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 20
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 463
---------------------------
Total 510
OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: modifications, application
requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
about names, referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic,
resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and
whois listings.
Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------------
K12.MD.US Maryland K12 schools
CC.MD.US Maryland Community colleges
TEC.MD.US Maryland technical schools
STATE.PA.US Pennsylvania State Gov't agencies
MUS.SC.US South Carolina museums
Localities:
WORTHINGTON.OH.US Worthington, Ohio
TAOS.NM.US Taos, New Mexico
WESTMINSTER.CO.US Westminster, Colorado
BOWMAR.CO.US Bowmar, Colorado
CASTEROCK.CO.US Castlerock, Colorado
OURAY.CO.US Ouray, Colorado
MONTROSE.CO.US Montrose, Colorado
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Other US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------
NHSL.LIB.NH.US New Hampshire State Library
BROOKDALE.CC.NJ.US Brookdale Community College
MCBBS.FLAGSTAFF.AZ.US Mission Control BBS of Flagstaff
CI.LA.CA.US City of Los Angeles, California
SHASTA.FORESTRY.STATE.CA.US Shasta County Dept. of Forestry
LIB.CO.SHASTA.CA.US Shasta County Library
LIB.CO.SHASTA.CA.US Shasta County Library
PUB-LIB.CI.FORT-WORTH.TX.US. Fort Worth Public Library
LIB.CO.ALAMEDA.CA.US Alameda County Library
CO.ALAMEDA.CA.US Alameda County
CO.UMATILLA.OR.US Umatilla County gov't
RSC.CLAREMORE.CC.OK.US Rogers State College, Claremore Ok
FORT-LAWN.SC.US Fort Lawn, South Carolina
MWD.DISTRICT.CA.US Metro Water Distr. of So. Calif.
CHRONICLE.WASHINGTON.DC.US Chronicle of Higher Education
TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
-----------------------------------------------------------
AK X
AL X
AR X
AZ X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
CA X X X X
CO X X X X X X X
CT
DC X
-----------------------------------------------------------
DE X
FL X X X X X X X
GA X X X X
HI
-----------------------------------------------------------
IA X X X X
ID X X X X X X X
IL X X X X X
IN X X X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
KS X
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
MA X
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
-----------------------------------------------------------
MD X X X
ME X X
MI X X X X X
MN X X X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
MO X X X X X
MS X X
MT X
NC X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
ND X X X X X X X
NE X X X X
NH X X
NJ X
-----------------------------------------------------------
NM X X X
NV
NY X X X X X X X
OH X X X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
OK
OR X X X X X X X
PA X X
RI X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
SC X X X X X X X
SD X X
TN X
TX X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
UT X X X X
VA X X X X
VI
VT X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
WA
WI X X X
WV X X X X X X X
WY X
===========================================================
For more information about the US Domain please request an
application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to:
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RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application".
For example:
To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU
Subject: US Domain Application
help: us_domain_application
Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING
------------------------
This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's NSFNET Project
Internet Engineering and Network Management groups.
Jim Williams, Merit's Associate Director for National Networking
and NSFNET Project Co-Principal Investigator, has been appointed as
the new Executive Director for FARNET, the Federation of American
Research Networks. Jim's responsibilities at Merit included
supervision of all NSFNET Project activities.
Several Merit staffers participated in INET'94 in Prague June 15th
through 17th. Eric Aupperle, Merit President, presented "The
changing Internet landscape: A six-year perspective From NSFNET
data." Elise Gerich, Merit's Internet Engineering manager was a
member of the Program Committee for Network Engineering and chaired
a session on Routing and Addressing. Bill Norton from the Merit
Network Management group presented "Network discovery algorithms
for the NSFNET."
Merit PRDB whois tools are now accessible via email server. The
server is reached by addressing mail to whoismail@prdb.merit.edu.
The subject line will be included in the reply. The body of your
message should only be composed of a PRDB command, e.g., shownet
35. For help with the email server or other public tools contact
rradmin@rrdb.merit.edu.
Andy Adams from the Merit Network Management Group participated in
the Workshop on the Infrastructure Requirements and Design
Considerations for a Federation of Botanical Databases in Berkeley
on June 10th and 11th. He led the "Hardware and Network
Infrastructure" group and contributed to a chapter of
recommendations which will be included in a set of recommended
strategies for distributed Federal databases to the National
Science Foundation.
Kenneth T. Latta, II (klatta@merit.edu)
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NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK)
--------------------------------------------------
NEARNET MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
NEARNET would like to welcome the following new members who have
joined NEARNET during the month of June:
Data Conversion Incorporated of Cambridge, MA
IDG World Expo Corp, Inc. of Framingham, MA
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center of Waltham, MA
I/B/E/S Inc. of New York, NY (through Ziff Information Systems in
Medford, MA)State Street Bank of Quincy, MA
Melville of Rye, NY (via Marshalls Division of Andover, MA)
NEARNET EXPANDS INTERNET SERVICES TO NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
NEARNET has recently expanded its Internet services to the New York
metropolitan area and northern New Jersey.
BBN ACQUIRES BARRNET FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN) has signed a letter of intent to
acquire the Bay Area Regional Research Network (BARRNet) from
Stanford University in San Francisco, California. This aquisition
signals the merger of the leading Internet Services providers for
New England and the San Francisco Bay Area.
NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE
The Summer set of NEARNET member training courses is scheduled for
August 10-12 in BBN's Newman Auditorium. For more information,
please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-
us@near.net or call 617-873-8730.
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
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.
NEARNET USER SERVICES STEERING COMMITTEE (USSC) UPDATE
The latest meeting of the NEARNET USSC was held on June 27 at BBN.
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The focus of the meeting was to continue improving the NEARNET
Gopher. Richard Harrison, President of Harrison & Troxell Inc.,
meet with the committee to discuss improvements to the
InterNavigator portion of the NEARNET Gopher.
"NEARNET THIS MONTH" ONLINE BULLETIN PUBLISHED
NEARNET has published and distributed the June issue of its online
bulletin, "NEARNET This Month". Past issues are available via
anonymous FTP at ftp.near.net in the pathname: newsletter/nearnet-
this-month. Past issues are also accessible via Gopher and WWW.
Future issues will include information on upcoming NEARNET
seminars, training, resources and information services. NEARNET
members who would like to receive future issues via e-mail should
send a note to nearnet-us@near.net.
by NEARNET Client Services <nearnet-us@nic.near.net>
NORTHWESTNET
------------
The User Services committee convened by teleconference on June 16
for its monthly meeting. This month the group focused on staffing
and planning for Internet support and services. Betsy Draper of
North Dakota State University moderated.
In a continuation of NorthWestNet's regularly scheduled Internet
Training Series, six three-hour classes were held at the
NorthWestNet training facility in Bellevue, Washington. Topics
covered included an introduction to the Internet, Electronic Mail
(PINE), File Transfer Protocol, Telnet, and Gopher and Veronica.
For information about upcoming scheduled classes, retrieve the
following via anonymous FTP:
FTP Host: ftp.nwnet.net
directory: /training
filename: course-descriptions.txt
-----------------
NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net
15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
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NYSERNET
--------
This Spring NYSERNet released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for
Internetworking Services for NYSERNet Affiliates. The RFP was
distributed to over 25 vendors and made available via anonymous FTP.
NYSERNet received nine formal proposals in response to the RFP and is
currently going through several review processes at this time.
NYSERNet's plan and calendar for the RFP, contracting process and
transition (if new Providers are selected):
March 28, 1994 RFP Released
April 8, 1994 Written questions Due (3:00 PM EST)
April 15, 1994 NYSERNet response to written questions
April 22, 1994 Letter of Intent Due
May 13, 1994 RFP Responses Due
June 17, 1994 Contract Negotiations Completed
June 30, 1994 Contract Decisions Announced
July 15, 1994 Transition Plan Completed
July 29, 1994 Transition Starts
December 31, 1994 Transition Completed
NYSERNET EDUCATION PROGRAM UPDATE
The NYSERNet Internet Technology Education Center (NITEC)
completed an Internet workshop for staff of the Cambridge Public
Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The four day workshop,
sponsored by Continental Cablevision, included an introduction
to the Internet and two days of hands-on training on the latest
Internet tools. The primary focus of the workshop was on issues
related to providing public access to the Internet.
The NITEC Fall schedule of courses will be published this
August. To receive a copy of the schedule and be added to the
NITEC mailing list, please contact NYSERNet at
training@nysernet.org or call 315-453-2912 ext. 222.
NYSERNET SPONSORED PROJECT UPDATE
NYSERNet initiated Project C.A.R.E. (Community Accessible Rural
Education) through funding provided through the offices of State
Senator Charles D. Cook. With this project, NYSERNet will
coordinate the provision of Internet connections and training to
[eight] schools in New York's 40th district to ensure that rural
schools can offer the same opportunities currently enjoyed by
larger and more [a]ffluent school districts.
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NYSERNet also coordinates a variety of K-12 projects. One that
has received considerable media coverage and nationwide interest
is the Women In Science, Engineering, and Math Mentors Program.
The program was piloted last spring and is concluding its first
full school year program on June 7th, 1994. Through the
program, high school girls are electronically connected to a
multitude of professional women for a five month period of
interviewing and dialogue. They also meet in person for a day
of shadowing in the workplace and for the opening and closing
luncheon activities and training. The program has recently
received a grant from the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) to expand this year's program to
include young women from the government housing projects in
Rochester. There are plans to extend this program to statewide
participants regionally through our affiliates. For more info.
contact coleary
NYSERNet introduced the Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse
gopher and WWW servers to the Internet. The BCIC will be a
partnership of many organizations which provide information
about breast cancer to the public. Current partners include the
NYS Division of the American Cancer Society, and the CNY Chapter
of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation among many
others. Partners provide print materials to NYSERNet which are
scanned and made available on-line. If you have gopher access,
gopher to nysernet.org and choose the BCIC from NYSERNet's main
menu. If you are using a WWW browser, point your URL to
http://nysernet.org/bcic/index.html.
NYSERNet was among thirteen small NYS high technology businesses
invited to exhibit at "The New York State Technology Showcase".
The showcase was toured by Governor Mario Cuomo. NYSERNet
demonstrated its Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse and
other Internet accessible resources. Following the tour,
Governor Cuomo met with Jim Luckett, Executive Director of
NYSERNet and the COs of the each of the other exhibitors for a
round table discussion of technology policy in New York State.
NEW AFFILIATES
NYSERNet welcomes the following new leased-line affiliates:
American Vacuum Society, Centre Reinsurance, College of St.
Rose, Hospital Association of NYS, Hospital for Special Surgery,
Long Island Information, Manhattanville College, METRO Library
System, National League for Nursing, NY Academy of Medicine, NYC
Dept. Envl Cons. - Shokan, NYC Dept. Envl. Cons. - Valhalla, NYS
Dept. of Health, Rochester General Hospital, Russell Sage
Foundation, St. Lawrence University, Schuyler-Chemung-Tioga
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BOCES, Syracuse City School District, The Sage Colleges,
Westchester Library System, Williamsville North High School.
NYSERNET CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED
NYSERNet announced its Conference '94 which will be held at the
Desmond Americana Hotel in Albany, New York from Thursday,
September 29 through Saturday, October 1, 1994. The theme for
this year's statewide conference is "Connecting the NEW New
York". Thursday afternoon's agenda will include an Open Board
Meeting of NYSERNet's Board of Directors, and a meeting of
NYSERTech, NYSERNet's technical user's group. The NYSERNet
community is welcome to attend each of these events at no
charge, although NYSERTech is only open to those individuals who
are members of NYSERTech. A wine and cheese reception follows,
to which all conference attendees are welcome. Friday's
Conference program will feature a keynote speaker, then a full
day of parallel sessions along four program tracks: Government
and Technology, Education, Libraries, and Network Technologies.
Tutorials will be held Saturday, October 1, utilizing the
computing facilities of SUNY Albany and the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. Half day Tutorials scheduled will include
two hands-on sessions: "Internet Everyday (Beginners)" and "We
the People (Advanced)." Full day technical tutorials scheduled
include "Linking your LAN to Internet," "How To Cook Your UNIX
Gopher Server," and "Contributing to The World Wide Web:
Selecting and Installing an HTTP Server." Other sessions are to
be announced.
Terri Damon <tmdamon@nysernet.ORG>
UCL
----
Peter Kirstein, Mark Handley, Atanu Ghosh and Mark Handley attended
the JENC/INET Conference in Prague.
Sasse and Kirstein made numerous preserntations in the areas of
security and multimedia conferencing. The MICE Project not only ran
a demonstration, but also assisted in the Mbone distribution of the
sessions, configuraing most of the systems, and, with assistance
from MCI/BT and others, setting up the complex networking
infrastructure from Prague to the rest of the world.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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USER SERVICES REPORT
--------------------
Trip Report
17th RIPE Meeting - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
January 24-26, 1994
Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute
The 17th RIPE Meeting
The 17th RIPE Meeting was held in January 1994 in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Review and approval of the agenda and minutes of the
last meeting was first, with parallel sessions starting after general
plenaries.
1. RIPE NCC Report by Daniel Karrenberg
During the last quarter, the RIPE NCC Staff included Daniel, Anne
Lord, Tony Bates, and Marten Tempstra, with NCC funding. Now, the
RIPE NCC also has PRIDE (Policy Based Routing Implementation and
Deployment in Europe) funding (January 1994). New staffers include
Geza Terchany and Geert Jan de Groot. The RIPE NCC basically works
as one team, despite the funding situation. There are no split
personalities. Since the NOC operations started two years ago, the
Internet has tripled in size. The number of Internet service
providers has increased by that factor, also. The number of books on
the Internet has grown even faster. Meanwhile, the staffing of the
NCC core of services has stayed the same. There is a problem with
this. The NCC core of services needs more staff in 1994. Geza is
only a six months hire. The RIPE NCC needs more trained staff.
The RIPE NCC Internet Registry (IR)
Registry
- revised registration procedures
- application for blocks of Class Cs need extra checking
- RIPE handles will happen
Address Space
- approximately 18 per week
- approximately 100 Class Cs per working day
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Local Registry
- 83 registries (24 "last resort")
- still do most of the work
- more large requests
Database Objects Processed
Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
27938 28110 58189 42767
The new "automatic" software has proven itself. There has been
excellent feedback from the community. There has been an increase
in the update frequency. A database is needed to provide
documentation and software release. On the other hand, coverage
still needs to be improved.
Document Store
The document store is well used, with continuing efforts to
improve the presentation. Presentations and publications for a
wide audience are requested and welcomed.
Joint Projects
GISD (Generic Interface Service Description) needs continuation.
An editor is being sought (funding is available). The PRIDE
project is going very well. Tools have been released
(prtractroute, prcheck). There is a prpath prototype and
documentation being created (guides, courses). Infrastructure
work is going on, with additional office space being provided this
month (January 1994). The computing center is utilizing used SUN
ELCs. There has been an increase in incoming faxes and electronic
mail.
Odds and Ends
NCC Connectivity:
NCC --> NIKHEF --> SURFNET-EMPS
Concerns within the community include:
universal connectivity
commercial advantage of NCC proposals
NCC neutrality
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These problems are being addressed.
2. RIPE NCC Funding - Rob Blokzijl
Not all funds have been secured yet. Service providers are urged
to contact the RIPE NCC. Daniel Karrenberg needs an increase in
staff. This must be resolved this year. The RIPE NCC Activity
Plan (1994-1995) is still being worked on. One or two comments
have been received. Basically, those comments pointed out
spelling and grammatical errors, and that's it. A short
discussion could be worth while, but approval should come back by
this coming Wednesday (see Appendix for the Draft plan).
3. Policy Based Routing Implementation and Deployment in Europe
(PRIDE) -
Tony Bates
The organization of PRIDE consists of only one FTE for the first
three months. One-third of the time is allotted to Daniel. The
second position is filled by Marten Tempstra, which started
January 1994. The PRIDE plan is available.
Tool Status
The current release of PRIDE Tools is 1.0.3. There have been
general fixes. Keep those suggestions coming. The PRIDE
mailing list is set up, including an archive. The general
PRIDE FTP directory:
ftp.ripe.net: pride/tools
: pride/docs
: pride/reports
The Future
The first PRIDE Guide and Course is due in week ten (10). It
is on schedule, and general discussion and ideas have begun.
The structure is related to RIPE-81++. An alpha version of the
"prpath" tools is in test mode at the NCC. PRIDE will detail
all possible paths from A to B, according to information
compiled.
Related Activities
The RIPE PR/Database and the software and documents are an
integral part of the PRIDE work. The population of the RIPE RR
(Routing Registry) is by non-RIPE service providers. There has
been a pilot set up with Alternet. More are needed. Daniel
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and Tony will attend the regional techs meeting to discuss
PRIDE and related issues.
Quick Summary
The Route Server (RS) project is officially over, but the PRIDE
project is operating the RS. The Route Server itself is fully
operational. The new "gated" is a considerable improvement in
both performance and stability. It also contains support for
BGP4 in detail.
- A large amount of alpha testing done in "Kludge"
mode as per RIPE-03.
- All working automatically.
Is it doing anything? Yes. It is acting in "pilot" mode for
NORDUNET for over two months as the secondary NEXT_HOP provider
for updates to AS690.
What's Next?
- Use of PRIDE tools to build RS configurations
- Work on CIX RS/RR
- Possible project to set up a second European route server
at the GIX.
- Combined as an RR.
- D-GIXs, et al?
4. Network Information Discovery for Users Support (NIDUS WG)
The NIDUS WG, chaired by Nandor Hovarth, held a session at this RIPE
meeting.
A. Blasco Bonito lead a continued discussion regarding GARR's Network
Resource Guide. At the last RIPE meeting, the group felt that this
resource guide could have two paths to follow.
-continue building on the guide as is and keep enhancing it
-find out if a pilot project group needs to be started to
help in the development of the specialization of each item
within the guide
-would RIPE be the forum for this pilot or RARE?
A. Blasco Bonito updated the group that this effort has now included
discussion on an on-line modified WAIS server. The reaction so far
has been positive. This work has been shown to RARE, but no one from
GARR had a chance to attend the RARE meetings in Warsaw, so there has
not been any opportunity to continue talks with RARE. Meanwhile,
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GARR has decided to go ahead with the document at the national level.
This includes setting up a WAIS/Gopher server, developing a simple to
use template on a national level and circulating it. A question was
raised, "Are people following through and filling out and returning
the template?" Yes. Response has been positive.
Joyce Reynolds presented a report on the IETF User Services Area
activities and meetings held during the Houston IETF in November.
She also reported on the EARN Network Services Conference, the
EARNINFO Group, and the RARE ISUS WG meeting, all held in Warsaw,
Poland in October (see Appendix).
5. Connectivity Working Group (Status Report on Russia) - Rob Blokzijl
Three different endeavors that are currently going on in Russia with
the help from outside organizations were discussed at this session.
Rob provided information on the RELCOM, FREENET, EUnet, and NSF. A
description of the Radio-MSU Network effort (DESY-Germany) was
discussed, as were the efforts of the NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center's (GSFC) involvement in Russia.
RELCOM/FREENET/EUnet/NSF
RELCOM is the commercial line from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The
RELCOM node is only a copper wire connection. It will be fiber in
a few weeks (60Km in length). The first stage will include
fifteen nodes (Steve Goldstein and NSF helped). FREENET, EUnet,
RELCOM, NSF are all trying for more fiber instead of copper wire.
The figure below shows the current schema. There have been
attempts to link fiber to the southern area (M9), but there are
problems with the length of cable. Rob (as a NSF representative)
is waiting for a proposal from Russia regarding expanding the
cable. Rob mentioned that Russia has certain components that are
still missing which are critical to their connectivity. They need
full completion of the project before connectivity can become a
reality.
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| EUnet |
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o St. Pete
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o M9
In the figure above, Rob mentioned that the first working connection
was the RELCOM/St. Pete line. The speed of the modems ranges from
2Mb up to 8Mb (they are mostly 4Mb). The routers have not been
ordered yet. Once they are ordered, it will take up to six months
for them to arrive. The routers are an integral part to the
connectivity. Currently, there is just a point to point connection.
Radio-MSU Network
Radio-MSU Network, which is a combined satellite/microwave network
has been set up between three institutes in the Moscow region and
DESY (Germany).
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The problem of getting the low speed for the Moscow region is that it
has very cheap satellite links from the former Soviet Union. Rob has
letters from five separate institutions to work on the satellite
links. Yet, what will be the reliability of the routers? Another
problem for discussion is the commercial versus the non-commercial
ideas. The funding by DESY/DFN (the Germany Ministry of Research and
Technology) is improving network connectivity. Work is in process of
cleaning up the other lines.
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is working on a project
with a Russian project, called "IKI", with a 256Kbps link. This
project is very heavily space science oriented on the first tier.
Low speed, high speed is all NASA has planned in conducting space
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science projects between NASA and IKI. Currently, NASA's lines are
all synchronous. The Russians have suggested using asynchronous
lines, as there are problems in Moscow with synchronous. The big
question, "Will it ever work?"
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Appendix
RIPE NCC Activity Plan
DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT
R.Blokzijl
1 January 1994
Version 2
1. Introduction
The RIPE NCC has been working since 1 April 1992 on the basis of an
Activity Plan defined by RIPE in 1991. In September 1993 the work of
the RIPE NCC has been reviewed by a RIPE panel; the results of the
review have been approved by RIPE, and have been published as
document ripe-099.
Based upon the review activity, the review panel recommended
that a new RIPE NCC Activity Plan should be adopted, better
reflecting the actual work of the RIPE NCC. This has resulted in
the current document which constitutes the RIPE NCC Activity
Plan for 1994 and 1995.
Subsequent sections give background information on RIPE and the
RIPE NCC. A full description of RIPE NCC activities is given,
together with reporting mechanisms. Finally, administrative
procedures for change control of the Activity Plan are defined.
2. Background
2.1 About RIPE
RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeens) is a collaborative organisation
open to all European Internet service providers. The
objective of RIPE is to ensure the necessary administrative
and technical coordination to allow the operation of a
pan-European IP network. RIPE does not operate a network of
its own.
RIPE has been functioning since 1989. Currently more then 60
organisations participate in the work. The result of the RIPE
coordination effort is that the individual end-user is
presented on his desktop with a uniform IP service,
irrespective of the particular network his or her
workstation is attached to. In December 1993, more than
500,000 hosts throughout Europe are reachable via networks
coordinated by RIPE. The total number of systems reachable
worldwide is estimated at close to two million.
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2.2 About the RIPE NCC
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre supports all those RIPE
activities which cannot be effectively performed by
volunteers from the participating organisations. Besides
supporting RIPE activities in general, the RIPE NCC provides
the following services to network operators:
o network management database containing information
about IP networks, DNS domains, IP routing policies and
contact information
o delegated Internet registry, a clearing house distributing
Internet numbers (most importantly address space)
o domain name system (DNS) coordination
o graphical maps of IP networks
o repository for network operations software
o RIPE document store
o interactive information service
The RIPE NCC started operations on April 1st, 1992, and
currently has 3 permanent staff members.
The RIPE NCC is embedded in RIPE. This means that the RIPE
NCC Activity Plan is defined by RIPE, and that the RIPE NCC
reports, at least, to RIPE on a regular basis.
The RARE association provides the formal framework for the
RIPE NCC.
3. Technical - Coordination Activities
3.1 Internet Registry for Europe
The RIPE NCC will will act as the European registry for the
delegation of Internet numbers. The RIPE NCC will perform
this function in close cooperation and coordination with
a. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
b. The global Internet Registry (currently the Internic)
c. Local Registries of European service providers
In exceptional cases the NCC can act as the Registry of last
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resort for European organisations.
3.2 Maintain a database of European IP networks and their
management information.
The database to be maintained will contain several classes
of objects.
These objects are described in detail in ripe-13. At the
moment the following object classes have been defined:
a. Networks
b. Responsible persons
c. Domains
d. Routers
e. International lines
f. Name Servers
The NCC will be responsible for the database entries; this
includes
a. collection of database entries
b. checking of individual entries
c. checking of consistency and integrity of the database
Quarterly reports on changes in the contents of the database
will be produced, together with statistics about the number
of database entries.
3.3. Distribution of the database.
Secondary copies of the database can be installed at other
sites upon request. It is the responsibility of the NCC to
keep track of such secondaries.
The RIPE NCC will provide assistance to local registries in
setting up secondary database servers.
An up to date record of secondary sites will be maintained
on line.
3.4. Coordination of database exchange with other organisations.
The NCC will coordinate and execute the exchange of database
information with NCC's outside Europe. The result will be
that for the end user of the database one uniform set of
global information will be available.
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3.5. Keep a record of operational contact points.
This will consist of a list of NOC's and responsible people
that will be used as a reference list for the individual
NOC's to be used in case of network related incidents,
including security incidents. Individual NOC's will be able
to subscribe to a weekly update service.
3.6. Placement of name servers and backup servers in Europe, and
beyond.
On a regular basis the interworking between the DNS name
servers in Europe, and their connections to name servers
outside Europe, must be checked.
Detected errors and inconsistencies must be reported.
Corrective actions must be followed in case of severe
problems.
The result will be a consistent set of name servers.
3.7. Referral Services.
The RIPE NCC will perform a Referral Service for Internet
Service providers. The NCC will do this in a fair and
impartial way.
3.8 Coordination with Local Registries.
The RIPE NCC will keep close contact with Local Registries
in Europe. The RIPE NCC will assist such registries in
setting up and maintaining their services.
This activity may include presentations on the work of the
RIPE NCC for broader audiences, such as relevant conferences
and workshops. It may also include coordinated
development of common tools.
4. Technical - Development Activities
NICs and NOCs and the NCC need special purpose software tools for
their work. While some of these tools are available commercially
others will have to either be obtained from the public domain or
specially developed to suit local needs. The NCC will collect,
develop, document and test such tools in order to make them
available to the RIPE community. While some basic support will be
given the NCC will not provide full support for these tools.
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4.1. Database management tools.
Tools for management of the database and their maintenance
are an important work item for the NCC. The result will be
the availability of a consistent database.
4.2. Database querying tools.
Development and maintenance of the whois utility. The result
will be a program, available from a file server, that
permits remote interrogation of the database.
4.3. DNS quality control tools.
Utilities for quality control of the interworking of the DNS
name servers will be developed and maintained. The result
will be a set of software and documentation, available from
a server.
On an ad hoc basis special projects are taking place inside the
RIPE NCC. These projects are funded separately, but the NCC may
give administrative, management and technical support. Therefore
the following activity is defined:
4.4. Special projects.
The RIPE NCC can participate in special projects that have
been approved by at least the RIPE community. The nature
of the participation can be administrative, managerial or
technical. The total amount of NCC participation should not
exceed 20% of the NCC resources.
Results of the special projects will be publicly available.
5. Administrative - RIPE Activity Support
The NCC will give the following support to the RIPE activities:
5.1. Keeping the RIPE document store.
The NCC will keep RIPE documents online and easily
accessible to the RIPE community. Copies of other document
stores relevant to the RIPE community, such as the
repository of RFCs, will equally be provided.
Modern document retrieval utilities will be installed and
maintained to facilitate access to the document store.
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5.2. Technical and secretarial support for studies undertaken by
RIPE.
The NCC will provide technical and clerical support for
RIPE studies and working groups in order to enhance
continuity and coordination of the work between RIPE
meetings.
5.3. Organisational support for RIPE meetings.
RIPE meeting attendance is expected to be on the order of
80 persons, meeting three times a year.
The NCC will provide clerical support to organise these
meetings in order to keep them productive.
6. Administrative - Reporting
The NCC will follow the following general reporting procedures:
6.1. Quarterly reports an all activities will be produced for the
RIPE participating organisations and the RIPE NCC funding
organisations.
6.2. Quarterly reports on outstanding problems will be produced
for the RIPE participating organisations and the RIPE NCC
funding organisations.
6.3. The NCC reports on its ongoing work and outstanding problems
also to each RIPE meeting. These meetings take currently
place three times a year.
6.4. The NCC will produce annual reports. These will be available
on the 31st of January following the year to be reported on.
The annual report will contain a summary of the activities
and an overview of the financial situation.
All reports produced by the RIPE NCC will be publicly available.
7. Review and Change Control
The functioning of the RIPE NCC based on the current activity plan
shall be reviewed in the fourth quarter of 1995. The review panel
will consist of at least the Chairs of RIPE and the RIPE
Working Groups.
The current Activity Plan can be amended on request by a full RIPE
meeting which includes the organisations that are funding the
RIPE NCC.
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Report on the Current Activities of the Following Groups:
- IETF User Services Area
- RARE ISUS Working Group
- EARN's EARNINFO Group
Joyce K. Reynolds, <jkrey@isi.edu>
25th January 1994
IETF - User Services Area
Last Meeting: Houston, Texas
November 1993
Area Director: Joyce K. Reynolds
- The User Services Area of the IETF is a second level group -
providing help to teachers, trainers, etc., in the form of
documentation to take to their end-users - the first level.
- The IETF is an open, technical group which defines and develops
protocols for the Internet.
- Current User Services Area Working Groups include:
- Integrated Directory Services (IDS)
- Integration of Internet Information Resources (IIIR)
- Internet School Networking (ISN)
- Networked Information Retrieval (NIR)
- Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI)
- Network Training Materials (TRAINMAT)
- User Documentation (USERDOC2)
- Universal Resource Identifiers (URI)
- User Services (USWG)
- Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS)
- The User Services Area Council (USAC)
"FYI RFCs"
For Your Information - Request for Comments
- FYIs are a subseries of RFCs.
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- FYIs are introductory and overview documents for ALL LEVELS
of network users.
- Purpose to make available general information, rather than
protocol specifications.
- Currently, 21 FYI RFCs.
- Two new - ready to be published:
1) ISN - FAQ for Primary and Secondary Schools
2) Update to FYI4.
- IETF User Services Area and RARE ISUS continue to work in
parallel and in a complimentary fashion, with coordination
between Jill Foster and Joyce Reynolds.
RARE WG3 - RARE ISUS Working Group
Last Meeting: Warsaw, Poland
October 1993
Chair: Jill Foster
- RARE ISUS covers a broad range of people and activities where
most of the work is done in task forces.
- It is a volunteer effort and is open to everyone interested in
participating.
- Current activities and Task Forces include:
- RARE Technical Report 1
- UNITE - User Network Interface to Everything
- Multimedia Information Services
- Networked Information Retrieval (NIR)
- Coordination of NIR in Europe
- User Documentation
- Document Delivery
- Network Training Materials
- Support for Special Interest Groups
- User Requirements of Automatic Mail-Based Servers
- At the RARE ISUS meetings in Warsaw, two announcements
were made:
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1) Jill appointed to chair INET/JENC94 User and Applications
Support Track.
2) Jill resigned from ISUS as Chair.
EARN - EARNINFO
Last Meeting: Warsaw, Poland
October 1993
Chair: David Sitman
- EARN covers a larger geographical area than RARE, which includes
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
- EARNINFO meetings are usually attended by those attending the
EARN technical meetings, not specifically made up of user
support people.
- The "real work" is performed by a paid staff.
- EARNINFO focuses on general end user issues.
- Two interesting projects in process:
1) NETFIND - EARN Pilot
2) "Guide to Network Resource Tools"
- EARN/RARE ISUS Cooperation Issues?
A merger between EARN and RARE is not impossible and could be
desirable, but on the other hand, something may also be said
of healthy competition.
For Further Information:
1) Trip Report was filed in the Internet Monthly Report (IMR).
2) IETF User Services Area Report (see below).
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IETF
User Services Area Report
Houston, Texas
Joyce K. Reynolds (USAD)
November 1993
10 working groups in the User Services Area of the IETF met in
Houston, Texas.
Integrated Directory Services (IDS), chaired by Tim Howes and Chris
Weider. (Summary reported by Tim Howes.)
The IDS Working Group is chartered to facilitate the integration and
interoperability of current and future directory services into a
unified directory service. This work will unite directory services
based on a heterogeneous set of directory services protocols (X.500,
WHOIS++, etc.). In addition to specifying technical requirements for
the integration, the IDS Group will also contribute to the
administrative and maintenance issues of directory service offerings
by publishing guidelines on directory data integrity, maintenance,
security, and privacy and legal issues for users and administrators of
directories.
The IDS WG reviewed, discussed and/or progressed the following
documents. Held up, pending more vendor responses, "X.500
Implementation Survey". Held up, pending a query to Paradise, "X.500
Pilot Project Catalog". Coming "soon" (within the next month),
"WHOIS++ Implementation Catalog", "Model for Information Privacy of
Directories", Legal Issues for Directories in Europe", "Data
Management Issues", and "Overview of Directory Services".
Also discussed was the inclusion of the CSO nameserver protocol in the
IDS effort (consensus was to include it), and the more general issue
of how do we make all these directory services work together (lots of
ideas, but no solid conclusions, yet).
Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR),
chaired by Kevin Gamiel and Chris Weider. (Summary reported by Kevin
Gamiel.)
IIIR is chartered to facilitate interoperability between Internet
Information Services, and to develop, specify, and align protocols
designed to integrate the plethora of Internet information services
(WAIS, archie, Prospero, etc.) into a single "virtually unified
information service".
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Clifford Lynch discussed his paper on using the Z39.50. Margaret St.
Pierre discussed the Internet-Draft, "WAIS over Z39.50 1988" (St.
Pierre et al). This draft is being considered as an informational RFC
profiling the use of Z39.50 version 1988 by the traditional WAIS
protocol. The idea of quality assurance was discussed. Quality
assurance in this context addresses such issues as invalid pointers to
data objects, interoperability among the current information systems
and the ability to contact information maintenance personnel. A
mailing list is now established called quality@sunsite.unc.edu. The
idea of a data types registry was discussed and Greg Vaudreuil agreed
to write a document on using the MIME content type registry in
Amsterdam, but that document was never posted to the IIIR list.
Applications Co-Area Director John Klensin indicated that the document
had been denied by the IESG based on the fact that it undermined an
existing RFC.
Internet School Networking (ISN) session chaired by Jennifer Sellers
(NASA) and Art St. George (NSF). (Summary reported by Jennifer
Sellers.)
The Internet School Networking Working Group is chartered to
facilitate the connection of the United States' K-12
(Kindergarten-12th Grade) schools, public and private, to the
Internet, and school networking in general.
After a period for introductions of those attending and a statement of
their interest in ISN, the group launched into a discussion of whether
it should continue to exist. With a tentative decision to continue
activities, a revision of the body of the charter began. This was
accomplished, and minor refinements and word-smithing will take place
on the list. April Marine reported on her action item to investigate
the InterNIC's ability and willingness to maintain a directory of
people in primary and secondary school education who are involved in
networking. The group then defined a set of milestones which will
take the group through March, 1995 and was therefore permitted to go
to lunch. April's report was considered in crafting the milestones.
Networked Information Retrieval (NIR), chaired by Jill Foster and
George Brett. (Summary reported by Kevin Gamiel.)
NIR is chartered to increase the useful base of information about
networked information retrieval tools, their developers, interested
organizations, and other activities that relate to the production,
dissemination, and support of NIR tools. NIR is a cooperative effort
of the IETF, RARE, and CNI.
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Jim Fullton gave the current status of CNIDR. Jill Foster gave an
overview of RARE activities in this area. The working group split
into small groups to discuss each section of the NIR status report as
a final review. Section 5, mailing lists and gopher among the major
areas changed. It will be sent to the list for final comments. April
Marine discussed the "checklist" history. She has put together a
simple NIR tool checklist.
The Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (NISI),
chaired by April Marine and Pat Smith. (Summary reported by Pat
Smith.)
NISI is exploring the requirements for common, shared Internet-wide
network information services. The goal is to develop an understanding
for what is required to implement an information services
"infrastructure" for the Internet.
Documents: The Internet-Draft on international NIC structures and RFC
1302/FYI 12 will be completed/revised by the Seattle meeting.
NIC-Profiles: This information will be revived, working in cooperation
with the InterNIC.
NISI Future: Good discussion about the scope and role of NISI
including possible future projects. Various plans discussed,
including possibility of ending the group and having a new group
emerge if needed, with different name and focus. Further discussion
to take place on the list followed by action in Seattle.
Network Training Materials (TRAINMAT), chaired by Jill Foster.
(Summary reported by Ellen Hoffman.)
The Network Training Materials Working Group is chartered to enable
the research community to make better use of the networked services.
Towards this end, the Working Group will work to provide a
comprehensive package of "mix and match" training materials for the
broad academic community which will: 1) enable user support staff to
train users to use the networked services and 2) provide users with
self-paced learning material. In the first instance, it will not deal
with operational training. This Working Group is the IETF component
of a joint RARE/IETF group working on Network Training Materials.
The ongoing work towards a training materials catalog was reviewed.
The template for materials was reviewed, with recent changes suggested
by Pete Percival incorporated. The WG agreed with the newest version.
Sample entries developed by a team working with Margaret Isaacs was
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reviewed, and the WG agreed that the focus should be on training
rather than documentation or resource guides, the latter which could
be included in a bibliography rather than in the main part of the
document. Sample subject headings were reviewed, with the agreement
that these might change if documentation and guides were removed from
the body of the catalog. Additional volunteers were recruited to
complete putting materials from the University of Newcastle catalog
into template form, with the goal of adding new materials once this
task is completed--about half the original Newcastle entries are
already in template form. Updates will be sent to the email list.
Discussion also focused on materials which might need to be developed
in the training area, particularly the usefulness of videos. The
final segment of the session included discussion of efforts by other
groups, and a roundtable on what attendees are doing in the training
area.
User-Doc2, chaired by Ellen Hoffman and Lenore Jackson. (Summary
reported by Ellen Hoffman.)
The User-Doc2 Working Group is preparing a revised bibliography of
on-line and hard copy documents, reference materials, and training
tools addressing general networking information and how to use the
Internet. The target audience includes those individuals who provide
services to end users and end users themselves.
The User-Doc2 WG had a small but enthusiastic set of attendees due to
a conflicting applications group meeting that many of the usual
suspects attended. The UD group set a new record by having everyone
in the room volunteer to assist in writing and reviewing documents in
progress! A "Not Quite an Internet Draft" bibliography was distributed
and discussed which will update RFC 1175. The new document will focus
on books, journals and other bibliographies rather than all possible
documentation. A section will be developed to cover RFCs and FYIs.
The final document is scheduled to be completed before the next IETF.
A second document covering Internet connectivity is almost ready for
review, and will be distributed to the WG list. This is a joint
project with the ISN WG.
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), chaired by Alan Emtage and Jim
Fullton. (Summary reported by Alan Emtage.)
URI is chartered to define a set of standards for the encoding of
system independent Resource Location and Identification information
for the use of Internet information services.
The URI WG had three sessions in Houston. The first two were
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dedicated to closing work on the Uniform Resource Locators, which
seems to have occurred. The final session worked on Uniform Resource
Names. Document drafts have been commissioned to reflect those
discussions.
User Services Working Group (USWG) chaired by Joyce K. Reynolds.
(Summary reported by JKRey.)
The USWG provides a regular forum for people interested in all user
services to identify and initiate projects designed to improve the
quality of information available to end-users of the Internet.
Gary Malkin briefly discussed the "DAWG" (Distribution and
Announcement WG) idea that has been sitting on the USWG's backburner
for awhile. A BOF will be held at the next IETF to see if there is
further interest in this topic. Ann Cooper led a talk and discussion
on the US Domain. Jill Foster and Joyce Reynolds reported on the RARE
ISUS meetings and the EARN Network Services Conference which they
participated in, which was held in Warsaw, Poland. Jill announced the
INET94/JENC5 Call For Papers - User Information Track to the USWG.
Jill was asked to run this track, and asked Joyce if she would be
co-track leader. There was continued discussion from the Amsterdam
IETF on Bill Manning's thoughts about how to "empower" users to
utilize and document tools.
WHOIS and Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS), chaired by Joan
Gargano. (Summary reported by Joan Gargano.)
The purpose of WNILS is to expand and define the standard for WHOIS
services, to resolve issues associated with the variations in access,
and to promote a consistent and predictable service across the
network.
Peter Deutsch led a discussion on the status of the WHOIS
Architecture. Chris Weider and Simon Spero led a discussion on the
status of the distributed WHOIS++ model and centroids. Chris
described changes to the draft WHOIS++ document. Simon Spero
described the mechanism for searching a centroid tree from the bottom,
up. Jim Fullton described the status of WHOIS ++ Clients. Jim
mentioned the use of WHOIS++ in support of networked information
retrieval and the type of client development that is occurring as part
of other application development. The session concluded with a
discussion on the recommendations and modifications to the WHOIS
Protocol and a discussion of WHOIS++ Implementations by Joan Gargano.
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CALENDAR
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Last update: 7/5/94
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
------------
Jul. 6-7 X3T5 Gaithersburg, MD
Jul. 11-15 8th ACM Intntl Supercomputing Manchester, England
Jul. 11-15 2nd Intntl Summer School on
Advanced Broadband Commun. Madrid, Spain
Jul. 11-15 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Orlando, FL
Jul. 13-14 Intntl W/S Community Networking
Integrated Multimedia Svs. Santa Clara, CA
Jul. 18-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
WGs and Plenary Southampton, UK
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. 2-5 HPDC-3 San Francisco, CA
Aug. 4 Special Interest Group on
Netwkd Info., Disc. Retrieval McLean, VA
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
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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. 2-4 ACM Conf. of Computer and Comm Fairfax, VA
Security
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
1995
---------
Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA
Feb. 16-17 PSRG - ISOC Symposium
Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX
Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
Mar. 13-17 OIW
Mar. 13-17 Email World (confirmed) Santa Clara, CA
Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP
Mar. 20-24 32nd IETF (Tentative)
Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV
April 19-21 5th Network & Operating System
Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA
April 3-7 32nd IETF (Tentative)
May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel
May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel
Jun. ISO/IEC JTC 1SC 21
WGs and Plenary (tentative) Turkey
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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)
1996
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Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 18-22 OIW
May ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
WGs and Plenary (tentative) Kansas City, US
Jun. 10-14 OIW
Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU
Sep. 9-13 OIW
Dec. 9-13 OIW
1997
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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
~
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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
------------------------
1 September Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
2 September
(Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RARE Council of Administration
------------------------------
20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam
NewOrg General Assembly
-----------------------
GA1
20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam
GA2
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors
---------------------------------------
RARE Working Groups
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JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING
1-2 December London (after NSC'94)
RIPE
----
12-14 September Lisboa
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VARIOUS
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EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM
15 July Paris
EBONE
Consortium of Contributing Organisations
02 November Munich
EBONE Management Committee
06 September Copenhagen
EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
13 July 1994 Paris
EARN
Board of Directors
30 November - 1 December London
DANTE Shareholders
20 September TBC
Euro-CCIRN
CCIRN
16/17 June 1995 Singapore
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
15/16 December Washington DC
IETF
25-29 July Toronto
5-9 December San Jose, California
Summer 1995 Stockholm, Sweden
EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
13-14 September Brussels
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
27 September Brussels
6 December Brussels
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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
*******************************************************************
6th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC6)
on ... 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel
To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to
<...>.
For information, email <...>.
*******************************************************************
OTHER CONFERENCES
(nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available
from the RARE Document Store under the directory calendar, in which case
the file name is specified under the information presented below. The
files may be retrieved via:
anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl
Email: server@rare.nl
Gopher: gopher.rare.nl)
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>.
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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
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>
SIXTH UNICODE IMPLEMENTERS' WORKSHOP
------------------------------------
8/9 September 1994
at Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, California information from:
<workshop@unicode.org>
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>
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY & APPLICATIONS
--------------------------------------------------------------
28 September 1994
at Asia Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
(limited budget to pay for local expenses of all international speakers,
ie. local transportation, hotel, meals...)
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information from Srisakdi Charmonman, email <charm@abac.au.ac.th>
NATO ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON NETWORKING IN THE NIS
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"Establishing a cooperative framework for networking in
Russia and her neighbourhing states"
29 September until 1 October 1994
In Moscow, Russian Federation
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
EEMA MEETINGS
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Autumn Conference
September (tbc) Madrid
Winter Conference
November (tbc) Luxembourg
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