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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
DANTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34
RIPEnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38
Rare List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 41
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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IETF Monthly Report for May, 1994
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. Logistic 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,
looking at the Boston area in April of 1995, and on to Stockholm
Sweden in July. Once the primary 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.
2. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dan Jordt, Terry
Gray, and all the folks at NorthWestNet and the University of
Washington for hosting the 29th IETF meeting in Seattle. They
did a marvelous job.
At the Thursday evening plenary session in Seattle, the new
members of the IESG were announced. The current IESG members
are:
Paul Mockapetris IETF Chair
Scott Bradner Operational Requirements
A. Lyman Chapin Standards & Procedures
Joel Halpern Routinghalpern
Erik Huizer Applications
John Klensin Applications
Stev Knowles Internet
Allison Mankin Transport Services
Mike O'Dell Operational Requirements
Joyce K. Reynolds User Services
Marshall T. Rose Network Management
Jeff Schiller Security
Claudio Topolcic Internet
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol
Actions during the month of May, 1994:
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o A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations be
publised as an Informational document.
o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5 was approved as a
Proposed Standard.
o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP) was approved as a
Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like
Interface Types was approved as an Internet Standard.
o How to Use Anonymous FTP be publised as an Informational
document.
o A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and
Groups be publised as an Informational document.
o WAIS over Z39.50 - 1988 be publised as an Informational
document.
4. The IESG issued nine Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
May, 1994:
o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like
Interface Types <draft-ietf-ifmib-ethmib-smiv2-00> for
consideration as an Internet Standard.
o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4-10>
for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-bgp-mibv4-06>
for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs
<draft-ietf-snanau-snamib-04> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-luname-print-02> (Informational)
o PPP in HDLC-like Framing <draft-ietf-pppext-hdlc-fs-02> for
consideration as an Internet Standard.
o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-lcp-fs-02> for consideration as an
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Internet Standard.
o TN3270 Enhancements <draft-ietf-tn3270e-enhancements-04> for
consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
<draft-ietf-bgp-application-04> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
5. Two Working Groups were created during this period:
Integrated Services (intserv)
Electronic Data Interchange (edi)
Additionally, one Working Group was concluded:
Uninterruptible Power Supply (upsmib)
6. A total of 44 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of May, 1994:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(tnfs) o A Specification of Trusted NFS (TNFS) Protocol
Extensions <draft-ietf-tnfs-spec-04.txt>
(bgp) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
<draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4-10.txt>
(bgp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth
Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4)
<draft-ietf-bgp-mibv4-06.txt>
(x400ops) o Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations
<draft-ietf-x400ops-postmaster-05.txt>
(none) o DNS NSAP Resource Records
<draft-manning-dns-nsap-05.txt>
(cat) o FTP Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-cat-ftpsec-05.txt>
(snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs
<draft-ietf-snanau-snamib-04.txt>
(iiir) o Publishing Information on the Internet with
Anonymous FTP <draft-ietf-iiir-publishing-01.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-multilink-09.txt>
(none) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large
and Binary MIME Messages
<draft-vaudreuil-smtp-binary-03.txt>
(snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link
Control: SDLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-sdlc-mib-03.txt>
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(smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
<draft-ietf-smtpext-pipeline-02.txt>
(rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1
Functional Specification
<draft-ietf-rsvp-spec-02.txt, .ps>
(none) o MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects
<draft-crocker-edi-01.txt, .ps>
(pppext) o PPP BSD Compression Protocol
<draft-ietf-pppext-bsd-compress-01.txt>
(rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information
Base <draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonmib-01.txt>
(charmib) o Character MIB <draft-ietf-charmib-mib-02.txt>
(charmib) o RS-232-like MIB
<draft-ietf-charmib-rs232-mib-03.txt>
(charmib) o Parallel-printer-like MIB
<draft-ietf-charmib-ppl-mib-02.txt>
(oncrpc) o RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification
Version 2 <draft-ietf-oncrpc-rpcv2-01.txt>
(tuba) o Host Group Extensions for CLNP Multicasting
<draft-ietf-tuba-host-clnp-multicas-01.txt>
(none) o Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental
Update <draft-anil-incremental-checksum-02.txt>
(pppext) o PPP in HDLC-like Framing
<draft-ietf-pppext-hdlc-fs-02.txt>
(pppext) o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-lcp-fs-02.txt>
(mobileip) o IP Mobility Support
<draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-03.txt>
(pppext) o PPP Magnalink Variable Resource Compression
<draft-ietf-pppext-magnalink-01.txt>
(iab) o Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between the
Internet Society and ISO/IEC JTC-1/SC6
<draft-iab-mou2jtc1-02.txt>
(smtpext) o SMTP Service Extensions
<draft-ietf-smtpext-extensions-01.txt>
(smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
<draft-ietf-smtpext-size-01.txt>
(smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
<draft-ietf-smtpext-8bitmime-01.txt>
(ospf) + Extending OSPF to support demand circuits
<draft-ietf-ospf-demand-00.txt>
(none) + MIME/ESMTP Profile for Voice Messaging
<draft-umig-mime-voice-00.txt>
(tuba) + CLNP Path MTU Discovery <draft-ietf-tuba-mtu-00.txt>
(none) + Unified Routing Requirements for IPng
<draft-estrin-ipng-unified-routing-00.txt>
(tuba) + Integrated Network Layer Security Protocol For TUBA
<draft-ietf-tuba-inlsp-00.txt>
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(none) + The Shape of the Bits
<draft-bellovin-ipng-shape-of-bits-00.txt>
(tuba) + TUBA Mobility Support
<draft-ietf-tuba-mobility-00.txt>
(none) + Administrative Allocation of the 64-bit Number Space
<draft-simpson-sipp-64-bit-plan-00.txt>
(none) + The application/pgp MIME Content-type
<draft-borenstein-pgp-mime-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part
One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the
Format of Internet Message Bodies
<draft-ietf-822-mime-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia
Mail Format Information
<draft-borenstein-mailcap-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + Using DNS to Support Multiprotocol Interoperability
<draft-clark-dns-support-00.txt>
(rolc) + NBMA Address Resolution Protocol (NARP)
<draft-ietf-rolc-nbma-arp-00.txt>
(oncrpc) + Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC
<draft-ietf-oncrpc-auth-00.txt>
7. There were 21 RFC's published during the month of May, 1994:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1611 PS (dns) DNS Server MIB Extensions
RFC1612 PS (dns) DNS Resolver MIB Extensions
RFC1613 I (none) cisco Systems X.25 over TCP (XOT)
RFC1614 I (imm) Network Access to Multimedia Information
RFC1615 I (none) Migrating from X.400(84) to X.400(88)
RFC1616 I (wg-msg) X.400(1988) for the Academic and Research
Community in Europe
RFC1617 I (none) Naming and Structuring Guidelines for
X.500 Directory Pilots
RFC1618 PS (pppext) PPP over ISDN
RFC1619 PS (pppext) PPP over SONET/SDH
RFC1620 I (none) Internet Architecture Extensions for
Shared Media
RFC1621 I (pip) Pip Near-term Architecture
RFC1622 I (pip) Pip Header Processing
RFC1623 S (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Ethernet-like Interface Types
RFC1624 I (none) Computation of the Internet Checksum via
Incremental Update
RFC1626 PS (ipatm) Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5
RFC1628 PS (upsmib) UPS Management Information Base
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RFC1629 DS (osinsap) Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the
Internet
RFC1631 I (none) The IP Network Address Translator (Nat)
RFC1632 I (ids) A Revised Catalog of Available X.500
Implementations
RFC1634 I (none) Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN)
RFC1635 I (iafa) How to Use Anonymous FTP
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
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ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING
----------------------------------
Network Status Summary
======================
ANSnet total packet traffic grew by about 4.3% in April '94. The
process of CIDR aggregation continued in April. A decrease in the
ANSnet forwarding table size of 6.3% was observed during the month
of April due to the withdrawal of 4,841 class based destinations.
April Backbone Traffic Statistics
=================================
The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using
SNMP interface counters) was 60,204,842,812 on T3 ENSS
interfaces, up 3.77% from April. The total packet count into the
network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 71,037,687,355 up
4.26% from April.
Router Forwarding Table Statistics
==================================
The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet
during May was 18,484 down 6.27% from April. This continued
decrease in the monthly forwarding table size is attributed to CIDR
aggregation.
The number of network destinations configured for
announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets)
during April was 12,084.
BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status
===========================
The following autonomous systems are now exchanging routing
information with ANSnet via the BGP-4 protocol for the first time
during April.
174 NYSERNet/PSI
209 WestNet
210 WestNet
555 MSCNet
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As of May 31 '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 4,841 class
based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables that
are now represented by 545 configured aggregates. Among these
configured aggregates:
475 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another
aggregate).
386 of these are actively announced to ANSnet.
331 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other
22 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements).
280 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least
one configured more specific route.
275 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of
their configured more specific routes.
269 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.
Other gated software changes will be deployed over the next couple
of months to improve policy processing (required to support some
advanced forms of proxy aggregation).
Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network
============================================
The three different routing stability measurements that have been
reported on over the past year were based on rcp_routed log file
entries. Gated software was deployed at the end of February to
replace rcp_routed. These routing stability reports have been
converted to use gated logging as of early June. The next report
based upon this data will be published in early July.
Notable Outages for May '94
===========================
UNAM suffered an extended circuit outage on 05/05.
CANET was unreachable from the ANSNet due to software problems on
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05/10.
E158 (Maui) suffered an extended outage due to site maintenance on
05/27.
Jordan Becker, <becker@ans.net>
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No.4, June 1994 Editor: Josefien Bersee
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DANTE TO DEFINE 'SUPER HIGHWAY' FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH
DANTE has been awarded a contract in the framework of the Eureka
EuroCAIRN (European Cooperation for Academic and Industrial
Research Networking) Project to specify requirements and outline a
plan for the delivery of a 34-155 Mbps network infrastructure for
the European research community.
Dai Davies, General Manager of DANTE, commented: "The timing for
this could not have been better: now we have a major opportunity to
streamline pan-European networking to complement the national
high-speed initiatives in for instance the UK, Netherlands, Germany
and the Nordic countries. This is the only way to create a truly
complementary pan-European infrastructure."
In January 1994 DANTE submitted a detailed proposal to produce such
a specification this year. The EuroCAIRN Committee had already
accepted the proposal in principle in April and details have now
been finalised. DANTE will start the work immediately.
Three main issues will be addressed in the specification:
technology, organisation, and commercial management of the High
Speed Service. Technical issues relate to the availability of
circuits and advanced services from PNOs, topology planning, and
connectivity requirements to other continents, as well as an
assessment of relevant applications. No less challenging are
organisational and commercial issues such as management,
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operational and financial aspects of delivering the service.
Basically the technology is available and major issues relate to
regulatory constraints and obtaining sensible prices and timely
availability of service.
The work will be carried out by DANTE in close cooperation with
leading specialists in Europe. A small group of key persons have
already committed themselves to joining the project team.
MAJOR INCREASE IN EUROPANET CONNECTIVITY TO THE US
DANTE will expand its existing connectivity to the US from 3,5 to
10 Mbps. The capacity increase will be used to support traffic
growth as a result of the deployment of high speed networks in some
European countries, in particular The Netherlands. The increase
involves implementing a 8 Mbps line between Amsterdam and
Washington.
This line will constitute the largest link between the US and the
European part of the Internet research backbone. SURFnet, the Dutch
national research network, will be the first customer to benefit
from the 8 Mbps intercontinental connectivity.
Boudewijn Nederkoorn, Managing Director of SURFnet, said: "We need
this capacity increase to meet our short term bandwidth
requirements. We are in the process of setting up an ATM backbone
in the Netherlands of nine 34 Mbps connections, and the traffic
growth to the US simply demands more capacity than 2 Mbps." SURFnet
will be by far the biggest single customer for intercontinental
connectivity, but the benefits from the capacity increase will
serve researchers on both sides of the Atlantic.
DANTE has already started negotiations with possible line suppliers
and expects to have the line in place by October 1994.
UPGRADE AMSTERDAM-PRAGUE LINE FOR INETU94/JENC5
On the occasion of the Workshop for Technically Emerging Countries
and the INETU94/JENC5 conference DANTE has organised an upgrade
from 64 kbps to 512 kbps of the existing EuropaNET connection in
Prague. Funding for the upgrade is provided through the CEC PHARE
program; the Czech Republic was connected to the EuropaNET backbone
in 1993 under the same program.
DANTE has organised the upgrade to meet the networking requirements
of the hundreds of Workshop and Conference attendees. The DANTE
line will be used to support the increase in general IP traffic,
such as e-mail, between Prague and continental Europe; DANTE is
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seeking funds to keep the 512 kbps connection in place after the
event.
For the occasion a new trunk line is provided by DANTE. The final
link in the connection is established via two local loops, from the
EuropaNET node in the PTT building in Prague: one to the Technical
University, where the Workshop takes place, and the second to the
Palace of Culture, the venue of the Conference.
DANTE has put a lot of effort in setting up the line and has
liaised with all involved parties, including Unisource, the Czech
PTT, and CEC-PHARE.
MORE EUROPANET ENHANCEMENTS
DANTE has arranged with SURFnet to continue to make use of the T1
(1.5 Mbps) line between Amsterdam and CERN during the second half
of 1994. The line, that used to be part of Ebone, will connect
DANTE's Points of Presence (PoPs) in Amsterdam and CERN. The
arrangement enables DANTE to implement several enhancements to the
EuropaNET Service.
The line will provide a direct back-up route between the European
ends of DANTE's two transatlantic lines; in case of a failure of
one of the transatlantic lines, traffic can be diverted
automatically to the other one without imposing any extra load on
EMPB. It will also be used as part of the Ebone/EuropaNET
interconnection which DANTE has proposed to Ebone for the second
half of 1994. CERN, as one of the locations where EuropaNET and
Ebone are both present, will be used as the actual point of
interconnection but traffic will flow in and out of EMPB through
DANTE's PoP in Amsterdam.
Similar arrangements are being made for a EUnet interconnection.
The principle of establishing a 64 kbps interconnection with
EuropaNET in Amsterdam has already been agreed; the ways in which
any additional capacity that is required will be funded is still
being discussed.
Since no new lines are required to set up these services, DANTE is
confident that they will be operational by 1 July 1994.
THE KOREAN CONNECTION
A contract for the provision of a 64 kbps line between EuropaNET
and KREONET, the Korean research network, was signed between DANTE
and the CEC in February 1994. The circuit has now been ordered and
should be operational within a few months. It will be the first
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direct link between the European research community and an R&D
network in the Pacific Rim. So far cooperation between European and
Korean researchers has been relatively weak.
NAMEFLOW: ANOTHER DANTE FLOWSERVICE
NameFLOW is the successor to the PARADISE Project, which was part
of the EUREKA COSINE Project, and had the remit to pilot a
coordinated international directory service for the European
Research Community. DANTE will take on the challenge of
transforming the pilot into an operational service.
In parallel with the provision of the service DANTE will - in
cooperation with its customers - define a strategy for the future
development of international directory services. Opinions on this
issue vary considerably within the European research community.
CALL FOR TENDER MailFLOW - REMINDER
An open Call for Tender for the provision MHS-Coordination,
MailFLOW, has been issued by DANTE.
Tender requirements are available from the DANTE gopher server, in
the MailFLOW directory (dir /FLOWservices or URL:
gopher://gopher.dante.net:70/00/pub/flowservices/mail/call-for-
tender-95). The deadline for submitting proposals is 30 June 1994.
_________________________________________________________________
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To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client
to:
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
or your gopher client to:
is.internic.net
THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet
community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network
activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights
of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the
Internet during the previous week.
The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats --
electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb. WorldWideWeb versions
of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing
instantaneous browsing of items of interest. Comments and
contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to
scout@internic.net.
How to Get the Scout Report
To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each
Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will
be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail
to: majordomo@is.internic.net
In the body of the message, type:
subscribe scout-report youremailaddress
To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW
client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
Gopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services
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NICLINK
The introductory issue of NICLink has been shipped. NICLink is
InterNIC Information Services' multiplatform CD-ROM periodical
which contains information about the Internet, its resources and
tools, and how to use it. NICLink runs on Macintosh, MS DOS and
Windows, and a variety of different UNIX platforms. It also
features full-text search-and-retrieval capability for powerful
searches on the information contained on the disk. An annual
subscription offers 4 disks, each with up-to-date information from
our online information server.
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 info@internic.net or gopher to is.internic.net under /InterNIC
Information Services (General Atomics)/About InterNIC Information
Services.
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 gone to
press. It features an interview with the new Executive Director of
the Internet Society, Tony Rutkowski. This issue also includes 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
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pending National Information Infrastructure (NII) legislation; and
regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC
Event Calendar and updates from all InterNIC partners. To
subscribe, send email to newsletter-request@internic.net. Please
include your postal address if you want hardcopy.
The _NSF Network News_ is now available on the WorldWideWeb at
http://www.internic.net/newsletter/
The Web version employs full text, graphics, and animation to
provide news and information in an attractive, easy-to-use
hypertext format. Be sure to check it out!
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.
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REFERENCE DESK
The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for
May:
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 101 2.7
Phone 3351 89.8
Fax 82 2.2
US Mail 26 <1
Referral 170 4.5
------- -------- ---------
Total 3730 100.0
by Karen D. Frazer <kfrazer@is.internic.net>
DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
InterNIC Directory and Database Services makes a number of
databases accessible to the Internet community on our servers.
These databases can be found in the pub directory under FTP, and
are also accessible via Gopher (through your own Gopher client or
through the "gopher" or "guest" logins on our servers), World Wide
Web, and our mail server. Some are also searchable using WAIS.
Some of the more recent additions include:
- Information on the National Performance Review (in
pub/npr.email.lab). The National Performance Review (NPR) is
conducted under the office of the Vice President in an effort
to improve the efficiency and productivity of the Federal
Government. Vice President Gore's report of the National
Performance Review stated "...government-wide E-Mail will
make the government work better and cost less". The
Electronic Support Services Environment (ESSE, pronounced
"easy") E-Mail Laboratory, a component of the NPR, was
established to enact recommendations from Vice President
Gore's report. ESSE maintains this library which contains
documents related to the NPR.
- The Draft Report of the Federal Electronic Commerce
Acquisition Team (in pub/ecat.library). The Report is in
ASCII text, PostScript, and Adobe Acrobat PDF formats. The
ASCII version does not include figures; both the PostScript
and PDF versions do.
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- Profiles of Network Information Centers (in directory
pub/nicprofiles). The NIC Profiles database was created for
the Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI) working
group of the IETF. Each file in this subdirectory contains
information for a Network Information Center (NIC) attached to
the Internet.
Some other databases available include an online version of the
journal "The Scientist" (in pub/the-scientist), a DOS/PC-based
trainer for Knight-Ridder's Dialog Information Services (in
pub/trainer-dialog), and information on databases accessible using
the 1992 version of the Z39.50 protocol (in pub/z39.50).
A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find
a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and
we will send information about listing your resource in the
Directory of Directories.
by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net>
REGISTRATION SERVICES
I. Significant Events
---------------------
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 12000 network
addresses and registered over 1300 domains, including top-level
domains for Russsian Federation (RU), Belarus (BY) and Saudi Arabia
(SU). Blocks of 256 Class C addresses were assigned to the DDN
NIC, Sesquinet, PSI, BARRNet, State of Michigan, NETCOM, Michnet,
CA*Net, EPA, John Deere, and Brazil.
I. Registration Statistics For May
Hostmaster Email 5,009
Postal/Fax Applications 251
Telephone Calls 2,047
Domain Registered 1,316
Inverse Addresses 565
Class C's Assigned 12,645
Class B's Assigned 20
ASN Assigned 57
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The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
of information retrieval requests during the month of May.
Connections Retrievals
Gopher 48,859 24,748
WAIS 24,748 40,611
FTP 8,779 38,638
Mailserv 1,387
In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:
Client Server
211257 785015
Scott Williamson <scottw@internic.net>
ISI
---
NETSTATION
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LANai 1.1 Chips Arrive
----------------------
During May the first of the Mosaic successor chips, LANai 1.1,
arrived from Myricom. These chips are designed specifically for
LAN rather than multicomputer application. They are installed and
running in the SPARCstation-2s that we use for development.
The ATOMIC group here at USC/ISI and Chuck Seitz's group at Caltech
built upon the experiences that we had with the Mosaic chips in
creating the ATOMIC LAN. It was clear that there were some changes
needed if a transition was to be made from research testbed to a
commercial network.
Although well-suited for use as pieces of a multicomputer, the
Mosaic chips really were not designed for the less-controlled
communication environment of a pysically distributed LAN. There
were also some performance improvements that could be made and
enhancements that better suited LAN application.
The key differences from the Memoryless Mosaic chips that were used
in the ATOMIC prototype LAN are:
1) A 40 meter cable interface with flow control, link CRC,
blocked path draining, and remote reset capability.
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2) A memory architecture that supports 2*channel performance.
This allows a 500 Mb/s channel transfer and DMA transfer
to/from host memory in parallel.
3) Interrupt timer with four microsecond resolution for rate
control and event timing.
Event Queue Implementation and Performance
------------------------------------------
One of the new features of the LANai is its interrupt timer. The
LANai supports an extremely fast context switch due to its separate
system and user register sets. This allows us to effectively
manage events, such as a timeout, that are very short.
An example of how this can be used is to implement reliable RPC
messages within the LAN via UDP, without requiring TCP. The LANai
channel CRC allows a receiver to immediately determine whether or
not an incoming packet has been damaged. The source LANai can
maintain a queue of pending RPCs and round-trip timers associated
with them, retransmitting when a timer expires.
The technique of application-layer framing in conjunction with RPC
stenciling was already shown to provide a 900% improvement over the
traditional UNIX-stack mechanisms. But to ensure that an RPC once
sent actually arrives undamaged requires both error detection and
retransmission capabilities.
The objective here is to allow cooperative parallel computing via
RPC messages, where the responsibility for reliable delivery of a
UDP/RPC message is taken off the hands of the host system and
placed into the LAN. This allows the application software to treat
the LAN as if it were as reliable as a DMA transfer across a system
bus.
The LAN also needs reliable transmission for its internal
management and control messages. It is hoped that this facility
will allow us to enforce within the LAN a very short retransmission
round-trip timeout, and so achieve a substantial performance
improvement.
To that end an event queue has been implemented for the LANai chip.
This is similar to the callout queue used in UNIX. A list of
events is maintained, sorted by ascending event time. The
interrupt timer fires when the nearest event times out. As a
result the procedure associated with that event is executed in
system context.
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Performance testing has demonstrated that the LANai event queue has
an overhead of approximately 30 microseconds per event. This
includes all overhead to maintain the event queue, service the
interrupt and call the associated event procedure.
With 30 microseconds as the lower limit, rule of thumb suggests
that retransmission timeouts can remain effective if they are as
short as 50 microseconds.
Greg Finn <finn@isi.edu)
INFRASTRUCTURE
Jon Postel, Greg Finn, Walt Prue, and Joe Touch attended Interop on
Atomic and chair a Telecommuting BOF at Interop '94 in Las Vegas.
21 RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1611: Austein, R., (Epilogue Technology Corporation),
Saperia, J., (Digital Equipment Corp.), "DNS Server
MIB Extensions", May 1994.
RFC 1612: Austein, R., (Epilogue Technology Corporation),
Saperia, J., (Digital Equipment Corp.), "DNS Resolver
MIB Extensions", May 1994.
RFC 1613: Forster, J., G. Satz, G. Glick, "Cisco Systems X.25
R. Day, (JANET), Over TCP (XOT)", May 1994.
RFC 1614: Adie, C., "Network Access to Multimedia Information"
Edinburgh Univ. Computing Serv., May 1994.
RFC 1615: Houttuin, J., (RARE Secretariat), J. Craigie, (Joint
Network Team), "Migrating from X.400(84) to X.400(88).
May 1994.
RFC 1616: RARE WG-MSG Task Force 88, "X.400(1988) for the
Academic and Research Community in Europe", May 1994.
RFC 1617: Barker, P., (UCL), S. Kille, (ISODE Consortium),
T. Lenggenhager (SWITCH), "Naming and Structuring
Guidelines for X.500 Directory Pilots", May 1994.
RFC 1618: Simpson, W., "PPP Over ISDN", Daydreamer, May 1994.
RFC 1619: Simpson, W., "PPP Over SONET/SDH", Daydreamer,
May 1994.
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RFC 1620: Braden, B. (ISI), J. Postel (ISI), Y. Rekhter (IBM
Research), "Internet Architecture Extensions for
Shared Media", May 1994.
RFC 1621: Francis, P., "Pip Near-Term Architecture", May 1994.
RFC 1622: Francis, P., "Pip Header Processing", May 1994.
RFC 1623: Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for
the Ethernet-like Interface Types", FTP Software, Inc.,
May 1994.
RFC 1624: Rijsinghani, A., Editor, "Computation of the Internet
Checksum via Incremental Update", Digital Equipment
Corporation, May 1994.
RFC 1626: Atkinson, R., "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5",
Naval Research Laboratory, May 1994.
RFC 1628: Case, J., Editor, "UPS Management Information Base",
SNMP Research, Incorporated, May 1994.
RFC 1629: Colella, R., (NIST), R. Callon (Wellfleet), E. Gardner
(Mitre), Y. Rekhter, (T.J. Watson Researcg Center, IBM
Corp.), "Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the
Internet", May 1994.
RFC 1631: Egevang, K., (Cray Communications), P. Francis, (NTT),
"The IP Network Address Translator (NAT)", May 1994.
RFC 1632: "Getchell, A., (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.),
S. Sataluri, (AT&T Bell Laboratories), Editors, "A
Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations",
May 1994.
RFC 1634: Allen, M., "Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN)",
Novelll, Inc., May 1994.
RFC 1635: Deutsch, P., A. Emtage (BUNYIP), A. Marine (NASA NAIC,
"How to Use Anonymous FTP", May 1994.
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US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX 378
PHONE 62
----------------------------
Total Contacts 440
DELEGATIONS 49
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 26
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 365
---------------------------
Total
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
--------------------------------------------
STATE.AK.US Alaska, State gov't agencies
GEN.FL.US Florida general branch
MUS.FL.US Florida museum branch
STATE.MA.US Massachusetts, State Gov agencies
TEC.NY.US Technical Schools of New York
LIB.NY.US New York libraries
MUS.NY.US New York museums
GEN.NY.US New York general branch
COG.NY.US New York councils of gov't
STATE.TN.US Tennessee, State gov't agencies
Localities:
MT-KISCO.NY.US Mt-Kisco, New York, locality
NYC.NY.US New York City, locality
ROCHESTER.NY.US Rochester, New York, locality
ROSLYN.NY.US Roslyn, New York, locality
WESTCHESTER.NY.US Westchester, New York, locality
VANWERT.OH.US Vanwert, Ohio, locality
ALLENTOWN.PA.US Allentown, PA, locality
ALLEGHENY.PA.US Allegheny, PA, locality
BLOOMSBURG.PA.US Bloomsburg, PA, locality
CHESTER.PA.US Chester, PA, locality
EPHRATA.PA.US Ephrata, PA, locality
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ERIE.PA.US Erie, PA, locality
HARRISBURG.PA.US Harrisburg, PA, locality
HAZELTON.PA.US Hazelton, PA, localty
LANCASTER.PA.US Lancaster, PA, locality
MONROE.PA.US Monroe, PA, locality
PENN-VALLEY.PA.US Penn-Valley, PA, locality
PHILADELPHIA.PA.US Philadelphia, PA, locality
POTTSVILLE.PA.US Pottsville, PA, locality
SCRANTON.PA.US Scranton, PA, locality
STROUDSBURG.PA.US Stroudsburg, PA, locality
WILKES-BARRE.PA.US Wilkes-Barre, PA, locality
YORK.PA.US York, PA, PA, locality
SEATTLE.WA.US Seattle, Washington, locality
Other US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------
SYNERGY.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US Synergy Microsystems, Inc
FRISCO-BAY.SOMERSET.NJ.US Frisco Bay Industries Limited
HIGHWAY.SLC.UT.US Utah Information Highway Co.
PMH.EL-PASO.TX.US Providence Memorial Hospital
DCN.DAVIS.CA.US UC-Davis Community Network
Health-Dept.CO.LA.CA.US Los Angeles, County Health Serv.
SHASTA-CO-LIB.CA.US Shasta County Library
BCH.CI.BOSTON.MA.US Boston City Hospital
SIPI.TEC.NM.US Southwestern Indian Polytech Inst
GESTALT.HERNDON.VA.US Gestalt Systems, Inc.
CHRONICLE.WASHINGTON.DC.US Chronicle of Higher Ed. Newspaper
ODOWD.PVT.K12.CA.US Bishop O'Dowd High School
CSSD.K12.VT.US Chittenden South School District
LSRHS.LINSUD.K12.MA.US Lincoln-Sudbury Regional HS
DCS.STATE.AR.US Dept. Computer Serv., State of AR
TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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AK X
AL X
AR X
AZ X X X X X
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CA X X X X
CO X X X X X X X
CT
DC X
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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DE X
FL X X X X X X X
GA X X X X
HI
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IA X X X X
ID X X X X X X X
IL X X X X X
IN X X X X X X X
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KS X
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
MA X
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ME X X
MI X X X X X
MN X X X X X X X
MO X X X X X
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MS X X
MT X
NC X X X X X
ND X X X X X X X
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NE X X X X
NH X X
NJ X
NM X X X
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NV
NY X X X X X X X
OH X X X X X X X
OK
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OR X X X X X X X
PA X
RI X X X
SC X X X X X X
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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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 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.
Merit held the first meeting of the NANOG (North American Network
Operators Group) in Ann Arbor on June 2nd and 3rd.
Susan Hares introduced preliminary transition plans and timelines
for migration to the new NSFNET program.
Merit anticipates that the NAPs and Route Servers will be in place
by the end of July. Trials with Network Service Providers (NSPs)
and Midlevel networks will begin during August. September and
October should see the dual-connection of Regional Service
Providers and subsequent detachment of networks from the current
ANS/NSFNET backbone with a goal of November 1st for detaching 90%
of the networks from the backbone. It is anticipated that only the
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NSF Supercomputer sites may remain attached to the NSFnet backbone
after November 1st.
The first day also included discussion of the technical
specifications for attaching to NAPs, the service offerings of NAP
awardees and NAP network operations. The second day included a
review of ATM testbed routing experiments, the Route Server Network
Management Architecture and strategies, recent changes to the
Policy Routing Data Base and Routing Regestries, and plans for
future meetings.
Testing of the PacBell ATM-NAP continues under Jessica Yu's
leadership. The testbed is configured as:
Router Servers
|
cisco/ADSU
|
testnet1<-->cisco/ADSU<-->ATM switch<-->cisco/ADSU<-->testnet2
The tests have verified the feasibility of integrating the Route
Server approach into an ATM-based NAP using currently available
technologies and software implementations. Enke Chen attended an
ATM Tutorial and explored ATM product offerings at Spring
InterOP'94.
Modifications to the Policy Routing Data Base (PRDB) continue in
order to support the features of gated and CIDR. Recent changes
include the removal of Fake ASs, support for Proxy Aggregation and
acceptance of classless CIDR routes. FakeASs were removed for
Alternet, CA*net, DSI, BARRnet and ESnet.
The following table shows which AS numbers have been replaced.
Old New
DSI 60 2699
274 2699
ESnet 291 293
293 293
CA*net 601 577
602 577
603 577
Alternet 701 701
702 701
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BARRnet: 200 200
201 200
Merit also provides proxy aggregation for DSI which currently must
use EGP. Proxy aggregation for DSI reduces the number of unique
DSI net numbers that must be carried in routing tables.
Merit continues its work with NSF/ANSnet attached networks to
support CIDR. While only a relatively small number of ASs remain
to switch to BGP4, the benefits of CIDR aggregation continue to
accrue. During May approximately 2,083 specific routes were removed
from the backbone routers in favor of CIDR aggregates. This
decrease from 19,688 routes at the end of April to 17,605 at the
end of May represents the second month of negative growth in the
routing table size since the internet-wide deployment of CIDR.
Elise Gerich and Laurent Joncheray attended the RIPE meeting in
Amsterdam May 16th through 18th. Merit had proposed extensions to
RIPE-81 which were discussed in the Routing WG meeting. General
agreement on new attributes was reached and a revised RIPE document
will be published.
Merit Routing Registry tools are available for anonymous ftp from
rrdb.merit.edu in the directory /pub/meritrr. You may address your
comments and questions to rradmin@rrdb.merit.edu.
Andy Adams will attend a NSF-sponsored workshop to address the
instrumentation needs and design considerations for cross-platform
interoperability in a federation of networked botanical specimen
databases. The workshop will be at the University of California-
Berkeley June 9th through the 12th.
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 May:
Holstein Association of Brattleboro, VT
Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), the operating
division for the New York and American Stock Exchanges.
Northeast Consulting Resources (NECR) of Boston, MA
ENSR Consulting Engineering of Acton, MA
Applied Science and Technology, Inc (ASTEX) of Woburn, MA
Granada Hospital Group, Inc. of Burlington, MA
NEARNET 1994 MINI-SEMINARS UPDATE
"Business and the Internet on May 25"
The third NEARNET Mini-Seminar for 1994, entitled "Business and the
Internet" was held on May 25, 1994 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM at
BBN's Newman Auditorium, 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA.
The seminar addressed how and why organizations are increasingly
using the Internet to offer business services. It was presented in
panel format and included the following presenters: John Curran,
NEARNET product manager; Daniel Dern, Internet analyst and author
of The Internet Guide for New Users; Laura Fillmore, president of
Editorial Inc. and the Online Bookstore; Joel Maloff, an Internet
consultant for the Maloff Company; Michael Strangelove, editor of
the Internet Business Journal, and author of the soon-to-be
published book, How to Advertise on the Internet.
NEARNET members who wish to attend any of the NEARNET Mini-Seminars
should send mail to: nearnet-seminars@near.net. Additional
information on future mini-seminars for 1994 will be announced
shortly.
NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE
The Spring set of NEARNET Training Courses was held on May 11, 12
and 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. also in BBN's Newman Auditorium.
The three full-day set of courses include: (Day 1) An Introduction
to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New
NEARNET Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet
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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.
The Summer training session is scheduled for August 10-12. For
more information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff
at nearnet-us@near.net or call 617-873-8730.
NEARNET USER SERVICES STEERING COMMITTEE (USSC) UPDATE
The next meeting of the NEARNET USSC will be held on June 27 at
BBN. The focus of the upcoming meeting will be to continue
improving the NEARNET Gopher. Richard Harrison, President of
Harrison & Troxell Inc., will meet with the committee to discuss
improvements to the InterNavigator portion of the NEARNET Gopher.
The InterNavigator is a Gopher menu tree of Internet Resources
which is updated daily and available to NEARNET members through the
NEARNET Gopher.
"NEARNET THIS MONTH" ONLINE BULLETIN PUBLISHED
NEARNET has published and distributed the April/May 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
------------
On May 17th, NorthWestNet cosponsored with Cisco Systems and the
Northwest Regional Education Laboratory a one-day seminar, "K-12
and the Internet: Opportunities and Solutions." This seminar was
held at the Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education in
Beaverton, Oregon. A capacity crowd of 70 participants heard the
following presentations:
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An Overview of the Internet
David Robison, Education Documentation Specialist
NorthWestNet
Planning for the Internet
Don Holznagel, Technology Program Director
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
K-12 and the Internet
Tracy LaQuey Parker, Manager of Education Market Development
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Internetworking K-12: Electronically Shrinking the World
George Ward, K-12 Consulting Services Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Internet Connectivity and Membership with NorthWestNet
Brian Bursch, Member Relations Account Executive
NorthWestNet
Presenters focused on the needs and concerns of the K-12 audience
and wrapped the day with an extensive question and answer session.
The User Services committee convened by teleconference on May 17
for its monthly topical discussion. This month, the group focused
on the implementation of Gopher. Eve Ruff of the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center led the discussion. Eve moderated a similar
session earlier this year, but offered to do this much requested
follow-up and include information she gathered at the Gopher
conference held at the University of Minnesota in late April.
-----------------
NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net
15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director
Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services
Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services
Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
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PREPnet
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PREPnet New Members:
--------------------
Galt Technologies, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA
Bell Atlantic SNCC, Harrisburg, PA
Internet Cafe, Scranton, PA
With these additions, PREPnet now totals 179 members.
PREPnet News:
-------------
Training
On May 24, Felicia Ferlin, conducted PREPnet's Introduction to the
Internet training session with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU)
computer staff and curriculum staff members. With the help of AIU's
Bill Beldham, live demos and informal hands-on training were done
using site software and hardware.
Meetings & Conferences
Date Attendee(s) Meeting(s)
May 12 Tom Bajzek FARnet
May 23 Tom Bajzek Rural Datafication Meeting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC:
305 S. Craig St. E-Mail: nic@prep.net
2nd Floor Telephone: (412) 268-7870
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
PREPnet NIC (nic@prep.net)
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RIPE NCC Annual Report 1993 Daniel Karrenberg RIPE NCC Manager
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre supports all Internet service
providers in Europe. The NCC is funded by the European Internet
service providers. RARE provides the formal framework for the NCC.
The main activities center around European Internet coordination.
The following graph shows the number of individual European
Internet hosts registered in the domain name system for 1992 and
1993. The European Internet roughly doubles in size every year.
RIPE NCC Hostcount 1992-1993
600000++---------------------------------------------------+
| |
550000++ oA |
| oA |
500000++ oA |
| oA |
450000++ oA |
| oA |
400000++ oAo |
| oA |
350000++ AoA |
| o |
| oAoA |
300000++ oA |
| oA |
250000++ oAoA |
| oAoA |
200000++ oAo |
| oAoAoAoA |
150000++ A |
| |
100000++-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+
J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D
The most visible activity of the NCC is the regional Internet
registry whose task is the assignment of Internet network layer
address space to European enterprises. For this purpose a
distributed system has been set up. 83 local registries operated
by Internet service providers assign address space locally. The
NCC as regional registry delegates address space to the local
registries, supports them and ensures that address space assignment
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occurs in a fair and regular manner. The NCC also deals with
requests for large amounts of address space and requests from
enterprises for which no appropriate local registry exists. The
European Internet registries have assigned 16871 network numbers
during 1993.
The RIPE NCC maintains the RIPE network management database
containing information about IP networks, DNS domains, Routing
Policies and the appropriate contact persons. The number of
entries in this database is shown in the graph below. It has been
increasing faster since the European Internet registry system has
become fully operational in September 1992.
Entries in the RIPE Database 1992-1993
50000++--------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
45000++ A |
| oo |
| oo |
40000++ oo |
| oA |
35000++ oo |
| oo |
30000++ oAo |
| oo |
| oo |
25000++ oAo |
| oo |
20000++ oo |
Ao |
15000++ oo |
| oo |
| oo |
10000++ oooA |
| oooAooooooAooo |
5000++---Aooo---+------+------+------+------+------+------+-----+---+
Jan-92 Apr-92 Jun-92 Sep-92 Dec-92 Mar-93 Jun-93 Sep-93 Dec-93
During 1993 the NCC has totally re-designed and re-implemented the
update process for the database. This is now fully automatic for almost
all updates. During 1993 a total of 157004 updates has been processed.
The NCC also maintains the RIPE document store which stores all RIPE
documents and a host of related information. It is accessible by the
classical Internet services, common resource discovery tools and from
the public X.25 networks.
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During 1993 the NCC has been operating well within its budget. The
unexpectedly low expenditure on travel is due to major meetings being
held in Amsterdam (IETF, RIPE meetings).
1993 NCC Expenditure (in kECU)
Budget Actual
Staff 140 133
Computing Equipment 20 15
Travel 25 9
Rent, Services 29 22
Recruitment 2 2
________________
Total 216 181
________________
The NCC staffing level has been constant since the start of operations
in April 1992. Due to the increased workload caused by the growth of
the European Internet more staff will be needed in 1994.
During 1993 the three special projects have been carried out at the NCC
under the RARE technical program. The "European Route Server" and
"Generic Internet Service Description" projects have been concluded
successfully resulting in among other things a European route server
deployed at the GIX. The PRIDE (Policy-Based Routing Implementation and
Deployment in Europe) project has started and resulted in a well
populated European routing registry as well as a first set of tools to
use the information in that registry. PRIDE continues in 1994. All
special projects are funded by interested parties separately from the
NCC core services.
For a detailed description of NCC activities see the NCC activity plan
produced by RIPE and the Quarterly Reports published by the NCC. These
and other related documents are available from the RIPE document store
or directly from the NCC at <ncc@ripe.net> or +31 20 592 5065.
UCL
----
John Crowcroft gave a seminar on security mechanisms for inter-
domain routing protocols at the Computer Lab, Cambridge, England.
A Prototype of the CCCP (Conference Control Channel Protocol)
library is in alpha testing.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
--------
Last update: 6/9/94
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
------------
Jun. 6-8 Digital World Los Angeles, CA
Jun. 8-10 Seybold Paris
Jun. 6-10 USENIX Hynes CC, Boston, MA
Jun. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Berlin
Jun. 12 RARE Technical Committee Prague
Jun. 13-17 INET94/JENC Prague
Jun. 13-17 OIW
Jun. 20-Jul. 1 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Helsinki
Jun. 27-28 SUPERCOMPUTER '94 Germany
Jun. 27-Jul. 1 High Performance Ntwg-HPN '94 Grenoble, France
Jun. 27-Jul. 1 Home-oriented informatics Copenhagen, Denmark
Jun. 27-Jul. 2 4th Intntl Russian Forum Moscow
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. 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
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Sep. IEEE P802.11 Interim TBD
Sep. 7-9 Windows Solutions San Francisco, CA.
Sep. 12-16 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA
Sep. 12-16 OIW
Sep. 13-16 Seybold San Francisco, CA
Sep. 14-16 4th Int'l CCHP Vienna, Austria
Sep. 26-28 2nd IWACA Heidelberg, Germany
Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN
Oct. 6-8 Parallel & Dist. Compt. Sys Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 15-20 ACM Conference on Multimedia San Francisco, CA
Oct. 16-20 ACM SIGUCCS
Oct. 24-28 NetWorld+Interop '94 Paris, France
October/November Windows Solutions Germany
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 1st Intntl ACM/SIGCAPH Conf.
Assistive Technolgies (ASSETS) Marina del Rey, CA
Oct. 31-Nov. 3 EDUCOM
Nov. 2-4 Gigabit testbed jamboree Reston, VA
Nov. 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)
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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
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
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Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories
Via gopher: "Internet Society / IETF / IETF Meetings /
Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
~
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
RARE LIST OF MEETINGS
june 94 edition
---------------------
Ref. RSec(94)001-ac
This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the
meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the
chair of the meeting or the RARE Secretariat. If you have
additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet (e.mail
address: cozanet@rare.nl).
**********************************************************************
MEETING/DATE LOCATION
============ ========
RARE Executive Committee
------------------------
17 June afternoon
(Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Prague
30 June Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
1 September Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
2 September
(Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RARE Council of Administration
------------------------------
20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam
NewOrg General Assembly
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GA1
20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam
GA2
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
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RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors
---------------------------------------
12 June afternoon Prague
RARE'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE IVth FRAMEWORK - Open Plenary
-------------------------------------------------------
14 June afternoon Prague
RARE Working Groups
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ATM (closed group)
13 June afternoon Prague
WG-CHAR
14 June morning Prague
WG-IMM
14 June morning Prague
WG-ISUS
13/14 June Prague
WG-LLT
14 June morning Prague
WG-MSG
13 June afternoon Prague
WG-NAP
13 June Prague
WG-NOP
14 June morning Prague
WG-SEC
13 June morning Prague
JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING
1-2 December London (after NSC'94)
RIPE
----
12-14 September Lisboa
VARIOUS
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EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM
22 June Cambridge, UK
EBONE
Consortium of Contributing Organisations
23 June Amsterdam
EBONE Management Committee
June (tbc) Prague
EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
EARN
Board of Directors
30 November - 2 December London
DANTE Shareholders
20 September TBC
Euro-CCIRN
CCIRN
20/21 June Amsterdam
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
13/14 June Prague
IETF
25-29 July Toronto
5-9 December San Jose, California
Summer 1995 Stockholm, Sweden
EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
13-14 September Brussels
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
7 June Brussels
27 September Brussels
6 December Brussels
Workshops
27 June - 1 July Brussels
10-14 October Brussels
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ETSI
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General Assembly
22/23 November Nice, France
Technical Assembly
18-20 October Nice, France
INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders
INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee
12 June (lunch) telephone meeting
*******************************************************************
INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5)
13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic
The annual conference of the Internet Society held in conjunction
with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference.
To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a
message to <inet-jenc-request@rare.nl>. For information, email
<inet-jenc-sec@rare.nl>.
*******************************************************************
OTHER CONFERENCES
(nb. For some of the following events, full text information is
available from the RARE Document Store under the directory
calendar, in which case the file name is specified under the
information presented below. The files may be retrieved via:
anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl
Email : server@rare.nl
Gopher : gopher.rare.nl)
INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY
-----------------------------------------------
from 5 till 11 June 1994
at the Czech Technical University in Prague
Email <workshop-apply@nyu.edu>
SUPERCOMPUTER '94
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High Performance Computing und Networking fuer Multimedia
on 27/28 June 1994
at Mannheim University in Germany
*** this tutorial will be in GERMAN language ***
information from Hans-Werner Meuer <meuer@rz.uni-mannheim.de>
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - ECT 94
--------------------------------------------
4th International Russian Forum
organised by the Academy of National Economy of Moscow,
Russia; the International Centre for Scientific and
Technical Information; and the Russian-American JV
"Ecotrends".
from 27 June till 2 July
For further information, contact Juri Gornostaev or Juri Andrianov
Email <enir@ccic.icsti.msk.su>
First INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTANCE EDUCATION in Russia
--------------------------------------------------------------
Distance Learning and New Technologies in Education, and the
exhibition BUILDING AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
organised by the State Committee for Higher Education of the
Russian Federation, Informationa Systems Research Institute of
Russia, Russian Academy of Administration and VIRTUS Institute,
USA.
from 5 till 8 July 1994 in Moscow
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
For further information, email <DE_RUSSIA_1994@AIE.MSK.SU>.
SECOND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON
ADVANCED BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS
---------------------------------
from 11 till 15 July 1994
as part of the RACE project BRAIN.
the school will be distributed to at least four different
sites in Spain.
for further information, please email <ss94@dit.upm.es>
8th ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUPERCOMPUTING
--------------------------------------------------
from 11 till 15 July 1994 in Manchester, England
Email <jalby@irisa.fr)
6th JOINT EPS-APS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS COMPUTING
---------------------------------------------------------------
from 22 till 26 August 1994 in Lugano, Switzerland
Email <pc94@cscs.ch>
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13TH WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS - IFIP CONGRESS 94
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from 28 August till 2 September 1994, in Hamburg, Germany
Tel. +49 40 3569 2242 - Fax. +49 40 3569 2343
ACM SIGCOMM'94
--------------
Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications
organised by University College London
from 31 August till 2 September
(Tutorials and Workshops on 30 August)
For further information, contact <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...)
information from Srisakdi Charmonman, email <charm@abac.au.ac.th>
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
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*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
-------------
Pre-conference Tutorial
& EEMA subcommittees
14 June Stockholm
8th Annual General Assembly
14 June Stockholm
7th Annual EEMA Conference
Global Messaging '94
15-17 June Stockholm
Autumn Conference
September (tbc) Madrid
Winter Conference
November (tbc) Luxembourg
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