Internet Monthly Report for July, 1996
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July 1996 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ IMR Editor [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for July, 1996 1. The IETF met in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. While we're still working on the numbers, this was the best attended meeting in the IETF's history with over 1200 registrants. Closing out the year, the IETF will be returning to San Jose, California from December 9-13, 1996. Following that, the IETF travels to Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 1997. We are currently working on returning to Europe in August, 1997. Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg- sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.org 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: June 13, 1996 (iesg.96-06-13) July 11, 1996 (iesg.96-07-11) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 16 Protocol Actions during the month of July, 1996: o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Interfaces be published as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 o OSI NSAPs and IPv6 be published as an Experimental Protocol. o The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM) be published as a Proposed Standard. o Uniform Resource Agents (URAs) be published as an Experimental Protocol. o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks be published as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Data Link Switching using SNMPv2 be published as a Proposed Standard. o Support for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks. be published as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video Encoding be published as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video be published as a Proposed Standard. o RTP payload format for H.261 video streams be published as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video be published as a Proposed Standard. o PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol be published as an Informational RFC. o TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options be published as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 over PPP be published as a Proposed Standard. o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base version 2 be published as a Proposed Standard. o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers be published as a Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG issued 21 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of July, 1996: o Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP <RFC1534> for consideration as a Draft Standard. IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 o Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol <RFC1542> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o The PPP SNA Control Protocol (SNACP) <draft-ietf-pppext-snacp-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 <draft-crispin-imap-base-04> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - OBSOLETE SYNTAX <draft-crispin-imap-obsolete-00> for consideration as an Informational RFC. o IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2BIS <draft-crispin-imap-compat-00> for consideration as an Informational RFC. o IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response <draft-klensin-cram-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-14> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms <draft-stevens-tcpca-spec-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Entity MIB <draft-ietf-entmib-entmib-06> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes <draft-freed-smtperror-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imb-07> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imt-05> for consideration as a Draft Standard. IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 o MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-hdrs-00> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-reg-04> for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-conf-06> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o A Proposed Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication <draft-ietf-http-digest-aa-04> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o "Data: URL scheme" <draft-masinter-url-data-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control Protocol (IPXCP) <RFC1552> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) <draft-ietf-radius-radius-05> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RADIUS Accounting <draft-ietf-radius-accounting-05> for consideration as an Informational RFC. 5. A total of 99 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of July, 1996: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (avt) o RTP payload format for H.261 video streams <draft-ietf-avt-h261-02.txt> (ion) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) <draft-ietf-rolc-nhrp-09.txt> (pppext) o PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-stacker-10.txt> (avt) o RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video Encoding <draft-ietf-avt-cellb-08.txt> (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imb-07.txt> IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 (avt) o RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video <draft-ietf-avt-jpeg-03.txt> (mailext) o Common Internet Message Headers <draft-ietf-mailext-mail-attributes-05.txt> (mailext) o The Supersedes and Expires e-mail headers <draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-05.txt> (intserv) o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service <draft-ietf-intserv-guaranteed-svc-05.txt> (pppext) o PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) <draft-ietf-pppext-eap-auth-02.txt> (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imt-05.txt> (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-conf-06.txt> (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-reg-04.txt> (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base version 2 <draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonmib-v2-03.txt> (entmib) o Entity MIB <draft-ietf-entmib-entmib-06.txt> (none) o Common NNTP Extensions <draft-barber-nntp-imp-05.txt> (none) o TELNET CHARSET Option <draft-gellens-telnet-char-option-03.txt, .ps> (vgmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Repeater Devices <draft-ietf-vgmib-repeater-dev-02.txt> (atommib) o Definitions of Textual Conventions and OBJECT-IDENTITIES for ATM Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm2TC-04.txt> (radius) o RADIUS Accounting <draft-ietf-radius-accounting-05.txt> (radius) o Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) <draft-ietf-radius-radius-05.txt> (asid) o A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information <draft-ietf-asid-mime-direct-02.txt> (none) o Simple Authentication and Session Layer <draft-myers-auth-sasl-04.txt> (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-sm-spec-04.txt, .ps> (rip) o Protocol Analysis for Triggered RIP <draft-ietf-rip-trigger-analysis-01.txt> (none) o The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions <draft-nelson-model-mail-ext-04.txt> IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 (none) o INTERNET REGISTRY IP ALLOCATION GUIDELINES <draft-hubbard-registry-guidelines-03.txt> (cat) o Extended Generic Security Service APIs: XGSS-APIs Access control and delegation extensions <draft-ietf-cat-xgssapi-acc-cntrl-01.txt> (rsvp) o RSVP Management Information Base <draft-ietf-rsvp-mib-02.txt> (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 <draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-06.txt, .ps> (intserv) o Intgrated Services Management Information Base <draft-ietf-intserv-mib-02.txt> (none) + Local Mail Transfer Protocol <draft-myers-lmtp-00.txt> (none) o IMAP4 QUOTA extension <draft-myers-imap-quota-01.txt> (none) o IMAP4 ACL extension <draft-myers-imap-acl-03.txt> (pppext) o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) <draft-ietf-pppext-bacp-04.txt> (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-dm-spec-02.txt, .ps> (ids) o X.500 Implementations Catalog-96 <draft-ietf-ids-x500-imps-02.txt> (dhc) o Interaction between DHCP and DNS <draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-dns-01.txt> (none) o "Data: URL scheme" <draft-masinter-url-data-01.txt> (asid) + WHOIS++ URL Specification <draft-ietf-asid-whois-url-00.txt> (idmr) o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol <draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-02.txt, .ps> (none) o Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) - NBMA <draft-luciani-rolc-scsp-03.txt> (ion) + Multicast Server Architectures for MARS-based ATM multicasting. <draft-ietf-ion-marsmcs-00.txt, .ps> (none) o IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response <draft-klensin-cram-01.txt> (http) o Proposed HTTP State Management Mechanism <draft-ietf-http-state-mgmt-03.txt, .ps> (rsvp) o RSVP Diagnostic Messages <draft-ietf-rsvp-diagnostic-msgs-01.txt> (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes <draft-freed-smtperror-01.txt> (none) o UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646 <draft-yergeau-utf8-01.txt> (none) o Top Level Domain Classification and Catagorization <draft-higgs-tld-cat-02.txt> IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 (none) o Source directed access control on the Internet. <draft-bradner-access-control-01.txt> (mhtml) o MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) <draft-ietf-mhtml-spec-02.txt> (ipsec) o HMAC-MD5 IP Authentication with Replay Prevention <draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-hmac-md5-01.txt> (ipsec) o HMAC-SHA IP Authentication with Replay Prevention <draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-hmac-sha-01.txt> (mhtml) o Sending HTML in E-mail, an informational supplement to RFC ???: MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML) <draft-ietf-mhtml-info-02.txt> (oncrpc) o RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 <draft-ietf-oncrpc-remote-01.txt> (none) o Payload Format Issues for Redundant Encodings in RTP <draft-perkins-rtp-redundancy-01.txt, .ps> (none) o YAAP: Yet Another Authentication Protocol <draft-zorn-yaap-01.txt> (none) o Dialup Roaming Requirements <draft-zorn-dial-roam-req-01.txt> (none) + Proposal for establishing the IETF as an independent organization <draft-rutkowski-ietf-poised95-orgs-00.txt> (none) + Scheduling Wide-area Transport Protocol SWTP <draft-spencer-swtp-00.txt> (none) o Large Responses to DNS Queries (DNS MORE) <draft-andrews-dns-more-02.txt> (none) + Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTE Extensions for SVC's and Data Compression over Frame Relay <draft-cochrane-frmib-dte-00.txt> (none) + GPS^IP <draft-mangione-ipv6-gps-alt-00.txt> (ion) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) <draft-ietf-ion-nhrp-mib-00.txt> (none) + SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining <draft-freed-smtp-pipeline-00.txt> (none) + Enhanced Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) Dynamic Filter Change <draft-calhoun-enh-radius-filter-00.txt> (none) + Enhanced Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) Resource Management Extension <draft-calhoun-enh-radius-res-mgmt-00.txt> (none) + Framework for IP Provider Metrics <draft-almes-ippm-framework-00.txt> (find) + The Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) <draft-ietf-find-new-cip-00.txt> (none) o Adopt MacBinary II Mac File Encoding for FTP Transfers <draft-mityok-macbin1-01.txt> IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 (none) o IMAP4 non-synchroniziong literals <draft-myers-imap-literal-01.txt> (none) o IMAP4 OPTIMIZE-1 extension <draft-myers-imap-optimize-01.txt> (none) + A Professional Profile for Audio and Video over RTP? <draft-harris-rtp-pro-av-00.txt> (ion) + Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay <draft-ietf-ion-fr-update-00.txt> (none) + SBM (Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Proposal for Admission Control over Ethernet <draft-yavatkar-sbm-ethernet-00.txt> (intserv) + Integrated Services Management Information Base Guaranteed Service Extensions <draft-ietf-intserv-guaranteed-mib-00.txt> (none) + Simple Scheduling Transfer Protocol <draft-hanna-sstp-00.txt> (none) + A Proposal for an IETF "Problems To Be Solved" Database <draft-richardson-database-resolve-00.txt> (none) + MacBinary and Binhex 4.0 considered harmful <draft-newman-macbin-binhex-harmful-00.txt> (none) + Vertical Aggregation: A Strategy for FIB Reduction <draft-richardson-fib-reduction-00.txt> (none) + Issues affecting MARS Cluster Size <draft-armitage-ion-cluster-size-00.txt> (svrloc) + Service Location Modifications for IPv6 <draft-ietf-svrloc-IPv6-00.txt> (none) + Making Postscript and Acrobat Files International <draft-palme-int-print-00.txt> (none) + Compression Payload for Use with IP Security <draft-thayer-seccomp-00.txt> (none) + Internet Calendar Access Protocol (ICAP) <draft-oleary-icap-00.txt> (none) + Requirements for IETF Mailing Lists <draft-moore-maillist-req-00.txt> (none) + An Application/Properties Profile for Calendar Information <draft-ferrell-prop-cal-00.txt> (none) + OnOff Switch Input Object Widget for HTML Forms <draft-robinson-tdr-html-onoff-00.txt> (none) + A MIME Content-Type for Tagged Property Value Storage <draft-shakib-mime-prop-00.txt> (none) + VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service <draft-armitage-ion-venus-00.txt> (oncrpc) + RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification <draft-ietf-oncrpc-rpcsec_gss-00.txt> (pppext) + Microsoft Point-To-Point Compression (MPPC) Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-mppc-00.txt> (none) + A Clarification of SMIv2 <draft-perkins-smi-clarification-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 (none) + A Lexical Specification for the SNMPv2 MIB Module Language <draft-perkins-snmpv2-lex-spec-00.txt> (none) + Internet Discussion Forum Protocol (IDFP) <draft-martins-forums-00.txt> (none) + Dedicated Token Ring Interface MIB <draft-warwick-tokenring-00.txt> (none) + Multicast pruning a necessity <draft-hawkinson-mboned-pruning-00.txt> (none) + Reducing the ISDN costs of Network Applications that use TCP/IP. <draft-waters-reduce-isdn-costs-00.txt> (none) + Virtual Tunnel Protocol Layer 2 Protocol Extension <draft-calhoun-vtp-ext-l2-00.txt> Steve Coya <scoya@cnri.reston.va.us> INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES The Following report covers the months of July, August, and September: I. Significant Events * HostReg and CReg templates are now being processed automatically; previously they had to be processed manually; now about 50% are being processed automatically. * The auto-registration software now sorts requests into six groups: (1) COM, (2) ORG, (3) NET, (4) GOV, (5) EDU and (6) TLD; this eliminates a manual step in the process and allows the ability to put an increased priority on GOV, EDU and TLD requests. * Plans to initiate a night shift are under development to assist in reducing the manual processing backlog. * Informal training was provided for Billing CSRs regarding how to register as a contact. IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 * Selection and training of a second shift for processing support was completed; a full day training class was held on Saturday, September 10th; final staffing arrangements were completed for a night shift with a start date of September 30th. * A "SWAT Team" of existing staff was used to reduce the backlog. * Fax processing has become an overwhelming problem, requiring over four full-time equivalent employees. * Duane Stone and Carley Johnson represented the InterNIC DomReg Section at Network World Interop. * Testing of a share-ware Fax Server solution is going very well; it would make faxes available as e-mail; the fax viewer works very well on Sparc 5s and also supports sending faxes out; the MTS and Ack/Nak interfaces still need to be completed. * DomReg software enhancements have reduced the number of requests that need to be processed manually from about 1,000 to 700 (30% improvement). * A method for gathering performance measurements was finalized and documented. II. Current Status July: Email: 198,486 Postal/Fax: 4,930 Phone: 56,166 Gopher connections: 11,514 retrievals: 39,979 WAIS connections: 57,972 retrievals: 34,246 FTP connections: 61,089 retrievals: 129,768 Mailserv: 4,128 Telnet: 87,392 Http: 3,626,502 Whois client: 576,170 Whois server: 6,183,846 Rich Landers <richl@internic.net> IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The new Netfind Seed database is up on our machines. In addition, InterNIC Directory and Database Services will become the new home of the netfind-servers mailing list. We have set up a Web page giving starting points for browsing information on the US government. While most of the entries are related to the Federal government, there is also a pointer to some information on state and local governments. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net> THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The US Domain now has an online line registration form. Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator for that locality. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). A new policy has been added to the criteria for delegating domain names under the US Domain: It is the intention that the delegation of third level (for example, locality) domain names be wide spread to many registries. It is undesirable for one person or organization to manage a large part of the third level names in any particular geographic or logical area. IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 No individual or organization shall have more than 500 delegations total in the US Domain as a whole, or more than 50 delegation in any particuilar second level (for example, a state). To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains not administered by the US Domain Registrar, get the file "us-domain-delegated.txt". URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 2899 PHONE 560 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3459 DELEGATIONS 84 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS:1373 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 2002 --------------------------- Total 3459 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. In addition, and not listed below, another 226 localities have been delegated in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Michigan Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Vermont, Washington this month. IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 35 33 47 38 23 23 9 4 =================================================================== ----------------------- THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ----------------------- LOCALITIES ========== DRAPER.UT.US WINCHESTER.KY.US BRYN-ATHYN.PA.US SULLIGENT.AL.US EL-PASO.CO.US SAN-FRANCISCO.CA.US SAN-JOSE.CA.US DERRY.NH.US WHEATON.IL.US BOLTON.MA.US STIGLER.OK.US DEERING.NH.US DOUGLAS.CO.US NEWBURGH.IN.US YELM.WA.US TUMWATER.WA.US THURSTON.WA.US LACEY.WA.US DELHI.OH.US MUSTANG.OK.US RICHMOND-HEIGHTS.MO.US LOS-ANGELES.CA.US SPOKANE.WA.US GUTHRIE.OK.US LANSING.KS.US HUNTINGDON-VALLEY.PA.US BETHAYRES.PA.US OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- AMHA.SHELBURNE.VT.US SEBAGOLAKEASSC.GEN.ME.US JENKSUSA.K12.OK.US PC2ASSCS.RAYMOND.ME.US CI.PINOLE.CA.US CITY.PEARL.MS.US CI.HARTINGTON.NE.US CI.ROCKY-MOUNT.NC.US GALLIVAN.BOSTON.MA.US LEXTECH.LEXINTON.MA.US CI.CARBONDALE.IL.US CI.PASCO.WA.US NET.BOSTON.MA.US MITRGIRLSCTS.GEN.MI.US GRAM.MUS.MI.US CI.QUINCY.MA.US CHAOS.GEN.CA.US HEALTH.CO.COLUMBIA.NY.US BAPS.K12.OK.US CI.JOHNSBURG.IL.US CI.ELLENSBURG.WA.US CLINTON.I099.K12.OK.US CI.ANTIOCH.CA.US CI.LA-VERNE.CA.US INWAYNET.ATLANTA.GA.US AMERISOFT.SEEKONK.MA.US CALHOUN.CC.AL.US SNUGGLEBUNNY.WAHOO.NE.US IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 CI.MARYSVILLE.WA.US RCID.DST.FL.US CO.STOKES.NC.US WWW.CI.WEBSTER.NY.US CI.HOPKINSVILLE.KY.US MCALESTER.K12.OK.US CI.BEDFORD.TX.US TOWN.BEL-AIR.MD.US CO.SCHOHARIE.NY.US CO.GLOUCESTER.NJ.US SPL.LIB.AL.US CI.HUNTERSVILLE.NC.US CI.STAYTON.OR.US CI.LOS-ALTOS.CA.US CI.SIGNAL-HILL.CA.US CO.CALHOUN.MI.US KIB.CO.KODIAK.AK.US JSCC.CC.AL.US CO.BRANCH.MI.US AASR.GEN.MI.US YRC.GEN.MI.US KT.GEN.MI.US RAM.GEN.MI.US CI.SONARA.CA.US THETA.BOSTON.MA.US CI.LONGVIEW.WA.US ----------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes July 1996 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. The Routing Arbiter project has updated its packet loss and latency measurement code to correct recently discovered measurement biases (see http://www.ra.net/statistics/rs.html). Previously, the packet loss and latency measurements were carried out using the standard Sun ping, which sent five ICMP echo request packets to each of the Route Servers' BGP peers every fifteen minutes. The response time (or lack of response) was logged in a file and later downloaded and processed. Periodically, aberrant measures were seen. For example, there was often packet loss/or and high latency when the machine ping'd its own interface. Packet loss data indicated higher loss and latency results than did other measures. IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 Because Merit did not have the source code for the Sun ping, the engineering staff could not perform a detailed analysis to determine the cause of the problem. Staff did find, however, that the Cornell ping, to which they did have source code, did not display the same anomalies and provided much more credible measurements. As a result, a new data collection methodology has been implemented using the Cornell ping as a basis for the measurements. The data from all the Route Servers now shows improved Internet performance in comparison with the previous months' data. To provide data for further study, the primary Route Server at the Washington, D.C. NAP (MAE-East) is running the old and new pings in parallel. Comparing the two sets of results should shed additional light on the source of bias between the two measurement methodologies, and potentially permit an adjustment to deflate the previous measurements. Merit has been exploring options for resolving an important operational problem of the Route Servers, i.e., how to detect whether or not peers of the Route Servers have direct layer-2 reachability to each other. Though this issue was raised at one of the ATM NAPs, it would be problematic for any non-broadcast-media NAP, and is an important issue with respect to the reliability of both routing and the Route Servers. Currently, Merit and the Information Sciences Institute, its partner in the RA project, are evaluating the feasibility of obtaining layer-2 reachability information directly from Route Server peers via ICMP-level queries (traceroute with strict source routing). This is ultimately the source of the desired information and can be initiated by the Route Server without requiring SNMP access coordination and community string dissemination. Merit has implemented an incremental update client for the copies it maintains of the databases in the Internet Routing Registry. This client will poll primary IRR sites for updates on a regular basis (most likely every ten minutes). Currently, these sites only provide updated copies of the registries on a daily basis, so this technology will significantly improve the timeliness of the IRR data provided by RAWhoisd, the whois.ra.net whois server. The incremental update client has been in final test for the last weeks of July and will be deployed in early August. Initially, only the RIPE registry will provide incremental updates. However, we hope that all IRR registries will eventually adopt this technology. IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 A new RA tool prototype, known as NetNow, combines a variety of real- time network statistics to provide an easy-to-use, graphical display of ongoing core Internet network conditions. See: http://www.ra.net/tools/ A map of the United States shows the four Network Access Points, and a menu bar lists the major U.S. Internet Service Providers. Names on the map and provider list are color-coded to indicate whether conditions are normal at the NAP or on the provider's backbone, or whether there are problems such as high packet loss or latency, excessive route flapping, unreachable networks, or scheduled maintenance outages. Information about the NAPs is collected by ICMP pings to Route Server peers and SNMP queries to the Route Servers. The ISP backbones are monitored by sending ICMP pings from each NAP across each provider backbone to every other NAP (creating a mesh). In the near future, pings will also be sent across the major ISP backbones to popular end sites. This process will test inter-provider connectivity and provide some statistics on the performance of provider tail circuits. A new software package called "Scion" is being developed by Merit's NetSCARF (Network Statistics Collection And Reporting Facility) project. Scion can be used by ISPs to collect network statistics and automatically display performance reports on the World Wide Web. Version 1.2 of the code is available from: http://www.merit.edu/~netscarf The Scion code, derived from the initial NSFNET project's statistics collection and reporting activities, is easy to install and runs automatically. Every fifteen minutes, Scion's optimized SNMP library queries ISP routers for the values of variables such as sysUpTim and ifLastChange. The library uses SNMP Version 1, and can be configured to use SNMPv2u, the User-based Security model for SNMPv2. Scion's SNMP API is unique, in that it allows the developer to specify a list of nodes, a community string (or userid/authentication password/privacy password in the case of SNMPv2u), and a list of management objects to retrieve. All queries are then transmitted back-to-back, without waiting for any replies. The data collection activity is thus very fast, and the results highly synchronized. Other publicly available SNMP libraries force applications to wait for a response (or timeout) for a given query before the next query can be issued to a different node. IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 The raw SNMP statistics are pre-processed each evening, and the processed data delivered to CGI scripts, using what the developers believe to be the first public domain implementation of the OpStats (RFC 1856) client/server model. Finally, ISP performance reports based on the 'cooked' data are displayed on the Web via the CGI scripts. ISPs can use the Scion code to automatically produce HTML graphs showing system uptime, interface uptime, and total network traffic measured in packets. An advanced statistics Web page allows users to specify customized graphing parameters. The source and pre-compiled executables are available for the BSDi and SunOS platforms. Release 2, scheduled for October 1996, will include ports to Windows NT, AIX, and perhaps Solaris and LINUX. A technical overview of the software package has been written by project manager Bill Norton and lead architect Andy Adams, and appears in the July ConneXions (Vol. 10 No. 7). Norton gave a talk about NetSCARF and Scion at the Network Management Area Open Meeting at the Montreal IETF (June '96) and at a network statistics BOF following the May NANOG meeting. A new mailing list, netscarf@merit.edu, is a forum for community discussion and input to the project. Further information is available at the URL above. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 CALENDAR -------- Last update 07/9/96 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: <meeting-planning@cnri.reston.va.us> Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. FYI - The EMail World & Internet World originally scheduled for Sept. 10-12, 1996 has been moved to Oct. 15-17, 1996. Boston, MA. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP - ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.8) cd ietf ls *0mtg* Gopher - ------- Available on the Gopher Server running on IETF.CNRI.RESTON.VA.US (132.151.1.35) under "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar". WWW - ------- <http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html> Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 1996 - ----------- Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ontario, CA Oct. 2-4 Object World Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Oct. 7-11 ATM Forum Montreux, Switzerland Oct. 7-11 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Oct. 7-11 Performance 96 Conference Lausanne, Switzerland Oct. 9-11 Object World Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 15 Commercenet New Orleans, LA Oct. 15-17 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Oct. 17-20 IEEE Symposium on Planning & Design of Broadband Networks Quebec, Canada Oct. 21-25 ICECCS'96 (held jointly with 6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW) Montreal, Canada Oct. 28-31 2nd USENIX Seattle, WA Oct. 28-Nov. 1 NetWorld+Interop London, England Oct. 29-Nov. 1 ICNP-96 Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols Columbus, Ohio Oct. 29-Nov. 1 2nd USENIX Symp. Operating Sys. Design & Implement. (OSIDI II) Seattle, WA Nov. 1996 OMG TC (Groupe Bull) Nice, France Nov. 4-7 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Nov. 4-8 ANSI X3T10 '96 Western Digital Palm Springs, CA Nov. 10-12 2nd annual of ACM's MobiCom '96 Rye, New York Nov. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hotel Vancouver Vancouver, BC Canada Nov. 12-15 3rd Int'l Conf. on Multimedia Modeling Toulouse, France Nov. 13 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Nov. 18-20 2nd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce Oakland, CA Nov. 18-22 ACM Multimedia '96 Boston, MA Nov. 18-22 IEEE Globecom 96 London, England Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Nov. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia Dec. 2-4 Web World San Diego, CA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Rochester, MN Dec. 2-6 ATM Forum Vancover, BC Dec. 4-6 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 Boston, MA Dec. 9-12 Internet World '96 Baltimore, MD Dec. 9-13 37th IETF San Jose, CA Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Dec. 10-13 Fall Internet World '96 New York, NY Dec. 13 Commercenet Albuquerque, NM IMR Editor [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 1997 - ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 6-10 USENIX '97 Annual Technical Conf. Anaheim, CA Jan. 6-10 USELINUX: Linux Appl. Dev. Anaheim, CA Jan. 7-10 13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf on Systems Sciences Maui, Hawaii Jan. 28-30 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Orlando, FL Feb. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 TBA Feb. 10-11 ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 17-19 Internet Expo & EMail World San Jose, CA Mar. 1-5 ACM '97: The Next 50 yrs. of Computing San Jose, CA Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 '97 Irvine?/Albuguerque Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Apr. 7-11 38th IETF Memphis, TN Apr. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 TBA Apr. 7-11 IEEE Infocom '97 Kobe, Japan Apr. 9-11 ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on Autonmous Decentralized Sys. Berlin, Germany Apr. 22-24 Internet Expo & EMail World Chicago, IL May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jun. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 TBA Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Aug. 11-15 ANSI X3T11 TBA Aug. 11-15 (tenative) 39th IETF Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 (tenative) Internet Expo & EMail World Boston, MA Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 TBA Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 1998 - ----------- SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary 1999 - ----- Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 TERENA List of Meetings ======================= This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail <secretariat@terena.nl>. ********************************************************************** MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA6 24-25 October Bled GA7 15-16 May 1997 Edinburgh TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 17 December Amsterdam TERENA Technical Committee -------------------------- 13 November Brussels 22 January 1997 Amsterdam TERENA Office Meeting --------------------- 16 October Amsterdam JENC8 ----- Conference Committee 8 November (provisional) Edinburgh Programme Committee 4 December Amsterdam IMR Editor [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 INSIGHT Training Workshop ------- 28-29 October Bled CEEnet ------ 26 October Bled PHARE Research Networking ------ 25 October Bled ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= EEMA ---- Electronic Commerce '96 Wembley, London 15-17 October Regional Conference 29 November - 1 December Malta Electronic Communications Olympia, London 10-12 December EWOS ---- TA35, 3-4 December Brussels TA36, 25-26 February 1997 " TA37, 13-14 May 1997 " TA38, 16-17 September 1997 " TA39, 2-3 December 1997 " SC - 24 September " SC - 17 December " Workshops 35: 21-25 October Brussels 36: 20-24 January 1997 " 37: 7-11 April 1997 " 38: 16-20 June 1997 " 39: 27-31 October 1997 " IMR Editor [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 ETSI ---- Seminar/Workshop 1-3 October Nice, France GA24 10-11 December Nice, France TA25 23-25 October " IETF ---- 9-13 December San Jose, CA 7-11 April 1997 Memphis, Tenn. 11-15 August 1997 Munich, Germany RIPE ---- RIPE26 20-22 January 1997 Amsterdam RIPE27 May 1997 Dublin NATO Workshop ------------- 5-9 May 1997 Edinburgh +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES ------------------ Call for Papers JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference ------------------------------------------------ "Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape" 12-15 May 1997 Edinburgh, Scotland This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele- communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications, and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is currently being developed IMR Editor [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 Subject Areas: * Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering * User Support, Training and Education * Security and Management Issues * Information Systems and Distributed Applications * Economic and Political Issues Deadline for paper submission 10 November 1996 to: <jen8-submit@terena.nl> For information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 email: <jenc8-sec@terena.nl> http://www.terena.nl/jenc8 or JENC8 Local Organization c/o Concorde Services Ltd Unit 5, SECC Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland email: <jenc8@ed.ac.uk> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OTHER CONFERENCES: ----------------- Performance '96 --------------- International Conference on Performance Theory, Measurement and Evaluation of Computer and Communications Systems Organized by IFIPWG7.3 7-11 October Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Deadline paper submission 15 March 1996 Further information on WWW Page: http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/perf96/ IMR Editor [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 PROMS'96 Third International Workshop on Protocols for Multimedia Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------- 15-18 October Madrid, Spain This workshop is intended to contribute to scientific, strategical and practical cooperation between research institutes and industrial companies in the area of distributed multimedia applications, protocols, and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their usage on broadband networks. Papers to be submitted by 7 June. For information contact Arturo Azcorra at <aazcorra@dit.upm.es> 6th CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conference 1996 -------------------------------- 5-6 November Sheraton Brussels Hotel, Brussels, Belgium Theme of this conference is "Standards on Trial: Case Studies in European Standardization" Deadline for abstracts is 13 Sept. For further information: c/o CENELAC, Tel: +32 2 519 6871 Fax: +32 2 519 6919 IDATE96 18th International Conference of IDATE -------------------------------------- 6-8 November Montpellier, France An opportunity for professional contacts with major industrial group leaders, users and clients, researchers and academics, administrators and politians. Full details of the conference available on the Web: http://www.idate.fr CEN/TC304 - Character Set Technology Workshop --------------------------------------------- 11-12 November Bled, Slovenia Providing multilingual support in middleware: Implementing the Universal Character Set ISO 10646 in the European Information Society For information look up URL: http://www.e5.ijs.si/i18n/ws-bled.html IMR Editor [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 "The Telematics Revolution, Consequences for Individuals and Organisations" ---------------------------------------------- 13 November University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Theme of the conference is that progress of information and telecommunication technologies do create a huge number of questions, be it social, jurisdictional, economic or technical. Parallel sessions will deal with: interactive scientific visual- isation, tele-learning, user aspects of multimedia, distant consultation and using of laboratories. For all information and to receive brochure, contact Mr. Marc Fleskens at email address <telematics@tue.nl> IEEE Global Internet 1996 ------------------------- 20-21 November Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London This mini-conference will provide an open forum for the communications and computer networking communities to review the state-of-the-art technologies and applications of the evolving Global Internet. Deadline paper submissions 15 May to: http://gaia.cs.umass.edu:80/tccc/internet96/ or email Jon Crowcroft <jon@cs.ucl.ac.uk> WEB INTERNATIONALIZATION & MULTILINGUISM SYMPOSIUM -------------------------------------------------- 20-22 November Sevilla, Spain Organized by Sadiel and the WWW Consortium, with the support of the European Commission. The object of this symposium is the advancement of the internationalization and multilingualism of the Web, as well as to seek agreement on the relevant standards. Registration from 15 September. For further information see: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/International/Sevilla-96 IMR Editor [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 EITC'96 - European IT Conference -------------------------------- 25-27 November Congress Centre, Brussels, Belgium "Doing Business in the Information Society" Electronic commerce, provides the focus for sessions on IT applications, enabling technologies and international initiatives. Post-Conference Workshops to be held on 28 November. For information contact European Commission, DGIII or WWW: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/eitc96.htm ASIAN'96 - Asian Computing Science Conference --------------------------------------------- 2-5 December Singapore Themes of this conference is: - Programming (sematics, languages, systems, ...) - Concurrency & Parallelism (algorithms, formalisms, systems ...) - Networking & Security (algorithms, protocols, formalisms, ...) Additional information available from: http://www.escs.nus.sg/~asian96 Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997 ---------------------------------------- 10-12 February 1997 San Jose, CA, USA The object of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia computing and networking. Paper submission by 16 July 1996. For further information email <mmcn@cs.utexas.edu> COREC -"Interregional Cooperation in RTD - Challenges and Opportunities for Regions in Economic Conversion" --------------------------------------------------------- 16-17 December Bremen, Germany Background is the experience of the community initiative STRIDE and other programmes of the European Commission.The conference will deal questions of RTD-programmes and policies, their European Dimension and impact on regional development. For information contact Mr. Wolfgang Petzold at: email <wmte@uni-bremen.de> IMR Editor [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 IEEE INFOCOM '97 16th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer & Communications Societies ---------------------------------------- 7-11 April 1997 Kobe, Japan Paper submissions by 14 June 1997. For further information contact http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom/ http:// arpeggio.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/infocom.html ISADS 97 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems --------------------------------------------------------------- 9-11 April 1997 Berlin, Germany Supported by Hitachi, DeTeBerkom, NEC, Digital, GMD-FOCUS, Hewlett Packard, IBM. The focus will be on advancements and innovations in ADS platforms and applications. Integration of telecommunication and computing aspects into a uniform concept for providing an open distributed processing environment. For information see WWW: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ws/isads97/ EEMA'97 10th Annual Conference of European Electronic Messaging Association ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-19 June 1997 Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands Issues of the conference will be: Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services; Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European Initiatives; Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology & Management Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots. For information contact WWW: http://www.eema.org/ IMR Editor [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report July 1996 INET'97 The Internet: The Global Frontiers ---------------------------------- 24-27 June 1997 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education, commerce and societies throughout the world. Abstracts of papers to be submitted by 10 October. -for details of submission procedure email <inet-program-interest@isoc.org> -for program information email <inet-program-chair@isoc.org -for general information email <inet'97@isoc.org> ==================================================== This meeting list is also available on our WWW page: http://www.terena.nl/news/ ==================================================== IMR Editor [Page 32]
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