Internet Monthly Report for August, 1996
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August 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 August 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report August 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 August, 1996 1. The IETF met in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. It was another record setter as over 1200 attendees registered. Much of this was probably due to the IETF meeting along side INET '96. The IETF returns to San Jose, California on December 9-13, 1996. Our local host will be cisco Systems. The Secretariat will open for registrations the first part of October. The IETF opens 1997 Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 1997. Following Memphis, the IETF is we returning to Europe and will met in Munich, Germany August 11-15, 1997, hosted by Digi/ISOC.DE. The Secretariat is still working on the final meeting of 1997. Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg- sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.org 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: July 25, 1996 (iesg.96-07-25) August 8, 1996 (iesg.96-08-08) IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 26 Protocol Actions during the month of August, 1996: o UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646 be published as an Informational RFC. o Observations on the use of Components of the Class A Address Space within the Internet be published as an Informational RFC. o The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control Protocol (IPXCP) be published as a Draft Standard. o Domain Name System Security Extensions be published as a Proposed Standard. o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 be published as a Proposed Standard. o A Proposed Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication be published as a Proposed Standard. o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 be published as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2BIS be published as an Informational RFC. o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - OBSOLETE SYNTAX be published as an Informational RFC. o IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2BIS be published as an Informational RFC. oThe PPP SNA Control Protocol (SNACP) be published as a Proposed Standard. o Source directed access control on the Internet be published as an Informational RFC. o Local Mail Transfer Protocol be published as an Informational RFC. o TELNET CHARSET Option be published as an Experimental Protocol. o IP over HIPPI be published as a Draft Standard. o Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture be published as an Experimental Protocol. IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB be published as an Experimental Protocol. o Service Location Protocol be published as a Proposed Standard. o Entity MIB be published as a Proposed Standard. o SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes be published as a Proposed Standard. o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies be published as a Draft Standard. o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types be published as a Draft Standard. o MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text be published as a Draft Standard. o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures be published as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples be published as a Draft Standard. o Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) be published as a Proposed Standard. o RADIUS Accounting be published as an Informational RFC. 4. The IESG issued six Last Calls to the IETF during the month of August, 1996: o HTTP State Management Mechanism <draft-ietf-http-state-mgmt-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 QUOTA extension <draft-myers-imap-quota-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 non-synchroniziong literals <draft-myers-imap-literal-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 o IMAP4 ACL extension <draft-myers-imap-acl-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o HMAC-MD5 IP Authentication with Replay Prevention <draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-hmac-md5-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o HMAC-SHA IP Authentication with Replay Prevention <draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-hmac-sha-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. One new Working Group was formed this period. MBONE Deployment (mboned) and one Working Group was concluded: Internet User Glossary (userglos) 6. A total of 117 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of August, 1996: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification <draft-ietf-rsvp-spec-13.txt, .ps> (dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions <draft-ietf-dnssec-secext-10.txt> (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard <draft-teow-fabric-mib-01.txt> (oncrpc) o Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC <draft-ietf-oncrpc-auth-03.txt> (none) o Group Key Management Protocol (GKMP) Architecture <draft-harney-gkmp-arch-01.txt> (none) o Group Key Management Protocol (GKMP) Specification <draft-harney-gkmp-spec-01.txt> (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 <draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-08.txt> (wts) o The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol <draft-ietf-wts-shttp-03.txt> (idr) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-03.txt> (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) <draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-07.txt> (cat) o Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings <draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-cbind-02.txt> IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 (intserv) o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service <draft-ietf-intserv-guaranteed-svc-06.txt> (rip) o RIPng for IPv6 <draft-ietf-rip-ripng-04.txt> (ion) + IP Broadcast over ATM Networks. <draft-ietf-ion-bcast-00.txt> (entmib) o Entity MIB <draft-ietf-entmib-entmib-07.txt> (isdnmib) o ISDN Management Information Base <draft-ietf-isdnmib-snmp-isdn-mib-07.txt> (uri) + The Handle System <draft-ietf-uri-urn-handles-00.txt> (none) o TELNET CHARSET Option <draft-gellens-telnet-char-option-04.txt, .ps> (mixer) o Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message Bodies <draft-ietf-mixer-bodymap-06.txt> (none) o Application Level Internet Payment Syntax <draft-eastlake-internet-payment-02.txt> (html) o Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language <draft-ietf-html-i18n-05.txt> (ipsec) o Simple Key-Management For Internet Protocols (SKIP) <draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-07.txt> (none) o INTERNET REGISTRY IP ALLOCATION GUIDELINES <draft-hubbard-registry-guidelines-05.txt> (madman) o Mail Monitoring MIB <draft-ietf-madman-mail-monitor-mib-02.txt> (madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB <draft-ietf-madman-nsm-mib-02.txt> (mixer) o A MIME body part for FAX <draft-ietf-mixer-fax-01.txt> (mixer) o A MIME body part for ODA <draft-ietf-mixer-oda-01.txt> (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 <draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-07.txt, .ps> (http) + HTTP/1.2 EXTENSION PROTOCOL (PEP) <draft-ietf-http-pep-00.txt> (intserv) o Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service <draft-ietf-intserv-ctrl-load-svc-03.txt> (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) <draft-ietf-hubmib-mau-mib-03.txt> (none) + PEM Compression Encryption Module <draft-woodward-encryption-module-00.txt> (ipsec) o Encoding of an Unsigned Diffie-Hellman Public Value <draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-udh-01.txt> (ipsec) o X.509 Encoding of Diffie-Hellman Public Values <draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-x509-01.txt> (ipsec) o SKIP Algorithm Discovery Protocol <draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-adp-01.txt> IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 (ipsec) o SKIP Extensions for IP Multicast <draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-mc-01.txt> (mixer) o Carrying PostScript in X.400 and MIME <draft-ietf-mixer-postscript-01.txt> (none) o Extending NAT <draft-rfced-info-hurn-01.txt> (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 <draft-crispin-imap-base-05.txt> (wts) o Security Extensions For HTML <draft-ietf-wts-shtml-02.txt> (dhc) o Extensions for DHCPv6 <draft-ietf-dhc-v6exts-02.txt> (dnsind) o Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers <draft-ietf-dnsind-2ndry-03.txt> (ipsec) o SKIP extension for Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) <draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-pfs-01.txt> (dnssec) o Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update <draft-ietf-dnssec-update-01.txt> (dnssec) o Detached Domain Name System Information <draft-ietf-dnssec-ddi-01.txt> (none) o VEMMI URL Specification <draft-mavrakis-vemmi-url-spec-01.txt> (http) o Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP <draft-holtman-http-negotiation-02.txt> (atommib) o Managed Objects for Controlling the Collection and Storage of Accounting Information for Connection-Oriented Networks <draft-ietf-atommib-acct-03.txt> (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Standard and Pilot Attribute Definitions <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-attributes-02.txt> (fddimib) o FDDI Management Information Base <draft-ietf-fddimib-objects-v2-01.txt> (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-protocol-02.txt> (none) o Tools in the War on Mail Loops <draft-bernstein-mail-loops-war-01.txt> (none) o Public Information Retrieval Protocol (PIRP) <draft-bernstein-pirp-01.txt> (none) o Notice-Requested-Upon-Delivery-To (NRUDT) <draft-bernstein-nrudt-01.txt> (none) o The qmail-send Bounce Message Format (QSBMF) <draft-bernstein-qsbmf-01.txt> (none) o Easily Parsed LIST Format (EPLF) <draft-bernstein-eplf-01.txt> (none) o Netstrings <draft-bernstein-netstrings-01.txt> (none) o The Hash Convention For Mail System Status Codes (HCMSSC) <draft-bernstein-hcmssc-01.txt> (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm1ng-01.txt> IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type <draft-ietf-atommib-sonetng-01.txt> (pier) o Router Renumbering Guide <draft-ietf-pier-rr-02.txt> (none) o Source directed access control on the Internet. <draft-bradner-access-control-02.txt> (mhtml) o MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) <draft-ietf-mhtml-spec-03.txt> (ipsec) o HMAC-MD5 IP Authentication with Replay Prevention <draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-hmac-md5-02.txt> (ipsec) o HMAC-SHA IP Authentication with Replay Prevention <draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-hmac-sha-02.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-03.txt> (none) o New Registries and the Delegation of International Top Level Domains <draft-postel-iana-itld-admin-02.txt> (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Experiences with NeTraMet <draft-ietf-rtfm-acct-experiences-01.txt> (ids) o Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services <draft-ietf-ids-dnsnames-01.txt> (ids) o Finding Stuff (Providing information to support service discovery) <draft-ietf-ids-discovery-01.txt> (pier) o Network Renumbering Overview: Why would I want it and what is it anyway? <draft-ietf-pier-renum-ovrvw-01.txt> (none) o SMTP Extension for Message Submission/Relay <draft-gellens-smtp-submit-01.txt> (oncrpc) o Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2 <draft-ietf-oncrpc-rpcbind-01.txt> (oncrpc) o RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 <draft-ietf-oncrpc-remote-02.txt> (none) o The Public Key Login Protocol <draft-kemp-auth-pklogin-01.txt, .ps> (none) o User-Agent Display Attributes <draft-mutz-http-attributes-01.txt> (none) o IPv6 Router Alert Option <draft-cisco-ipv6-router-alert-01.txt> (none) o Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System <draft-daniel-naptr-01.txt> (none) o Redundant MARS architectures and SCSP <draft-armitage-ion-mars-scsp-01.txt> (ion) o Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay <draft-ietf-ion-fr-update-01.txt> (none) o Reducing the ISDN costs of Network Applications that use TCP/IP. <draft-waters-reduce-isdn-costs-01.txt> IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 (mboned) + Multicast pruning a necessity <draft-ietf-mboned-pruning-00.txt> (none) + S/Ident: Security Extensions for the Ident Protocol <draft-morgan-ident-ext-00.txt> (asid) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-dn-00.txt> (asid) + An Approach for Using Domains in LDAP Distinguished Names <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-domains-00.txt> (ediint) + Requirements for Inter-operable Internet EDI <draft-ietf-ediint-req-00.txt> (rip) + RIPng Protocol Applicability Statement <draft-ietf-rip-ripng-applic-00.txt> (none) + Virtual Tunneling Protocol (VTP) <draft-calhoun-vtp-protocol-00.txt> (atommib) + Accounting Information for ATM Networks <draft-ietf-atommib-atmacct-00.txt> (fddimib) + FDDI Management Information Base in the SNMPv2 SMI <draft-ietf-fddimib-smiv2-object-v2-00.txt> (none) + Interworking Between CDPD and Mobile IP Networks <draft-ruth-cdpd-networks-00.txt> (none) o TCP and UDP over IPv6 Jumbograms <draft-borman-jumbograms-01.txt> (none) + Dedicated Token Ring Concentrator MIB <draft-warwick-tokenring-arch-00.txt> (none) + RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG <draft-civanlar-bmpeg-00.txt> (none) + Quick Mail Transfer Protocol (QMTP) <draft-bernstein-qmtp-00.txt> (none) + The Owner Hack <draft-bernstein-owner-hack-00.txt> (none) o Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels <draft-bradner-key-words-02.txt> (intserv) + The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services <draft-ietf-intserv-rsvp-use-00.txt> (mhtml) + Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators <draft-ietf-mhtml-cid-00.txt> (none) + IP Cluster <draft-chu-ip-cluster-00.txt> (stdguide) + Guide for Internet Standards Writers <draft-ietf-stdguide-ops-00.txt> (none) + Political Disclosure Transmission Protocol (DISCLOSE) <draft-rfced-info-dixon-00.txt> (bmwg) + Benchmarking Terminology for Local Area Switching Devices <draft-ietf-bmwg-lanswitch-00.txt> (none) + Sink-Assisted Routing Protocol (SARP) For General IP Multicasting <draft-yong-sarp-00.txt> (none) + SELECTING PAYMENT MECHANISMS OVER HTTP Or, Seven Examples of UPP Over PEP (as used in JEPI) <draft-khare-jepi-uppflow-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 (none) o "irc: URL scheme" <draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt> (none) + New Registries assignment, new iTLD formats and implementation of International Top Level Domains <draft-masek-itld-admin-00.txt> (none) + Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI <draft-rfced-info-mills-00.txt> (none) + Proposed Mechanism for Self-Labeling of Content <draft-rfced-info-molitor-00.txt> (dhc) + DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-dhc-slp-00.txt> (none) + Creation of and Registration in the ".NUM" Top Level Domain <draft-rfced-info-schultz-00.txt> (none) + Application/Directory Profile for LDAP and X.500 Knowledge <draft-wahl-know-mime-00.txt> (none) + WebNFS Server Specification <draft-rfced-info-callaghan2-00.txt> (none) + The PORT Resource Record <draft-rfced-exp-maginnis-00.txt> (none) + Mobile Network Tracing <draft-rfced-info-noble-00.txt> (none) + Ruby in the Hypertext Markup Language <draft-duerst-ruby-00.txt> (none) + WebNFS Client Specification <draft-rfced-info-callaghan1-00.txt> 7. There were 30 RFCs published during the month of August, 1996: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1888 E (ipngwg) OSI NSAPs and IPv6 RFC1963 I (pppext) PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP) RFC1967 I (pppext) PPP LZS-DCP Compression Protocol (LZS-DCP) RFC1970 PS (ipngwg) Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) RFC1971 PS (addrconf) IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration RFC1972 PS (ipngwg) A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks RFC1974 I (pppext) PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol RFC1975 I (pppext) PPP Magnalink Variable Resource Compression RFC1976 I (pppext) PPP for Data Compression in Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DCE) RFC1977 I (pppext) PPP BSD Compression Protocol RFC1978 I (pppext) PPP Predictor Compression Protocol RFC1979 I (pppext) PPP Deflate Protocol RFC1980 I (none) A Proposed Extension to HTML: Client-Side Image Maps IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 RFC1981 PS (ipngwg) Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 RFC1983 I (userglos) Internet Users' Glossary RFC1984 I (none) IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet RFC1985 PS (none) SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting RFC1986 E (none) Experiments with a Simple File Transfer Protocol for Radio Links using Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ETFTP) RFC1987 I (none) Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1 RFC1988 I (none) Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific Hewlett-Packard Patents In Conjunction With the Internet Engineering Task Force's Internet-Standard Network Management Framework RFC1989 DS (pppext) PPP Link Quality Monitoring RFC1990 DS (pppext) The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) RFC1991 I (none) PGP Message Exchange Formats RFC1992 I (nimrod) The Nimrod Routing Architecture RFC1993 I (pppext) PPP Gandalf FZA Compression Protocol RFC1994 DS (pppext) PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) RFC1995 PS (dnsind) Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS RFC1996 PS (dnsind) A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY) RFC1997 PS (idr) BGP Communities Attribute RFC1998 I (idr) An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya <scoya@cnri.reston.va.us> IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 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. * 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. IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 * 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 August: Email: 221,961 Postal/Fax: 2,475 Phone: 33,497 Gopher connections: 9,684 retrievals: 27,815 WAIS connections: 48,124 retrievals: 29,125 FTP connections: 66,003 retrievals: 132,917 Mailserv: 1,338 Telnet: 103,564 Http: 3,742,911 Whois client: 1,245,005 Whois server: 7,275,885 Rich Landers <richl@internic.net> INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES InterNIC Directory and Database Services is now the "official" source for the Netfind seed database and the Netfind source code. The seed database is updated monthly and is available at: http://ds.internic.net/wp/netfind-seeddb.html The Netfind source code is available at: http://ds.internic.net/wp/netfind-src.html The latest version is 5.0.1. The netfind code comes with version 1.60 beta5 of MIT's pthreads for building pthread support if pthreads are not native. GNU make and gcc (both available from the GNU software FTP archive) are necessary to build MIT's pthreads. Netfind 5.0.1 is not currently backward compatible with SunOS 4.* and lightweight process threads (LWP). For those still wishing to IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 provide netfind servers on SunOS platforms, v4.7 of the netfind code has been modified to use the new seed database. The modified version 4.7 is also available from the above web page. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net> THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The US Domain now has an online line registration form. Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator for that locality. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). A new policy has been added to the criteria for delegating domain names under the US Domain: It is the intention that the delegation of third level (for example, locality) domain names be wide spread to many registries. It is undesirable for one person or organization to manage a large part of the third level names in any particular geographic or logical area. No individual or organization shall have more than 500 delegations total in the US Domain as a whole, or more than 50 delegation in any particuilar second level (for example, a state). About the special domains under the state codes. The K12, CC, TEC, LIB, STATE, DST, COG and GEN domain under each state are established for special purposes (see RFC 1480). IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 In addition to the constaint to use them only for the defined purpose, each of these special domains is also to delegated only to a manager within the state, and the operation of the delegated registry should be non-profit. The LIB domain should be managed by a govermental or educational library organization. Further, it is most appropriate for the K12, CC, and TEC, domains to be managed by an educational organization (for example, a university or a department of education). The STATE domain is most appropriately managed by an agency of the state government. DST and COG should be managed by a goverment agency. The GEN domain may be delegated to any organization that will provide the registration service for free (and remember the purpose of the GEN domain is to register statewide non-profit organizations). To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains not administered by the US Domain Registrar, get the file "us-domain-delegated.txt". URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 2975 PHONE 525 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3500 DELEGATIONS 122 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS:1014 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 2364 --------------------------- Total 3500 IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 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 315 localities have been delegated in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Michigan , Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Vermont, this month. 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 ========== CLOVERDALE.IN.US MARINETTE.WI.US CAPE-FEAR.NC.US PARK-RIDGE.IL.US PENDLETON.OR.US PURGATORY.CO.US STOW.OH.US KEWAUNEE.WI.US OAK-LAWN.IL.US COLORADO-CITY.AZ.US MOHAVE-VALLEY.AZ.US SHERIDAN.IN.US PICAYUNE.MS.US CLARK.KY.US MANCHESTER.MO.US CLEARLAKE.CA.US PICO-RIVERA.CA.US DOWNEY.CA.US PINE-BLUFF.AR.US MONTICELLO.AR.US STAFFORD.VA.US NOVATO.CA.US GOLDEN.CO.US PAWHUSKA.OK.US URBANA.IL.US ELIZEBETH-CITY.NC.US FAYETTEVILLE.AR.US COLUMBUS.IN.US HAZEN.AR.US DES-ARC.AR.US CARLISLE.AR.US BEEBE.AR.US TROUTDALE.OR.US ASHLEY-FALLS.MA.US HYANNIS-PORT.MA.US EDGARTOWN.MA.US SOUTH-EGREMONT.MA.US LANESBORO.MA.US NEW-BERN.NC.US LINDSAY.CA.US IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 OFALLON.MO.US ELDON.MO.US FARMINGTON.MO.US SIKESTON.MO.US WEST-LOS-ANGELES.CA.US WLA.CA.US GREENCASTLE.IN.US COUNCIL-BLUFFS.IA.US BEAVER-DAM.WI.US BOSTON.MA.US OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- CI.SPRINGBORO.OH.US CI.OGALLALA.NE.US CI.COLUMBUS.NE.US CI.TOMAHAWK.WI.US CI.MERRILL.WI.US CO.LINCOLN.WI.US CO.CHATHAM.NC.US CI.WESTMINSTER.MD.US CI.GARLAND.TX.US CI.FOUNTAIN-HILLS.AZ.US CI.MUSKEGO.WI.US CO.WAYNE.MI.US CO.WAYNE.NY.US CI.MCMINNVILLE.OR.US CI.SHOW-LOW.AZ.US CO.JACKSON.OR.US CI.GREENVILLE.NC.US CI.FORTUNA.CA.US CI.FOUNTAIN-VALLEY.CA.US CI.DALY-CITY.CA.US TWP.BURLINGTON.NJ.US CO.LINCOLN.NC.US CI.ST-JOSEPH.MO.US CO.EATON.MI.US CI.TAUNTON.MA.US CI.MARION.IN.US CO.DELAWARE.NY.US CI.WASHINGTON.PA.US KUWAIT.INFO.NW.DC.US CORONER.CO.FRANKLIN.OH.US CHESAPEAKE.LIB.VA.US ABE.APALACHIN.NY.US WIDOMAKER.WILLIAMSBURG.VA.US TMOK.GEN.RI.US CUG.COLUMBIA.IL.US QZ.LITTLE-NECK.NY.US BEIGE.AFFTON.MO.US PALMER.LIB.MA.US HCSOT.TEC.NJ.US BHSALUM.BELLEFONTAINE.OH.US LIVERMORE.LIB.CA.US MPWMD.DST.CA.US WFRPC.DST.FL.US 43RD.CI.CHICAGO.IL.US GREECEFEST.GREECE.NY.US HEALTH.CO.CHENANGO.NY.US BPC.COLUMBIA.IL.US STERLINGCOLLEGE.CRAFTSBURY.VT.US TOWNSHIP.ORION.MI.US LAMAN.LIB.AR.US SHERRIF.CO.PULASKI.AR.US IASI.TEC.AL.US WWCC.CC.WY.US NOCK.WASHINGTON.DC.US MARC.WASHINGTON.DC.US MBEVILL.CC.AL.US HEALTH.CO.ONONDAGA.NY.US STA.DST.CA.US CRRL.LIB.VA.US ACID.WATERLOO.IL.US WWW.CHICAGO.IL.US INFO.CHICAGO.IL.US IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 METRO.CHICAGO.IL.US BLUERIDGESCHOOL.DYKE.VA.US KTI.BIRMINGHAM.MI.US COLUMBUS.MARSHFIELD.WI.US GEORGETOWN.NW.DC.US GEORGETOWN.WASHINGTON.DC.US MARC.NW.DC.US WMR-SCCA.GEN.MI.US GRMUSEUM.MUS.MI.US SCHULTE.JEFFERSONTOWN.KY.US ----------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes August 1996 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. An incremental update client has recently been implemented for the Routing Arbiter Database by Jerry Winters of the RADB staff. The new client polls the RIPE registry's mirroring site every 30 minutes for database updates; previously, updates were only provided once each day. The technology thus significantly improves the timeliness of the Internet Routing Registry (IRR) data provided by RAWhoisd, the whois.ra.net whois server. Winters has been testing a server that will allow Merit to support its own database mirroring site, much like RIPE's. This would mean that other IRR organizations, such as MCI, CA*net, and RIPE, could update their database copies with new RADB data as frequently as every five minutes, rather than every 24 hours. The Merit mirroring site would also support a hot backup system for the production RADB database system. As part of Merit's ongoing research on routing technologies and protocols, IPv6 routing support has been added to the Multi- Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT). The development work is being carried out by Masaki Hirabaru, an Associate Professor of Information Science at Japan's Nara Institute of Science and Technology, who is working at Merit for part of the 1996 academic year. Hirabaru is developing a wide-area IPv6 testing environment for MRT using the 6bone, a virtual network that links sites in North America, Europe, and Japan. The 6bone is layered on top of portions of the physical, IPv4-based Internet to support routing of IPv6 packets, as that function has not yet been integrated into IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 many production routers. The 6bone comprises islands of IPv6 hosts connected by virtual point-to-point links, called tunnels. The tunnel endpoints are typically workstation-class machines with operating system support for IPv6. Support for RIPng and the IPv6 policy language has also been implemented in MRT, including implementation of IPv6 access-lists and router descriptions. In addition, Hirabaru and MRT developer Craig Labovitz have been working with IPv6 operating system development groups to fix several bugs in the IPv6 kernel software. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- Mark Handley and Jon Crowcroft attended SIGCOMM 96 and ran a tworkshop day on future multicast research problems (see http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/sigbone.html for further information) John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report August 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@ietf.org> 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 21] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 1996 - ----------- Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ontario, CA Oct. 2-4 Object World Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Oct. 6-9 Asia Pacific Distributed Solutions Event Queensland, Australia 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. 13-16 IEEE Local Computer Ntwrks (LCN) Minneapolis, MN Oct. 14-17 MEDNET '96 European Congress of the Internet in Medicine Brighton, UK Oct. 15 Commercenet New Orleans, LA Oct. 15-17 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Oct. 15-18 3rd Int'l on Protocols for Multimedia Systems Madrid, Spain Oct. 16-18 Internet World Monterrey '96 Monterrey, Mexico Oct. 16-19 5th Int'l Conference on Computer Communications & Ntwrks Rockville, MD 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. 29-31 Internet Professional '96 Paris, France 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. 6-8 Web Developer Mexico '96 Mexico Ciy, Mexico 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. 20-21 IEEE Global Internet '96 London, UK Nov. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 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. 12 Internet Security for System & Network Administrators Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 13 Commercenet Albuquerque, NM 1997 - ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 6-10 USENIX '97 Annual Technical Conf. Anaheim, CA Jan. 6-10 USELINUX: Linux Appl. Dev. Anaheim, CA Jan. 7-10 13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf on Systems Sciences Maui, Hawaii Jan. 7-10 Internet World Canada '97 Toronto, Canada Jan. 21-23 Internet World Shanghai-China Shanghai, China Jan. 21-25 Internet World Singapore Intl Singapore 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. 11-14 Spring Internet World '97 Los Angeles, CA Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Mar. 17-19 1st Euromicro Working Conf. on Software Maintenance & Reengineering Berlin, Germany Mar. 19-21 Internet World Asia '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 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 May 12-16 IFIP/IEEE San Diego, CA May 28-30 Web Developer '97 Chicago, IL IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report August 1996 Jun. 3-5 Internet World Mexico '97 Mexico City, Mexico 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. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland 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) 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 24] Internet Monthly Report August 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 25] Internet Monthly Report August 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 26] Internet Monthly Report August 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 27] Internet Monthly Report August 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 28] Internet Monthly Report August 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 29] Internet Monthly Report August 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 30] Internet Monthly Report August 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 31] Internet Monthly Report August 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 32] Internet Monthly Report August 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 33]
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