Internet Monthly Report - September 1993
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INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
PRIVACY AND SECURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
JVNCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23
MERIT/MICHNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26
MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
MRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
SPRINTLINK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 36
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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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PRIVACY AND SECURITY
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The PSRG, in conjunction with the Internet Society, is
sponsoring the Distributed System Security Symposium on February
3-4, (1994) in San Diego. The Symposium steering committee,
which includes most of the PSRG plus additional members,
completed review of submissions in mid-September and notified
authors late this month.
The PSRG members continue work on an Internet security
architecture document and will be reviewing the current draft at
the next meeting on October 5-7 at MIT. A draft of the docuemnt
is expected to be available before the end of 1993.
Steve Kent (kent@bbn.com)
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
IETF MONTHLY REPORT
1. The next meeting of the IETF will be held in Houston, Texas from
November 1-5, 1993, and the registration reception will be held
on Sunday, October 31. This meeting is being co-hosted by
SESQUINET and Rice University. Following that, arrangements for
the first meeting of the IETF in 1994 have been made. That
meeting will be held in Seattle, Washington from March 29
through April 1,1994. This meeting is being hosted by
NorthWestNet.
Note that information on future IETF meetings can be always be
found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF
shadow directories.
2. The IESG has established a temporary ad hoc area to deal
specifically with IPng issues. The charter for this new IESG
area is to develop a recommendation on which, if any, of the
current proposals should be adopted as the next IP. This
recommendation will be submitted to the IESG and to the Internet
community for review. Following an adequate period of review to
surface any community concerns, the IESG will issue a final IPng
recommendation. All of the current IPng-related working groups
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will be moved immediately into this new area.
This new area will be headed by two co-Area Directors from
within the IESG: Allison Mankin current Transport Services AD,
and Scott Bradner, current Operational Requirements AD.
3. Responding to a number of requests, a new content requirement
has been announced for all Internet-Drafts submissions.
Internet-Drafts must now contain the full "ftp" filename in the
text of the document. The filename information should, at a
minimum, appear on the first page (possibly with the title).
All formatting and content requirements for Internet-Drafts can
be found in the file 1id-guidelines.txt which is located on the
IETF shadow directories.
4. The IESG approved or recommended the following nine Protocol
Actions during the month of September, 1993:
o An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR as a
Proposed Standard
o Applicability Statement for the Implementation of Classless
Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) as a Proposed Standard
o Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment
and Aggregation Strategy as a Proposed Standard
o Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts as an
Informational Document
o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium
Attachment Units (MAUs) as a Proposed Standard
o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater
Devices as a Draft Standard
o Host Resources MIB as a Proposed Standard
o Definitions of Managed Objects for Source Routing Bridges as
a Proposed Standard
o Exchanging Routing Information Across Provider/Subscriber
Boundaries in the CIDR Environment as an Informational
Document
5. The IESG issued two Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
September, 1993:
o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-lcp-main-02> (Draft Standard)
o PPP in HDLC Framing <draft-ietf-pppext-hdlc-framing> (Draft
Standard)
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6. Two Working Groups were created during this period:
Remote LAN Monitoring (rmonmib)
Generic Internet Service Description (gisd)
Additionally, six Working Groups were concluded:
FDDI MIB (fddimib)
Bridge MIB (bridge)
IEEE 802.3 Hub MIB (hubmib)
Token Ring Remote Monitoring (trmon)
Host Resources MIB (hostmib)
MIME-MHS Interworking (mimemhs)
7. A total of 43 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of September, 1993:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(none) o A New IP Routing and Addressing Architecture
<draft-chiappa-routing-01.txt>
(bgp) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction
<draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4ospf-interact-02.txt>
(none) o Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and Forwarding
Specification (Version 1).
<draft-estrin-sdrp-03.txt>
(bgp) o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the
Internet <draft-ietf-bgp-application-02.txt>
(none) o Recommendations for Mail Based Servers
<draft-houttuin-mailservers-02.txt>
(ospf) o OSPF Version 2 <draft-ietf-ospf-version2-04.txt, .ps>
(iab) o The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2
<draft-iab-standards-processv2-02.txt>
(avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
<draft-ietf-avt-rtp-03.txt, .ps>
(avt) o Media Encodings <draft-ietf-avt-encodings-02.txt>
(avt) o Sample Profile for the Use of RTP for Audio and
Video Conferences with Minimal Control
<draft-ietf-avt-profile-02.txt>
(pppext) o PPP LCP Extensions <draft-ietf-pppext-lcpext-04.txt>
(iplpdn) o Determination of Encapsulation of Multi-protocol
Datagrams in Circuit-switched Environments
<draft-ietf-iplpdn-multi-isdn-02.txt>
(iplpdn) o Parameter Negotiation for the Multiprotocol
Interconnect
<draft-ietf-iplpdn-para-negotiation-02.txt>
(pppext) o PPP over ISDN <draft-ietf-pppext-isdn-02.txt>
(pppext) o PPP over SONET/SDH <draft-ietf-pppext-sonet-01.txt>
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(dns) o DNS Support for IDPR <draft-ietf-dns-idpr-01.txt>
(tuba) o Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts
<draft-ietf-tuba-sysids-03.txt>
(madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB
<draft-ietf-madman-networkmib-05.txt>
(ifmib) o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II
<draft-ietf-ifmib-evolution-03.txt>
(madman) o Mail Monitoring MIB
<draft-ietf-madman-mtamib-06.txt>
(madman) o Directory Monitoring MIB
<draft-ietf-madman-dsa-mib-05.txt>
(pppext) o PPP in HDLC Framing
<draft-ietf-pppext-hdlc-framing-02.txt>
(dns) o Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested
Fixes. <draft-ietf-dns-common-errors-02.txt>
(pppext) o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-lcp-main-02.txt>
(iplpdn) o A Multilink Protocol for Synchronizing the
Transmission of Multi-protocol Datagrams.
<draft-ietf-iplpdn-simple-multi-01.txt>
(none) o Internet Authentication Guidelines
<draft-haller-auth-requirements-01.txt, .ps>
(dns) o Common DNS Data File Configuration Errors
<draft-ietf-dns-config-errors-01.txt>
(tn3270e) o TN3270 Current Practices
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-current-pract-01.txt>
(osids) + Charting Networks in the Directory
<draft-ietf-osids-chart-network-dir-00.txt, .ps>
(osids) + Representing IP Information in the X.500 Directory
<draft-ietf-osids-ipinfo-x500-dir-00.txt, .ps>
(pppext) + A Multilink Protocol for Synchronizing the
Transmission of Multi-protocol Datagrams.
<draft-ietf-pppext-multilink-00.txt>
(none) + Mapping between X.400 P772 and RFC-822
<draft-onions-x400p772-822-mapping-00.txt>
(none) + Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
<draft-hanks-gre-00.txt>
(none) + Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks
<draft-hanks-ip-gre-00.txt>
(sdr) + BGP SDRP_SPEAKERS Attribute
<draft-ietf-sdr-speakers-attribute-00.txt>
(pppext) + Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point
Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-requirements-00.txt>
(none) + SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Reports
<draft-moore-smtp-drpt-00.txt>
(none) + MIME Content-Types For Delivery Status Notifications
<draft-moore-mime-delivery-00.txt>
(none) + Delivery Report Content-Type for use with MIME
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<draft-vaudreuil-mime-delivery-00.txt>
(none) + Selecting an Indirect Provider
<draft-rekhter-select-providers-00.txt>
(none) + MacMIME - How to send Macintosh files with MIME
<draft-faltstrom-macmime-00.txt>
(none) + Integrated Network Layer Security Protocol
<draft-glenn-layer-security-00.txt>
(pppext) + The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-netbios-fcp-00.txt>
8. There were 22 RFC's published during the month of September,
1993:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1506 I (none) A tutorial on gatewaying between X.400
and Internet mail
RFC1507 E (cat) Distributed Authentication Security
Service
RFC1508 PS (cat) Generic Security Service Application
Program Interface
RFC1509 PS (cat) Generic Security Service API : C-bindings
RFC1510 PS (cat) The Kerberos Network Authentication
Service(V5)
RFC1511 I (cat) Common Authentication Technology Overview
RFC1512 PS (fddimib) FDDI Management Information Base
RFC1513 PS (trmon) Token Ring Extensions to the Remote
Network Monitoring MIB
RFC1514 PS (hostmib) Host Resources MIB
RFC1515 PS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE
802.3 Medium Attachment Units(MAUs)
RFC1516 DS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE
802.3 Repeater Devices
RFC1517 PS (iesg) Applicability Statement for the
Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain
Routing(CIDR)
RFC1518 PS (none) An Architecture for IP Address Allocation
with CIDR
RFC1519 PS (none) Classless Inter-Domain Routing(CIDR): an
Address Assignment and Aggregation
Strategy
RFC1520 I (none) Exchanging Routing Information Across
Provider Boundaries in the CIDR
Environment
RFC1521 DS (822ext) MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for
Specifying and Describing the Format
of Internet Message Bodies
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RFC1522 DS (822ext) MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) Part Two: Message Header
Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
RFC1523 I (822ext) The text/enriched MIME Content-type
RFC1524 I (none) A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For
Multimedia Mail Format Information
RFC1525 PS (bridge) Definitions of Managed Objects for Source
Routing Bridges
RFC1526 I (tuba) Assignment of System Identifiers for
TUBA/CLNP Hosts
RFC1527 I (none) What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of
the Network?
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING
----------------------------------
Network Status Summary
======================
New software was installed on ANSnet to increase the number of
router forwarding table destinations to 25,000. ANSnet internal
stability improved in September over the August measurements. New
routing software was deployed in the ANSnet to reduce instability,
and simplify the reconfiguration process.
August Backbone Traffic and Routing Statistics
==============================================
The total inbound packet count for the network (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 35,827,580,753 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up
12.15% from August. The total packet count into the network
including all ENSS serial interfaces was 41,727,682,966 up 10.82%
from August.
Router Table Growth
===================
The number of networks actually announced to ANSNET grew by about
6.82% in September. There were 16,558 configured networks by the
end of September. The maximum number of routes announced to the
backbone was 11,621.
A new system software version was released on the IBM routers in
September that increases the capacity on each router interface to
25,000 forwarding table entries.
Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes
===================================
The "Better IBGP Aggregation" version of rcp_routed ran on the
ANSnet during the month of September. Another rcp_routed release
will be deployed in October. This is expected to be the last
rcp_routed release prior to the release of Gated. This is the
"Both IBGP and EBGP Aggregation" version. Deployment will be in
early October. The "Better IBGP Aggregation" version of rcp_routed
improved performance over previous versions. The "Both IBGP and
EBGP Aggregation" version further improves performance, and also
allows the CNSS nodes to be interconnected using a FDDI ring rather
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than point-to-point interfaces within the carrier POPs.
Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network
============================================
Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring
short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration
or less). This is intended as a measure of stability rather than
complete connectivity. Internal routing stability during September
continued the steady improvement that has been observed since June.
MONTH overall excluding configs
------ ------- -----------------
January 99.1% 99.5%
February 99.0% 99.5%
March 97.5% 99.1%
April 96.1% 97.2%
May 97.4% 98.0%
June 95.5% 96.6%
July 97.3% 97.7%
August 97.5% 97.9%
September 98.1% 98.5%
The number of intermittent circuit problems was very low in
September and the problems that did occur were quickly attended to.
Problems on the C32-C40 link occurred a few times during the month.
The E138 link has experienced had a low level of loss but has not
caused routing instability. The C8-C24 link and C40-C48 links went
hard down on Sep 16 and Sep 30, but resulted in little routing
instability since it was not intermittent. The C32-C48 link went
down on Sep 26 but caused little routing instability.
Power and UPS problems at the Los Angeles area POP caused
significant routing instability on Sep 5. UPS problems occurred at
the San Francisco area POP as well. Numerous ENSS's experienced
local site power problems, most notably ENSS230. ENSS230 also
suffered some problems with the tail circuit and routing software
problems. Router hardware problems were not a major contributor to
instability although there were a number of problems. A large
disruption (3 hours) was due to the installation of an AIX 3.2
build on Sep 17. The network has been very stable since Sep 17.
The number of nodes experiencing a great deal of accumulated outage
time improved over June and July, though ENSS230 shows up in the
>5hr column. The breakdown by sites is as follows (these figures
include instability seen during configuration runs):
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MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min
------------------------------------------------------------
January 0 0 1 8 19 55
February 0 0 1 24 19 41
March 0 4 18 23 23 22
April 2 2 3 13 12 57
May 0 4 33 32 15 5
June 3 21 35 18 12 3
July 0 12 28 44 6 1
August 1 5 28 21 17 15
September 1 38 25 10 4 13
Although overall stability was improved, several nodes show up in
the >2 hr and >1 hr columns. This is because of the installation
of the AIX build which took approximately 3 hours and credited each
node with a significant amount of down time. Only the 13 CNSS
backbone nodes show under 15 minutes of instability for the month.
Generally the T3 concentrators were in the >15 minute and >30
minute range with the bulk of the histogram where the T1
concentrators and ENSS fell. This was due to the order of
automated installation of the AIX build, proceeding from the
outside in toward the core.
Notable Outages in September '93
================================
E173 (ITESM) suffered an extended outage on 09/07 due to flooding.
E169 (InterAccess) suffered an extended outage on 09/09 due to
hardware failure.
E132 (Pittsburgh) lost T3 connectivity on 09/10 due to a fiber
outage.
E173 (ITESM) suffered an extended outage on 09/17 due to circuit
problems.
Jordan Becker (becker@ans.net)
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ISI
---
GIGABIT NETWORKING
Infrastructure
Trips
Bob Braden and Steve Casner, attended the ARPA Networking '93
Meeting in Santa Rosa, CA August 27 to Sep 02 1993. Bob Felderman,
attended the ARPA Fall PI meeting in San Diego, California
September 27-29, 1993.
Jon Postel and Walt Prue attended the CALREN meeting at Aerospace,
in El Segundo, California, September 16, 1993. Jon Postel and Bob
Braden attended the IAB meetings in San Franicisco, Ca, September
12-14, 1993. Joyce Reynolds attended the RIPE meetings in
Amsterdam, Holland, September 11-17, 1993. Deborah Estrin attended
ACM Siggraph 93 Conference San Francisco, CA, September 14-17,
1993.
22 RFCS were published this month
RFC 1506: Houttuin, "A Tutorial on Gatewaying between X.400
and Internet Mail", RARE Secretariat, September 1993.
RFC 1507: Kaufman, C., "DASS - Distributed Authentication
Security Service", DEC, Septemer 1993.
RFC 1508: Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application
Program Interface" Geer Zolot Associates,
Septemer 1993.
RFC 1509: Wray, J., "Generic Security Service API : C-bindings",
DEC, September, 1993.
RFC 1510: Kohl, J., and C. Neuman, "The Kerberos Network
Authentication Service (V5)", DEC, September, 1993.
RFC 1511: Linn, J., "Common Authentication Technology Overview",
Geer Zolot Associates, "September 1993.
RFC 1512: Case, J., and A. Rijsinghani, "FDDI Management
Information Base", Univ. of Tennessee, SNMP
Research, Inc., September 1993.
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RFC 1513: Waldbusser, S., "Token Ring Extensions to the Remote
Network Monitoring MIB", Carnegie Mellon University,
September 1993.
RFC 1514: Grillo, P., and S. Waldbusser, "Host Resources MIB"
Carnegie Mellon Univ., September 1993.
RFC 1515: McMaster, D. (SynOptics Communications) K. McCloghrie,
(Hughes LAN Systems) and S. Roberts (Farallon
Computing, Inc), "Definitions of Managed Objects for
IEEE 802.3
Medium Attachment Units (MAUs),
RFC 1516: McMaster D., (SynOptics Communications) K. McCloghrie,
(Hughes LAN Systems), "802.3 Repeater MIB",
September 1993.
RFC 1517: Internet Engineering Steering Group, R. Hinden, (Sun
Microsystems), "Applicability Statement for the
Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain Routing
(CIDR)", September, 1993.
RFC 1518: Rekhter, Y.(T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.)
and T. Li, (Cisco Systems), "An Architecture for
IP Address Allocation with CIDR", September 1993.
RFC 1519: Fuller, V. (Barrnet), T. Li, (CISCO), J. Yu (Merit),
K. Varadhan (OARnet), "Classless Inter-Domain Routing
(CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy",
September 1993.
RFC 1520: Rekhter, Y., (T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.)
C. Topolcic (CNRI), September 1993.
RFC 1521: Borenstein, N., (Bellcore), N. Freed (Innosoft),
"MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing
the Format of Internet Message Bodies",
September 1993.
RFC 1522: Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions
for Non-ASCII Text" University of Tennessee),
September 1993.
RFC 1523: Borenstein, N., (Bellcore), "The text/enriched MIME
Content-type", September 1993.
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RFC 1524: Borenstein, N., (Bellcore), "A User Agent
Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format
Information", September 1993.
RFC 1525: Decker, E. (cisco Systems, Inc.), . K. McCloghrie
(Hughes LAN Systems,), P. Langille (DEC),
A. Rijsinghani (DEC), September 1993.
RFC 1526: Piscitello, D., (Bellcore), "Assignment of System
Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts", September 1993.
RFC 1527: Cook, G., (Cook Report), "What Should We Plan Given
the Dilemma of the Network?", September 1993.
Ann Cooper (Cooper@isi.edu)
THE US DOMAIN
-------------
ISI administers the US Domain (under a contract from the InterNIC
Registration Service (Network Solutions)). In this issue of the IMR a
summary of the status of the US Domain use is presented. In future
issues, only the monthly changes will be listed.
In the Domain Name System (DNS) naming of computers there is a
hierarchy of names. The root of system is unnamed. There are a set
of what are called "top-level domain names (TLDs). These are the
generic TLDs (EDU, COM, GOV, NET, ORG, MIL, and INT), and the two
letter country codes from ISO-3166. It is extremely unlikely that any
other TLDs will be created.
Under each TLD may be created a hierarchy of names. Generally, under
the generic TLDs the structure is very flat. That is, many
organizations are registered directly under the TLD, and any further
structure is up to the individual organizations. In the country TLDs,
there is a wide variation in the structure, in some countries the
structure is very flat, in others there is substantial structural
organization. The organization for the US country domain is described
in RFC 1480.
Each of the generic TLDs was created for a general category of
organizations. The country code domains (for example, FR, NL, KR, US)
are each organized by an administrator for that country. Descriptions
of the generic domains and the US country domain follow.
COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is
companies. This domain has grown very large and there is concern
about the administrative load and system performance if the current
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growth pattern is continued. Consideration is being taken to
subdivide the COM domain and only allow future commercial
registrations in the subdomains.
EDU - This domain was intended for all educational institutions. Many
Universities, colleges, schools, educational service organizations,
and educational consortium have registered here. More recently a
decision has been taken to limit further registrations to 4 year
colleges and universities. Schools will be registered in the country
domains (see US Domain, below).
GOV - This domain was intended for any kind of government office or
agency. More recently a decision was taken to register only agencies
of the US Federal government in this domain. State and local agencies
are registered in the country domains (see US Domain, below).
INT - This domain is for organizations established by international
treaties.
MIL - This domain is used by the US military.
NET - This domain is intended to hold only the computers of network
providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the administrative
computers, and the network node computers. The customers of the
network provider would have domain names of their own (generally not
in the NET TLD).
ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for
organizations that didn't fit anywhere else.
US - The US domain provides for the registration of all kinds of
entities in the United States on the basis of political geography,
that is, a hierarchy of <entity-name>.<locality>.<state-code>.US. For
example, "IBM.Armonk.NY.US". In addition, branches of the US domain
are provided within each state for schools (K12), community colleges
(CC), technical schools (TEC), state government agencies (STATE),
councils of governments (COG),libraries (LIB), museums (MUS), and
several other generic types of entities (see RFC 1480 for details).
For a name in the US Domain please request an application via the
RFC-INFO service. Send a message to RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU with the
contents "Help: us_domain_application". For example:
To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU
Subject: US Domain Application
help: us_domain_application
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US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
TOTAL EMAIL/FAX 556
PHONE 40
---------------------------
Total Contacts 596
DELEGATIONS 36
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS 17
MODIFICATIONS 40
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 503
---------------------------
Total 596
These other messages include: application requests, discussion
and clarification of the requests, questions about names,
referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, resolving
technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois
listings.
SEPTEMBER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS
-------------------------------
K12.AR.US Arkansas K12 Schools
CI.PHOENIX.AZ.US Phoenix, Arizona, City Government
IRONWOOD.PHX.K12.AZ.US Ironwood High School, Phoenix, Arizona
CC.CO.US Colorado Community Colleges
TEC.CO.US Colorado Technical/Vocational Colleges
OIS.STATE.DE.US State Office of Information, Delaware
MALABAR.MLB.FL.US Malabar Test Facility, Phillips Lab,
Florida
LINC.LIB.IL.US Library Integrated Network Consortium,
Illinois
GLENVIEW.LIB.IL.US Glenview Public Library, Illinois
CC.IL.US Illinois Community Colleges
TEC.IL.US Illinois Technical Vocational Schools
LIB.IL.US Illinois Libraries
STATE.IL.US Illinois State Government
STATE.KY.US Kentucky State Government
CI.LEXINGTON.MA.US Lexington, Massachusetts, City Government
TEC.MI.US Michigan Technical Schools
CC.MI.US Michigan Community Colleges
ANN-ARBOR.MI.US Ann-Arbor, Michigan
MANKATO.MN.US Manakato, Minnesota
MUS.MN.US New Mexico Museums
KCPL.LIB.MO.US Kansas City Public Library, Missouri
CC.MO.US Missouri Community Colleges
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STATE.MO.US Missouri State Government
CC.NC.US North Carolina Community Colleges
K12.OR.US Oregon K12 Schools
CO.CHESTER.PA.US West Chester, Pennsylvania, County Gov't.
IGS.ASD.K12.TN.US Ingleside Grammar School, Athens SD,
Tennessee
CVU.CSSD.K12.VT.US Champlain Valley Union HS, Hinesburg,
Vermont
DOL.STATE.VT.US Vermont State Dept. of Libraries
KITSAP.LIB.WA.US Kitsap Regional Library, Washington
CI.SEATTLE.WA.US Seattle, Washington, City Government
DOIT.K12.WA.US Southeast Washington K12 Education
Program DOIT
K12.WI.US Wisconsin K12 schools
TEC.WI.US Wisconsin Technical/Vocational Schools
STATE.WI.US Wisconsin State Government
SEPTEMBER DIRECT REGISTRATIONS
------------------------------
Motherbrain.ithaca.ny.us
morrissy.bloomington.in.us
ccdes.lns.pa.us
pallio.sf.ca.us
alturia.abq.nm.us
dagobah.ithaca.ny.us
cd.columbus.oh.us
info.cnri.reston.va.us
eotu.racine.wi.us
patsy.seattle.wa.us
foxden.bowlgreen.oh.us
orb.nashua.nh.us
peacefulstar.oakland.ca.us
etc.nash.tn.us
xensei.boston.ma.us
harlan.oxford.oh.us
harlan.south-bend.in.us
CURRENT LIST OF THIRD LEVEL DELEGATED SUBDOMAINS
------------------------------------------------
If the host you are registering is in one of the following
subdomains, please send your application directly to the contact
listed below. If your host does not fall under one of these
categories, that means we have not delegated that namespace yet.
Send your request directly to the US Domain registrar for
registration (us-domain@isi.edu). Domain applications sent to
InterNIC, that are more suited for the US Domain will be forwarded
to the US Domain administrator.
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K12 Schools
-----------
K12.AR.US bfriedma@uafhp.uark.edu
K12.CA.US mdm@NIC.CSU.NET
K12.CO.US trent@xor.com
K12.DE.US bean@delaware.gov
K12.FL.US STURSA@mail.firn.edu
K12.GA.US Jerry@PeachNet.edu
K12.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu
K12.IL.US hostmaster@spruce.cic.net
K12.LA.US msleger@usl.edu
K12.MI.US dns-admin@merit.edu
K12.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
K12.MO.US ccwam@more.net
K12.MS.US fwp@msstate.edu
K12.NE.US rbanta@docsun.doc.state.ne.us
K12.NH.US SALLIE@ed.state.nh.us
K12.NJ.US becker@nisc.jvnc.net
K12.NM.US cpw@noc-gw.lanl.gov
K12.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
K12.OR.US scolla@4j.lane.edu
K12.PA.US pscnet-admin@psc.edu
K12.RI.US green@IDS.NET
K12.SD.US cartera@cc.sdstate.edu
K12.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu
K12.UT.US cole@cc.utah.edu
K12.UT.US cole@cc.utah.edu
K12.WI.US ejnorman.macc.wisc.edu
Community Colleges
------------------
CC.CA.US mdm@NIC.CSU.NET
CC.CO.US trent@xor.com
CC.DE.US bean@delaware.gov
CC.FL.US STURSA@mail.firn.edu
CC.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu
CC.IL.US hostmaster@spruce.cic.net
CC.MI.US rgs@merit.edu
CC.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
CC.MO.US ccwam@more.net
CC.NC.US rlg@uncecs.edu
CC.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu
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Technical Vocational Schools
----------------------------
TEC.CO.US trent@xor.com
TEC.DE.US bean@delaware.gov
TEC.FL.US STURSA@mail.firn.edu
TEC.GA.US Jerry@PeachNet.edu
TEC.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu
TEC.IL.US hostmaster@spruce.cic.net
TEC.MI.US rgs@merit.edu
TEC.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
TEC.NH.US f_lance@pste.nhtech.edu
TEC.WI.US ejnorman.macc.wisc.edu
Libraries
---------
LIB.CO.US trent@xor.com
LIB.DE.US bean@delaware.gov
LIB.FL.US pace@zeppo.cc.fsu.edu
LIB.GA.US Jerry@PeachNet.edu
LIB.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu
LIB.IL.US hostmaster@spruce.cic.net
LIB.MI.US rgs@merit.edu
LIB.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
LIB.MO.US ccwam@more.net
LIB.NE.US rbanta@docsun.doc.state.ne.us
LIB.OR.US randy@rain.psg.com
LIB.TX.US bard@utexas.edu
LIB.UT.US cole@cc.utah.edu
Museums
-------
MUS.NM.US reynolds@technet.org
STATE Government Agencies
-------------------------
STATE.DE.US bean@delaware.gov
STATE.FL.US pace@zeppo.cc.fsu.edu
STATE.GA.US Jerry@PeachNet.edu
STATE.IN.US mhuffman@ideanet.doe.state.in.us
STATE.KY.US sspisak@state.ky.us
STATE.LA.US pcavell@pcavell.noc.la.net
STATE.ME.US Kerry@Maine.Maine.edu
STATE.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
STATE.MO.US ccwam@more.net
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STATE.NE.US rbanta@docsun.doc.state.ne.us
STATE.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
STATE.SD.US haskettp@cc.sdstate.edu
STATE.TX.US bard@utexas.edu
STATE.UT.US cole@cc.utah.edu
STATE.WI.US ejnorman.macc.wisc.edu
Distributed National Institute
------------------------------
METACENTER.DNI.US rpg@sdsc.edu
Federal Government Agencies
---------------------------
MPLS.FRB.FED.US dfazio@mr.net
JUD.FED.US hilliker@jud.fed.us
Agency
------
AGENCY.TX.US bard@utexas.edu
District
--------
DISTRICT.TX.US bard@utexas.edu
Locality (4th level city and county gov't agenciies are not listed)
--------
TUCSON.AZ.US leonard@arizona.edu
BERKELEY.CA.US cliff@NIC.Berkeley.EDU
SANTA-CRUZ.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu
APTOS.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu
CAMPBELL.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu
CAPITOLA.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu
FELTON.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu
SCVL.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu
ZAYANTE.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu
BOULDER-CREEK.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu
CHICO.CA.US warlock@csuchico.edu
BOULDER.CO.US trent@xor.com
COLOSPGS.CO.US trent@xor.com
DENVER.CO.US trent@xor.com
DVR.CO.US trent@xor.com
TELLURIDE.CO.US trent@xor.com
FORT-COLLINS.CO.US trent@xor.com
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LEON.FL.US pace@zeppo.cc.fsu.edu
ATL.GA.US charvey@nextsupp.gatech.edu
MT-PARK.GA.US charvey@nextsupp.gatech.edu
CLARKSTON.GA.US charvey@nextsupp.gatech.edu
IOWA-CITY.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu
WATERLOO.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu
WAUKEE.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu
DSM.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu
CHI.IL.US crawdad@FNDCD.FNAL.GOV
ALL MD.US "COUNTIES" butler@brl.mil
ANN-ARBOR.MI.US rgs@merit.edu
ANOKA.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
DULUTH.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
HENNEPIN.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
MPLS.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
RAMSEY.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
ROCHESTER.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
STLOUIS.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
STPAUL.MN.US dfazio@mr.net
MANKATO.MN.US Dale_Karsten.Mankato@MSUS.EDU
RTP.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net
CHARLOTTE.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net
CARY.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net
CHAPEL-HILL.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net
DURHAM.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net
RALEIGH.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net
MORRISVILLE.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net
FORSYTH.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net
LOS-ALAMOS.NM.US. cpw@noc-gw.lanl.gov
ALBANY.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
BINGHAMTON.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
BRIARCLIFF.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
BROADALBIN.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
BUFFALO.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
CORTLAND.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
CORNING.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
ELMSFORD.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
ISLP.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
ITHACA.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
JERICHO.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
ORCHARD-PARK.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
OWEGO.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
PENFIELD.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
POUGHKEEPSIE.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
SCHENECTADY.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
ROME.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
RYE.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
SIDNEY.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
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SYRACUSE.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
TROY.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
UTICA.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
VSTM.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
VCTR.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
WHITEPLAINS.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net
EUGENE.OR.US meyer@oregon.uoregon.edu
SPRINGFIELD.OR.US meyer@oregon.uoregon.edu
PORTLAND.OR.US randy@rain.psg.com
BEAVERTON.OR.US randy@rain.psg.com
PHG.PA.US ecd@cert.org
HOU.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu
AUS.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu
SAT.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu
DALLAS.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu
HARRIS.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu
SPK.WA.US bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us
MIL.WI.US jtk@spool.mu.edu
MORGANTOWN.WV.US vijay@rbse.Mountain.Net
BUCKHANNON.WV.US vijay@rbse.Mountain.Net
Ann Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU), Jon Postel (Postel@ISI.EDU)
US Domain Administrators
MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING
The user interface of mmcc, our session orchestration tool, was
converted from direct implementation in XView to Tk/Tcl. The
conversion allowed the user interface to be augmented in ways which
would have been more cumbersome in XView, and decoupled mmcc from
the user interface. This decoupling permits mmcc to interact with
other Tcl-based tools directly, e.g., the nv video tool, and nevot
audio tool. We are investigating the use of such interprocess
communication between conferencing applications to permit
negotiation of operating parameters and user preferences, as well
as to coordinate the component user interfaces.
Changes to the Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) specification
collected in the "next-to-last call" within the IETF Audio/Video
Transport working group were incorporated into the document, and
the "last call" for comments within the working group was issued
during September. Further comments on application-specific option
number assignment and on port use were received. A request has
been submitted for the official "IETF Last Call" to be given as
soon as these recent comments are incorporated.
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Eve Schooler gave a presentation, "Distributed Music: A Foray into
Networked Performance", at the International Network Music
Festival, Santa Monica, CA.
Steve Casner, Joe Touch, Eve Schooler
(Casner@ISI.EDU, Touch@ISI.EDU, Schooler@ISI.EDU)
JVNCNET
-------
JvNCnet-Global Enterprise Services, Inc.
3 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540
voice: 1-800-35-TIGER; 1-609-897-7300, fax 1-609-897-7310
I. New Information
Network operations center (NOC) telephone numbers are:
609-897-7319 and 609-897-7320; noc@jvnc.net
Customer Service: 609-897-7318 and 609-897-7337;
support@jvnc.net
II. JvNCnet Members Meeting
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1993
Location: Princeton Marriott Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, NJ
Time: 8:30am to 2:30pm; reception follows.
To register (by November 1): registration@jvnc.net;
1-800-35-TIGER
III. Symposia Series (open to the public)
A. OSI and X.400 and X.500: Planning and Implementation
NEW DATE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 7, 1993
Location: Princeton Marriott Forrestal Village,
College Rd. and U.S. Rt. 1, Plainsboro, NJ
Time: 8:15 (cont. breakfast); first session 9:00am;
conference adjourns approx. 4:15pm
On-line seminar details: Complete program and instructors'
biographies are located in the GES gopher server:
telnet gopher.jvnc.net
login: gopher; no password
Go to item 3 JvNCnet, and the second level directory,
item 3 Symposia and Training, then item 1 Current
program and item 2 Directions
The class is designed to provide overview of the Open Systems
Interconnection Protocol (OSI) system and basic theory
f the X.400 mail systems and X.500 directory services.
How to plan for implementing each of these services will
be presented. Future developments will also be described.
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Interoperability with TCP/IP in particular will be discussed.
Who Should Attend: Network administrators, network infor-
mation systems specialists, computer consultants, network
technical staff including system managers of TCP/IP-based
networks or anyone planning for the development or
implementation of OSI, X.400, and X.500.
Instructors: Sue Hares, Internet Engineer, Merit, Inc.
and Kevin Jordan, Senior Software Engineer at
Control Data Corp., Minneapolis.
AGENDA - 12/07/93
8:15 Continental breakfast/registration
9:00 Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) - Sue Hares
a. Overview
b. Why OSI?
c. OSI vs. TCP
10:00 Break
10:15 OSI continued:
e. IP Next Generation - 20 min. (TUBA, PIP, SIP,
IPAE)
f. OSI implementation guidelines - 20 min.
Routing issues; interoperability
g. General status issues, e.g., current state of
OSI on NFSNET, BSDI, GATE D support
11:30 Lunch
12:30 OSI applications - Kevin E. Jordan
X.500 directory services
a. Overview: What are the capabilities of X.500
and how it works
b. Why the need for X.500? The benefits.
c. Practical implementation: what does it take to
set up X.500?
d. Future directions
2:30 Break
2:45 X.400 mail systems
a. Overview: What are the capabilities of X.400
and how it works.
b. Why the need for X.400? The benefits.
c. Practical implementation: what does it take
to set up X.400?
d. Future - existing in a multiple-mail environment
4:15 Adjourn
Contact: hammer@jvnc.net
Early bird registration by November 15, 1993
JvNCnet members $250; Non-members $275
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Registration includes light breakfast, lunch, textbook
and/or documentation.
Check or money order payable to GES, Inc. and send to:
3 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540
Mastercard or Visa accepted; fax registration to
609-897-7310.
B. Cisco Router Certified Technical Training (classes open
to public)
Title: Cisco router configuration course
The five day class is held Monday to Thurs.: 9am to 5pm
and Friday: 9am to 3:00pm
Dates in 1993: October 11-15, November 1-5, and November
29-December 3
Outline and registration, send email to
"training@jvnc.net".
C. Partial list of new on-line members (fully operational
July, August, September, and October):
Kolacom, Hawthorne, NJ
Dalcomp, Jersey City, NJ
Republic Electronics, Hauppauge, NY
Research for Better Schools, Phila., PA
Synergy Software, Reading, PA
Agfa Division Miles, Inc., Orangeberg, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York,NY
Circuit Cellar, Vernon, CT
CuraGen Corporation, Bradford, CT
D. P. Davidson, Stanford, CT
Digital Systems Corporation, Mt. Laurel, NJ
Ebasco, Princeton, NJ
FARSEF, Waldwick, NJ
Free Lance Academy, Jersey City, NJ
P. Fry, Aston, PA
W. Hunter, Aurora, CO
Logicworks, Princeton, NJ
Matsushita Electric Works, Boston, MA
J. Murphy, New York, NY
National Association of Scholars, Princeton, NJ
Northeastern Research and Develop. Society, Englewood, NJ
Peterson's Guides, Inc., Princeton, NJ
G. Sobotka, Bridgeport, CT
Tag Systems, Little Falls, NJ
Telenex Corp., Mt. Laurel, NJ
J. Toland, New Canaan,CT
E. Collins, Suffern, NY
International Scientific Products, Mt. Kisco, NY
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Jenisys, Storrs, CT
W. Lipsky, Berkeley, CA
Mintaka Technologies, Stroudsburg, PA
Softlock Services, Rochester, NY
Tekmark Computer Services, Inc., Edison, NJ
Trinity Data Systems, Huntington Beach, CA
West Windsor-Plainsboro Schools, Plainsboro, NJ
Compusoft, Wallingford, CT
Windsoft, Denville, NJ
Primavera Systems, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, PA
Turner Broadcasting, North West, GA
Turner Home Entertainment, North West, GA
Chi Systems, Inc., Springhouse, PA
Decision Data, Horsham, PA
GH Besselaar Associates, Princeton, NJ
Phillip Morris USA, Richmond, VA
Salem County Vocational Technical, Woodstown, NJ
Xybion Corporation, Cedar Knolls, NJ
Absol-puter, Bronx, NY
Atotech USA, Somerset, NJ
Black Star, New York, NY
Continental Data Center, Neptune, NJ
Cplex Optimization, Princeton, NJ
J. Ferron, West Haven, CT
International School Services, Princeton, NJ
Primetime, Wayne, PA
J-P. Radley, New York, NY
RTM Design Co., Scotch Plains, NJ
Sorden Financial Services, Wilmington, DE
3D Technologies, Trumbull, CT
Warner Insurance Services, Fairlawn, NJ
Woodstown Pilesgrove Regional Schools, Woodstown, NJ
Hamamatsu Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ
MVP Communications, Princeton, NJ
Oksana International Trade, Linden, NJ
PccP S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
by Rochelle Hammer (hammer@jvnc.net)
MERIT/MICHNET
-------------
Among the most recent of the growing number of MichNet affiliates
are Novi Schools, Detroit Country Day, and the internetworking
services provider, Rabbit Network. Affiliate memberships for
Adrian College, Aquinas College and University of Detroit-Mercy
were possible with grant assistance from the National Science
Foundation's Connections Program.
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Oakland Community College, an affiliate member, upgraded its
connectivity to the MichNet backbone with a Cisco Token Ring router
and 56Kbps circuit at the Oakland University node. Networks from
OCC satellite campuses in the metro-Detroit area will soon be added
to the OCC backbone link. And putting the resources of MichNet and
its member and affiliate institutions within a local call to even
more Michigan citizens, the Library of Michigan has committed to
providing four new public dial-in sites: Alpena, Petoskey, Gaylord
and Wayne.
A planned deployment of Network Access Servers throughout the
MichNet backbone will provide state-of-the-art network access to
users around Michigan. Testing of the Livingston Portmaster at the
University of Michigan MichNet site will conclude with the
deployment of a 30-port production machine. The dial-in service
offered through the UM/MichNet NAS is configured for maximum
flexibility regarding modem speeds, error correction and data
compression, but will be used for PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
access only.
Currently, unrestricted access using MichNet public ports requires
the use of PPP and authorization for a full service connection.
MichNet encourages serial TCP/IP users to move to PPP, a true
Internet standard offering better performance and authorization for
access to some services.
Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu)
MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES
---------------------------------
New information, including announcements of upcoming conferences,
available on nic.merit.edu, the Merit Network Information Center
Services host computer:
"Universal Service: New Challenges and New Options in Tomorrow's
Network of Networks." Announcement of this 15 October 1993 seminar
for policymakers, public interest advocates and nonprofit leaders
jointly sponsored by The Benton Foundation and The Columbia
Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University. Available as
/nren/nii.1993/nii.universal.service.931015
Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee (FNCAC) meeting
announcement, agenda and registration form for 21 October 1993.
Available as /nren/nii.1993/nii.fncac.931021
Symposium to Explore Synergies of the National Performance Review
and National Information Infrastructure. The Information
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Technology Association of America (ITTA), the National Academy of
Public Administration (NAPA), and GOVERNMENT COMPUTER NEWS will
jointly sponsor this major public policy discussion on 22 October
1993. Available as /nren/nii.1993/nii.npr.931022
The National Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Action. The
Clinton Administration's vision paper and working agenda for the
NII released by the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration on 15 September 1993. Available as
/nren/nii.1993/nii.agenda
Information Infrastructure Task Force Private Sector Meeting on the
National Information Infrastructure held 24 September 1993. The
meeting was summarized by Craig A. Summerhill of CNI. Available as
/nren/nii.1993/nii.iitf.930924
Proposed revision of OMB Circular No. A-130. Entitled "Management
of Federal Information Resources," OMB Circular A-130 establishes
policies that Federal agencies follow when planning, acquiring, and
using government information technology. The Circular was most
recently revised in June to improve public access to government
information. This second revision reflects the in-depth analyses
conducted by OMB and the General Accounting Office of Federal
agencies' policies and practices for managing information
technology. Available as /omb/omb.a130.rev3
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and
Aggregation Strategy, RFC 1519. With Jessica Yu, Merit Internet
Engineering, as a co-author, this Request for Comments discusses
strategies for address assignment of the existing IP address space
with a view to conserve the address space and stem the explosive
growth of routing tables in default-route-free routers. Available
as /internet/documents/rfc/rfc1519.txt
Countries subject to route filtering policies restricting traffic
between NSFNET-sponsored sites and networks in those countries are
available as /nsfnet/restrict.nets
The distribution of U.S. networks announced to the NSFNET backbone
service by state is available as /nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.state
Analysis of IP class has been added to the format of files
describing the distribution of networks announced to the NSFNET
backbone service by country and the number of networks configured
for announcement. These files are available, respectively, as
/nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.country
/nsfnet/statistics/history.netcount
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The resources of nic.merit.edu are available through Anonymous FTP,
electronic mail query and a Gopher client connecting to the Merit
Network Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70.
Specific requests sent to Merit's mail query server will retrieve
and send the requested information in an e-mail message. A number
of requests may be included in a single message, but each request
must occur on a separate line. The address of the Merit mail query
server is
nic-info@nic.merit.edu
To receive a specific document, use the syntax
get filename
Laura Kelleher and Susan R. Harris from Merit Information Services
were invited to conduct a hands-on tutorial of Internet tools and
resources at the Minority University-Space Interdisciplinary
Network workshop. NASA sponsored the mid-September MU-SPIN in
Greenbelt, MD. Elise Gerich, Merit Internet Engineering, attended
the IAB meeting in San Francisco, CA, and RIPE which convened in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu)
MRNET
-----
The Minnesota Regional Network continues to grow, adding eight Twin
Cities- area public library systems, two managed health care
organizations, various businesses and the State Government of
Minnesota including about a dozen different agencies. This brings
total membership count to about 60 organizations at 70 different
sites.
Additional hub sites have recently been opened in Duluth and
Rochester and will be made available soon in Mankato, St. Cloud and
Moorhead.
Within the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, all new connections are now
implemented with US West's Frame Relay Service. There are currently
about two dozen organizations on this net.
The MRNet dialIP Service that was introduced in January has been
well received in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and will soon be
expanded to other locations around the state. This has been set up
as a dialup SLIP service for individual accounts with pre-
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configured standard software and documentation provided by MRNet
for DOS, PC, and Macintosh systems.
To accomodate these activities, additional staff has been added,
including Mr. Dave Bergum, Director of Engineering and Technical
Services and Ms. Sherry Hastings, Administrator of Operations.
Additional positions for Network Engineer and Director of Client
Services will be filled in October.
Plans are now being finalized with the partnership of Technology
and Instructional Educational Services (TIES) and the Minnesota
Department of Education to provide dialup connections, a K-12
information server, and staff training for each school building in
the state.
Dennis Fazio, Executive Director
Minnesota Regional Network
Minneapolis, MN (612) 342-2570
Info@MR.Net
by Dennis Fazio <dfazio@MR.Net>
NORTHWESTNET
------------
NorthWestNet's Seventh Annual Meeting is scheduled from Oct. 12-
15, 1993 in Seattle, Washington. Our keynote speakers this year
include Richard Mandelbaum, president of NYSERNet; Fred Dust,
headmaster of the Bush School; Charles McClure, Syracuse
University; and Jim Elias, Executive Director Technology
Assessment, US West Communications, Inc. For more information
about this meeting, please contact Jan Eveleth at
eveleth@nwnet.net.
There are three important pieces of information about "The Internet
Passport" that NorthWestNet would like to pass along:
-- The retail price has been lowered from $39.95 to $29.95.
-- NorthWestNet is pleased to have Computer Literacy Bookshops
as our primary distributor of "The Internet Passport".
Computer Literacy Bookshops accepts major credit cards,
purchase orders, and fills orders worldwide. They are
committed to prompt order fulfillment. (They can be reached
at info@clbooks.com).
-- Not-for-profit, 501(c)3 groups that want to take advantage
of the special research and education price of $19.95 should
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place orders directly with NorthWestNet during September and
October. This special pricing will no longer be available
as of November 1, 1993.
The User Services group is pleased to announce the addition of
Stefan Kramer, information services specialist, to our staff.
Stefan will be actively involved in developing NorthWestNet
training and electronic information services. He has a masters
degree in library and information science from the University of
Washington.
NorthWestNet info@nwnet.net
5400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director
Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services
Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services
Anthony Naughtin, Manager of Member Relations
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
by Jan Eveleth <eveleth@nwnet.net>
PREPnet
-------
PREPnet New Members:
--------------------
The Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences
Research for Better Schools
Pittsburgh Regional Library Center
With these additions, PREPnet now has a total of 139 members.
PREPnet News:
-------------
PREPnet held its Fifth Annual Networking Conference on September
14, at the Penn Tower Hotel in Philadelphia. Over 300 people
attended this event, which featured five technical seminars
conducted by campus and industry specialists. The seminars covered
security, wiring, e-mail, routing, and information servers.
Plenary speakers for this event included Paul Peters of CNI, Bob
Carlitz of Pitt, and Jonathan Smith of Penn. Breakout sessions
were offered on library connections, K-12 connections, network
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technology, fast packet services, ethernet via CATV, and the future
of PREPnet.
For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC:
305 S. Craig St. E-Mail: nic@prep.net
2nd Floor Telephone: (412) 268-7870
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
by Daryl Dolan <dolan@prep.net>
PREPnet NIC (prepnet+@andrew.cmu.edu)
SPRINTLINK
----------
SprintLink and NSFNET International Connections Manager (ICM)
September Status Report
1) Began assigning CIDR address space to new SprintLink customers
2) Discovered Cisco bug that resulted in excessive CPU utilization.
The fix reduced CPU load down to approximately 50% during the busy
hour.
3) Deployed FDDI wiring hub-embedded SGI Indigo workstations and
terminal servers at both Washington, D.C. and Stockton, CA
SprintLink/ICMnet nodes. The workstations will provide DNS,
multicasting, network time and capture router crash dump images.
The terminal servers connect to the consoles of all the node
devices for the purpose of remote control (via Sprint voice
network) in the event of network (IP) failure. Chicago and Fort
Worth will be similarly upgraded in 1Q94.
4) Deployed 350 SLIP/PPP dial-up ports. Developed network-side
auto configuration program. Planning the deployment of another 650
ports by end of 93.
5) Placed orders for seven fully configured Cisco 7000 routers.
These routers will be the new core of the SprintLink/ICM backbone.
They will be initially connected by either T1 or T3 circuits. In
1Q94 they will be interconnected via Sprint's T3 ATM network.
6) Placed orders for two HP 9000 G40 servers with mirrored disks, 8
X terminals and HP OpenView. Activation will take place the end of
October.
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7) Activated Vadim Antonov's SNMPSTATD to produce daily CPU, memory
and link utilization reports, daily link errors and times of router
unreachability, and router temperature. SNMP polling rate: every
router every 30 seconds.
8) Connected Moscow node to GALSnet, FREEnet and SOVam. This node
is in the process of expanding to include 16 new additional access
lines. Utilizing Russian-made "Techno PC," which provides
multiline SLIP with BGP, to interconnect with Russian networks.
9) Delivered T1 connection to Mexico CONACYT. In process of
turning-up routing.
10) Delivered a 768 kbps connection to the Japanese Information
Center for Science and Technology (JICST). In process of turning-
up routing.
11) Deployed a router in the Sprint Stockton Technical Office
Center (TOC) for the Japanese Internet Initiative (IIJ). Plans are
for peering with SprintLink and Alternet.
12) Sprint deployed several "non connected" managed router networks
utilizing CIDR addressing.
13) The 64 kbps link to Uninet-ZA (South Africa) experienced
serious congestion as a result of extremely heavy usage.
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Robert D. Collet |
| Principal Investigator, |
| NSFNET International Connections Manager |
| Director, Internet Services and Systems |
| Sprint Communications Company |
| 13221 Woodland Park Road |
| Herndon, Virginia, 22071 USA |
| |
| Mail Stop: VAHRNA0510 |
| |
| Tel: +1-703-904-2230 |
| Fax: +1-703-904-2252 |
| Pager: +1-800-SKY-PAGE PIN: 45469
+---------------------------------------------------------+
Robert D. Collet <rcollet@icm1.icp.net>
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UCL
----
J Crowcroft and Ballardie attended Sigcomm 93 in San Francisco,
and gave two papers, on "An analysis of jitter and delay" and on
"Core Based Trees".
J Crowcroft also gave a seminar at ICSI, Berkeley, on "Combined
Congestional and Admission Control for adaptive, variable bit rate
video", or something like that.
Many discussions in the corridors of the Westin St Francis hotels
ensued on IPng.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
--------
Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate
for this calendar section. Please send your submissions to
(cooper@isi.edu).
1993 CALENDAR
Sep 13-17 SIGCOMM 93, San Francisco
Sep ?? 6th SDL Forum, Darmstadt
Ove Faergemand (ove@tfl.dk)
Sep 8-9 ANSI X3S3.3, Boulder, CO
Sep 13-17 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Sep 14 -? IFIP TC6. GMD-Fokus, 2nd Intl Conf. on
Open Distributed Processing ICODP12, Berlin
Sep 20-31 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6, Seoul, Korea.
Sep 28-29 September RIPE Technical Days, TBC
Oct INTEROP93, Paris, France
Oct 5-6 IFIP WG 6.6 Intl Workshop on Distributed Systems:
Operations and Management DSOM'93.
Oct 12-14 Conference on Network Information Processing,
Sofia, Bulgaria; Contact: IFIP-TC6
Oct 14-16 6th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan
Area Networks, San Diego, Del Mar, CA
Oct 18-20 International Workshop on Applications of
Neural Networks to Telecommunications
Princeton, NJ
Oct 18-22 TCOS WG, Atlanta, GA (tentative)
Nov 1-5 IETF Houston, TX.
Nov 2-4 ANSI X3S3.3, TBD
Nov 2-4 EMAIL World
Contact: Einar Steffurd <stef@nma.com>
Nov 9-13 IEEE802 Plenary, Crown Sterling Suites,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Nov 15-19 Supercomputing 93, Portland, OR
Dec 6-10 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
1994 CALENDAR
Feb 3-4 ISOC Symposium on network and Distributed
System Security, San Diego, (nessett@llnl.gov)
May 2-6 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Jun 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 ULPAA, Barcelona, Spain
Einar Stefferud (stef@nma.com)
Aug 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Computer Congress
Hamburg, Germany; Contact: IFIP
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Sep 12-14 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
1995 CALENDAR
Sep 18-22 INTEROP95, San Francisco, CA
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
1996 CALENDAR
Sep 2-6 14th IFIP World Computer Congress
Canberra, Australia Contact: IFIP
========================================================================
RARE LIST OF MEETINGS
---------------------
Ref. RSec(92)102-ac
This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the
meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the
chair of the meeting or the RARE Secretariat. If you have
additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet (e.mail
address: cozanet@rare.nl).
MEETING/DATE LOCATION
============ ========
RARE Executive Committee
------------------------
12 November Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
17 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RARE Council of Administration
------------------------------
23/24 September Helsinki
3/4 February 1994 Brussels
19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
RARE Technical Committee
------------------------
18 October (TBC) telephone meeting
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RARE Working Groups
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WG-LLT
9 November (TBC) Munich
WG-ISUS
11 & 14 October Warsaw
EARNINFO & WG-ISUS
11 October Warsaw
MHS-Managers
13-14 September Tampere (Finland)
WG-MSG
11 October Warsaw
WG-NAP
11 October Warsaw
RIPE
----
24-26 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF)
16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF)
VARIOUS
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ECFRN HiLOG
26 October Brussels
DANTE Steering Committee
TBD Amsterdam
DANTE Shareholders
7 October Amsterdam
EBONE Management Committee
9 November Copenhagen
EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations
15 October (TBC) Warsaw
EAT (Ebone Action Team)
29 November Bonn (GMD)
EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
30 November Bonn (GMD)
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Euro-CCIRN
TBD
CCIRN
20/21 June TBD (in Europe)
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
13/14 June Prague
IETF
1-5 November Houston
28 March - 1 April Seattle
EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
23-24 November Brussels
1-2 March Brussels
17-18 May Brussels
13-14 September Brussels
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
14 December Brussels
Workshops
17-21 January Brussels
11-15 April Brussels
27 June - 1 July Brussels
10-14 October Brussels
ECTUA
-----
ETSI
----
General Assembly
9-10 November Nice, France
Technical Assembly
4-6 October Nice, France
21-23 March Nice, France
EARN
Board of Directors
14-15 October Warsaw
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INET'94/JENC5 Organising Committee
25 October Prague
*******************************************************************
INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5)
13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic
The annual conference of the Internet Society held in conjunction with
the 5th Joint European Networking Conference.
*******************************************************************
OTHER CONFERENCES
(nb. For some of the following events, full text information is
available from the RARE Document Store under the directory calendar,
in which case the file name is specified under the information
presented below. The files may be retrieved via:
anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl
Email : server@rare.nl
Gopher : gopher.rare.nl)
USENIX UNIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM
------------------------------
4-7 October
Marriott Hotel, Santa Clara, California
for information, please email <ches@research.att.com>
NETWORKING SERVICES CONFERENCE 93
---------------------------------
from 12 to 14 October
Warsaw, Poland
organised by EARN, in cooperation with RARE, NORDUnet, EUnet/EurOpen
and RIPE. (file name on the RARE Document Store <nsc.12.10.93>)
6TH IEEE WORKSHOP ON LOCAL AND METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS
---------------------------------------------------------
from 13 to 16 October at Auberge Del Mar Resort and Spa, Del Mar,
San Diego (California)
(registration form and program available on RARE Document Store:
ftp/rare/info/calendar/ieee-lan-man-networks.14.10.93)
8TH IEEE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
--------------------------------------------
from 17 to 20 October at Auberge Del Mar Resort and Spa, Del Mar,
San Diego (California)
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(registration form and program available on RARE Document Store:
ftp/rare/info/calendar/ieee-computer-communications.17.10.93)
RESEARCH NETWORKING IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE SEMINAR
-------------------------------------------------------
20 and 21 October
Budapest, Hungary
organised by Hungary, RARE and NATO - by invitation only.
WORKSHOP ON THE APPLICATION OF OPEN NETWORK PROVISION TO METROPOLITAN
AREA NETWORKS, FRAME RELAY AND ADVANCED TRANSMISSION NETWORKS
---------------------------------------------------------------------
on 26 October in Brussels
organised by CEC DG XIII
for more information please fax +32 2 296 9132/+32 2 296 8391
before 8 October, mentioning "MANs/Frame Relay Workshop".
OPENNET 93
----------
The German-speaking countries conference on Internetworking
from 8 to 11 November in Munich
for information, please email <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de>
5TH ACOnet NETWORK SEMINAR FOR SCIENTISTS AND NETWORK MANAGERS
FROM CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE
-------------------------------------------------------------
22-26 November in Vienna, Austria
organised by Vienna University, supported by Digital Equipment Corp.
and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.
more information available from:
Mrs Elisabeth Zoppoth <zoppoth@cc.univie.ac.at>
tel.+43 1 4065822-351/fax.+43 1 4065822-170
and by anonymous FTP from ftp.univie.ac.at:
/at.local/aconet/i-aconet-sem-5.ps (inviation and registration form) and
/at.local/aconet/p-aconet-sem-5.ps (preliminary program)
(From RARE Document Store, both in ASCII and postcript:
ftp/rare/info/calendar/aconet-seminar.invitation.22.11.93
ftp/rare/info/calendar/aconet-seminar.prelim-prog.22.11.93)
MULTIMEDIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PORTABILITY AND NETWORKING
----------------------------------------------------------
workshop organised by the Advisory Group on Computer Graphics
from 29 November to 1 December in Abingdon, UK
for more information please email Dr. Anne Mumford
<a.m.mumford@uk.ac.lut>
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3rd HIGH SPEED SYMPOSIUM
--------------------------
on 2 February 1994, in Brussels
INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY
---------------------------------------------------------------------
on 3 and 4 February 1994
at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego, California
more information from Mr. Robert Shirey of the MITRE Corporation
email <shirey@mitre.org>
(also on RARE Document Store, file name <isoc-security.03.02.94>)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION NETWORKS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
from 18 to 21 April 1994 in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
For information, please email Prof. Pedro Veiga <pmv@inesc.pt>
NORDUnet 94
-----------
from 31 May to 2 June 1994
in Umea, Sweden
for information, email <nordunet94@umdac.umu.se>
NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 (provisional)
------------------------------
from 18 to 20 October 1994
in Bournemouth (UK)
**********************************************************************
EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC MAIL ASSOCIATION (EEMA)
23/24 November Winter Conference Meeting Athens
"Electronic Messaging - The Business Benefits,
with illustrations from the Transport Industry"
**********************************************************************
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