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INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND DIRECTORY SERVICE . . .. . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET PROJECTS
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 8
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
CSUNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
MIDNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
PREPNet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 40
Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 44
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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND DIRECTORY SERVICE
----------------------------------------
The Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource
Discovery (IRTF-RD) has made its Harvest software system
available on the Internet.
Harvest is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract,
organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information
across the Internet. With modest effort users can tailor
Harvest to digest information in many different formats, and
offer custom search services on the Internet. Moreover, Harvest
makes very efficient use of network traffic, remote servers, and
disk space.
We have built a number of content indexes with Harvest,
including an index of AT&T's 1-800 phone numbers, an index of
WWW home pages, and an index of over 24,000 Computer Science
technical reports from around the world.
We have been beta testing Harvest for four months, and starting
today are making the software available on the Internet. You
can get to demonstrations, papers, software and documentation at
http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/.
Mike Schwartz, IRTF-RD Chair
Mike Schwartz (schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu)
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
1. Let me remind everyone that the next IETF meeting will be in San
Jose, California from December 5-9, and the Registration
Reception will held on Sunday, December 4th. San Jose logistic
information and draft agendas have already been sent to the IETF
announcement list and made available via gopher and on the Web.
The IETF meetings for 1995 are starting to firm up. The IETF
will be meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston)
from April 3-7, 1995. The summer IETF meeting will be held in
Stockholm, Sweden the week of July 17-21, 1995. Due to the
meeting costs, the IETF attendance fee for the Stockholm meeting
will be US$300.
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The final meeting for 1995 will be held in Dallas, Texas. 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.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html
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:
September 22, 1994 (iesg.94-09-22)
October 6, 1994 (iesg.94-10-06)
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following five Protocol
Actions during the month of October, 1994:
o AppleTalk Management Information Base II for publication as
a Proposed Standard.
o IEEE 802.5 MIB for publication as a Draft Standard.
o Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project for the
Deployment of X.500 Directory Information in Support of X.400
Routing be published as an Informational RFC.
o Requirements for Internet gateways has been reclassified as
Historic.
o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction is a Proposed Standard.
4. The IESG issued three Last Calls to the IETF during the month
of October, 1994:
o Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
<draft-ietf-osids-cldap-01> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol
<draft-ipng-recommendation-01> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control:
SDLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-sdlc-mib-05> for consideration as a
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Proposed Standard.
5. Four Working Groups were created or reactivated during this
period:
SNMP Version 2 (snmpv2)
Authenticated Firewall Traversal (aft)
TFTP Extensions (tftpexts)
Responsible Use of the Network (run)
Additionally, one Working Groups was concluded:
Minimal OSI Upper-Layers (thinosi)
6. A total of 45 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of October, 1994:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+))
(idr) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction
<draft-ietf-idr-bgp4ospf-interact-08.txt>
(none) o IP and ARP on Fibre Channel (FC)
<draft-rekhter-fibre-channel-04.txt>
(none) o Randomness Requirements for Security
<draft-ietf-security-randomness-02.txt>
(uri) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
<draft-ietf-uri-url-08.txt>
(snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link
Control: SDLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-sdlc-mib-05.txt>
(none) o Simple Object Look-up protocol (SOLO)
<draft-huitema-solo-01.txt>
(rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information
Base <draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonmib-03.txt>
(imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
<draft-ietf-imap-imap4-06.txt>
(none) o IMSP -- Internet Message Support Protocol
<draft-myers-imap-imsp-01.txt>
(uri) o Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names
<draft-ietf-uri-urn-req-01.txt>
(none) o MIME/ESMTP Profile for Voice Messaging
<draft-vaudreuil-umig-mime-voice-01.txt>
(cat) o The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM)
<draft-ietf-cat-spkmgss-01.txt>
(ifmib) o IEEE 802.5 MIB
<draft-ietf-ifmib-tokenringmib-01.txt>
(snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC
<draft-ietf-snanau-appcmib-01.txt>
(ospf) o OSPF MD5 Authentication <draft-ietf-ospf-md5-02.txt>
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(none) o An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation
<draft-rekhter-ipng-arch-IPv6-addr-01.txt>
(none) o A Convention for Human-Readable 128-bit Keys
<draft-mcdonald-readable-keys-01.txt>
(uri) o Relative Uniform Resource Locators
<draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-01.txt>
(none) o IP Multicast over UNI 3.0 based ATM Networks.
<draft-armitage-ipatm-ipmc-01.txt>
(tftpexts) o TFTP Option Extension
<draft-ietf-tftpexts-option-ext-01.txt>
(ifmib) o IEEE 802.5 Station Source Routing MIB
<draft-ietf-ifmib-ssr-mib-01.txt>
(tftpexts) o TFTP Blocksize Option
<draft-ietf-tftpexts-blksize-opt-01.txt>
(none) o The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation
Protocol <draft-ipng-recommendation-01.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Neighbor Discovery -- Processing
<draft-simpson-ipv6-discov-process-00.txt>
(none) + DNS Extensions to support IP version 6
<draft-thomson-ipng-dns-00.txt>
(none) + IP Next Generation Addressing Architecture
<draft-hinden-ipng-addr-00.txt>
(none) + ICMP and IGMP for the Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6) <draft-conta-ipv6-icmp-igmp-00.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Program Interfaces for BSD Systems
<draft-gilligan-ipv6-bsd-api-00.txt>
(none) + IP Next Generation Overview
<draft-hinden-ipng-overview-00.txt>
(none) + Simple Internet Transition Overview
<draft-gilligan-ipv6-sit-overview-00.txt>
(st2) + Internet Stream Protocol Version 2 (ST2) Protocol
Specification - Version ST2Plus
<draft-ietf-st2-spec-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + Internet Perceptions <draft-carpenter-percep-00.txt>
(isn) + Ways to Define User Expectations
<draft-ietf-isn-expectations-00.txt>
(none) + Connection Oriented and Connectionless IP Forwarding
Over ATM Networks
<draft-esaki-co-cl-ip-forw-atm-00.txt>
(sdr) + Explicit Routing Protocol (ERP) for IPv6
<draft-ietf-sdr-erp-00.txt>
(asid) + Schema Publishing in X.500 Directory
<draft-ietf-asid-schema-00.txt>
(none) + Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
<draft-hinden-ipng-ipv6-spec-00.txt>
(none) + Discussion paper for nosi BOF
<draft-carpenter-ipng-nosi-00.txt>
(none) + ISO Transport Service over TCP RFC1006 extension
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<draft-pouffary-tcp-00.txt>
(opstat) + The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics
Retrieval <draft-ietf-opstat-client-server-00.txt>
(ipsec) + Simple Key-Management For Internet Protocols (SKIP)
<draft-ietf-ipsec-aziz-skip-00.txt>
(aft) + SOCKS Protocol Version 5
<draft-ietf-aft-socks-protocol-v5-00.txt>
(none) + Scalable Multicast Key Distribution
<draft-ballardie-mkd-00.txt, .ps>
(trainmat) + Catalogue of Network Training Materials
<draft-ietf-trainmat-catalogue-00.txt>
(none) + OSI NSAP usage in IP6
<draft-houldsworth-ip6-nsap-use-00.txt>
7. There were 12 RFC's published during the month of October, 1994:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1698 I (thinosi) Octet Sequences for Upper-Layer OSI to
Support Basic Communications Applications
RFC1700 S (none) ASSIGNED NUMBERS
RFC1701 I (none) Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
RFC1702 I (none) Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4
networks
RFC1703 I (none) Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT
Subdomain: Radio Paging -- Technical
Procedures
RFC1704 I (none) On Internet Authentication
RFC1705 I (none) Six Virtual Inches to the Left: The
Problem with IPng
RFC1706 I (none) DNS NSAP Resource Records
RFC1707 I (none) CATNIP: Common Architecture for the
Internet
RFC1708 I (none) NTP PICS PROFORMA For the Network Time
Protocol Version 3
RFC1710 I (sipp) Simple Internet Protocol Plus White Paper
RFC1711 I (none) Classifications in E-mail Routing
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING
----------------------------------
Network Status Summary
=======================
ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 14% in October '94.
An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 0.58% was
observed during the month of October.
August Backbone Traffic Statistics
==================================
The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 85,499,744,741 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up
15.82% from September. The total packet count into the network
including all ENSS serial interfaces was 96,279,824,426 up 14.30%
from September.
Router Forwarding Table Statistics
==================================
The maximum number of destinations announced to ANSnet during
October was 18,886 up .58% from September.
The number of network destinations configured for announcement to
the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during October was
19,877.
BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status
============================
As of November 4th '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 9,261
class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables
that are now represented by 2,014 configured aggregates. Among
these configured aggregates:
1,651 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in
another aggregate).
1,270 of these are actively announced to ANSnet.
990 of these have at least one subnet configured (the
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other 280 may be saving the Internet future subnet
announcements).
906 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at
least one configured more specific route.
894 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50%
of their configured more specific routes.
837 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most
(80%+) of their more specific routes.
For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu:
pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr_savings.
For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see
merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings.
Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network
============================================
Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring
short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration
or less). This is intended as a measure of overall system
stability rather than complete connectivity.
If all nodes are considered, October 1994 had the most instability
ever recorded on ANSNET. This is due to the criteria of
considering stability to be the amount of time that 100% of ANSNET
is not undergoing routing change and due mostly to a persistant
problem with a single T1 circuit. There were other problems, most
notably an FDDI problem at the Hayward POP. If the one node
affected is excluded, October was approximately as stable as
September.
The problem circuit was an Ameritec leg of a T1 tail circuit
provisioned through MCI which turned out to be a bad smartjack at
the customer premise. This caused a very high level of packet
loss.
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%
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June 95.5% 96.6%
July 97.3% 97.7%
August 97.5% 97.9%
September 98.1% 98.5%
October 98.0% 98.3%
November 97.2% 97.9%
December 96.6% 96.8%
January 98.7% 99.0%
February 96.6% 97.6%
...
June 99.5% 99.7%
July 98.7% 99.5%
August 99.7% 99.7%
September 99.4% 99.5%
October 99.5% ** 99.6%
** - excluding one T1 ENSS
Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability
follows. ENSS212 had 107 hours of instability (4.9 days). If this
node is excluded from the data, very little instability in the
other nodes was evident. Large packet bursts coupled with
transient link outages induced some congestion problems as link
utilizations grew to 60%+ on T3 links at the NY, DC, Chicago and
Cleveland POPs. These problems have been corrected by deploying
new router adapter code that more efficiently allocates packet
buffering memory. CNSS32 had 36 minutes of routing instability due
to the congestion problems.
MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min
<98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97%
----------------------------------------------------------------
January 0 0 1 8 19 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
October 0 3 3 10 25 50
November 1 2 15 25 24 26
December 0 8 24 46 9 3
January 0 0 4 9 15 54
February 0 4 6 23 40 20
...
June 0 0 0 5 5 67
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July 0 7 55 11 10 7
August 0 0 0 0 0 67
September 0 0 0 1 14 57
October 0 0 0 1 3 61 **
** - excluding one T1 ENSS
External route flap reports are described in:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/daily-reports/README
Notable Outages in October '94
==============================
E134 (Boston) suffered an extended outage due to power problems on
10/03
E144 (FIXWEST) suffered an extended outage due to router crash on
10/19
E128 (Palo Alto) was unreachable via T3 due to router crash on
10/19
E141 (Boulder) and E142 (Salt Lake City) were unreachable via T3
due to scheduled maintenance on 10/26
Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
----------------------------
Scalability
This month, in preparation for analysis of DIS traffic
characteristics during the STOW-Europe exercises, BBN investigated
the issue of post-processing time synchronization among
participating sites. Sychronization of host clocks in distributed
simulation affords two major benefits:
1 - Application PDUs are being logged in a distributed manner by
deploying a logging host at each site. No single repository of all
PDUs generated during the exercise will exist. Therefore, in order
to enable an accurately sequenced after-action review, we will need
to have a way to ensure consistency among time stamps on the
separately logged PDUs.
2 - Time synchronization among hosts exchanging data during the
exercise will provide us with measurements of one-way end-to-end
delay. These measurements will give us a baseline of DSI
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performance against which to measure improvement afforded by future
communications architectures, and they will enable us to calibrate
network simulators used to predict performance of the DSI in the
presence of distributed simulation traffic.
We are investigating the applicability of tools developed by Greg
Troxel (BBN) as part of his Ph.D. work at MIT. These tools enable
us to correct for clock differences after the fact, even, to some
extent, when no attempt at real-time synchronization (for example,
running NTP) was being made. If NTP is used during the exercise,
Greg's tools will be even more effective at correcting for
inaccuracies that might have resulted from asymmetric delays. Greg
has been refining and testing his programs and analysis techniques
during September and October, and next month we expect to be
applying them to STOW-E data.
Flow Synchronization Protocol
Over the past two months we prepared for and presented a
demonstration of flow synchronization across the Internet. The two
main issues we tackled were porting the synchronization code to
new, more powerful platforms (Sparc 10s and SS 20's) and
interoperability between video flows and music flows for
synchronization. We added to our software a Graphical User
Interfaces and other tools to facilitate use and development.
Regarding video and music interoperability, previous tests
addressed only the synchronization of video streams with voice
streams. Since synchronizing multiple music streams has special
requirements in the ways it adapts delays, it became necessary to
create a version of the video software tailored to the music
requirements.
On October 20th, 1994, we became the first research group to
demonstrate topology-independent tight synchronization of
multimedia flows over wide area networks using the Internet and
geographically dispersed sites across the continental US.
The public demonstration, at the ACM Multimedia 94 Conference, San
Francisco, consisted of synchronizing three music audio flows and a
video flow from sites in Boston and San Francisco playing a Hayden
piano Trio in G major. The set up served to demonstrate audio-
video synchronization and tight audio-audio synchronization among
the flows from the players. The audience on site and through the
Mbone was shown the contrast between unsynchronized and
synchronized flows.
The live players were Martha Steenstrup (BBN) in Boston and Eve
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Schooler (Cal Tech, formerly at ISI) in San Francisco. We used a
piano recording to act as a "conductor" or metronome. Its sound
was delivered at the same time to both players, who played along on
keyboards the parts of the other two instruments (cello, violin).
The piano recording was also delivered to a repeater site. All
three music flows plus motion video from Martha Steenstrup in
Boston were sent and played out synchronized at the demo room in
San Francisco.
The synchronization protocol used for this demonstration was
developed with ARPA funding. It made use of the Network Time
Protocol to obtain clock synchronization, and it used Nevot for
audio flows and PVP to NV for the video flow. Synchronization to
within a few tens of milliseconds or better is necessary for music
synchronization in this demo.
We also demonstrated a Graphics User Interface for the protocol
use, built as an extension of the Nevot Graphics User Interface.
During regular operation, it simply calls for a button to set or
unset synchronization. For experimentation and testing, it allows
protocol parameters to be set and protocol delays to be displayed
and tracked.
Joshua P Seeger <jseeger@BBN.COM>
CSUNET
------
In order to provide regional connectivity for the Pacific Internet
Consortium (CSUnet, Los Nettos, WestREN) for southern California,
CSUnet and Los Nettos requested MCInet networking services be
ordered by WestREN/BARRnet. The northern California portion is
already in place and undergoing testing.
MCInet expects to provide the southern California connectivity at
the end of November. CSUnet and Los Nettos will begin testing and
expect to cutover production traffic to the new connection as soon
as it is stable.
Mike Marcinkevicz
CSUnet Engineering (mdm@csu.net)
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The InterNIC InfoGuide is a comprehensive online information
service which provides information about the Internet and online
Internet resources. Accessible through gopher and the WorldWideWeb,
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the InterNIC InfoGuide replaces the older InterNIC information
server, the InfoSource. The InfoGuide includes new services such as
the Scout Report and an online hypertext version of the _NSF
Network News_.
To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client
to:
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
or your gopher client to:
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NET-HAPPENINGS
The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information
Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's
SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the
community announcements of interest to network staffers and end
users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers,
publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network
resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only
mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources
and concentrates them onto one list.
To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to:
is.internic.net
and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings.
THE SCOUT REPORT:
A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights
Presently the Scout Report is now reaching over 14,000 subscribers
and the HTML versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of
accesses each week. A new mailing list was created for easier
distribution of the HTML Scout Report, which is located at scout-
report-html.
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet
community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network
activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights
of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the
Internet during the previous week.
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The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats --
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of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing
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contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to
scout@internic.net.
How to Get the Scout Report
To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each
Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will
be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail
to: majordomo@is.internic.net
In the body of the message, type:
subscribe scout-report youremailaddress
To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW
client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
nnGopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services
THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES
"Learning the Whole Internet" is now available for users needing
Internet training. The InterNIC has already presented a beta
version of the course which includeded a copy of _The Whole
Internet_ as well as class handouts of the PowerPoint presentation.
NSF NETWORK NEWS
The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 4 (September/October 1994) is
scheduled for publication within the next two weeks. The
newsletter will spotlight K-12 resources on the Internet.
Highlights will include: how to evaluate Internet resources;
examples of cyber-field trips; lesson plans found on the Internet;
a seminar spotlight; and the regular features of the _NSF Network
News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and updates from InterNIC
partners. To subscribe, send email to newsletter-
request@internic.net.
The July/August issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the
WorldWideWeb at
http://www.internic.net/newsletter/jul-aug94/index.html
The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC
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InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to
mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the
message:
get /about-internic/newsletter/nsfnews-aug94.txt
REFERENCE DESK
The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for
October:
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 267 46
Phone 388 31
Fax 181 21
US Mail 14 2
Referral 2 <1
------- -------- ---------
Total 852 100.0
by Anna Knittle <aknittle@is.internic.net>
INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
AIDS Patent Database
In October, CNIDR (Clearinghouse for Networked Information
Discovery and Retrieval), the US Patent and Trademark Office, and
Directory and Database Services made available a collection of
AIDS-related patents on World Wide Web. The patents are searchable
in free text or boolean queries, and the collection can also be
browsed (but be warned - it is a large collection). The US Patent
Classifications can also be browsed. All the figures and diagrams
associated with the patents are available. On our server
(ds0.internic.net), the patent database is available under
"InterNIC Database Services (Public Databases)".
Printed Copies of the Directory of Directories
Directory and Database Services maintains a Directory of
Directories which is available on-line through WAIS, Gopher, World
Wide Web, FTP, telnet, and via electronic mail request. Over time,
we have had a number of requests for a printed version in addition
to the on-line versions, and a printed version is now available.
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To order a printed copy of the Directory of Directories, call 800-
432-6600. The order number is 451-206, and the price is $43.20.
The current version is 806 pages long. We will make a new printed
version available every 6 months. There will be no automatic
updates.
A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find
a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and
we will send information about listing your resource in the
Directory of Directories.
by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net>
REGISTRATION SERVICES
Progress Report for period October 1, 1994 through October 31, 1994
I. Significant Events
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 8,173 network
addresses and registered over 2,747 domains. One top-level country
domain was unregistered during the month; Czechoslovakia.
II. Current Status
During the month of October 1994, InterNIC Registration Services
received communications as shown below. The majority of the
correspondence concerned the assignment and re-assignment of
network numbers and the registration or change of domain names.
E-mail 7,614 (hostmaster@internic.net)
Postal/Fax 301 (primarily IP number requests)
Phone 2,631
The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
of information retrieval requests during the month of October.
Connections Retrievals
Gopher 71,916 41,648
WAIS 67,957 67,160
FTP 11,487 53,027
Mailserv 3,326
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In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:
Client Server
267,730 1,140,537
Debbie Fuller <debbief@internic.net>
ISI
---
NETSTATION
==========
Performance Testing of TCP/IP Protocol Suite
--------------------------------------------
We have compared some experimental implementations of optimized
TCP/IP in the ATOMIC LAN environment. Here we present the results
of a fast-TCP compared to "as-shipped" TCP. We compared the
transmission of 4,096 byte packets (with 40-byte headers) between
two SPARC2 workstations, using an optimized TCP and TCP as-shipped,
with IP checksumming both enabled and disabled. In addition we
measured the performance of loopback taking place at various levels
in the protocol stack using both SPARC20 and SPARC10 workstations.
For these comparisons we used Myricom's implementation of the
ATOMIC host interfaces. There were two versions of the interface
available: the first supported only programmed I/O, and the second
had integrated DMA and hardware IP checksum. The performance
measures for the former were performed at ISI, and the latter were
performed at ISI by Myricom.
We measured different kernel buffer size areas over host-host,
loopback at the Mosaic interface, and loopback above the Atomic
driver, at the IP level in the kernel.
TCP between two hosts runs at 25 Mbps on a Sparc-2, regardless of
whether the optimized implementation or as-shipped was used.
Turning off the IP checksum increased the rate to 29 Mbps.
Mosaic loopback performed less well, because a single host was
involved in both the send and receive functions. We expected the
useful bandwidth would drop to half the host-host rates, and this
was verified.
We performed a kernel loopback, to measure the protocol processing
overhead independent of the cost of the data movement. We expected
the as-shipped TCP to become approximately five times faster (100
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instructions per TCP header + 1000 instructions per context switch
+ 4000 instructions for programmed I/O = 5100 instructions, which
drops to 1100 without the data movement). We also expected this to
be an upper-bound on the speed of the protocol in DMA-mode, which
newer ATOMIC boards from Myricom support.
We found that the as-shipped TCP increased to 24 Mbps (30 without
checksum). This is only a factor of two increase, back to values
seen for host-host transfers. The optimized TCP was more sensitive
to kernel buffer sizes, ranging 35-55 Mbps (50-100 without
checksum). The non-checksum case is a fair measure of the
bandwidth, because checksumming can occur in parallel with data
movement at low cost. The optimized non-checksum TCP was increased
by a factor of four, which is within our estimate.
The kernel loopback of the as-shipped TCP on the Sparc-10 was
nearly as effective as the optimized TCP on the Sparc-2. We
measured 45-50 Mbps (50-70 without checksum).
In conjunction with Myricom, we measured the performance of the
Sparc-2 TCP versions on a DMA-capable ATOMIC interface. We
expected to see performance near the kernel loopback values,
because the DMA transfers can be overlapped with other operations.
We found the as-shipped TCP host-host bandwidth was 40 Mbps (45
with checksumming in hardware, which is nearly equivalent to
"checksumming off"). The optimized TCP achieved 45 Mbps (70 with
hardware checksumming). These results verified our predictions.
We conclude that some of the optimizations we tested are useful,
but did not fully utilize the board capabilities of 440 Mbps
through the DMA channel. We believe that there is a potential for
a 2- to 3-fold increase by hardware modifications, but that the
preponderance of speedup potential is in the operating system.
Annette Deschon <deschon@isi.edu>
ATOMIC-2
--------
The ATOMIC-2 project extends the results of the ATOMIC, which
developed a LAN from supercomputer chips. ATOMIC-2 was originally
charged with augmenting the ATOMIC LAN lab prototypes into a
production office environment, replacing the Ethernet LAN in the
entire HPCC Division of ISI, and developing a number of host
interfaces. Myricom was formed to commercialize the ATOMIC LAN, and
so the ATOMIC-2 project has been redirected to address LAN
interconnection over WAN ranges, integrated service issues, and
network peripherals. All subsequent ATOMIC-2 work will be link-
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compatible with Myricom's Myrinet.
We are currently developing an ATOMIC-ATM IP-level gateway. We are
also developing an ATOMIC network disk server. We are continuing
efforts to deliver a significant portion of ATOMIC's 640 Mbps
network bandwidth to the user application, subject to host
backplane limitations.
We are serving as an alpha test-site for Myricom's production
software.
Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>, Annette DeSchon <deschon>
Hong Xu <xu@isi.edu>, Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>
PC-ATOMIC
---------
Design of 486-based VL-Bus ATOMIC interface.
We completed the PC-ATOMIC prototype card, a i486 VL-Bus (VESA)
interface supporting channel-level compatibility with the Myrinet
LAN. The card supports programmed I/O reads at 88 Mbps and writes
at 144 Mbps. It also supports DMA, currently under testing. The
board has hardware support for IP checksums during either DMA or
programmed I/O. The checksum is performed during reads or writes,
with zero overhead, and can be enabled via a control register bit.
The communications interface has been tested, and found to have
zero errors over 10 million packets in, on-board pre-driver
loopback, on-board post-driver loopback, i486-i486, and i486 to
MyriCom S-Bus interface. All tests involved zero errors over 10
million packets.
A limited number of these boards will be available shortly in small
quantities.
In addition, we have performed some experiments regarding the
programmed-I/O bandwidth capabilities of the PC-ATOMIC boards,
including a comparison to Myricom's 2.x SPARC S-Bus interface
cards.
Graphs show read (from host to board) and write (from board to
host) programmed I/O bandwidth. Note that the READ bandwidth is
more critical because it is the bottleneck in programmed I/O mode.
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LEGEND:
ISI's PC-Atomic = ***
Myricom's SPARC SBus v2.x = ###
Bandwidth (Mbps) READ Bandwidth
100 ++--+----+--++---+----+--++---+-----+-+-+---+----+--++---+----+--++
+ + + + + +
| ******* |
80 ++ **** ++
| **************########### |
| ******** |
60 ++ #**** ++
| #** |
| #** |
| ##* |
40 ++ ##** ++
| ##** |
| ##** |
20 ++ ##** ++
| #** |
+ * + + + + +
0 ++--+----+--++---+----+--++---+-----+-+-+---+----+--++---+----+--++
1 10 100 1K 10K 100K
Packet size (bytes)
Bandwidth (Mbps) WRITE Bandwidth
200 ++--+----+--++---+----+--++---+-----+-+-+---+----+--++---+----+--++
+ + + + + +
| ####################### |
| #### |
150 ++ ### ********************* ++
| ###***** * |
| ##*** **** |
| ##** |
100 ++ #*** ++
| #** |
| ** |
| ** |
50 ++ ** ++
| *** |
| ** |
+ ** + + + + +
0 ++--+----+--++---+----+--++---+-----+-+-+---+----+--++---+----+--++
1 10 100 1K 10K 100K
Packet size (bytes)
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All graphs have been computed with 90% confidence intervals which
are near +/- 2 Mhz for each data point. The i486 PC-ATOMIC system
performance degrades at 8K byte packets, due to crossing page
boundaries. These performance numbers are for programmed I/O only;
DMA numbers will be higher.
Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>, Annette DeSchon <deschon>
Hong Xu <xu@isi.edu>, Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>
Jeff LaCoss <lacoss@isi.edu, Mike Gorman <mgorman@isi.edu>
RSVP PROJECT
============
RSVP (ReserVation Protocol) and traffic control, as well as the
MBONE, were demonstrated at the ACM Multimedia '94 Conference in
San Francisco. This demo was accomplished by a collaboration of
researchers at ISI, MIT, PARC, UDEL, and LBL. A number of vendors
provided equipment in support of this demo: Sun, HP, DEC, and SGI
provided workstations, and Fore provided ATM switches. PAC Bell
provided the DS3 line from the hotel to a BAGNET switch in an
Oakland central office, and BAGNET provided a dedicated PVC from
there to Palo Alto.
The demo used an unloaded DS3 link (using ATM, as described later)
between the conference network and a DARTnet router (Sparc) at
PARC. RSVP and traffic control were running in DARTnet. DARTnet
was flooded with background traffic, causing speech carried by VAT
to be broken up in the absence of RSVP reservations, but clear with
RSVP reservations in place.
The DARTnet routers were running a SunOS kernel that included a
packet scheduler implementing a simple subset of the CSZ service
model. Specifically, it implemented two levels of Predictive
service, essentially two priority levels. The routers also ran the
ISI implementation of RSVP, which was invoked through modified VAT
modules.
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Here is a simplified picture, to illustrate the demo schenario:
---------------- DARTnet -------------------
Xerox T1
<------ PARC --------> |
|
_____ __|__|_
| | | | |
SF Hotel |--| PARC|----X----| AMES |----- Y -->
MM '94 | |_____| |_______| To rest
_____ ______ | | of DARTnet
| | | PARC | | |
| mm94|-.-.-.-.-.-.| THa |--| |
|_____| |______| | T2
|
______ |
| PARC | |
| THb |--|
|______| |
|
All the boxes shown are Sparcstations.
mm94: represents demo computer in demo room of SF hotel
-.-.-. : represents link between hotel and PARC
An HP workstation connected the show Ethernet to a
Fore Switch in the hotel. The Fore switch drove a DS3
line to a BAGNET switch in Oakland. The little cells
then traversed BAGNET to Palo Alto, where they crossed
a short hop to a BADLAN switch within PARC. The
BADLAN switch was then connected to an ATM card in the
DARTnet test host THa. This provided an unloaded,
high speed path from DARTnet to the show Ethernet.
The intermediate switches did not run RSVP or traffic
control and were effectively transparent to the demo.
PARC THa, PARC THb: Test hosts on test Ethernet at PARC.
PARC THa ran RSVP (but not traffic control, as it happens).
PARC THb served only as a sink for flooding traffic from
traffic generators T1 and T2.
PARC: DARTnet router at PARC.
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AMES: DARTnet router at NASA Ames.
Traffic generators T1 and T2 at other DARTnet sites not
shown each sent about 800Kb/s of UDP junk traffic to
sink at PARC THb. The result was to saturate the link
marked X towards MM 94; measurement tools showed link X
loaded very close to its full capacity of 1.344Mbps.
The link marked Y leads to the rest of DARTnet, including ISI and
MIT, which were multicasting VAT audio traffic towards MM 94. This
traffic collided with the background traffic from T1 and T2 in the
AMES router, in the output driver for link X. Basically the packet
scheduling kernel established two output queues, one for reserved
traffic and one for the rest.
The mm94 machine was running a version of VAT that not only invoked
RSVP, but also had a "big button" that could disable or enable RSVP
for the demo. With RSVP invoked, Resv messages were traveling from
mm94 upstream through DARTnet towards all the senders that were
sending Path messages downstream (in this case, MIT and ISI). This
caused the packet scheduler in the AMES router to give the VAT
stream higher priority than the background traffic.
In addition to the VAT reservation, there was a (small) reservation
established for RSVP traffic, so that Path and Resv messages also
used the high-priority queue. This demo made extensive use of the
automatic tunneling capability of RSVP.
Jim Berson <berson@isi.edu>, Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu>,
Steve Casner <casner@isi.edu>
INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Mockapetris attended IAB's IIA Workshop in Reston, Virginia,
and was keynote speaker at the Colorado Internet Meeting. Joyce
Reynolds, attended the IAB's IIA Workshop in Tysons Corner,
Virgina. Steve Berson, attended the ACM Multimedia Conference in
San Francisco, California.
12 RFCS WERE PUBLISHED THIS MONTH.
1698 Octet Sequences for Upper-Layer OSI to Support Basic
Communications Applications. P. Furniss. October 1994.
1700 ASSIGNED NUMBERS. J. Reynolds,J. Postel. October 1994.
(Obsoletes RFC1340) (Also STD0002)
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1701 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE). S. Hanks, T. Li, D.
Farinacci, P. Traina. October 1994.
1702 Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks.
S. Hanks, T. Li, D. Farinacci, P. Traina. October 1994.
1703 Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain:
Radio Paging -- Technical Procedures. M. Rose.
October 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1569)
1704 On Internet Authentication. N. Haller & R. Atkinson.
October 1994.
1705 Six Virtual Inches to the Left: The Problem with IPng.
R. Carlson & D. Ficarella. October 1994.
1706 DNS NSAP Resource Records. B. Manning & R. Colella.
October 1994, (Obsoletes RFC1637)
1707 CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet.
M. McGovern & R. Ullmann. October 1994.
1708 NTP PICS PROFORMA - For the Network Time Protocol
Version 3. D., Gowin. October 1994.
1710 Simple Internet Protocol Plus White Paper. R. Hinden.
October 1994.
1711 Classifications in E-mail Routing. J. Houttuin.
October 1994.
THE US DOMAIN
=============
THE US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
----------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX 648
PHONE 95
----------------------------
Total Contacts 743
DELEGATIONS 94
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 29
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 620
---------------------------
Total 743
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OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: modifications, application
requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
about names, referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic,
resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and
whois listings.
The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of
registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many
subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those
subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct
registrations in the US Domain.
To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and
subdomains you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt
from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp.
Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------------
K12.HI.US Hawaii, K12 schools
K12.SD.US South Dakota K12 Schools
K12.WY.US Wyoming K12 Schools
TEC.SD.US South Dakota Technical Schools
TEC.MN.US Minnesota Technical Schools
CC.HI.US Hawaii, Community Colleges
CC.MN.US Minnesota Community College
CC.SD.US South Dakota Community Colleges
STATE.HI.US State of Hawaii, gov't agencies
LIB.HI.US Hawaii Libraries
LIB.SD.US South Dakota Technical Schools
MUS.TX.US Texas, Museums
GEN.TX.US Texas, general independent entities
FERC.FED.US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
THETA-DELTA-CHI.DNI.US Theta-Delta-Chi Fraternity
COCONINO.AZ.US Coconino, AZ, locality
EDWARDS.CA.US Edwards, CA, locality
UKIAH.CA.US Ukiah, California, locality
AURURA.CO.US City of Aurora Colorado, gov't agencies
CONIFER.CO.US Conifer, CO, locality
THORTON.CO.US Thornton, Colorado, locality
TERRA.CO.US Terra, Colorado, locality
OAHU.HI.US Oahu, Hawaii, locality
MAUI.HI.US Maui, Hawaii, locality
KAUAI.HI.US Kauai, Hawaii, locality
LANAI.HI.US Lanai, Hawaii, locality
HAWAII.HI.US Hawaii, Hawaii, locality
MOLOKAI.HI.US Molokai, Hawaii, locality
HNL.HI.US Honolulu, Hawaii, locality
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BOISE.ID.US Boise, Idaho, locality
GLENVIEW.IL.US Glenview, Illinois, locality
NORTHBROOK.IL.US Village of Northrook, IL, locality
FAY.NC.US Fay, North Carolina, locality
STATE.NJ.US New Jersey State gov't agencies
POTSDAM.NY.US Potsdam, New York, locality
LEXINGTON.OH.US Lexington, Ohio, locality
STEUBENVILLE.OH.US Steubenville, Ohio, locality
STRONGSVILLE.OH.US Strongsville, Ohio, locality
TULSA.OK.US Tulsa, Oklahoma, locality
MOCITY.TX.US Missouri City, Texas, locality
Other US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------
GSA.TUSCALOOSA.AL.US Geological Survey of Alabama
MAYBECK.BERKELEY.CA.US Maybeck High School in Berkeley
PAN.SF.CA.US Pan Inc, San francisco, CA
STOCKTON.LIB.CA.US Stockton-San Joaquin Country Library
SJVLS.LIB.CA.US San Joaquin Valley Library System
DRS.STATE.CT.US Department of Revenue Services
STRATFRDPL.LIB.CT.US Stratford Library Association
NORWALKPL.LIB.CT.US Norwalk Public Library
CTHISTSOC.LIB.CT.US Connecticut Historical Society Library
CTSTATELIB.LIB.CT.US Connecticut State Library
STAMFORDPL.LIB.CT.US Ferguson Lirary, Stamford, CT
SHELTONPL.LIB.CT.US Plumb Memorial Library
NBRANFRDPL.LIB.CT.US North Branfrd Public Library
NWCANAANPL.LIB.CT.US New Canaan Library
HARTFORDPL.LIB.CT.US Hartford Public Library
GROTONPL.LIB.CT.US Groton Public Library
WATERBURYPL.LIB.CT.US Silas Bronson Public Library
HEBRONPL.LIB.CT.US Douglas Library
COLUMBIAPL.LIB.CT.US Saxton B. Little Library
BRDGPRTPL.LIB.CT.US Bridgeport Public Library
ANDOVERPL.LIB.CT.US Andover Public Library
UNEWHANEN.LIB.CT.US University of New Haven Library
CCSU.LIB.CT.US Central Connecticut State. Univ.
MSPORTERSC.FARMINGTON.PVT.K12.CT.US Miss Porter School, CT
STMRGRETM.WATERBORU.PVT.K12.CT.US St. Margaget McTernam School
LISBONCENS.LISBON.K12.CT.US Lisbon Central School
EASTLYMEHS.EASTLYME.K12.CT.US East Lyme High School Library
FLANDERS.EASTLYME.K12.CT.US Flanders Elementary School Library
CONARDHS.W-HARTFORD.K12.CT.US Conard High School
AMERSCHDEL.W-HARTFORD.PVT.K12.CT.US American School of the Deaf
PLAINFLDHS.PLAINFIELD.K12.CT.US Plainfield High School
ALA.NE.DC.US American Library Association
YARCOMM.SF.CA.US Yar Communications, CA
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IAT.NORCROSS.GA.US Arena Electronics, Inc.
MILLEDGEVILLE.GA.US City of Milledgeville, GA
JOHNCO.CC.KS.US Johnson County Community College, KS
CCC.CC.KS.US Coffeyville Community College, KS
JOHNCO.CC.KS.US Johnson County Community College
ASTRO.LOU.KY.US AstroSphere Graphics Group
SHARON.LIB.MA.US Sharon Public Library
WALPOLE.LIB.MA.US Walpole Public Library
SLUG-ST-LOUIS.MO.US St. Louis Users Group for the PC
ICON.ST-LOUIS.MO.US St. Louis Internet Connection
HAVEN.BOSTON.MO.US Personal computer, MA
MUSIC.GEN.MT.US College Music Society, Missoula, MT
ROSE.CC.OK.US Rose State College, Oklahoma
DARKMATTER.NORMAN.OK.US Vapourspace Communications
FPLP.LIB.PA.US Free Public Library of Philiadelphia
ECTI.TEC.PA.US Erie County Technical Institute
LCLS.ERIE.LIB.PA.US Erie County Library System
AAPA.ALEXANDRIA.VA.US American Academy of Physician Assistants
PUB-LIB.CI.ARLINGTON.TX.US Arlington Public Library
NICHOLSON-PL.CI.GARLAND.TX.US Nicholson Memorial Library
SW-ENG.FALLS-CHURCH.VA.US Ada Inforamtion Clearinghouse
DELEGATED ZONES UNDER .US
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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AZ X X X X X
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CA X X X
CO X X X X X X X
CT
DC X
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FL X X X X X X X
GA X X X X
HI X X X X X X X
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IA X X X X
ID X X X X X X X
IL X X X X X
IN X X X X X X X
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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KS X X
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
MA X X
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MD X X X X
ME X X
MI X X X X X
MN X X X X X X X
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MS X X X X
MT X
NC X X X X X
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NE X X X X
NH X X
NJ X X
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NM X X X
NV
NY X X X X X X X
OH X X X X X X X
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OK
OR X X X X X X X
PA X X
RI X X X
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SC X X X X X X X
SD X X X X X X X
TN X
TX X X X X X X X
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VA X X X X
VI
VT X
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WA X
WI X X X
WV X X X X X X X
WY X X
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For more information about the US Domain please request an
application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to RFC-
INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application". For
example:
To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU
Subject: US Domain Application
help: us_domain_application
Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING
------------------------
This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet
Engineering and Network Management groups with regard to the NSFNET
Backbone Service Project and the Routing Arbiter Project.
Bill Norton and Enke Chen continue implementation of the Network
Management System for the Routing Arbiter architecture. The
distributed architecture will support bilingual SNMP (V1/V2), out-
of-band access and router discovery algorithms. Laurent Joncheray
has ported PGP ('Pretty Good Privacy') 2.6 into the RIPE routing
registry software. PGP is a public key encryption method which
provides for authentication of the sender of a message and,
optionally, encryption of the message contents. PGP is being
evaluated by the RIPE team as one method for securing Routing
Registry databases.
Andy Adams and Rick Riolo of Merit, in collaboration with Cengiz
Alaettinoglu of ISI, have implemented a RIPE-181 policy language
analysis library that parses RIPE-181 policy syntax and makes
queries to the Routing Arbiter Database to produce output such as
AS lists and net lists. The output is suitable for all sorts of
configuration file formats, in addition to the Route Server's
configuration files.
The routines will also be very useful for policy analysis, both for
the Routing Arbiter's use and for others. For example, the code
can be used to normalize and compare policy expressions or minimize
policy expressions. The code could parse a complex policy in
RIPE-181 syntax and output an equivalent, more compact expression,
such as 'Accept ANY'. If this was not the intended meaning, the
developer could redo the policy to express the correct meaning.
Other network providers have shown interest in using this code, in
the form of libraries, to generate their own configuration files.
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Merit hosted the North America Network Operators Group (NANOG)
meeting on October 24th and 25th. The focus of the meeting was the
transition from an NSFNET-provided backbone service to an
architecture based on Network Access Points for multiple backbone
providers. Elise Gerich updated the group on the NSFNET transition
and on the migration from the Policy Routing Data Base (PRDB) to a
Global Routing Registry. The Routing Arbiter panel of Bill Manning
(ISI), Yakov Rekhter (IBM) and Elise Gerich answered questions
concerning different aspects of the collaborative project. John
Scudder presented an NSFNET traffic analysis with projected NAP
traffic loads, which was based on work by Scudder and Sue Hares.
Curtis Villamizar (ANS) presented results from the joint ANS-
Bellcore NAP testbed and a study on TCP performance. Paul Vixie
(vix.com) discussed DNS security considerations. Peter Lothberg
introduced the European Operator's Forum and the interconnectivity
of its principal participants. Yakov Rekhter (IBM) provided an
update on CIDR aggregation. Sean Doran (Sprint) discussed their
backbone reengineering. Andy Schmidt (Ameritech) discussed their
NAP Laboratory. The San Francisco NAP status, testbed results and
future ATM/NAP plans were presented by PacBell representatives
Frank Liu, Al Broscius and Chin Yuan. Tim Salo (Minnesota
Supercomputer Center and SPRINT-NAP Co-PI) discussed ATM
implementation problems and future directions.
Several of the presented papers, the NANOG charter, meeting minutes
and related documents are available on the Merit-IE World Wide Web
server RA Info page, http://www.ra.net/rainfo.html and/or for
anonymous FTP from merit.edu in the directory
/pub/nanog/presentations.
A recurrent problem on the ANS/NSFNET backbone has involved the
dropping of BGP peer sessions with midlevel network peers. The
problem was particularly evident during the twice-weekly GateD
reconfigurations. The configuration files are fairly large and
primarily composed of statements controlling the export of routing
information to the midlevel peers. Since many of the midlevels are
learning many of these routes from other midlevel peers at the same
ENSS, it is not necessary for them to also receive these routes
from the ENSSs. At ENSS 136, the problem became acute with a
configuration file of over 120,000 lines. By working with the ENSS
136 peers we were able to initially remove 5,000 lines with more to
follow. Merit also has begun work with peers of ENSSs 144 and 145,
which also have large configuration files and many peering
sessions. By working with these peers, and especially NSI as it
migrated from EGP to BGP and consolidated into a single AS, almost
20,000 lines were removed from the ENSS 144 configuration file.
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These changes should improve overall routing performance and reduce
problems seen during routing updates. If you peer with other
networks at these or other primary ENSSs, please consider a review
of your AS policies to help us eliminate redundant network
announcements.
Merit staff are also continuing work with midlevel networks to
promote CIDR aggregation of their routing announcements. Several
files on current aggregation status are maintained for anonymous
FTP from merit.edu in the directory /pub/nsfnet/cidr. The
configured and announced aggregates, potential aggregates and
potential savings are all available. The information and related
charts and tools are available on the Merit-IE World Wide Web
server; http://www.ra.net/home.html is the entry point to the web
collection.
Version 1.0 of the InterDomain Routing Protocol implementation for
the FAA has been released. This release provides a fully functional
and hopefully stable IDRP implementation. Gated-IDRP version 1.1,
which supports more advanced policy descriptions, will be available
shortly. Version 1.0 is available for anonymous FTP from merit.edu
in the file /pub/iso/idrp/faa/gated-idrp-1.0.tar.Z . The FAA is
funding this research on advanced features of IDRP in GateD as a
cooperative effort of the FAA, Merit and MITRE Corporation.
Jessica Yu and Enke Chen hosted a delegation from CERNet, the
Chinese National Education and Research Network, on October 31.
The program included presentations by Merit's President Eric
Aupperle, Elise Gerich, Bill Norton, Sheri Repucci, and Jessica Yu.
Merit staff shared their experiences with building MichNet and the
NSFNET backbone. The Chinese delegation presented its engineering
plan to build a national, research and education, TCP/IP-based
network to serve the 1,093 universities in China.
Kenneth T. Latta, II (klatta@merit.edu)
MIDNET
------
*MIDnet Brings Enhanced Internet Services to St. Louis*
In early October of this year, MIDnet upgraded its services for St.
Louis customers with an additional connection to the national
network backbone.
"We have significantly increased the capacity of MIDnet's St. Louis
connection to the Internet with the establishment of a high-speed
(45 Mbps) hub," said Mary McLaughlin, executive director of MIDnet.
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"St. Louis, with its core of technology-based businesses and
organizations, is an important market for us. By providing a direct
hop to the Internet, we are giving our St. Louis customers even
faster, more reliable access to the Internet."
In support of the St. Louis facility, a Sales Center was also
established at MIDnet's headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska. The
Sales Center can be reached through a toll-free number, 1-800-682-
5550. "We want to make it as easy as possible for members and
prospective clients to reach us," states Carol Farnham, Director of
Member Services. "Providing a central point of contact for
information lets us be more effective in responding. We feel the
Sales Center will benefit our current members as well as promote
interest in the Internet."
*MIDnet NIC Fully Staffed*
MIDnet's Network Information Center has been operational and fully
staffed since July of this year. The NIC staff, consisting of three
full-time employees and a student assistant, devotes its time to
supporting the information services needs of MIDnet members, and to
promoting use and understanding of the Internet through educational
presentations. Since its establishment, the NIC has produced and
distributed MIDnet's first member newsletter, coordinated
arrangements for the semi-annual member conference held in Lincoln,
and sponsored several Internet presentations. The NIC staff is also
heavily involved in the design and development of mechanisms to
facilitate resource discovery on the Internet. The deployment of
these mechanisms will occur in mid-November when Midnet announces
its FTP, Gopher, and WWW servers to the Internet.
MIDnet's NIC can be reached via e-mail at: nic@mid.net.
*MIDnet Security Seminars*
MIDnet has announced a series of one-day seminars focusing on
Internet security. The seminars, entitled "A Practical Guide to
Secure Internet Connections", will be held in St. Louis, Kansas
City, and Chicago on November 29, 30, and December 1, respectively.
For additional seminar information, send e-mail to security@mid.net
or call 1-800-709-5550.
*MIDnet Fall Conference*
Lincoln, Nebraska was the site of MIDnet's semi-annual membership
meeting, held October 3-4, 1994. Conference participation was at an
all-time-high, with more than 150 members in attendance.
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The meeting opened with a "State of MIDnet" address given by Mary
Eileen McLaughlin, MIDnet's Executive Director. The keynote speech,
"The NSF Transition", was delivered by David Staudt of NSFNET. The
second day featured a plenary session focusing on Internet
security, with Robert Darden of Trusted Information Systems as
guest speaker. Additional conference activities included
educational sessions on Sendmail, Kerberos, PGP, DNS, ATM, and
SNMP. Panel discussion topics included Trends in K-12 Networking,
Sorting Out Campus ATM Deployment Strategies, Trends in Campus
Computing, and Trends in Government Computing and Networks.
Information on MIDnet services can be requested by calling 1-800-
682-5550, or by sending e-mail to: info@mid.net
MIDnet NIC <info@mid.net>
NORTHWESTNET
------------
Eighth Annual Meeting Nov. 8-10
===============================
NorthWestNet's Eighth Annual Meeting will be held in Portland
Oregon from November 8-10. Some of the scheduled speakers and
presenters include:
Laura Breeden Director TIIAP, Dept. of Commerce
Mayor Liz Kniss City of Palo Alto
Stephen Wolff Director DNCRI, National Science Foundation
Robert Gillespie Principal, Robert Gillespie Associates
Elise Gerich Manager Internet Engineering Group, MERIT
Andy Beecher Telecommunications Planner Analyst, TCI
Eric Hood Executive Director & CEO, NorthWestNet
and President, FARNET
Mark McCahill Gopherspace Engineer, Univ. of Minnesota
Clifford Neuman Scientist/Research Asst. Prof, Univ.
of Southern California Information
Sciences Institute (ISI)
Joan Feldman President, Computers Forensics Inc.
Thomas Longstaff Technical Staff, Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT)
Mitchell London President & CEO, ConnectSoft
Russ Jones Internet Program Manager, DEC
Chuck Pettis Principal, Floathe Johnson
For more information about the meeting:
Gopher: gopher.nwnet.net 3333
9. NorthWestNet's Eighth Annual Meeting
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or, contact NorthWestNet at info@nwnet.net.
The Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online
5th Ed.
===============================================================
Novices and experts alike appreciate the clarity and accuracy of
"The Internet Passport"--both as a how-to manual and as a
remarkably complete reference. Now in its fifth edition, "The
Internet Passport" is fully updated--and all resources have been
newly verified. Brand-new coverage includes a detailed guide to
becoming an information provider, and a comprehensive catalog of
Internet health care resources. "The Internet Passport" is ideal
for MIS Managers, Information professional, students and teachers,
medical practitioners, scientists, government officials and anyone
else responsible for accessing the Internet
For the past several years, NorthWestNet has self-published this
popular Internet resource guide. To better serve the demand for the
book and to reach a wider audience, NorthWestNet has signed with
Prentice Hall PTR division to publish the fifth edition. The book
is in production now and is expected to be available in late
December. For more information about the book, contact Prentice
Hall at 1-800-382-3419.
NorthWestNet Internet Training Series
======================================
October saw the completion of a new training module for the
NorthWestNet Internet Training Series. "Travelling the World Wide
Web" was beta-tested this month and will be formally introduced at
a preconference workshop at the November NorthWestNet Annual
Meeting. This class will appear on future public class schedules.
Standard training classes open to the public were held at the
NorthWestNet training facility as they have been in previous
months. For more information:
Gopher: gopher.nwnet.net port 3333
directory: 5. NorthWestNet Information and Resources
1. NorthWestNet Internet Training Series
FTP Host: ftp.nwnet.net
directory: /training
filename: course-descriptions.txt
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NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net
15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director
Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services
Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services
Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
PREPNET
-------
New PREPnet Members
-------------------
- Internet Securities Pittsburgh, PA
- The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA
- Infobahn International, Inc, Pittsburgh, PA
- Flower Franchising, Lebanon, PA
- St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
- CityNet, Pittsburgh, PA
- Automation News Network, Pittsburgh, PA
- Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
- ERIENET, Erie, PA
- Lancaster - Lebanon Intermediate Unit, East Petersburg, PA
With this addition, PREPnet now totals 201 members.
PREPnet News
------------
Conferences
-----------
Felicia Ferlin attended the Commonwealth Libraries 10th Annual
Technology Conference in Lancaster, Pa. on Oct. 24.
Meetings
--------
Marsha Perrott attended NANOG in Ann Arbor, Mi. on Oct. 24 and 25.
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Training
--------
On Oct. 25, Felicia Ferlin, conducted PREPnet's Introduction to the
Internet training session:
Oct. 25 Telebase Systems, Inc.
Oct. 26 Bucks County Intermediate Unit
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
UCL
----
J Crowcroft attended ACM Multimedia and spoke on a panel session
about video mediated communication.
A paper was presented at the UK Unix User Group meeting on a future
architecture for multimedia applications on multiservice networks:
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/jon/skynet/skynet.html
THe BT funded research project in the area of Management of
Multiservice Networks, on the UK SuperJANET network had its
inaugural technical meeting. This involves:
UCL Computer Science Department
Cambridge Computer Lab
Department of Computing, Imperial College
Lancaster Computing Department
Loughborough University of Technology
Oxford Brookes University
Three of the sites have a private ATM network infrastructuer
(currently at 34Mbps), while all 6 are connecvted via the UKERNA IP
over SMDS network.
Research work includes;
i) Configuration Management - graphical tools to support the
initial construction and subsequent dynamic change of the software
components of the network services, the management system itself
and distributed applications.
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ii) Policy Based Traffic Management - This will provide a language
and associated tools for specifying policy which can be used to
modify the behaviour of automated manager agents to enable them to
deal with network congestion in real-time.
iii) Quality of Service Management - this will permit multi-media,
application specific QoS requirements to be specified and mapped
onto the required support mechanisms in the underlying services.
iv) Traffic Monitoring and Measurement - distributed traffic
monitoring using statistical algorithms will be provided as well as
a traffic source based on a multi-bitrate video and audio service
to evaluate performance.
v) Security - an architecture for assuring secure and authenticated
signalling will be developed, as well as a unified approach for
authenticating end-user traffic flows based on virtual channels.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
--------
Last update 11/9/94
The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat
as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are
requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this
calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to:
<meeting-planning@cnri.reston.va.us>
Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information
for the events listed below.
FYI - New Dates for Email World Spring 1995
- New Dates for U.S. APPC/APPN (AATC) Technical Conf. moved from
July to May.
************************************************************************
1994
------------
Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV
Nov. 8-10 7th IFIP WG6.1 Wkshp on
Protocol Test Systems Tokyo, Japan
Nov. 8-11 OPENNET '94 German Soc. of
Internet Users Munich
Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA
Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria
Nov. 14-16 ISDN User Forum Copenhagen, Denmark
Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC
Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA
Nov. 15-16 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conf. Brussels
Nov. 18-29 Nerdathon '94 - Windows into
the Internet Lake Tahoe
Nov. 21-22 ATM: Real Choices Wkshp Univ. Md. Baltimore
Nov. 28-29 ICT Standardization Pol. Wkshp Belgium
Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK
Nov. 28-Dec. 1 GLOBECOM '94 San Francisco, CA
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Windows Solutions Frankfurt, Germany
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause
Dec. 1-2 RARE Working Groups London, UK
Dec. 1-2 Wkshp on European Reqs for
Internationalisation of IT
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and Charset Technology Luxembourg
Dec. 5-7 Australian Telecom Networks and
Applications Conf. ATNAC 94 Melbourne, AU
Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA
Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 San Jose, CA
Dec. 5-9 10th Comp. Sec. Applications Orlando, FL
Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP
Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dec. 12-16 OIW (Firm)
Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks Madras, India
1995
---------
Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks Madras, India
Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA
Feb. 5-10 ATM Forum San Francisco, CA
Feb. 5-11 IS&T/SPIE Symposium on
Electronic Imaging San Jose, CA
Feb. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL
Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk &
Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA
Feb. 20 Int'l Internet OGs Meetings San Diego
Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX
Feb. 21-22 Int'l Internet Ops Conference San Diego
Feb. 22-24 ICODP '95 Brisbane
Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) West Palm Beach, FL
Mar. 6-10 SNMP Test Summit III
Mar. 13-17 OIW (Firm)
Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP
Mar. 16-19 3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems
Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN
Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV
Mar. 28-31 Seybold Seminars Boston, MA
Apr. 2-6 IEEE Infocom '95 Boston, MA
Apr. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 Monterey, CA
Apr. 3-7 32nd IETF (Definite) Danvers, MA
Apr. 4-5 Federal Networking Council
Advisory Committee Arlington, VA
Apr. 9-14 ATM Forum Denver, CO
Apr. 17-21 Email World (Firm) Santa Clara, CA
Apr. 19-21 5th Network & Operating System
Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA
Apr. 24-25 IFIP TC6 Wkshp Personal
Wireless Commun. Prague, Czech Republic
May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel
May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel
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May 22-25 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Chicago, IL
May 28-Jun. 2 NetWorld+Interop '95 Frankfurt, Germany
Jun. ATM Forum Europe
Jun. 5-7 Digital World Los Angeles, CA
Jun. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Rochester, MN
Jun. 12-16 OIW (Firm)
Jun. 13-16 IFIP WG6.1 PSTV-XV Warsaw
Jun. 16-17 CCIRN Singapore
Jun. 18-22 ICC '95 Seattle, WA
Jun. 18-24 ISOC Developing Country Wkshp Hawaii
Jun. 25-27 ISOC K-12 Workshop Hawaii
Jun. 26-27 ISOC Trustees & Council Hawaii
Jun. 28-30 INET '95 Hawaii
Jul. 4 Independence Day
Jul. 10-13 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Maui, HI
JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY
Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF Stockholm, Sweden
Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan
Jul. 17-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 Ottawa, Ontario
Aug. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA
Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area
Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area
Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA
SEPTEMBER Windows Solutions Paris Paris, France
FALL 1995 Seybold Europe
Sep. 4-6 8th IFIP WG6.1 Intntl Wkshp on
Protocol Test Systems Every, France
Sep. 4-7 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) London, England
Sep. 11-15 6th IFIP High Performance
Networking, HPN'95 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Sep. 11-15 OIW (Firm)
Sep. 25-29 7th SDL Forum Oslo
Sep. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA
Sep. 26-29 Seybold San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI
Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 10-11 ANSI X3T11
Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, Australia
Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec
Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec
Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France
Nov. 7-10 ICNP-95 Tokyo
Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM'95 Singapore
Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA
Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany
Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS
Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm)
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Dec. 4-8 34th IETF Dallas, TX
Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Firm) San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8 Windows Solutions Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
Dec. 10-15 ATM Forum Orlando, FL
Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO
Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU
1996
-----------
Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11
Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 11-15 35th IETF (Under Consideration)
Mar. 18-22 35th IETF (Under Consideration)
Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm)
Apr. 8-13 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA
Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA
May. 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO
Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm)
Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11
Jun. 24-27 ICC'96 Dallas
Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11
Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU
Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm)
Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1/FORTE/PSTV'96 (Tenative) Kaiserslauten
Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL
Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration)
Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration)
Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA
Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11
Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm)
1997
-----------
Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm)
Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal
Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm)
Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm)
Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm)
1998
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Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and
Budapest, Hungary
---------
Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories
Via gopher: "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings /
Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
**********************************************************************
Ref. RSec(94)001-ac November 1994
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 Anne Cozanet
(e.mail address: cozanet@rare.nl).
MEETING/DATE LOCATION
============ ========
TERENA Executive Committee
--------------------------
7 November Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat)
TERENA General Assembly
-----------------------
GA2
2 December London
GA3
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv (tbc)
UPTURN
------
30 November (afternoon) London
TERENA Working Groups
---------------------
WG-ISUS
1/2 December London
WG-LLT
1 December (morning) London
WG-NOP
1 December (morning) London
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LOCAL ACCESS TF
1 December (afternoon) London
ATM TF
12 December (all day) Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat)
RIPE
----
25-27 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF, WCW)
12-14 April 1996 Berlin
PRIDE COURSES
-------------
7 November Amsterdam
11 November Pisa
14 November London
18 November Vienna
VARIOUS
-------
EuroCAIRN
EuroCAIRN Consultation Meeting
8 November Brussels (Sheraton Hotel)
(DANTE EuroCAIRN project team
and representatives of the
national networks meet to
discuss work done for EuroCAIRN
to date. closed, by invitation
ony)
EUROPEAN CERTs
(experts and interested parties)
8-9 November Hamburg
CEENet General Assembly
EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM
25 November London
EBONE
Consortium of Contributing Organisations
02 November Munich
EBONE Management Committee
7 December Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat)
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EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
? December (tbd) Munich
EARN
Board of Directors
30 November - 1 December London
CCIRN
16/17 June 1995 tbc
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
15/16 December Washington DC
IETF
5-9 December San Jose, California
3-7 April 1995 Danvers, Massachusetts
17-21 July 1995 Stockholm, Sweden
4-8 December 1995 Dallas (tbc)
EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
6 December Brussels
ETSI
----
General Assembly
22/23 November Nice, France
CONFERENCES
*******************************************************************
JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference
15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel
To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message
to <jenc6-request@rare.nl>.
For information, email <jenc6-sec@rare.nl>.
To submit a paper, email <jenc6-submit@rare.nl>
JENC6 Programme Committee
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1 December London
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JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference
13-16 May 1996 in Budapest, Hungary
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NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94
------------------------------
from 28 to 30 November 1994
in London (UK)
For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via
email: <A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet>;
Paper submissions to: <NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET>
OTHER CONFERENCES
nb. For some of the following events, full text information is
available from the TERENA 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
OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.)
---------------------------------------------------------
from 8-11 November in Goettingen (Park Hotel Ropeter)
For further information contact the DIGI board via email:
<vorstand@digi.de>
CEN/CENELEC/ETSI CONFERENCE 1994
--------------------------------
on 15 and 16 November 1994
in the European Parliament, Brussels.
Information from Kristien Van Ingelgem, fax.+32 2 519 6819
ICT STANDARDIZATION POLICY WORKSHOP 1994
----------------------------------------
28, 29 and 30 November 1994
Chateau du Lac, Genval, Belgium
organised by the European Commission with logistic
support from EWOS.
For information, email <ewos@sp1.y-net.be>
EMAIL WORLD
-----------
The Mail Enabled Technologies Conference
from 29 November to 1 December 1994
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Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA, USA
For further information, email <expo@dic-inc.com>
Tel. +1 508 470 3880; Fax. +1 508 470 0526
WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR
INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY
-------------------------------------------------------
on 1 and 2 December 1994
in Luxembourg.
Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII,
EFTA and STRI.
Registrations before 30 September 1994
For information, email <tobbi@iti.is>
IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING
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from 5 till 11 February 1995
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
-> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video
Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995
Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445
MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING & NETWORKING
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from 6 till 8 February 1995
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
for registration and info, email <spie@spie.org>
DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION: ALGORITHMS & TECHNOLOGIES
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from 7 till 10 February 1995
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
for registration and info, email <spie@spie.org>
INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEM SECURITY
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16-17 February 1995
Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California USA
Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 1995.
For further information, email David Balenson
<balenson@tis.com>
EEMA MEETINGS
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Winter Conference
15-17 November Luxembourg
Cooper [Page 48]
Internet Monthly Report October 1994
Cooper [Page 49]
- Internet Monthly Report - October 1994 Ann Cooper