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February 1997 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR-ED@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ IMR Editor [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 RFC-EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- Internet Monthly Report for February, 1997 1. The first meeting of the year will be held in Memphis, Tennessee from April 7-10, 1997. Our local host will be Federal Express. Following Memphis, the IETF returns to Europe for the summer meeting in Munich, Germany from August 11-15, 1997. Our hosts for this meeting will be Digi/ISOC.DE. The final meeting of the year will be held in the D.C. area, hosted by Newbridge. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meetng sites can always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL is: http://www.ietf.org/ 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF shadow directories in the iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: January 9, 1997 (iesg.97-01-09) January 23, 1997 (iesg.97-01-23) February 6, 1997 (iesg.97-02-06) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol Actions during the month of February, 1997: o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 o Microsoft Point-To-Point Compression (MPPC) Protocol for publication as an Informational RFC. o Managing the X.500 Root Naming Context for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o Issues affecting MARS Cluster Size for publication as an Informational RFC. o Traffic Flow Measurement: Experiences with NeTraMet for publication as an Informational RFC. o Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE) for publication as a Proposed Standard. 4. Five Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of February, 1997: o FTP Security Extensions <draft-ietf-cat-ftpsec-09> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Common Schema for the Internet White Pages Service <draft-ietf-ids-iwps-schema-spec-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES AND FUNCTIONS <draft-crocker-stdaddr-02> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services <draft-ietf-ids-dnsnames-02> for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o IMAP4 Referrals <draft-gahrns-imap-referrals-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Four new working groups were created QoS Routing (qosr) TCP Implementation (tcpimpl) Secure Shell (secsh) The Internet and the millenium problem (2000) IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 6. There were 101 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of February, 1997: (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 <draft-ietf-ospf-version2-10.txt> (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard <draft-teow-fabric-mib-02.txt> (ipsec) o Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) <draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-07.txt, .ps> (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm2-08.txt> (intserv) o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service <draft-ietf-intserv-guaranteed-svc-07.txt> (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication <draft-myers-smtp-auth-05.txt> (mixer) o MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME <draft-kille-mixer-rfc1327bis-04.txt> (vgmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Repeater Devices <draft-ietf-vgmib-repeater-dev-03.txt> (mixer) o Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message Bodies <draft-ietf-mixer-bodymap-06.txt> (none) o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) <draft-myers-auth-sasl-08.txt> (mixer) o A MIME body part for FAX <draft-ietf-mixer-fax-01.txt> (mixer) o A MIME body part for ODA <draft-ietf-mixer-oda-01.txt> (pppext) o PPP EAP RSA Public Key Authentication Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-eaprsa-04.txt> (madman) o LDAP/CLDAP/X.500 Directory Services Monitoring MIB <draft-ietf-madman-dsa-mib-1-02.txt> (pppext) o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) <draft-ietf-pppext-bacp-06.txt> (mixer) o Carrying PostScript in X.400 and MIME <draft-ietf-mixer-postscript-01.txt> (dnsind) o Clarifications to the DNS Specification <draft-ietf-dnsind-clarify-05.txt> (idmr) o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol <draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-04.txt, .ps> (dnssec) o Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update <draft-ietf-dnssec-update-04.txt> (http) + Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP <draft-ietf-http-negotiation-00.txt> (none) o Netstrings <draft-bernstein-netstrings-02.txt> IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 (none) o Public Information Retrieval Protocol (PIRP) <draft-bernstein-pirp-02.txt> (none) o Tools in the War on Mail Loops <draft-bernstein-mail-loops-war-02.txt> (none) o Notice-Requested-Upon-Delivery-To (NRUDT) <draft-bernstein-nrudt-02.txt> (none) o The qmail-send Bounce Message Format (QSBMF) <draft-bernstein-qsbmf-02.txt> (none) o The Hash Convention For Mail System Status Codes (HCMSSC) <draft-bernstein-hcmssc-02.txt> (none) o Easily Parsed LIST Format (EPLF) <draft-bernstein-eplf-02.txt> (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm1ng-03.txt> (ids) o Best Current Practice for the Internet White Pages Service <draft-ietf-ids-ds-bcp-02.txt> (svrloc) + Finding Stuff (How to discover services) <draft-ietf-svrloc-discovery-00.txt> (ipsec) o The resolution of ISAKMP with Oakley <draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-oakley-03.txt> (urn) o Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System <draft-ietf-urn-naptr-03.txt> (svrloc) o Service Location Modifications for IPv6 <draft-ietf-svrloc-ipv6-01.txt> (none) o VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service <draft-armitage-ion-venus-01.txt> (oncrpc) o RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification <draft-ietf-oncrpc-rpcsec_gss-02.txt> (pppext) + Microsoft Point-To-Point Compression (MPPC) Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-mppc-00.txt> (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-dn-01.txt> (asid) o An Approach for Using Domains in LDAP Distinguished Names <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-domains-01.txt> (none) o The Owner Hack <draft-bernstein-owner-hack-01.txt> (none) o RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG <draft-civanlar-bmpeg-01.txt> (none) o Quick Mail Transfer Protocol (QMTP) <draft-bernstein-qmtp-01.txt> (bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices <draft-ietf-bmwg-lanswitch-03.txt> (none) + A Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over Shared and Switched LAN Technologies <draft-ietf-issll-is802-framework-00.txt> (none) o A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode <draft-goldsmith-utf7-01.txt> IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 (none) o Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 <draft-stevens-advanced-api-01.txt> (none) o Transaction Internet Protocol <draft-lyon-itp-nodes-01.txt> (none) o Network Data Management Protocol <draft-stager-pdc-netapp-backup-01.txt> (roamops) o The Network Access Identifier <draft-ietf-roamops-nai-01.txt> (none) o POP3 AUTHentication command <draft-myers-sasl-pop3-01.txt> (urn) o A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution <draft-ietf-urn-http-conv-01.txt> (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Servers <draft-ietf-applmib-wwwmib-01.txt> (mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) <draft-ietf-mmusic-rtsp-01.txt, .ps> (dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) <draft-ietf-dnsind-ncache-02.txt> (none) o StarBurst Multicast File Transfer Protocol (MFTP) Specification <draft-miller-mftp-spec-02.txt> (none) o IMAP4 Referrals <draft-gahrns-imap-referrals-01.txt> (mobileip) o Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP <draft-ietf-mobileip-tunnel-reverse-01.txt> (none) o Extensions to the Internet Relay Chat Protocol (IRCX) <draft-pfenning-irc-extensions-01.txt> (ion) + NHRP for Destinations off the NBMA Subnetwork <draft-ietf-ion-r2r-nhrp-00.txt> (http) + HTTP State Management Mechanism (Errata) <draft-ietf-http-state-mgmt-errata-00.txt, .ps> (calsch) + Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) <draft-ietf-calsch-ical-00.txt> (calsch) + Core Object Specification - Issues Document <draft-ietf-calsch-ical-issues-00.txt> (ipngwg) + Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-mib-00.txt> (ipngwg) + Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-icmp-mib-00.txt> (ipngwg) + Management Information Base for IP Version 6: UDP and TCP Groups <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-udp-tcp-mib-00.txt> (none) + A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation <draft-chen-aggregation-framework-00.txt> (none) + MAPOS - Multiple Access Protocol over SONET/SDH Version 1 <draft-maruyama-mapos-sonet-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 (none) + Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web -- WEBDAV <draft-jensen-webdav-ext-00.txt> (fax) + Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - Class F <draft-ietf-fax-tiff-00.txt> (http) + HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0 <draft-ietf-http-rvsa-v10-00.txt> (frnetmib) + Frame Relay Service Extensions MIB for Switched PVCs <draft-ietf-frnetmib-spvc-00.txt> (none) + Telnet Remote Serial Port (RSP) Option <draft-rfced-info-bennett-00.txt> (none) + Electronic Part Catalog to Business System Interface <draft-rfced-info-sheppard-00.txt> (find) + A CIP-based Centroid Exchange for LDAP <draft-ietf-find-ldapc-00.txt> (calsch) + Calendaring Interoperability over HTTP (CIH) <draft-ietf-calsch-cih-00.txt> (svrloc) + Advertising Services (Providing information to support service discovery) <draft-ietf-svrloc-advertising-00.txt> (svrloc) + Defining White Pages and Yellow Pages Services <draft-ietf-svrloc-wpyp-00.txt> (rsvp) + RSVP Extensions for CIDR Aggregated Data Flows <draft-ietf-rsvp-cidr-ext-00.txt> (mboned) + Some Issues for an Inter-domain Multicast Routing Protocol <draft-ietf-mboned-imrp-some-issues-00.txt> (none) + Dublin Core Metadata for Simple Resource Description <draft-kunze-dc-00.txt> (svrloc) + Service Specific Multicast Address Assignment for use with the Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-svrloc-service-mcast-00.txt> (mobileip) + Mobile IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP IPCP <draft-ietf-mobileip-pppconf-00.txt> (cat) + Public Key Utilizing Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP) <draft-ietf-cat-pktapp-00.txt> (none) + Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field <draft-moore-mime-cdisp-00.txt> (none) + An Extension to the Web Robots Control Method for supporting Mobile Agents <draft-giudici-web-robots-cntrl-00.txt> (mboned) + Guidelines for Rate Limits on the MBONE <draft-ietf-mboned-limit-rate-guide-00.txt> (none) + Light-weight Flow Admission Protocol Specification Version 1.0 <draft-rfced-info-amsden-00.txt> (none) + BOOTP and DHCP on Mixed Media Link-Layer Networks <draft-martel-bootp-mixedlinklayers-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 (none) + Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM <draft-farinacci-intralis-multicast-00.txt> (mixer) + Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER address mapping <draft-ietf-mixer-directory-00.txt> (ipngwg) + GSE - An Alternate Addressing Architecture for IPv6 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-gseaddr-00.txt> (mboned) + PIM Multicast Border Router (PMBR) specification for connecting PIM-SM domains to a DVMRP Backbone <draft-ietf-mboned-pmbr-spec-00.txt, .ps> (asid) + Selecting a server from among many replicas <draft-ietf-asid-replica-selection-00.txt> (asid) + LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results Manipulation <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-simplepaged-00.txt> (none) + Fine-Grained Transclusion in the Hypertext Markup Language <draft-pam-html-fine-trans-00.txt> (tcplw) + TCP Extensions for High Performance <draft-ietf-tcplw-high-performance-00.txt> (none) + UUIDs and GUIDs <draft-leach-uuids-guids-00.txt> (none) + E-mail addressing: the worst of all worlds? <draft-klyne-addressing-00.txt> (rmonmib) + Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity and Switched Networks <draft-ietf-rmonmib-hcrmon-00.txt> (none) + DHCP Option for Proxy Client Configuration File <draft-kwan-proxy-client-conf-00.txt> (none) + Requirements for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web <draft-slein-www-dist-author-00.txt> (none) + GSE+ - An Alternate Addressing Architecture to GSE <draft-durand-gse+-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 7. 14 RFCs were published during this period RFC2000 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC2076 I (mailext) Common Internet Message Headers RFC2085 PS (ipsec) HMAC-MD5 IP Authentication with Replay Prevention RFC2090 E (none) TFTP Multicast Option RFC2098 I (none) Toshiba's Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview RFC2101 I (none) IPv4 Address Behaviour Today RFC2102 I (nimrod) Multicast Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches RFC2103 I (nimrod) Mobility Support for Nimrod : Challenges and Solution Approaches RFC2104 I (ipsec) HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication RFC2105 I (none) Cisco Systems' Tag Switching Architecture Overview RFC2107 I (none) Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol - ATMP RFC2108 PS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices using SMIv2 RFC2109 PS (http) HTTP State Management Mechanism RFC2113 PS (none) IP Router Alert Option IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES InterNIC statistics from February follows: Current Status February: Email: 257,969 Phone: 38,318 Gopher connections: 6579 retrievals: 20,871 WAIS connections: 27,616 retrievals: 14,222 FTP connections: 90,760 retrievals: 178,580 Telnet: 54,174 Http: not available Whois Queries: 13,148,824 Total Registrations: 90,885 Rich Landers <richl@internic.net> INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES We recently built a new search engine which is in service on our production machines. WebFinder is designed to help users who are looking for a particular organization on the web. It looks for the organization's web servers rather than specific web pages. It uses the same seed database that we maintain for Netfind. To try WebFinder, look at: http://ds.internic.net/ds/webfinder/WebFinder.html In early February one of our servers (ds2.internic.net) was moved from Columbus, Ohio to Middletown, Virginia. The machine is back up and running with the same name and services but a new IP address. IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net> THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ---------------------- The US Domain has an online registration form available at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. The policy regarding the charges for the domain name passed on during delegation is that the administrator of the locality has to notify one year in advance before charging for those domains. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2777 PHONE 475 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3252 DELEGATIONS 138 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 920 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 2194 --------------------------- Total 3252 IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES include referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 38 34 47 39 25 25 9 5 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== FED.US. Federal Governments, US. LOCALITIES ========== WMAT.NSN.US. KIRTLAND.OH.US. DAVIE.NC.US. FRANKLIN.NH.US. GORHAM.ME.US. CAPE-ELIZEBETH.ME.US. LISBON.ME.US. LIMESTONE.ME.US. GARDINER.ME.US. TOPSHAM.ME.US. FAIRFIELD.ME.US. RUMFORD.ME.US. PHOENIX.OR.US. BROWNFIELD.TX.US. LEVELLAND.TX.US. LITTLEFIELD.TX.US. INTERLAKEN.NY.US. LODI.NY.US. MECKLENBURG.NY.US. ROMULUS.NY.US. WATERLOO.NY.US. WATKINS-GLEN.NY.US. HECTOR.NY.US. SENECA-FALLS.NY.US. OVID.NY.US. ULYSSES.NY.US. COVERT.NY.US. STEPHENS.OK.US. DOUGLAS.WI.US. LINCOLN.LA.US. LEE.NC.US. GILA.AZ.US. KENAI-PENINSULA.AK.US. ROUTT.CO.US. CEDAREDGE.CO.US. RIFLE.CO.US. YORKVILLE.IL.US. OSWEGO.IL.US. ROCK-FALLS.IL.US. LONOKE.AR.US. LAWRENCEBURG.IN.US. CASWELL-BEACH.NC.US. YAUPON-BEACH.NC.US. ALBERTA.VA.US. BOYDTON.VA.US. BRACEY.VA.US. IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 BRUNSWICK.VA.US. CHARLOTTE.VA.US. CHASE-CITY.VA.US. CLARKSVILLE.VA.US. CREWE.VA.US. GREENSVILLE.VA.US. HALIFAX.VA.US. LAWRENCEVILLE.VA.US. LUNENBURG.VA.US. MECKLENBURG.NY.US. NOTTOWAY.VA.US. SOUTHSIDE.VA.US. HEARD.GA.US. HARRIS.GA.US. MERIWETHER.GA.US. TOMBSTONE.AZ.US. COFFEE.AL.US. COFFEE.TN.US. BARRON.WI.US. PREBLE.OH.US. WEBSTER.LA.US. DEARBORN.IN.US. DUNDEE.IL.US. LAURENS.GA.US. BALDWIN.GA.US. SWEETWATER.WY.US. WISE.VA.US. MERCER.OH.US. VANCE.NC.US. LOWER-PAXTON.PA.US. FULTON.OH.US. PEARL-RIVER.MS.US. BINGHAM.ID.US. WEBSTER.IA.US. DUPLIN.NC.US. SANILAC.MI.US. ELLISVILLE.AL.US. ERIE.OH.US. MONROE.FL.US. HILLSBOROUGH.FL.US. SIGNAL-HILL.CA.US. EPPING.NH.US. ASPEN.CO.US. BAILEY.CO.US. MASON.WA.US. FRANKLIN.WA.US. SOUTHBOROUGH.MA.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== CASTANET.GEN.CA.US. CI.JACKSON.WY.US. CO.PATRICK.VA.US. NID.DST.CA.US. BERGIN.BOONE.NC.US. FEML.LIB.OK.US. WEALTHYPARKBAPTIST.GEN.MI.US. CI.HOLBROOK.AZ.US. CI.NORTHVILLE.MI.US. NSCS.GUEMES.WA.US. CI.FUQUAY-VARINA.NC.US. ELLIS.CENTRE.AL.US. CI.NEWTON.NC.US. YEARROM.HAZEL-GREEN.AL.US. CI.SMITHVILLE.TX.US. SLOAPCD.DST.CA.US. CO.CANADIAN.OK.US. EUFAULA.LIB.OK.US. CI.WILBER.NE.US. CI.SILVER-CREEK.NE.US. CI.OHIOWA.NE.US. CI.GORDON.NE.US. CI.ELGIN.NE.US. CI.PLATTSBURGH.NY.US. AUGUSTA-RICHMOND.COG.GA.US. KANZA.CO.ANMDERSON.KS.US. WINDOW.SANDERSON.TX.US. LATTA.K12.OK.US. NOCROP.TEC.CA.US. CI.SOUTHLAKE.TX.US. LARPD.DST.CA.US. EWC.CC.WY.US. CUMBERLAND.TEC.NJ.US. CCTS.TEC.NJ.US. VICISCHOOLS.K12.OK.US. MID-DEL.K12.OK.US. IMAGE.TALKEETNA.AK.US. PASADENA.LIB.CA.US. CODE.TROY.SC.US. CI.CLARKSON.NE.US. IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 CI.FAIRMONT.NE.US. CCCSAW.DST.CA.US. SJPL.LIB.CA.US. SPS.K12.OK.US. JASMINEMORAN.MUS.OK.US. TWP.SOUTH-BRUNSWICK.NJ.US. ----------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes February 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Merit is seeking beta testers for Trawhoisd (Trivial rawhoisd), the distributed version of the Routing Arbiter Database whois server. Trawhoisd allows users to cache any or all of the databases in the Internet Routing Registry on local workstations, giving users complete, local administrative control of their own registry. Users can select a subset of the registries to be locally cached--only AS objects, Route objects, or Maintainer objects, for example. This kind of flexibility brings considerable savings in cache storage requirements--a major concern for users maintaining their own copies of the IRR. The streamlined Trawhoisd code is easy to install, and runs under SunOS, Solaris, and Digital Unix. If you would like to test the new code, please send e-mail to db- admin@radb.ra.net. Route Server Next Generation (RSng) operations are now up and running at the Digital Internet Exchange, Digital's exchange point in Palo Alto CA. Two DEC Alphas running Digital Unix are in production at the site. RSng services went into production at the MAE-East interconnection point in January. By taking over the task of processing routing updates for ISP routers, the Route Servers eliminate the need to establish separate peering sessions with other routers at each exchange point. The Route Servers boost throughput for ISP routers and allow faster delivery of customers' data through the Internet. IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 The Route Servers were developed under the NSF-supported Routing Arbiter project, a partnership between Merit and the USC Information Sciences Institute. RSng, a commercial follow-on activity, makes it possible for exchange point operators to purchase Route Server services from Merit. For more information, see: http://www.rsng.net Intensive IPv6 development work continues for Merit's Multi- Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT). MRT now provides IPv6 supports for: - Solaris IPv6 Release 5 (Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1) - Linux IPv6 (2.1.24 and later) - INRIA IPv6 (FreeBSD 2.1 and 2.1.5) Non-IPv6-compliant versions of MRT run under: - Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1 - SunOS 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 - Linux 2.0 and later - FreeBSD 2.1 and 2.1.5 - NetBSD 1.1 and 1.2 MRT's RIPng implementation now interoperates with DEC, Cisco, and Bay Networks routers over the 6bone. In addition, MRT's BGP implementation has been extended to support the COMMUNITIES attribute. The current MRT development platforms are a four- processor SPARCstation 20 running Solaris IPv6 Release 5 on Solaris 2.5.1 with POSIX threads support, and Intel Pentium Pro and 486DX systems running INRIA IPv6 on FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Linux IPv6 2.1.24. MRT developers Craig Labovitz and Masaki Hirabaru would like to thank their colleagues in Japan, Portugal, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US for their many contributions, including bug fixes, patches, and Unix ports. For more information about MRT, see: http://www.merit.edu/~mrt/ IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 PacBell hosted the ninth North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in San Francisco on February 10-11. Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the meeting; they are available through Merit's Web site (http://www.nanog.org). Bill Norton of Merit moderated the meeting, which featured the following presentations and BOFs: >Common Metrics for K. Claffy, NLANR, moderator Exchange Points >TCP Response Under Loss Curtis Villamizar, ANS Conditions >InterNIC Update Mark Kosters and Kim Hubbard, InterNIC >Congestion in Network Switches Stephen Polit, Digital >End-to-End TCP Packet Vern Paxson, Lawrence Berkeley Dynamics Lab >Internet II: Pragmatic Steve Corbato, Univ. of Views from Higher Education Washington Dave Meyer, Univ. of Oregon >Report on Inter-Provider Randy Bush, WNA Cooperation >Introducing Trawhoisd Xin Liu, Merit >AS Object Editor WeeSan Lee, ISI >Using the IRR to Assist Curtis Villamizar, ANS With Aggregation >Consideration of Policy: Laura Cunningham, MCI What's Needed and Can RSVP Help? >RA Update Bill Norton, Merit Bill Manning, ISI >Internet Routing Craig Labovitz, Merit Instability >Squid Update Duane Wessels, NLANR IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 >Non-BGP Multihoming for Web Paul Vixie, CIX Sites >What can be Done About Curtis Villamizar, ANS HTTP and Small TCP Flows? >How to be a Good MBone Bill Fenner, Xerox PARC Neighbor >Controlling Network Abuse Paul Vixie, CIX Using BGP-4 --------- BOFS: TRACK 1 >Exchange Point Engineering Bill Manning, ISI Issues >Flow Switching Analysis John Hawkinson, BBN Planet Daniel McRobb, ANS BOFs: TRACK 2 >Route Server Peering at the Jake Khuon and IXPs: Procedures, Policy, Abha Ahuja, Merit and Connectivity >MLPAs: All for One, One for Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing All House Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 IANA REPORT ----------- Here are IANA's assignments for February: Cable Address Blocks 1 Country Codes 3 INT TLDs 2 Media Types 18 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 1 Multicast Addresses: Blocks 4 Point-to-Point Protocol Assignments 3 Port Assignments 21 SMI Numbers 1 Josh Elliott <iana@iana.org> RFC-EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of February, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of | month 0 13 5 21 | 39 | New 12 0 0 0 | 12 Processed 3 1 1 17 | 22 ------------------------------------------------------------------ End of month 9 12 4 4 | 29 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Mary Kennedy <rfc-ed@isi.edu> IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 CALENDAR -------- Last update 04/01/97 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: <meeting-planning@ietf.org> Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- <http://www.ietf.org/home.html> Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1997 ----------- Apr. 2-3 Europia '97 Edinburgh, Scotland Apr. 7-10 EMA'97 Philadelphia, PA Apr. 7-11 38th IETF (host by Fed. Exp) Memphis, TN Apr. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Brocade) Palm Springs, CA Apr. 7-11 IEEE INFOCOM '97 Kobe, Japan Apr. 7-12 W3C "Accessibility" 6th Int'l Santa Clara, CA IMR Editor [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 Apr. 9-11 ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on Autonmous Decentralized Sys. Berlin, Germany Apr. 21-22 1st European Conf on Internet Voting and Rating Vienna, Austria Apr. 22-24 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Apr. 27-May 2 ATM Forum Chicago, IL Apr. 28-May 2 HPN'97 (High Performance Net) White Plains, NY May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 May 5-9 NATO Workshop Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-15 8th JENC8 Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-16 IFIP/IEEE San Diego, CA May 15-16 TERENA General Assembly Edinburgh, Scotland May 19-21 7th Int'l Workshop on Ntwk & Oper for Digital Audio & Video St. Louis, MO May 21-23 RIPE 27 Dublin May 27-29 IS&N '97 4th Int'l Conf. on Intelligence in Services & Networks Como, Italy May 28-30 ETW'97 IEEE Europen Test Wrkshop Cagliari,Italy May 28-30 Web Developer '97 Chicago, IL Jun. 2-6 IEEE Multimedia Systems '97 Ottawa, CANADA Jun. 3-5 Internet World Mexico '97 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 (joint with ENM) Montreal, CANADA Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jun. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (host by Boeing) Seattle, WA Jun. 16-18 EEMA'97 Netherlands Jun. 23-25 4th IEEE Wrkshp on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication Systems (HPCS'97) Sani Beach, Greece Jun. 24-27 INET '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jul. 14-17 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Jul. 17-19 VTIC-97 San Jose CA Jul. 20-25 ATM Forum Montreal, CANADA Jul. 24-25 DMS '97 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (host by Hitachi) Honolulu, HI Aug. 11-15 39th IETF (host by German ISOC) Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Aug. 13-15 IEEE 25th Annual Int'l Computer Software and Application Conference Washington, DC Sep 2-5 1997 Int'l Conference Intelligent Networks and Intelligence in Networks Paris, France Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland Sep. 10-12 IDMS '97 w/ ACM SIGMM, GMD, IEEE Darmstadt, Germany IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Sep. 21-26 ATM Forum Paris, France Sep. 26-30 3rd ACM/IEEE on Mobile Computing & Networking 1997 (MobiCom'97) Budapest, Hungary Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 (host by FSI) Tucson, AZ Oct. 7-10 COMDEX Internet '97 and Object World '97 Internet Forum Europe (IFE) & Object World Frankfurt (OWF) Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 23-25 ETSI Nice, France Nov. 3-5 Int'l Test Conference 1997 Sheraton Washington Hotel Washington, DC Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Nov. 3-7 SPIE Int'l Symposium Voice, Video & Data Communications Conf. on Performance & Control of Network System - Special Session on Switching & Traffic Mgmt in High Speed Networks Dallas, TX Nov. 3-7 2nd French/Brazilian Symposium on Distributed System Architectures: Telecommunication Multimedia Architectures Ceara, Brazil Nov. 8-14 ACM MULTIMEDIA '97 Seattle, WA Nov. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary Queen Elizabeth, Montreal Nov. 19-21 ICCC'97 Cannes, France Nov. 24-26 PROMSMmNet '97 Multimedia Networking Santiago, Chile Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-3 30th IEEE/ACM Int'l Symposium on Microarchitecture RTC, NC Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (tentative) Washington, DC Host by NewBridge Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) 1998 ----------- Jan 6-8 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum TBA Feb 7-9 DCI'S Internet Expo San Jose, CA Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA Mar. 29-Apr 2 IEEE INFOCOM '98 - Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum TBA Apr 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jun 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum TBA Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum TBA Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov. 30-Dec 4 ATM Forum TBA Dec. 6-11 43rd IETF Adelaide, Australia Host: Univ. of Adelaide 1999 ----- Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland IMR Editor [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 TERENA CALENDAR --------------- This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail <secretariat@terena.nl>. ********************************************************************** NAME / DATE LOCATION TERENA General Assembly GA7 15-16 May Edinburgh TERENA Technical Committee 22 January Amsterdam TERENA Executive Committee 4 February Amsterdam JENC8 Programme Committee 12 February Amsterdam Conference Committee 17 January Amsterdam TF-CACHE -------- 23 January Amsterdam EEMA ---- Spring Regional Conference and Exhibition 25-26 February Berlin ENPG ---- 9-10 January Amsterdam IMR Editor [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 European Commission ------------------- Educational Multimedia Information Day 10 January Brussels ICT Partnership - General Meeting 30 January Brussels EWOS ---- EWOS Assembly 2, 25-26 February Brussels EWOS Assembly 3, 13-14 May " EWOS Assembly 4, 16-17 September " EWOS Assembly 5, 2-3 December " Workshops 36: 20-24 January Brussels 37: 7-11 April " 38: 16-20 June " 39: 27-31 October " IETF ---- 38, 7-11 April Memphis, Tenn. 39, 11-15 August Munich, Germany ISOC ---- Symposium 10-11 February San Diego, CA NATO ---- Workshop 5-9 May Edinburgh RIPE ---- RIPE 26 20-22 January Amsterdam RIPE27 21-23 May Dublin IMR Editor [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference "Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape" 12-15 May Edinburgh, Scotland This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele-communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications, and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is currently being developed Subject Areas: * Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering * User Support, Training and Education * Security and Management Issues * Information Systems and Distributed Applications * Economic and Political Issues For information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 email: <jenc8-sec@terena.nl> http://www.terena.nl/jenc8 or JENC8 Local Organization c/o Concorde Services Ltd Unit 5, SECC Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland email: <jenc8@ed.ac.uk> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMR Editor [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 OTHER CONFERENCES The Arab World and the Information Society - Regional Symposium --------------------------------------------------------------- 5-9 May Tunis, Tunisia Organized by ITU and UNESCO, in cooperation with the government of Tunisia and in the framework of RAITNET (Regional Arab Information Technology Network) For information see www site: http://www.irsit.rnrt.tn/symposium and/or email <symposium@irsit.rnrt.tn IS&N '97 4th International Conference on Intelligence in Services & Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------- 27-29 May Como, Italy Title: "Technology for Co-operative Competition". The conference will provide a forum for the discussion of issues and the exchange of outstanding technical results related to the engineering of advanced communication services and experiments on their use. Sponsored by the European Commission and Italtel, and supported by ACTS projects in IS&N domain. Further information is available on WWW: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/SONAH/Acts/domain5 ECOOP'97 11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ------------------------------------------------------- 9-13 June University of Jyv=E4skyl=E4, Jyv=E4skyl=E4, Finland or information see www page: http://www.trese.cs.utwente.nl/ecoop97 or http://www.ecoop97.jyu.fi EEMA'97 - Annual Conference and Exhibition Electronic Commerce and Messaging in Europe, "The Premier European Forum for Advanced Business" ------------------------------------------------- 16-18 June Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands Issues of the conference will be: Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services; Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European Initiatives; Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology & Management Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots. For information contact WWW: http://www.eema.org/ IMR Editor [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 International Distributed Conference on Network Interoperability ---------------------------------------------------------------- 16-18 June Madeira Organized by ACTS project GINA and sponsored by the European commission, this conference is open for all involved in networking solutions for information society. Paper submission by 28 February Contact for information and submissions email <rao@telscom.ch Local organizer email <rp@cet.pt INET'97 - Workshop ------------------ 15-21 June Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Focus of the workshop will be upon assisting countries that are either not yet connected to the Internet or are in the process of developing and enhancing an initial national Internet. For copy of announcement e-mail <workshop-apply@isoc.org> Apply for admission by 7 February 1997 to e-mail <workshop-application@isoc.org> INET'97 7th Annual Internet Society Conference --------------------------------------- 24-27 June Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education, commerce and societies throughout the world. -information on INET97, the K-12 workshop, the Tutorials, and the associated Developing Countries Workshop, along with an abstract submission form, can be found on the ISOC web page: http://isoc.org/inet or, for information via e-mail: - for details of submission procedure email <inet-program-interest@isoc.org> - for other information email <inet97@isoc.org> IMR Editor [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report February 1997 FIRST - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams 9th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Workshop ------------------------------------------------------- 23-27 June Marriott Hotel, Bristol, England This annual workshop is part of FIRST's ongoing program of education and raising awareness for its members and others. Paper submission deadline 15 January For information see: http://www.first.org/ FMOODS'97 - Second IFIP Interrnational Workshop on Formal Methods for Open-based Distributed Systems ---------------------------------------------------- 21-23 July Canterbury, United Kingdom Objective is to provide an integrated forum for the presentation of research in several related fields. Paper submission deadline 14 January 1997 For all information: e-mail <fmoods97-request@uck.ac.uk> or web page: http://alethea.u,c.ac.uk/Dept/Computing/Research/NDS/FMOODS/ IDMS'97 European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services --------------------------------------------------------------- 10-12 September Darmstadt, Germany In cooperation with ACM SIGM, Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, GMD, IEEE Computer Society and VDE ITG. The purpose of this 4th workshop is to provide a forum for the presentation, exploration and discussion of technologies and their advancements in the broad field of interactive distributed multimedia systems. Paper submission due 1 March 1997 For additional information se www: http://www.th-darmstadt.de/idms97 IMR Editor [Page 30]
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