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May 1996


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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 12
       US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
     MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16

  CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
    TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24


































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INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
---------------------------
     The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp
     access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB
     World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/.

     Brian Carpenter IAB Chair

INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------


     IETF Monthly Report for May, 1996

     1. Let me remind everyone that the next IETF meeting will be in
     Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. Logistic
     information has already been sent to the IETF announcement list and
     is, of course, available from the IETF Web Page and the IETF Shadow
     directories.

     Note that this is the same date as INET '96! While not a "joint"
     meeting per se, both meetings will be held in the Montreal
     Convention Center, and the IETF and INET'96 will permit attendees
     to attend each others' sessions (assuming space is available). See
     the IETF or ISOC Web Pages for more information.

     Closing out the year, the IETF will be returning to San Jose,
     California on December 9-13, 1996. Our local host for the San Jose
     meeting is Cisco Systems. We begin 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee where
     Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April
     7-11, 1997. We are currently working on returning to Europe in
     August, 1997.

     Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be
     sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on
     future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg-
     sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories.  This
     information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web.
     The URL is:

                      http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
                           or http://www.ietf.org

     2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly
     available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files
     are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory.




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     The following IESG minutes have been added:

           April 25, 1996 (iesg.96-04-25)
           May 9, 1996 (iesg.96-05-09)

     3. The IESG approved or recommended the following eight Protocol
        Actions during the month of May, 1996:

        o  Serial Number Arithmetic be published as a Proposed Standard.

        o  Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 be published as a
           Proposed Standard.

        o  An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format be published
           as a Proposed Standard.

        o  A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet
           Networks be published as a Proposed Standard.

        o  Internet Users' Glossary be published as an Informational
           RFC.

        o  A Proposed Extension to HTML: Client-Side Image Maps be
           published as an Informational RFC.

        o  Autonomous System Confederations for BGP be published as an
           Experimental Protocol.

        o  BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP be
           published as an Experimental Protocol.


     4. The IESG issued 17 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
     May, 1996:

        o  IP and ARP on HIPPI <RFC1374> for consideration as a Draft
           Standard.

        o  The Internet Standards Process (v3): a proposed revision of
           part of RFC 1602 <draft-ietf-poised95-std-proc-3-06> for
           consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC.

        o  The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process
           <draft-ietf-poised95-ietf-orgs-02> for consideration as a
           Best Current Practices RFC.

        o  IETF-ISOC relationship <draft-ietf-poised95-isoc-03> for
           consideration as an Informational RFC.



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        o  IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process:
           Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees
           <draft-ietf-poised95-nomcom-05> for consideration as a Best
           Current Practices RFC.

        o  The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail
           Extensions <draft-nelson-model-mail-ext-03> for consideration
           as a Proposed Standard.

        o  Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type
           <draft-ietf-mailext-acc-url-01> for consideration as a
           Proposed Standard.

        o  Triggered Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits
           <draft-ietf-rip-trigger-rip-02> for consideration as a
           Proposed Standard.

        o  Protocol Analysis for Triggered RIP
           <draft-ietf-rip-trigger-analysis-00> for consideration as an
           Informational RFC.

        o  Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC
           <draft-ietf-snanau-appcmib-06> for consideration as a
           Proposed Standard.

        o  IP Version 6 over PPP <draft-ietf-ipngwg-pppext-ipv6cp-03>
           for consideration as a Proposed Standard.

        o  ISDN Management Information Base
           <draft-ietf-isdnmib-snmp-isdn-mib-06> for consideration as
           a Proposed Standard.

        o  Dial Control Management Information Base
           <draft-ietf-isdnmib-dial-control-04> for consideration as a
           Proposed Standard.

        o  BGP communities attribute <draft-ietf-idr-communities-00>
           for consideration as a Proposed Standard.

        o  An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home
           Routing <draft-ietf-idr-community-usage-00> for consideration
           as an Informational RFC.

        o  Generic Security Service Application Program Interface,
           Version 2 <draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-06> for consideration as a
           Proposed Standard.





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        o  Standard Electronic Mail Addresses For Internet Operations
           <draft-vixie-ops-stdaddr-01> for consideration as a Best
           Current Practices RFC.

     5. Four Working Groups were created during this period:

           Distributed Management (disman)
           Transport Layer Security (tls)
           Integrated Services over Specific Link Layers (issll)
           Internetworking Over NBMA (ion)

     and two working groups concluded (we actually combined to form the
     ion Working Group):

           IP Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ipatm)
           Routing over Large Clouds (rolc)

     6. A total of XX Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
     of May, 1996:

                 (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )

      (iplpdn)   o  Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs
                    <draft-ietf-iplpdn-frmib-dte-07.txt>
      (pppext)   o  PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol
                    <draft-ietf-pppext-stacker-07.txt>
      (rsvp)     o  Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1
                    Functional Specification
                    <draft-ietf-rsvp-spec-12.txt, .ps>
      (trainmat) o  Catalogue of Network Training Materials
                    <draft-ietf-trainmat-catalogue-06.txt>
      (dhc)      o  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
                    <draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-07.txt>
      (cat)      o  Generic Security Service Application Program
                    Interface, Version 2 <draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-06.txt>
      (mailext)  o  Common Internet Message Headers
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-mail-attributes-04.txt>
      (atommib)  o  Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM
                    Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm2-06.txt>
      (cidrd)    o  Classless in-addr.arpa delegation
                    <draft-ietf-cidrd-classless-inaddr-01.txt>
      (dhc)      o  DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions
                    <draft-ietf-dhc-options-1533update-04.txt>
      (rmonmib)  o  Remote Network Monitoring Management Information
                    Base version 2
                    <draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonmib-v2-02.txt>
      (entmib)   o  Entity MIB <draft-ietf-entmib-entmib-05.txt>




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      (mixer)    o  MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping
                    between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME
                    <draft-kille-mixer-rfc1327bis-03.txt>
      (mixer)    o  Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message
                    Bodies <draft-ietf-mixer-bodymap-05.txt>
      (mobileip) o  IP Encapsulation within IP
                    <draft-ietf-mobileip-ip4inip4-02.txt>
      (radius)   o  RADIUS Accounting
                    <draft-ietf-radius-accounting-03.txt>
      (radius)   o  Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
                    <draft-ietf-radius-radius-03.txt>
      (none)     o  Security Encapsulation of SNMP
                    <draft-alten-snmpv2-sec-encap-02.txt>
      (html)     o  Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup
                    Language <draft-ietf-html-i18n-04.txt>
      (ipngwg)   o  A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over
                    FDDI Networks <draft-ietf-ipngwg-fddi-ntwrks-04.txt>
      (ipngwg)   o  OSI NSAPs and IPv6
                    <draft-ietf-ipngwg-nsap-ipv6-01.txt>
      (idmr)     o  Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM):
                    Protocol Specification
                    <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-sm-spec-02.txt, .ps>
      (poised95) o  IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall
                    Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall
                    Committees <draft-ietf-poised95-nomcom-05.txt>
      (receipt)  o  An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition
                    Notifications <draft-ietf-receipt-mdn-01.txt>
      (idr)      o  Operational Experience with the BGP-4 protocol
                    <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-op-experience-02.txt>
      (idr)      o  BGP-4 Requirement Satisfaction Report
                    <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-stdreport1-02.txt>
      (drums)    o  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
                    <draft-ietf-drums-smtpupd-02.txt>
      (ipngwg)   o  Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
                    <draft-ietf-ipngwg-pmtuv6-03.txt>
      (rmonmib)  o  Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers
                    <draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonprot-02.txt>
      (poised95) o  The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards
                    Process <draft-ietf-poised95-ietf-orgs-02.txt>
      (none)     +  Some Thoughts on the Importance of Modesty and
                    Decorum and the Need for an IETF Code of Conduct
                    <draft-odell-code-of-conduct-00.txt>
      (http)     o  Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
                    <draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-03.txt>
      (hubmib)   o  Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3
                    Repeater Devices
                    <draft-ietf-hubmib-repeater-dev-02.txt>




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      (mobileip) o  Applicability Statement for IP Mobility Support
                    <draft-ietf-mobileip-appl-02.txt>
      (ipngwg)   o  IP Version 6 over PPP
                    <draft-ietf-ipngwg-pppext-ipv6cp-03.txt>
      (poised95) o  IETF-ISOC relationship
                    <draft-ietf-poised95-isoc-03.txt>
      (applmib)  o  Definitions of Managed Objects for Applications
                    <draft-ietf-applmib-sysapplmib-02.txt>
      (ipngwg)   o  Identifying IPv6 Interfaces in Link-Local Addresses
                    <draft-ietf-ipngwg-iid-02.txt>
      (ipsec)    o  The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol
                    <draft-ietf-ipsec-oakley-01.txt>
      (dnsind)   o  Clarifications to the DNS Specification
                    <draft-ietf-dnsind-clarify-01.txt>
      (userglos) o  Internet Users' Glossary
                    <draft-ietf-userglos-glossary2-01.txt>
      (none)     o  MIME with the Message Security Protocol
                    <draft-housley-msp-mime-01.txt>
      (find)     o  The Common Indexing Protocol
                    <draft-ietf-find-cip-01.txt>
      (none)     o  Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for ATM
                    Networks <draft-bierman-rmon-atmrmon-01.txt>
      (none)     o  PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification
                    Version 0.97 <draft-boutell-png-spec-02.txt, .ps>
      (none)     o  ASCII Encoding for Domain Names
                    <draft-andrews-dns-ascii-02.txt>
      (none)     o  Operational Criteria for Root Name Servers
                    <draft-manning-dnssvr-criteria-02.txt>
      (none)     +  The ESP Triple DES Transform
                    <draft-simpson-esp-des3-x-00.txt>
      (none)     +  IP Authentication using Keyed SHA1 with Data Padding
                    <draft-simpson-ah-sha-kdp-00.txt>
      (mhtml)    +  Sending HTML in E-mail
                    <draft-ietf-mhtml-info-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Distributed Component Object Model Protocol --
                    DCOM/1.0 <draft-brown-dcom-v1-spec-00.txt>
      (none)     +  New Registries and the Delegation of International
                    Top Level Domains
                    <draft-postel-iana-itld-admin-00.txt>
      (none)     o  Standard Electronic Mail Addresses For Internet
                    Operations <draft-vixie-ops-stdaddr-01.txt>
      (none)     +  Another ATM Signaling Protocol for IP (IP-SVC)
                    <draft-fujikawa-ipsvc-00.txt>
      (ids)      +  Best Current Practice for the Internet White Pages
                    Service <draft-ietf-ids-ds-bcp-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Public-Key Based Ticket Granting Service in Kerberos
                    <draft-sirbu-kerb-ext-00.txt>




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      (rtfm)     +  Traffic Flow Measurement: Experiences with NeTraMet
                    <draft-ietf-rtfm-acct-experiences-00.txt>
      (mhtml)    +  The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
                    <draft-ietf-mhtml-related-00.txt>
      (asid)     +  The String Representation of Standard Attribute
                    Syntaxes <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv2-attributes-00.txt>
      (asid)     +  Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
                    <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv2-protocol-00.txt>
      (pppext)   +  PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol
                    <draft-ietf-pppext-stac-00.txt>
      (none)     +  WInter (Web Internationalization & Multilinguism)
                    <draft-benitez-winter-cultures-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ETFTP)
                    <draft-rfced-exp-polites-00.txt>
      (none)     +  GPS-Based Addressing and Routing
                    <draft-rfced-exp-navas-00.txt>
      (none)     +  A Clarification of the STATUS Clause in SNMP MIB
                    Modules <draft-rfced-info-perkins-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol - ATMP
                    <draft-rfced-info-hamzeh-00.txt>
      (asid)     +  An Application/Directory MIME Content-Type
                    Electronic Business Card Profile
                    <draft-ietf-asid-mime-vcard-00.txt>
      (none)     +  ST FlowSpec for the Controlled-Load Service
                    <draft-suzuki-stfs-ctrl-load-svc-00.txt>
      (none)     +  IP Clustering for Load Balancing and Fault
                    Resilience <draft-rfced-info-chu-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Rules for the IP4.INT domain
                    <draft-manning-ip4.int-roe-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Metrics for Internet settlements
                    <draft-carpenter-metrics-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Reverse Name Lookups of Encapsulated IPv4 Addresses
                    in IPv6 <draft-vixie-ipng-ipv4ptr-00.txt>
      (dnsind)   +  Deferred Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System
                    (DNS DEFUPD) <draft-ietf-dnsind-defupd-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific
                    Hewlett-Packard Patents In Conjunction With the
                    Internet Engineering Task Force's Internet-Standard
                    Network Management Framework
                    <draft-mcanally-netmgt-frmwk-rights-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Using the MARS model in non-ATM NBMA networks.
                    <draft-armitage-ion-mars-nbma-00.txt>









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     7. There were 18 RFC's published during the month of May, 1996:

        RFC     St   WG        Title
        ------- --  --------   -------------------------------------
        RFC1937 I   (rolc)     "Local/Remote" Forwarding Decision in
                               Switched Data Link Subnetworks
        RFC1938 PS  (otp)      A One-Time Password System
        RFC1939 S   (none)     Post Office Protocol - Version 3
        RFC1940 I   (sdr)      Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and
                               Forwarding Specification (Version 1).
        RFC1941 I   (isn)      Frequently Asked Questions for Schools
        RFC1942 E   (html)     HTML Tables
        RFC1943 I   (ids)      Building an X.500 Directory Service in
                               the US
        RFC1944 I   (bmwg)     Benchmarking Methodology for Network
                               Interconnect Devices
        RFC1945 I   (http)     Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
        RFC1946 I   (none)     Native ATM Support for ST2+
        RFC1947 I   (none)     Greek Character Encoding for Electronic
                               Mail Messages
        RFC1948 I   (none)     Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks
        RFC1949 E   (idmr)     Scalable Multicast Key Distribution
        RFC1950 I   (none)     ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification
                               version 3.3
        RFC1951 I   (none)     DEFLATE Compressed Data Format
                               Specification version 1.3
        RFC1952 I   (none)     GZIP file format specification version
                               4.3
        RFC1953 I   (none)     Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol
                               Specification for IPv4 Version 1.0
        RFC1954 I   (none)     Transmission of Flow Labelled IPv4 on ATM
                               Data Links Ipsilon Version 1.0

     St(atus):  ( S) Internet Standard
                (PS) Proposed Standard
                (DS) Draft Standard
                ( B) Best Current Practice
                ( E) Experimental
                ( I) Informational


     Steve Coya <scoya@ietf.org>









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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------

INTERNIC
--------

     REGISTRATION SERVICES

                       InterNic Registration Services
                       Monthly Letter Progress Report
                     Cooperative Agreement NCR-9218742
                                May 15, 1996

     Progress Report for May 1, 1966 through May 31, 1996

     I.  Significant Events

     During May 1996, InterNIC Registration Services assigned the
     following network addresses, and registered domain names to include
     top-level country domains:

                              Assigned    Registered   Country Domain(s)

     Network Addresses           4,126

     Domain Names Registered                  48,954

     Top-level Country Domain(s)                   2     LA - Vientiane
                                                         DJ - Djibouti

     Tom Newell attended Internet World in Los Angeles to meet with
     various agencies.  He collected information for an InterNIC trade
     show plan.

     Two CuSeeMe Focus Group meetings were conducted with members of the
     Research and Education (R&E) community.

     Completed the domain name Lame Delegation Policy issues.

     Completed the "NOTIFY" program to inform registrants that their
     domain name(s) were being deactivated.

     Updated Guardian/PGP on the internal/external World Wide Web (WWW)
     sites.

     In support of Guardian, the domain, host and contact registration
     template revisions were completed.




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     Debbie Fuller was installed as the Manager of our Customer
     Complaints Research and Reports Section.

     Doug Armentrout was installed as the Domain Registration Section
     Manager.

     Voice phone lines and telephones have been installed for support
     staff to handle the increased calls to the InterNIC Receivables
     Section.  Increases are due to the distribution of the 15-day final
     domain name invoices.

     Completed and distributed the "15-Day Deactivation Notice" to over
     25,000 domain name holders.

     Completed testing the InterNIC's Receivables Section program for
     generating domain name renewal invoices.

       II.  Current Status

            E-mail    143,069     (hostmaster@internic.net)
            Postal/Fax    831    (primarily Domreg requests)
            Phone      36,036

                       Connections   Retrievals
            Gopher      72,974            158,936
            WAIS        275,315           120,461
            FTP         226,671           497,827
            Mailserv      2,512
            Telnet      384,519
            Http     10,759,438

       In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:

                         Client        Server
                        _______       _________

                      3,321,428    28,147,717

     Debbie Fuller  <Debbief@internic.net>

     INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES

     As the number of information resources available on the Internet
     continues to increase, there has also been a substantial growth in
     the search tools available to help users find the particular
     information that interests them.  In May, InterNIC Directory and
     Database Services set up an online listing of search tools
     organized by type of search.  The listings include tools that help



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     users search NetNews, tools that search for particular software on
     the net, tools that search for people by name, and various other
     search categories.

     If you are looking for something on the Internet, and you don't
     have a good idea where to start, try our web page at:

                       http://www.internic.net/tools/

     We will continually update our list as we find new tools or as old
     entries become outdated.  If you know of a tool you feel should be
     included, send us email at admin@ds.internic.net.

     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

     Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net>

     THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ======================

     Some of the processing of requests to the US Domain administrator
     is now automated.  In particular, most requests to register names
     in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the
     administrator for that locality.

     The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of
     hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain
     names (such as localities).

     A new policy has been added to the criteria for delegating domain
     names under the US Domain:

             It is the intention that the delegation of third level
            (for example, locality) domain names be wide spread to
             many registries.  It is undesirable for one person or
             organization to manage a large part of the third level
             names in any particular geographic or logical area.

             No individual or organization shall have more than 500
             delegations total in the US Domain as a whole, or more
             than 50 delegation in any particuilar second level
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     To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and
     subdomains not administered by the US Domain Registrar, get the
     file "us-domain-delegated.txt".

           URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt

     For further information about the US Domain, send a message to:
     US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page:

                      URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain

     US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
     ------------------------------------

     EMAIL/FAX             2010
     PHONE                  575
     ----------------------------
     Total Contacts        2585


     DELEGATIONS             96
     FORWARDED DELEGATIONS: 614
     OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1875
     ---------------------------
     Total                 2585

     OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: referrals to other subdomains or
     to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application
     requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
     about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name
     servers, and whois listings.

     In addition, and not listed below, another 163 localities have been
     delegated in Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine,
     New Hampshire, New Mexico and Virginia and Vermont this month.

                        MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED

     K12     CC      TEC     STATE   LIB     MUS     GEN     DST     COG
     ===================================================================
     51      35      33      47      38      23      23      9       3
     ===================================================================









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     -----------------------
     THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS
     -----------------------


     LOCALITIES
     ==========

     MERRIFIELD.VA.US                JAFFREY.NH.US
     MARSHALL.MI.US                  MORAGA.CA.US
     REDMOND.WA.US                   HAVRE.MT.US
     CUT-BANK.MT.US                  SHELBY.MT.US
     CONRAD.MT.US                    CADILLAC.MI.US
     OCEANSIDE.CA.US                 KANSAS-CITY.MO.US
     OMAHA.NE.US                     ROME.GA.US
     DOVER.NH.US                     LAWRENCE.KS.US
     GROVEPORT.OH.US                 GRANVILLE.OH.US
     HENRY.TN.US                     PARIS.TN.US
     WEAKLEY.TN.US                   MARTIN.TN.US
     FISHERS.IN.US                   MADISONVILLE.KY.US
     ROCKFORD.IL.US                  MURPHY.TX.US
     OCEAN.NJ.US                     LAKE-FORREST.IL.US
     BRANSON.MO.US                   NATCHEZ.MS.US
     HIGHLAND-PARK.IL.US             BENSENVILLE.IL.US
     YORK.NE.US                      BOGOTA.NJ.US
     G7.FED.US                       MANCHESTER.VT.US
     SAGAMORE.MA.US                  NORTH-TRURO.MA.US
     WYLIE.TX.US                     SACHSE.TX.US
     EAGLE.CO.US                     SHELBY.TN.US
     WATERTOWN.MI.US                 DYERSBURG.TN.US
     DYER.TN.US


     OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH
     --------------------------------------


     CI.BELMONT.CA.US                CI.MODESTO.CA.US
     SCFL.LIB.CA.US                  CI.CULVER-CITY.CA.US
     SEARKTC.TEC.AR.US               CO.NEW-HANOVER.NC.US
     WWW.NIAGARA-FALLS.NY.US         WWW.JAMESTOWN.NY.US
     PCTI.TEC.NJ.US                  CC.ARLINGTON.TX.US
     CI.BRISBANE.CA.US               NASHUA.LIB.NH.US
     FRENCH.NORMAN.OK.US             HRSD.DST.VA.US
     STUART-HALL.STAUNTON.VA.US      CO.ROCK.NE.US
     CI.SANTA-ANA.CA.US              CI.LINCOLNWOOD.IL.US
     CI.MILLBRAE.CA.US               WWW.CHAUTAUQUA.NY.US
     CO.CAYUGA.NY.US                 CI.GARDENA.CA.US



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     CI.ALBANY.CA.US                 CI.OJAI.CA.US
     MAIL.STUTTGART.AR.US            BARTHEL-MEMORIAL.LIB.MA.US
     CI.WAKEFIELD.NE.US              CI.CONCORD.NH.US
     CI.TEXAS-CITY.TX.US             PWPLS.LIB.VA.US
     NAVASGRP.DUBLIN.CA.US           CI.WOODSIDE.CA.US
     RCI.BRENTWOOD.TN.US             CHEXTOX.BRENTWOOD.TN.US
     WWW.AGENT99.RUMSON.NJ.US        CI.DEARBORN-HEIGHTS.MI.US
     CI.CLAYTON.MO.US                CO.OSWEGO.NY.US
     CHM.CC.CT.US                    CI.MTNVIEW.CA.US
     WORLDCOMM.ALEXANDER.NC.US       BOOKS.ALEXANDER.NC.US
     VIRTUAL.MOAB.UT.US              POLICE.CI.PITTSBURG.CA.US
     CHAMBER.RICE-LAKE.WI.US         ALL.NIAGARA-FALLS.NY.US
     ALL.JAMESTOWN.NY.US             ALL.KINGSTON.NY.US
     CI.SUMNER.WA.US

     -----------------------------------------------------------

     URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/

     Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU)

     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING- May
-------------------------------

     This report summarizes May 1996 activities of Merit's Internet
     Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and
     other projects.

     Merit invites your participation in a new project--a continuation
     of the Internet data collection efforts initiated by Vern Paxson of
     Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  In 1994-95, Paxson
     collected a large set of network endpoint measurements by running
     Network Probe Daemons (NPDs) at sites in the U.S., Asia, and
     Europe.  Traceroutes initiated by the probes revealed pathologies
     such as fluttering, midstream changes, loops, duplicate hops,
     premature hops, erroneous routing, and infrastructure failures.
     Merit's effort, which is being led by Dun Liu, will repeat Paxson's
     methodology for 1996.  The data will then be used to model Internet
     dynamics, identify portions of the network with high latency and









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     packet loss, and measure the characteristics of Internet paths.
     Sites participating in the project will be asked to run the NPD
     software, which runs on any standard Unix system.  If you are
     interested in participating, please send e-mail to dunl@merit.edu.
     The NPD software is available from
     ftp://nic.merit.edu/routing.arbiter/tools/npd-1.0.tar.Z.  Your help
     is greatly appreciated!

     As a result of April and May's efforts to identify, check, and
     delete duplicated Route objects from the Routing Arbiter Database
     (RADB), more than 9,000 records have now been removed from the
     registry.  The deleted objects were either duplicated in another
     Internet Routing Registry database or covered by a shorter (less
     specific) aggregate object in the RADB.  Approximately 31,000 Route
     objects remain in the database.

     The Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) hosted the seventh North
     American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Washington,
     D.C. on May 30- 31.  Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has
     kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the
     meeting; they will soon be available through Merit's Web site,
     http://www.merit.edu/~nanog/.  Bill Norton of Merit moderated the
     meeting, which featured the following presentations:

       > STATE OF THE INTERNET:  NAPs
         --PacBell NAP      Warren Williams, PacBell
         --Sprint NAP       Steve Schnell, Sprint
         --Ameritech NAP    Mark Cnota, Ameritech
         --MAE-East         Steve Feldman, MFS Datanet
       > STATE OF THE INTERNET:  NSPs
         --Sprint           Jim Steinhardt, Sprint
         --ANS              Curtis Villamizer, ANS
         --MCI              Jeff Young, MCI
       > Call for Participation:  Simplified Peering at the Exchange Points
          (Robert Laughlin, DataXnge)
       > STATE OF THE INTERNET: Trends and Research
         --Standardized Format for Exchange Point Traffic Recording &
            Interchange (Dave Siegel, RTD Systems & Networking)
         --Routing Stability Analysis (Craig Labovitz, Merit)
         --InterNIC Update (Mark Kosters, InterNIC)
         --Internet Statistics:  Fragmentation & Reassembly (Kim Claffy,
            SDSC)
       > Internet Service Measurements:  Call for Participation (Steve
          Crocker, CyberCash)







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       > Status of the Internet Routing Registry
         --RAWhoisd Update (Brian Renaud, Merit)
         --Roe (Route Object Editor) (Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI)
         --Using the IRR to Generate Cisco Configurations (Randy Bush,
            RGnet)
         --Optimizing the Route Server Configuration Process (Jake Khuon,
            Merit)
       > Update from the PIER (Procedures for Internet/Enterprise
          Renumbering) Working Group (Will Leland, Bellcore)
       > MView:  An Application for Visualizing & Managing the MBone (Dave
          Thaler, Merit)
       > Inter-Provider Outage Notifications (Alan Hannan, Global Internet)
       > ASExplorer and Other New RA Tools (Craig Labovitz, Merit)
       > "Web Efficiency and Robustness:" Meeting Summary (Larry Blunk,
          Merit)
       > InterNIC Guardian Object (Jasdip Singh, InterNIC)
       > Route Filter Economics & Other Limits (Jeremy Porter, Freeside
          Communications)
       > Sprint Peering & Filtering Policies (Sean Doran & Mark Hidalgo,
          Sprint)

     A new article by Susan R. Harris and Elise Gerich looks back on the
     events leading up to the final dismantling of the NSFNET backbone.  See
     "Retiring the NSFNET Backbone Service:  Chronicling the End of an Era"
     in the April 1996 ConneXions (Vol. 10, No. 4).  It is also available on
     the Merit Web pages:

                        http://www.merit.edu/nsfnet/

     Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu)





















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CALENDAR
--------

Last update 07/9/96

The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat
as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are
requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this
calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to:

               <meeting-planning@ietf.org>

Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information
for the events listed below.

FYI - The EMail World & Internet World originally scheduled for
      Sept. 10-12, 1996 has been moved to Oct. 15-17, 1996.  Boston, MA.

A copy of this calendar is available as follows:

VIA FTP
- -------
IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites.

        US East Coast Address:  ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10)
        US West Coast Address:  ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32)
        Europe Address:  nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17)
        Pacific Rim Address:  munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)
        Africa Address:       ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.8)

cd ietf
ls *0mtg*

Gopher
- -------
Available on the Gopher Server running on IETF.CNRI.RESTON.VA.US
(132.151.1.35) under "Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar".

WWW
- -------
<http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html> Click on the link
for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet
related events".


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1996
- -----------
Oct. 1-3          Email World & Internet Expo     Toronto, Ontario, CA
Oct. 2-4          Object World Tokyo              Tokyo, Japan
Oct. 6-9          Asia Pacific Distributed
                      Solutions Event             Queensland, Australia
Oct. 7-11         ANSI X3T11                      St. Petersburg Bch, FL
Oct. 7-11         ATM Forum                       Montreux, Switzerland
Oct. 7-11         NetWorld+Interop                Paris, France
Oct. 7-11         Performance 96 Conference       Lausanne, Switzerland
Oct. 9-11         Object World Frankfurt          Frankfurt, Germany
Oct. 13-16        IEEE Local Computer Ntwrks (LCN) Minneapolis, MN
Oct. 14-17        MEDNET '96  European Congress
                   of the Internet in Medicine    Brighton, UK
Oct. 15           Commercenet                     New Orleans, LA
Oct. 15-17        EMail World & Internet Expo     Boston, MA
Oct. 15-18        3rd Int'l on Protocols for
                     Multimedia Systems           Madrid, Spain
Oct. 16-18        Internet World Monterrey '96    Monterrey, Mexico
Oct. 16-19        5th Int'l Conference on
                   Computer Communications & Ntwrks  Rockville, MD
Oct. 17-20        IEEE Symposium on Planning & Design
                    of Broadband Networks         Quebec, Canada
Oct. 21-25        ICECCS'96  (held jointly with
                     6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW)   Montreal, Canada
Oct. 28-31        2nd USENIX                      Seattle, WA
Oct. 28-Nov. 1    NetWorld+Interop                London, England
Oct. 29-31        Internet Professional '96       Paris, France
Oct. 29-Nov. 1    ICNP-96  Int'l Conf. on
                  Network Protocols               Columbus, Ohio
Oct. 29-Nov. 1    2nd USENIX Symp. Operating Sys.
                   Design & Implement. (OSIDI II) Seattle, WA
Nov. 1996         OMG TC  (Groupe Bull)           Nice, France
Nov. 4-7          APPN Implementers Workshop      Raleigh, NC
Nov. 4-8          ANSI X3T10 '96 Western Digital  Palm Springs, CA
Nov. 6-8          Web Developer Mexico '96        Mexico Ciy, Mexico
Nov. 10-12        2nd annual of ACM's MobiCom '96 Rye, New York
Nov. 11-15        IEEE 802 '96 Hotel Vancouver    Vancouver, BC Canada
Nov. 12-15        3rd Int'l Conf.
                     on Multimedia Modeling       Toulouse, France
Nov. 13           Commercenet                     Santa Clara, CA
Nov. 18-20        2nd USENIX Workshop on
                     Electronic Commerce          Oakland, CA
Nov. 18-22        ACM Multimedia '96              Boston, MA
Nov. 18-22        IEEE Globecom 96                London, England
Nov. 18-22        Supercomputing '96 (Firm)       Pittsburgh, PA
Nov. 20-21        IEEE Global Internet '96        London, UK
Nov. 25-29        NetWorld+Interop                Sydney, Australia



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Dec. 2-4          Web World                       San Diego, CA
Dec. 2-6          ANSI X3T11                      Rochester, MN
Dec. 2-6          ATM Forum                       Vancover, BC
Dec. 4-6          Vir. Reality & VRML World '96   Boston, MA
Dec. 9-12         Internet World '96              Baltimore, MD
Dec. 9-13         37th IETF                       San Jose, CA
Dec. 9-13         OIW (Firm)
Dec. 10-13        Fall Internet World '96         New York, NY
Dec. 12           Internet Security for System
                   & Network Administrators       Pittsburgh, PA
Dec. 13           Commercenet                     Albuquerque, NM

1997
- -----------
Jan. 6-10         ANSI X3T10 '97
Jan. 6-10         USENIX '97
                    Annual Technical Conf.        Anaheim, CA
Jan. 6-10         USELINUX: Linux Appl. Dev.      Anaheim, CA
Jan. 7-10         13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf
                    on Systems Sciences           Maui, Hawaii
Jan. 7-10         Internet World Canada '97       Toronto, Canada
Jan. 21-23        Internet World Shanghai-China   Shanghai, China
Jan. 21-25        Internet World Singapore Intl   Singapore
Jan. 28-30        IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting     Orlando, FL
Feb. 3-7          ANSI X3T11                      TBA
Feb. 10-11        ISOC Symposium on Network and
                   Distributed System Security    San Diego, CA
Feb. 17-19        Internet Expo & EMail World     San Jose, CA
Mar. 1-5          ACM '97: The Next 50 yrs. of Computing
                                                  San Jose, CA
Mar. 10-13        UniForum                        San Francisco, CA
Mar. 10-14        OIW (Firm)
Mar. 10-14        IEEE 802 '97 Irvine?/Albuguerque
Mar. 11-14        Spring Internet World '97       Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 11-15        ANSI X3T10 '97
Mar. 17-19        1st Euromicro Working Conf. on
                   Software Maintenance & Reengineering
                                                  Berlin, Germany
Mar. 19-21        Internet World Asia '97    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Apr. 7-11         38th IETF                       Memphis, TN
Apr. 7-11         ANSI X3T11                      TBA
Apr. 7-11         IEEE Infocom '97                Kobe, Japan
Apr. 9-11         ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on
                  Autonmous Decentralized Sys.    Berlin, Germany
Apr. 22-24        Internet Expo & EMail World     Chicago, IL
May  5-9          ANSI X3T10 '97
May 12-16         IFIP/IEEE                       San Diego, CA
May 28-30         Web Developer '97               Chicago, IL



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Jun. 3-5          Internet World Mexico '97       Mexico City, Mexico
Jun. 8-12         ICC '97                         Montreal
Jun. 9-13         OIW (Firm)
Jun. 9-13         ANSI X3T11                      TBA
Jul. 7-11         IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency      Maui, Lahaina HI
Jul. 14-18        ANSI X3T10 '97
Aug. 11-15        ANSI X3T11                      TBA
Aug. 11-15 (tenative)  39th IETF                  Munich, Germany
Aug. 12-14 (tenative)  Internet Expo & EMail World      Boston, MA
Sep. 8-12         ANSI X3T10 '97
Sep. 8-12         OIW (Firm)
Sep. 8-14         TELECOM Interactive 97        Geneva, Switzerland
Sep. 14-18        ACM SIGCOMM '97  Cannes, French Riviera, France
Oct. 6-10         ANSI X3T11                      TBA
Nov.  3-7         ANSI X3T10 '97
Dec. 8-12         OIW (Firm)
                  TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined)

1998
- -----------
SPRING 1998       TELECOM '97 Africa              Midrand, South Africa
Aug. 23-29        15th IFIP World. Com. Conf.     Vienna, Austria and
                                                   Budapest, Hungary



1999
- -----

Oct. 8-14         TELECOM '99                     Geneva, Switzerland





















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TERENA  Calendar- May 1996

This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the
meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact
the chair of the meeting or the TERENA Secretariat. If you have
additions/corrections/comments, please mail <secretariat@terena.nl>.

**********************************************************************


MEETING/DATE                    LOCATION
============                    ========

TERENA General Assembly
-----------------------
GA6
24-25 October                   Bled
GA7
15-16 May 1997                  Edinburgh


TERENA Executive Committee
--------------------------
17 December                     Amsterdam


TERENA Technical Committee
--------------------------
13 November                     Brussels
22 January 1997                 Amsterdam



TERENA Office Meeting
---------------------
16 October                      Amsterdam


JENC8
-----
Conference Committee
8 November (provisional)        Edinburgh

Programme Committee
4 December                      Amsterdam






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INSIGHT Training Workshop
-------
28-29 October                   Bled


CEEnet
------
26 October                      Bled


PHARE Research Networking
------
25 October                      Bled


-----------------------------------------------------------------
=================================================================

EEMA
----
Electronic Commerce '96         Wembley, London
15-17 October

Regional Conference
29 November - 1 December        Malta

Electronic Communications       Olympia, London
10-12 December


EWOS
----
TA35, 3-4 December              Brussels
TA36, 25-26 February 1997           "
TA37, 13-14 May 1997                "
TA38, 16-17 September 1997          "
TA39, 2-3 December 1997             "
SC - 24 September                   "
SC - 17 December                    "
Workshops
35: 21-25 October               Brussels
36: 20-24 January 1997              "
37: 7-11 April 1997                 "
38: 16-20 June 1997                 "
39: 27-31 October 1997              "






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ETSI
----
Seminar/Workshop
1-3 October                     Nice, France
GA24 10-11 December             Nice, France
TA25 23-25 October                "


IETF
----
9-13 December                   San Jose, CA
7-11 April 1997                 Memphis, Tenn.
11-15 August 1997               Munich, Germany


RIPE
----
RIPE26
20-22 January 1997              Amsterdam

RIPE27
May 1997                        Dublin


NATO Workshop
-------------
5-9 May 1997                    Edinburgh


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

TERENA CONFERENCES
------------------

Call for Papers

JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference
------------------------------------------------
"Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape"
12-15 May 1997
Edinburgh, Scotland

This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date
information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele-
communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications,
and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is
currently being developed




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Subject Areas:
* Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering
* User Support, Training and Education
* Security and Management Issues
* Information Systems and Distributed Applications
* Economic and Political Issues


  Deadline for paper submission 10 November 1996 to:
  <jen8-submit@terena.nl>

For information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at:

TERENA Secretariat
Singel 466-468
1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands

tel: +31 20 6391131      fax: +31 20 6393289

email: <jenc8-sec@terena.nl>
http://www.terena.nl/jenc8

or

JENC8 Local Organization
c/o Concorde Services Ltd
Unit 5, SECC
Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland

email: <jenc8@ed.ac.uk>


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


OTHER CONFERENCES:
-----------------


Performance '96
---------------
International Conference on Performance Theory, Measurement and
Evaluation of Computer and Communications Systems
Organized by IFIPWG7.3
7-11 October
Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Deadline paper submission 15 March 1996
Further information on WWW Page: http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/perf96/



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PROMS'96
Third International Workshop on Protocols for Multimedia Systems
----------------------------------------------------------------
15-18 October
Madrid, Spain
This workshop is intended to contribute to scientific, strategical
and practical cooperation between research institutes and industrial
companies in the area of distributed multimedia applications, protocols,
and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their usage on
broadband networks.
Papers to be submitted by 7 June.
For information contact Arturo Azcorra at <aazcorra@dit.upm.es>


6th CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conference 1996
--------------------------------
5-6 November
Sheraton Brussels Hotel, Brussels, Belgium
Theme of this conference is "Standards on Trial: Case Studies in
European Standardization"
Deadline for abstracts is 13 Sept. For further information:
c/o CENELAC,  Tel: +32 2 519 6871        Fax: +32 2 519 6919


IDATE96
18th International Conference of IDATE
--------------------------------------
6-8 November
Montpellier, France
An opportunity for professional contacts with major industrial
group leaders, users and clients, researchers and academics,
administrators and politians.
Full details of the conference available on the Web:
http://www.idate.fr


CEN/TC304 - Character Set Technology Workshop
---------------------------------------------
11-12 November
Bled, Slovenia
Providing multilingual support in middleware: Implementing the
Universal Character Set ISO 10646 in the European Information Society
For information look up URL:  http://www.e5.ijs.si/i18n/ws-bled.html








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"The Telematics Revolution,
Consequences for Individuals and Organisations"
----------------------------------------------
13 November
University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Theme of the conference is that progress of information and
telecommunication technologies do create a huge number of questions,
be it social, jurisdictional, economic or technical.
Parallel sessions will deal with: interactive scientific visual-
isation, tele-learning, user aspects of multimedia, distant
consultation and using of laboratories.
For all information and to receive brochure, contact
Mr. Marc Fleskens at email address <telematics@tue.nl>


IEEE Global Internet 1996
-------------------------
20-21 November
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
This mini-conference will provide an open forum for the communications
and computer networking communities to review the state-of-the-art
technologies and applications of the evolving Global Internet.
Deadline paper submissions 15 May to:
http://gaia.cs.umass.edu:80/tccc/internet96/
or email Jon Crowcroft <jon@cs.ucl.ac.uk>


WEB INTERNATIONALIZATION & MULTILINGUISM SYMPOSIUM
--------------------------------------------------
20-22 November
Sevilla, Spain
Organized by Sadiel and the WWW Consortium, with the support of the
European Commission. The object of this symposium is the advancement
of the internationalization and multilingualism of the Web, as well
as to seek agreement on the relevant standards.
Registration from 15 September.
For further information see:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/International/Sevilla-96













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EITC'96 - European IT Conference
--------------------------------
25-27 November
Congress Centre, Brussels, Belgium
"Doing Business in the Information Society"
Electronic commerce, provides the focus for sessions on IT
applications, enabling technologies and international initiatives.
Post-Conference Workshops to be held on 28 November.
For information contact European Commission, DGIII or
WWW:  http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/eitc96.htm


ASIAN'96 - Asian Computing Science Conference
---------------------------------------------
2-5 December
Singapore
Themes of this conference is:
- Programming (sematics, languages, systems, ...)
- Concurrency & Parallelism (algorithms, formalisms, systems ...)
- Networking & Security (algorithms, protocols, formalisms, ...)
Additional information available from:
http://www.escs.nus.sg/~asian96


Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997
----------------------------------------
10-12 February 1997
San Jose, CA, USA
The object of this conference is to bring together researchers,
developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia
computing and networking.
Paper submission by 16 July 1996.
For further information email <mmcn@cs.utexas.edu>


COREC -"Interregional Cooperation in RTD - Challenges and
Opportunities for Regions in Economic Conversion"
---------------------------------------------------------
16-17 December
Bremen, Germany
Background is the experience of the community initiative STRIDE and
other programmes of the European Commission.The conference will deal
questions of RTD-programmes and policies, their European Dimension
and impact on regional development.
For information contact Mr. Wolfgang Petzold at:
email <wmte@uni-bremen.de>





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IEEE INFOCOM '97
16th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer
& Communications Societies
-------------------------------------------------
7-11 April 1997
Kobe, Japan
Paper submissions by 14 June 1997.
For further information contact
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom/
http:// arpeggio.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/infocom.html


ISADS 97
3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
---------------------------------------------------------------
9-11 April 1997
Berlin, Germany
Supported by Hitachi, DeTeBerkom, NEC, Digital, GMD-FOCUS,
Hewlett Packard, IBM.
The focus will be on advancements and innovations in ADS platforms
and applications. Integration of telecommunication and computing
aspects into a uniform concept for providing an open distributed
processing environment.
For information see WWW: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ws/isads97/


EEMA'97
10th Annual Conference of European Electronic Messaging Association
-------------------------------------------------------------------
16-19 June 1997
Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
Issues of the conference will be:
Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services;
Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European Initiatives;
Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology & Management
Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots.
For information contact WWW: http://www.eema.org/














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INET'97
The Internet: The Global Frontiers
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24-27 June 1997
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers
of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education,
commerce and societies throughout the world.
Abstracts of papers to be submitted by 10 October.
-for details of submission procedure email
<inet-program-interest@isoc.org>
-for program information email <inet-program-chair@isoc.org
-for general information email <inet'97@isoc.org>


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