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March 1996 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR-ED@ISI.EDU". The Internet Monthly Report 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 March 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET COMMITTEE REPORTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET PROJECTS INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 CALENDAR Internet Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD --------------------------- The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for March, 1996 1. The IETF met in Los Angeles, California from March 4-8, 1996, another meeting with over 1,000 attendees. The terminal room facilities were provided by Softbank/Interop. The next IETF meeting will be in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. If this date looks familiar, it is the same date as INET '96! This is not a "joint" meeting per se, but both meetings will be held in the Montreal Convention Center. Closing out the year, the IETF will be returning to San Jose, California on December 9-13, 1996. Following that, the IETF travels to Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 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 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: February 22, 1996 (iesg.96-02-22) IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 16 Protocol Actions during the month of March, 1996: o PPP in Frame Relay be published as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP) be published as a Proposed Standard. o PPP for Data Compression in Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DCE) be published as an Informational document. o PPP LZS-DCP Compression Protocol (LZS-DCP) be published as an Informational document. o PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP) be published as an Informational document. o PPP Magnalink Variable Resource Compression be published as an Informational document. o PPP Deflate Protocol be published as an Informational document. o PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol be published as an Informational document. o PPP Hewlett-Packard Packet-by-Packet Compression (HP PPC) Protocol be published as an Informational document. o PPP Gandalf FZA Compression Protocol be published as an Informational document. o PPP Predictor Compression Protocol be published as an Informational document. o PPP BSD Compression Protocol be published as an Informational document. o The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP) be published as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP DES Encryption Protocol (DESE) be published as an Informational document. o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 be published as an Informational document. o Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices be IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 published as an Informational document. 4. The IESG issued 16 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of March, 1996: o An LDAP URL Format <draft-ietf-asid-ldap-format-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-pmtuv6-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video <draft-ietf-avt-jpeg-02> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting <draft-dewinter-queue-start-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50 <draft-ietf-uri-url-irp-04> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP payload format for H.261 video streams <draft-ietf-avt-h261-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) <draft-ietf-asid-x500-url-02> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video <draft-ietf-avt-mpeg-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) <draft-gulbrandsen-dns-rr-srvcs-03> for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) <draft-ietf-pppext-chap-ds-00> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters <draft-ietf-asid-string-filter-01> for consideration as a IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 Proposed Standard. o PPP Link Quality Monitoring <draft-ietf-pppext-lqm-ds-00> for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-12> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms <draft-stevens-tcpca-spec-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks <draft-ietf-ipngwg-token-ring-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) <draft-ietf-pppext-multilink-12> for consideration as a Draft Standard. 5. One Working Groups was concluded: Internet Stream Protocol V2 (st2) 6. A total of 87 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of March, 1996: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) <draft-ietf-pppext-netbios-fcp-07.txt> (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-12.txt> (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification <draft-ietf-rsvp-spec-11.txt, .ps> (none) o IP Router Alert Option <draft-katz-router-alert-02.txt> (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imb-06.txt> (ripv2) o RIP-II MD5 Authentication <draft-ietf-ripv2-md5-03.txt> (dnsind) o A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY) <draft-ietf-dnsind-notify-07.txt> (dnsind) o Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE) <draft-ietf-dnsind-dynDNS-09.txt> (none) o Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 <draft-katsube-router-atm-overview-02.txt> (http) o A Proposed Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication <draft-ietf-http-digest-aa-03.txt> (none) o A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) <draft-gulbrandsen-dns-rr-srvcs-03.txt> (wts) o Requirements for Web Transaction Security <draft-ietf-wts-requirements-01.txt> (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imt-04.txt> (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-conf-05.txt> (idr) o Destination Preference Attribute for BGP <draft-ietf-idr-bgp-dpa-05.txt> (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures <draft-ietf-822ext-mime-reg-03.txt> (ipngwg) o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) <draft-ietf-ipngwg-discovery-06.txt> (none) o TELNET CHARSET Option <draft-gellens-telnet-char-option-02.txt, .ps> (atommib) o Definitions of Textual Convention and OBJECT-IDENTITY Objects for ATM Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm2TC-02.txt> (ssh) o Site Security Handbook <draft-ietf-ssh-handbook-02.txt> (ipngwg) o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ethernet-ntwrks-02.txt> (ipngwg) o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks <draft-ietf-ipngwg-fddi-ntwrks-03.txt> (rip) o Triggered Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits <draft-ietf-rip-trigger-rip-02.txt> (poised95) o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees <draft-ietf-poised95-nomcom-04.txt> (none) o MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) <draft-elkins-pem-pgp-03.txt> (none) o Universal Payment Preamble <draft-eastlake-universal-payment-02.txt> (none) o The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions <draft-nelson-model-mail-ext-03.txt> (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds1-mib-03.txt> (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds3-mib-02.txt> IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 (idr) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mib-02.txt> (madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB <draft-ietf-madman-nsm-mib-01.txt> (st2) o Internet Stream Protocol Version 2 (ST2) Protocol State Machines - Version ST2+ <draft-ietf-st2-state-01.txt, .ps> (http) o PEP: AN EXTENSION MECHANISM FOR HTTP/1.1 <draft-khare-http-pep-01.txt, .ps> (none) + Multiple Response Simple Mail Transfer Protocol <draft-myers-mrsmtp-00.txt> (none) o The SSL Protocol Version 3.0 <draft-freier-ssl-version3-01.txt> (none) o IMAP4 ACL extension <draft-myers-imap-acl-01.txt> (rolc) o NHRP for Destinations off the NBMA Subnetwork <draft-ietf-rolc-r2r-nhrp-01.txt> (pppext) o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) <draft-ietf-pppext-bacp-02.txt> (ids) o X.500 Implementations Catalog-96 <draft-ietf-ids-x500-imps-01.txt> (idr) + An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing <draft-ietf-idr-community-usage-00.txt> (pppext) o The PPP SNA Control Protocol (SNACP) <draft-ietf-pppext-snacp-01.txt> (idr) + BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP <draft-ietf-idr-route-reflect-00.txt> (none) o ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3 <draft-deutsch-zlib-spec-03.txt, .ps> (none) o DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 <draft-deutsch-deflate-spec-03.txt, .ps> (none) o GZIP file format specification version 4.3 <draft-deutsch-gzip-spec-03.txt, .ps> (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 <draft-crispin-imap-base-02.txt> (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0 Bundle Interface Type <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds0-mib-02.txt> (dnsind) o Serial Number Arithmetic <draft-ietf-dnsind-serial-02.txt> (none) o RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Stream <draft-zhu-avt-h263-01.txt> (none) o TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms <draft-stevens-tcpca-spec-01.txt> (none) o Multicast Server Architectures for MARS-based ATM IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 multicasting. <draft-talpade-ipatm-marsmcs-01.txt, .ps> (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part I: X.509 Certificate and CRL Profile <draft-ietf-pkix-ipki-part1-01.txt> (none) o PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 0.96 <draft-boutell-png-spec-01.txt, .ps> (ipatm) + ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM - UNI 4.0 Update <draft-ietf-ipatm-sig-uni-v40-00.txt> (none) + Mobile-IP Local Registration with Hierarchical Foreign Agents <draft-perkins-mobileip-hierfa-00.txt> (atommib) + MIB-Controlled ATM Accounting Management <draft-ietf-atommib-acct-00.txt> (none) + Issues for RSVP and Integrated Services over ATM <draft-crawley-rsvp-over-atm-00.txt> (asid) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Standard and Pilot Attribute Definitions <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-attributes-00.txt> (asid) + A MIME Content-Type for ASN.1 PDUs <draft-ietf-asid-mime-ber-00.txt> (idr) + An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing <draft-ietf-idr-community-wrongcopy-00.txt> (asid) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: MIME-based Transport Mapping <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-mime-00.txt> (none) + RTP usage with Layered Multimedia Streams <draft-speer-avt-layered-video-00.txt> (asid) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-protocol-00.txt> (fddimib) + FDDI Management Information Base <draft-ietf-fddimib-objects-v2-00.txt> (idr) + Configuring IDRP Confederations <draft-ietf-idr-rfc-config-00.txt> (none) + A Framework for Supporting RSVP Flows Over ATM Networks <draft-onvural-srinivasan-rsvp-atm-00.txt> (drums) + Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifictions <draft-ietf-drums-abnf-00.txt> (none) + SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes <draft-freed-smtperror-00.txt> (snanau) + Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN <draft-ietf-snanau-appnmib-00.txt> (rsvp) + Accounting and Access Control in RSVP <draft-ietf-rsvp-lpm-arch-00.txt, .ps> (snanau) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs <draft-ietf-snanau-naumib-00.txt> (none) + IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2BIS IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 <draft-crispin-imap-compat-00.txt> (none) + INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - OBSOLETE SYNTAX <draft-crispin-imap-obsolete-00.txt> (none) + Native ATM Support in the Internet <draft-rfced-info-jackowski-00.txt> (none) + Clarification on the use of Hostnames in the DNS <draft-andrews-dns-hostnames-00.txt> (none) + Implementing the Internet Checksum in Hardware <draft-rfced-info-touch-00.txt> (none) + Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages <draft-rfced-info-spinellis-00.txt> (none) + What is the Internet, Anyway? <draft-rfced-info-quarterman-00.txt> (none) + Mail Ubiquitous Security Extensions (MUSE) <draft-eastlake-muse-00.txt> (none) + An Extension of the HTTP Authentication Scheme To Support Server Groups <draft-trommler-http-ext-groups-00.txt> (none) + The RC5, RC5-CBC, RC5-CBC-Pad, and RC5-CTS Algorithms <draft-baldwin-rc5-00.txt> (none) + The ESP RC5-CBC Transform <draft-baldwin-esp-rc5-00.txt> (none) + ASCII Encoding for Domain Names <draft-andrews-dns-ascii-00.txt> (none) + Introduction to IP Multicast Routing <draft-rfced-info-semeria-00.txt> (none) + UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646 <draft-yergeau-utf8-00.txt> (ipsec) + HMAC-MD5: Keyed-MD5 for Message Authentication <draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-md5-00.txt> (idr) + Autonomous System Confederations for BGP <draft-ietf-idr-bgp-confed-00.txt> 7. There were 5 RFC's published during the month of March, 1996: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1919 I (none) Classical versus Transparent IP Proxies RFC1920 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC1921 I (none) TNVIP protocol RFC1922 I (none) Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages RFC1923 I (rip) RIPv1 Applicability Statement for Historic Status IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya <scoya@cnri.reston.va.us> INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES Progress Report for February 1, 1966 through February 29, 1996 I. Significant Events During February 1996, InterNIC Registration Services assigned the following network addresses, and registered domain names to include top-level country domains: Assigned Registered Country Domain Network Addresses 5,316 Domain Names Registered 34,933 Top-level Country Domain(s) 3 SY - Syria AW - Aruba KH - Cambodia The following is to correct information that was stated incorrectly on the January 1996 Report. Assigned Registered Country Domain Network Addresses 5,706 Domain Names Registered 31,766 Installed the new asnreg application. Made semantic changes in the ureg application and initiated beta test. The 60-Day Notice program related to Domain Name renewals ran successfully. Data was entered into the Access database for payments received through February 5. IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 Trained additional staff in help desk telephone support as a means of attacking the backlog in the Domain Names Registration and Billing areas. Implemented a modified work schedule involving early and late shifts and 4 days by 10 hour shifts to allow for increased work space for help desk and template processing support. Proposed enhancements to the autoreg and domreg applications that could result in about a 10% increase in automatic processing (10% reduction in manual processing); the required coding is in progress by Engineering. Siemens Rolm provided ACD equipment/software training to Debbie Fuller, Carol Bowles and Nancy Krakover with a focus on automated production of reports. Completed draft of first NIC Liaison newsletter. Mark Kosters, Tom Newell and Kim Hubbard participated on a panel at a Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) sponsored meeting regarding the next generation of the InterNIC. Mark Kosters, Tom Newell, and Kim Hubbard attended the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) meeting in San Diego. Completed and posted the Lame Delegation Policy revision for community review. During February, new domain requests averaged 2,000 a day while updates averaged 1,000. Applications that do not need human review are processed within a day. Approximately 75% of the new applications and 60% of the updates are handled in this manner. The remaining applications and questions enter a queue for resolution by one of the processing staff. This queue length averaged 2 weeks during February. Temporary staff, initially added to handle routine phone calls, were trained to process application forms. II. Current Status During the month of February 1996, InterNIC Registration Services received communications as shown below. The majority of the correspondence concerned domain billing. Other correspondences include the assignment and re-assignment of network numbers and the registration or change of domain names. E-mail 75,594 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 636 (primarily Billing requests) IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 Phone 14,111 The Registration Services host computer supported the following information retrieval requests during the month of February: Connections Retrievals Gopher 31,698 60,100 WAIS 78,882 43,834 FTP 62,141 158,289 Mailserv 3,866 Telnet 116,058 Http 1,714,113 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server _______ _________ 977,319 5,554,658 Progress Report for March 1, 1966 through March 31, 1996 I. Significant Events During March 1996, InterNIC Registration Services assigned the following network addresses, and registered domain names to include top-level country domains: Assigned Registered Country Domain Network Addresses 5,950 Domain Names Registered 43,548 Top-level Country Domain(s) 3 NF - Norfolk Island TV - Tuvalu PF - French Polynesia A new Automated Call Distributor (ACD) printer was received and installed. The draft phone script was shortened to avoid overloading the voice mail system until additional voice mail ports are installed. Data was entered into the Access database for payments received through February 21. Initiated requisition for renewal of T1 service from BBN Planet. Defined short-term requirements for additional T1 service. IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 Added changes to RWhois spec version 1.1 for non-hierarchical indication in the schema definition. Fixed a bug in the RWhois client. Increased Autoreg processing speed -it will process all daily receipts in less than a day. Mark Kosters, Jasdip Singh, Tom Newell, Julie Robichaux, and Kim Hubbard attended the IETF meeting. The IP allocation draft was accepted in the CIDRD Working Group to become a BCP/RFC. Mark Kosters and Kim Hubbard traveled to Canada to meet with CAnet to discuss the InterNIC temporarily taking over processing of IP numbers. The Lame Delegation policy was submitted to SAIC legal staff for review. Improvements were made in the domreg application. The process of implementing the Guardian schema was initiated. Selected the top vendor (MCI) for additional T1 service. During March, new domain requests continued to range between 1,000 and 2,000 per day. Updates ranged from 400 to 600+ a day. Applications that do not need human review are processed within a day. Approximately 75% are handled in this manner. The remaining applications and questions enter a queue for resolution by one of the processing staff. This queue is currently a week and a half long. II. Current Status During the month of March 1996, InterNIC Registration Services received communications as shown below. The majority of the correspondence concerned domain billing. Other correspondences include the assignment and re-assignment of network numbers and the registration or change of domain names. E-mail 107,384 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 523 (primarily Domreg requests) Phone 22,270 The Registration Services host computer supported the following information retrieval requests during the month of March: IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 Connections Retrievals Gopher 26,843 51,353 WAIS 81,659 40,067 FTP 69,794 166,304 Mailserv 3,992 Telnet 102,613 Http 1,969,441 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server _______ _________ 750,562 5,825,252 Debbie Fuller <Debbief@internic.net> INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES In February, we started porting our production servers to Solaris. The port of one backup server (ds1.internic.net) was started in February and completed in early March. The port of our primary server (ds0.internic.net) was started in late March and should be complete by the time this version of the IMR comes out. Our primary server runs some management applications that do not run on all three servers, and it is also our primary mail machine, so the port is a bit more complicated than ds1. We expect to port the second backup machine (ds2.internic.net) before the end of April. As noted previously, testing and rebuilds of databases mean that each machine is down for an extended period when it is converted. The other two servers support all of our user applications, so service should always be available. To avoid problems, users should connect to ds.internic.net so they will reach one of the servers that is still up. If users connect to a specific server, either by name (i.e. ds1.internic.net instead of the general ds.internic.net) or by specific address, they will see outages. Users may also see problems if they have bookmarks or other saved pointers to a specific machine. 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 IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 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 Registry has installed a client/server Rwhois protocol to support the US Domain WHOIS information. We register third level delegations. For example, K12.IL.US, TACOMA.WA.US, or STATE.MN.US would have entries in the US WHOIS database. To look up a US domain name, do the following: whois -h nii.isi.edu <domain-name> We request all third level subdomain administrators of the US Domain to operate a RWHOIS server for those subdomains under them. See http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/RWhois Sources and Information for more information. For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or browse our WEB page: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 1100 PHONE 600 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 1700 DELEGATIONS 36 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS: 1024 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 640 --------------------------- Total 1700 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and "us-domain-delegated.txt" below. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 49 34 32 47 35 23 21 8 1 =================================================================== Ann Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) and Shanthi Ranganathan (Shanthi@ISI.EDU). CALENDAR -------- Internet Events Last update 03/12/96 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@cnri.reston.va.us> Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. FYI - The 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Systems, Modelling and Analysis originally scheduled for March 14-17, 1996 has been moved to March 21-24, 1996. Nashville, TN. 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) IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 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". 1996 ---- Mar. 11-13 Wkshp on Network Security Firewalls & Internet Svs. New York, NY Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '96 QLogic San Diego, CA Mar. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hyatt Regency La Jolla, CA Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Mar. 20 Commercenet Washington DC Mar. 20-23 1st ACM Int'l Conference on Digital Libraries Bethesda, MD Mar. 21-24 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Syst. Modeling & Analysis Nashville, TN Mar. 25-28 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Mar. 24-28 IEEE Infocom '96 Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Apr. 1-4 Internet World Brazil '96 Rio de Janiero, Brazil Apr. 1-5 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV Apr. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (Firm) Palm Springs, CA Apr. 11-12 2nd ACM/SIGRAPH Conf. on Assistive Tech. ASSETS'96 Vancouver, Canada Apr. 11-14 IEEE SOUTHEASTCON '96 Tampa, FL Apr. 15-19 ATM Forum Anchorage, Alaska Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 17 Commercenet (and FSTC) San Francisco, CA Apr. 18-19 34th ACM Southeast Conference Tuskegee, Al>abama Apr. 28-May 1 EMA Annual Conference Anaheim, CA IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 Apr. 29-May 3 Spring Internet World '96 San Jose, CA May 5-9 Object World East Boston, MA May 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '96 Adaptec Ft. Lauderdale, FL May 6-10 5th Int'l WWW Conference Paris, France May 7-10 1st Annual Conf. Emerging Tech & Appl in Communications Portland, OR May 6-8 IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy Oakland, CA May 6-8 ATM Year '96 San Jose, CA May 8-10 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Oakland, CA May 13-15 ADL '96 Forum: Forum on Research & Tech. Adv. in Digital Libraries Washington, DC May 13-16 7th Joint European Ntwk Conf. Budapest, Hungary May 13-17 5th UNIX Sys. Admn, Ntwkng Security Symp. Washington, DC May 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO May 15-17 Internet World Japan '96 Makuhari Messe, Japan May 16 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA May 21-23 Internet World Intntl '96 London, England May 23-24 3rd Intntl Wkshp on Community Networking (Tentative) Antwerpen, Belgium May 28-31 Internet World Korea '96 Seoul, Korea Jun. 3-5 18th Biennial Symposium on Communications Kingston, Ont, Canada Jun. 3-7 OMG TC (DISA, NSA) Washington, DC Jun. 4-6 Internet World Mexico '96 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 6 Commercenet Boston, MA Jun. 10-14 ATM Forum Orlando, FL Jun. 10-14 NetWorld+Interop Frankfurt, Germany Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Santa Fe, NM Jun. 10-15 Americas TELECOM '96 Rio de Janeiro Jun. 11-13 EMail World & Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jun. 11-14 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 San Jose, CA Jun. 17-21 2nd Conf. Object-Oriented Technologies & Sys. (COOTS) Toronto, Ont, Canada Jun. 18-21 Object World United Kingdom London, England Jun. 23-27 1st Intntl IEEE Wkshp on Enterprise Ntwkg - w/ICC SUPERCOM'96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-27 ICC '96/SUPERCOMM'96 Dallas, TX Jun. 25-28 INET '96 Montreal, Canada Jun. 24-28 36th IETF Montreal, Canada Jun. 28-29 Asia Pacific Networking Montreal, Canada Jul. 8-12 IEEE 802 '96 Univ of Twente Enschede, Netherlands Jul. 10-13 4th TCL/TK Workshop (TCL/TK 96) Monterey, CA Jul. 11-14 Virtual Reality World & VRML World San Jose, CA IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 Jul. 15-18 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Jul. 15-19 ANSI X3T10 '96 Symbios Logic Colorado Springs, CO Jul. 15-19 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan Jul. 17 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Jul. 19-22 Internet World Korea '96 Seoul, Korea Jul. 22-25 6th USENIX Security Symposium San Jose, CA Jul. 26-28 Internet World Home Expo '96 San Jose, CA Jul 29-Aug 2 OMG TC (Telefonica I+D) Madrid, Spain Aug. 5-8 Internet World Brazil '96 Sao Paulo, Brazil Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Boulder, CO area Aug. 12-16 12th Europ. Conf. on AI (ECAI) Budapest, Hungary Aug. 14-15 Web Developer '96 Dallas, TX Aug. 18-21 Object World West San Jose, CA Aug. 19-23 ATM Forum Baltimore, MD Aug. 20-22 Int. World Australia Pacific Sydney, Australia Aug. 21 Commercenet Pittsburgh, PA Aug. 25-28 8th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metro. Area Networks Berlin, Germany Aug. 26-30 SIGCOMM '96 Stanford, CA Aug. 27-30 Object World Australia Sydney, Australia FALL NSC'96 - Network Services Conf. Bled, Slovenia Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 ANSI X3T10 '96 Digital Natick, MA Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 13-17 10th USENIX Syst. Admin Conference (LISA '96) Chicago, IL Sep. 10-12 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 16-20 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 16-20 OMG TC (Software 2000) Hyannis, MA Sep. 17-19 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Washington, DC Sep. 18 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Sep. 25-27 Internet World Philippines '96 Manila, Philippines Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ontario, CA Oct. 2-4 Object World Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 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. 15 Commercenet New Orleans, LA Oct. 21-25 ICECCS'96 (held jointly with 6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW) Montreal, Canada Oct. 28-Nov. 1 NetWorld+Interop London, England 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 IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 Nov. 4-8 ANSI X3T10 '96 Western Digital Palm Springs, CA 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. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 TBD 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. 13 Commercenet Albuquerque, NM 1997 ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 6-10 USENIX '97 Annual Technical Conf. Anaheim, CA Jan. 7-10 13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf on Systems Sciences Maui, Hawaii Jan. 28-30 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Orlando, FL 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?/Albuquerque? Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Apr. 7-11 38th IETF Memphis, TN May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) 1998 IMR Editor [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 ----------- 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TERENA Calendar-Mar'96 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>. Updated March 1996 MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 12 March Amsterdam 9 April " TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA5 16-17 May Budapest GA6 24-25 October Bled TERENA Working Groups --------------------- 12 May Budapest WG-NOI, WG-MSG, IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 WG-ISUS,WG-I18N 13 May Budapest WG-NMA, WG-ISUS, WG-QMN, WG-LLT October (tbd) Bled JENC7 Programme Committee ------------------------- 8 March Amsterdam ----------------------------------------------------------------- EBONE ----- EMC (Ebone Management Committee) 25 March Paris EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 26-27 March Paris ECCO (Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations) 16 April Paris RIPE ---- 22-24 April Berlin CCIRN ----- 29 June Montreal, Canada CEENet/NATO Workshop -------------------- September tbd IETF ---- 4-8 March Los Angeles, CA, USA 24-28 June Montreal, Quebec, Canada November tbd 7-11 April 1997 Memphis, Tenn. USA IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 EEMA ---- Annual Conference 11-14 June Brussels EWOS ---- Workshops 25-29 March Brussels 24-28 June " 21-25 October " ETSI ---- GA23 18-19 April Nice, France GA24 10-11 December " TA24 15-17 April " TA25 23-25 October " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TERENA CONFERENCES ------------------ JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference ------------------------------------------------ 13-16 May Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary THE ROLE OF NETWORKING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY Subject areas are: - -User Support and Education - -Policy, Economic and Societal Issues - -Network Engineering - -Network Technology - -Application Technology - -Infrastructure Developments - -Networking Sersvices For information, email <jenc7-sec@terena.nl> WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/jenc7 IMR Editor [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 NSC'96 - Network Services Conference 1996 ----------------------------------------- 22 - 24 October Convention Centre, Bled, Slovenia For information, email <nsc96-sec@terena.nl> WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/nsc96/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OTHER CONFERENCES ----------------- nb. For some of the following events, full text information may be available from the TERENA Document Store under the directory calendar, in which case the file name is specified under the information presented below. The files may be retrieved via: anonymous FTP: ftp.terena.nl Email: server@terena.nl Gopher: gopher.terena.nl World Wide Web: http://www.terena.nl/terena/information/calendar/ IDMS'96 - European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Sersvices -------------------------------------------------------- 4-6 March Berlin, Germany Organized by GI, ITG, GMD FOKUS. The objective of this workshop is to cover the needs of business/residential customers in the information society with the goal of obtaining an integrated approach in extensibility, scalability and quality of service. For information contact: Eckhard Moeller/Herwart Pusch at GMD FOKUS. tel: +49 30 254 99 234/233 / fax: +49 30 254 99 202 email: idms@fokis.gmd.de Also see URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ws/idms ASSETS'96 - The 2nd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies -------------------------------------------------------------------- (sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped) 11-12 April Waterfront Center Hotel, Vancouver, Canada The conference scope spans disability and special needs of all kinds, including but not limited to: sensory; motor; cognitive; and emotional. IMR Editor [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 For further information contact: Conference Program Chair <jaffe@roses.stanford.edu> Conference General Chair <glinert@cs.rpi.edu> The Conference Web Page may be found at: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/assets 3rd International Conference on Electronic Library and Visual Information Research (ELVIRA 96) ------------------------------------------------------ The UK Digital Libraries Conference. 30 April - 2 May Hilton National Hotel, Milton Keynes, UK Covering both technical and socio-economic aspects of the electronic library, as well as providing a forum discussion of new areas of development. Submission of papers is 17 November 1995. For further information contact: Kathryn Arnold <karnld@dmu.ac.uk> or WWW page: http://ford.mk.dmu.ac.uk/elvira/elvira3.html 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Sources (ICDCS-16) - Advance Program -------------------------------------------------------------- 27 - 30 May Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong For information see http://www.iao.fhg.de/Library/conferences/ 3rd International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE'96) ----------------------------------------------------- 3-4 June Macau Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing. The international flavor of the workshop reflects the scope and diversity of worldwide internetworking. For information contact: WWW page: http://www.citi.umich.edu/sdne.html email: <sdne96@citi.umich.edu EEMA '96 Conference ------------------- (European Electronic Messaging Association) IMR Editor [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 10-13 June Les Pyramides/Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Brussels, Belgium. Working to shape the future of global messaging, this will be a user-driven conference, created for the business user. For information contact: <eemaoffice@attmail.com> or tel: +44 1386 793 028 fax: +44 1386 793 268 INET'96 - Developing Country Workshop ------------------------------------- June Montreal, Quebec, Canada A seven-day program of intensive instruction with a hands-on emphasis on Internet set up, operations, maintenance and management. For information email <workshop-info@isoc.org> For application to attend email <workshop-apply@isoc.org> INET'96 The Internet: Transforming our Society Now ------------------------------------------ 25-28 June Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada This 6th annual conference of the Internet Society will be focusing on worldwide issues of Internet networking. One-page abstracts due by 15 Feb.1996 to <inet-submission@isoc.org> The Program Committee may be contacted at <inet-program@isoc.org> Information also available on: WWW page: http://www.isoc.org/conferences/inet96/ Gopher://gopher.isoc.org:70/11/isoc/conferences/inet96/ ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/onet96/ ICDED'96 Second International Conference on Distance Education in Russia --------------------------------------------------------------- 2 - 5 July Moscow, Russia The theme of this conference is "Open and Distance Learning as a Development Strategy". Papers to be submitted by 1 March 1996 For information see http://aie.riis.ru/english/confer/icded96.html or email <icded96.aie.msk.su Forum of Incident Respone and Security Teams (FIRST) ---------------------------------------------------- 8th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Workshop IMR Editor [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 28-31 July Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, USA "After the Internet - then What?" - the changing nature of incidents and our ability to respond Abstracts/Proposals due 15 January 1996. For information see WWW page: http://www.first.org/first/ or email: <f96-prog@first.org> TINA'96: ------- The Convergence of Telecommunications and Distributed Computing Technologies 3-5 September The Stadthall, Heidelberg, Germany The emphasis of the conference will be on experimental results and experience with real systems, although theoretical contributions of clear practical importance will also be considered. Deadline paper submission 1 March 1996 to <TINA96@eurescom.de> International Congress and Technical Exhibition "Water: Ecology and Technology" ----------------------------------------------- 17-21 September Moscow, Russia Organized by: Russian Federal Committee for Water Management, Russian Federal Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection, Municipal Enterprise "Mosvodokanal", State Enterprise "Vodokanal St. Petersburg",Stock Company "SIBICO International". For all further information, contact: <postmaster@sibico.MSK.RU> telephone/telefax: +7 095 207 63 60 2nd International Conference on Satellite Communications (ISCS'96) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 23-27 September Moscow, Russia The conference will explore the theme "Satellites for Global Communications" with representives from government, international organizations, industry, research institutes and universities - for discussions on recent advances and future trends of development and applications of satellite communications. For further information please email: <enir@icsti.su> or tel: +7 095 198 7691 fax: +7 095 943 0089 IMR Editor [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report March 1996 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/ 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> IEEE INFOCOM '97 ---------------- Call for Papers for the 16th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. 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 Address: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466 - 468 NL - 1017 AW AMSTERDAM Voice : + 31 20 639 11 31 Fax : + 31 20 639 32 89 Email : secretariat@terena.nl (for all general matters) IMR Editor [Page 29]