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January 1997 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR-ED@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ IMR Editor [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 REPORT OF THE 26th RIPE MEETINGS. . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 RFC-EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 36 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 40 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for January, 1997 1. The IETF opens 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 1997. Following Memphis, the IETF is we returning to Europe and will met in Munich, Germany August 11-15, 1997, hosted by Digi/ISOC.DE. The final meeting of 1997 will be held in Washington, DC. The local host for this meeting is Newbridge. 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.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. The following IESG minutes have been added: December 19, 1997 (iesg.96-12-19) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 12 Protocol Actions during the month of January, 1997: o Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels for publication as a BCP RFC. IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for publication as a Draft Standard. o Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol for publication as a Draft Standard. o DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions for publication as a Draft Standard. o Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP for publication as a Draft Standard. o ISO Transport Service on top of TCP (ITOT) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o ISDN Management Information Base for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Dial Control Management Information Base for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IP Router Alert Option for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type for publication as a Proposed Standard. o MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators for publication as a Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG issued nine Last Calls to the IETF during the month of January, 1997: o Wrapping MIME Objects: Application/MIME <draft-crocker-wrap-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) <draft-ietf-pppext-bacp-05> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 o Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay <draft-ietf-ion-fr-update-02> for consideration as a Standard. o IMAP URL Scheme <draft-newman-url-imap-05> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update <draft-ietf-dnssec-update-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) <RFC1701> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-15> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks <RFC1702> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Broadcast over ATM Networks <draft-ietf-ion-bcast-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Three Working Groups were created during this period: Simple Public Key Infrastructure (spki) UniDirectional Link Routing (udlr) Internet Fax (fax) 6. A total of 96 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of January, 1997: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 <draft-ietf-ospf-version2-09.txt> (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-15.txt> (none) o IP Router Alert Option <draft-katz-router-alert-04.txt> (ipngwg) o Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-bsd-api-07.txt> (idr) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-05.txt> (mailext) o Common Internet Message Headers <draft-ietf-mailext-mail-attributes-07.txt> IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 (mailext) o The Supersedes and Expires e-mail headers <draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-06.txt> (ssh) o Site Security Handbook <draft-ietf-ssh-handbook-03.txt> (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 <draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-v2-06.txt> (ids) o A Common Schema for the Internet White Pages Service <draft-ietf-ids-iwps-schema-spec-03.txt> (rsvp) o RSVP Management Information Base <draft-ietf-rsvp-mib-05.txt> (intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base <draft-ietf-intserv-mib-05.txt> (http) o PEP: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP <draft-ietf-http-pep-01.txt> (pppext) o PPP EAP RSA Public Key Authentication Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-eaprsa-03.txt> (none) o RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows <draft-berger-rsvp-ext-06.txt> (ion) o Multicast Server Architectures for MARS-based ATM multicasting. <draft-ietf-ion-marsmcs-02.txt> (none) o VEMMI URL Specification <draft-mavrakis-vemmi-url-spec-04.txt> (none) o PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 1.0 <draft-boutell-png-spec-05.txt, .ps> (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN <draft-ietf-snanau-appnmib-03.txt> (mhtml) o Sending HTML in E-mail, an informational supplement to RFC ???: MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML) <draft-ietf-mhtml-info-06.txt> (mhtml) o The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type <draft-ietf-mhtml-related-01.txt> (ids) o Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services <draft-ietf-ids-dnsnames-02.txt> (ipngwg) o Link Local Addressing and Name Resolution in IPv6 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-linkname-01.txt> (none) o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 <draft-ema-vpim-04.txt> (issll) o Interoperation of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed-Service with ATM <draft-ietf-issll-atm-mapping-01.txt> (none) o RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data <draft-perkins-rtp-redundancy-02.txt, .ps> (roamops) o Dialup Roaming Requirements <draft-ietf-roamops-roamreq-02.txt> (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) <draft-ietf-ion-nhrp-mib-01.txt> IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 (intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base Guaranteed Service Extensions <draft-ietf-intserv-guaranteed-mib-03.txt> (none) o Making Postscript and Acrobat Files International <draft-palme-int-print-01.txt> (none) o Internet Discussion Forum Protocol (IDFP) <draft-martins-forums-01.txt> (none) o Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels <draft-bradner-key-words-03.txt> (mhtml) o Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators <draft-ietf-mhtml-cid-04.txt> (none) o Political Disclosure Transmission Protocol (DISCLOSE) <draft-rfced-info-dixon-01.txt> (roamops) o Review of Roaming Implementations <draft-ietf-roamops-imprev-01.txt> (none) o IMAP URL Scheme <draft-newman-url-imap-05.txt> (none) o Use of Tag Switching With ATM <draft-davie-tag-switching-atm-01.txt> (none) o Data Link Switching Client Access Protocol <draft-rfced-info-chiang-01.txt> (none) o Wrapping MIME Objects: Application/MIME <draft-crocker-wrap-01.txt> (http) + Simple Hit-Metering for HTTP Preliminary Draft <draft-ietf-http-hit-metering-00.txt> (none) o Payload Format for HTTP Encoding in RTP <draft-aboba-rtp-http-02.txt> (none) o Universal Format for Logger Messages <draft-abela-ulm-01.txt> (none) o NNTP Full-text Search Enhancements <draft-ballou-nntpsrch-02.txt> (drums) + Mail Header Registration Procedure <draft-ietf-drums-MHRegistry-00.txt> (lsma) + Scenarios and Appropriate Protocols for Distributed Interactive Simulation <draft-ietf-lsma-scenarios-00.txt> (dhc) o DHCP Option for IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Timezone Specifications <draft-ietf-dhc-timezone-01.txt> (otp) o OTP Verification Examples <draft-ietf-otp-ver-01.txt> (lsma) + Limitations of Internet Protocol Suite for Distributed Simulation in the Large Multicast Environment <draft-ietf-lsma-limitations-00.txt> (none) o Alternatives for Enhancing RTCP Scalability <draft-aboba-rtpscale-02.txt> (none) o Date and Time on the Internet <draft-newman-datetime-01.txt> (none) o FTP Security Considerations <draft-allman-ftp-sec-consider-01.txt> IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 (none) + Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 <draft-bates-bgp4-multiprotocol-00.txt> (none) + Proposal of a suggested protocol for an interactive, real-time cryptographic 'key' server <draft-merriman-realtime-key-00.txt> (disman) + Distributed Management Framework <draft-ietf-disman-framework-00.txt> (none) + Implementation of Virtual Private Network (VPNs) with IP Security <draft-doraswamy-ipsec-vpn-00.txt> (none) + Using BGP Without Consuming a Unique ASN <draft-stewart-bgp-without-as-00.txt> (mboned) + Introduction to IP Multicast Routing <draft-ietf-mboned-intro-multicast-00.txt> (none) + Guidelines and Process for new URL Schemes <draft-masinter-url-process-00.txt> (none) + Forcing HTTP/1.1 proxies to revalidate responses <draft-mogul-http-revalidate-00.txt> (none) o Security Industry Internet Protocol for Alarm Transmission (SIIPAT) <draft-rfced-info-ryckman-01.txt> (none) + The mailto URL scheme <draft-hoffman-mailto-url-00.txt> (none) + MIME media-types for Print Formats <draft-lutz-print-types-00.txt> (none) + A FTP URL Format <draft-casey-url-ftp-00.txt> (none) + Tag Switching Architecture - Overview <draft-rekhter-tagswitch-arch-00.txt> (none) + POP3 Service Extensions <draft-rauschenbach-pop3-framework-00.txt> (dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) <draft-ietf-dnsind-ncache-01.txt> (none) + POP3 Service Extensions <draft-rauschenbach-pop3-framework-00.txt> (none) o MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES AND FUNCTIONS <draft-crocker-stdaddr-02.txt> (none) + CamCoder Control Protocol <draft-ohta-ccc-video-00.txt> (none) + The Multicast Attribute Framing Protocol <draft-finlayson-mafp-00.txt> (none) + NICS Network of Identifier and Credential Servers <draft-hoare-nics-00.txt> (none) + Extensible Authentication Protocol Support in RADIUS <draft-aboba-radius-eap-00.txt> (none) + Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Implementation Document <draft-helmy-pim-sm-implem-00.txt, .ps> (none) + Network Element Object MIB (Neo-MIB) <draft-tackabury-neo-mib-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 (radius) + RADIUS Extensions <draft-ietf-radius-ext-00.txt> (none) + VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration <draft-ema-vpim-vmsg-00.txt> (none) + Content Duration MIME Header Definition <draft-ema-vpim-dur-00.txt> (none) + Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration <draft-ema-vpim-32kadpcm-00.txt> (none) + Network Tuning for Efficiency and Throughput <draft-breit-ntwrk-tuning-00.txt> (none) + A Distributed MARS Protocol <draft-armitage-ion-distmars-spec-00.txt> (http) + Use and interpretation of HTTP version numbers <draft-ietf-http-versions-00.txt> (mobileip) + Firewall Traversal for Mobile IP: Goals and Requirements <draft-ietf-mobileip-ft-req-00.txt> (none) + Certificate Policy and Certification Practice Statement Framework <draft-chokhani-cps-00.txt> (none) + Survey of Defined Managed Objects for Applications Management <draft-hazewinkel-appl-mib-00.txt> (none) + The Definition of Managed Objects for Virtual Network Configuration <draft-bush-vnc-mib-00.txt> (none) + Network Control Protocol for the Configuration of Mobile Wireless Beam-formed GPS-Based Networks <draft-bush-ncp-config-00.txt> (none) + The Definition of Managed Objects for the Configuration of Mobile Wire-less Beamformed GPS-Based Networks <draft-bush-rdrn-mib-00.txt> (none) o StarBurst Multicast File Transfer Protocol (MFTP) Specification <draft-miller-mftp-spec-01.txt> (none) + AT&T/Neda's Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO) Protocol Specification Version 1.2 <draft-rfced-info-banan-esro-00.txt> (otp) + A One-Time Password System <draft-ietf-otp-00.txt> (none) + IP over MAPOS Version 1 <draft-rfced-info-maruyama-00.txt> (none) + IMAP4 Referrals <draft-gahrns-imap-referrals-00.txt> (mixer) + MaXIM-11 - Mapping between X.400 / Internet mail and Mail-11 mail <draft-ietf-mixer-mail11-00.txt> (mixer) + Using the Internet DNS to Distribute MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping (MCGAM) <draft-ietf-mixer-rfc1664bis-00.txt> (mobileip) + Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP <draft-ietf-mobileip-tunnel-reverse-00.txt> (none) + Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (FANP) Specification <draft-rfced-info-nagami-00.txt> IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 7. There were 44 RFC's published during the month of January, 1997: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1299 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1200-1299 RFC1399 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1300-1399 RFC1499 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1400-1499 RFC1599 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1500 - 1599 RFC1699 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1600-1699 RFC1799 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1700-1799 RFC1899 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1800-1899 RFC1999 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1900-1999 RFC2001 PS (none) TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms RFC2021 PS (rmonmib) Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2 RFC2042 I (none) Registering New BGP Attribute Types RFC2048 BCP (822ext) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures RFC2058 PS (nasreq) Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) RFC2059 I (radius) RADIUS Accounting RFC2063 E (rtfm) Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture RFC2064 E (rtfm) Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB RFC2065 PS (dnssec) Domain Name System Security Extensions RFC2066 E (none) TELNET CHARSET Option RFC2067 DS (none) IP over HIPPI RFC2068 PS (http) Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 RFC2069 PS (http) An Extension to HTTP: Digest Access Authentication RFC2070 PS (html) Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language RFC2071 I (pier) Network Renumbering Overview: Why would I want it and what is it anyway? RFC2072 I (pier) Router Renumbering Guide RFC2073 PS (ipngwg) An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format RFC2074 PS (rmonmib) Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 RFC2075 I (none) IP Echo Host Service RFC2077 PS (none) The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions RFC2078 PS (cat) Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 RFC2079 PS (asid) Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) RFC2080 PS (rip) RIPng for IPv6 RFC2081 I (rip) RIPng Protocol Applicability Statement RFC2082 PS (ripv2) RIP-2 MD5 Authentication RFC2083 I (none) PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 1.0 RFC2084 I (wts) Considerations for Web Transaction Security RFC2086 PS (none) IMAP4 ACL extension RFC2087 PS (none) IMAP4 QUOTA extension RFC2088 PS (none) IMAP4 non-synchroniziong literals RFC2089 I (none) V2ToV1 Mapping SNMPv2 onto SNMPv1 within a bi-lingual SNMP agent RFC2091 PS (rip) Triggered Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits RFC2092 I (rip) Protocol Analysis for Triggered RIP RFC2095 PS (none) IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response RFC2096 PS (ospf) IP Forwarding Table MIB RFC2097 PS (pppext) The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya <scoya@ietf.org> IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES Current Status January: Email: 249,667 Phone: 33,444 Gopher connections: 6526 retrievals: 27,269 WAIS connections: 34775 retrievals: 20,612 FTP connections: 100306 retrievals: 189,593 Telnet: 76,248 Http: not available Whois Queries: 11,007,282 Total Registrations: 91,758 by Rich Landers <richl@internic.net> INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES In December we made the Academic Guide to the Internet available on our servers. The Guide locates and describes Internet resources that are of particular interest to the research and academic communities. The Guide also allows for the community to rate the resources listed. In the Community Commentary section, users may express their opinion of the academic value of a site. The scores are tallied and posted with the description of the resource. The major categories covered by the Guide are primarily science-oriented. They include + Biological Sciences + Computer and Information Sciences + Education and Human Sciences IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 + Engineering + Geosciences + Mathematical and Physical Sciences + Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences The Guide was designed and developed by Aldea Communications for the InterNIC. It can be reached via: http://ds.internic.net/aldea/attframes2.html The data from the Academic Guide are indexed in Harvest. The MBONE recordings of the December IETF meeting (in San Jose) are now available in RealAudio(TM) format, which can be accessed directly from the web. The converted recordings are available via the URL: http://ds0.internic.net/mbone/37th/ The latest version of the Netfind seed database has over 1 million entries. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net> THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ====================== The US Domain has an online registration form available at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. A new policy has been added regarding the charges for the domain name passed on during delegation. The administrator of the locality has to notify one year in advance before charging for those domains. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2761 PHONE 450 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3211 DELEGATIONS 75 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 982 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 2154 --------------------------- Total 3211 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES include referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 38 34 47 39 25 25 9 5 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== No new special domain name delegation. IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 LOCALITIES ========== VOORHEES.NJ.US. TUMON.GU.US. GREENBUSH.ME.US. EDDINGTON.ME.US. EAST-ARLINGTON.MA.US. ARLINGTON-HEIGHTS.MA.US. RALEIGH.WV.US. WALWORTH.WI.US. DODGE.WI.US. JEFFERSON.OH.US. ROCKINGHAM.NC.US. BURKE.NC.US. WARREN.KY.US. BONNEVILLE.ID.US. LOWNDES.GA.US. TAYLOR-MILL.KY.US. OAK-ISLAND.NC.US. COKATA.MN.US. MANTEO.NC.US. SULLIVAN.MO.US. WARNER.NH.US. HIGHTSTOWN.NJ.US. DRYDEN.NY.US. BUENA-VISTA.CO.US. VEAZIE.ME.US. WINDHAM.ME.US. SAUK-CITY.WI.US. PRAIRIE-DU-CHIEN.WI.US. CLEAR-LAKE.WI.US. DASSEL.MN.US. SPOONER.WI.US. WEARE.NH.US. DELMAR.DE.US. CLAYTON.OK.US. HARTSHORNE.OK.US. HEAVENER.OK.US. PANAMA.OK.US. POCOLA.OK.US. RED-OAK.OK.US. VIAN.OK.US. PORUM.OK.US. TALIHINA.OK.US. SCARBOROUGH.ME.US. KAGEL-CANYON.CA.US. WOLF-ISLAND.MO.US. CARLISLE.MA.US. EMERYVILLE.CA.US. MOJAVE.CA.US. SYLMAR.CA.US. WASILLA.AK.US. LOWER-ALLEN.PA.US. CHICKASAW.NSN.US. ONEIDA.NSN.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== TRI-COUNTY.TEC.MA.US. DIVNEY.WASHINGTON.DC.US. SHIDLER.K12.OK.US. FULTON-GIS.CO.WAUSEON.OH.US. MVLS.LIB.CA.US. COURT-HOUSE.CO.SIOUX.IA.US. PD.BROADMOOR.CA.US. COOSAVALLEYDC.DST.GA.US. POLICE.TWP.NAPOLEON.MI.US. IKEA.PLYMOUTH-MEETINGS.PA.US. FOOBAR.HUMMELSTOWN.PA.US. HACKURZ.SWARTHMORE.PA.US. HEALTH.CREEK.NSN.US. TOWNSHIP.DODGEVILLE.WI.US. ARKOMA.K12.OK.US. PANAMA.K12.OK.US. CI.BARRINGTON.IL.US. CO.POLK.NC.US. POSITIVEREALTY.NISSWA.MN.US. SPIRO.K12.OK.US. SHENANDOAH.LIB.VA.US. FRIENDS.MULLICA-HILL.NJ.US. ----------------------------------------------------------- IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes January 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Merit is pleased to announce that MAE-East Route Server operations have successfully transitioned to the new Route Server Next Generation (RSNG) project. Two new Sun Ultras running Solaris are now installed at the site. Preparation for deployment of the new Route Servers began in October 1996, when Bill Norton, Jake Khuon, Abha Ahuja, and Brad Robertson formed a focused team to plan the transition. To ensure continued reliability of the new systems, the exchange point out-of-band equipment has been largely redesigned. Other new Route Server systems to be deployed in pairs at the exchange points include DEC Alphas running Digital Unix and additional Sun Ultras. The RSNG project makes it possible for exchange point operators to purchase Route Server services from Merit. RSNG is one of three activities that had been part of the Routing Arbiter project, and are now seeking support as independent activities. NSF recommended the move to Route Server commercialization in August 1996 after its 24-month review of the RA project, noting that the Route Servers had shown that multiple network providers can work well together in a competitive marketplace. To date, the MAE-East and AADS NAPs, MAE-West, the Digital Internet Exchange in Palo Alto, and the Atlanta-NAP have agreed to offer Route Server services through RSNG. Transition to new Route Server operations is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 1997. For more information about RSNG, see: http://www.merit.edu/rsng/ IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 Additional Merit activities seeking independent funding include: - Statistical research and tool development. Following NSF's recommendation that these projects be pursued separately from the Routing Arbiter activity, a proposal was submitted to NSF for support for a new Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis project. For more information, see: http://www.merit.edu/ipma/ - Support for the North American Network Operators Group is also under proposal to NSF as a service independent of the Routing Arbiter. Other key Merit activities continue to be supported by the National Science Foundation as part of the Routing Arbiter project. These include the Routing Arbiter Database, tools for the RADB and the Internet Routing Registry, and leading-edge routing for advanced networking. Jerry Winters attended the 26th RIPE meeting in Amsterdam, where he gave a presentation titled "Internet Routing Instability" to the Routing Working Group, and participated in sessions of the Database Working Group. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 RIPE 26 TRIP REPORT ------------------- Trip Report 26th RIPE Meeting - Amsterdam, The Netherlands January 1997 Joyce K. Reynolds USC/Information Sciences Institute The 26th RIPE Meeting The 26th RIPE Meeting was held in January 1997 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Approximately 185 people attended. There were six working groups, two BOFs, and numerous open plenary sessions with presentations and reports. 1) Local IR Working Group - Mike Norris Report form the RIPE NCC - Mirjan Kuehne EU Internet Growth (Hostcount) 3,600,000 - didn't make four million, but close. Staffing developments since the last RIPE meetings - two more hostmasters have started (one from Ireland and one from Norway). The RIPE NCC staffing now has: - 6 FTE staff - 1 part time staff - 1 manager RIPE NCC Work Load: - wait queue is 0! - response time is one day - enough staff now and new staff, so not overworked as much and response time has improved Staff Training: - more inaddr staff - requesting tracking system Activities - document revision - preparation for Internet Quality Control IMR Editor [Page 18] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings - preparation for auditing and monitoring - local IR training courses Plans for the coming quarter - Training - more classes are planned, including classes on Internet Quality Control, auditing and monitoring - HTMLizing the Training Materials. Mike mentioned other registries this group might be interested in looking into: http://www.boardwatch.com/isp. This group researched ISPs in the United States - might want to look at this and compare. Registries Report - Daniel Karrenberg The RIPE NCC still maintains a good working relationship with the APNIC and InterNIC. They will meet next week in Hong Kong at the APRICOT conference. He then reported on ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers - URL: http://www.arin.net). SAIC/Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) will let go of the InterNIC's registration. The ARIN is currently in development. It will be a not for profit company. It will be supported by the ISPs. Similar to the RIPE NCC structure. This development is significant now that all three regional registries are operating on the same principal. It makes it a very strong industry self regulation and more formalized. The RIPE is separating from TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Networking Association) on 1 January 1998. Must formalize this, too. Also, what does that mean for IANA? Shouldn't it be reorganized? Formalize it also? In regards to IP Address Assignments, there is a new group being formed in the IETF, the IRE (PAGAN) Working Group. Joyce Reynolds reported on this in her plenary talk on, "IETF Report" (see Appendix A). The discussion shifted to the use of the Class A address space that are available. An RFC was published (RFC 2036). It is Bill Manning's document on Class A experiment results. Daniel asked the Local IR WG what should he obtain from the IANA - another /8 or get something from the Class A space?? Any interest in monitoring the use of Class Bs? Also, any interest in 192.* reclamation? IMR Editor [Page 19] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings 2) IPv6 Working Group - Thomas Trede Thomas Trede became the new chair since RIPE 25. Geert-Jan de Groot and Francis Dupont will be co-chairs of this group. A report was provided by Francis Dupont on current 6Bone connectivity: - 6bone is a network for testing IPv6 - there are only few sites in France, Denmark and Japan - a slide with the current 6bone topology was displayed (version 43, December 1996) - this topology will be replaced by a new one (version 44, January 1997) the picture can be found at: http://www-6bone.lbl.gov/6bone/6bone-drawing.html Geert-Jan reported on the developments of the new IP routing protocols: - initial intent of 6bone was to help migrating into IPv6 - not happening currently, just testing - originally set up with static routes - this is not practical anymore - maybe use RIP2 - maybe new EGP soon? IGP EGP --- --- RIP2 IDRP (probably not initially) OSPF (no implementation yet) M-BGP (multiprotocol BGP) IS-IS ( " ) BGP5 The AS number space can be made larger by BGP enhancements. BGP5 is intended to do this do this. A discussion ensued with the comment that if more than 64k ASes used, BGP also will also need to support this. A question arose on how could you multihome a customer without using an additional AS? Geert-Jan provided a brief summary of possible ways how to multihome a customer to the same ISP (not to multiple ISPs): - use real AS - use private AS (RFC1930) - use 1 AS for all customers that multihome to you (John Stewart's proposal) IMR Editor [Page 20] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings The real problem is multihoming to different ISPs. One possible solution: 8+8 proposal from Mike O'Dell. But, why is IDRP not pushed forward anymore (in favor of BGP)? Geert-Jan responded that people are afraid of change and BGP is a known, established protocol. Geert-Jan reported on developments at the San Jose IETF last December: - documents that moved forward to proposed standards - default hop limit (TTL) discussed: 64? or 255? - IPv6 on token ring - small changes in the tunneling document - University of New Hampshire made operability tests: - 2/3 got neighbor discovery right this time - only 1/4 of the implementations had serious problems - Mike O'Dell's 8+8 proposal - 6bone will become and official IETF WG News about implementations - Some manufactures working on it - new alpha version in Singapour - INRIA published new linux version - IBM - Cisco (not official yet) - Novell (new IPv6 version for IPX) - BayNetworks is also working on it - first release mid 1997 - available for testing now An overview was presented of the 8+8 proposals from Mike O'Dell and Masataka Ohta. (Slides are available at: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/presentations/ripe-m-25-gl-8+8.ps) There will be a meeting about 8+8 soon. Shall RIPE members attend? Daniel stated that it is difficult to form a RIPE opinion after this short tutorial. However, it should be pursued, as it could help scaling. Yet, he doesn't think that 8+8 proposal introduces much additional delay in the IPv6 deployment, it mainly discusses issues that aren't specified yet. The general opinion of this group is to wait for a new proposal. The RIPE is not a standards making body (the IETF is), but RIPE can take a message to the 8+8 meeting from the RIPE IPv6 WG. Daniel asked this group if people want provider based IPv6 addresses now? IMR Editor [Page 21] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings 3) Database Working Group - Wilfred Woeber Not going through the action items - do that in the plenary - deal with the technical content in this session. Presentation by David Kessens - RIDE Registry Information Database Exchange Formats (RIDE). Why do we need RIDE (i.e., a standard exchange between registries)? There is a trend to see more registries everywhere. At the same time, different registries use different formats. The idea is to keep their own databases and technologies, but use an exchange. - How to succeed this time? Keep it simple, no political problems, and everybody can use their own format. - What will RIDE do? Define which data we want to exchange and what we will call the data. For example, auth-num AS226 translates to: dataterm `ASN' has a value of `AS226'. - Define standardized data formats for Internet Registries (IP routing, domain registries). - Define how one can access the data (HTTP, FTP, other...). There are many possibilities. - Define how one can find the data. Eventually, define a distribution system to access and modify data. But first, right now, just keep it simple. Majordomo email list: ride-request@isi.edu, with: subscribe ride. Web site: www.isi.edu/~davidk/ride What is the timeframe? Will there be an IETF WG chartered? David stated that this will happen within a year. See the web pages for updates. IMR Editor [Page 22] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings RIPE Database Inconsistencies - Carol Orange Student Project on database inconsistencies was initiated, with input provided RIPE NCC contributors: Daniel, Ambrose MaGee, and Carol via a mid October 1996 staff survey. Taxonomy of Inconsistencies: -garbage in person/role entities -invalid InterNIC's nic-handles (auto1) -non-existent object references -multiple person objects (with different NIC handles, with and without NIC handles -Role references in admic-c Person Objects - What's in there: -Person Objects 99637 -With NIC Handle 55479 -Never referenced in database 16600 -Names occurring two times 3398 -Objects Involved 8696 References/Roles to Persons (graphic chart shown) What's found of 240231 objects: - 101499 person/role objects - 333103 references to person/role References were found: - 134467 by name - 145341 NIC handle - 53295 not found (15% can't be found) What in the 53295 references? - 29826 - "see remarks" - 7798 - "not maintained" - 7471 - "non existent person/role" - 7123 - "-" - 293 - telephone numbers - 280 - email addresses IMR Editor [Page 23] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings Constraints: - Internal (object) = syntactic, semantic - External (object) = referential, inter object Enforcement or Input: - Internal - input checks - External - checks - DNS (validity of data) 1) Case Study - Suppose we decide the NIC handle is a unique key for person/role? Input - enforce this - give somebody a unique RIPE NIC handle, references to a person/role. Check the existence of it - what about non-RIPE handles? Input to local IRs if this is important or a good/bad idea to them?? It is currently an open issue. 2) Case Study - cleanup - the data is yours! If the RIPE NCC can't modify, who does? 70% have no maintainer, 41% no email, 84% no modify. Reference issues: - 140150 of 328585 have NIC handles - What to do about the 188435? RIPE Database Update - Carol Orange New documentation, statistics, open issues and plans. RIPE-153 is a new document produced by Ambrose MaGee. Available via the RIPE database (give URL: www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-153.html). IMR Editor [Page 24] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings 4) RIPE Plenary - Rob Blokzijl At the opening of this plenary, Rob announced the new addition of an attendance fee for these meetings. The last 18 of 25 RIPE meetings were paid by NIKHEF. Rob has agreed to be the RIPE chair for another two years. He noted that the RIPE community is saddened by the passing of Phil Jones this last December to cancer. Phil was a long time advocate of RIPE. The RIPE 25 minutes were approved, and outstanding action items were gone over. RIPE NCC Ticketing System (RTT) - Maldwyn Morris Maldwyn reported on the RIPE NCC's RTT. It is a system for taking, passing messages to the hostmasters - passing information on in the end to the local ISPs. RFC 1297, "NOC Internal Integrated Trouble Ticket System Functional Specification Wishlist ("NOC TT REQUIREMENTS") was the reference. The specific requirements are bsd/SUNOS, mh mail-based, source provided and well supported. Other reasons for using RTT - .sit files. The RIPE NCC Hostmasters were trained on RTT, including maintenance skills. As of last August there were 4000 tickets and 20000 messages in the system. The next plan is to add a user interface system. TERENA Web Caching Project - John Martin There is a new TERENA project called, CHOICE (Co-operative Hierarchical Object Indexing and Caching for Europe). Why CHOICE? There are two related projects 1) CHOC (Co-op Hierarchical Object Caching). CHOC Objective's include to promote the deployment of caching. 2) NLANR. It is U.S. NSF funded. CHOC is linking with this initiative, and coordinating with other caching projects in Europe (e.g., DESIRE, etc.). One of the CHOC activities is to establish a TERENA task force, and the creation and maintenance of documentation. They are NOT concerned about configuration of software and hardware, as they cannot determine a country/networking caching policy for them. The email list is: tf-cache@terena.nl. There are approximately 250 people currently on the emailing list. The first meeting was September 26, 1996. The next meeting was held on January 23, 1997. You may join in via the mailing list. IMR Editor [Page 25] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings TERENA Report on the European CERT (SIRCE) - Don Stikvoort SIRCE = Security Incident Response Coordination for Europe Europe has ~25% of all Internet hosts. There are hundreds of registered security incidents per year. There are twelve fully established "CERTS" in Europe. Ten more are to be established. Currently, DARPA pays for their coordination. 1988 Internet Worm 1990 FIRST: Forum of CERTS (first European CERT - SPAN in France) 1993 Birth of EuroCERT idea 1994 RARE CERT Task Force (report ConCERT-in-E, inCERT) 1995 Task Forces CERTS in Europe 1996 Budapest JENC - TAG and SIRCE TAG (Technical Advisory Group) was created last summer by the JENC (Joint European Networking Conference) on advice of the CERTS in Europe. TAG did a comparison with experts from the field and sent out a proposal solicitation for a pilot project. The results were three proposals. One was withdrawn, the remaining two met all their demands. The UKERNA/DANTE proposal ranked first. The UKERNA/DANTE mix was desirable because UKERNA brings in operational experience. JANET- CERT runs the operations (Dennis Jackson, et. al.) The next sept of the TAG is to secure funding for this pilot project. DARPA is currently paying right now, but not much longer. SIRCE should be a pilot for 30 months, but offer stable service before that. It should have established and trusted services after that time period. IMR Editor [Page 26] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings RIPE Open Discussion on the IAHC and its Draft Proposal Rob stated that the aim of this discussion is to obtain input from the RIPE attendees to give to the IAHC (Internet International Ad Hoc Committee). URL: http://www.iahc.org. The deadline the IAHC placed for comments is right during the RIPE meetings and the APRICOT meetings the week after! Meanwhile, the IAHC needs the input. Some very interesting discussion and opinions ensued from the RIPE meeting attendees about the IAHC in this session. The general consensus is that this group is NOT happy with the IAHC as a body and the draft proposal they have out. Rob Blokzijl's personal view, not as Chair of RIPE speaking about the draft: 1) No where in the draft proposal is there a clear statement of problems to be solved. Solutions are presented to problems that are not presented very well. 2) .com domain contention of names. The result is to create additional domains. Why try to create more? How does that solve anything? 3) Trademark issues/Legislation. 4) The draft at the very end is not a new idea. A "user-friendly" directory service is not new! There are interesting new concepts, and it takes care of U.S. centric competition. Picked by lottery is a new concept. Christopher Wilkinson of the EC (European Community) Christopher Wilkinson of the EC Telecommunications Directorate was at this meeting and gave a brief talk about the EC's interested in the IAHC and its activities. He stated he was at the RIPE meetings specifically on a fact finding mission of how the RIPE community felt about IAHC. He said he wanted to get a reading on what Europeans should do about this. Why is the EC interested? The Internet growth and development is #3 or #4 of the EC's top level agenda. He stated that when the EC read the IAHC draft, they saw the following that "stuck out": IMR Editor [Page 27] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings - lack of European participation (token representation of Australia and Japan). He met with Bob Shaw and Albert Tramposch (IAHC members) and he stated to this group that Shaw and Tramposch agree with this. - problem with trademarks - scalibility - new registries and how they should be allocated He stated that he would be taking careful notes of the RIPE comments and take them back to the EC. The EC wants to the use the RIPE input to use in the EC response to the IAHC. If the IAHC does set up an international board of trustees, is that something Europe wants? Or take a separate view? If IAHC goes ahead with the "licensing" of new iTLD registries, what will these new organization look like? Rob stated that he felt that this is primarily a U.S. problem. Don't export it to Europe. Christopher Wilkinson stated that he met with the two IAHC members (Shaw and Tramposch) last Friday, January 17th at an EC meeting. Frode Greisen, Internet Society (ISOC) Trustee, responded to Rob's statements, since ISOC pushed Don Heath (President of the Internet Society) to form IAHC. He mentioned that Jon Postel proposed this concept first. There is a genuine thread of fragmentation of the Internet (AlterNIC, as an example). Is this an American problem (impatient with NSI and the "money making machine")? It is a smaller problem than the bigger picture. Consider making options for improvement. Competition may be able to solve some of these problems (especially in the telecommunications field). Look more positively about this re-regulation. Internet has been able to grow. Be careful to say how governments need to control. Rob stated that lumping together a wide range of problems, and just say competition will solve it and take it step by step in a certain timeframe is not optimistic. The IAHC is trying to do everything at the same time. This is very scary with proposed timeframe. It created a technical solution to legal problems. Don't try and make our technology a solution to solve problems the telephone system solved 30-40 years ago. Other comments by the group included, that Internet engineering doesn't have a DNS problem, so don't expect Internet engineers to solve the problems that whatever mankind has had! In regards to the IMR Editor [Page 28] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings crisis of Directory Services and tools, they are archaic. Those protocols are outdated today. The need is to build those tools in order for people to come. Mike Norris mentioned that this is not just a "telephone" move problem. The IAHC is proposing an "interim" solution. There is a pressing need for interim solutions in the U.S., NOT Europe. Energy spent on this effort leaves no strength left to develop Directory Services. In the interim, the IAHC will create seven new domains. One year form now, they will need 7 more new domains! What is the IAHC trying to solve? The problems are US centric. They should focus on the .US domain, not global problem solving. The CORE (Council of Registrars). RIPE is a potential candidate in Europe. RIPE cannot afford to stay out of this process any longer, as part of the new organization of CORE is the gTLD registries. There is a discrepancy. If Europe tells the IAHC, "don't do it" (creating new registries) and if they don't follow the recommendation, then RIPE should be at the CORE table if they go on with their plans. RIPE should be in on the process. There should be push back at the IAHC, as RIPE, APNIC, etc., not represented. The IAHC is too lawyer top heavy. The whole thing should be pushed back and the whole issue revisited. They will not be implementors nor the administrators of this decision. Send it back. RIPE NCC report (see Registries report, section 1) - Daniel Karrenberg Regarding the CERTS and proposals to TAG. RIPE-149 citation, proposal is RIPE-150. (See URL: www.ripe.net/docs/) - Security issues are important, but not important enough to spend money on it. The solicitation for proposals was all too rushed. - In 1997 there is a revised (RIPE-144) activity plan. Registration services are a serious effort that is going on with quality control this year. - Audit control (auditing of local registries for inconsistencies) (see RIPE Databases Inconsistencies, section 3 ) - More new activities planned (more global routing, tracking) IMR Editor [Page 29] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings - Plan to double staff by the end of 1997 of up to 32 people. Will move the NCC from NIKHEF into center of Amsterdam. The move will take place in April/May 1997. Moving because of space problems. NIKHEF has been very accommodating, but options were not viable. - New address - Singel #258 - to the left of the Main Post Office. There are about 40 pubs in the area :-) The RIPE will also separate from TERENA. RIPE will be more responsible for their finances. In regards to the TERENA split, the NCC's budget is bigger than TERENA's at this point in time. A case of the tail wagging the dog situation. The split will take place on January 1st, 1998. IMR Editor [Page 30] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings Appendix A IETF REPORT RIPE Meeting Amsterdam, The Netherlands January 20 - 23, 1997 Joyce K. Reynolds Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California Marina del Rey, California USA jkrey@isi.edu The IETF - Open, volunteer engineering group - Nine areas - 80 Working Groups - Works via EMail and meetings - Three meetings per year - About 1000 attendees per meeting - Participants include network technical staff from companies (vendors, users), universities (non-profit R&D), etc. - Results = Documents describing Internet Standards The Request for Comments Document Series - Started in 1969 - Now have ~2000 - Since RFC 500, all are available on-line IMR Editor [Page 31] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings - Distribution is primarily via the network (FTP, EMail, and the Web) IETF Areas - Applications - Internet - Network Management & Operations - Routing - Transport - Security - User Services IETF REPORT San Jose IETF Stats 2100 Total Attendees 945 First Timers (45% increase) 87 Groups met (This includes WGs, BOFs, Directorates, the IAB, and IAHC) [Some in multiple sessions.] The User Services Area of the IETF - Started in 1989 as one Working Group within the IETF (USWG). - January 1991 - User Services Area (USV) created. - Currently, we have 10 WGs. IMR Editor [Page 32] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings The User Services Area of the IETF - IETF User Services Area is a second level service. - We are NOT an end-user specific entity. - ALL levels of users, not just novice. Helping New Users Task for the Networks (e.g., Regionals) - Newsletters - New User Guides - Etc., etc. IETF User Services is second level. Dealing with real users is first level. IETF User Services provides information to people doing first level services. Interaction with IETF Areas Coordination with other IETF Areas to work together on topics of common interest. International Cooperation Interaction with other international user services organizations. New/Updated Publications Internet Users Glossary, FYI 18, RFC 1983, August 1996. Catalogue of Network Training Materials, FYI 29, RFC 2007, October 1996. IMR Editor [Page 33] Report of the 26th RIPE Meetings New Things - IETF IRE WG - in process of being chartered - ARIN Registry for Numbers - http://rs.internic.net/arin - IAHC Committee for Domain Names - http://www.iahc.org - IPv6 "6Bone" - http://www-6bone.lbl.gov/6bone - ETINU - "Environment to Inspire Network Users" http://www.terena.nl/ New iTLDs and what is IAHC doing about it? www.iahc.org announcements new registries summary new registries document IETF WEB PAGE www.ietf.org IANA REPORT ----------- Here is the list of IANA assignments for the month of January: AS-Nunbers: Blocks 1 BOOTP-DHCP Extension Codes 2 Cable Address Blocks 3 Country Codes 2 Media Types 2 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 4 Multicast Addresses: Blocks 1 Payload Types 1 PPP Field Assignments 2 Port Assignments 38 SGMP Vendor Specific Codes 5 Josh Elliott (elliott@isi.edu) IMR Editor [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 RFC-EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of January, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Beginning of month 7 9 46 | 62 | New 23 0 0 | 23 | Processed 8 6 32 | 46 ---------------------------------------------------------------- End of month 22 3 14 39 The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Mary Kennedy <rfc-ed@isi.edu> IMR Editor [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 CALENDAR -------- Last update 02/10/97 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: <meeting-planning@ietf.org> Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- <http://www.ietf.org/home.html> Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1997 ----------- Feb. 17-19 Internet Expo & EMail World San Jose, CA Feb. 24-26 2nd Annual VRML '97 Monterey, CA Feb. 25-26 EEMA Conf & Exhibit Berlin Mar. 1-5 ACM '97: The Next 50 yrs. of Computing San Jose, CA Mar. 3-7 1997 Spring Simulation Interoperablity Workshop Orlando, FL IMR Editor [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 Mar. 10-11 10th Int'l Unicode Conf & Global Computing Showcase Mainz, Germany Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 '97 Irvine, CA 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 Mar. 24-27 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Apr. 2-3 Europia '97 Edinburgh, Scotland Apr. 7-10 EMA'97 Philadelphia, PA Apr. 7-11 38th IETF (host by Fed. Exp) Memphis, TN Apr. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Brocade) Palm Springs, CA Apr. 7-11 IEEE INFOCOM '97 Kobe, Japan Apr. 7-12 W3C "Accessibility" 6th Int'l WWW Conference Santa Clara, CA Apr. 9-11 ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on Autonmous Decentralized Sys. Berlin, Germany Apr. 22-24 Internet Expo & EMail World Chicago, IL Apr. 27-May 2 ATM Forum Chicago, IL May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 May 5-9 NATO Workshop Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-15 8th JENC8 Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-16 IFIP/IEEE San Diego, CA May 15-16 TERENA General Assembly Edinburgh, Scotland May 19-21 7th Int'l Workshop on Ntwk & Oper for Digital Audio & Video St. Louis, MO May 21-23 RIPE 27 Dublin May 27-29 IS&N '97 4th Int'l Conf. on Intelligence in Services & Networks Como, Italy May 28-30 Web Developer '97 Chicago, IL Jun. 2-6 IEEE Multimedia Systems '97 Ottawa, CANADA Jun. 3-5 Internet World Mexico '97 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 (joint with ENM) Montreal, CANADA Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jun. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (host by Boeing) Seattle, WA Jun. 16-18 EEMA'97 Netherlands Jun. 23-25 4th IEEE Wrkshp on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication Systems (HPCS'97) Sani Beach, Greece Jun. 24-27 INET '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jul. 14-17 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA IMR Editor [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 Jul. 20-25 ATM Forum Montreal, CANADA Jul. 24-25 DMS '97 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (host by Hitachi) Honolulu, HI Aug. 11-15 39th IETF (host by German ISOC) Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 (tenative) Internet Expo & EMail World Boston, MA Aug. 13-15 IEEE 25th Annual Int'l Computer Software and Application Conference Washington, DC Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland Sep. 10-12 IDMS '97 w/ ACM SIGMM, GMD, IEEE Darmstadt, Germany Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Sep. 21-26 ATM Forum Paris, France Sep. 26-30 3rd ACM/IEEE on Mobile Computing & Networking 1997 (MobiCom'97) Budapest, Hungary Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 (host by FSI) Tucson, AZ Oct. 7-10 COMDEX Internet '97 and Object World '97 Internet Forum Europe (IFE) & Object World Frankfurt (OWF) Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 23-25 ETSI Nice, France Nov. 3-5 Int'l Test Conference 1997 Sheraton Washington Hotel Washington, DC Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Nov. 3-7 SPIE Int'l Symposium Voice, Video & Data Communications Conf. on Performance & Control of Network System - Special Session on Switching & Traffic Mgmt in High Speed Networks Dallas, TX Nov. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary Queen Elizabeth, Montreal Nov. 19-21 ICCC'97 Cannes, France Nov. 24-26 PROMSMmNet '97 Multimedia Networking Santiago, Chile Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-3 30th IEEE/ACM Int'l Symposium on Microarchitecture RTC, NC Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (tentative) Washington, DC Host by NewBridge Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) IMR Editor [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 1998 ----------- Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum TBA Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA Mar. 29-Apr 2 IEEE INFOCOM '98 - Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum TBA SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum TBA Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum TBA Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Dec. 6-11 ATM Forum TBA Dec. 6-11 43rd IETF Adelaide, Australia Host: Univ. of Adelaide 1999 ----- Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland IMR Editor [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 TERENA CALENDAR updated 3 January 1997 --------------- This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail <secretariat@terena.nl>. ********************************************************************** NAME / DATE LOCATION TERENA General Assembly GA7 15-16 May Edinburgh TERENA Technical Committee 22 January Amsterdam TERENA Executive Committee 4 February Amsterdam JENC8 Programme Committee 12 February Amsterdam Conference Committee 17 January Amsterdam TF-CACHE -------- 23 January Amsterdam EEMA ---- Spring Regional Conference and Exhibition 25-26 February Berlin ENPG ---- 9-10 January Amsterdam IMR Editor [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 European Commission ------------------- Educational Multimedia Information Day 10 January Brussels ICT Partnership - General Meeting 30 January Brussels EWOS ---- EWOS Assembly 2, 25-26 February Brussels EWOS Assembly 3, 13-14 May " EWOS Assembly 4, 16-17 September " EWOS Assembly 5, 2-3 December " Workshops 36: 20-24 January Brussels 37: 7-11 April " 38: 16-20 June " 39: 27-31 October " IETF ---- 38, 7-11 April Memphis, Tenn. 39, 11-15 August Munich, Germany ISOC ---- Symposium 10-11 February San Diego, CA NATO ---- Workshop 5-9 May Edinburgh RIPE ---- RIPE 26 20-22 January Amsterdam RIPE27 21-23 May Dublin IMR Editor [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference "Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape" 12-15 May Edinburgh, Scotland This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele-communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications, and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is currently being developed Subject Areas: * Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering * User Support, Training and Education * Security and Management Issues * Information Systems and Distributed Applications * Economic and Political Issues For information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 email: <jenc8-sec@terena.nl> http://www.terena.nl/jenc8 or JENC8 Local Organization c/o Concorde Services Ltd Unit 5, SECC Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland email: <jenc8@ed.ac.uk> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMR Editor [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 OTHER CONFERENCES Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) -------------------------------------------- 27-31 January Excelsior Hotel, Hong Kong Target of this conference is primarilyfor those who run (or who plan to run) large networks, particularly Internet Service Providers. For information see: http://www.apricot.net/program.html Internet Society's 5th Annual Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security ------------------------------------------------------- 10-11 February San Diego, California, USA The symposium is intended for people interested in the practical aspects of network and distributed system security. It focuses on actual system design and implementation, rather than theory. For information, see ISOC web page: http://info.isoc.org.80/conferences/ndss97 Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997 ---------------------------------------- 10-12 February 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> Tenth International Unicode Conference and Global Computing Showcase -------------------------------------------------------------------- 10-12 March Mainz Hilton, Mainz, Germany Conference will bring together industry-wide experts on global Internet and Unicode, internationalization and localization, implementation of Unicode in operating systems and applications, fonts, text layout, and multilingual computing. For information: http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10 and/or http://unicode.org IMR Editor [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 IEEE INFOCOM '97 16th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer & Communications Societies ------------------------------------------------- 7-11 April 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 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/ The Arab World and the Information Society - Regional Symposium --------------------------------------------------------------- 5-9 May Tunis, Tunisia Organized by ITU and UNESCO, in cooperation with the government of Tunisia and in the framework of RAITNET (Regional Arab Information Technology Network) For information see www site: http://www.irsit.rnrt.tn/symposium and/or email <symposium@irsit.rnrt.tn IS&N '97 4th International Conference on Intelligence in Services & Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------- 27-29 May Como, Italy Title: "Technology for Co-operative Competition". The conference will provide a forum for the discussion of issues and the exchange of outstanding technical results related to the engineering of advanced communication services and experiments on their use. Sponsored by the European Commission and Italtel, and supported by ACTS projects in IS&N domain. Further information is available on WWW: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/SONAH/Acts/domain5 IMR Editor [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 ECOOP'97 11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ------------------------------------------------------- 9-13 June University of Jyv=E4skyl=E4, Jyv=E4skyl=E4, Finland For information see www page: http://www.trese.cs.utwente.nl/ecoop97 or http://www.ecoop97.jyu.fi EEMA'97 - Annual Conference and Exhibition Electronic Commerce and Messaging in Europe, "The Premier European Forum for Advanced Business" ------------------------------------------------- 16-18 June Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands Issues of the conference will be: Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services; Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European Initiatives; Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology & Management Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots. For information contact WWW: http://www.eema.org/ International Distributed Conference on Network Interoperability ---------------------------------------------------------------- 16-18 June Madeira Organized by ACTS project GINA and sponsored by the European commission, this conference is open for all involved in networking solutions for information society. Paper submission by 28 February Contact for information and submissions email <rao@telscom.ch Local organizer email <rp@cet.pt INET'97 - Workshop ------------------ 15-21 June Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Focus of the workshop will be upon assisting countries that are either not yet connected to the Internet or are in the process of developing and enhancing an initial national Internet. For copy of announcement e-mail <workshop-apply@isoc.org> Apply for admission by 7 February 1997 to e-mail <workshop-application@isoc.org> IMR Editor [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 INET'97 7th Annual Internet Society Conference --------------------------------------- 24-27 June Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education, commerce and societies throughout the world. Information on INET97, the K-12 workshop, the Tutorials, and the associated Developing Countries Workshop, along with an abstract http://isoc.org/inet or, for information via e-mail: - for details of submission procedure email <inet-program-interest@isoc.org> - for other information email <inet97@isoc.org> FIRST - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams 9th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Workshop ------------------------------------------------------- 23-27 June Marriott Hotel, Bristol, England This annual workshop is part of FIRST's ongoing program of education and raising awareness for its members and others. Paper submission deadline 15 January For information see: http://www.first.org/ FMOODS'97 - Second IFIP Interrnational Workshop on Formal Methods for Open-based Distributed Systems ---------------------------------------------------- 21-23 July Canterbury, United Kingdom Objective is to provide an integrated forum for the presentation of research in several related fields. Paper submission deadline 14 January 1997 For all information: e-mail <fmoods97-request@uck.ac.uk> or web page: http://alethea.u,c.ac.uk/Dept/Computing/Research/NDS/FMOODS/ IMR Editor [Page 46] Internet Monthly Report January 1997 IDMS'97 European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services --------------------------------------------------------------- 10-12 September Darmstadt, Germany In cooperation with ACM SIGM, Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, GMD, IEEE Computer Society and VDE ITG. The purpose of this 4th workshop is to provide a forum for the presentation, exploration and discussion of technologies and their advancements in the broad field of interactive distributed multimedia systems. Paper submission due 1 March 1997 For additional information se www: http://www.th-darmstadt.de/idms97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMR Editor [Page 47]
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