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August 1994
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
DANTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34
NYSERNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39
USER SERVICES REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 40
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 51
Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 54
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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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IETF Monthly Report for August, 1994
1. The 30th meeting of the IETF was held in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada from July 25 through July 29, 1994. The meeting was
hosted by The University of Toronto. There were just over 700
attendees, and over 70 Working Groups, BOFs, and directorate
meetings were held during the week.
The next IETF meeting will be in San Jose, California from
December 5-9, and is being hosted by Sun. Following that, the
IETF will be meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts (a suburb of
Boston) from April 3-7, 1995. This meeting is being co-hosted
by FTP Software and NEARNet.
2. We are in the final stages of arranging the summer IETF meeting
which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from July 17-21, 1995.
Our hosts for the second European IETF meeting is NORDUnet. When
all the arrangements have been made, a notice will be sent to
the IETF Announcement list.
Remember that information on future IETF meetings (both
tentative and confirmed), can be always be found in the file
0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories.
This and other IETF information can also be viewed via the
World-Wide Web. The URL for the IETF Home page is
http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.us/home.html
3. The IESG approved or approved the following two Protocol Actions
during the month of August, 1994:
o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) be published as a Proposed
Standard.
o Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux) be published as a
Proposed Standard.
4. The IESG issued ten Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
August, 1994:
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o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
<draft-ietf-imap-imap4-05> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms <draft-ietf-imap-auth-01>
for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2 AND IMAP2BIS
<draft-ietf-imap-compat-00> for consideration as an
Informational Document.
o DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4
<draft-ietf-imap-model-00> for consideration as an
Informational Document.
o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information
<draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-01> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o RIP Version 2 MIB Extension <draft-ietf-ripv2-mibext2-02>
for consideration as a Draft Standard.
o RIP Version 2 Protocol Analysis
<draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-analysis-01> for consideration as
an Informational Document.
o RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement
<draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-applic-01> for consideration as
a Draft Standard.
o Requirements for Internet gateways <RFC 1009> for comments
to reclassifying as Historic.
o Exterior Gateway Protocol formal specification <RFC 0904> for
comments to reclassifying as Historic.
5. Two Working Groups were created during this period:
New Internet Routing and Addressing Architecture (nimrod)
Inter-Domain Routing (idr)
Additionally, seven Working Groups were concluded:
Border Gateway Protocol (bgp)
User Documents Revisions (userdoc2)
OSI IDRP for IP Over IP (ipidrp)
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Networked Information Retrieval (nir)
Modem Management (modemmgt)
ATM MIB (atommib)
Relational Database Management Systems MIB (rdbmsmib)
Note that the Inter-Domain Routing (idr) Working Group is
actually the merging of the bgp and ipidrp working groups.
6. A total of 51 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of August, 1994:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(idr) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction
<draft-ietf-idr-bgp4ospf-interact-07.txt>
(wnils) o Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service
<draft-ietf-wnils-whois-03.txt>
(avt) o Packetization of H.261 video streams
<draft-ietf-avt-video-packet-02.txt>
(iiir) o Resource Transponders
<draft-ietf-iiir-transponders-02.txt>
(rolc) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
<draft-ietf-rolc-nhrp-02.txt>
(iiir) o A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information
Service <draft-ietf-iiir-vision-02.txt>
(uri) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
<draft-ietf-uri-url-06.txt>
(uri) o Uniform Resource Names
<draft-ietf-uri-resource-names-02.txt>
(mhsds) o Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project
for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information
in Support of X.400 Routing
<draft-ietf-mhsds-long-bud-intro-02.txt>
(none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Node in Fibre
Channel Standard using SMIv2
<draft-chu-fibre-channel-mib-02.txt>
(none) o Mapping between X.400 P772 and RFC-822
<draft-onions-x400p772-822-mapping-02.txt>
(mailext) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large
and Binary MIME Messages
<draft-ietf-mailext-smtp-binary-05.txt>
(ripv2) o RIP Version 2 MIB Extension
<draft-ietf-ripv2-mibext2-02.txt>
(none) + Simple Object Look-up protocol (SOLO)
<draft-huitema-solo-00.txt>
(sipp) o IPv6 Authentication Header
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<draft-ietf-sipp-ap-04.txt>
(none) o Instructions to RFC Translators
<draft-ohta-translation-instr-01.txt>
(imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
<draft-ietf-imap-imap4-05.txt>
(none) o Requirements for Uniform Resource Names
<draft-sollins-urn-02.txt>
(none) o Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving, and
Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory Schema
<draft-howes-x500-schema-02.txt>
(iab) o Proposed Cooperative Agreement Between the Internet
Society and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6
<draft-iab-mou2jtc1-03.txt>
(wnils) o Architecture of the WHOIS++ service
<draft-ietf-wnils-whois-arch-01.txt>
(printmib) o Printer MIB <draft-ietf-printmib-printer-mib-03.txt>
(uri) o Functional Requirements for Internet Resource
Locators <draft-ietf-uri-irl-fun-req-01.txt>
(none) o POP3 AUTHentication command
<draft-myers-pop3-auth-01.txt>
(mailext) o SMTP 521 reply code
<draft-ietf-mailext-smtp-521-01.txt>
(none) + Representing Service Quality In a Multi-Service
Internet <draft-davin-qosrep-00.txt>
(ospf) + OSPF MD5 Authentication <draft-ietf-ospf-md5-00.txt>
(none) + Service Management For a Next-Generation Internet
Protocol <draft-davin-rsvfms-00.txt>
(wnils) + How to interact with a Whois++ mesh
<draft-ietf-wnils-whois-mesh-00.txt>
(notary) + Multipart/Report
<draft-ietf-notary-mime-report-00.txt>
(none) + Communicating Presentation Information in Internet
Messages: The Content-Disposition Header
<draft-dorner-content-header-00.txt>
(none) + Simple Secure DNS <draft-ohta-simple-dns-00.txt>
(none) + Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital
Document Library
<draft-lagoze-dienst-protocol-00.txt>
(imap) + DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4
<draft-ietf-imap-model-00.txt>
(mailext) + Tags for the identification of languages
<draft-ietf-mailext-lang-tag-00.txt>
(none) + An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation
<draft-rekhter-ipng-arch-IPv6-addr-00.txt>
(none) + Summary of Mail and Messaging Standards
<draft-robinson-mail-summary-00.txt>
(none) + Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet
Domains (2nd Revision)
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<draft-robinson-newtelex-00.txt>
(pem) + Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
Part V: ANSI X9.17-Based Key Management
<draft-ietf-pem-ansix9.17-00.txt>
(none) + Bitmap, Cursor and Icon Image Formats
<draft-robinson-bitmap-00.txt>
(bgp) + Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration
of an Autonomous System (AS)
<draft-ietf-bgp-autosys-guide-00.txt>
(none) + A Convention for Human-Readable 128-bit Keys
<draft-mcdonald-readable-keys-00.txt>
(mailext) + SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
<draft-ietf-mailext-pipeline-00.txt>
(mailext) + SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart
<draft-ietf-mailext-checkp-00.txt>
(none) + ARP over HIPPI <draft-renwick-hippiarp-00.txt>
(none) + IP over HIPPI <draft-renwick-hippiip-00.txt>
(iiir) + Using the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol in
the Internet Environment
<draft-ietf-iiir-z3950-00.txt>
(none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the HIPPI
Interface Type <draft-renwick-hippimib-00.txt>
(none) + Telnet Authentication: Simple-Strong Authentication
<draft-schoch-telnet-ssa-00.txt>
(uri) + Relative Uniform Resource Locators
<draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-00.txt>
(none) + Recommendations for OSI NSAP usage in IP6
<draft-carpenter-ip6-nsap-map-00.txt>
7. There were 33 RFC's published during the month of August, 1994:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1650 PS (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Ethernet-like Interface Types using SMIv2
RFC1664 E (x400ops) Using the Internet DNS to Distribute
RFC1327 Mail Address Mapping Tables
RFC1666 PS (snanau) Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA
NAUs using SMIv2
RFC1667 I (none) Modeling and Simulation Requirements for
IPng
RFC1668 I (none) Unified Routing Requirements for IPng
RFC1669 I (none) Market Viability as a IPng Criteria
RFC1670 I (none) Input to IPng Engineering Considerations
RFC1671 I (none) IPng White Paper on Transition and Other
Considerations
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RFC1672 I (none) Accounting Requirements for IPng
RFC1673 I (none) Electric Power Research Institute
Comments on IPng
RFC1674 I (none) A Cellular Industry View of IPng
RFC1675 I (none) Security Concerns for IPng
RFC1676 I (none) INFN Requirements for an IPng
RFC1677 I (none) Tactical Radio Frequency Communication
Requirments for IPng
RFC1678 I (none) IPng Requirements of Large Corporate
Networks
RFC1679 I (none) HPN Working Group Input to the IPng
Requirements Solicitation
RFC1680 I (none) IPng Support for ATM Services
RFC1681 I (none) On Many Addresses per Host
RFC1682 I (none) IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis
RFC1683 I (none) Multiprotocol Interoperability In IPng
RFC1684 I (none) Introduction to White Pages services
based on X.500
RFC1685 I (none) Writing X.400 O/R Names
RFC1686 I (none) IPng Requirements: A Cable Television
Industry Viewpoint
RFC1687 I (none) A Large Corporate User's View of IPng
RFC1688 I (none) IPng Mobility Considerations
RFC1689 I (nir) A Status Report on Networked Information
Retrieval: Tools and Groups
RFC1690 I (none) Introducing the Internet Engineering and
Planning Group (IEPG)
RFC1691 I (none) The Document Architecture for the Cornell
Digital Library
RFC1692 PS (none) Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux)
RFC1694 DS (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS
Interfaces using SMIv2
RFC1695 PS (atommib) Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM
Management Version 8.0 using SMIv2
RFC1696 PS (modemmgt) Modem Management Information Base (MIB)
using SMIv2
RFC1697 PS (rdbmsmib) Relational Database Management System
(RDBMS) Management Information Base (MIB)
using SMIv2
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
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ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING
----------------------------------
NETWORK STATUS SUMMARY
----------------------
ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 13% in August'94.
An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 5.5% was
observed during the month of August.
AUGUST BACKBONE TRAFFIC STATISTICS
----------------------------------
The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using
SNMP interface counters) was 70,954,833,675 on T3 ENSS
interfaces, up 13.5% from July. The total packet count into the
network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 71,692,393,856 up
13.0% from July.
ROUTER FORWARDING TABLE STATISTICS
----------------------------------
The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet
during August was 18,846 up 5.56% from July.
The number of network destinations configured for
announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets)
during August was 17,153.
BGP-4/CIDR DEPLOYMENT STATUS
----------------------------
As of September 7th '94, we have observed the withdrawal of
7,714 class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding
tables that are now represented by 1,518 configured aggregates.
Among these configured aggregates:
1,319 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another
aggregate).
1,081 of these are actively announced to ANSnet.
885 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other
196 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements).
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762 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one
configured more specific route.
742 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their
configured more specific routes.
717 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+)
of their more specific routes.
For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu:
pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr-savings.
For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see
merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings.
ROUTING STABILITY MEASURED ON THE T3 NETWORK
--------------------------------------------
Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring
short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration
or less). This is intended as a measure of overall system
stability rather than complete connectivity.
The month of August resulted in greater backbone stability than any
other month during the year. Some instability was experienced due
to planned maintenance required to install new router operating
system software, along with unexpected problems with a gated bug
during reconfiguration.
MONTH overall excluding configs
------ ------- -----------------
1993
January 99.1% 99.5%
February 99.0% 99.5%
March 97.5% 99.1%
April 96.1% 97.2%
May 97.4% 98.0%
June 95.5% 96.6%
July 97.3% 97.7%
August 97.5% 97.9%
September 98.1% 98.5%
October 98.0% 98.3%
November 97.2% N/A
December 96.6% N/A
1994
January 98.7% N/A
February 96.6% N/A
... data collection had to be rewritten for gated ...
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June 99.5% N/A
July 98.7% N/A
August 99.7% N/A
Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability
follows. August was the fist month in 1994 where all AS690 nodes
experienced less than 15 minutes of accumulated instability. Note
that about 1/3 of the nodes experienced no instability at all and
are not included in the count.
MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min
<98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97%
------------------------------------------------------------
January 0 0 1 8 19 55
February 0 0 1 24 19 41
March 0 4 18 23 23 22
April 2 2 3 13 12 57
May 0 4 33 32 15 5
June 3 21 35 18 12 3
July 0 12 28 44 6 1
August 1 5 28 21 17 15
September 1 38 25 10 4 13
October 0 3 3 10 25 50
November 1 2 15 25 24 26
December 0 8 24 46 9 3
January 0 0 4 9 15 54
February 0 4 6 23 40 20
...
June 0 0 0 5 5 67
July 0 7 55 11 10 7
Aug 0 0 0 0 0 67
NOTABLE OUTAGES FOR AUGUST '94
------------------------------
E146 (ARPA) suffered an extended power outage on 08/14. E179
(Sandia) suffered an extended power outage on 08/19.
Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>
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DANTE
-----
__________________________________________________________________
* * A bi-monthly electronic news bulletin
* * reporting on the activities of DANTE,
* the company that provides international
* network services for the European
THE WORKS OF D A N T E community.
No.5, August 1994 Editor: Josefien Bersee
__________________________________________________________________
2 MBPS EUROPANET CONNECTION FOR NORDUNET
Since 1 July 1994 NORDUnet, the network of the Nordic countries,
has had a 2 Mbps connection to EuropaNET. Belgium, Germany, Italy,
The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom already had 2 Mbps
connections.
NEW EBONE GATEWAY ARRANGEMENT
DANTE has organised a new interconnect arrangement between Ebone
and EuropaNET, which has been in place since 1 July 1994. The
arrangement enables France to communicate with the rest of Europe
and vice versa; the interconnection has a capacity of 512 kbps.
CERN (Geneva), as one of the locations where EuropaNET and Ebone
are both present, is used as the actual point of interconnection
but traffic flows in and out of EMPB through DANTE's PoP in
Amsterdam.
CONNECTIVITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
The contract between the European Commission and PTT Telecom to
provide EMPB (EuropaNET) connections to the Czech Republic,
Hungary, and Romania under the EC PHARE Programme was extended from
31 December 1993 to 30 June 1994. Since 1 July PTT Telecom has been
continuing the service which is being funded from the remaining
PHARE budget. However, this funding runs out very shortly.
DANTE has been lobbying both PTT Telecom and the EC to the effect
that termination of the services (at least without a replacement
being put in place) would be very bad. PTT Telecom has now received
a letter from the EC which gives them enough reassurance that
payment will eventually be made from the PHARE 1994 Programme to
keep the present services going.
Both the technical and the funding aspects of the longer term
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continuation of these services will be taken up again once the
management contract for the PHARE 1994 Programme of support for
research networking has been awarded by the EC.
US CONNECTIVITY ISSUES
DANTE will locate the US end of its new 8 Mbps link from Amsterdam
to the US at the Network Access Point (NAP) in New York which is
set up as a result of the new arrangements which have been put in
place by NSF. Another consequence of NSF's changes is that the
trans-(US-)continental broadband network is not available for
general use. As a consequence, DANTE and other non-US organisations
will have to make new arrangements with US service providers for
distribution of their traffic with the US and for transit between
Europe and Asia/Pacific (see also 'Some impressions from the 30th
IETF').
The actual form of the NAP connection still has to be decided on:
the choice will be either to obtain a direct connection or via a US
service provider.
CONNECTION TO KOREA IN PLACE
A 64 kbps line between Europe and Korea has become operational on
23 August 1994. The line provides a direct link between KREONet
(Korea Research Environment Open Network), the Korean national R&D
network and EuropaNET. DANTE was awarded the contract to organise
the connection under the EC EKORN project.
KREONet, one of five government networks in Korea, was launched in
1988 and connects all the major university, government and
commercial research institutes. It provides the Korean research
community with the 'usual' services such as e-mail, file transfer,
remote login etc. DANTE's partner in setting up the connection has
been SERI (Systems Engineering Research Institute), the
organisation that operates, manages and develops KREONet.
EUROCAIRN ACTVITY TAKES OFF
Work on the EuroCAIRN Study Report has started. A contract for this
Project, to specify requirements and options for the setting up of
a Superhighway for the European research community, was awarded to
DANTE in May 1994. The Project team consists of DANTE employees
complemented with a group of external specialists: Robert Cooper
(UKERNA/SuperJANET), Bernhard Stockman (KTH, Stockholm), Maria
Pallares and Chris Broomfield. Istvan Tetenyi, from HUNGARNET
(Hungary) will be joining from October 1994.
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DANTE is organising a meeting with representatives of the national
networks in November 1994 to present the findings of the
preliminary report. The final version of the report will be
delivered in March 1995.
SOME IMPRESSIONS FROM THE 30TH IETF, TORONTO - MICHAEL BEHRINGER
As the title of this article suggests, this is not meant to be a
precise report on the IETF, but rather an informal gathering of a
few personal impressions.
The most interesting decision that was to be made at this summer
IETF 1994 was concerning the next generation of the Internet
Protocol. Due to the current growth rate of routing tables, and the
problems of running out of IP address space, the current version of
the Internet Protocol has to be either updated or completely re-
designed. Three proposals have been discussed as IP next
generation, TUBA, CATNIP and SIPP (I won't explain the details
here). Although it was not clearly stated during the Plenary
Session, it was obvious that the choice for IPng went to SIPP. The
"Simple Internet Protocol Plus" is supposed to tackle a whole range
of problems experienced with the current version 4 of the IP, for
example security aspects.
Another important issue that the Internet has to face during the
coming months is the change in the US infrastructure. The NSFnet
backbone as it is today will disappear and be replaced by a
completely new structure, based on Network Access Points (NAPs).
Four of those neutral interconnection points will be provided and
are currently being set up. The basic idea behind it is that
network providers connect to one or more NAPs and peer there with
other providers. Providers who need transit capacity to remote
spots of the Internet will have to buy it from other providers.
Unfortunately this model only looks at US requirements, without
taking European or other non-US countries' concerns or problems
into consideration. As there are a lot of unknowns in this new
model, it was a heavily discussed item during the IETF, in sessions
as well as off-line.
Apart from those two major topics there were a lot of issues
discussed in the numerous working groups. To list all the work that
was done there would require a lot of paper or storage space. But
the fact that quite a few people present at the IETF did not get
out of the hotel more than once or twice during this week probably
tells enough about the loads of work being done there.
For more information, like proceedings, information on the Internet
Society, working groups, etc. see:
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http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html
WWW SERVER IN PLACE
DANTE has set up its 'thread' in the World Wide Web
<http://www.dante.net/>. The server contains information on all
DANTE services and activities. A picture of EuropaNET and
statistics on EuropaNET backbone traffic will be updated on a
monthly basis. DANTE is also maintaining a picture which gives an
overview of Intercontinental connectivity of the European research
community - via EuropaNET as well as other networks and
arrangements.
____________________________________________________________________
DANTE - Lockton House - Clarendon Road - Cambridge - CB2 2BH - UK
tel +44 223 302992
fax +44 223 303005
E-mail dante@dante.org.uk
S=dante; O=dante; P=dante; A=mailnet; C=fi
WWW server http://www.dante.net/
Gopher server gopher://gopher.dante.net/
____________________________________________________________________
J.Bersee@dante.org.uk (Josefien Bersee)
INTERNIC
--------
INFORMATION SERVICES
Contact Information:
Reference Desk Information
Phone +1 619 455-4600
email info@internic.net
Fax +1 619 455-4640
InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints
Suggestions suggestions@internic.net
Complaints complaints@internic.net
NSF Network News
newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net
newsletter comments newsletter-comments@internic.net
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NICLink
General Information info@internic.net
Problems/bugs niclink-bugs@is.internic.net
InterNIC Seminar Series
General Information seminars@internic.net
Listserv lists
net-happenings majordomo@is.internic.net
net-resources majordomo@is.internic.net
scout-report majordomo@is.internic.net
InfoGuide
Host Name is.internic.net
Host Address 192.153.156.15
URL: http://www.internic.net/
Postal address
InterNIC Information Services
General Atomics
P.O. BOX 85608
San Diego, CA 92186-9784
THE InterNIC INFOGUIDE
The InterNIC InfoGuide is a comprehensive online information
service which provides information about the Internet and online
Internet resources. Accessible through gopher and the WorldWideWeb,
the InterNIC InfoGuide replaces the older InterNIC information
server, the InfoSource. The InfoGuide includes new services such as
the Scout Report and an online hypertext version of the _NSF
Network News_.
To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client
to:
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
or your gopher client to:
is.internic.net
NET-HAPPENINGS
The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information
Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's
SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the
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community announcements of interest to network staffers and end
users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers,
publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network
resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only
mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources
and concentrates them onto one list. To provide better
distribution to a wider audience, net-happenings was turned into a
USENET newsgroup. The group passed its call for votes by a wide
margin and (CFV) was named comp.internet.net-happenings.
To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to:
is.internic.net
and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings.
THE SCOUT REPORT:
A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights
Presently the Scout Report has over 7500 subscribers and the HTML
versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of accesses each
week. A new mailing list was created for easier distribution of
the HTML Scout Report, which is located at scout-report-html.
Since its formation the new list has accumulated nearly 100
subscribers.
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet
community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network
activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights
of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the
Internet during the previous week.
The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats --
electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb. WorldWideWeb versions
of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing
instantaneous browsing of items of interest. Comments and
contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to
scout@internic.net.
How to Get the Scout Report
To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each
Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will
be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail
to:
majordomo@is.internic.net
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In the body of the message, type:
subscribe scout-report youremailaddress
To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW
client to:
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
Gopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services
THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES
InterNIC Information Service's first in-house course, "Learning the
Whole Internet" is now available. This course, based on Ed Krol's
"The Whole Internet" is a one-day seminar that covers the Internet
basics as outlined in "The Whole Internet". Instruction includes
the history and technology behind the Internet, Telnet, FTP, email,
USENET, archie, Gopher, WAIS, and WWW. The audience for this
course will be new and limited exposure (email only) Internet
users.
Past seminars presented by the InterNIC have been lecture
presentations with the instructor providing brief demonstrations of
Internet applications for the attendees. However, presentation of
this course will encompass hands-on training and will be introduced
in universities, colleges, corporations, and other locations with
computer laboratory facilities.
NSF NETWORK NEWS
The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 3 (July/August 1994) is now
online. This issue features an interview with Laura Breeden, who is
currently the director of the Telecommunications and Information
Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP). Also highlighted are
articles profiling the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications and its connection and history with NCSA Mosaic; a map
designed by Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS)
especially for NSF News readers that graphs the number of Internet
Hosts per capita in the United States; a useful Registration
Services FAQ; an informative"how-to" article on Internet
publishing by Daniel Dern; and the regular features of the _NSF
Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and updates from
InterNIC partners. To subscribe, send email to newsletter-
request@internic.net.
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The July/August issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the
WorldWideWeb at
http://www.internic.net/newsletter/jul-aug94/index.html
The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC
InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to
mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the
message:
get /about-internic/newsletter/nsfnews-aug94.txt
REFERENCE DESK
The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for
August:
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 162 5
Phone 2421 80
Fax 432 14
US Mail 14 <1
Referral 1 <1
------- -------- ---------
Total 3030 100.0
by Anna Knittle <aknittle@is.internic.net>
DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
In August, we made a number of changes to our services to improve
usability.
For our general telnet interface (the interface you see when you
log in to our machines as "guest"), we added variable scrolling
(the user can indicate how many lines are in one "screen" on his or
her terminal) and improved both the help information and the
tutorial. These changes were made in response to customer
requests.
We have installed a new version of WAIS (FreeWAIS from CNIDR) and a
new WAIS client on all our machines. This system is currently in
test mode, and can be tried by logging in as "nwais" to our
servers. If you have your own WAIS client and would like to try
our new server, you can connect to our hosts on port 8210 rather
than the normal WAIS port, 210.
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We have also installed Bunyip's latest version of Archie on one of
our servers. This version includes a number of improvements. The
most significant addition is that Archie can now search for Gopher
menu items as well as anonymous FTP file names. Since it now
stores information on Gopher menus as well as anonymous FTP
archives, the new Archie database is substantially larger than the
old. For this reason, the new Archie is currently available on
only one of our servers (ds1.internic.net); additional storage has
been ordered for the other servers but will not arrive for a while.
To search Archie for Gopher menu items, Gopher to ds1.internic.net,
and select "InterNIC Directory and Database Services" (item 4),
"Search Anonymous FTP Site and Gopher Menu Indices using Archie"
(item 8), and then "Gopher Index" (item 3). At that point, you
might want to start with item 8 "Things you should know" and
continue through item 13 to get an idea of how to use the system.
If you do not have a Gopher client of your own, you can telnet to
ds1.internic.net, log in as gopher, and follow the same steps.
We welcome comments on any of these changes or additions. Users of
the general telnet interface are given an opportunity to enter
comments when they log out. Electronic mail comments can also be
sent to our administrators at admin@ds.internic.net.
A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find
a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and
we will send information about listing your resource in the
Directory of Directories.
by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net>
REGISTRATION SERVICES
I. Significant Events
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 6,000 network
addresses and registered over 2,400 domains. Blocks of 256 Class C
addresses were assigned to Globalcom, CAnet/Manitoba, UTAH
Education, Sun.Belt, Sprint, Los Alamos, DEC, ADP, AT&T, Lawrence
Livermore, Colorado Supernet, Galaxy, CA-NET Ontario. A top-level
country domain for the Republic of Armenia was registered.
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I. Registration Statistics For August
Hostmaster Email 6,160
Postal/Fax Applications 266
Telephone Calls 1,492
Domain Registered 2,426
Inverse Addresses 667
Class C's Assigned 6,044
Class B's Assigned 27
ASN Assigned 59
The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
of information retrieval requests during the month of August.
Connections Retrievals
Gopher 50,265 30,277
WAIS 32,055 44,065
FTP 10,005 41,453
Mailserv 2,535
In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:
Client Server
231,999 654,313
Duane Stone <domreg@internic.net>
ISI
---
NETSTATION
==========
Work this month continued to focus on protocol software
investigation and development.
The basic focus of the Netstation project is to determine the
practicality of substituting a network/protocol interface for
devices in place of the system bus and memory-mapped control
registers. Whereas today's devices are typically memory mapped,
the devices developed here would be network mapped.
Ths new class of device would communicate with the outside world
entirely via packets. A natural model is to communicate withe the
device via remote procedure calls (RPCs). The resulting computing
system with its devices becomes similar to a cluster computer or
heterogeneous multicomputer. By implication, netstation devices
are accessible directly, via the internetwork at large, rather than
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as a slave only, hung off a bus.
LANai 1.1 Software Development
------------------------------
One of the unanswered questions regarding Netstation development is
just what type of performance is it realistic to expect from a
LANai network interface and the end-point application processess
that produce and consume packets.
To define the outlines of a practical engineering envelope, the
LANai code was rewritten to reflect what is thought to be the
configuration that will be used by applications to achieve high
performance in both hosts and netstation devices. The resulting
LANai/host interface supports multiple simultaneous protocol
stacks. This allows a small number of applications to have direct
access to the network interface via software packages and is
loosely similar to the application direct channels (ADCs) developed
by the X-Kernel project at Arizona.
Typical performance figures for high-speed networks stress maximum
attained bandwidth. This is achieved by using large packets, in
some cases as large as 64K byte/pkt. Such a maximum bandwidth
figure is of little use in determining what the engineering
limitations are for general device control. A typical RPC packet
is short, perhaps only 120 bytes long.
Two important pieces of engineering information are:
(1) How many RPCs can an application program running in a
workstation realistically be expected to generate?
(2) How many RPCs can an interface program running in a
device realistically be expected to consume?
To answer those questions sender and receiver application programs
were written and installed into separate Sun workstations,
interfaced to the LANai ADCs, and tested. These figures below were
measured by the application programs themselves, with three
protocol stacks in place, so as to fairly represent achievable
end-to-end application performance.
Configuration:
Two Sun SPARCstation-2 workstations, each with a LANai 1.1
network interface running at 20 MHz, with the LAN
channel between them operating at 640 Mb/s.
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Sending application: 70.0K pkt/sec @ 120 byte/IP pkt
Receiving application: 63.5K pkt/sec @ 120 byte/IP pkt
Sending application: 29.7K pkt/sec @ 1500 byte/IP pkt
Receiving application: 26.5K pkt/sec @ 1500 byte/IP pkt
Sending application: 17.6K pkt/sec @ 3000 byte/IP pkt
Receiving application: 15.8K pkt/sec @ 3000 byte/IP pkt
A LANai running at 20 MHz, using 640 Mb/s channels, can provide a
host application with a sustained end-to-end performance of 63.5K
RPC/sec or bandwidth of 360 Mb/s while using an MTU compatible with
the Ethernet. These figures can be improved significantly by
raising the clock rate of the LANai. The 20 MHz SBus clock rate of
the SPARCstation-2 platforms used here made that impractical. We
expect that when these tests are run in a SPARCstation-20, the
performance will be substantially higher.
Higher figures can also be obtained either via use of larger
packets or by specially crafting the application/network interface.
Notes
The LANai chips were clocked at 20 MHz to match the SBus clock.
Cable transmission latency across the network between SPARstation-2
hosts was insignificant for the tests reported here.
Much of the overhead per packet for short packets is LANai program
execution at the source and destination, which introduces a forced
latency between packets. It is of some interest to sketch the
typical execution costs within the LANai for both transmission and
reception.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
| |
| |
---> 11 + 3 4 4 ----
8 + <12> + 9 19 + <10> + 11 + <5> + 10
SEND RECEIVE
The typical case LANai interrupt and status condition loop consumes
22 machine instructions. This includes checks for clock and
channel status, send ready, receive complete, and packet overrun
conditions.
A send operation consists of a check for at least one pending
output packet. If that is true, a check is made to determine if
the send DMA is available. If it is, a loop determines which of
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several sources (protocol stacks) has a packet to send if any.
This loop consumes 12 instructions per stack that is checked.
Enabling DMA transmission of the packet consumes 9 instructions.
A receive operation consumes 19 instructions to perform packet
length and CRC condition checks. Subsequently, the free buffer
pool is scanned to determine the next available packet buffer.
This consumes 10 instructions per buffer check. Enabling DMA
packet reception into that buffer requires 11 instructions. The
received packet is then demux'ed. The demux loop requires
approximately 5 instructions per packet field check to determine
into which stack the packet should be placed. Notifying the
awaiting application consumes the final 10 instructions.
These counts are complete. They include the handshaking between
the host-system and LANai shared data structures.
Greg Finn <finn@isi.edu>, Bruce Parham <parham@isi.edu>, and S.K.
Monnangi <munnangi@isi.edu>
RSVP PROJECT
------------
Following the Toronto IETF meeting, ISI concentrated on putting
together a preliminary source release of RSVP. This release is
expected to include the rsvpd daemon and the API. It will also
include the RSVP modifications to sd, vat, and nv that were
produced by MIT, LBL, and PARC, and modifications to the LBL
tcpdump program to display RSVP messages. An initial RSVP release
should be ready early in September. The traffic control kernels
from MIT and from Sun are expected to be released separately.
Prior to the release, ISI did RSVP development work to bring the
package into line with the specification. Path and reservation
teardown messages are now included. A logical problem with routing
reservation error messages was found and fixed; the specification
will require updating in this area.
Bobby Minnear at MIT supplied a package "tcl-rsvp", which is a set
of Tcl and C programs to provide an RSVP interface to sd and vat.
These components were tested with RSVP across DARTnet as well as
locally within ISI. He also updated the nv/RSVP interface that Ron
Frederick at PARC had produced last year.
John Wroclawsi at MIT produced and started testing a DARTnet kernel
realizing the CSZ service model. Some anomalies which were
observed with this kernel in service have not been tracked down
yet.
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Ajit Thyagarajan at Xerox PARC included the RSVP kernel changes in
his new (3.3) release of IP multicasting code. This will greatly
aid the introduction of RSVP. This new code also requires that
rsvpd obtain multicast routes from mrouted, rather than from the
kernel, by a process-process query mechanism. This mechanism must
be developed and tested next month; it will not be included in the
initial RSVP release, which will support only pre-3.3 versions of
IP multicast.
Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu>, Steve Berson <berson@isi.ecu>
INFRASTRUCTURE
Joe Touch attended the Protocol for High Speed Networks meeting in
Vancouver, Canada, August 9-12, 1994.
33 RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1650: Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for
the Ethernet-like Interface Types using SMIv2", FTP
Software, Inc., August 1994.
RFC 1664: Allocchio, C., A. Bonito (GARR-Italy), B. Cole
(Cisco Systems Inc.), S. Giordano (Centro Svizzero
Calcolo Scientifico), R. Hagens (Advanced Network
& Services), August 1994.
RFC 1666: Kielczewski, Z., (Eicon Technology Corporation),
D. Kostick (Bell Communications Research), K. Shih
(Novell), "Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA
NAUs Using SMIv2", August 1994.
RFC 1667: Syminton, S., D. Wood (MITRE), M. Pullen, (George
Mason University), "Modeling and Simulation
Requirements for IPng", August 1994.
RFC 1668: Estrin, D., (USC), T. Li (Cisco Systems), Y. Rekhter,
T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp. "Unified
Routing Requirements for IPng, August 1994.
RFC 1669: Curran, J., "Market Viability as a IPng Criteria"
BBN, August 1994.
RFC 1670: Heagerty, D., "Input to IPng Engineering
Considerations", CERN, August 1994.
RFC 1671: Carpenter, B., "IPng White Paper on Transition and
Other Considerations", CERN, August 1994.
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RFC 1672: Brownlee, N., "Accounting Requirements for IPng"
The University of Auckland, August, 1994.
RFC 1673: Skelton, R., "Electric Power Research Institute
Comments on IPng", EPRI, August 1994.
RFC 1674: Taylor, M., "A Cellular Industry View of IPng",
CDPD Consortium, August 1994.
RFC 1675: Bellovin, S., "Security Concerns for IPng",
AT&T Bell Laboratories, August 1994.
RFC 1676: Ghiselli, A., D. Salomoni, C. Vistoli, "INFN/CNAF
Requirements for an IPng", August 1994
RFC 1677: Adamson, B., "Tactical Radio Frequency Communication
Requirments for IPng", Naval Research Laboratory
August 1994.
RFC 1678: Britton, E., J. Tavs, "IPng Requirements of Large
Corporate Networks", IBM, August 1994.
RFC 1679: Green, D., P. Irey, D. Marlow, and K. O'Donoghue
(NSWC-DD), "HPN Working Group Input to the IPng
Requirements Solicitation", August 1994.
RFC 1680: Brazdziunas, C., "IPng Support for ATM Services",
Bellcore, August 1994.
RFC 1681: Bellovin, S., "On Many Addresses Per Host", AT&T
Bell Laboratories, August 1994.
RFC 1682: Bound, J., "IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis"
Digital Equipment Corp., August 1994.
RFC 1683: Clark, R., M. Ammar, K. Calvert, "Multiprotocol
Interoperability in IPng", August 1994.
RFC 1684: Jurg, P., "Introduction to White Pages Services
Based on X.500", SURFnet bv, August, 1994.
RFC 1685: Alvestrand, H., "Writing X.400 O/R Names", UNINETT
August 1994.
RFC 1686: Vecchi, M., "IPng Requirements: A Cable Television
Industry Viewpoint", Time Warner Cable, August 1994.
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RFC 1687: Fleischman, E., "A Large Corporate User's View of
IPng", Boeing Computer Services, August 1994.
RFC 1688: Simpson, W., "IPng Mobility Considerations",
Daydreamer, August 1994.
RFC 1689: Foster, J., Editor "A Status Report on Networked
Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups", University
of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Augus 1994.
RFC 1690: Huston, G., "Introducing the Internet Engineering and
Planning Group (IEPG)", AARNet, August 1994.
RFC 1691: Turner, W., "The Document Architecture for the
Cornell Digital Library", LTD, August 1994.
RFC 1692: Cameron, P., (Xylogics, International Ltd.),
D. Crocker (Silicon Graphics, Inc.), D. Cohen
(Myricom), J. Postel (ISI), " Transport Multiplexing
Protocol (TMux)", August 1994.
RFC 1694: Brown, T., and K. Tesink, Editors, "Definitions of
Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces using SMIv2",
Bell Communications Research", August 1994.
RFC 1695: Ahmed, M., K. Tesink, Editors, "Definitions of
Managed Objects for ATM Management Version 8.0 Using
SMIv2", Bell Communications Research, August 1994.
RFC 1696: Barnes, J., (Xylogics, Inc.), L. Brown, (Motorola)
R. Royston (US Robotics, Inc.), S. Waldbusser
(Carnegie Mellon University), "Modem Management
Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2", August 1994.
RFC 1697: Brower, D., Editor, (The ASK Group, INGRES DBMS
Development), B. Purvy, RDBMSMIB Working Group Chair
(Oracle Corporation), A. Daniel (Informix Software
Inc), M. Sinykin, J. Smith (Oracle Corporation),
"Relational Relational Database Management System
(RDBMS) Management Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2",
August 1994.
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THE US DOMAIN
=============
US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX 535
PHONE 66
----------------------------
Total Contacts 601
DELEGATIONS 59
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 15
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 527
---------------------------
Total 601
OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: modifications, application
requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
about names, referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic,
resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and
whois listings.
The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of
registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many
subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those
subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct
registrations in the US Domain.
To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and
subdomains you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt
from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp.
Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------------
CAMERON-PARK.CA.US Cameron-Park, California, locality
CRYSTAL-BAY.CA.US Crystal-Bay, California, locality
EMERALD-BAY.CA.US Emerald-Bay, California, locality
EL-DORADO-HILLS.CA.US El-Dorado-Hills, California, locality
FOLSOM.CA.US Folsom, California, locality
GRAEAGLE.CA.US Graeagle, California, locality
GRASS-VALLEY.CA.US Grass-Valley, California, locality
KINGS-BEACH.CA.US Kings-Beach, California, locality
LOOMIS.CA.US Loomis, California, locality
MARYSVILLE.CA.US Marysville, California, locality
NEVADA-CITY.CA.US Nevada-City, California, locality
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NORTH-TAHOE.CA.US North-Tahoe, California, locality
OROVILLE.CA.US Oroville, California, locality
POLLOCK-PINES.CA.US Pollock-Pines, California, locality
PLACERVILLE.CA.US Placerville, California, locality
QUINCY.CA.US Quicy, California, locality
ROCKLIN.CA.US Rocklin, California, locality
ROSEVILLE.CA.US Roseville, California, locality
SOUTH-TAHOE.CA.US South-Tahoe, California, locality
TAHOE-CITY.CA.US Tahoe-City, California, locality
CHAMPAIGN.IL.US Champaign, Illinois, locality
MUS.MO.US Missouri, Museums
GEN.MS.US Mississippi General
JACKSON.MS.US Jackson, Mississippi, locality
LIB.MS.US Mississippi Libraries
AUBURN.NV.US Auburn, Nevada, locality
DAYTON.NV.US Dayton, Nevada, locality
ELY.NV.US Ely, Nevada, locality
STEAD.NV.US Stead, Nevada, locality
VERDI.NV.US Verdi, Nevada, locality
YERINGTON.NV.US Yerington, Nevada, locality
EUCLID.OH.US Euclid, Ohio, locality
LANCASTER.OH.US Lancaster, Ohio, locality
MINERVA.OH.US Minerva, Ohio, localty
PATASKALA.OH.US Pataskala, Ohio, locality
K12.WY.US Wyoming, K12 Schools
Other US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------
ASD.K12.AK.US Anchorage School District
CO.LA.CA.US Los Angeles County, agencies
LACUSC.CO.LA.CA.US Los Angeles, USC Medical Center
DHS.CO.LA.CA.US Los Angeles, County Dept. of Health
CO.PALM-BEACH.FL.US County of Los Angeles
MEC.K12.MA.US Merrimack Education Center
PIONEER.LIB.OK.US Pioneer Library System, Norman, Ok
TEN.K12.TN.US Tennessee Board of Regents
SPOKNET.LIB.WA.US Spokane Public Library
KCLS.LIB.WA.US King County Library System, Seattle
SBVMWD.DST.CA.US San Bernadino Valley Municipal Water Dist.
ESP.TULSA.OK.US Educational Systems Products, Inc., Tulsa
NOLS.LIB.WA.US North Olympic Library System, Port Angeles
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MCL.LIB.WA.US Mid-Columbia Library System, Kennewick
NCPL.LIB.CA.US National City Public Library
SPOKPL.LIB.WA.US Spokane Public Library
SLACK.THOROFARE.NJ.US Slack Inc., Thorofare, NJ
TENNPREP.PVT.K12.TN.US Tennessee Preparatory School, Nashville
PLEASANT.CAMBRIDGE.MA.US Private Individual
HANSCON.LINCOLN.K12.MA.US Hanscom k12 School, Hanscom AFB, MA
MARIN-ACADEMY.MARIN.CA.US Marin Academy High School, San Rafael
VIRTUALCAFE.WASHINGTON.DC.US Virtual Cafe Systems, Wash. D.C.
COMMONWEALTH.PVT.K12.MA.US The Commonwealth School, Cambridge
TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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AK X
AL X
AR X
AZ X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
CA X X X X
CO X X X X X X X
CT
DC X
-----------------------------------------------------------
DE X
FL X X X X X X X
GA X X X X
HI
-----------------------------------------------------------
IA X X X X
ID X X X X X X X
IL X X X X X
IN X X X X X X X
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KS X
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
MA X
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MD X X X X
ME X X
MI X X X X X
MN X X X X X X X
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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MO X X X X X X
MS X X X X
MT X
NC X X X X X
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ND X X X X X X X
NE X X X X
NH X X
NJ X
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NM X X X
NV
NY X X X X X X X
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For more information about the US Domain please request an
application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to
RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application".
For example:
To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU
Subject: US Domain Application
help: us_domain_application
Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)
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NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK)
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NEARnet Membership Update
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BARRNET ACQUISITION IS COMPLETE
On August 24, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN) announced the
completion of an agreement to acquire the Bay Area Regional
Research Network (BARRNet(SM)) from Stanford University in Palo
Alto, California. This marks the consolidation of two of the
country's premier Internet service providers: BBN's NEARNET(SM)
operation in the Northeast, and BARRNet, the leading provider of
such services in the San Francisco Bay Area. BBN and Stanford had
previously announced their intention for BBN to acquire BARRNet on
June 22.
NEARNET MINI-SEMINAR UPDATE
The fourth NEARNET Mini-Seminar for 1994, "Publishing and the
Internet" will be held on Friday, September 23 from 9:00-12:30 at
the BBN Newman Auditorium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The seminar is free of charge to all NEARNET members, however,
seating is limited and registration will be handled on a first-come
first-served basis. The seminar will be videotaped and copies will
be made available for NEARNET members to borrow.
This seminar will focus on how and why the publishing industry is
increasingly using the Internet as a tool for delivering online
publishing services. This seminar is being held to satisfy the
continued demand for information on the way organizations are
increasingly using the Internet to conduct a wide-range of business
services.
Presentors will include:
Laura Fillmore, President of Editorial Inc. and the Online
Bookstore.
DC Denison, Lead Feature Writer for O'Reilly and Associates Global
Network Navigator (GNN) Service and freelance write for the Boston
Globe.
Robert Fleischman, Systems Engineer, BBN Systems and Technologies
Inc., Developer of the Personal Internet Newspaper (PIN) Project.
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Additional information regarding the remaining Mini-Seminars and
Annual Seminar for 1994 will be announced shortly. For more
information, contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-
us@near.net or call 617-873-8730 or 1-800-NEARNET.
THE BBN INTERNET TRAINING GROUP
In response to the overwhelming requests from the Internet
community for more Internet-specific training, BBN has created an
Internet Training Group. Since July of this year, and in
conjunction with the NEARNET staff, the Internet Training Group has
offered training courses to the general public.
Upcoming courses for September include:
9/7 Business on the Internet: Strategic Approaches (with Mary
Cronin,
author of "Doing Business on the Internet")
9/13 Publishing on the Internet (with Laura Fillmore, president
of the
Online Bookstore and Editorial Inc.)
9/14 Hands-on Publishing on the Internet - Building your own WWW
9/19 Intro. to Internet Resources
9/20 Hands-on Internet Tools for PC/Windows
9/27 Hands-on Internet Tools for PC/Windows
Training courses are offered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York
City, New York; and, upon request, on-site at the customer's
organization. In the near future, training courses will also be
offered in Palo Alto, California. NEARNET members and educational
users are eligible for a 25 percent introductory discount. To find
out more about BBN's Internet Training Courses, please send email
to: net-train@bbn.com or call 617-873-3282.
NEARNET NEW SITE TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE
The Summer set of NEARNET new site training courses was held on
August 10-12 in BBN's Newman Auditorium. The Fall set of NEARNET
new site training courses will be held on November 16-18. For more
information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at
nearnet-us@near.net or call 617-873-8730 or 1-800-NEARNET.
The three full-day set of courses include: (Day 1) An Introduction
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to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New
NEARNET Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet
Technology.
All three days of training are available free of charge to all new
sites. The Internet Resources and Internet Technology courses are
available for existing sites and non-members for a fee. The
NEARNET Orientation is free to all NEARNET sites.
by NEARNET Client Services <nearnet-us@near.net>
NORTHWESTNET
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Dr. Eric Hood, president of the Federation of American Research
Networks (FARNET), attended the FARNET meeting in Snowmass,
Colorado on August 10-12. The meeting theme was "The National
Information Infrastructure and the 50 States: Practical
Implementation Issues of the NII."
During the week of August 22, nearly 60 participants attended
Internet training classes contracted from NorthWestNet and provided
through the Washington State University Conferences and Institutes
Continuing Education Programs in Richland, Washington. Participants
were comprised primarily of staff from several high-technology
firms in the area, including Boeing, Westinghouse, ICF Kaiser, and
Batelle Pacific Northwest Labs.
NorthWestNet's Internet Training Series added a new three-hour
course to its program. "Internet Discussion Groups" covers
LISTSERVs, mailing-lists, and Usenet. This new course along with
our regular offerings were each held at the training facility in
Bellevue, Washington. These for-fee classes are open to the public.
For information about upcoming scheduled classes, retrieve the
following via anonymous FTP:
FTP Host: ftp.nwnet.net
directory: /training
filename: course-descriptions.txt
-----------------
NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net
15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
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NYSERNET
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NYSERNET CONTRACTS WITH NYNEX AND SPRINT TO PROVIDE MOST ADVANCED
STATE DATA NETWORK IN THE COUNTRY
Liverpool, NY, September 1 - The New York State Education and
Research Network - NYSERNet, Inc. - announces agreements with NYNEX
and Sprint to significantly upgrade NYSERNet's network and
internetworking services for New York State. This unique
arrangement is the first step in NYSERNet's Five-Year Network
deployment Plan to provide more than a 100-fold increase in the
information carrying capabilities of the New York Network, At the
completion of Phase I of the Plan, at the end of 1995, NYSERNet and
New York State will have the most technologically advanced state
data network in the country.
The NYNEX and Sprint agreements will provide a 45 million bit per
second (T-3) statewide network for NYSERNet affiliates by November
of 1994. This will vastly improve routing and service to NYSERNet
affiliates and deliver T-3 speeds for prices that are less than
half the current national average. NYSERNet now operates a 1.5
million bit per second T-1 network.
"By working with NYNEX and Sprint, access to the network and
Internet will eventually be provided throughout the State through a
local dial-up phone call anywhere," said James Luckett, Executive
Director and Vice President of NYSERNet. "This will guarantee that
there is no have assured and equal access to information resources
and the other benefits which will accrue from the National
Information Infrastructure."
Sprint, a premier provider of advanced technology data services,
will initially provide a 45 mb high speed state wide area network,
which will include 45 mb connectivity to the Internet,
comprehensive management of the new NYSERNet network, and
management of the NYSERNet affiliates TCP/IP based services onto
that network and onto the Internet. Sprint will also provide
communications and routing equipment. This network is expected to
grow to gigabit speeds quickly in the next few years.
"NYNEX is proud to be a part of this important partnership," said
NYNEX State Group Vice President, Duane Albro. "NYSERNet is as
critical to New York State as Internet is to the country," he
added. "In providing the backbone network, NYNEX continues to
aggressively pursue the expansion of the information superhighway."
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The NYSERNet Plan will deliver in New York State the first
production gigabit communication network in the U.S. It will be
capable of providing high speed access at all the State's
institutions of higher education, all of its 6,000 K-12 schools,
its 7,000 libraries and museums, 500 health care institutions,
1,500 municipal, county, state and federal agencies, and some
15,000 commercial users who interact with these sectors.
NYSERNet's new network will support all traditional Internet
services as well as such new services as interactive 2-way video
and teleconferencing and electronic commerce applications. It will
enable a new generation of inexpensive distance learning,
telemedicine and community network applications.
"We anticipate a vast increase in Internet connections in New York
State by the end of the century, bringing the number of New Yorkers
with Internet access up to 10 million from the half million today,"
said Dr. Richard Mandelbaum, President of NYSERNet. "Our goal is
to ensure access to the network and high quality service for all
school children and their families, college students and faculty,
health care practitioners and patients, and small and minority-
owned businesses -- cheaply, easily and quickly."
NYSERNet is the leading regional high-speed data network in the
U.S. NYSERNet connects New York State to the global community of
computing resources known as the Internet. it serves an affiliate
base of over 400 organizations such as large research centers,
hospitals, universities, colleges, public libraries, K-12 schools,
museums, large corporations and small Business.
NYSERNET FALL TRAINING CATALOG AVAILABLE
NYSERNet, Inc. announces the availability of the NYSERNet Internet
Training and Education Center -- NITEC -- Fall Training Catalog.
Designed to operate year-round, NITEC offers a full schedule of
seminars and workshops for beginning, intermediate, and advanced
Internet users. The Fall Catalog is now available.
FALL SEMINAR SAMPLER
For New Internet Users:
-- Locating and Using Internet Information Resources
-- Tourist UNIX
-- We the People: Accessing Government Information
-- Integrating the Internet into Your Curriculum
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For More Advanced Users:
-- Building an Internet Information Server: Gopher
-- Building an Internet Information Server: WWW
-- Conquering Client/Server Computing
-- Understanding LANs and WANs
FACILITIES IN SYRACUSE, NEW YORK The NITEC classroom is a state-of
the-art facility that seats 24 students for lectures or smaller
groups for hands-on training. NITEC supports both Macintosh and
DOS/Windows computers. NITEC students work with the latest
Internet client software and resources in an environment conducive
to learning and retention. The center also provides technical
training for systems administrators, primarily in UNIX. NITEC has
assembled a knowledgeable team of instructors and curriculum-
specific consultants and educators.
FOR A NITEC CATALOG
U.S. MAIL
Send your name, address and zip code to:
NYSERNet/NITEC
Suite 103, 200 Elwood Davis Road
Liverpool, NY 13088-6147
or request via E-Mail to training@nysernet.org.
GOPHER (nysernet.org 70)
/NYSERNet Internet Training & Education Center
(NITEC)/Fall 1994
Course Abstracts - NEW
WORLD WIDE WEB
http://nysernet.org/nitec.info/fall.94.html
PROJECT GAIN REPORT
NYSERNet is pleased to announce the availability of a new videotape
about Project GAIN, which extended Internet access to five rural
New York State public libraries and one Indian Nation school.
Project GAIN (Global Access Information Network) asked what would
happen if rural librarians were given access to the Internet, its
tools, and training. Could they learn to use networked information
resources effectively? Was there anything of value on the Net to
improve the quality of service offered to rural patrons? And what
resources did the rural areas have to offer back to the larger
Internet community?
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The video documents the project from the first training meetings to
site visits at all the libraries. The style is perfect for
workshops introducing the Internet to librarians, or for anyone
wondering how rural areas might benefit from a community Internet
connection.
The printed Project GAIN Report, bundled with the video, outlines
the lessons learned from connecting; details critical success
factors contributing to the overall accomplishments of the project;
and offers a number of recommendations for public librarians,
network service providers, policy makers, and researchers.
Appendices include evaluation instruments, contracts, success
stories, and more.
Phone orders will be accepted with credit card purchase. More
info: Call 315/453-2912, x221, or send email to info@nysernet.org.
NEW AFFILIATES
NYSERNet welcomes the following new leased-line affiliates for the
month of August:
- Pratt Institute
- Western Suffolk BOCES
- Monroe I BOCES.
Terri Damon (tmdamon@nysernet.ORG) NYERNET Inc, 315-453-2912 x225
PREPNET
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PREPnet New Members
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- Office of Personnel Management, Boyer, PA - Fisher Scientific,
Pittsburgh, PA
With these additions, PREPnet now totals 190 members.
PREPnet News
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PREPnet' Network Engineer, Jon "Iain" Boone got married on August
6. Congratulations Jon!
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Meetings & Conferences
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PREPnet's Executive Director, Tom Bajzek, attended FARNET on August
10-12.
PREPnet's Annual Member Meeting will be on September, 21, 1994 in
Pittsburgh. The theme of this year's meeting is "The Internet in
Transition." Plenary speakers are scheduled for the morning and
breakout and tutorials for the afternoon. Topics to be covered
include: Structural Changes in the NSFNET, Challenges in High-
speed, Wide-area Networking, Business Applications, Libraries,
Network Security, WWW and Mosaic Servers, Routing, and Managing
Your Internet Connection. For more information, please send e-mail
to nic@prep.net or call 412-268-7870.
For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC:
305 S. Craig St. E-Mail: nic@prep.net
2nd Floor Telephone: (412) 268-7870
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
PREPnet NIC (nic@prep.net)
UCL
----
UCL CS hosts the ACM SIGCOMM Conference this month. Many ad hoc
meetings about networking research happened around this.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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USER SERVICES REPORT
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Prague Trip Report
RARE ISUS Meetings and
INET94/JENC5 Conference
June 13 - 17, 1994
Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute
RARE ISUS Meetings
The RARE ISUS (Information Services and User Support) Working Group
met before the INET94/JENC5 Conference in Prague, The Czech Republic.
1) Introductions
Jill Foster introduced to the attendees the new ISUS WG Chair, David
Hartland (University of Newcastle upon Tyne). There was quite a
large attendance at this meeting, with many new participants. Jill
had invited the attendees from ISOC's "Developing Networking
Countries" Workshop the week before to attend ISUS. There was
discussion regarding the ISUS "Introductions" file. ISUS meeting
participants were requested to fill in the template about themselves
and turn it in.
2) Minutes, Workplan, and Task Forces
Minutes from the last ISUS meeting were reviewed. Jill asked the
attendees if anyone had any problems with the minutes of the
Telematics group. There were no objections.
There is on-going work on setting up National ISUS WGs in parallel
with the European group. RTR1 (RARE Technical Report 1) is out of
date and the ISUS needs to take a look at the document and provide
new ideas and input for the revision. This includes updating the
document to include details about coordination of national entry
points via the Eurogopher effort.
The RARE ISUS workplan needs to be revised, as it is out of date. It
was decided to drop the ISO-SR (Search and Retrieval) program, due to
no progress or interest.
3) Review of Liaison Groups
Brief reviews were given by various representatives. Jill lead the
reviews with ISUS. She reported that she had to step down as Chair
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of the ISUS Group as she is now employed two days a week with RARE.
There is a new policy within RARE that if you are paid by RARE, you
cannot be a RARE WG Chair, as this would pose a conflict of interest.
Hence, David Hartland has become the new ISUS WG Chair.
Joyce Reynolds reported on the User Services Area (USV) efforts in
the IETF. Before traveling to Prague, she circulated her area report
to the ISUS WG email list. Due to time constraints, she gave a brief
overview of the area. The User Services Working Group (USWG) is the
"umbrella" WG for the USV. This group is the spawning ground for
most of the working groups which are created within the area. There
are currently 11 working groups in the USV area. Particular groups
of interest to this audience include: Network Information Services
Infrastructure (NISI), which is currently producing a NIC Guidelines
Document, Network Training Materials (a joint RARE and IETF
endeavor), Internet School Networking (ISN), User Documentation
(UserDoc2), which is producing a short introductory bibliography of
books about the Internet, Network Information Retrieval (NIR), a
joint RARE and IETF endeavor, and Integrated Directory Services
(IDS), which is a combined effort of the USV and Applications Area of
the IETF.
Joyce continued her report by describing the RFC (Request for
Comments) series of notes of the Internet, and in particular, the FYI
(For Your Information) subseries of RFCs. FYIs are introductory and
overview documents for network users. Their purpose is to make
available general information, rather than the protocol
specifications or standards that is typical of other RFCs. If there
were any questions or if anyone wanted further information in more
detail, Joyce mentioned that she would be happy to answer queries via
email.
Daniele Bovio was asked by Jill to report on EARN and EARNINFO, since
David Sitman had not yet arrived to the meeting. Daniele briefly
discussed EARN's Network Services Conference (NSC) which is to be
held this coming November in London. Daniele punted the EARNINFO
report to David to talk about later, when he arrives.
Geza Turchanyi provided a brief report on RIPE and its Network
Information Discovery for Users Support Working Group (NIDUS),
chaired by Nandor Hovarth. Unfortunately, the NIDUS group has not
been very active. The RIPE NCC currently has available Gopher, WWW,
FTP, and WAIS services. The WWW server locator is:
http://www.ripe.net/
Bert Stals gave a report on the Gopher Conference (Gophercon). He
opened his report by providing some Gopher history. When it first
started, there was a need for alternative information. In 1993,
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about one third of all Gophers were Gopher+ servers, globally. A
Z39.50 gateway is available. The problems with Veronica are
increasing. Most complaints are about the bandwidth. To date,
Veronica has 6,900 Gopher servers, with 31 simultaneous sessions of
Veronica available, with a two second response time. Veronica is not
scaling well. Chris Weider mentioned that indexing of Gopher menu
items will be in a future release of archie (gopher-
index@bunyip.com).
George Munroe reported on the WWW Conference. Tim Berners-Lee is
concerned about where WWW is going from where he originally intended
it to be. There is a need for better integration on desktop access.
Tim mentioned that there is a need for a "Bill of Rights for the
Network." There needs to be a close relationship prevailing
everywhere in industry and research. There should be a consideration
for social impacts and the need for on-going standardization.
The RARE Document Store was reported by Tim Dixon. RARE
publications, WG documents and other miscellaneous pointers to RARE
documents can be found on ftp.rare.nl, gopher.rare.nl, and
www.rare.nl. Tim suggested that David, Jill, and the ISUS group look
at the RARE document server to see how to get more information out
via this service.
Information Services
Jill provided an introduction to the European Information Services
which included Dante, the RARE server, the RIPE NCC, Eurogopher, and
EARN. There is a Dante proposal out, soliciting a new entry point
for a Euroserver. Josefien Bersee put out the proposal one week ago.
Jill encouraged the ISUS attendees to read it, then introduced
Josefien who presented a talk on the Dante proposal.
The proposal reflected ideas on a provision of a Central Information
Service for the European Research Community. Dante is a not-for-
profit entity via twelve countries with national networks. This
project used to be CONCISE. They are investing in another service as
funding will end this year. The key requirements to this proposal
include a collection of distributed information that is up-to-date,
accurate, and complete as possible. This will also include round the
clock availability and support for information management. The
proposed information flow model intends to provide links to local
information. The use of WWW, Gopher and FTP is included. The most
important issue is the management of the information by building a
management information base.
Josefien expressed that the Dante proposal is not intending to take
over other services, but to link with them (e.g., RARE, RIPE,
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EARNINFO, etc.). The promotion of the service is to attract new
groups to contribute.
The technical requirements include stable guidance services and
making accessibility to end users as easy as possible. There will be
a Help Desk, and its function will be to perform support and
information services to end user, new information providers, and
documentation. Staff running the Help Desk should speak more than
one language. In regards to Dante funding efforts, it should be
self-supporting. Funding should come from the customers, national
networks, the CEC, and commercial providers. Issues of Quality of
Information and Quality of Service are big points.
A lively discussion was held on Dante after Josefien's presentation.
Comments included that "Quality Assurance" is becoming a very hot
topic. Eurogopher was brought up as a project that has already
completed the efforts that are spelled out in the Dante proposal, and
all done via volunteer work. There was a concern with some ISUS
members that Dante may be taken as opposition to the Eurogopher work,
though this remains to be seen. Anders Gillner commented that he
does not see Dante as a threat. The Eurogopher acts as one link, so
there is no problem with other links. The world will never be just
one link. There needs to be a spirit of cooperation and
coordination.
Networked Information Retrieval (NIR)
Jill provided a status report on NIR Tools and Groups. She provided
a history of this group as it was noted that two thirds of the
attendees to ISUS at this session were new. The NIR document has
been assigned "RTR 13", and is on its way to the RFC Editor. Note:
since this meeting, this document has been published as an RFC:
RFC 1689, RTR 13, FYI 25, "A Status Report on Networked
Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups", August 1994.
A discussion focussed on RTR 1. This document is out of date and is
over one year old. Jill's intention in the next two to three months
is to work on an update to this document. There is a question about
the use of Gopher and WWW, as some people don't have access.
David Sitman arrived at the meeting and Jill asked if he had anything
new to report about EARNINFO. David replied he did not.
User Network Interface to Everything (UNITE)
George Munroe gave a report on the UNITE group. UNITE's concept is
one of an interface to everything out on the network. In October
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1992, this effort was started and driven by Jill. There is a UNITE
overview, charter, and summary of activities. One of the IETF
groups, Integration of Internet Information Resources (IIIR), has a
vision paper in development which includes UNITE. How can UNITE be
more effective? Perhaps setting up a web would help. There is a
prototype that has been set up, and George would like input on it.
Jill will put a pointer to the source in the ISUS minutes. [From the
26 July minutes filed to the ISUS WG list: (url:
file://www.qub.ac.uk/UNITE/unite.html).]
UNITE working with the IETF and other ISUS groups will continue.
This work is of relevance to each person's own institution, and
George feels that everyone should convince their employers of this.
There are three key factors:
1) Coordination
2) Cooperation
3) Consolidation
George talked about the 4th Framework Initiative and envisioned a
diagram or map a UNITE interface of how he perceives it today, as an
"ideal" picture under the 4th Framework. A system is being designed,
not just a white pages service. The UNITE interface needs much more
definition. There has been some discussion on the mailing list
regarding opportunities for funding projects which would help develop
and progress UNITE's endeavors and other ISUS task forces. There has
also been some commercial interest.
NSC Conference Program Committee Meeting, Monday, 6:30 pm
Joyce Reynolds, as a member of the NSC94 (Network Services
Conference) Program Committee, met with other committee members
Monday evening, June 13. The meeting included discussion on a
potential keynote speaker, schedules, dates and deadlines for paper
submissions, demos, and sessions to the conference. Organization of
tutorials, tracks and plenary sessions were also discussed.
INET94/JENC5 Conference
INET'94, the Annual Conference of the Internet Society was held in
conjunction with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5)
Prague, Czech Republic, June 13-17, 1994. It was jointly organized
by The Internet Society (ISOC) and Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche
Europeenne (RARE).
Jill Foster, RARE, The Netherlands and Joyce Reynolds, ISI, USA, were
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the User Support and Training Track Leaders. There were six sessions
developed for this particular track:
1) Training for the Network Citizen - Chair: Peter Kemp,
University of Glasgow, Scotland
- EDUCATE - End-user Courses in Information Access through
Communication Technology - Nancy Fjaellbrant, Sweden
- Approaches to Network Training with Particular Reference
to a Perceived Need for Self-Help Materials -
Margaret Isaacs, UK
- Network Training: Anywhere, Anytime, Anyplace? -
Jodi-Ann Chu, USA
2) Network Information: Tools and Access - Chair: David Sitman,
EARN, France
- Mosaic, WWW and Networked Multimedia as a Learning Tool -
Michael Greenhalgh, Australia
- Becoming an Information Provider on the WWW -
Brian Kelly, UK
- Wild Beasts and Unapproachable Bogs - Chris Weider, USA
3) Electronic Documents - Chair: Maria Heijne,
SURFnet BV, Netherlands
- From Babel to Edil: The Evolution of a Standard -
Andrew Braid, UK
- Work in Progress:
- ELDORADOC - "The Promised Land of Gold?" -
Robert Janz, The Netherlands
- RED SAge - Czeslaw Jan Grycz, USA
- Discussion
4) Building and Supporting Electronic Communities -
Chair: David Conrad, Asia Pacific Network Information Center,
Japan
- Rural Datafication: A Multiple-Network Collaboration to
Extend the Internet to Underserved Communities -
E. Michael Staman, John Hankins, Paul Holbrook and
Rhana Jacot, USA
- Building Electronic Communities: Implementing Electronic
Communication within the European Law Students' Association
(ELSA) - Christian B. Fulda, Switzerland
- The Internet and Schools: A Survey of Networking Activities -
Tracy LaQuey Parker, USA
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5) Panel: Power to the User! Enabling Users to Help Themselves
Chair: Rolf Nordhagen, University of Oslo Information
Technology Services, Norway
To provide support for the increasing numbers of users on the network
is a formidable task. This session will be run as a panel discussion
with expert panelists from around the world sharing their knowledge
and experience. Audience participation is highly encouraged.
Panelists: Robert F. Janz, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
David Hartland, NISP/Mailbase, Newcastle University, UK
Anders Gillner, NORDUnet, The Royal Institute of
Technology, Sweden
Joyce K. Reynolds, Information Sciences Institute, USA
6) Issues in building the Virtual Library - Chair: Michael Breaks,
Heriot-Watt University Library, UK
- Internet Resource Guides: Stories for the Net -
Louis B. Rosenfeld, USA
- Commercial Services on the Infobahn - George Brett, USA
- Electronic Journals: Transforming the Information Cycle? -
Hans Roes, The Netherlands
User Help Thyself Panel - Rolf Nordhagen, Chair
Panelists:
Joyce K. Reynolds, Information Sciences Institute, USA
Joyce was asked by Rolf to open the panel session in describing and
updating the work that is going on in the IETF User Services Area and
how this entity and the RARE ISUS WG assist in helping users.
When the IETF was first established, it did not immediately create a
distinct User Services Area. As of 1991, this area has grown to take
its place with other Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) areas
as the importance of a user services forum has increased globally.
1) ALL levels of "user" - novice, intermediate, advanced.
2) People attend the INET/JENC conference to learn. For example,
teachers, trainers, and consultants, not only their students must
learn about networking tools, documentation, and current protocol
standards.
3) This last Monday and Tuesday RARE's Information Services
and User Support (ISUS) Group convened. Their activities include:
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Documentation, Training Materials, User Network to Everything
(UNITE), Network information Retrieval, etc., to help the user.
Joyce continued to describe the details of what the User Services
Area of the IETF entails, including the FYI RFC series of notes.
Robert F. Janz, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Robert Janz displayed six bullets on the overhead projector and
described what he felt was needed for the users to help themselves.
One should not react after a user is in trouble, but before trouble
happens. Yet, what can one do?
1) Prevent "after sales repair"
2) Abolish paper documentation
3) Get into specification phases
4) Use network technology extensively
5) NO support of the state of the art technology
6) Encourage "electronic" work groups
David Hartland, NISP/Mailbase, Newcastle University, UK
David Hartland responded to Robert's six bullets listed above. He
explained that he does not necessarily agree with Richard on all
points. There is the project he has been working on at Newcastle,
which is the Mailbase User Support Project. It has a very high level
of support, but it's a small team effort. David disagreed with
Robert about he abolishment of paper documentation. He stated that
there should still be paper documentation, and his group will
continue to do so. There are no plans in the future to get rid of
it. "Physiotheraphysics" - still growing by leaps and bounds - needs
help from the audience.
Anders Gillner, NORDUnet, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Anders discussed the issue of tools and the availability of global
network documentation. There should be the availability to look at
documentation from all uses, either via the network or by hardcopy.
Users are all academics. They can read well. Anders agreed on the
panel's current view, which is to get people to use the network.
There should be continued motivation to get them to do so. In order
to do this there we need to produce better tools. We use robots to
extend our muscles, networks should be able to help user's with
shortcomings.
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The term, "selective perception scanning" was discussed by Anders.
He felt that selective perception scanning cannot be done in the
information network. There needs to be some sensitizing. There is a
need for cyberspace and virtual worlds, but also habituation and
selective perception. Self clustering documents are needed as well
as programs for analyzing reasoning. First, one has to get rid of
the litter and tag the information. None of the network tools
currently have this.
Rolf Nordhagen - Opened discussion to audience participation.
One member of the audience had a disagreement with no paper copies or
virtual copies of documents. He said think about the values of
paper. There is even legislation in the UK on how long a person
should be sitting in front of the PC. Another participant felt that
paper documentation is not searchable and indexing confusing. There
are efforts to provide one page descriptions as a starter, but no
bigger, and short and to the point.
There was also discussion regarding Anders' thoughts on habituation.
Habituation may not necessarily be textual. It should be built into
the program. A book was cited by Edward Tufte on "Envisioning
Information". He is a professor at MIT. The book describes
presenting information and visualizing information. It was suggested
that the panelist and audience read this work.
Another audience participant agreed regarding the progression and
dissemination of information. SGML, HTML are not page layout. Not
scrolling paradimes. Everyone needs help, put a lot back into it,
but also one need to put a lot back into it, too. There also needs
to be a change of user support of the tools that are being developed.
There are Internationalization issues. In many cases, English and
computers are not users "first" languages. There are wonderful
resources out there. Perhaps putting out single sheet A4 cards would
be a first start. Then, get the URLs together to access information.
The Interpedia project was mentioned, which will turn the Internet
into a global "encyclopedia".
User groups have magnificent tools available, yet how do you make
sure that this information is spread to all the Universities and all
over the world? Some of these tools are totally illegible to the end
user. Electronic mailing lists and mailing list groups are valuable.
There needs to be a separation of the context and community which
goes beyond the technical development.
In the last part of the session, the audience discussed how to access
training material, and what material is available. Margaret Issacs
is a person to talk to about training materials. It was pointed out
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that her materials are "just" in English, and not in other languages.
There is a need to find out what other training materials are
available in one's native language.
Network Information: Tools and Access - Chair: David Sitman, EARN,
France
Wild Beasts and Unapproachable Bogs - Chris Weider, USA
In many aspects, the Internet is still in the Bronze Age. We know
it's here, somewhere. Surveying tools:
1) Send it everywhere tools (email, usenet news).
Send it everywhere tools have a hidden assumptions of immediate
consumption.
2) Come and get it tools (used by most of the tools).
Allows the information provider the video communications
and is the closest to sent it everywhere.
What are the implications? The "send it everywhere tools" provide
human to human communication. The "come and get it tools" allow
extensive logging, but means extra space and resources on the host
machine.
Balance and Symmetry
There is no way to access data across a small pipe, because of
bandwidth problems. Chris encouraged the session attendees to
think about cooperative local cache. The technology to do this is
probably a year off. Is accessible to a big resource a right or a
privilege?
Building the Maps - Signposts and Markers
There is a lot of building going on in the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) in working groups that are defining and
specifying, URLs (Universal Resource Locators), URNs (Universal
Resource Names), a set of coordinates, and URCs (Universal
Resource Characters) a consistent set of descriptions.
Supporting Diversity - Tying it all Together
Chris feels that there are unapproachable bogs out there in which
new tools are required. All tools are all essentially the same as
are the visual tools for navigation. Revolution is needed. Each
user needs her own maps, not just following the information
providers' concept of how resources are arranged and related.
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URNs and URLs should support this, but this is not the whole
solution.
Navigation - What's That?
There is a need for richer metainformation. Many users can't
play, as they don't' have bandwidth to do that. Active Agents
(Chris akined them to Armstrong or Cortez?). There is a need for
them, but we must be careful.
Conclusions
We are starting to map the net. It will be a long process. We
need to make sure that everyone can organize the resources of the
net to their liking. Looking forward to: 2001 - The Internet
Odyssey.
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CALENDAR
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Last update 8/31/94
The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat
as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are
requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this
calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to:
<meeting-planning@cnri.reston.va.us>
Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information
for the events listed below.
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1994
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Sep. 7-9 Windows Solutions San Francisco, CA.
Sep. 12-14 19th RIPE Meeting Lisbon, Portugal
Sep. 12-16 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA
Sep. 12-16 OIW
Sep. 13-16 Seybold San Francisco, CA
Sep. 14-16 4th Int'l CCHP Vienna, Austria
Sep. 26-28 2nd IWACA Heidelberg, Germany
Sep. 28 Intnt'l Computer Comm. & Ntwks Bangkik, Thailand
Sep. 29-Oct. 1 NYSERNet Conference '94 Albany, NY
Sep. 29-Oct. 1 NATO Adv. Wkshp on Ntwking
in the NIS Moscow
Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN
Oct. 4-6 IFIP TC6 SEACOMM'94, Conf on
South East Asia Communication Kuala Lumpur, Malasia
Oct. 6-8 Parallel & Dist. Compt. Sys Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 15-20 ACM Conference on Multimedia San Francisco, CA
Oct. 16-20 ACM SIGUCCS
Oct. 24-28 NetWorld+Interop '94 Paris, France
October/November Windows Solutions Germany
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 1st Intntl ACM/SIGCAPH Conf.
Assistive Technolgies (ASSETS) Marina del Rey, CA
Oct. 31-Nov. 3 EDUCOM
Nov. 2-4 Gigabit Testbed Jamboree Reston, VA
Nov. 2-4 ACM Conf. of Computer and Comm Fairfax, VA
Security
Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV
Nov. 8-11 German Soc. of Internet Users Munich
Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA
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Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria
Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC
Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA
Nov. 15-16 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conf. Brussels
Nov. 18-29 Nerdathon '94 - Windows into
the Internet Lake Tahoe
Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause
Dec. 1-2 RARE Working Groups London, UK
Dec. 5-7 Australian Telecom Networks and
Applications Conf. ATNAC 94 Melbourne, AU
Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA
Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11
Dec. 5-9 10th Comp. Sec. Applications Orlando, FL
Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP
Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dec. 12-16 OIW
Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks '94 Madras, India
1995
---------
Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA
Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk &
Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA
Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX
Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
Mar. 13-17 OIW
Mar. 13-17 Email World (confirmed) Santa Clara, CA
Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP
Mar. 16-19 3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems
Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN
Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV
Apr. 3-7 IEEE Infocom Boston, MA
Apr. 3-7 32nd IETF (Definite)
Apr. 19-21 5th Network & Operating System
Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA
Apr. 24-25 IFIP Workshop on Personal
Wireless Communications Prague, Czech Republic
May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel
May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel
Jun. ISO/IEC JTC 1SC 21
WGs and Plenary (tentative) Turkey
Jun. ISOC Wkshop for Tech.
Emerging Countries
Jun. 12-16 INET '95 (tentative) Singapore
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Jun. 12-16 OIW
Jun. INET95
Jul. 4 Independence Day
Jul. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY
Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden
Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, JP
Sep. 11-15 OIW
Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 9-13 Email World San Jose, CA
(likely to be replaced by Nov. 27-Dec. 1 dates)
Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
Nov. 13-17 34th IETF (Tentative)
Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Probable) Boston, MA
Dec. 4-8 OIW
Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Tentative)
Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Possible) San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8 10th Comp. Sec. Applications (Tentative)
1996
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Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 18-22 OIW
May ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
WGs and Plenary (tentative) Kansas City, US
Jun. 10-14 OIW
Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU
Sep. 9-13 OIW
Dec. 9-13 OIW
1997
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Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA
1998
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Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World Comp. Conf. Vienna, Austria and
Budapest, Hungary
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Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories
Via gopher: "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings /
Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
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RARE LIST OF MEETINGS
Ref. RSec(94)001-ac September 1994
This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the
meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the
chair of the meeting or the RARE Secretariat. If you have
additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet (e.mail
address: cozanet@rare.nl).
**********************************************************************
MEETING/DATE LOCATION
============ ========
RARE Executive Committee
------------------------
RARE Council of Administration
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20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam
NewOrg General Assembly
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GA1
20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam
GA2
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
UPTURN BoF
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27 October Interop, Paris
(from 18.30 till 20.30 hrs)
4th Framework & Telematics for Research
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30 November (afternoon) London
RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors
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RARE Working Groups
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MHS Managers
20-21 October Zurich
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WG-ISUS
1/2 December London
WG-LLT
1 December (morning) London
WG-NOP
1 December (morning) London
RIPE
----
12-14 September Lisboa
RIPE NCC Contributors Committee
-------------------------------
21 September RARE/Amsterdam
VARIOUS
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EuroCAIRN
3/4 October Vienna
EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM
12 September Lisboa
EBONE
Consortium of Contributing Organisations
02 November Munich
EBONE Management Committee
06 September Copenhagen
EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
10 October Paris
EARN
Board of Directors
30 November - 1 December London
DANTE Board of Directors
19 September Utrecht
DANTE Shareholders
20 September Utrecht
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Euro-CCIRN
CCIRN
16/17 June 1995 Singapore
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
15/16 December Washington DC
IETF
5-9 December San Jose, California
3-7 April 1995 Danvers, Massachusetts
Summer 1995 Stockholm, Sweden
EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
13-14 September Brussels
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
27 September Brussels
6 December Brussels
Workshops
10-14 October Brussels
ETSI
----
General Assembly
22/23 November Nice, France
Technical Assembly
18-20 October Nice, France
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JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference
15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel
To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message
to <jenc6-request@rare.nl>.
For information, email <jenc6-sec@rare.nl>.
To submit a paper, email <jenc6-submit@rare.nl>
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OTHER CONFERENCES
(nb. For some of the following events, full text information is
available from the RARE Document Store under the directory calendar,
in which case the file name is specified under the information
presented below. The files may be retrieved via:
anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl
Email: server@rare.nl
Gopher: gopher.rare.nl)
SIXTH UNICODE IMPLEMENTERS' WORKSHOP
------------------------------------
8/9 September 1994
at Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, California
information from: <workshop@unicode.org>
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
(ICCCN'94)
from 11-14 September 1994, San Fransisco, U.S.A.
Conference Chairman: Prof. T. Suda <suda@ics.uci.edu>
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY & APPLICATIONS
--------------------------------------------------------------
28 September 1994
at Asia Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
(limited budget to pay for local expenses of all international
speakers, ie. local transportation, hotel, meals...) information from
Srisakdi Charmonman, email <charm@abac.au.ac.th>
NATO ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON NETWORKING IN THE NIS
-----------------------------------------------
"Establishing a cooperative framework for networking in
Russia and her neighbourhing states"
29 September until 1 October 1994
In Moscow, Russian Federation
CLOSED - BY INVITATION ONLY
OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.)
---------------------------------------------------------
from 8-11 November in Goettingen (Park Hotel Ropeter)
For further information contact the DIGI board via email:
<vorstand@digi.de>
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CEN/CENELEC/ETSI CONFERENCE 1994
--------------------------------
on 15 and 16 November 1994
in the European Parliament, Brussels.
Information from Kristien Van Ingelgem, fax.+32 2 519 6819
ICT STANDARDIZATION POLICY WORKSHOP 1994
----------------------------------------
28, 29 and 30 November 1994
Chateau du Lac, Genval, Belgium
organised by the European Commission with logistic
support from EWOS.
For information, email <ewos@spl.y-net.be>
NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94
------------------------------
from 28 to 30 November 1994
in London (UK)
For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via
email: <A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet>;
Paper submissions to: <NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET>
EMAIL WORLD
-----------
The Mail Enabled Technologies Conference
from 29 November to 1 December 1994
Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA, USA
For further information, email <expo@dic-inc.com>
Tel. +1 508 470 3880; Fax. +1 508 470 0526
WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR
INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY
-------------------------------------------------------
on 1 and 2 December 1994
in Luxembourg.
Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII,
EFTA and STRI.
Registrations before 30 September 1994
For information, email <tobbi@iti.is>
IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING
-----------------------------------------
from 5 till 11 February 1995
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
-> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video
Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995
Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445
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INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEM SECURITY
-----------------------------------------------------
16-17 February 1995
Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California USA
Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 1995.
For further information, email David Balenson
<balenson@tis.com>
EEMA MEETINGS
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Autumn Conference
14-16 September Madrid
Winter Conference
15-17 November Luxembourg
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