Internet Monthly Report - November 1994
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
AMERITECH ADVANCED DATA SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
ANSNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37
PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 41
Rare List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 45
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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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IETF Monthly Report for November, 1994
1. As I write this report, we are getting ready for the 31st
meeting of the IETF to be held in San Jose, California from
December 5-9, 1994, and by the time the Internet Monthly Report
is distributed, the word will be out that this was the largest
meeting ever. Over 900 people have pre-registered for this
meeting, and I anticipate breaking the 1000 attendee mark.
The IETF meetings for 1995 have firmed up. The IETF will be
meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) from
April 3-7, 1995. The summer IETF meeting will be held in
Stockholm, Sweden the week of July 17-21, 1995. Due to the costs
to be incurred, the IETF attendance fee for the Stockholm
meeting will be US$300.
The final meeting for 1995 will be held in Dallas, Texas. While
contracts have not yet been signed, it looks like the meeting
will be December 4-8, 1995. Once all the arrangements have been
made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list.
Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always
be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF
shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the
IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is:
http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly
available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files
are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory.
The following IESG minutes have been added:
October 20, 1994 (iesg.94-10-20)
November 3, 1994 (iesg.94-11-03)
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 15 Protocol
Actions during the month of November, 1994:
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o Uniform Resource Locators (URL) for publication as a Proposed
Standard.
o Ways to Define User Expectations be published as an
Informational RFC.
o Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names be
published as an Informational RFC.
o Functional Requirements for Internet Resource Locators be
published as an Informational RFC.
o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 for publication
as a Proposed Standard.
o IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms for publication as a Proposed
Standard.
o IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2 AND IMAP2BIS be published as
an Informational RFC.
o DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4 be published as
an Informational RFC.
o POP3 AUTHentication command for publication as a Proposed
Standard.
o Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory be
published as an Experimental Protocol.
o Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory
Information Tree be published as an Experimental Protocol.
o Use of the X.500 Directory to support mapping between X.400
and RFC 822 Addresses be published as an Experimental
Protocol.
o The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol for
publication as a Proposed Standard.
o Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving, and Maintaining the
Internet X.500 Directory Schema be published as an
Informational RFC.
o NBMA Address Resolution Protocol (NARP) be published as an
Experimental Protocol.
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4. The IESG issued one Last Call to the IETF during the month of
November, 1994:
o IEEE 802.5 Station Source Routing MIB
<draft-ietf-ifmib-ssr-mib-01> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
5. Five Working Groups were created during this period:
Site Security Handbook (ssh)
IPNG (ipngwg)
Quality Information Services (quis)
HyperText Markup Language (html)
Address Autoconfiguration (addrconf)
Additionally, three Working Groups were concluded:
TELNET (telnet)
OSI Directory Services (osids)
Simple Internet Protocol Plus (sipp)
6. A total of 108 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the
month of November, 1994:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(pem) o PEM Security Services and MIME
<draft-ietf-pem-mime-07.txt>
(avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
<draft-ietf-avt-rtp-06.txt>
(uri) o Uniform Resource Names
<draft-ietf-uri-resource-names-03.txt>
(iiir) o Publishing Information on the Internet with
Anonymous FTP <draft-ietf-iiir-publishing-02.txt>
(notary) o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status
Notifications <draft-ietf-notary-smtp-drpt-02.txt>
(notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status
Notifications
<draft-ietf-notary-mime-delivery-03.txt>
(none) o MIME Content-types for SGML Documents
<draft-levinson-sgml-02.txt>
(snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link
Control: SDLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-sdlc-mib-06.txt>
(rreq) o Requirements for IP Routers
<draft-ietf-rreq-iprouters-require-01.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Security Architecture
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<draft-atkinson-ipng-sec-00.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Authentication Header
<draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
<draft-atkinson-ipng-esp-00.txt>
(imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
<draft-ietf-imap-imap4-07.txt>
(dnssec) o Domain Name System Protocol Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-dnssec-secext-02.txt>
(none) o RTP Encapsulation of MPEG1/MPEG2
<draft-hoffman-rtp-mpeg-encap-01.txt>
(avt) o RTP Encapsulation of CellB Video Encoding
<draft-ietf-avt-cellb-profile-02.txt>
(mobileip) o IP Mobility Support
<draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-07.txt>
(none) o Conventions for Simplified Usage of SNMPv2 Security
<draft-waldbusser-conventions-01.txt>
(none) o Implementation Hints for the SNMPv2 Simplified
Security Conventions
<draft-waldbusser-ssecimpl-01.txt>
(none) o Overview of SNMPv2 Simplified Security Conventions
<draft-waldbusser-ssecov-01.txt>
(none) o INTER-DOMAIN ROUTING PROTOCOL (IDRP)
<draft-kunzinger-idrp-ISO10747-01.txt>
(wg-msg) o BoMBS series: Behaviour of Mail Based Servers Part
1: C-BoMBS Classification of Breeds of Mail Based
Servers <draft-rare-msg-c-bombs-02.txt>
(ipatm) o ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM
<draft-ietf-ipatm-sig-02.txt>
(wg-msg) o BoMBS series: Behaviour of Mail Based Servers Part
2: A-BoMBS Answering servers
<draft-rare-msg-a-bombs-01.txt>
(ospf) o Extending OSPF to support demand circuits
<draft-ietf-ospf-demand-01.txt>
(none) o MIME/ESMTP Profile for Voice Messaging
<draft-umig-mime-voice-01.txt>
(822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part
One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
<draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imb-01.txt>
(pem) o Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and
Multipart/Encrypted <draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-02.txt>
(imap) o IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms
<draft-ietf-imap-auth-02.txt>
(imap) o SYNCHRONIZATION OPERATIONS FOR DISCONNECTED IMAP4
CLIENTS <draft-ietf-imap-disc-01.txt>
(none) o Accounting Meter Services MIB
<draft-brownlee-acct-meter-mib-01.txt>
(pppext) + PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP)
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<draft-ietf-pppext-sdtp-00.txt>
(whip) o A Specification for the Simple Internet White Pages
Service <draft-ietf-whip-iwps-requirements-01.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP Banyan Vines Control Protocol (BVCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-vines-01.txt>
(snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link
Control: LLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-llc-mib-01.txt>
(none) o Simple Secure DNS <draft-ohta-simple-dns-01.txt>
(uri) o Relative Uniform Resource Locators
<draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-02.txt>
(none) o IP Multicast over UNI 3.0 based ATM Networks.
<draft-armitage-ipatm-ipmc-02.txt>
(none) o IPv6 Neighbor Discovery -- ICMP Message Formats
<draft-simpson-ipv6-discov-formats-01.txt>
(none) o IPv6 Neighbor Discovery -- Processing
<draft-simpson-ipv6-discov-process-01.txt>
(none) o Simple Internet Transition Overview
<draft-gilligan-ipv6-sit-overview-01.txt>
(st2) o Internet Stream Protocol Version 2 (ST2) Protocol
Specification - Version ST2+
<draft-ietf-st2-spec-01.txt, .ps>
(opstat) o The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics
Retrieval <draft-ietf-opstat-client-server-01.txt>
(trainmat) o Catalogue of Network Training Materials
<draft-ietf-trainmat-catalogue-01.txt>
(none) + SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION from the SECURITY
ARCHITECTURE FOR INTERNET PROTOCOLS A Guide for
Protocol Designs and Standards
<draft-irtf-psrg-secarch-sect1-00.txt>
(sdr) + The Concept of Packs
<draft-ietf-sdr-IPv6-pack-00.txt>
(aft) + Key-seeded MD5 authentication for SOCKS
<draft-ietf-aft-socks-md5-auth-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Introduction to Version 2 of the Internet-standard
Network Management Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-intro-ds-00.txt>
(none) + Multicast Servers in an RFC 1577 Environment.
<draft-armitage-ipatm-mcserv-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-conf-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Party MIB for Version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-party-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-tc-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Structure of Management Information for Version 2
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of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-smi-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Administrative Model for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-adminv2-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Security Protocols for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-sec-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-tm-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Manager-to-Manager Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-m2m-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the
Internet-standard Network Management Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-coex-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Internet
Protocol <draft-ietf-snmpv2-ip-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-proto-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the
Transmission Control Protocol
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-tcp-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + Management Information Base for Version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-mib-ds-00.txt>
(snmpv2) + SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the User
Datagram Protocol <draft-ietf-snmpv2-udp-ds-00.txt>
(pppext) + The PPP XNS IDP Control Protocol (XNSCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-xnscp-00.txt>
(asid) + Definition of an X.500 Attribute Type and Object
Class to Hold Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
<draft-ietf-asid-x500-url-00.txt>
(asid) + Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly
Naming <draft-ietf-asid-user-friendly-dir-00.txt,
.ps>
(asid) + A String Representation of Distinguished Names
<draft-ietf-asid-dist-names-00.txt, .ps>
(ripv2) + RIP-II Cryptographic Authentication
<draft-ietf-ripv2-md5-00.txt>
(html) + File Transfer from World-Wide Web Browsers to
Servers <draft-ietf-html-fileupload-00.txt>
(asid) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
<draft-ietf-asid-lightdirect-00.txt>
(none) + Service Location Protocol
<draft-veizades-ipng-svrloc-00.txt>
(asid) + The String Representation of Standard Attribute
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Syntaxes <draft-ietf-asid-syntaxes-00.txt>
(bmwg) + Benchmarking Methodologies for Overall Network
Performance <draft-ietf-bmwg-overallperf-00.txt>
(bmwg) + Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect
Devices <draft-ietf-bmwg-methodology-00.txt>
(dhc) + Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
<draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-00.txt>
(cat) + Generic Security Service Application Program
Interface, Version 2 <draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-00.txt>
(none) + Accounting: Usage Reporting Architecture
<draft-brownlee-acct-arch-report-00.txt>
(none) + ARP Extension - UNARP <draft-malkin-unarp-00.txt>
(pppext) + The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-encryption-00.txt>
(ripv2) + RIP for IPv6 <draft-ietf-ripv2-ripng-00.txt>
(none) + Registration of IP6 Addresses via ISO/ITU.
<draft-lloyd-ip6-iso-itu-reg-00.txt>
(none) + Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
<draft-gilligan-ipv6-trans-mech-00.txt>
(dnssec) + Mapping Autonomous Systems Number into the Domain
Name System <draft-ietf-dnssec-as-map-00.txt>
(none) + Routing Aspects Of IPv6 Transition
<draft-haskin-ipv6-routing-aspects-00.txt, .ps>
(uri) + URC Scenarios and Requirements
<draft-ietf-uri-urc-req-00.txt>
(none) + A Means for Expressing Location Information in the
Domain Name System <draft-davis-dns-loc-00.txt>
(idr) + IDRP for IPv6 <draft-ietf-idr-idrp-v6-00.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Preferred Unicast Address Format
<draft-rekhter-IPv6-address-format-00.txt>
(none) + Multi-homed TCP <draft-huitema-multi-homed-00.txt>
(pppext) + PPP LZS-DCP Compression Protocol (LZS-DCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-lzs-dcp-00.txt>
(pppext) + PPP for Data Compression in Data Circuit-Terminating
Equipment (DCE)
<draft-ietf-pppext-dce-compress-00.txt>
(ids) + Recommendations for an X.500 Production Directory
Service <draft-ietf-ids-x500-pds-directory-00.txt>
(dnsind) + Incremental Transfer in DNS
<draft-ietf-dnsind-ixfr-00.txt>
(uri) + Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50
<draft-ietf-uri-url-irp-00.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Mobility Support
<draft-simpson-ipv6-mobility-00.txt>
(idr) + Experience with the BGP-4 protocol
<draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-experience-00.txt>
(idr) + BGP-4 Protocol Analysis
<draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-analysis-00.txt>
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(ospf) + OSPF IPv6 Extensions
<draft-ietf-ospf-ipv6-ext-00.txt>
(cat) + Independent Object Protection Generic Security
Service Application Program Interface (IOP-GSS-API)
<draft-ietf-cat-iop-gss-00.txt>
(html) + HyperText Markup Language Specification - 2.0
<draft-ietf-html-spec-00.txt>
(avt) + RTP Encapsulation of JPEG-compressed video.
<draft-ietf-avt-jpeg-00.txt>
(ospf) + OSPF Database Overflow
<draft-ietf-ospf-overflow-00.txt>
(none) + Modular Key Management Protocol (MKMP)
<draft-cheng-modular-ikmp-00.txt, .ps>
(imap) + IMAP4 STATUS EXTENSION
<draft-ietf-imap-status-00.txt>
(rreq) + Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
<draft-ietf-rreq-cidr-00.txt>
(cat) + Integrating One-time Passwords with Kerberos
<draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-passwords-00.txt>
(none) + Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
<draft-fielding-http-spec-00.txt, .ps>
(mobileip) + Route Optimization in Mobile IP
<draft-ietf-mobileip-optim-00.txt>
7. There were 16 RFC's published during the month of November,
1994:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1693 E (none) An Extension to TCP : Partial Order
Service
RFC1707 I (none) CATNIP: Common Architecture for the
Internet
RFC1709 I (isn) K-12 Internetworking Guidelines
RFC1712 E (none) DNS Encoding of Geographical Location
RFC1713 I (none) Tools for DNS debugging
RFC1714 I (none) Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois)
RFC1715 I (none) The H Ratio for Address Assignment
Efficiency
RFC1716 I (none) Towards Requirements for IP Routers
RFC1717 PS (pppext) The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)
RFC1718 I (none) The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New
Attendees of the Internet Engineering
Task Force
RFC1720 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS
RFC1721 I (ripv2) RIP Version 2 Protocol Analysis
RFC1722 DS (ripv2) RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability
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Statement
RFC1723 DS (ripv2) RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional
Information
RFC1724 DS (ripv2) RIP Version 2 MIB Extension
RFC1725 DS (none) Post Office Protocol - Version 3
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us)
INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------
AMERITECH ADVANCED DATA SERVICES
--------------------------------
Chicago NAP Status Report
RA/Route Server: The server was delivered, installed and connected
to the ATM switch, by Bill Manning/ISI and AADS operations, on
11/17.
MCI: ADSU and circuit installation complete, loop testing is in
progress. Switch connection is expected on 12/5.
ANS: Circuit installation complete. Connectivity was provided
through this connection to the Radiological Society of North
America conference in Chicago 11/27-12/2, through a separate
router. ATM switch connection was completed on 12/2. Ping testing
and IP/ATM error monitoring is in progress.
The MCI/ANS/RS PVCs will be configured early this week.
Sprint: The order is being worked on.
Alpha.NET: DS-3 circuit using Norlight IXC to Milwaukee is being
installed, with service expected 1/2/95.
Databank: Letter of intent received, order being worked on.
Additional discussions are ongoing with a number of other
providers.
Mark Knopper (mak@aads.net)
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ANSNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING REPORT
----------------------------------
Network Status Summary
=======================
ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 5.28% in November
'94. An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 3.29% was
observed during the month of November.
August Backbone Traffic Statistics
==================================
The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 90,014,646,313 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up
5.28% from October. The total packet count into the network
including all ENSS serial interfaces was 100,925,726,278 up 4.83%
from October.
Router Forwarding Table Statistics
==================================
The maximum number of destinations announced to ANSnet during
November was 19,507 up 3.29% from October.
The number of network destinations configured for announcement to
the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during November was
20,294.
BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status
============================
As of December 1st '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 9,671
class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables
that are now represented by 2,246 configured aggregates. Among
these configured aggregates:
1,643 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another
aggregate).
1,309 of these are actively announced to ANSnet.
898 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other
411 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements).
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771 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one
configured more specific route.
759 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their
configured more specific routes.
701 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 greatest instability in November was contributed by a single T1
ENSS node on November 1st due to a faulty circuit. The problem
circuit was an Ameritech leg of a T1 tail circuit provisioned
through MCI which turned out to be a bad smartjack at the customer
premise. This caused a very high level of packet loss. There were
other problems, most notably an FDDI problem at the Hayward POP.
MONTH overall excluding configs
-------- -------- ------------------
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% 97.9%
December 96.6% 96.8%
January 98.7% 99.0%
February 96.6% 97.6%
...
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June 99.5% 99.7%
July 98.7% 99.5%
August 99.7% 99.7%
September 99.4% 99.5%
October 99.5%** 99.6%**
November 99.5%*** 99.5%***
** = excluding one T1 ENSS
*** = excluding one T1 ENSS on Nov 1
Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability
follows. A lengthy T1 ENSS212 outage contributed about 5 hours of
instability to the November data (which was excluded below). If
this node is excluded from the data, very little instability in the
other nodes is evident. ENSS136 experienced about 45 minutes of
instability due to gated problem. CNSS32 experienced 36 minutes of
instability due to high routing load on a machine with 32 MB of
memory (memory upgrade still pending). ENSS213 and ENSS142 had
just over 15 minutes of instability. All others had under 15
minutes of instability over the course of the month (>99.97%
stable).
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
August 0 0 0 0 0 67
September 0 0 0 1 14 57
October 0 0 0 1 3 61 **
November 0 0 0 2 2 67 ***
** = excluding one T1 ENSS
*** = excluding one T1 ENSS on Nov 1
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External route flap reports are described in:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/daily-reports/README
Notable Outages in November '94
===============================
E133 (Cornell) was unreachable for an extended period due to a
fiber cut on 11/07.
Jordan Becker <becher@ans.net>
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
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
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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
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 access net-happenings, point your gopher client to:
is.internic.net
and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings.
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THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights
Presently the Scout Report is now reaching over 16,000 subscribers
and the HTML versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of
accesses each week. The Scout Report will be off line between
December 19 to January 3.
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
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
"Learning the Whole Internet" is now available for users needing
Internet training. The InterNIC has already presented a beta
version of the course which includeded a copy of _The Whole
Internet_ as well as class handouts of the PowerPoint presentation.
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NSF NETWORK NEWS
The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 4 (September/October 1994) is
now available on- line. The newsletter spotlights K-12 resources
on the Internet. Highlights include: how to evaluate Internet
resources; cyber-field trips; lesson plans goldmines; an
international connectivity map; a seminar spotlight; and the
regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC
Event Calendar and news briefs. To subscribe, send email to
newsletter-request@internic.net.
The September/October issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available
on the WorldWideWeb at
http://www.internic.net/newsletter/sep-oct94/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
November:
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 451 47
Phone 214 23
Fax 249 26
US Mail 16 2
Referral 22 <1
------- -------- ---------
Total 952 100.0
by Anna Knittle <aknittle@is.internic.net>
INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
We recently added additional disk capacity to our primary server,
and will soon install more disk on the two backup machines. This
storage will permit us to support a local copy of the AIDS Patent
Database we described in the October IMR. It also provides the
storage we need to support the latest version of Archie on our
primary server (ds0.internic.net), and it has now been installed.
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As noted in the August IMR when we put the new Archie up on one of
our backup servers, the new version supports searches for Gopher
menu items as well as anonymous FTP file names.
To search Archie for Gopher menu items, Gopher to ds0.internic.net
or 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 ds0.internic.net or ds1.internic.net, log in as
gopher, and follow the same steps. We will install the new Archie
on our third server once additional disk storage has been
installed.
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>
INTERNIC REGISTRATION SERVICES
Progress Report for period November 1, 1994 through November 30,
1994
I. Significant Events
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 4,480 network
addresses and registered over 3,356 domains. Two top-level country
domains were registered during the month; Jordan, and El Salvador.
II. Current Status
During the month of November 1994, InterNIC Registration Services
received communications as shown below. The majority of the
correspondence concerned the assignment and re-assignment of
network numbers and the registration or change of domain names.
E-mail 7,988 (hostmaster@internic.net)
Postal/Fax 240 (primarily IP number requests)
Phone 1,964
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The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
of information retrieval requests during the month of November.
Connections Retrievals
Gopher 84559 45455
WAIS 74730 59812
FTP 11334 501992
Mailserv 4444
Telnet 69462
In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:
Client Server
298993 1307706
Domain Registrations
During November, 3,356 domains were added to the database. The
totals by major domain category for the month are:
MONTH COM EDU ORG NET GOV US CNTY TOTAL
NOV94 2817 37 277 215 8 0 2 3356
As of 30-Nov-94, there were 33,884 domains in the InterNIC
database, including 923 marked for removal and 354 on hold due to
name server problems. The monthly cumulative totals by major
domain category for the past year are:
MONTH COM EDU ORG NET GOV US CNTY TOTAL
======================================================
AUG93 8185 1291 740 239 195 168 110 10928
SEP 8718 1306 807 253 202 171 112 11569
OCT 9204 1319 856 265 206 182 113 12145
NOV 9791 1339 908 285 209 224 114 12870
DEC 10608 1389 1019 367 248 231 115 13977
JAN94 11239 1412 1086 454 257 239 115 14802
FEB 12097 1435 1190 553 260 251 116 15902
MAR 13240 1473 1305 608 266 267 119 17278
APR 14154 1489 1391 660 272 268 123 18357
MAY 15235 1515 1512 738 280 268 126 19674
JUN 16937 1554 1692 869 284 273 127 21736
JUL 18537 1584 1853 969 287 274 127 23631
AUG 20550 1621 2055 1119 294 280 128 26047
SEP 21980 1646 2212 1232 302 280 131 27783
OCT 24271 1680 2474 1383 310 280 130 30528
NOV 27088 1717 2751 1598 318 280 132 33884
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ISI
---
NETSTATION
==========
Both Steve Hotz and Vivek Goyal joined the project this month.
Focus this month has been centered primarily upon the model desired
for ownership and access of a Network Virtual Device (NVD). Since
this project is interfacing devices directly to the Internet,
questions of booting, ownership and access control arise in a new
context.
Device ownership is straightforward when a device is controlled via
the system bus. The bus master, usually the CPU, owns the device
and controls it exclusively, by means of a memory-mapped commands
issued by device driver. But if a device is instead interfaced and
controlled via a gigabit network, its commands must come across the
network as packets, with any host able to send it packets.
A de-facto emulation of the bus control methodology used today is
possible. That is, an NVD could restrict its acceptable commands
to only those sent from a specific Owner host, which corresponds to
the CPU as bus master, with the Owner's address stored in the NVD
as non-volatile memory. The Owner could send memory read/write
commands as packets to the device.
That model of access and control would be a nearly direct
substitution of a network for the system bus, and as long as
latency was sufficiently low, it would work. However, it
incorporates constraints that are no longer necessary nor desirable
in a network-based architecture.
In a bus-based architecture, a device and its Owner are physically
connected. Ownership is explicit. For an NVD, the Owner is not
necessarily physically connected. Ownership can be both dynamic
and freely determined.
The Owner of an NVD does not control it directly via memory
read/write, but indirectly, by means of packet exchange. The
device driver must be split between the Owner and the NVD, with a
protocol for access and control well-understood between them.
After evaluating a number of alternative ownership-association
strategies, we have tentatively adopted the following model for
ownership. When an NVD is operating and accessible it will have
one "Owner". That owner may be either the NVD itself, a general
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NVD Manager (NVDM) process, or some owning process at another
Internet host.
An Owner is responsible for controlling access to any NVD that it
owns. The Owner is responsible for processing and filtering NVD
access-request messages and either granting or denying access to
the NVD.
An NVD is inaccessible for use until its ownership has been
established. When an NVD is inaccessible, it immediately discards
all incoming messages except those required to maintain link-layer
connectivity.
When an NVD boots, it determines its default ownership and passes
ownership to its Default Owner. The Default Owner will be either
itself or its NVDM. If its NVDM is inaccessible, the NVD remains
inaccessible until it can establish contact and pass ownership to
its NVDM. Each NVD must have memory that stores it ownership
status and the Internet address of its Owner.
Filtering Access Requests
Assume that the location of an NVD has already been determined by
an external process that wishes access to that NVD. Obtaining
access to an NVD is a four-stage procedure.
(1) An access-request message is sent directly to the target NVD
by the process that wishes to access that NVD.
(2) The NVD forwards that message to its Owner.
(3) The Owner then filters the access-request and either decides
to grant it or deny access. It builds a reply and sends
that reply back to the target NVD.
(4) The target NVD creates from that reply a message that it
sends back to the source of the original access-request
message. If the Owner is not the NVD itself, the Internet
address or name of the Owner is not sent in the reply.
In the case that the target NVD owns itself, steps (2) and (3) are
performed by the target NVD itself.
The access-requesting process must implement a reasonable time-out
in the event that no reply is received before it may re-request
access to the same target NVD. That time-out MUST NOT be shorter
than 5 seconds.
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No restriction is placed upon the filtering function execution
other than that a reply message be sent back to the requesting
process in a timely manner. An upper limit of 1 second to complete
this procedure is suggested.
Owner Failure
If an NVD's Owner fails (halts, crashes, or reboots), that Owner
loses ownership of that NVD. Discovery of this by the owned NVDs
will occur in one of two ways:
(1) The NVD expects a response from its owner and receives none
within a mutually-agreed time limit. The NVD will reassert
its default ownership.
(2) An access-request message arrives at a target NVD. This
message must be forwarded to the NVD's Owner. An
access-request message must be replied to in a timely
manner. Failure to reply in a timely manner results in
the target NVD reasserting its default ownership.
In the event that an Owner fails, the first subsequent access-
request message will provoke a default ownership reponse from the
target NVD. Successive access-request messages that arrive at the
target NVD will then be forwarded to the target's new Owner, which
will normally result in a response message.
The intent is that the assertion of default ownership implies that
the NVD also "reset" itself, so that particular internal hardware
resources that are dedicated to a previous owner are made available
to the new owner. This will often be equivalent to the state that
an NVD was in just after it successfully booted.
NVD Failure
When an NVD itself fails, no response to repeated access-request
messages will be received. This is distinct from failure to be
granted access by an Owner, which results in the generation of
explicit access-failure return messages.
Greg Finn <finn@isi.edu, Steve Hotz, <hotz@isi.edu, Bruce Parham,
<Bparham@isi.edu>, S.K. Reddy Monnangi, <Monnangi@isi.edu>, Vivek
Goyal
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PC-ATOMIC
---------
We have completed the PC-ATOMIC prototype card, a i486 VL-Bus
(VESA) interface for the MyriCom LANai processor and network
interface. The card was developed to provide an interface to the
MyriNet network for low-cost i486-based hosts. The board has been
tested as compatible with the link-level of the SBus Myricom
interfaces.
Overview
(full text available on
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/pub/hpcc-papers/touch/pca_overview.txt)
PC-ATOMIC is a i486 VL-bus (VESA, Video-Local) interface to the
links of Myricom's implementation of the ATOMIC LAN. It requires
one full-length slot in a 33-Mhz 1-waitstate motherboard. It
provides a bidirectional 640-Mbps (80 Mbytes/sec, byte-wide)
channel over Myricom links, and is link-compatible with Myricom's
Sun SPARC SBus interface.
Small quantities of the board are available from ISI as GFE for
research purposes. The specifications and design of the board are
also available.
The PC-ATOMIC interface uses a 16-bit LANai 1.2 host interface
processor, and provides 128 Kbytes of dual-access RAM (emulates
dual-ported RAM). The PC-ATOMIC board is memory-mapped, providing
access to the RAM and memory-mapped registers. The registers
provide:
Internet checksum
accumulates all PIO reads, writes
can be reset to 0 via a register bit
Disable/enable
Internet checksum
Board reset
LANai reset-and-hold/release (for programming)
LANai hardware interrupt signal to host
The board also will support DMA in a future firmware release.
This document refers to information from Myricom regarding their
Sun SPARC 2.x host interface cards, LANai 1.2 programming
information, and cable information. Contact Myricom for information
on these items.
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The VL-side of the board runs at 33 Mhz (from the VL-Bus). The
LANai has two sides - one runs off the on-board link clock, the
other runs at a rate compatible with the host. Because the current
LANai 1.2 is limited to host-side clocks of 25 Mhz or less, its
host-side is clocked at 1/2 the VL-Bus clock. The board can be
reprogrammed if a 33 Mhz LANai 1.2 becomes available.
The board also contains a LANai 1.2 subsystem, nearly identical to
that of the Myricom 1.2 Sun SPARC SBus prototype cards. The PC-
ATOMIC board is link-level compatible with the Myricom LANai 2.0
SBus interfaces. The LANai uses a separate on-board crystal for
the link clocking, independent of the LANai host-side clocking.
This crystal is set to 40 Mhz for compatibility with current
Myricom host interfaces and switches. Other crystals can be used,
so long as BOTH ENDS OF EACH LINK use the same crystal frequency,
as per the Myricom literature.
Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>, Annette DeSchon <deschon@isi.edu>, Hong
Xu <xu@isi.edu>, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Mike Gorman
<mgorman@isi.edu>, Jeff LaCoss <lacoss@isi.edu>
ATOMIC-2
--------
The ATOMIC-2 project extends the results of the ATOMIC project,
which developed a LAN from supercomputer chips. ATOMIC-2 is
implementing an ATOMIC-ATM IP-level gateway to extend ATOMIC beyond
LAN boundaries. We are also implementing an ATOMIC disk server. We
are continuing efforts to deliver a significant portion of ATOMIC's
640 Mbps network bandwidth to the user application, subject to host
backplane limitations.
ATOMIC-ATM Gateway
We are currently investigating the use of both the Naval Research
Laboratory's PTAI2 ATM interface, and Fore Systems' SBA-200
interface for building Atomic - ATM gateways. We plan to implement
IP level gateways using both interface systems (boards and device
drivers).
We installed Myricom's S-Bus 2.0 host interfaces and Fore SBA-200
ATM cards on a Sun SPARC 20/51, and ran a simple IP gateway test.
We found that the performance was dependent on packet size for UDP,
but not as much for TCP. TCP performance was around 40
megabits/second, and dropped only slightly for the gateway vs.
unicast ATM or ATOMIC traffic. We believe this indicates that host
processing is the bottleneck, and we are looking into alternate TCP
implementations (TCP Vegas, X-kernel TCP, etc.).
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UDP performance was limited to near 75 Mbps for ATOMIC, and 100
Mbps for even a 140 Mbps-capable ATM card. We are looking into
modifying the host interfaces to transfer packets directly between
each other, rather than involving host routing software.
Gateway Performance
Throughput
Mbps
120 ++-----+-------+-----------+-------+--------+-------+-----++
| + + + + + + |
| |
100 ++ %%%% ++
| % % |
| % % |
80 ++ % % ++
| % % @@@@ &&&& |
| %%%% % @ @ & & |
60 ++ % % @ @ &&&& & ++
| % % @@@@ @ & & |
| % % @ @ & & |
40 ++ *******% % #######@ @ & & ++
| * *% % # #@ @ $$$$$$$& & |
| * *% % # #@ @ $ $& & |
20 ++ * *% % # #@ @ $ $& & ++
| * *% % # #@ @ $ $& & |
| * + *% + % # + #@ +@ $ + $& + & |
0 ++-----+-------+-----------+-------+--------+-------+-----++
TCP UDP TCP UDP TCP UDP
4K 8K 4K 8K 4K 8K 4K 8K 4K 8K 4K 8K
------------ ------------ ------------
ATM ATOMIC GATEWAY
Protocol
We were also able to measure the performance of the Myricom host
interface for native ATOMIC packets. We found that the bandwidth
depended on an interaction between packet size and page size for
pages over 4K bytes. This was probably due to multi-page packet
effects, due possibly to page swapping, TLB effects, or other page
boundary effects. The 290 Mbps upper bound is related to the 320
Mbps peak bandwidth of the SPARC SBus, combined with per-burst
overhead of bus arbitration.
Using DMA for data transfer increased bandwidth remarkably from the
programmed I/O case. DMA achieves 290 Mbps as packet size
increases, and PIO was limited to 78 Mbps.
Because the ATOMIC interface is capable of higher packet bandwidth
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than ATM, we would expect ATOMIC UDP to be higher bandwidth than
ATM, which is not the case.
ATOMIC Myrinet SBus Performance
Host to Host Packet Bandwidth
Bandwdith
Mbps
+--+---+------+-----+------+------+------+-----+------+------+---+
300 ++ + + + + *** + + + **********+ ++
| ** * ***** * |
250 ++ ** * *** ***++
| ** * ***** |
| ** * ***** |
200 ++ *** **** +
| ** |
| ** |
150 ++ * ++
| * |
| ** |
100 ++ ** ++
| **@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
| *@ |
50 ++*@ ++
| * |
+*@+ + + + + + + + + + |
0 A+-+---+-----+-----+------+------+------+-----+------+------+---++
4 .5k 1k 2k 3k 4k 5k 6k 7k 8k 9k
Packetsize (bytes)
(95% confidence is within the discretization of the plot)
* = DMA data transfer
@ = programmed I/O data transfer
Providing Integrated Services in ATOMIC
We are studying how to provide integrated services in ATOMIC.
Integrated services are used to support real-time protocols (e.g.,
RTP) and QoS reservation mechanisms (e.g., RSVP). We are
implementing a subset of the core services proposed in the CSZ
model, a service model for Integrated Services Packet Networks
proposed by Clark, Shenker, and Zhang. Our aim is to design and
implement packet scheduling algorithms on the source-routed cut-
through networks (e.g., ATOMIC) to provide seamless integrates
services over ATOMIC that are emerging on other LAN technologies.
The CSZ model proposes a scheduling architecture to support their
service model. Packet network systems that support configurable
queuing at intermediate switches can implement this architecture by
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using multi-level queues.
ATOMIC uses source-routed cut-through packet switching, with hard-
wired "fair" switching at each stage and hardware backpressure,
i.e., no queuing, and no programmable switching algorithm. ATOMIC
will have to adjust source routing and the timing of packet
emissions to emulate the multilevel queuing mechanism proposed by
CSZ.
We are currently considering schemes based on an emulation of
switch reservation at the centralized arbiter (i.e., the route
server), combined with frame-based leaky bucket mechanisms at the
hosts (e.g., SNR).
Using X-Kernel to support the ATOMIC-ATM gateway
We are currently evaluating the x-Kernel (Peterson, Arizona) as a
possible vehicle for protocol experiments that bypass the current
BSD implementations of TCP/IP. We are seeking ways to provide
higher bandwidth to the application, as well as a mechanism to
support more efficient gatewaying using multiple host interfaces.
We plan to use the x-Kernel to investigate experimental protocol
implementations, e.g. TCP Vegas, and direct coupling of the lowest
level of the x-Kernel and the drivers for various high-speed
networks including ATOMIC and ATM.
High performance authentication - Report on MD5 Performance
(full text available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/pub/hpcc-
papers/touch/md5.txt)
MD5 is an authentication algorithm, and has been proposed as one
authentication option in IPv6. When enabled, the MD5 algorithm
operates over the entire data packet, including header (with dummy
values for volatile fields). We are concerned with how fast MD5 can
be implemented in software and hardware, and whether it supports
the network bandwidth we're installing here at ISI.
RFC 1321 describes the MD5 algorithm and gives a reference
implementation [1]. The Internet Draft draft-ietf-sipp-ap-04.txt
describes the IPv6 authentication option, and MD5's role in it [2].
We have found that MD5 cannot be implemented in existing technology
at rates in excess of 267 Mbps, and cannot be implemented feasibly
at rates in excess of 70 Mbps. These rates cannot support ISI's
ATOMIC LAN (640 Mbps raw, 36 Mbps TCP, 75 Mbps UDP currently). We
believe that if MD5 cannot support existing network bandwidth using
existing technology, that situation will not change in the future.
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We ran a reference implementation of MD5 written in C posted by Jim
Ellis at CERT. Here are the data rates we got from the performance
test "md5 -t", which tests 1000 1000-byte blocks through the code:
13 Mbps SPARC-2 SunOS 4.1.3
20 Mbps 486/33 NetBSD
23 Mbps HP 9000/720
36 Mbps SPARC-10/51, SPARC-20/50 SunOS 4.1.3
52 Mbps SGI/IP-20 IRIX 5.2
These rates do not keep up with the bandwidth we support for TCP or
UDP at ISI.
Our analysis indicates that the best software implementation can
run in Mbps at 1.6x the MIPS rate of the computer, i.e., a 100 MIPS
machine can support a 160 Mbps stream. These bounds are supported
by our measurements, above.
In hardware, our analysis indicates that the following rates are
possible:
CMOS 70 Mbps
ECL 157 Mbps
GaAs 267 Mbps
These are also less than required for the ATOMIC LAN at ISI.
We propose an alternative to MD5, that is 8- or 16-way block
chained, rather than 1-way. We believe that the resulting algorithm
achieves the goals of MD5 over MD4, but without the serialization
penalty that prohibits high speed implementation. It would require
further analysis to ensure that it provides an adequate level of
security.
References
[1] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm," Network Working
Group RFC-1321, MIT LCS & RSA Data Security, Inc., April 1992.
[2] Atkinson, R., "IPv6 Authentication Header," Network Working
Group Internet Draft draft-inet-sipp-ap-04.txt, Naval Research
Lab, August 1994.
Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>, Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>,
Annette DeSchon <deschon> Hong Xu <xu@isi.edu>
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Steve Casner was the luncheon speaker at the ITCA Forum on Desktop
Video and Collaboration in San Francisco, CA, November 11th. The
title of the talk was "Internet Video Today". Bill Manning visited
Oakland, Chicago, Houston, Washington, New Jersey, to install Route
Servers at NAPS, November 16-23rd. Jon Postel attended the NSF
review of the InterNIC in Washington, D.C. November 14-17. Bob
Braden chaired the ETOE-IG meeting at MIT, in Boston, MA, November
12-16th. Joyce Reynolds participated in the EARN NSC Conference,
RARE meeting, and EARO INFO meetings as Program Committee member,
November 25-Dec 4th.
15 RFCs were published this month.
1693 An Extension to TCP : Partial Order Service. T. Connolly,
P. Amer & P. Conrad. November 1994.
1709 K-12 Internetworking Guidelines. J. Gargano, D. Wasley.
November 1994. (Also FYI0026)
1712 DNS Encoding of Geographical Location. C. Farrell,
M. Schulze, S. Pleitner & D. Baldoni. November 1994.
1713 Tools for DNS debugging. A. Romao. November 1994.
(Also FYI0027)
1714 Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois). S. Williamson &
M. Kosters. November 1994.
1715 The H Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency.
C. Huitema, November 1994.
1716 Towards Requirements for IP Routers. P. Almquist,
F. Kastenholz. November 1994.
1717 The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP). K. Sklower, B. Lloyd,
G. McGregor & D. Carr. November 1994.
1718 The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the
Internet Engineering Task Force. The IETF Secretariat &
G. Malkin. November 1994.
1720 Internet Official Protocol Standards. J. Postel.
November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1610) (Also STD0001)
1721 RIP Version 2 Protocol Analysis. G. Malkin.
November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1387)
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1722 RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement.
G. Malkin. November 1994.
1723 RIP Version 2 - Carrying Additional Information.
G. Malkin. November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1388) (Updates
RFC1058)
1724 RIP Version 2 MIB Extension. G. Malkin & F. Baker.
November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1389)
1725 Post Office Protocol - Version 3. J. Myers & M. Rose.
November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1460)
THE US DOMAIN
=============
US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX 673
PHONE
----------------------------
Total Contacts 673
DELEGATIONS 20
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 17
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 636
---------------------------
Total
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.
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Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------------
AJB.DNI.US American Job Bank
IMS.FED.US Institute of Museum Services
K12.KS.US Kansas, K12 schools
CC.KS.US Kansas, Community Colleges
TEC.KS.US Kansas, Technical Schools
FT-DEVENS.MA.US Ft. Devens, MA
MORRIS.MN.US Minnesota Regional Network
BEACHWOOD.OH.US Beachwood, OH, locality
BEAVERCREEK.OH.US BEAVERCREEK, OH, locality
CAMBRIDGE.OH.US Cambridge, OH, locality
CUYAHOGA-FALLS.OH.US Cuyahoga Falls, OH, locality
DEFIANCE.OH.US Defiance, OH, locality
HOLLAND.OH.US Holland, OH, locality
LIMA.OH.US Lima, OH, locality
MEDINA.OH.US Medina, OH, locality
MIDDLETOWN.OH.US Middletown, OH, locality
PARMA-HEIGHTS.OH.US Parma Heights, OH, locality
REYNOLDS.OH.US Reynolds, Ohio, locality
TIFFIN.OH.US Tiffin, OH, locality
TROY.OH.US Troy, OH, locality
VERMILLION.OH.US Vermillion, OH, locality
WAVERLY.OH.US Waverly, OH, locality
HILLSBORO.OR.US Hillsboro, OR, locality
K12.WA.US Washington, K12 Schools
EL-DORADO.CA.US El Dorado, CA, locality
LITTLETON.CO.US Littleton, CO, locality
CASPER.WY.US Casper, Wyoming, locality
JUNEAU.AK.US Juneau, AK, locality
PIERCE.WA.US Pierce, Washington, locality
NEWAYGO.MI.US. Newaygo County Career Tech Center
NMCOURT.FED.US US District Court of New Mexico
PIQUA.OH.US Piqua, OH, locality
Other US Domain Delegations this Month
--------------------------------------
PTI-NW.DC.US Public Technology Incorporated
BOSTON.K12.MA.US Boston Public Schools
CONNSTEP.STATE.CT.US Connecticut's State Tech. Ext. Program
CI.VABEACH.VA.US City of Virginia Beach, VA
CI.SCOTTSDALE.AZ.US City of Scottsdale, Arizona
CI.SALINAS.CA.US City of Salinas, CA
CO.SARASOTA.FL.US County of Sarasota, FL
CI.VABEACH.VA.US City of Virginia Beach, VA
CO.CENTRE.PA.US County of Centre, Pennsylvania
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CI.MONTEREY.CA.US City of Monterey, CA
CO.NORTHAMPTON.PA.US County of Northampton, Pennsylvania
CO.ORANGE.CA.US County of Orange, California
CO.WAUKESHA.WI.US County of Waukesha, Wisconsin
VCPL.VIGO.LIB.IN.US Vigo County, Public Library, Terra Haute
LVCCLD.LIB.NV.US Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
PORTLAND.LIB.ME.US Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
ALLEN.CC.KS.US Allen County Community College
GCCC.CC.KS.US Garden City Community College
ABQTVI.CC.NM.US Alburquerque T-VI Community College
SHERIFF.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US San Diego County Sheriff's Dept.
NSURG.ST-LOUIS.MO.US St. John's Mercy Neuroscience
MEDIA.MONTCLAIR.NJ.US Private Individual
RDR.DANVILLE.CA.US Private Individual
KLI.ARLINGTON.VA.US Private Individual
TBS.DETROIT.MI.US Private Individual
DEADEND.CICERO.IL.US Private Individual
SALVA.CHANTILLY.VA.US Private Individual
GODZILLA.GEN.AR.US Private individual
EQUITIES.LITTLE-SILVER.NJ.US Private Individual
WCDR.CO.WASHINGTON.PA.US Domestic Relations, Washington County
PARADISE.FALLS-CHURCH.VA.US Private Individual
HUMBOLTHS.HUMBOLT.K12.TN.US Humbolt High School
FREAK.GEN.KS.US MUD Central - VR Gaming Domain Park
ITIC.NW.DC.US Information Tech. Industries, Council
IES.LAF.IN.US Integrated Electronic Solutions
BDC.BETHEL.ME.US Bethel Data Corporation
TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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AK X
AL X
AR X X
AZ X X X X X
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CA X X X
CO X X X X X X X
CT
DC X
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DE X
FL X X X X X X X
GA X X X X
HI X X X X X X X
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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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 X X X X
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
MA X 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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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 X
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NM X X X
NV
NY X X X X X X X
OH X X X X X X X
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OK
OR X X X X X X X
PA X X
RI X X X
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SC X X X X X X X
SD X X X X X X X
TN X
TX X X X X X X X
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UT X X X X
VA X X X X
VI
VT X
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-----------------------------------------------------------
WA X
WI X X X
WV X X X X X X X
WY X X
===========================================================
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)
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING
------------------------
This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet
Engineering and Network Management groups on behalf of the Routing
Arbiter Project and the NSFNET Backbone Service Project.
ROUTING ARBITER PROJECT
The production CNMS (Centralized Network Management System) is
installed in the University of Michigan/Merit NOC, and installation
of the centralized Rover code is almost complete. Bill Norton has
developed an architecture for distribution of Rover code and
updates to the Route Servers. A model for supporting a variety of
data collectors on the Route Servers has been created, and the
staff has designed a secure method for downloading collected NAP
data to the CNMS.
Joint tests conducted this month by Merit, IBM, and ISI verified
that new Route Server software allows remote backup of the Route
Servers, in the absence of dual Route Server connections at some
NAPs.
RIPE and Merit have completed the migration from the RIPE-81 syntax
to the RIPE-181 syntax, and the Routing Arbiter Database (RADB) is
up and running. Installation of a second RADB system, for
development and hot backup, is also complete. The RADB is expected
to replace the Policy Routing Database, used for the NSFNET
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Backbone Service, by the end of December. The RADB itself forms
part of the new Internet Routing Registry, which will incorporate
registries maintained by several national and international
networking organizations. If you are a NSF sponsored regional
network, a North American networking provider, or another provider
and you need help in using or registering in the RADB, send a
message to db-admin@merit.edu.
John Scudder, Laurent Joncherey, and Craig Labovitz have been
working to secure the Route Servers, Routing Arbiter Database
systems, and Centralized Network Management System. They installed
s/key one-time password authentication with local modifications,
installed several security audit packages, and improved security on
staff machines at Merit.
NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICE PROJECT
Peering sessions have been established between the ANS/NSFNET
backbone and Network Service Providers at two NAPs. At the PacBell
NAP, ANS/NSFNET is peering with MCInet; at the Sprint NAP,
ANS/NSFNET is peering with SprintLink.
Two regionals, MOREnet and THEnet, have completed their transition
from the NSFNET backbone service, and are obtaining interregional
Internet service from SprintLink. These cutovers did not result in
any downsizing of the NSFNET backbone service; all of the ENSS's on
the backbone are still in place.
Due to numerous dependencies, some technical and some
administrative, other regionals that had planned to move their
primary Internet connection off the NSFNET backbone by the end of
November have delayed their changeover, and now plan to make the
transition in December.
On behalf of the NSFNET Backbone Service Project, Elise Gerich gave
presentations about the NSFNET transition at a MIDnet seminar
titled "A Practical Guide to Secure Internet Connections" and at
the NorthWestNet Eighth Annual Meeting. The NorthWestNet meeting
also included a presentation by Gerich on the Policy Routing
Database --> RADB transition. In addition, Jessica Yu attended
the CoREN technical meetings this month on behalf of the RA
Project.
Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu)
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NORTHWESTNET
------------
Eighth Annual Meeting Nov. 8-10
===============================
Has it really been eight years?? Indeed it has. From 15 attendees
in San Diego in 1986 to over 280 persons attending this year's
NorthWestNet Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, the audience, the
interest, and the topics (not to mention the Internet) have all
grown. Participants took every opportunity to learn, share, debate,
and speculate.
The major themes addressed by the plenary speakers (see below)
included the NSFNET transition; programs/projects that are
leveraging the increased commercial presence on the Internet with
its introduction to the public sector at large; and several views
from different levels of government on how to move the National
Information Infrastructure forward.
Plenary presentations:
---------------------
"Public-Private Partnerships to Build the NII"
Laura Breeden, Director TIIAP, Dept. of Commerce
"Connecting to the Community through the Internet"
Mayor Liz Kniss, City of Palo Alto
"Evolution of the Internet"
Stephen Wolff Director DNCRI, National Science Foundation
"Public Policy and Legislative Conflicts: The Network World"
Robert Gillespie Principal, Robert Gillespie Associates
"The NSFNET Project: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow"
Elise Gerich Manager Internet Engineering Group, MERIT
"Internet Evolution and NorthWestNet"
Eric Hood Executive Director & CEO, NorthWestNet
and President, FARNET
Concurrent Sessions:
-------------------
Over 25 presenters contributed to a series of excellent, concurrent
sessions and workshops. A brief selection of the topics included:
o commerce on the Internet and models for electronic
cash transactions (Clifford Neuman, Scientist/Research Asst.
Professor, University of Southern California, Information
Sciences Institute).
o a current perspective on Internet security (Tom Longstaff,
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Computer Security Researcher, Computer Emergency Response Team,
Carnegie Mellon University);
o the future of Gopher (Mark McCahill, Internet
Project Gopher leader at the University of Minnesota);
o an overview of successful commercial use of the Internet
(Russ Jones, Internet Program Manager for Digital Equipment
Corporation);
o new product development with the Internet in mind
(Mitchell London, President of ConnectSoft);
o ATM networking and the NERO project (Dave Meyer,
Senior Network Engineer at the University of Oregon);
o strategies and tactics for getting information out via WWW
(Don Retallack, Advanced Computing Technologist at Boeing
Computer Services);
o K-12 and the Internet (panel moderated by Kristin Boden-MacKay
from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory);
o electronic media's hidden liabilities from a legal viewpoint
(Joan Feldman, President of Computer Forensics, Inc);
Everyone got a chance to flex their Internet brain cells, when
three randomly selected teams of four persons competed in the first
annual NorthWestNet Internet Quiz Show. Questions that stumped all
three teams were opened to the audience. All team members and
audience participants received ample rewards of chocolate. The
teams--NetEscapers, IFF, and NetNerds--were all excellent, earnest,
and good-natured competitors.
The Tuesday night social event offered refuge from the rain and
escape from the hotel. The Oregon Historical Society and Cisco
Systems Inc. sponsored food and drink in the engaging surroundings
of the Oregon History Museum. Thanks to both our sponsors!
------------------------
NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net
15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director
Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services
Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services
Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
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PREPnet
-------
New PREPnet Members
-------------------
- Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA
- Westmont Hilltop School District, Johnstown, PA
- Bob Weaver, Pottsville, PA
- Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, PA
- Allentown Morning Call, Allentown, PA
- Stargate Industries, Inc, Library, PA
With this addition, PREPnet now totals 207 members.
PREPnet News
------------
Meetings & Conferences
Date Attendee(s) Event
11/1-11/4 Paul Heller EDUCOM
11/10-11/11 Tom Bajzek FARNET
11/17 Marsha Perrott TEC/PA Small Business
Conference
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
UCL
----
Peter Kirstein attended the ICB meeting at DRA Malvern, in the UK.
ICB Infrastructure, DSI activities, possible use of ATM and the
possibility of collaboration udner the European ACTS and Framework
IV program in general were discussed.
A UDP based secrure login protocol has been developed in line with
ALF principles for the HIPPARCH project. This is the third in a
line of new cut-through application/protocol systems, following a
video decoder and a shared network text editor, to be designed and
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implem,ented. Lessons from these will be presented at the HIPPARCH
workshop at INRIA in December.
IP Multicast over ATM is being tested between UCL, Edinburgh and
Cambridge with a view to moving the UK mbone over to a colection of
routers with point-multipoint PVCs between them to get higher
bandwidth and more efficient transmssion capacity utilisation at
the same time. Early testing is promising, but fraight with
configuration complexity! There are high hopes to extends this
testbed on into Europe in January.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
--------
Last update 12/1/94
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.
FYI - New Dates for U.S. APPC/APPN (AATC) Technical Conf. moved from
July to May.
- New Dates for ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, NOW Dec. 11-15
************************************************************************
1994
------------
Nov. 28-Dec. 1 GLOBECOM '94 San Francisco, CA
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Windows Solutions Frankfurt, Germany
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause
Dec. 1-2 RARE Working Groups London, UK
Dec. 1-2 Wkshp on European Reqs for
Internationalisation of IT
and Charset Technology Luxembourg
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 San Jose, CA
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 (Firm)
Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks Madras, India
1995
---------
Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks Madras, India
Jan. 8-11 BROADBAND '95 Workshop Tucson, AZ
Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA
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Feb. 5-10 ATM Forum San Francisco, CA
Feb. 5-11 IS&T/SPIE Symposium on
Electronic Imaging San Jose, CA
Feb. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL
Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk &
Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA
Feb. 20 Int'l Internet OGs Meetings San Diego
Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX
Feb. 21-22 Int'l Internet Ops Conference San Diego
Feb. 22-24 ICODP '95 Brisbane
Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) West Palm Beach, FL
Mar. 6-10 SNMP Test Summit III
Mar. 13-17 OIW (Firm)
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
Mar. 28-31 Seybold Seminars Boston, MA
Apr. 2-6 IEEE Infocom '95 Boston, MA
Apr. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 Monterey, CA
Apr. 3-7 32nd IETF (Definite) Danvers, MA
Apr. 4-5 Federal Networking Council
Advisory Committee Arlington, VA
Apr. 9-14 ATM Forum Denver, CO
Apr. 17-21 Email World (Firm) Santa Clara, CA
Apr. 19-21 5th Network & Operating System
Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA
Apr. 24-25 IFIP TC6 Wkshp Personal
Wireless Commun. Prague, Czech Republic
May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel
May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel
May 22-25 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Chicago, IL
May 28-Jun. 2 NetWorld+Interop '95 Frankfurt, Germany
Jun. ATM Forum Europe
Jun. 5-7 Digital World Los Angeles, CA
Jun. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Rochester, MN
Jun. 12-16 OIW (Firm)
Jun. 13-16 IFIP WG6.1 PSTV-XV Warsaw
Jun. 16-17 CCIRN Singapore
Jun. 18-22 ICC '95 Seattle, WA
Jun. 18-24 ISOC Developing Country Wkshp Hawaii
Jun. 25-27 ISOC K-12 Workshop Hawaii
Jun. 26-27 ISOC Trustees & Council Hawaii
Jun. 28-30 INET '95 Hawaii
Jul. 4 Independence Day
Jul. 10-13 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Maui, HI
JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY
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Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF Stockholm, Sweden
Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan
Jul. 17-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 Ottawa, Ontario
Aug. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA
Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area
Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area
Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA
SEPTEMBER Windows Solutions Paris Paris, France
Sep. 25-29 7th SDL Forum Oslo, Sweden
FALL 1995 Seybold Europe
Sep. 4-6 8th IFIP WG6.1 Intntl Wkshp on
Protocol Test Systems Every, France
Sep. 4-7 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) London, England
Sep. 11-15 6th IFIP High Performance
Networking, HPN'95 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Sep. 11-15 OIW (Firm)
Sep. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA
Sep. 26-29 Seybold San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI
Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 10-11 ANSI X3T11
Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, Australia
Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec
Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec
Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France
Nov. 7-10 ICNP '95 Tokyo, Japan
Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM '95 Singapore
Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA
Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany
Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS
Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm)
Dec. 4-8 34th IETF Dallas, TX
Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Firm) San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8 Windows Solutions Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
Dec. 10-15 ATM Forum Orlando, FL
Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO
Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU
1996
-----------
Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11
Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 11-15 35th IETF (Under Consideration)
Mar. 18-22 35th IETF (Under Consideration)
Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm)
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Apr. 8-13 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA
Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA
May. 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO
Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm)
Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11
Jun. 24-27 ICC '96 Dallas, TX
Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11
Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU
Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm)
Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration)
Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL
Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration)
Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration)
Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA
Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11
Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm)
1997
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Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm)
Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal
Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm)
Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm)
Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm)
1998
-----------
Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and
Budapest, Hungary
---------
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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Ref. RSec(94)001-ac December 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 TERENA Secretariat. If you have
additions/corrections/comments, please mail <secretariat@terena.nl>.
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
MEETING/DATE LOCATION
============ ========
TERENA Executive Committee
--------------------------
21 December Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat)
TERENA General Assembly
-----------------------
GA2
2 December London
GA3
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
TERENA Working Groups
---------------------
ATM TF
12 December (all day) Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat)
STAMPEDE Meeting
13 December Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat)
RIPE
----
25-27 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF, WCW)
12-14 April 1996 Berlin
PRIDE COURSES
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VARIOUS
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EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM
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EBONE
Consortium of Contributing Organisations
26 April 1995 TBD
EBONE Management Committee
7 December Amsterdam or Brussels
EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
19 December Munich
EARN
Board of Directors
CCIRN
16/17 June 1995 tbc
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
15/16 December Washington DC
IETF
5-9 December San Jose, California
3-7 April 1995 Danvers, Massachusetts
17-21 July 1995 Stockholm, Sweden
4-8 December 1995 Dallas (tbc)
EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
28/2-1/3 1995 Brussels
16/17 May 1995 Brussels
19/20 September 1995 Brussels
12/13 December 1995 Brussels
Steering Committee
13 December Brussels
14 March 1995 Brussels
6 June 1995 Brussels
26 September 1995 Brussels
19 December 1995 Brussels
ETSI
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General Assembly
30/31 March 1995 Nice, France
5/6 June 1995 Nice, France
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Technical Assembly
27-29 March 1995 Nice, France
7-9 November 1995 Nice, France
CONFERENCES
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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>
NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 95
Autumn 1995 (tbc)
JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference
13-16 May 1996 in Budapest, Hungary
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OTHER CONFERENCES
nb. For some of the following events, full text information is
available from the TERENA Document Store under the directory calendar,
in which case the file name is specified under the information
presented below. The files may be retrieved via:
anonymous FTP: ftp.terena.nl
Email: server@terena.nl
Gopher: gopher.terena.nl
WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR
INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY
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on 1 and 2 December 1994
in Luxembourg.
Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII,
EFTA and STRI.
Registrations before 30 September 1994
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For information, email <tobbi@iti.is>
14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY
SPECIALIST GROUP ON EXPERT SYSTEMS
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from 12 till 14 December 1994
at St John's College, Cambridge, England
Information from Mrs. Kit Stones
email <kstonestct@cix.compulink.co.uk
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME (ESPRIT)
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4th Framework Programme for Telematics
Information Day on 13 December 1994
from 8.00 till 17.00 hrs
Palais des Congres, 3 Coudenberg, Brussels
Register before 9 December by fax.+32 2 640 6697
IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING
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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
MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING & NETWORKING
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from 6 till 8 February 1995
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
for registration and info, email <spie@spie.org>
DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION: ALGORITHMS & TECHNOLOGIES
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from 7 till 10 February 1995
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
for registration and info, email <spie@spie.org>
TEDIS - EDITT / EDI TRUSTED THIRD PARTIES WORKSHOP
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from 8 till 10 February 1995
(tutorials on 7 February)
University Polytechnics Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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Subjects: certification and registration, legal and audit
aspects of EDI.
Sponsor: the Commission of the European Union
(TEDIS Programme)
Programme Committee Chairman: Manuel Medina
email <medina@ac.upc.es>
INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEM SECURITY
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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>
JANET WORKSHOP 23
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from 28 till 30 March 1995
at the University of Leicester in England
Deadline for proposals 13 January 1995
Deadline for abstracts + authors' biography 17 February.
Email <N.Shield@ukerna.ac.uk>
FIRST AUSTRALIAN WWW CONFERENCE / AusWeb95
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from 29 April till 2 May 1995
Ballina Beach Resort, Ballina, Far North Coast of
New South Wales, Australia
Abstracts for full papers due on 23 January 1995
Registration http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/
For further information, email <AusWeb95@scu.edu.au>
THIRD ANNUAL RURAL DATAFICATION CONFERENCE
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22-24 May 1995
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
(supported by a grant from the National Science
Foundation)
Deadline for submission of papers is 15 January 1995.
Submit to <ruraldata-submit@cic.net>
INET 95
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from 28 till 30 June 1995
in Honolulu, Hawaii
Extended abstracts for papers to be submitted by
13 January 1995 to <inet-submission@interop.com>
Programme Committee <inet-program@interop.com>
Internet Society Secretariat <inet95@isoc.org>
1995 INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK
TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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from 18 till 24 June 1995
Manoa Campus, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Apply before 15 January 1995 preferably.
Further information from <workshop-info@isoc.org>
or contact George Sadowksy <George.Sadowsky@nyu.edu>
Tel.+1 212 998 3040, fax.+1 212 995 4120.
INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996
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Broadband Communiations: Networks, Services, Applications,
Future Directions
19-23 February 1996
Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Deadline for submission of papers is 15 May 1995
For further information, email Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner
<izs96-pc-chair@tik.ethz.ch>, fax.+41 1 632 1035
Call for Papers on TERENA Document Server under
rare/information/calendar. The file is called izs96-cfp.txt.
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