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INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 7
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
CICNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
INTERNIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
MERIT/MICHNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23
MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25
MRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
USER SERVICES REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 45
Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 46
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
IETF MONTHLY REPORT for November, 1993
1. The 28th meeting of the IETF was held in Houston, Texas the
first week of November, and was very well attended by over 635
registered attendees. The final numbers are not in yet, but it
appears that the Houston meeting will be in the top three based
on attendance. This meeting was hosted by the folks at SESQUINET
and Rice University.
At the open plenary on Thursday, there was a consensus that
beginning with the Seattle IETF meeting, the IETF Secretariat
will be publishing the proceedings electronically. Details on
this will be provided, but are still being worked out by the
Secretariat.
2. The next meeting of the IETF will be held in Seattle, Washington
from March 29 (registration reception on the 28th) through April
1, 1994. This meeting is being hosted by NorthWestNet. Following
the March 1994 meeting, the IETF will be in Toronto Canada from
July 25-29 with the registration reception being held on Sunday,
July 24.
It looks like the IETF will be in the San Francisco Bay Area in
the fall... no dates have been set, but the meeting will
probably be in the first two weeks of November. Once the final
arrangements have been made, the normal 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.
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol
Actions during the month of November, 1993:
o Guidelines for Running OSPF Over Frame Relay Networks be
published as an Informational RFC.
o Use of ISO CLNP in TUBA Environments be published as an
Experimental Protocol.
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o Telnet Environment Option as a Proposed Standard.
o Telnet Environment Option Interoperability Issues be
published as an Informational RFC.
o Representing IP Information in the X.500 Directory be
published as an Experimental protocol.
o DSA Metrics be published as an Informational RFC.
o Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory be published as an
Experimental protocol.
4. The IESG issued three Last Calls to the IETF during the month
of November, 1993:
o The OSPF NSSA Option <draft-ietf-ospf-nssa-option-01> being
considered as a Proposed Standard
o DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions
<draft-ietf-decnetiv-mibext-03> being considered as a Draft
Standard
o TN3270 Current Practices
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-current-pract-03.txt> being considered
as an Informational Document
5. A total of 27 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of November, 1993:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(telnet) o Telnet Authentication: Kerberos Version 5
<draft-ietf-telnet-authker-v5-01.txt>
(tuba) o Use of ISO CLNP in TUBA Environments
<draft-ietf-tuba-clnp-05.txt>
(bgp) o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the
Internet <draft-ietf-bgp-application-03.txt>
(ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-ospf-mib-01.txt>
(x400ops) o Using the Internet DNS to maintain RFC1327 Address
Mapping Tables
<draft-ietf-x400ops-dnsx400maps-03.txt>
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(ipidrp) o IDRP for SIP <draft-ietf-ipidrp-sip-01.txt>
(iplpdn) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs
<draft-ietf-iplpdn-frmib-dte-01.txt>
(cat) o FTP Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-cat-ftpsec-04.txt>
(frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay
Service <draft-ietf-frnetmib-fr-05.txt>
(ifmib) o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II
<draft-ietf-ifmib-evolution-06.txt>
(atm) o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5
<draft-ietf-atm-mtu-05.txt>
(madman) o Directory Monitoring MIB
<draft-ietf-madman-dsa-mib-07.txt>
(pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-for-bridging-02.txt>
(thinosi) o Octet sequences for upper-layer OSI to support basic
communications applications
<draft-ietf-thinosi-cookbook-02.txt>
(tn3270e) o TN3270 Current Practices
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-current-pract-03.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP Multilink Control Protocol (MCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-multilink-04.txt>
(none) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status
Notifications <draft-vaudreuil-mime-delivery-01.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-netbios-fcp-02.txt>
(none) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large
and Binary MIME Messages
<draft-vaudreuil-smtp-binary-02.txt>
(none) o Text/Signature <draft-vaudreuil-mime-sig-01.txt>
(none) + HTML+ (Hypertext markup format)
<draft-raggett-www-html-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + SNMP Mid-Level-Manager MIB
<draft-levi-snmp-mid-level-mgr-00.txt>
(none) + SNMP Script Language
<draft-levi-snmp-script-language-00.txt>
(bgp) + BGP-4 protocol document roadmap and implementation
experience <draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4-implement-00.txt>
(iiir) + Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) A Stateless
Search, Retrieve and Manipulation Protocol
<draft-ietf-iiir-http-00.txt, .ps>
(sip) + IPAE: The SIPP Interoperability and Transition
Mechanism <draft-ietf-sip-ipae-transition-00.txt>
(thinosi) + Use of upper-layer OSI protocols to support basic
communications applications
<draft-ietf-thinosi-profile-00.txt>
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6. There were 3 RFC's published during the month of November, 1993:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1544 PS (822ext) The Content-MD5 Header Field
RFC1545 E (none) FTP Operation Over Big Address Records
(FOOBAR)
RFC1546 I (none) Host Anycasting Service
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING
----------------------------------
Network Status Summary
======================
Four out of six steps comprising the T3 network upgrade (Phase-5)
have been completed. The remaining two steps required to finish
the T3 hardware upgrade to the ANSnet will be completed in
December.
New Rcp_routed software was released on the T3 network to address
performance improvements. Gated software including support for
BGP4 was released to Cornell for a future public release. ANSnet
test routers are peering with other networks on the BGP4 public
test network.
October Backbone Traffic and Routing Statistics
===============================================
The total inbound packet count for the T3 network (measured using
SNMP interface counters) was 44,687,182,575 on T3 ENSS interfaces,
up 2.3% from October. The total packet count into the network
including all ENSS serial interfaces was 52,859,569,704 up 3.5%
from October. The maximum number of destinations announced to the
T3 network during November was 13,886.
T3 Network Upgrade Progress/Status
==================================
During November (and the first week in December) we successfully
completed four of the six steps that comprise a major upgrade to
the T3 network (called "Phase-5 upgrade"). The major changes that
will result from this upgrade are:
o Upgrade of all DS3/HSSI router serial interface adapters (T3
CNSS and ENSS) to support full DS3 bandwidth. The router
adapter bus interface cards will also be upgraded to double
the packet switching rates per interface.
o The architecture for interconnection among CNSS routers at
each MCI POP location will be upgraded from point-to-point
links to a common FDDI ring.
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o The T3 DSUs on each DS3 interface will be replaced with a T3
bandwidth manager (T3Plus BMX45) to accommodate each T3
CNSS-CNSS circuit, and a Larscom Access-T45 DSU on each end
of a T3 ENSS-CNSS circuit.
o New system software and microcode has been installed to
support the increased adapter performance. Routing software
has already been deployed to support the new CNSS
architecture.
With the completion of 4 of the 6 deployment steps so far, we now
have 10 backbone T3 links and 13 customer attachments running at
full T3:
Seattle - Denver Backbone Link
Seattle - San Francisco Backbone Link
San Francisco - Chicago Backbone Link
San Francisco - Los Angeles Backbone Link
Los-Angeles - Albuquerque Backbone Link
Albuquerque - Houston Backbone Link
Houston - Atlanta Backbone Link
Atlanta - Greensboro Backbone Link
Houston - St. Louis Backbone Link
St. Louis - Chicago Backbone Link
ENSS128 at Palo Alto (BARRnet, Stanford University)
ENSS129 at Champaign (UIUC, CICnet)
ENSS130 at Argonne (Argonne National Lab, CICNet)
ENSS135 at San Diego (CERFnet, SDSC, etc.)
ENSS138 at Atlanta (Georgia Tech, SURAnet)
ENSS139 at Houston (Sesquinet, Rice University)
ENSS140 at Lincoln (MIDnet, Westnet, etc.)
ENSS141 at Boulder (Westnet, NCAR, U of Colorado, etc.)
ENSS142 at Salt Lake City (WestNet, U of Utah, etc.)
ENSS143 at Seattle (NorthWestNet, U of Washington, etc.)
ENSS144 at Moffett Field (FIX-West)
ENSS172 at Albuquerque (Phillips Laboratory)
ENSS179 at Albuquerque (Sandia National Labs)
Additionally, ENSS200 provided full T3 connectivity to the
Supercomputing '93 conference in Portland and the Radiological
Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago during
November. The remaining steps are scheduled for December 11th and
18th, at which point the Phase 5 upgrade will have been completed:
Step Date Node Location Facility to be Upgraded
-------------------------------------------------------
5 12/11/93 E131 Cleveland Ann Arbor ENSS and Cleveland POP
E132 Cleveland Pittsburgh ENSS and Cleveland POP
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E137 New York Princeton ENSS and New York POP
---- Chicago 3rd visit for Chicago-Cleveland
link upgrade
---- Denver 2nd visit for Denver-St. Louis
link upgrade
---- St. Louis 2nd visit for Denver-St. Louis
link upgrade
6 12/18/93 E133 Hartford Ithaca ENSS and Hartford POP
E134 Hartford Boston ENSS and Hartford POP
E136 Wash D.C. College Park ENSS and Wash D.C.POP
E145 Wash D.C. FIX-East ENSS and Wash D.C. POP
E146 Wash D.C. DARPA ENSS and Wash D.C. POP
---- Cleveland 2nd visit for Cleveland-Hartford
link upgrade
---- Greensboro 2nd visit for Greensboro-D.C.
link upgrade
---- New York 2nd visit for NY-Hartford
link upgrade and for NY-D.C.
link upgrade
Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes
===================================
Rcp_routed maintenance releases were deployed in November. Early
in November, the "Improved Efficiency" version was released. A few
subsequent performance enhancements have been deployed on ENSS144,
ENSS145, and ENSS136 to address specific problems. A memory leak
has recently been identified and a fix will be deployed in early
December. Release notes are available for anonymous ftp at:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/t3-rcp_routed/Release-Notes. Recent changes
have been made to address the effects of high levels of external
route flap, both the effects on ANSnet and the effects on ANSnet
peer networks.
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 stability rather than
complete connectivity. November stability dropped to levels
observed in July and August due to problems with rcp_routed.
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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% xx.x%
The primary causes of instability during November were problems
with rcp_routed, and equipment problems associated with new
equipment deployed as part of the phase5 deployment. ENSS136 saw
almost 7 hours of instability mostly due to paging on the router as
a result of a memory leak. ENSS144 saw 2-1/2 hours of instability
due to inefficiency associated with building EGP packets of over
30KB for numerous EGP peer routers. E143 experienced just over 2
hour of instability due to equipment problems associated with the
phase5 hardware deployment. Other nodes experienced 30-90 minutes
of instability due to phase5 deployment. A few nodes continued to
have local power problems.
The number of nodes experiencing more than 30 minutes accumulated
has been significantly reduced. The vast majority of nodes had
less than 15 minutes of accumulated instability over the course of
the month. The breakdown by sites is as follows (these figures
include instabilities recorded during configuration runs):
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
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There has been steady increase in the external route flap over the
course of the year. The measurement method is described in:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/ExternalRouteFlapReports
The number of times networks are announced as unreachable is
collected. The following represents the monthly totals in terms of
number of networks declared unreachable per hour.
January 844
February 876
March 1104
April 1038
May 1134
June 1560
July 1815
August 1874
September 2395
October 2272
November 2321
Plots of the internal routing stability, external peer session
stability and external route flap are available as the files:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/internal.ps
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/external.ps
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/flap.ps
Recent changes to rcp_routed have been designed to dampen route
flap by deferring sending BGP updates slightly. This also more
effectively packs routes into BGP updates. This work will be
transferred to into Gated. A document, soon to be submitted as an
internet draft, describing this work is available as:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/route-dampen.{txt,ps}
Gated BGP4/CIDR Deployment Update
=================================
During November, ANS connected to the public BGP4 testnet and
established external long-distance (non-tunneled) peer sessions
with Cisco peers in Sweden and Alternet. We also are peering with
unix/Gated routers at Cornell and on the ANS internal testnet. We
are importing full routes, and exporting all AS690 routes to the
public testnet in addition to our own internal testing.
Our current plan is to deploy Gated BGP4 code on AS1133 routers
(Ebone link between GIX and Geneva) by 15-December or sooner, and
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AS690 (ANSnet/NSFnet) routers by 15-January. We have released the
current snapshot of the BGP4 Gated code to Cornell and expect there
will eventually be a public alpha release of BGP4/Gated code from
them. We are working with Merit to gather information, and develop
CIDR-era routing plans for NSFnet peer networks.
Notable Outages in November '93
===============================
E138 (Atlanta) lost T3 connectivity due to circuit problems on
11/15
E136 (College Park) and E145 (Fix-East) suffered extended outages
due to power failure on 11/16
E135 (San Diego) suffered an extended outage due to site power
maintenance on 11/21
E141 (Boulder), E142 (Salt Lake) and E143 (Washington) underwent
Phase V upgrade on 11/06
E128 (Palo Alto), E130 (Argonne) and E144 (Fix West) underwent
Phase V upgrade on 11/13
E135 (San Diego) and E139 (Rice) underwent Phase V upgrade on 11/20
E129 (Champaign), E138 (Atlanta) and E140 (Lincoln) underwent Phase
V upgrade on 12/4
Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
----------------------------
Scalability (September to November 1993)
----------------------------------------
In September, BBN began a new Scalability effort that employs the
toolset built during previous months.
Under its Defense Simulation Internet (DSI) Engineering contract
from ARPA (ASTO), BBN is tasked to study the issue of "scalability"
from the perspective of network performance and functionality. The
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) user community has
ambitious goals for dramatically increasing the scale of simulated
war-fighting exercises. While the largest exercises to date have
involved less than 1000 "entities" (tanks, planes, ships, etc.),
planned future exercises may involve as many as 100,000. Changes
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to both the DIS applications and the supporting network(s) will be
necessary to accommodate this growth.
Furthermore, application changes under consideration depend for
their effectiveness on network functionality not yet generally
available. In particular, one traffic reduction scheme, called the
"bi-grid" algorithm, uses geographic filtering to ensure that
simulation hosts receive updates only from entities within the
range of view of their own entities. Implementation of this
algorithm, however, depends on a wide-area network with advanced
multicast routing functionality involving thousands of groups, very
dynamic membership, and resource reservation. Another
application-level algorithm depends on the ability to send entity
state updates to different hosts at different frequencies, a
functionality that could be provided by "multi-level flows," one of
the network algorithms developed under BBN's Real-Time Multicast
Communications (RTMC) project, described previously in this report.
BBN's objectives under the Scalability Task are to study the
network requirements inherent in the goals of the DIS user
community and recommend approaches and component technology for a
scalable DSI.
Since the start of this task in September, the first phase of the
work has been focused on two approaches to requirements definition.
The first is based on observation of actual DIS traffic on the
current DSI. The second is based on analysis of model scenarios
being generated by Loral Advanced Distributed Simulation (LADS) to
represent the network traffic expected from future DIS exercises.
Previous DSI performance monitoring has been done primarily from a
network perspective, i.e. at layer three or lower, involving only
approximate correlation with specific user activities.
Measurements were limited to packet throughput at network
interfaces. During October and November, a plan and procedures
were developed to expand both the kinds of measurements to be done
and the correlation of these measurements with events of the DIS
exercise in progress. First trials of a subset of the techniques
took place during DIS demonstrations at the Interservice/Industry
Training Systems and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). A more
extensive application is being planned for a Synthetic Theater of
War (STOW) Engineering Demo in mid-December. The basic approach is
to combine SNMP-based monitoring of network interfaces, collection
of actual traffic samples on site LANs, and end-to-end delay
measurement using probe packets to get a rich characterization of
both the DIS traffic and the performance of the DSI specific to
this traffic.
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LADS' model scenarios provide as accurate a view as is available of
future large-scale DIS exercises. Among the characteristics of
these models being derived are:
Total required wide-area backbone bandwidth,
Numbers of multicast groups required,
Maximum number of groups subscribed to by each host,
Frequency of group membership changes, and
Group membership duration statistics.
So far, only one model scenario has been thus analyzed. Additional
scenarios are expected from LADS in December. Another type of
analysis planned for these scenarios involves use of the DSI
network simulator that BBN built as part of LADS "Scalability
Toolset." The traffic models derived from LADS' model scenarios
will be used as input for this simulator to help determine
effective architectures for the next generation DSI. During
November, auxiliary tools were built to facilitate analysis of
simulator output.
Inter-Domain Policy Routing
---------------------------
During the month of November, we began laboratory testing of the
new software for IDPR multicast and multipath routing. We expect
to continue laboratory testing during the month of December and to
move our experiments out onto DARTNET in January. We will release,
in early 1994, an updated version of the IDPR protocol
specification that includes the changes necessary to support
multicast and multipath routing.
Karen Seo <kseo@BBN.COM>
CICNET
-------
In November, CICNet installed 56kb connections at Aurora
University, Knox College, College View, Rockford University,
Monmouth College, and Illinois Central College; added a T1
connection to Loyola University's existing 56kb connection;
installed 56kb Frame Relay connections at Lewis University, North
Central, Rosary College, Chicago Medical School, the
College of St. Francis, Moraine Valley Community College, Roosevelt
University, and Saint Xavier; installed T1 connections at William
Rainey Harper Community College; installed a T1 POP at Urbana-
Champaign; and sold 10 SLIP dial-up connections.
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CICNet also announced $1.3 million in NSF funding for its Rural
Datafication initiative.
by Rhana Jacot (rjacot@cic.net>
INTERNIC
---------
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NICLink
-------
InterNIC Information Services will release a special introductory
issue of NICLink, a CD-ROM subscription product to be issued
quarterly. The NICLink CD will contain the InfoSource, the
Information Services online information database that highlights
the information resources of the Internet. Additional information,
images, electronic books, and software from the Internet will be
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included in future issues. The CD-ROM will be compatible with
Macintosh, PC Windows, and some UNIX configurations. The software
used to present the data is Interleaf's WorldView, which
incorporates full database search functions as well as hypertext
linking capabilities to provide a powerful, easy-to-use interface.
Contact the Information Services Reference Desk or the InterNIC
Store on the InfoSource for details.
NSF Network News
----------------
The PostScript version of the _NSF Network News_ is now available
on the InfoSource at is.internic.net under/InterNIC Information
Services/ About InterNIC Information Services/"NSF Network News".
The file is large (approximately 10 MB), including graphics and
other sections unavailable in the ASCII version of the newsletter.
An integral and popular part of the newsletter is the 6-page fold-
out map of U.S. Internet Connectivity sites. In the past, networks
contributed statistics on the number and identity of its regional
connections and customers, as well as the number of dialup
customers for inclusion in the Map. In order to update the Map for
future issues of the _NSF Network News_, updated statistics are
needed from all network NICs. Networks which have contributed to
past versions of the Map are:
BARRNet
CERFnet
CICNET
CONCERT
JcNCnet
Los Nettos
MIDNET
Merit/MichNet
MRNet
MCSAnet
NEARnet
NorthWestNet
NSFNET Backbone Sites
NYSERNet
OARnet
PREPnet
PSCNET
PSInet
SDSCNET
SESQUINET
SURAnet
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THEnet
UIUC/net
VERnet
WESTNET
WiscNet
Please contact the Publications Department of Information Services
at +1 619 455-3941, +1 619 455-3934 or newsletter-
comments@internic.net for more information on updating or adding
your listing to the Internet Connectivity Map.
Reference Desk
--------------
The following table gives a summary of the Reference Desk contacts
for November.
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 274 5.6
Phone 4313 88.4
Fax 279 5.7
US Mail 12 <1
Other 2 <1
------- -------- ---------
Total 4880 100
by Karen D. Frazer <kfrazer@is.internic.net>
DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
InterNIC Directory and Database Services supports a database that
can help you find conferences and seminars that might be of
interest to you or your collegues.
The list is accessible via Gopher (look for "InterNIC Directory and
Database Services", then "InterNIC Database Services", and then
"Conference and Seminar Announcements" on any of the InterNIC
Gopher servers) or anonymous FTP (in the directory
"/pub/conf.announce"). The list of conference announcements can
also be searched using WAIS (the database name is
"conference.announce" and the server is ds.internic.net) from your
own WAIS client or by logging in as "wais" on our server,
ds.internic.net.
We scan a number of Internet mailing lists looking for conference
announcements, and insert the announcements we find in the database
(they are deleted after the conference is over). If you are
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organizing a conference and would like to make sure that it is
included in our list, you can email a copy of the conference
announcement (in plain ASCII text) to conf@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
Significant Events
During the month of November, the InterNIC received a significant
amount of publicity from several sources this month. In the early
portion of November, an article was written in the Wall Street
Journal and a television show called Computer Chronciles discussed
the Internet. Later on in the month, an article was published in
the December 7, 1993 issue of PC Magazine. All of these sources
mentioned the InterNIC phone number and discusssed the value of
using the Internet. Theses advertisements caused a significant
amount of referrals to Information Services since most callers
wanted information on how to connect to the Internet.
Registration Statistics November
Hostmaster Email 3,011
Postal/Fax Applications 219
Telephone Calls 1,990
Domain Registered 723
Inverse Addresses 834
Class C's Assigned 6,470
Class B's Assigned 101
ASN Assigned 74
Connections Retrievals
Gopher Sessions 46,503 16,272
Wais Sessions 19,089 35,685
Ftp Sessions 6,500 27,497
Telnet Sessions 46,182
Mail Server 856
by John Zalubski (johnz@rs.internic.net>
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ISI
---
GIGABIT NETWORKING
-----------------
Infrastructure
Joyce Reynolds to attend the Australian Academy Research Net Workshop
Conference in Melbourne, Australia, and participate as keynote
speaker, November 20 - December 03 1993.
3 RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1544: Rose, M., "The Content-MD5 Header Field", Dover
Beach Consulting, Inc., November 1993.
RFC 1545: Piscitello, D., "FTP Operation Over Big Address
Records (FOOBAR)", Bellcore, November 1993.
RFC 1546: Partridge, C., T. Mendez, W. Milliken, "Host
Anycasting Service", BBN, November 1993.
THE US DOMAIN
-------------
Misdirected Requests:
Many requests are sent to Internic for registration in EDU, ORG, or
GOV, for organizations that should "obviously" be in the US domain.
Part of the problem is that not everyone is aware of the US domain
(see RFC 1480), and that what is obvious to some can't be seen at
all by others. The Internic forwards any requests for schools
(K12, CC, TEC), non-federal government agencies, and other
organizations that "obviously" fit in the US domain (such as
Libraries, Museums). A great deal of effort and delay results when
discussion, explanation, and even argument, when a request for a
name in EDU, ORG, or GOV, has to be converted into a registration
in the US domain.
WHOIS Database:
One current problem area is getting domain names listed in the
"whois" database. The Internic has decided that it can't keep
everything in its one central database. The plan is to have
distributed databases, and distributed whois servers. However,
there is currently no easily configured software package to
distribute. This is also an area of active work in the IETF.
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US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX/PHONE 673
----------------------------
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.
Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------------
LIB.LA.US Louisiana Libraries
TEC.LA.US Louisiana Technical Schools
CC.LA.US Louisiana Community Colleges
STARKSVILLE.MN.US Starksville, Mississippi
OKTIBBEHA.MS.US Oktibbeha, Mississippi
GREENSBORO.NC.US Greensboro, North Carolina
GEN.MN.US Minnesota "general" subdomain
Other US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------
TCCL.LIB.OK.US Tulsa City-County Library System
BILLINGS.LIB.MT.US Parmly-Billings Public Library
ED.CO.TULARE.CA.US Tulare County Office of Education
CCC.STATE.NJ.US Casino Control Commission/Atlantic City
WIPP.CARLSBAD.NM.US Westinghouse, WIPP Site, Carlsbad, NM
CO.WESTCHESTER.NY.US Westchester County, NY, Gov't agencies
CI.LONG-BEACH.CA.US Long Beach, CA, City Gov't agencies
CI.BRYAN.TX.US Bryan, TX, City Gov't agencies
EASTHS.MCSD.K12.TN.US East High School, Tennessee
CLINTONHS.ACSD.K12.TN.US Clinton High School, Tennessee
GRUNDYCHHS.GCSD.K12.TN.US Grundy County High School, TN
SUMMERTOWNHS.LCSD.K12.TN.US Summertown High School, Tennessee
JACKSONCHSHS.JMSD.K12.TN.US Jackson-Central Merry High School,TN
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TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
-----------------------------------------------------------
AK
AL
AR X
AS
AZ X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
CA X X
CO X X X X
CT
DC
-----------------------------------------------------------
DE X X X X X
FL X X X X X
GA X X X X
HI
-----------------------------------------------------------
IA X X X X
ID
IL X X X X
IN X X X X
KS
-----------------------------------------------------------
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
MA
ME X
MI X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
MN X X X X X X X
MO X X X X
MS X X
MT
NC X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
ND X X
NE X X X
NH X X
NJ X
NM X X X
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
-----------------------------------------------------------
NV
NY X X
OH X X X X X X X
OK
OR X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
PA X X
RI X
SC X X X X X
SD X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
TN
TX X X X X
UT X X X
VA
-----------------------------------------------------------
VI
VT X X
WA
WI X X X
WV X X X X X X X
WY 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)
MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING
At the Houston IETF meeting, ISI (co-)chaired two working groups
related to teleconferencing. The Audio/Video Transport Working
Group met for only one session this time since the draft
specification for the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) has been
submitted for the first RFC stage. The emphasis of this session
was on implementation experience, with the focus shifting to
companion specifications for profiles and encodings. The MMusic
working group met for two sessions at the Houston IETF meeting.
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The first day was dedicated to a short overview of the goals and
context for the working group and then to a presentation of an
algorithm and framework for managing shared session state. The
second meeting focused on preliminary ideas on what might comprise
shared session state for a couple of different session types, and
then three short presentations on related work.
The Houston IETF marked the sixth live multicast of audio and
video. The number of remote hosts participanting was 629, which
for the second time was approximately equal to the number of people
who attended locally.
Last month, we released mmcc, the multimedia conference control
program, but only in binary form for Sun SPARCs. This month we
have been working on ports to other platforms, and expect to
release binary versions for DEC 5000 and Alpha, HP 700, and SGI in
December. A source release is also planned soon.
Eve Schooler gave a presentation "Multimedia Session Control for
Internet Telecollaboration" over the MBone from ISI to the NASA
Science Centers' ICNN/S Conference in Monterey, CA, Nov 17, 1993.
Eve Schooler, Steve Casner, Joe Touch
(Schooler@ISI.EDU, Casner@ISI.EDU, Touch@ISI.EDU)
MERIT/MICHNET
-------------
New MichNet affiliates during the month of November include
Kellogg, Inc. of Battle Creek and the Metro Net Library Consortium,
representing seven libraries in the suburban Detroit area. Over
the coming months, Metro Net will connect eight sites. The first
three 56Kbps links have been installed: direct links to Bloomfield
Hills and Rochester Hills, and a frame relay link to Farmington
Hills. Merit has also assisted the Metro Net Consortium in
installing and configuring a Unix host, providing additional data
networking support for the consortium. The Ford Motor Company will
be upgrading their current 56Kbps link to Ford Research to a T1
Internet connection. This link will potentially provide all of
Ford with Internet access for the first time. The State of
Michigan Department of Natural Resources will also be upgrading
their MichNet link to 56Kbps and a pair of cisco routers, replacing
the older PDP-11 system.
MichNet is one of eight state networks joining CICNet in the Rural
Datafication Project funded by a $1.3 million National Science
Foundation grant. The project's purpose of extending Internet
access and services to underserved constituencies parallels the
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Rural Electrification Act of 1936, which brought electrical power
to millions of rural residents. Project funding will be used to
establish standards and information servers for the Rural
Datafication Project and extend the network infrastructure to an
additional 19 rural locations throughout the region. Three new
points of presence (POPs) will be located in Michigan, where
efforts will be focused on the Upper Peninsula.
"Building a Communication Network Linking Knowledge Providers,
Small Business Users, and Industrial Extension Agents in Michigan"
has been funded by the ARPA defense conversion activity known as
the Technology Reinvestment Project, TRP. Michigan State
University led the proposal effort, with Merit as the network
provider in this project. The effect of efforts through this
proposal will be to expand dial-in access to MichNet.
At Michigan State University, equipment for several microcomputer
laboratories is being upgraded and new labs established. A new Mac
lab of 22 Centris 610s was added to Erickson Hall, and a new
language lab will have 16 Centris 660AVs plus laser disk players.
With dial-up use almost doubling over the past year, new high-speed
and low-speed lines were added to the modem pool. A total of 63
high-speed (9600-38.4bps) and 76 low-speed (1200/2400bps) are now
available at MSU. Galactica, a dictionary-like database of
computing terms, may now be found at gopher.msu.edu .
Saginaw Valley State University has converted its campus network
from Pronet-10 token-ring to Ethernet. Faculty and staff with
network connections have direct access from their workstations to
the Internet via 10Base-T Ethernet LANs connected to Novell Netware
servers/routers, which are in turn connected to the campus fiber
backbone. The Valley Library Consortium, based at SVSU, has
installed fiber to connect its computer to the SVSU MichNet router,
which is being upgraded to support such a connection.
Eastern Michigan University and Merit Network, Inc. will jointly
host the 1994 ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference XXII. "Meet the
Shadowy Future," will focus on planning for change when the future
remains uncertain. Scheduled for October 16-20, 1994, at the
Radisson-on-the-Lake in Ypsilanti, MI, inquiries may be sent to the
conference mailing list SIGUCCS94@emuvax.emich.edu .
Michigan Technological University has completed its 5-year plan for
fiber installation and is proceeding to network the campus dorms.
The Xylogic Annex III terminal servers were chosen for this
initiative; asynchronous access will be implemented first, with ppp
soon to follow. A new trunk of 16 high-speed modems is in
production, bringing the number of modems available to 32.
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Wayne State University is participating with Michigan State and the
University of Michigan in a project to use PACLink. This project
will allow the NOTIS systems at the three sites to query each
other. The underlying mechanism is an RS/6000 at each site which
will act as a gateway between the Internet and the local SNA
system.
The Gopher Pilot Project is underway at Wayne State. Pilot members
are Computing and Information Technology, Student Affairs,
University Libraries and University Relations. The main Gopher
server for WSU is gopher.wayne.edu . This machine also has a
public client available by logging in as gopher.
Teacher Education at Central Michigan University is installing a
freenet server called Education Central. This will be accessible
through the Internet and MichNet to teachers around the state.
This educational bulletin board and information server has received
grant support.
Laura Kelleher, of Merit Network Information Services, spoke on
data networking to 200 members of the Washtenaw-Livingston Area
Education Technology Network. Dana Sitzler, coordinator of
MichNet's K-12 Outreach projects, participated in the 1993 Michigan
Educational Technology Conference and Exposition in Grand Rapids,
Michigan. Sheri Repucci, coordinator of MichNet recruiting
activities, spoke to graduate students in public library service at
the University of Michigan School of Information and Library
Studies on public access to MichNet, its resources, and beyond to
the global Internet.
Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu)
Merit Network, Inc. Information Service
MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES
---------------------------------
Merit/NSFNET Information Services
During November, new international sites with announcement to the
NSFNET backbone included Kenya, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates,
the Netherlands Antilles, Equatorial Guinea and Peru. Foreign
networks now number 8,106, of a total 19,664 networks announced to
the NSFNET backbone. Growth as the number of domestic and foreign
networks having announcement to the NSFNET infrastructures, as well
as network distribution by country over the term of the NSFNET
project, are available as
/nsfnet/statistics/history.netcount
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and
/nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.country
respectively on nic.merit.edu.
The resources of nic.merit.edu are available through Anonymous FTP,
electronic mail query and a Gopher client connecting to the Merit
Network Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70.
New information available on nic.merit.edu includes an update of
Peter Kaminski's Public Dialup Internet Access List (PDIAL), a list
of organizations providing dialup Internet access. Available as
/internet/providers/pdial
Merit Network, Inc. was well represented at the IETF fall meeting
in Houston, TX: attending were Pat Smith, NISI co-chair; Ellen
Hoffman, USERDOC2 co-chair; Chris Weider co-chair of IDS and IIIR;
Mark Knopper, TUBA co-chair; Jessica Yu, BGPDEPL chair; Sue Hares
IPIDRP chair and NOOP co-chair; Allan Rubens NASREQ co-chair; John
Vollbrecht NASREQ co-chair; Dale Johnson, Andrew L. Adams, Larry
Blunk, Bill Norton, Laurent Joncheray, Enke Chen and Rick
Schmalgemeier. Weider also spoke at the DCI sponsored "E-Mail
World" in California.
Ellen Hoffman and Laura Kelleher represented Merit at the fall
meeting of CNI in Chantilly, Virginia. NICFEST, hosted by the
InterNIC in San Diego, was attended by Pat Smith, Susan R. Harris
and Ellen Hoffman. Smith, Harris and Hoffman also participated in
the ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference, "Toward New Horizons."
Smith and Hoffman attended the "Future of NICs" BOF, hosted by
Martyne Halgren of the SIGUCCS Networking Task Force.
Hoffman is the program chair for 1994 ACM SIGUCCS User Services
Conference XXII. "Meet the Shadowy Future," will focus on planning
for change when the future remains uncertain. Sponsored by ACM
SIGUCCS and jointly hosted by Eastern Michigan University and Merit
Network, Inc., SIGUCCS XXII will be held at Radisson-on-the-Lake in
Ypsilanti, MI, October 16-20, 1994. A conference mailing list has
been established for getting answers to any questions you may have.
Send to SIGUCCS94@emuvax.emich.edu .
Merit will present another in its series of Networking Seminars
January 27-28, 1994, in Orlando, Florida. "Making Your Internet
Connection Count: Technology, Tools and Resources" will be held at
the Walt Disney World Yacht Club Resort. Co-sponsored by Florida
State University and the University of Florida, this seminar
includes an overview of Internet resources, popular tools for
network access, and the national policies that affect its growth.
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Nationally known experts talk to attendees about network resources,
getting connected and how the network is effectively being used
today by universities, research organizations, libraries, and
public schools. Interactive breakout sessions each day make it
possible to get your questions answered by experts.
Scheduled topics and speakers include "Moving Toward the
Information Superhighway," the keynote address by Robert Heterick,
President, EDUCOM; "Navigating the Internet: Network Tools," Alan
Emtage, VP Bunyip; "Information Delivery on the Internet: What's
Next for Gopher," Mark McCahill, Gopher Developer at the University
of Minnesota; "University of Michigan Weather Underground," Perry
Samson, Professor Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space
Sciences, University of Michigan; "Electronic Democracy," Jean
Armour Polly, Manager of Network Development and User Training
NYSERNet, Inc.; "NSFNET and the NII," Priscilla Huston, NSFNET
Project Director, NSF; "The New Networking Infrastructure for
Education Program," Art St. George, Program Director, Applications
of Advanced Technologies, NSF; "Disney's Applications of Advanced
Technology," Lou Kompare, Director of Telecommunications and
Technology, Walt Disney World Attractions; and the closing address
by Donna Cox, Director of Numerical Lab Programs, NCSA.
Internet connectivity will be available in a hands-on demonstration
room, where seminar attendees can access the many resources on the
Internet using the latest information delivery tools.
The registration fee is $495 until December 23, 1993. After
December 23, the cost is $595. This fee includes the two-day
seminar, all seminar materials, receptions on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, lunches on Thursday and Friday, refreshments and
access to Internet-connected computers.
Limited scholarships will be available. The deadline for
scholarship applications is December 23, 1993.
For more information, send an e-mail message to:
nic-info@nic.merit.edu
with the text
send next.seminar
This information is also available as the document
/nsfnet/next.seminar on nic.merit.edu for retrieval using Anonymous
FTP or in the Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70, as Next
Merit/NSFNET Seminar--Jan. '94.
Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu)
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MRNET
-------
We are pleased to announce the following staff additions to the
Minnesota Regional network for the expansion of client services and
engineering operations:
Ms. Margo Berg, Director of Client Services for Education
Ms. Marti Palmer, Director of Client Services for Business &
Government
Mr. Chris Elmquist, Network Engineer
Mr. Gregg Brekke, Network Engineer
New hub sites have been established in
Moorhead, MN
Mankato, MN
St. Cloud, MN
Recent new member attachments include:
The Northern Lights Library Network
Lamb, Inc.
Minnesota Center for Arts Education
Medtronic
HealthPartners
William Mitchell College of Law
Exchange Data & Decision Systems
This brings total attached membership to a total of 63
organizations.
Contact: info@MR.Net for any further information.
Dennis Fazio, Executive Director
Minnesota Regional Network
Minneapolis, MN
(612) 342-2570
by Dennis Fazio (dfazio@MR.net>
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NORTHWESTNET
-------------
We welcome several new NorthWestNet members this month:
Lane OnLine Eugene, OR
Lewis-Clark State College Lewiston, ID
Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA
Whitworth College Spokane, WA
OGI Telecomm Ltd. Beaverton, OR
Oregon Center for Advanced
Technology Education (OCATE) Beaverton, OR
We also want to welcome a new NorthWestNet staff member. The next
edition of "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our
World Online" is now in the capable hands of David Robison,
educational documentation specialist. David has assumed the role
of primary author and editorial coordinator of NorthWestNet's
premier Internet resource guide. Before starting at NorthWestNet,
David worked at the University of California at Berkeley Library
and was the founding editor of the electronic newsletter "Current
Cites." David has an MLIS from the University of California at
Berkeley.
Several staff members gave invited presentations during the past
four weeks, including the following:
Dr. Eric Hood, Executive Director of NorthWestNet
-------------------------------------------------
Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute
(SIRTI)
Conference: "On Ramps to the Information Highway"
Spokane, Washington -- November 5
"The Internet: Here, Now, and the Future" and "Building
an Information Highway for the Northwest."
Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services
--------------------------------------
SIGUCCS '93
San Diego, California -- November 8
Panel presentation: "NorthWestNet Network Info. Center"
and Association for Computer Professionals in
Education (ACPE) Portland, Oregon -- November 18
"K-12 and the Internet: An Online Demo of Selected
Resources"
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Mike Showalter, Information Services Specialist
-----------------------------------------------
King County Library System (presentation for staff members)
Seattle, Washington -- November 18
"Copyright in Cyberspace: An Overview of Internet-Related
Copyright Issues"
NorthWestNet member organizations can now request to have a network
(Usenet) newsfeed provided from a NorthWestNet-managed news server
host to the member's news server host via the Network News Transfer
Protocol (NNTP). (Inclusion and exclusion filtering is available.)
In the past, members have obtained this service on an ad hoc basis.
Requests for newsfeeds must be initiated by the member's
Institutional Representative. Member sites should contact
NorthWestNet for more information.
Twenty-five K-12 teachers participated in four Internet training
sessions which were delivered in support of two grant programs:
"Changing How We Organize: Inclusion Through Collaboration and
Educational Support (CHOICES)" and "Enabling K-12 Education in the
Pacific Northwest through Internetworking."
-----------------
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.
by Jan Eveleth <eveleth@nwnet.net>
UCL
----
Zheng Wang gave a paper at the Lancast NOSDAV workshop on Unified
Multicast Forwarding.
Jon Crowcroft gave a paper at the UK Adivosrry Group on Graphics
workshop on Multimedia in Higher Education, on Network Support for
Multimedia. And another paper at the British Computer Society's one
day seminar on "Internet: Boom or Bust" on Scalable Solutions to
IPng.
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UCL participated in the first UK Academic Mbone Pilot Project
meeting, to make sure that MICE, ARPA and other internetaional
multicast connectivity were on the agenda.
MICE organised several more mbone seminars, which are now being
made available in the Web through mosaic by Anders Klemets at SICS
at the URL:
http://www.it.kth.se/~klemets/vatplay.html
As are the UK (JIPS) Mbone documents (and mrinfo etc) by Piete
Brooks at:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/mbone
This technology surely is the biggest step in Internet usability
for several years.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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USER SERVICES REPORT
--------------------
Trip Report
16th RIPE Meeting - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 15-17, 1993
Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute
The 16th RIPE Meeting
The 16th RIPE Meeting was held in September 1993 in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Approval of the agenda was first, with parallel
sessions starting after general plenaries. This meeting was being
audiocast to the world.
RIPE NCC Report by Daniel Karrenberg
There are currently 450,000 Internet hosts at the end of August 1993
and the numbers are still increasing. Daniel presented an overview
of the registry, document store, new database, and new software
development.
The RIPE NCC Internet Registry (IR)
According to Daniel, at the the RIPE NCC IR, it is "business as
usual". The 193.x.y delegation is a success. The registry has
started using 194.x.y allocation, because there are no large
blocks left in 192.x.y. (Note: There are no blocks of "8"
anymore.) There was a need to use 194.x.y using CIDR very
aggressively. With the 194.x.y allocation, the RIPE NCC will be
more conservative in using the 194.x.y address space. There are
still 193.x.y numbers left (about 50%).
The Internet registry template is updated every six months.
Daniel stressed to please us the common registry template on file.
There is a new leaflet available (green leaflet) containing
information about the RIPE NCC IR.
Document Store
World Wide Web (WWW) is now operational. Daniel suggested to the
group to try out xmosaic, if you are running x-windows. The
Gopher structure is being revised. There will be a more detailed
report on this at the next RIPE meeting in January 1994. A
general revision of the document store has been initiated. Send
comments to Anne Lord.
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New RIPE Database Software by Marten Tempstra
Marten presented the newly upgraded RIPE database software. The
question arose of why was it necessary to rewrite the software?
Marten responded by stating that the old style took two hours a day
(manually). It also required many modifications to keep it running.
The object checking was too loose, and almost always in a "don't
touch" state.
A design decision was made, which included a decrease in manpower for
updates, lower turnaround times, making the database easily
extendible, and a guarded attributes provision. The new software is
written in Perl, which is highly portable, nice DMB features, and
easy to make changes. This new software enables the staff to make
"on the fly" updates, the updates are immediately available in WHOIS,
and the turn around time is immediate. There is no human
intervention. It also provides for a guarded attributes provision,
improved syntax checking, a faster WHOIS server, and it can also
manage multiple databases (same syntax).
Current status is that there are 30 Perl modules, 3500 lines of code.
So far, Marten and Daniel are happy with the design. Distribution
will be in November.
Odds and Ends by Daniel Karrenberg
Daniel described the current RIPE NCC outlook:
PRIDE project started (see notes below)
One more staff being hired for it.
Position for six month projects available.
Populating the routing registry is next.
What is very important to mention is that the RIPE NCC funding for
1994 for core activities is not complete. The budget is 260,000 ECU,
which is about 100,000 ECU short.
Progress on Joint Projects by Tony Bates
GISS Project Summary
Tony mentioned that Daniel covered alot in his RIPE NCC report
about the GISS Project summary. It is a joint RARE/RIPE project.
The project is finished. It was an interesting endeavor, but at
the same time, it wasn't an easy task. A lot more work is needed.
Draft 3 documentation is available via ftp.ripe.net:
ripe/docs/ripe-drafts/giss.txt. There is a draft charter in to
the IETF to make a "GISS" working group.
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Route Server Project
This project is officially over. The RIPE NCC will continue to
operate the route server. The route server itself is fully
operational. The routing software is working well, and the policy
based derivation is working in "kludge" mode (needs the RR
populated). These are all working automatically. Collaboration
with other projects continues.
Work on monitoring of European routing is reported on a daily and
weekly basis. This project is continuing to look at the new
networks and routing domains appearing in Europe. The consensus
is to use the route servers by the proto-GIX partners as soon as
possible. A report has been filed about this project, and is
available via ftp.ripe.net. This was a SURFnet funded project,
which provided the stimulus.
PRIDE Project
"Policy-based Routing Implementation and Deployment in Europe"
(PRIDE). This project was recently started, because the routing
situation is becoming "even more" complex. The Route Server
project and the RIPE 81 charters highlight the clear need for
tools, operational based tools (i.e., configuration) and routing
registry tools. There needs to be policies now, they need to be
up-to-date. The Routing Registry is the key and needs maximum
population for:
1) implementation, and
2) deployment (information and help).
This idea is very much overdue.
The implementation would include a "prcheck (consistency checker),
"prpath" (path extraction), "prconn" (display connection according
to policy), "prtractroute" (traceroute), and "prconfig"
(configuration). Others will be added as needed or proposed.
Deployment means registry population and widespread use of tools.
A PRIDE guide, and PRIDE course development documents will be
written.
The PRIDE Project Plan includes:
1 Year plan (startup 1st Sept 93)
8 Milestones
Staged Phases (tools release, courses, guides)
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The initial tools release will include "prtractroute". The
current project status includes its very own logo and t-shirts!
Seriously, the initial release is out. The project will be
carried out at the RIPE NCC. There will be two FTEs for one year,
plus NCC support. The funders are the JNT, UNNETT, UUNET, EUnet
B.V.. All tools and material will be made publically available.
There's funding to "come to you", if regionals cannot participate.
They are open to all comments, as the intention is to become a
RIPE NCC core activity.
RIPE NCC Review by Rob Blokzijl
The RIPE NCC activity document is out and needs to be discussed.
This new activity plan identifies the areas they have been doing, but
not funded. For example, the Internet Registry. The 1991 RIPE NCC
activity plan did not include the IR. Rob asked for continued
discussion and input on the revised plan, which will start on the 1st
January 1994.
RARE and RIPE Relationships
RIPE came into being as the IP coordination in Europe. The RARE
emphasis is still the same. These two groups want to avoid
duplication of activities. They have joint projects that are
defined, run, and funded.
GARR's Network Resource Discovery by Giuseppe Romano
Giuseppe Romano of GARR (Italian Research and Academic Network
Network Information Service) gave a presentation on GARR's on-line
network resource guide. This guide was produced to support end users
to find information, and to help end users to access selected
resources. This topic will also be discussed in the NIDUS Working
Group meeting (see notes below).
The GARR resource guide is an experimental on-line service. A.
Blasco Bonito suggested that this service should be placed at the
RIPE NCC. Some RIPE meeting participants suggested that this service
should be brought into Jill Foster's RARE ISUS (Information Services
and User Support) group.
EARN's Network Resource Guide by Daniele Bovio
There was a joint RARE/EARN meeting regarding each group's efforts
and focus. A pact between them has been settled that EARN will
specifically focus on user support. Their resource guide is a
combined effort of EARN staff members. Drafts for each chapter were
submitted and compiled. Then, everything was given to David Sitman
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(as EARN project coordinator). The guide was produced in time for
the JENC (Joint European Networking Conference) Trondheim conference.
A 1 July 93 revised draft was presented and discussed at the
Amsterdam IETF in Joyce Reynolds' USWG (User Services Working Group)
session. A second editon of this guide will be available by the
Warsaw NSC (Network Services Conference) meeting. Bert Stals of the
RARE ISUS working group assisted with input and comments. The first
edition of the guide was distributed at the JENC, IETF, and INET93.
The guide is directed to all end users.
Local Internet Registry Group by Daniel Karrenberg
The Local Internet Registry Group held a workshop at the beginning of
the week before the RIPE meetings. A question was brought up whether
their workshops should be held at the same time as the RIPE meetings.
A decision was made that they will continue to be informal, with no
keeping of minutes, and to keep holding them in conjunction with the
RIPE meetings, to cut down on travel.
There was a discussion about publishing local registries, as the
current policy is to not publish them. All local registries are
running smoothly. Some service providers say that they don't want
this. Customers will be revealed. They don't want to publish their
own lists. The argument was that it doesn't make any sense to hide
this information. Daniel made mention that this is not in the spirit
of the Internet. Analogy would be once you start hiding the IP
contacts, the next will be the Domains. Service provides need to
accept responsibility. They must assume formal responsibility,
essentially because there are more service providers every year.
This issue must be resolved, eventhough the Internet is subtly
becoming commercial. Look at the different exchange service
infrastructures that are included.
Daniel will take all comments, summarize and provide a proposal. The
biggest issue is the operational contact points. Daniel would like
to propose that the RIPE NCC publish ALL registries, provider and
non-provider by country. The group agreed that there should be a
complete list of local IRs. A. Blasco Bonito requested further
discussion off-line about the functions of the non-provider registry.
The results of this proposal will be in put the RIPE NCC activity
plan.
The group discussed future needed documents. One document would be
an FAQ on CIDR and subnetting, and another document would be
appropriate on why is it good Internet citizenship to give back IP
address space.
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Administration of top level domains was discussed. The group felt
the Lebanon top level domain request took too long. If this happens
in Europe, it might be good to have the RIPE NCC handle the proces.
There was no objection from this group. The idea is to have the RIPE
NCC jump in when there isn't any consensus in a country and have the
NCC handle it. Daniel said the RIPE NCC is willing to provide this
service, and he will communicate this to the IANA.
BOF session on European Architecture Development by Bernhard Stockman
The intent is to maintain and improve routing between Europe and the
U.S. This is an operational engineering issue that Bernhard is
trying to deal with here, not routing issues. First, he would like
to identify the level of ambition, and whether it is on a complex or
intermediate level. The issues include:
-What is routing stability?
-Look at the progress of CIDR development in Europe
-What is the level of complexity?
a) multiple Internet Services providers
b) see a need for some kind of interchange
c) address ideas on where - possible locations
d) who can connect? who is acceptable as a peer?
e) what does this group want to say about this?
f) regulator issues - who is in charge?
g) is there a need for a management framework?
-Technical needs
a) technical requirements specification
b) time estimations to operate
c) source based policy routing (SDRP) pilot - this
is happening in the IETF, but what can
the RIPE group do?
Report on the EBONE Consortium Meeting
There is already a plan in place with the continuation of the EBONE
effort (EBONE2) of a distributed GIX (D-GIX). D-GIX was
overwhelmingly approved, as there is an urgent need for a full fledge
solution. The interim solution of interconnectivity ("Interim D-
GIX") was discussed. The group needs to agree if this is a good
idea. There would be an initial separation of routing and payload
traffic, but is there a need to do this? The issues include:
-separation of routing and payload
-a D-GIX specification is needed
-need for some kind of informal/formal body to be responsible
for operational issues
-need for some kind of pilot phase that would:
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a) specify what
b) specify time schedules
c) goals
-a SDRP/multifacet router might happen
other groups (RARE, etc.) may look into this
-simplify route server implementation of a D-GIX
-need for improvements
-flexibility versus connectivity in D-GIX
Other issues to consider:
-routing registry population - "pushing"?
-secret routing information - consider this?
-liaisons with the IEPG - need to liase with more operations
related forums that exist within the various continents.
Bernhard opened the floor for comments. Is there a need for a
working group in RIPE to work on this issue? The group stated a
resounding yes. The maintenance and improvement of routing between
Europe and the U.S. is the main issue. This is much more focussed
and defined on an operations level. This item needs to stay within
the RIPE framework. This new working group would be on neutral
ground and open (like an operations forum).
What about "beyond D-GIX"? This working group would be an evolving
group, which would concentrate on D-GIX right now, but would keep
their eyes and ears open. The major item the attendees see as
missing is a requirement document.
Network Information Discovery for Users Support (NIDUS WG)
The NIDUS WG, chaired by Nandor Hovarth, held a session at this RIPE
meeting. Joyce Reynolds presented a report on the IETF User Services
Area activities and meetings held during the Amsterdam IETF in July
(see Appendix).
Nandor lead a continued discussion regarding GARR's Resource Guide
(see above). The group felt that this resource guide could have two
paths to follow.
-continue building on the guide as is and keep enhancing it
-find out if a pilot project group needs to be started to
help in the development of the specialization of each item
within the guide
-would RIPE be the forum for this pilot or RARE?
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Appendix
IETF
User Services Area Report
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joyce K. Reynolds (USAD)
10 working groups in the User Services Area of the IETF met in
Amsterdam.
Integrated Directory Services (IDS), chaired by Chris Weider and
Tim Howes. (Summary reported by Chris Weider.)
The IDS Working Group is chartered to facilitate the integration and
interoperability of current and future directory services into a
unified directory service. This work will unite directory services
based on a heterogeneous set of directory services protocols (X.500,
WHOIS++, etc.). In addition to specifying technical requirements for
the integration, the IDS Group will also contribute to the
administrative and maintenance issues of directory service offerings
by publishing guidelines on directory data integrity, maintenance,
security, and privacy and legal issues for users and administrators of
directories.
The "Advanced Usages of X.500" document from the DISI WG has been
sent to the RFC Editor for publication. The "Pilot Project" catalog is
out as an Internet-Draft (I-D). The Revision of FYI 11 has been
released as an I-D and will be submitted to the RFC Editor for
publication by the end of August 1993. A draft on, "Legal & Privacy
Issues in Directory Services" was submitted and will be published as an
I-D. A draft on, "A Guide to Available Directory Services" was
circulated and will be advanced as an I-D for eventual publication as
an Informational RFC. The Directory Services Policy Handbook will be
split into pieces and will be released as a series of documents.
Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR),
chaired by Chris Weider. (Summary reported by Chris Weider.)
IIIR is chartered to facilitate interoperability between Internet
Information Services, and to develop, specify, and align protocols
designed to integrate the plethora of Internet information services
(WAIS, archie, Prospero, etc.) into a single "virtually unified
information service".
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IIIR met twice at this IETF. At the first session, the HTML I-D from
Tim Berners-Lee was discussed, and will be submitted as an
Informational RFC. The HTTP protocol will also be released as an I-D
before the next IETF. HTML+ may be brought in as a potential
standard. At the second session, the "Vision of an Integrated
Internet Information Architecture" document is still an ID, as
comments have come in that need to be incorporated. The "Resource
Transponders" document was discussed. The potential overlap with the
Service Location group's work has still not resolved.
The "Taxomomy of Information Services" document has been shelved as
other papers have recently been published on this work. There are
some minor problems with the Gopher RFC which will be addressed in an
addendum. The Prospero protocol was suggested as a means of
Integrating Information Services. Discussion on this item will be
taken to the IIIR WG email list. The Gopher/IIIR datatype
specifications will be registered as MIME types. A document will be
written on failure tracking and resolution between information
services. "Z39.50 over TCP/IP" will be released as an I-D, to
eventually become an Informational RFC. A paper on integrating data
elements between the IAFA WG's paper and the library community will be
released as an I-D.
Internet School Networking (ISN) session led by Jennifer Sellers
(NASA). (Summary reported by Jennifer Sellers.)
The Internet School Networking Working Group is chartered to
facilitate the connection of the United States' K-12
(Kindergarten-12th Grade) schools, public and private, to the
Internet, and school networking in general.
After some background on the history of ISN, the group shared
experiences in school networking and their own companies and projects.
There were 30 or 35 people in attendance and almost all had more than
a passing interest in school networking. Next, the group gave a lot
of good feedback on the document currently under construction, the I-D
on FAQs for the Primary and Secondary School Community. Also
discussed was a document on Connectivity Models for schools. It was
decided that this document will be combined with the UserDoc2's
document on how to connect, and will be put out as an I-D.
The final agenda item was a review and revision of the group's
charter. After some discussion, three volunteers from three different
countries agreed to craft the text for a new charter and post it to
the list. From there, the group will determine new deliverables and
milestones.
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Networked Information Retrieval (NIR), chaired by Jill Foster and
George Brett. (Summary reported by Kevin Gamiel.)
NIR is chartered to increase the useful base of information about
networked information retrieval tools, their developers, interested
organizations, and other activities that relate to the production,
dissemination, and support of NIR tools. NIR is a cooperative effort
of the IETF, RARE, and CNI.
Jim Fullton gave an overview of CNIDR. Jill Foster gave a brief
overview of the RARE ISUS work in the NIR area. Anders Gillner
discussed his work on the Eurogopher project. This project involves
establishing a subject-based as well as geographic-based Gopher
infrastructure in Europe. The group then spent most of the meeting
editing the NIR report. Major changes included the merging of the
WAIS and freeWAIS sections, NCSA's Mosaic was moved under the WWW
section, and the NLM sections were removed. Various methods of
publishing and maintaining this information online were discussed.
Several suggestions for evaluating NIR tools was discussed. It was
decided to put together a simple checklist as the basis of the
evaluation. There will be further discussion on the mailing list. The
charter was updated to remove the reference to documentation and
training materials.
The Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (NISI),
chaired by April Marine and Pat Smith. (Summary reported by April
Marine.)
NISI is exploring the requirements for common, shared Internet-wide
network information services. The goal is to develop an understanding
for what is required to implement an information services
"infrastructure" for the Internet.
The NISI Working Group discussed two main topics. First, comments on
the current I-D were solicited and a discussion of the relationships
between network information centers (NICs) ensued, resulting in
suggested revisions to the document's diagram. Secondly, the scope of
recommendations for interactions between NICs when more than one are
involved in helping a user were clarified. The group benefitted
greatly from the international input available in this forum and both
documents currently in progress should be much improved.
Network Training Materials (TRAINMAT), chaired by Ellen Hoffman and
Jill Foster. (Summary reported by Ellen Hoffman.)
The Network Training Materials Working Group is chartered to enable
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the research community to make better use of the networked services.
Towards this end, the Working Group will work to provide a
comprehensive package of "mix and match" training materials for the
broad academic community which will: 1) enable user support staff to
train users to use the networked services and 2) provide users with
self-paced learning material. In the first instance, it will not deal
with operational training. This Working Group is the IETF component
of a joint RARE/IETF group working on Network Training Materials.
The meeting opened with introductions and descriptions of training
activities in which each person is involved. Jill Foster discussed
the RARE ISUS Network Training Materials TF as well as the NISP/ITTI
project at the University of Newcastle, UK. The group reviewed data
elements for the training materials catalog, and agreed on the general
categories which Foster presented with a few suggested changes. A
small group will finalize the template and send it out to the list.
Volunteers were recruited to work on the catalog. Another project the
group will pursue is a subject resource guide. Issues in using the
network to deliver interactive and multi-media training were
discussed, with the possibility for developing multi-media pilots
reviewed. A demo of the materials developed at Newcastle was given by
Jill Foster.
User-Doc2, chaired by Ellen Hoffman and Lenore Jackson (not present).
(Summary reported by Ellen Hoffman.)
The User-Doc2 Working Group is preparing a revised bibliography of
on-line and hard copy documents, reference materials, and training
tools addressing general networking information and how to use the
Internet. The target audience includes those individuals who provide
services to end users and end users themselves.
The User Doc Working Group reviewed recent activities, including the
release of FYI RFCs 19 and 20 since the last IETF meeting. The archive,
Introducing the Internet, has been updated, adding two additional
documents and revising the Access Guide. Four sites currently house
copies of the archive, and others are encouraged to maintain it. A
discussion on documentation needs was held, staring with a talk by
Bert Stals on activities by the ISUS Documentation group. Issues
relating to documentation in languages other than English and covering
a more world-wide perspective in RFCs was covered. The final topic was
new activities, with two future FYI RFCs in the works. These are a
revision of FYI 3 which is to be finalized at the next meeting, and a
new document on how to get connected which is just being started.
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Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), chaired by Alan Emtage and Jim
Fullton. (Summary reported by Jim Fullton.)
URI is chartered to define a set of standards for the encoding of
system independent Resource Location and Identification information
for the use of Internet information services.
The URI Working Group met in three sessions to discuss various issues
related to URLs, URNs and URCs. The current URL proposal along with
an amendment to expand the allowable character set was approved by a
vote of 29 to 1. A report on the Info Mesh was made by Karen Sollins.
URNs were discussed in great detail. Agreement was reached on the
basic format of URNs as well as their content. Sub elements of the
URN remain undefined and will be discussed at the next IETF.
A paper describing a proposed URM was discussed, as were proposals for
the format of URCs. A call for papers describing URMs and URCs was
made, with discussion to be carried out on the list. Next time: 1)
Discuss URN sub fields, and 2) Discuss URC/URM formats.
User Services Working Group (USWG) chaired by Joyce K. Reynolds.
(Summary reported by JKRey.)
The USWG provides a regular forum for people interested in all user
services to identify and initiate projects designed to improve the
quality of information available to end-users of the Internet.
Joyce Reynolds reported on the IETF User Services Area activities
including: Working Groups coming to closure and new Working groups
starting up, new publications, and current user services related
Internet-Drafts postings.
April Marine led a discussion on an FYI RFC update; FYI 4 "FYI on
Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User"
Questions", (Also RFC 1325), May 1992. Bill Manning brought up a
discussion on how to "empower" users to utilize and document tools.
There also seems to be missing from the FYI RFC publications a series
of notes that tries to address the manners and morals of the
collective body. Another topic that may need to be worked on in this
forum is how to deal with the basics (e.g., How do "I" get attached?).
Jill Foster presented an update on RARE activities, including a
report on the RARE Information Services/User Services (ISUS)
activities.
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David Sitman EARN (European Academic and Research Network)
representative presented a discussion and review of EARN's "Guide to
Network Resource Tools" in preparation for submission to the RFC
Editor for FYI RFC publication.
Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS), chaired by Joan
Gargano. (Summary reported by Joan Gargano.)
The purpose of WNILS is to expand and define the standard for WHOIS
services, to resolve issues associated with the variations in access,
and to promote a consistent and predictable service across the
network.
Many attendees were new to the WNILS working group and requested
an introduction to the Whois++ architecture. Peter Deutsch presented
an overview of the Whois++ architecture and design philosophy. A
lengthy discussion followed and the following additions to the
protocol were requested. Peter will incorporate the additional
specifications and submit an I-D by July 30, 1993.
Chris Weider also began his presentation with an overview of
centroids. Two problem areas were identified: a) Centroids don't
scale for databases containing large quantities of unique data, and b)
The potential exists for cycles or looping in queries because the
directory is in a mesh configuration. Chris agreed further work is
needed on indexing but this first implementation should provide a
functional system for existing datasets and a testbed for the
limitations of this model.
The recommended modifications to the Whois Protocol have been
submitted as an I-D. The host record section will be updated. The
goals and milestones will be updated to reflect the following: All
draft papers will be submitted as I-Ds by the end of July. Two
working implementations of clients, servers and centroids will be
available by September 30, 1993.
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CALENDAR
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Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate
for this calendar section. Please send your submissions to
(cooper@isi.edu).
1993 CALENDAR
Nov 1-5 IETF Houston, TX.
Nov 2-4 ANSI X3S3.3, TBD
Nov 2-4 EMAIL World
Contact: Einar Steffurd <stef@nma.com>
Nov 9-13 IEEE802 Plenary, Crown Sterling Suites,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Nov 15-19 Supercomputing 93, Portland, OR
Dec 6-10 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
1994 CALENDAR
Feb 3-4 ISOC Symposium on network and Distributed
System Security, San Diego, (nessett@llnl.gov)
Mar 29-Apr 1 IETF, Seattle, Washington
Apr 6-8 National Net '94 in D.C.
May 2-6 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Jun 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 ULPAA, Barcelona, Spain
Einar Stefferud (stef@nma.com)
Jun 6-10 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Berlin, Germany
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Jul 25-29 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Tokyo, Japan
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Jul IETF Toronto, Canada
Aug 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Computer Congress
Hamburg, Germany; Contact: IFIP
Aug 29-Sep 2 ACM SIGCOMM 94, UCL, London, England
Contact J. Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk. or ACM
Sep 12-16 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Fall IETF San Francisco, California
Oct 24-28 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
1995 CALENDAR
Sep 18-22 INTEROP95, San Francisco, CA
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
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1996 CALENDAR
Sep 2-6 14th IFIP World Computer Congress
Canberra, Australia Contact: IFIP
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RARE LIST OF MEETINGS
december 93 edition
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Ref. RSec(93)381-ac
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).
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MEETING/DATE LOCATION
RARE Executive Committee
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17 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
27 January (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Geneva
28 January Geneva
29 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RARE Council of Administration
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3/4 February 1994 Brussels
19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
RARE Technical Committee
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17 January Telephone Meeting
3/4 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RARE Working Groups
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RIPE
----
24-26 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF)
16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF)
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VARIOUS
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Euro-CAIRN
DANTE Steering Committee
16 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
DANTE Shareholders
4 February Brussels
EBONE Management Committee
21 December (TBC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
or 10 January (TBC) Copenhagen
EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations
January (TBD)
EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
28 February/1 March KTH Stockholm
Euro-CCIRN
TBD
CCIRN
20/21 June TBD (in Europe)
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
13/14 June Prague
IETF
29 March - 1 April Seattle
July Toronto
Autumn San Francisco
EWOS
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Technical Assembly
1-2 March Brussels
17-18 May Brussels
13-14 September Brussels
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
14 December Brussels
15 March Brussels
7 June Brussels
27 September Brussels
6 December Brussels
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Workshops
17-21 January Brussels
11-15 April Brussels
27 June - 1 July Brussels
10-14 October Brussels
ECTUA
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ETSI
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General Assembly
24/25 March Nice, France
22/23 November Nice, France
Technical Assembly
21-23 March Nice, France
21/22 June Nice, France
18-20 October Nice, France
EARN
Board of Directors
18-19 May Darmstadt
INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders
17 February Zuerich
INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee
21 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
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INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5)
13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic
The annual conference of the Internet Society held in conjunction
with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference.
To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a
message to <inet-jenc-request@rare.nl>.
Deadline for submission of contributions and proposals for
demonstrations is 15 December 1993 - email <inet-jenc-sec@rare.nl>.
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OTHER CONFERENCES
For some of the following events, full text information is available
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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)
3rd SYMPOSIUM on HIGH SPEED NETWORKING FOR RESEARCH IN EUROPE
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organised by RARE with support from the CEC
on 2 February 1994 in Brussels
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** to be sent to the High Speed
Symposium Secretariat <hssec@rare.nl> before 21 November 1993.
Participation is free of charge; registration forms can be obtained
from <hssec@rare.nl>. To be added to the symposium email distribution
list, send a message to <high-speed-request@rare.nl>.
INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY
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on 3 and 4 February 1994 at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego,
California more information from Mr. Robert Shirey of the MITRE
Corporation, email <shirey@mitre.org> (also on RARE Document Store,
file name <isoc-security.03.02.94>)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION NETWORKS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS
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from 18 to 21 April 1994 in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 46or information, please email
Prof. Pedro Veiga <pmv@inesc.pt>
MediaActive 94 - "Harnessing Multimedia for Higher Education"
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from 4 till 6 May 1994
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 10 January 1994
Email <MedAct94@uk.ac.livjm>
15TH INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATICS AND PSYCHOLOGY
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organised by the Computer Science Department of the Johannes Kepler
University Linz, Austria, in cooperation with the European
Association for Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE)
from 24 till 26 May 1994 in Schaerding, Austria
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 15 January 1994
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NORDUnet 94
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from 31 May to 2 June 1994
in Umea, Sweden
for information, email <nordunet94@umdac.umu.se>
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - ECT 94
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4th International Russian Forum
organised by the Academy of National Economy of Moscow, Russia; the
International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information; and
the Russian-American JV "Ecotrends".
from 27 June till 2 July
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 15 January 1994
46or further information, contact Juri Gornostaev or Juri Andrianov
Email <enir@ccic.icsti.msk.su>
ACM SIGCOMM'94
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Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications
organised by University College London
from 31 August till 2 September
(Tutorials and Workshops on 30 August)
***CALL FOR PAPERS*** deadline 1 February 1994
46or further information, contact <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 (provisional)
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from 18 to 20 October 1994
in Bournemouth (UK)
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EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ASSOCIATION (EEMA)
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