Internet Monthly Report - January 1995
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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 9
CHICAGO NETWORK ACCESS POINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
Rare List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34
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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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1. 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
meeting costs, the IETF attendance fee for the Stockholm meeting
will be US$300.
The final meeting for 1995 will be held in Dallas, Texas the
first week of December (December 4-8, 1995). 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:
December 22, 1994 (iesg.94-12-22)
January 12, 1995 (iesg.95-01-12)
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following four Protocol
Actions during the month of January, 1995:
o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base be
published as a Draft Standard.
o Printer MIB be published as a Proposed Standard.
o ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM be published as
Proposed Standard.
o Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators be
published as an Informational RFC.
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4. The IESG issued 18 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
January, 1995:
o Experience with the BGP-4 protocol
<draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-experience-00> for consideration as an
Informational RFC.
o The PPP DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol (DNCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-dncp-00> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o Tags for the identification of languages
<draft-ietf-mailext-lang-tag-01> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o BGP-4 Protocol Analysis <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-analysis-00>
for consideration as an Informational RFC.
o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-00>
for consideration as a Draft Standard.
o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
<draft-ietf-bgp-app-00> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o The PPP Banyan Vines Control Protocol (BVCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-vines-02> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o The PPP XNS IDP Control Protocol (XNSCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-xnscp-00> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-encryption-01> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o TFTP Option Extension <draft-ietf-tftpexts-option-ext-02>
for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o TFTP Blocksize Option <draft-ietf-tftpexts-blksize-opt-01>
for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o TFTP Option Negotiation Analysis
<draft-ietf-tftpexts-analysis-00> for consideration as an
Informational RFC.
o TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options
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<draft-ietf-tftpexts-options-00> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
<draft-ietf-asid-lightdirect-00> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes
<draft-ietf-asid-syntaxes-00> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming
<draft-ietf-asid-user-friendly-dir-00> for consideration as
a Proposed Standard.
o A String Representation of Distinguished Names
<draft-ietf-asid-dist-names-00> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects <draft-ietf-edi-mime-02>
for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
5. Two Working Groups were created during this period:
HyperText Transfer Protocol (http)
Standard Generalized Markup Language (mimesgml)
6. A total of 55 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of January, 1995:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(sdr) o Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and Forwarding
Specification (Version 1).
<draft-ietf-sdr-sdrp-05.txt>
(ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-ospf-mib-06.txt>
(iplpdn) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs
<draft-ietf-iplpdn-frmib-dte-03.txt>
(notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status
Notifications
<draft-ietf-notary-mime-delivery-04.txt>
(rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1
Functional Specification
<draft-ietf-rsvp-spec-04.txt, .ps>
(edi) o MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects
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<draft-ietf-edi-mime-02.txt, .ps>
(mailext) o Tags for the identification of languages
<draft-ietf-mailext-lang-tag-02.txt>
(dnssec) o Domain Name System Protocol Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-dnssec-secext-03.txt>
(idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Protocol
Specification <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-spec-01.txt, .ps>
(idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Motivation and
Architecture <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-arch-01.txt, .ps>
(mobileip) o IP Mobility Support
<draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-08.txt>
(wnils) o Architecture of the WHOIS++ service
<draft-ietf-wnils-whois-arch-02.txt>
(pem) o Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and
Multipart/Encrypted <draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-03.txt>
(uri) o Functional Requirements for Internet Resource
Locators <draft-ietf-uri-irl-fun-req-03.txt>
(notary) o The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting
of Mail System Administrative Messages
<draft-ietf-notary-mime-report-01.txt>
(none) o Communicating Presentation Information in Internet
Messages: The Content-Disposition Header
<draft-dorner-content-header-01.txt>
(none) o Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet
Domains (2nd Revision)
<draft-robinson-newtelex-01.txt>
(idr) o Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration
of an Autonomous System (AS)
<draft-ietf-idr-autosys-guide-01.txt>
(mailext) o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
<draft-ietf-mailext-pipeline-01.txt>
(uri) o Relative Uniform Resource Locators
<draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-05.txt>
(ipatm) o Support for Multicast over UNI 3.1 based ATM
Networks. <draft-armitage-ipatm-ipmc-03.txt>
(none) o IPv6 Neighbor Discovery -- ICMP Message Formats
<draft-simpson-ipv6-discov-formats-02.txt>
(sdr) o Explicit Routing Protocol (ERP) for IPv6
<draft-ietf-sdr-erp-01.txt>
(opstat) o The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics
Retrieval <draft-ietf-opstat-client-server-02.txt>
(none) o Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
<draft-gilligan-ipv6-trans-mech-01.txt>
(dnssec) o Mapping Autonomous Systems Number into the Domain
Name System <draft-ietf-dnssec-as-map-01.txt>
(none) o An IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
<draft-rekhter-IPv6-address-format-01.txt>
(idr) o IDRP for IPv6 <draft-ietf-idr-idrp-v6-01.txt>
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(ospf) o OSPF Database Overflow
<draft-ietf-ospf-overflow-01.txt>
(notary) o Enhanced Mail System Status Codes
<draft-ietf-notary-status-01.txt>
(ipngwg) + ICMP for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
<draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-00.txt>
(none) o The ESP DES-CBC Transform
<draft-metzger-esp-des-cbc-02.txt>
(none) + IPv4 Encapsulating Security Payload (4ESP)
<draft-metzger-esp-00.txt>
(none) + IPv4 Authentication Header (4AH)
<draft-metzger-ah-00.txt>
(none) o Authentication with Keyed MD5
<draft-metzger-ah-md5-01.txt>
(none) + A Profile for the Transmission of Video Data over
RTP <draft-kastenholz-loki-00.txt>
(none) + Overview of Game technology
<draft-robinson-games-overview-00.txt>
(none) + The Proxy Solution to the Multiple Component Problem
<draft-dckmtr-proxy-00.txt>
(none) + Options for Mobility Support in IPv6
<draft-teraoka-ipv6-mobility-suport-00.txt>
(none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12
Interfaces <draft-flick-interfaces-mib-00.txt>
(none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12
Repeater Devices
<draft-flick-repeater-dev-mib-00.txt>
(pppext) + The PPP DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol (DNCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-dncp-00.txt>
(mailext) + Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent checklist
<draft-ietf-mailext-mime-check-00.txt>
(uri) + Mailserver URL Specification
<draft-ietf-uri-url-mailserver-00.txt>
(mailext) + Requirements for Internet Mail Transport Agents
<draft-ietf-mailext-smtpas-00.txt>
(none) + IP Architecture Extensions for ATM
<draft-rekhter-ip-atm-architecture-00.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Security API for BSD Sockets
<draft-mcdonald-ipv6-sec-api-00.txt>
(none) + The ESP Triple DES-CBC Transform
<draft-metzger-esp-3des-cbc-00.txt>
(none) + Strata-based Aggregation of Routing Information
<draft-rekhter-strata-aggregation-00.txt>
(none) + Authentication with Keyed SHA
<draft-metzger-ah-sha-00.txt>
(snmp) + Cisco ISDN MIB Extensions
<draft-ietf-snmp-isdn-cisco-00.txt>
(none) + The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
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<draft-levinson-multipart-related-00.txt>
(none) + CID: The Content-ID Uniform Resource Locator
<draft-levinson-cid-00.txt>
(snmp) + SNMP MIB Extension for an ISDN Controller
<draft-ietf-snmp-isdn-netmode-00.txt>
(html) + A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image
Maps <draft-ietf-html-clientsideimagemap-00.txt>
7. There were 7 RFC's published during the month of January, 1995:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1742 PS (appleip) AppleTalk Management Information Base II
RFC1746 I (isn) Ways to Define User Expectations
(actually announced December 30, 1994)
RFC1747 PS (snadlc) Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA
Data Link Control: SDLC
RFC1752 PS (none) The Recommendation for the IP Next
Generation Protocol
RFC1753 I (none) IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod
Routing and Addressing Architecture
RFC1754 I (ipatm) IP over ATM Working Group's
Recommendations for the ATM Forum's
Multiprotocol BOF Version 1
RFC1756 E (none) REMOTE WRITE PROTOCOL - VERSION 1.0
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
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ANSNET
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Network Status Summary
=======================
ANSnet total packet traffic decreased by about 6.44% in January '95.
This decrease is attributable to the removal of NSFNET service
traffic. An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 4.6% was
observed during the month of January.
January Backbone Traffic Statistics
===================================
The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 71,091,174,730 on T3 ENSS interfaces, down
9.32% from December. The total packet count into the network
including all ENSS serial interfaces was 83,266,055,416 down 6.44%
from December.
Router Forwarding Table Statistics
==================================
The maximum number of destinations announced to ANSnet during January
was 21,186 up 4.6% from December.
The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the
ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during January was 22,094.
Jordan Becker, (becker@ans.net)
CHICAGO NETWORK ACCESS POINT
----------------------------
Ameritech Advanced Data Services
2/5/95
The NAP is operational, with traffic still in "experimental" mode due
to problems experienced with the ATM DSUs. Below is a list of
connected network providers, along with a "contingency plan"
describing our steps to work around the DSU problems.
Connected:
Routing Arbiter/Merit/ISI/Route Server
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MCI Internet
ANS
Alpha.Net
Installations in progress:
Network 99
NETCOM On-Line
Argonne
Fermi
U-Chicago (UOC)
U-Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Letters of intent received:
AGIS
Databank
Sprint
Inquiries: We have received inquiries about connecting to the NAP
from many Internet providers. Please e-mail to nap-info@aads.net
for more information.
Chicago NAP Contingency Plan Description
The target configuration for the AADS Chicago NAP is ATM, at either
DS3 or OC3c rates. However, due to a problem with the ATM DSU's
being used, causing performance degradation, AADS is implementing
an interim configuration. To allow the NSFNET transition traffic to
be carried without performance problems, the MCI, ANS, and Sprint
routers along with the Routing Arbiter's route server, will be
connected via a local FDDI ring in the AADS Chicago facility. In
order to implement this plan, the following steps are being taken:
1. AADS has ordered 3 cisco 7010 routers with 1 FDDI and 2 HSSI
cards; 3 DS3 CSU/DSUs; and 3 DS3 ATM DSUs. These will be installed
in the switch room in Chicago. An additional FDDI card may be
needed for the Route Server configuration to connect to the ring.
2. The Sprint, ANS and MCI DS3 lines will be moved from the ATM
switch to the HSSI ports on the routers; and the routers will be
connected to each other via a local physical fiber FDDI ring. The
Route Server Sun/Cisco can be connected to this ring.
3. The second router HSSI port and ADSU for each would be connected
to the ATM ports on the switch, allowing the routers to communicate
both via FDDI and ATM.
This will allow the NAP to come up right away using FDDI, and ATM
connections to be used simultaneously. NAP customers connected by
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ATM would be able to communicate with the FDDI NAP customers using
these second ports.
AADS does intend to continue to expedite testing and implementation
of the new Kentrox ADSUs and ATM configuration. We intend for this
FDDI contingency configuration to be used only as an interim plan
until these problems are resolved.
Mark Knopper (mak@aads.net)
INTERNIC
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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
InfoGuide
Host Name is.internic.net
Host Address 192.153.156.15
URL: http://www.internic.net/
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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.
THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights
At last count the Scout Report was reaching over 21,000 subscribers
and the HTML versions on the InfoGuide are still receiving
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thousands of accesses each week. A new and improved version of the
Scout Report is in the works.
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:
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In the body of the message, type:
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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.
NSF NETWORK NEWS
The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 5 is in the works. This
newsletter will spotlight legal issues presently revolving around
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the Internet. Projected highlights are: the future of domain
registration; 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
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.
NSF NETWORK NEWS
The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 5 is in the works. This
newsletter will spotlight legal issues presently revolving around
the Internet. Projected highlights are: the future of domain
registration; 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
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REFERENCE DESK
The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for
January:
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 343 51
Phone 58 9
Fax 49 7
US Mail 17 2
Referral 208 31
------- -------- ---------
Total 675 100.0
by Anna Knittle <aknittle@is.internic.net>
INTERNIC REGISTRATION SERVICES
Progress Report for period January 1, 1995 through January 31, 1995
I. Significant Events
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 40,077 network
addresses and registered over 4,099 domains. Three top level
domains were registered this month for Ghana (GH), Monaco (MC),
and Nepal (NP).
II. Current Status
During the month of January 1995, 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 12,396 (hostmaster@internic.net)
Postal/Fax 291 (primarily IP number requests)
Phone 1,907
The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
of information retrieval requests during the month of December.
Connections Retrievals
Gopher 70,228 54,134
WAIS 120,193 88,674
FTP 14,864 65,734
Mailserv 6,358
Telnet 71,061
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In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:
Client Server
418,886 1,257,366
Debbie Fuller <debbief@internic.net>
ISI
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ATOMIC-2
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ATOMIC-2 FILE SERVER PROGRESS
We previously measured the performance of NFS and FTP over ATOMIC,
and found (as expected) that the disk bandwidth is the bottleneck
of each. Prior measurements indicate that Ethernet performance is
network-limited to 7-8 Mbps, but the ATOMIC LAN provides disk-
limited 18 Mbps FTP and 19 Mbps NFS. Native packet memory-memory
bandwidth over ATOMIC via the Myrinet API is 220 Mbps, TCP is 48
Mbps, and UDP is 58 Mbps.
We have been able to determine the limit of NFS in the absence of
disk-limited bottlenecks, which remains near 20 Mbps, precluding
NFS cache hits, which can increase read bandwidths to 275 Mbps.
The bottleneck appears to be related to Sun RPC. The most efficient
NFS is only slightly (5-10%) faster than the user-level RPC
performance, possibly due to avoiding a kernel boundary swap. We
are currently implementing a lightweight reliable transport
mechanism, to be integrated into NFS. It is related to a
lightweight reliable transport mechanism being developed in the
Netstation project.
ATOMIC-2 GATEWAY PROGRESS
We are currently designing a host-based gateway using Fore SBA-200
ATM interfaces and Myrinet host interfaces, in a Sun SPARC 20/61
platform. Preliminary measurements indicate that the SPARC can
route packets between these interfaces at rates limited by the IP
bandwidth of the host interfaces themselves. We are investigating
methods of increasing the IP bandwidth on these host interfaces
individually. We are also using multiple interfaces to attempt to
determine the routing capacity of the SPARC gateway.
Work is continuing on our evaluation of the x-Kernel (Peterson,
Arizona) as a possible vehicle for protocol experiments that bypass
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the current BSD implementations of TCP/IP. We have ported the ISI
"blast" program, which measures TCP and UDP performance in memory-
to-memory data transfers, to run as part of the x-Kernel.
In SunOS 4.1.3, the blast gets 35 Mbps TCP in loopback mode. The
same program in the X-Kernel measured only 3 Mbps. X-Kernel
researchers are working with ISI to determine the cause of this
performance gap. We are awaiting these results to determine whether
the SunOS user-space X-Kernel environment is suitable for our
host-based gateway design.
ATOMIC-2 HIGH PERFORMANCE SECURITY ISSUES
This month we submitted a paper to Sigcomm '95 entitled
"Performance Analysis of MD5", based on our Internet Draft (IMR
Nov. 1994). The draft is available at the usual places, including:
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-touch-md5-performance-
00.txt The submitted file is being held pending double-blind
review, until April 7. Please contact touch@isi.edu for further
information.
Results indicate that a Dec Alpha (190 Mhz) can run MD5 at 87 Mbps.
Previous reports of 100 Mbps on the Alpha relied on on-chip cache
performance, i.e., that the data was preloaded and remained in the
on-chip cache. Our measurements indicate that the following
performance of manually-optimized code:
MACHINE CLOCK MD5 RATE IPv4
--------------------------------------------------------------
Dec Alpha 190 Mhz 87 Mbps 100 Mbps (TCP)
SGI 4400 150 Mhz 51 Mbps
Intel Pentium 66 Mhz 44 Mbps
Sun 20/61 60 Mhz 38 Mbps 83 Mbps
HP PA (Snake) 66 Mhz 33 Mbps
(only some IPv4-related numbers are reported here)
We also show analysis that indicates that this performance is
within 10% of the upper-bound in software. We show a CMOS hardware
design that can achieve 175 Mbps in a multi-chip (PLD) design, and
400-600 Mbps in custom VLSI. Because these rates are lower than
current IPv4 rates, we recommend that the inclusion of MD5 as a
"required option" in IPv6 be reconsidered.
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ATOMIC-2 LAN INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
We have developed plans for the installation of a rich topology
ATOMIC LAN to replace the Ethernet in all 63 HPCC Division Sun
SPARCS. The topology uses 12 8-port switches in an overlapped 4-
ring system, such that each host has two independent paths to the
gateway, the primary path is no longer than 3 hops away, and the
secondary is no longer than 5 hops away. The topology resembles the
following (see Legend). The spur "
*---+---*
* | |
| | |
+---G---+
| | |
* | # |
*---+---*
Legend
---------------------------
G gateway switch (hub of hubs only)
# 7-host switch (spur hub)
* 6-host switch (ring hub)
+ 5-host switch (joint hub)
We have received most of the drop-cables required for this
installation, and are awaiting the trunk-cables, switches, and host
interfaces. We currently have a small network running in the lab.
Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>, Annette DeSchon <deschon@isi.edu>
Hong Xu <xu@isi.edu>, Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>
RSVP
----
At the December IETF meeting in San Jose, we set a target of an
early release of RSVP in January, 1995 and agreed on a list of
features for this release. We have released this version, RSVP
version 2.01, on January 31 containing the following additional
capabilities over the previous Multimedia '94 limited release.
(1) API Version 2
The first version of the RSVP spec defined a generic API that
opened separate channels (Unix sockets) for sender and receiver.
It was later realized that this API (known as version 1) was
awkward and unnatural. The latest RVSP spec defines a version 2
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API that uses a single channel between application and rsvpd.
Version 2.01 supports API version 2.
(2) UDP Encapsulation
To ease installation of rsvpd on any host system, this release
supports the UDP encapsulation of RSVP messages between host and
the first-hop router. It is expected that eventually all hosts
which support multicasting will also support the normal raw mode
for RSVP messages, and then UDP encapsulation will no longer be
necessary.
(3) Byte order code
This release includes a version of "little-endian" byte-order code.
(4) Data structure reorganization
The data structure was reorganized to support immediate reduction
of reservation levels and to simplify some of the algorithms.
(5) Token Bucket Filter
This version of rsvpd will invoke traffic policing, in the form of
a Token Bucket Filter (TBF), at the first hop RSVP router and at
every point where packets from multiple sources are mixed into a
single reservation. When multiple sources are mixed, the TBF that
is applied is the "max" of the Tspecs defining the sources.
(6) Merging
Whenever two flowspecs are compared, there are five possible
results: less, equal, greater, least-upper-bound (LUB), or
incompatible. The LUB case means that a third flowspec has been
constructed that is "greater" than either of the comparands. This
version of rsvpd implements all these choices in an appropriate
manner.
A major revision of the RSVP protocol specification document was
begun, to incorporate the changes agreed upon at the San Jose IETF
meeting. We hope to release the first draft of the new
specification early in February.
Steven Berson and Daniel Zappala wrote a note about a proposed
solution to the self-regenerating property of wildcard filter
reservations. This problem causes reservations to remain in place
even after all receivers have closed their reservations. This
solution would also apply to a similar problem with dynamic filter
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reservations.
Shai Herzog is writing a draft document on RSVP authorization and
integrity, and designing a prototype cost allocation module for
RSVP.
Steven Berson (berson@isi.edu), Bob Braden (braden@isi.edu)
INFRASTRUCTURE
Joyce Reynolds attended the RIPE meetings in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, January 23 - 27th. Jon Postel attended the Message
Way meeting at the University of Utah, January 22-24th. Paul
Mockapetris attended New Orleans IETF meeting January 18-23rd, and
to Washington DC to attend ARPA & IETF Secretariat meetings January
23-27th.
THE US DOMAIN
=============
US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX 517
PHONE 173
----------------------------
Total Contacts 690
DELEGATIONS 121
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 12
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 557
---------------------------
Total 690
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
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registrations in the US Domain.
To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and
subdomains you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt
from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp.
Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------------
K12.AK.US Alaska, K12 schools
STATE.CT.US Connecticut, State Gov't
STATE.FL.US Florida, State Gov't
STATE.FL.US Florida, State gov't
STATE.MA.US Massachusetts, State Government
COG.MN.US Minnesota, COG
DST.MN.US Minnesota, Districts
TEC.MO.US Missouri, Technical schools
K12.NE.US Nebraska, K12 schools
CC.NE.US Nebraska, community colleges
STATE.NE.US Nebraska, state gov't agencies
LIB.NE.US Nebraska, libraries
K12.NV.US Nevada, K12 schools
CC.NV.US Nevada, Community Colleges
TEC.NV.US Nevada, Technical Schools
GEN.NV.US Nevada, general independent entities
MUS.NV.US Nevada, museums
LIB.NV.US Nevada, libraries
COG.NV.US Nevada, councils of government
DST.NV.US Nevada, districts
COG.SC.US South Carolina, councils of government
DST.SC.US South Carolina, districts
DST.TX.US Texas, Districts
K12.VI.US Virgin Island, K12 schools
CC.VI.US Virgin Island, Community Colleges
TEC.VI.US Virgin Island, Technical Schools
LIB.VI.US Virgin Island, Libraries
STATE.VI.US Virgin Island, State, Gov't agencies
MUS.VI.US Virgin Island, Museums
GEN.VI.US Virgin Island, General Independent Entities
COG.VI.US Virgin Island, Councils of Government
DST.VI.US Virgin Island, districts
STT.VI.US Virgin Island, St. Thomas, locality
STJ.VI.US Virgin Island, St. John, locality
STX.VI.US Virgin Island, St. Croix, locality
DAVIS.CA.US Davis, CA, locality
CHESHIRE.CT.US Cheshire, Connecticut, locality
ASHLAND.MA.US Ashland, MA, locality
DOVER.MA.US Dover, MA, locality
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FRAMINGHAM.MA.US Framingham, MA, locality
HOLLISTON.MA.US Holliston, MA, locality
MEDFIELD.MA.US Medfield, MA, locality
MILLIS.MA.US Millis, MA, locality
NATICK.MA.US Natick, MA, locality
WALTHAM.MA.US Waltham, MA, locality
WAYLAND.MA.US Wayland, MA, locality
WELLESLEY.MA.US Wellesley, MA, locality
PAPILLION.NE.US Papillion, Nebraska, locality
CHURCHILL.NV.US Churchill, Nevada, locality
CLARK.NV.US Clark, Nevada, locality
DOUGLAS.NV.US Douglas, Nevada, locality
ESMERALDA.NV.US Esmeralda, Nevada, locality
EUREKA.NV.US Eureka, Nevada, locality
HUMBOLT.NV.US Humbolt, Nevada, locality
LANDER.NV.US Lander, Nevada, locality
LINCOLN.NV.US Lincoln, Nevada, locality
LYON.NV.US Lyon, Nevada, locality
MINERAL.NV.US Mineral, Nevada, locality
NYE.NV.US Nye, Nevada, locality
PERSHING.NV.US Pershing, Nevada, locality
STOREY.NV.US Storey, Nevada, locality
WHITE-PINE.NV.US White Pine, Nevada, locality
RICHMOND.OH.US Richmond, Ohio, locality
BENTON.OR.US Benton, Oregon, locality
LANE.OR.US Lane, Oregon, locality
EUGENE.OR.US Eugene, Oregon, locality
SPRINGFIELD.OR.US Springfield, Oregon, locality
ELROY.WI.US Elroy, Wisconsin
SARATOGA. NY.US Saratoga, New York, locality
ROTTERDAM. NY.US Rotterdam, New York, locality
Other Direct US Domain Delegations this month
---------------------------------------------
RGV.LIB.NM.US Rio Grande Valley Library System, NM
SACRED.SF.CA.US Schools of the Sacred Heart, SF, CA
AIDB.STATE.AL.US Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind
PUC.CI.SF.CA.US San Francisco, Public Utilities
POLARNET.FNSB.AK.US POLARNET Fairbanks North Star Bourough, AK
FOOTHILLS.CAVE-CREEK.AZ.US The Foothills Academy, AZ
ATS.WILMORE.KY.US Asbury Theology Seminary, Wilmore, KY
TEMPLE-ISRAEL.WEST-BLOOMFIELD.MI.US Temple Israel, of W. Bloomfield
VES.LYNCHBURG.VA.US Virginia Episcopal School, VA
MNCPPC.STATE.MD.US Maryland National Park & Planning
AUST.EMB.NW.DC.US Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC
HARRIER.SCOL.PA.US Nittany Valley Hash House Harriers, PA
ARMADILLO.HUNTSVILLE.AL.US Armadillo, Alabama
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ASIC.CC.AK.US Arctic Sivunmun Ilisagvik College, AK
WASP.REED-CITY.MI.US Private Individual
SBS.STONY-BROOK.NY.US Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, NY
EDC.COG.VA.US Winchester-Frederick Cty Economic Dev. Comm.
STAMFORDPL.LIB.CT.US Stamford public library, CT
RCN.RICHARDSON.TX.US Richardson Community Network,Richardson, TX
KING.BRISTOL.TN.US King College, Bristol Tenn.
EPC.CO.HILLSBOROUGH.FL.US Hillsborough County Env. Protect. Comm.
GS.SANTA-CLARA.CA.US Private Individual
USPRO.FAIRFAX.VA.US U.S.Product Data Association, VA
CI.MESA.AZ.US City of Mesa, Arizona, government
CI.CORAL-SPRINGS.FL.US City of Coral-Springs, Florida, gov't
CI.MOBILE.AL.US City of Mobile, Alabama, gov't
CI.OMAHA.NE.US City of Omaha, Nebraska, gov't
CI.SJ.CA.US City of San Jose, California, Gov't
PTI.NW.DC.US Public Technology Inc., DC
CO.ALACHUA.FL.US County of Alachua, Florida, gov't agencies
CO.CATAWBA.NC.US City of Catawba County Gov't
SRVCA.DANVILLE.CA.US San Ramon Valley Christian Academy
MDARCHIVES.STATE.MD.US Maryland State Archives
MILLIGAN.MILLIGAN-COLLEGE.TN.US Milligan College
CI.MANCHESTER.CT.US Town of Manchester, CT, gov't
BRHS.GEN.TN.US Bristol Regional Health System, TN
BRHS.GEN.VA.US Bristol Regional Health System, VA
EMORY-HENRY.emory.va.us Emory & Henry College, VA
COMPTECH.TEC.PA.US School of Computer Technology, Pitts. PA
DARKSTAR.LOWELL.MA.US Private Individual
KUWAIT-INFO.NW.DC.US Kuwait Information Office, Wash. DC
EDSI.APPLETON.WI.US Enterprise Data Systems Inc, Appleton, WI
AACU.NW.DC.US Association of American Colleges and Univ.
CADINST.PHOENIX.AZ.US CAD Institute, Phoenix, AZ
GCCC.CC.AR.US Garland County Community College, AR
CHAMBER.RICHMOND.CA.US Richmond Chamber of Commerce
ECLS.LIB.PA.US Erie County Library System, Erie, PA
CTI.KNOX.TN.US Control Technology, Inc. Knox. TN
RESULTS.ABQ.NM.US Results! Computer Consulting Co. NM
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TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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AK X 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 X
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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IA X 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
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 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 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 X X X X X X X
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
TN X
TX X X X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
UT X X X X
VA X X X X
VI X X X X X X X
VT X
-----------------------------------------------------------
WA X 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 (RA) Project and the NSFNET Backbone Service Project.
The Central Network Management System (CNMS) at the University of
Michigan ROC is now performing preliminary monitoring of the Route
Server at the Ameritech NAP, as well as the Route Servers at the
PacBell NAP and on the MAE-East Ethernet. All three Route Servers
are now running the latest version of the Discovery Rover code,
which will use a hybrid SNMPv1/v2 agent to monitor the NAPs. The
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Rover code will be modified regularly as the ROC and the RA staff
gain experience with these new technologies.
The RA Project's Route Server on the MAE-East Ethernet now has
active sessions with six BGP peers: ANS, Alternet, Interpath,
Netcom, Net99, and PIPEX.
Merit has been working with AADS to develop a routing design for
the contingency NAP's FDDI and ATM connections.
The RA team has been translating Policy Routing Database data into
a test Routing Arbiter Database (RADB) and generating test
configuration files for the Route Servers. The tool used for this
purpose, known as "peval", was developed by Andy Adams of Merit and
Cengiz Alaettinoglu of ISI. Peval is now being used by CA*net to
generate its production router configurations.
Jessica Yu of Merit has been working closely with Internet Service
Providers to collect information about their routing policies,
enter the data into the test RADB, and use the data to test RADB
policy analysis and configuration generation tools.
MichNet, BARRNET, CICNet, SURAnet, and NEARNET have completed their
transition from the NSFNET backbone service, and are obtaining
interregional Internet service from MCInet.
Ethernet interface problems caused ENSS 145 at FIX-East to go down
towards the end of the month. FIX-East is carrying more traffic
than usual as regionals move off the ANS/NSFNET backbone and
connect to alternate service providers. FIX-East provides an
interconnection between the service providers.
As of January 23, Merit has begun to use an automated filter to
check and sort incoming e-mail to nsfnet-admin@merit.edu. The
nsfnet-admin address is most commonly used for submitting Network
Announcement Change Requests, or NACRs. The filter implements the
revised NACR procedures which were publicized in Merit's messages
of Friday, January 13 to nwg@merit.edu and nanog@merit.edu.
If the filter recognizes a message as containing a NACR, it checks
it for syntactic accuracy. If syntax checks are passed, the filter
checks to make sure that the NACR's submitter is authorized for the
primary or home AS of every net contained in the NACR. If any of
the checks are failed, the NACR is bounced and never processed. If
all checks succeed, Merit is able to give the NACR quicker
handling. The process of submitting NACRs which can be
automatically checked is somewhat analogous to using ZIP+4 and bar
coding on your paper mail -- it lets us handle it more quickly and
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accurately.
During the first day the filter was in use, several bugs were found
and corrected. No NACRs were lost as a result of the bugs, though
several spurious "bounce" messages were sent. We now believe that
the filter code is quite stable.
The Merit config staff's workload has already decreased
substantially as a result of the automatic checking and sorting of
incoming NACRs. We expect that this will help us keep up with the
greatly increased number of NACRs we have been receiving as a
result of the NSFNET transition.
For the most part, NACR submitters seem to have adapted quite
easily to submitting NACRs which will be automatically pre-
processed. The two most common problems we have observed are:
- NACRs submitted from unauthorized persons or unauthorized
accounts.
It's important to note that Merit's authorization database lists
contacts by e-mail address and performs validation the same way.
In the past, when humans did the validation, they were able to
figure out that foo@ws1.bletch.com was the same as
foo@bletch.com. The filter doesn't do this -- as a result, you
must be more careful to submit NACRs from your registered e-mail
address, or to register the one you will be using.
- NACRs missing required fields.
The required fields are listed in the NACR specification
available in:
ftp://nis.nsf.net/nsfnet/announced.networks template.net.README
However, if you are submitting a change you need only list the
changed fields and if you are submitting a delete you need only
list the netnums you wish to delete from the PRDB. The action
field is always required.
Some suggestions for NACR submitters:
- Check your authorized submitters list (using "whois -h
prdb.merit.edu contact <your-AS-number>") and update it if need
be, before you have a NACR rejected for lack of authorization.
- Submit your NACRs as early as possible.
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- If possible, when a NACR is bounced, fix the problem and resubmit
it so that it can be automatically parsed, instead of using the
"dont- parse" flag. If you do this, your NACR will be spooled
with the "good NACRs," which are given priority handling.
- Don't "quote" NACRs with characters down the left side of the
message, unless you want to hide them from the filter. If you
send in a quoted NACR, it will not be given priority handling.
- When a network changes service providers, either a representative
of the network's Home AS or a representative of the OLD service
provider typically must submit the NACR for the change. This
might be accomplished by the new service provider filling out a
NACR and sending it to one of the above for forwarding to
nsfnet-admin. (But note the warning about "quote" characters in
NACRs.)
Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu)
NORTHWESTNET
------------
The NorthWestNet User Services Committee met via teleconference on
January 19th. The topic of the conversation was "The Help Desk."
The session was moderated by Vicki Pengelly, Information Systems
Specialist at the University of Montana. Attendees represented a
broad range of organizations including higher ed, business, health
care, public libraries, and regional networks. Despite this
diversity, there was no problem among the participants in relating
to the frustrations and challenges posed by offering a help desk
service. Issues compared and discussed included support lists
(products that fall within the scope of the Help Desk), non-support
lists (items that are specifically *not* supported), hours of
service, staffing, staff education and professional development,
referral processes, problem tracking, marketing or awareness
building for the service, transitional challenges (mainframe to
desktop systems; stand-alone computers to Internet-connected
computers; "esoteric" applications to the "every day"
applications), dispersed vs. centralized services, and techniques
to get the users to access non-human support resources such as
manuals and online databases. The meeting succeeded in highlighting
the major issues associated with development and management of a
Help Desk service.
NorthWestNet's in-house training program proceeded on schedule this
month. For more information on NorthWestNet services and products:
Gopher://gopher.nwnet.net:3333
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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.
UCL
----
We have written a unix decoder for the recently announced
experiemntal PC Video conferencing tool from FTP software. We may
integrate this with NV or Vic depending on the takeup for the PC
end. We can operate the receiver as multicast, or using the CuSeeMe
style requestor (Can I See Request) approach.
We have done quite a bit of work on a Photo-server from INRIA,
applying the ideas of Application Layer Framing and Integrated
Layer Processing - the speedup is immense, but this is not really
the interesting result so much as the set of implementation tricks
(aka techniques). A paper on this has been submitted to the IFIP
conference on High Speed Protocols.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
--------
Last update 2/6/95
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 1995.
- New Dates for ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, 1995 NOW
Dec. 11-15, 1995
************************************************************************
1995
---------
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. 5-9 IEEE COMPCON '95 San Francisco, 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. 20-21 6th MD Wkshp on Very High Speed
Networks Baltimore, MD
Mar. 26-29 7th IEEE Wkshp on Local and
Metro Area Netwks Marathon, FL
Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV
Mar. 28-31 Seybold Seminars Boston, MA
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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 1-5 Fourth IFIP/IEEE Intl Symp.
on Integrated Ntwk Mgt ISINM95 Santa Barbara, CA
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. 20-22 2nd Intntl Wkshp on Community
Netwkg multimedia to the home Princeton, NJ
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
Jul. 13-14 1st Intntl Wkshp on Intellig.
& Multimodality in Multimedia
Interface Edinburgh, Scotland
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. 1-4 4th IEEE Symp. on High Perform.
Distributed Computing (HPDC-4) Pentagon City, VA
Aug. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA
Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area
Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area
Aug. 19-21 14th Intntl Conf. on AI
(IJCAI-95) Montreal, CA
Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA
Aug. 30-Sep. 1 ACM SIGCOMM '95 Cambridge, MA
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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. 20-23 4th Intntl Conf. Computer
Commun. & Networks (IC3N'95) Las Vegas, NV
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. 15-18 20th Conf. on Local Computer
Netwks (sponsored by IEEE) Minneapolis, MN
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 (Firm) 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. 4-8 X/Open Security
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)
Apr. 8-13 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA
Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA
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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
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Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and
Budapest, Hungary
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Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories
Via gopher: "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings /
Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
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Subject: TERENA Calendar - February'95
Ref. TSec(95)001 February 1995
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 February Amsterdam
TERENA General Assembly
-----------------------
GA3
18/19 May Tel Aviv
TERENA Technical Committee
--------------------------
7 February Amsterdam
TERENA Working Groups
---------------------
European MIME Week
(TERENA/EEMA/DANTE)
6-9 March Amsterdam
RIPE
----
8-10 May Rome
April/May 1996 Berlin
VARIOUS
=======
DANTE Shareholders
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3 February Amsterdam
European Commission
Workshop
-------------------
16 February Brussels
ECCO
(Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations)
26 April Paris
EMC
(Ebone Management Committee)
21 March Amsterdam
EOT
(Ebone Operations Team)
10 March Prague
CCIRN
-----
TBD TBD
IETF
----
3-7 April Danvers, Massachusetts
17-21 July Stockholm, Sweden
4-8 December Dallas Texas, USA
ECTUA/INTUG
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8-9 February London
EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
28/2-1/3 Brussels
16/17 May Brussels
19/20 September Brussels
12/13 December Brussels
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Steering Committee
14 March Brussels
6 June Brussels
26 September Brussels
19 December Brussels
ETSI
----
General Assembly
30/31 March Nice, France
5/6 December Nice, France
Technical Assembly
27-29 March Nice, France
7-9 November Nice, France
CONFERENCES
*******************************************************************
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>.
JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference
13-16 May 1996 in Budapest, Hungary
*******************************************************************
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
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Email: server@terena.nl
Gopher: gopher.terena.nl
World Wide Web: http:/www.terena.nl/
IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING
-----------------------------------------
from 5-11 February
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
---------------------------------
from 6-8 February
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
for registration and info, email <spie@spie.org>
DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION: ALGORITHMS & TECHNOLOGIES
----------------------------------------------------
from 7-10 February
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
for registration and info, email <spie@spie.org>
TEDIS - EDITT / EDI TRUSTED THIRD PARTIES WORKSHOP
--------------------------------------------------
from 8-10 February
(tutorials on 7 February)
University Polytechnics Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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>
EEMA
Integrating the Air Transport Industry through Messaging
--------------------------------------------------------
14-16 February
Cavalieri Hilton, Rome, Italy
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registration and info., <eemaoffice@attmail.com>
tel: +44 386 793 028. fax: +44 386 793 268
INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEM SECURITY
-----------------------------------------------------
16-17 February
Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California USA
Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 1994.
For further information, email David Balenson
<balenson@tis.com>
CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
(fwd. from Edupage/Educom)
-----------------------------------------------
25-26 February, Brussels
for information contact: gopher.ntia.doc.gov, or
www.ntia.doc.gov, or ftp.ntia.doc.gov
JANET WORKSHOP 23
-----------------
from 28-30 March
at the University of Leicester in England
Deadline for proposals 13 January
Deadline for abstracts + authors' biography 17 February.
Email <N.Shield@ukerna.ac.uk>
FIRST AUSTRALIAN WWW CONFERENCE / AusWeb95
------------------------------------------
from 29 April - 2 May
Ballina Beach Resort, Ballina, Far North Coast of
New South Wales, Australia
Abstracts for full papers due on 23 January
Registration http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/
For further information, email <AusWeb95@scu.edu.au>
THIRD ANNUAL RURAL DATAFICATION CONFERENCE
------------------------------------------
22-24 May
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
(supported by a grant from the National Science
Foundation)
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Deadline for submission of papers is 15 January .
Submit to <ruraldata-submit@cic.net>
1995 INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK
TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
-----------------------------------------
18-24 June
Manoa Campus, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Apply preferably before 15 January .
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.
INET 95
-------
28-30 June
in Honolulu, Hawaii
Extended abstracts for papers to be submitted by
13 January to <inet-submission@interop.com>
Programme Committee <inet-program@interop.com>
Internet Society Secretariat <inet95@isoc.org>
95 FIRST Conference/Workshop
----------------------------
The Forum of Incident Handling and Security Teams (FIRST)
will hold its annual conference from:
18-22 September
University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstracts due by 1 April
For info. contact Christoph Fischer <fischer@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
tel: +49 721 37 64 22 fax: +49 721 32 550
1995 IFIP International Working Conference
on User Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications (ULPAA)
---------------------------------------------------------------
11-15 December
in Sydney, Australia
Deadline for submission of papers by 15 May
For further info-> http:/www.ee.uts.edu.au/ifip/ULPAA95.html
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INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996
-----------------------------------------------------------
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.
==================
updated 31.01.1995
==================
==========================
Madeleine Oberholzer
TERENA Secretary
Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association
TERENA - Established by merger of RARE and EARN
TERENA Secretariat
Singel 466 - 468
NL - 1017 AW AMSTERDAM
Voice : + 31 20 639 11 31
Fax : + 31 20 639 32 89
Email : secretariat@terena.nl - for general matters
bookkeeping@terena.nl - for financial matters
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