Internet Monthly Report - September 1995
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INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
APRICOT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
MERIT/INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
USER SERVICES REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
INET 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
21st RIPE Meeting and JENC6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33
TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37
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INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp
access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB
World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/.
Brian Carpenter IAB Chair
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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1. Let me remind everyone that the next IETF meeting will be in
Dallas, Texas from December 4-8, 1995, with the Newcomers'
Orientation and Registration Reception being held on Sunday,
December 3. The Dallas IETF meeting is being hosted by MCI.
Logistic information has been posted to the IETF Announcement
list, and is available on the IETF Web Page. The IETF meeting
fee for the Dallas meeting will be $200.
Following Dallas, the IETF will be meeting in Los Angeles,
California from March 4-8, 1996. There will not be a local host
for this meeting, but the terminal room facilities will be
provided by Interop. Following Los Angeles, the IETF will be
meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. If
this date looks familiar, that's because it is the same date as
INET '96! Both groups will be meeting separately in the Montreal
Convention Center.
Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be
sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information
on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file
0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories.
This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on
the Web. The URL is:
http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly
available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files
are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory.
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The following IESG minutes have been added:
August 31, 1995 (iesg.95-08-31)
September 14, 1995 (iesg.95-09-14)
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following nine Protocol
Actions during the month of September, 1995:
o Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification be
published as a Proposed Standard.
o A BGP/IDRP Route Server alternative to a full mesh routing
be published as an Experimental Protocol.
o DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 be published as a
Proposed Standard.
o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture be published as a
Proposed Standard.
o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) be published as a Proposed
Standard.
o Netiquette Guidelines be published as an Informational RFC.
o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining be published
as a Proposed Standard.
o An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation be
published as an Informational RFC.
o Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 be published as a Proposed
Standard.
4. The IESG issued three Last Calls to the IETF during the month
of September, 1995:
o RIP-II Cryptographic Authentication
<draft-ietf-ripv2-md5-01> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o finger URL Specification <draft-ietf-uri-url-finger-03> for
consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o Mailserver URL Specification
<draft-ietf-uri-url-mailserver-02> for consideration as a
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Proposed Standard.
5. One Working Group was created during this period:
Entity MIB (entmib)
6. A total of 67 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of September, 1995:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Node in Fibre
Channel Standard using SMIv2
<draft-chu-fibre-channel-mib-04.txt>
(notary) o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status
Notifications <draft-ietf-notary-smtp-drpt-06.txt>
(notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status
notifications
<draft-ietf-notary-mime-delivery-07.txt>
(ipatm) o IP over ATM: A Framework Document
<draft-ietf-ipatm-framework-doc-05.txt, .ps>
(cat) o The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism
<draft-ietf-cat-kerb5gss-03.txt>
(idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM):
Protocol Specification
<draft-ietf-idmr-pim-spec-02.txt, .ps>
(mobileip) o IP Mobility Support
<draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-12.txt>
(notary) o The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting
of Mail System Administrative Messages
<draft-ietf-notary-mime-report-06.txt>
(none) o IP over HIPPI <draft-renwick-hippiip-01.txt>
(none) o ARP over HIPPI <draft-renwick-hippiarp-01.txt>
(none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the HIPPI
Interface Type <draft-renwick-hippimib-01.txt>
(ipatm) o Support for Multicast over UNI 3.1 based ATM
Networks. <draft-ietf-ipatm-ipmc-07.txt>
(snmpv2) o Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-conf-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-tc-ds-04.txt>
(snmpv2) o Structure of Management Information for Version 2
of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-smi-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o Introduction to Version 2 of the Internet-standard
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Network Management Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-intro-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-proto-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the User
Datagram Protocol <draft-ietf-snmpv2-udp-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-tm-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the
Internet-standard Network Management Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-coex-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Internet
Protocol <draft-ietf-snmpv2-ip-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the
Transmission Control Protocol
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-tcp-ds-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o Management Information Base for Version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-mib-ds-03.txt>
(ripv2) o RIP-II Cryptographic Authentication
<draft-ietf-ripv2-md5-01.txt>
(dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
<draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-03.txt>
(none) + IMAP4 Internationalized Mailboxes
<draft-myers-imap-mbox-00.txt>
(none) o The Wide-Reply-To: header
<draft-myers-822-widereply-01.txt>
(ipsec) o The Photuris Session Key Management Protocol
<draft-ietf-ipsec-photuris-03.txt>
(none) o Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview
<draft-katsube-router-atm-overview-01.txt>
(http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
<draft-ietf-http-v10-spec-03.txt, .ps>
(iab) + IPv6 Address Allocation Management
<draft-iab-iesg-ipv6-address-alloc-00.txt>
(asid) o An LDAP URL Format
<draft-ietf-asid-ldap-format-01.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM
Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm2-03.txt>
(dhc) o DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions
<draft-ietf-dhc-options-1533update-01.txt>
(html) o Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0
<draft-ietf-html-spec-06.txt>
(vgmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12
Interfaces <draft-ietf-vgmib-interfaces-mib-01.txt>
(mixer) o Equivalences between X.400 and RFC-822 Message
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Bodies <draft-ietf-mixer-bodymap-02.txt>
(cidrd) o Address Allocation for Private Internets
<draft-ietf-cidrd-private-addr-03.txt>
(asid) o Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and a Object
Class to Hold public PGP keys.
<draft-ietf-asid-pgp-01.txt>
(html) o Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup
Language <draft-ietf-html-i18n-01.txt>
(iab) o Renumbering considered unavoidable
<draft-iab-renum-01.txt>
(none) o Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
<draft-zhu-apng-cc-encoding-v2-01.txt>
(none) o Proposed HTTP State-Info Mechanism
<draft-kristol-http-state-info-01.txt, .ps>
(idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2
<draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-v2-01.txt>
(ipatm) + Classical IP and ARP over ATM Update (Part Deux)
<draft-ietf-ipatm-classic2-00.txt>
(none) + Simple Authentication and Session Layer
<draft-myers-auth-sasl-00.txt>
(ipngwg) + A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over
Token Ring Networks
<draft-ietf-ipngwg-token-ring-00.txt>
(idmr) + Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM):
Protocol Specification
<draft-ietf-idmr-pim-sm-spec-00.txt, .ps>
(poised95) + The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3
<draft-ietf-poised95-std-proc-3-00.txt>
(poised95) + IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall
Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall
Committees <draft-ietf-poised95-nomcom-00.txt>
(none) + Administrative Model for Version 1.5 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv1.5)
<draft-various-snmpv2-adminv1.5-syn-00.txt>
(none) + Administrative MIB for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-various-snmpv2-adminmib-syn-00.txt>
(none) + Administrative Model for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-various-snmpv2-adminv2-syn-00.txt>
(none) + User-Based Symmetric Security Protocols for Version
2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-various-snmpv2-sec-syn-00.txt>
(none) + Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
<draft-various-snmpv2-proto-syn-00.txt>
(grip) + Framework for Security Incident Response
<draft-ietf-grip-framework-irt-00.txt>
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(mimesgml) + Using Catalogs and MIME to Exchange SGML Documents
<draft-ietf-mimesgml-exch-00.txt, .ps>
(rolc) + Address Prefix Region and its application to
Switched Data Link Subnetworks
<draft-ietf-rolc-apr-00.txt>
(none) + UNINETT PCA Policy Statements
<draft-uninett-pca-policy-00.txt>
(none) + MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
<draft-elkins-pem-pgp-00.txt>
(ipsec) + Photuris Extended Attributes
<draft-ietf-ipsec-photuris-attrib-00.txt>
(pppext) + PPP Deflate Protocol
<draft-ietf-pppext-deflate-00.txt>
(ids) + Building a Directory Service in the US
<draft-ietf-ids-jennings-00.txt, .ps>
(ipsec) o Simple Key-Management For Internet Protocols (SKIP)
<draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-02.txt>
(none) + Variable Length Subnet Table For IPv4
<draft-rfced-info-varilength-table-00.txt>
(none) + Security Considerations for IP Fragment Filtering
<draft-rfced-info-ip-frag-sec-00.txt>
(none) + Simple Network Paging Protocol - Version 3 - Two-Way
Enhanced <draft-rfced-info-snpp-v3-00.txt>
7. There was one RFC published during the month of September, 1995:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1841 I (none) PPP Network Control Protocol for LAN
Extension
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------
APRICOT
=======
CALL FOR PARTICPATION
In The First
- - - - - - -
A P R I C O T
- - - - - - -
ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL
INTERNET
CONFERENCE ON
OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
http://www.apricot.net/apricot/
Jan 17-22 '96, Singapore
Sponsored In Part By:
* The Commercial Internet Exchange ( http://www.cix.org/ )
* & Others T.B.A. shortly
SUMMARY:
APRICOT is a forum for the exchange of technical know-how for In-
ternet Service Providers and Network Operators
OVERVIEW:
The rapid growth of the Internet has brought many newcomers into
positions of critical operational responsibility. They are ex-
pected to be experts in the design, configuration, operation and
maintenance of routers, terminal servers, WWW & UNIX servers, and
a myriad of specific hardware/software systems. They must operate
network management centers, customer support lines, and handle
security incidents. They must liase with network registries, com-
munications carriers, and their colleague operators. They must
perform these duties efficiently even as their networks grow in-
creasingly large and complex. Yet, the resources for learning the
skills necessary to perform these tasks successfully are sparse
and rarely provide specific information and examples.
To address this critical need, the ASIA PACIFIC NETWORK INFORMA-
TION (APNIC) has initiated the ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL INTERNET
CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY (APRICOT).
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APRICOT consists of seminars, conference sessions, and forums all
with the goal of spreading and sharing the specific technical in-
formation required to operate the increasingly complex Asia Pa-
cific Internet topologies.
APRICOT will be held immediately preceding the APNIC general
meeting and the Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) meetings
which includes the commercial sub-group and the internationaliza-
tion and localization subgroup meetings.
VENUE: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre (RELC), Singapore
SCHEDULE:
* Jan 17 Tutorials from invited speakers.
* Jan 18 Conference
* Jan 19 Morning: Conference Afternoon: Forum
* Jan 20 APNG-commercial
* Jan 21 APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Center meeting
* Jan 22 APNG Asia Pacific Networking Group general meeting
(being organized separately)
APRICOT TOPICS:
* IP and ASN Addressing issues & techniques
* Exterior and Interior Gateway Protocols and Interexchanges
* Telco DDN Systems
* Domain Name Server
* Usenet News
* WWW, FTP, Shell, & Email Servers
* Server and Network Security
* Billing & Accounting Systems
INVITED SPEAKERS FOR TUTORIALS
The APRICOT organizing committee is inviting world-recognized ex-
perts to lecture on the above topics.
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Presentations on the above or related topics are solicited
from from the Internet operations community.
Presentations should present your experiences with the above is-
sues and share solutions to them.
VENDOR EXHIBITS
Space for up to 10 Vendor booths will be available.
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ATTENDEE REGISTRATION: USD175
CLOSE DATES FOR PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS: To Be Announced
ORGANIZERS, CONTRIBUTORS
* APNIC
* Cogwheel Internet Technolgy Consulting
* Singapore Computer Society
* Internet R&D Unit, ComCen, National University of Singapore
* SingNet
* Internet Association of Japan
* National Computer Board, Singapore
SPONSORS
* Commercial Internet Exchange ( http://www.cix.org/ )
* Others T.B.A. shortly.
INFORMATION / PRE-REGISTRATION
Browse the following WWW URL to join the apricot information email
list. We will send you more detail shortly.
http://www.apricot.net/apricot/register.html/
SUBMISSIONS / SPONSORSHIPS
Send email to: apricot-oc@apricot.net
Bob Coggeshall <coggs@HongKong.Cogwheel.COM>
INTERNIC
--------
REGISTRATION SERVICES
I. Significant Events
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 5,648 network
addresses and registered over 22,676 domains. There was one top-
level country domains registered during September: Vatican City
State.
As of September 14, 1995 the InterNIC Registry has initiated
charging for domains within the categories of COM, NET, ORG, GOV,
and EDU. Policies and Procedures have been implemented and are
currently available via anonymous FTP to rs.internic.net, and our
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webb site which is http://rs.internic.net.
During the month of September, domain requests continue to average
between 1,000 - 1,500+ for new submissions per day. Adjustments
continue to be made in domain programs/processing. Additional,
staffing is being acquired to accommodate the growth in
registration requests. At the close of September 1995, the domain
processing queue had decreased from 7,000+ to 5,000+ new domain
registrations.
II. Current Status
During the month of September 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 41,935 (hostmaster@internic.net)
Postal/Fax 225 (primarily IP number requests)
Phone 10,568
The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
of information retrieval requests during the month of September.
Connections Retrievals
Gopher 45,383 33,907
WAIS 91,811 64,158
FTP 52,365 146,628
Mailserv 3,330
Telnet 78,500
Http 512,328
In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:
Client Server
472,855 3,537,058
Debbie Fuller <Debbief@internic.net>
INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
The transition of the net-happenings and Scout Report mailing
lists to Registration Services was completed in early September.
All current subscribers of the lists should have been moved
automatically.
We have completed a review of the X.500 entries that we maintain
for other organizations. In some cases, our contacts at those
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organizations have disappeared or become inaccessible. If we
cannot find a contact, we will have to remove the organizations
from our directory.
In September, information about the InterNIC home pages was
included in material given to members of Congress by the Library
of Congress. The InterNIC was also listed as a prominent site in
Eye Magic Media's "Home Page Builder (TM)" and was highlighted the
Business Broadcast on network radio.
A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find
a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and
we will send information about listing your resource in the
Directory of Directories. If you prefer, you can enter
information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The
form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page
at:
http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html
Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net>
US DOMAIN REGISTRY
==================
The US Domain is only registering domain names providing two
nameservers. We will longer register direct registrations in the
form of non-IP hosts, (i.e, UUCP connections requiring MX records),
or IP hosts requiring A records). The only A record we will add to
our zone file is a glue record for a delegation.
Please contact a local service provider to provide your primary and
or secondary name service.
For further information about the US Domain, send a message to:
US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page:
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/usdnr
US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX 920
PHONE 545
----------------------------
Total Contacts 1465
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DELEGATIONS 81
FORWARDED DELEGATIONS: 69
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 20
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1295
---------------------------
Total 1465
OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: referrals to other subdomains or
to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application
requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name
servers, and whois listings.
To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and
subdomains not administered by the US Domain Registrar, get the
file "us-domain-delegated.txt" below.
URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt
URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/usdnr/
MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG
===================================================================
49 34 32 47 34 22 21 8 1
===================================================================
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THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS
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STATE.WA.US State, Washington
CC.MT.US Community College, Montana
K12.MT.US K12 Schools, Montana
TEC.MT.US Technical Schools, Montana
LOCALITIES
==========
FLAGSTAFF.AZ.US ROSWELL.GA.US
ALPHARETTA.GA.US CARLISLE.IA.US
NORWALK.IA.US JACKSON.MN.US
CARMEL.CA.US LEMON-VALLEY.NV.US
GREENVILLE.MI.US INDIANAPOLIS.IN.US
VAIL.CO.US CHAMPLAIN.NY.US
PLATTSBURGH.NY.US KEESEVILLE.NY.US
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FRUIT-HEIGHTS.UT.US FENTON.MO.US
ST-GEORGE.UT.US WORCESTER.MA.US
CHILTON.AL.US CLANTON.AL.US
GREAT-FALLS.MT.US CRIPPLE-CREEK.CO.US
TACOMA.WA.US NAPERVILLE.IL.US
WESTMONT.IL.US PUYALLUP.WA.US
MARIOSA.CA.US HAINES.AK.US
OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH
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KO.PVT.K12.CT.US HEALTH.CO.SCHENECTADY.NY.US
PD.CI.IRVINE.CA.US CI.KIRKLAND.WA.US
DOVER.LIB.NH.US CI.GREENWOOD.IN.US
CPS.ALTADENA.CA.US CI.DOVER.NH.US
PMC.GRAND-RAPIDS.MI.US SOUTHERN.TEC.OK.US
PTC.TEC.AR.US PALOS-VERDES.LIB.CA.US
CI.LIVERMORE.CA.US NCMC.CO.NASSAU.NY.US
KNOXNET.KNOX.OH.US CI.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US
FLANDERS.EAST-LYME.K12.CA.US KENT.K12.CT.US
ALA.NE.DC.US CROWHURST.BANKS.OR.US
HD.CO.MACOMB.MI.US NPL.LIB.VA.US
CHERRY-HILL.LIB.NJ.US CENTRAL.RUTHERFORD.K12.TN.US
CHEATHAM-HS.CHEATHAM.K12.TN.US DICKSON-HS.DICKSON.K12.TN.US
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MERIT/INTERNET ENGINEERING
--------------------------
This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet
Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and
other projects.
Routing Arbiter services are now fully in production at the
Ameritech Advanced Data Services (AADS), Washington, D.C. (MAE-
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East), and Sprint NAPs. At each of these interconnection points,
the RA's Route Servers-- Sun SPARC 20 workstations running a
customized version of the GateD routing software--provide scalable,
optimized routing services for the Internet community. The RA also
provides the Routing Arbiter Database, in which networks and
providers enter data directly in order to publish:
--The set of routes originated by an Autonomous System (AS)
--The routing policies the AS implements towards other ASs,
i.e., the routes it announces to and accepts from its
neighbor ASs
Routing policy in the Routing Arbiter Database is used to configure
the Route Servers at the interconnection points, and can be used by
an AS to configure its routers. For more information about these
services, see:
http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA
The RA service is now peering with the vBNS at all four NAPs:
AADS, Washington, D.C., Sprint, and PacBell. As two components of
the new NSFNET architecture, the RA and vBNS project teams are
working together to define how the RA service can support the vBNS.
Other new peering sessions with the Route Servers were also
established in September by WIS.COM at the Washington, D.C. and
Sprint NAPs. A complete list of BGP peering sessions is available
from:
http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/.bgp.peers.html
Several useful new tools are now available from the Routing Arbiter
Project. They are:
IRRWeb
A graphical interface into the Internet Routing Registry, IRRWeb
makes it possible to use the Web to query the IRR and update RADB
AS objects, Route objects, and Maintainer objects. Users can enter
any value that can be submitted through a whois query, such as an
AS number, network IP address, or maintainer. IRRWeb then displays
the corresponding AS objects, Route objects, or Maintainer objects
from the various registries in the IRR. Authorized maintainers can
edit the objects directly; IRRWeb performs a cursory pre-check and
mails the revised object to auto-dbm@ra.net, the automated RADB e-
mail interface. The user then receives e-mail from auto-dbm
displaying the revised object, or explaining why the object was
rejected. To use IRRWeb, see:
http://www.ra.net/cgi-bin/ra/query-radb.pl
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ROUTE FLAP REPORTING MECHANISM
This new tool set generates daily reports of route flaps (link
failures at regular and short intervals) throughout the Internet.
Modeled after the reports originally produced by Curtis Villamizar
of ANS, the new mechanism generates reports using tools provided in
Merit's Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit. The data is obtained from
peering sessions with Route Servers at the interconnection points.
The reports note the last state of the route (up or down), the
length of time that a route existed (or did not exist) for that
prefix, and the number of times a route for the prefix transitioned
from down to up, up to down, or was replaced by a new route with
changed attribute information. AS-path-specific information is
also provided for every path announced for the prefix. To view
today's route flap reports, see:
http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/RADB.tools.docs/flap.html
PGP-BASED RADB AUTHENTICATION
Follow these steps to take advantage of the new RADB support for
PGP-based digital signatures:
1. Register your public key with the Routing Arbiter Service.
2. Modify your Maintainer object to reflect your use of digital
signatures.
3. Use PGP to sign your RADB transactions.
For detailed instructions, see:
http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/RADB.tools.docs/pgp.html
Finally, the RA project has defined a "Routing Arbiter Database
Service Agreement" that outlines the general operational policy
followed by the Routing Arbiter in providing the RADB service, and
provides guidelines for users of the RADB. It is available from:
http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/radbserv.html
Cornell University and Merit are pleased to announce that the
GateDaemon Project and GateD Consortium have moved to Merit. The
GateD routing software, which is used worldwide, supports multiple
IP and ISO network routing protocols. GateD also provides a
platform for prototyping and distributing new routing protocols and
features, such as policy-based route filtering. Membership in the
GateD Consortium is open to all organizations. Members participate
in discussions of new GateD features, receive briefings about new
capabilities, and have opportunities to work closely with the GateD
developers. Sue Hares is leading Merit's GateD effort. For more
information, see:
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http://www.merit.edu/~gated
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center hosted the fifth North
American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Pittsburgh on
September 11- 12. Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has
kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the
meeting. They are available through Merit's Web site,
http://www.merit.edu/NANOG/NANOG.html. Bill Norton of Merit
moderated the meeting, which featured the following presentations:
--RA Project Update (Elise Gerich, Merit)
--New Routing Tools for the Internet (Craig Labovitz, Merit)
--Updates from the Interconnection Points
--AADS NAP (Mark Knopper, AADS)
--PacBell NAP (Kent England, Six Sigma Networks)
--Washington, D.C. NAP (Steve Feldman, MFS Datanet)
--MAE-West (Steve Feldman)
--Top-Level Domains: the InterNIC Solution (Mark Kosters, InterNIC;
Dave Graves, Network Solutions/SAIC)
--Top-Level Domains: Community Views and Discussion (Milo Medin,
@Home, Moderator)
--Nimrod Routing:How Can We Meet Your Needs? (Michael Patton, BBN)
--Experience With Route-Flap Dampening (Sean Doran, Sprint)
--IP Address Ownership Discussion (Milo Medin, Moderator)
--Proxy Aggregation: Community Views and Discussion (Stan Barber,
Academ Computing Services, Moderator; Curtis Villamizer, ANS;
Sean Doran, Sprint)
--CA*net ATM Backbone Transition (Guy Middleton, UUNET Canada)
--RADIUS: Distributed Authentication for MichNet (John Vollbrecht,
Merit)
--GateD Consortium Announcement (Martyne Hallgren, Cornell
University; Sue Hares, Merit)
--MBone-Appropriate Technology (MBAT) (Matt Matthis, Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center)
Laurent Joncheray's paper, titled "A Simple Active Attack Against
TCP," originally presented at the 5th USENIX UNIX Security
Symposium in Salt Lake City, was selected for the "Highlights from
the 5th USENIX UNIX Security Symposium" session at the LISA'95
Systems Administration Conference. LISA'95 was sponsored by USENIX
and SAGE, the System Administrators Guild. Elise Gerich attended a
meeting of the Telecommunications Task Force/Ministry of Science
and Technology Policy of the Russian Federation in Moscow, as well
as a NATO Advanced Networking Workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu)
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UCL
----
Observed performance on the UK-US link is severely degraded.
Speculation is that this is due to
a) large numbers of very short lived TCP connections (e.g. HTTP
usage of TCP from WWW accesses).
b) so many simultaneous connections at any time, that the average
bottleneck capacity available to each would at best be less than
one MTU (MSS) per RTT.
Desperate measures have been dreamt up, but it may prove less
expesive to upgrade the US-UK link sooner, than to field new
versions of TCP, new router congestion control schemes, and RSVP
for WWW and Email.
A succesful demonstration was carried out from Telecom95 with IP
Mbone access over international ATM again being used to provide
conferencing, including a link up to a demonstration that
coincidently was being carried out at BT Labs.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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USER SERVICES REPORT
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Trip Report
INET95 - Honolulu, Hawaii
June 1995
Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute
The Internet Society's INET 95 was held in June 1995, in Honolulu,
Hawaii, with approximately 2000 attendees. Joyce K. Reynolds was
the User co-track leader of INET95, along with Shigeki Goto, NTT
Software Laboratory, Japan. Joyce and Goto-san worked with Kilnam
Chon, Dan Lynch and the rest of the invited program committee members
to produce the agenda and proceedings for the conference.
The INET95 User Track had six sessions:
- Innovative Designs for Users
- Museum
- Public Health and Medicine
- Enterprise Networking
- Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (panel)
- Community Networking
For further information on the User Track presentations, invited
papers, presenters and panelists, please see:
http://info.isoc.org/HMP/proc1.html
For additional information on the INET95 conference proceedings in
general, please see: http://info.isoc.org/in95prc
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Trip Report
21st RIPE Meeting - Rome, Italy
and
JENC6 - Tel Aviv, Israel
May 1995
Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute
The 21st RIPE Meeting
The 21st RIPE Meeting was held in May 1995 in Rome, Italy
Approximately 150 people attended. Rob Blokzijl opended the meetings
and requested input on additions/changes to the meeting agenda.
Minutes of the last meeting were approvaed.
RIPE NCC Report - Daniel Karrenberg
Daniel noted that the slides provided at this meeting are very
similar to the last meeting three months ago. He provided updates to
them, which included the DNS hostcount, and the number of local
registries. The are 192 local registries as of May 4th. This number
is not quite doubling every nine months. The registry function is
recording 52 submissions per working day (32 at the last meeting in
January). He mentioned that the RIPE NCC staff does not have enough
time to support the local Internet Registries (IRs). The NCC mailbox
is receiving 66 messages per working day (41 msgs at the last
meeting). Most are routine messages. More than 50% of the NCC's
tasks are routine duties. A billing mechanism for the registry
database is continuing. A structure billing procedure/routing
operation is in place.
Staff burnout continues. Roderik Muit is a full FTE. Halice Kuey
has been hired as a Junior Hostmaster, and will start in June.
Daniel stated that 6 FTEs are not enough. The Routing Registry and
PRIDE tools maintenance should consume on additional FTE. The NCC is
still catching up. The situation is improving, but very slowly.
Goals for the RIPE NCC in the next few months include:
- Streamline registry activities - ticketing started, automation.
- Prepare to resume reporting - automatic statistics gathering,
simplify report formatting.
- Registry Training Project - An outline course has been produced.
A course being developed. Routing registry maintenance and an
activity plan has been completed, but little is happening, so far.
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- Charging model for 1996
- Worldwide Registry coordination and improvements. RFC1466bis is
more difficult than expected.
- Plan for the coming period for training and support for new
registries.
- Routing Registry Maintenance - start to execute plan
Additional goals:
- Restart Quarterly Report
- IPv6 working group start up with RIPE
- Hire new staff
- Train new staff
- Use temporary external help as much as possible
- The NCC is still in catch up mode
- Load still increasing
- No new projects!
- Still under the umbrella of TERENA, investigations
are continuing on the possibilities ofmoving out as
a separate functioning entity
IPv6 -BOF - Daniel Karrenberg
The IETF is working on IPv6 and RIPE may be interested in forming a
working group to liase. This BOF is being held to investigate RIPE
participants' interest in this topic. Geert-Jan reported on what
IPv6 implementations he found that are running in Europe. Francis
Dupuy has been testing in France. The first plan is to have routers,
but there are also many concerns about routing. Also, the problem is
more serious than people imagine.
Daniel stated that there are two platforms the RIPE community could
test via the RIPE NCC. PCs or Sparc1s. Suns were chosen first. The
RIPE NCC will start address assignments. They have asked the IANA
and IAB in informal talks if this is a good idea. The answer was
yes. The RIPE NCC will start doing this, and putting the information
into the database.
Daniel then asked if there was any other business or remarks? Do we
need to form a working group? Who will chair? One comment was that
it is very important for the RIPE community to provide feedback of
the European view to the IETF community. Geert-Jan mentioned that
there are major flaws in IPv6, but there is a need to start
implementing it and share experiences. It was decided to establish a
working group. The chair named to head up this working group is
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Klaus Landefeld. To subscribe to IPv6 working group email list, send
a message to majordomo@ripe.net. "help" tells you how to subscribe.
Internet World's Fair Exposition - Carl Malamud
Carl Malamud presented a talk on the Internet World's Fair
Exposition.
Intent of the World's Fair:
1) Educate/Entertain
2) Challenge Engineers
3) Validate Industry
Duration - All of 1996, with 100 countries participating. There will
be four aspects to the fair: pavilions, geographic, corporate
sponsors, and institutions.
1) Pavilions - global schoolhouse, future of media, small business,
Internet Town Hall, Toasternet. Anyone can open a pavilion.
2) Geographic - US, Japan, Thailand, Netherlands, UK. Organizing
committees include Hearst, Nissan, Sony.
3) Corporate Sponsors - NBC, Quantum, MCI, SSDS, etc.
4) Institutions - Smithsonian, National Press Club, Kennedy Center,
and Peter Gabriel/WOMAD.
An Internet Railroad will be set up with a "T3 Around the World", G7
summit applications, and government support. The technical alliance
for this includes WIDE, MIT, NASA-Ames, Imperial College, etc.
For further information: http://town.hall.org
NSFnet: Post Mortem and the New World - Elise Gerich
Elise provided a brief report on the shutdown of the NSFnet backbone.
IETF and User Services Area Report - Joyce K. Reynolds
Danvers IETF Stats
- 880 Total Attendees
- From the Multicast side - not yet posted
- 70 Groups met (This includes WGs, BOFs, Directorates, and the IAB)
[Some in multiple sessions.]
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IPNG Area Update
IPng Co-Area Directors:
Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>
Allison Mankin <mankin@isi.edu>
IPng Area - Suggested Reading: RFC 1752, "The Recommendation for the IP
Next Generation Protocol", URL: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/rfc1752.txt,
and RFC 1636, "Report of IAB Workshop on Security in the Internet
Architecture February 8-10, 1994", URL:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/rfc1636.txt
IPNG Area Update (since the Danvers IETF)
- 15 core documents in the queue
- Current IPNG working groups:
IPNGWG
NGTRANS
ADDRCONF
ENCAPSULATION
PATH MTU DISCOVERY
IPNG MOBILITY
IPNG SECURITY
IPNG RTG (Routing)
DHCP WG
DNSAUTOREG
* Base Specification
*Addressing Architecture
*Unicast Format
*Unicast Architecture
*DNS
*ICMP
**Neighbor Discovery
*Tranisiton Mechanisms
Stateless Auto Address Conf
*Overview
*API for BSD (informational)
*4 Security Documents (IPSEC WG)
(* = minor edits, ** = heavy edits)
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IETF User Services Area Update
- not end-user specific area
- second level service
- HTMLing FYI RFC series
- USV-WEB
- Bringing in other disciplines
- New WGs/WGs coming to closure
- Liase with TERENA ISUS and
other international groups
IIA - IAB Retreat
Internet Information Architecture (IIA) Plan and the IAB - Report to
be published.
Internet Architecture Board New Members
Yakov Rekhter *
Elise Gerich *
Chris Weider
Erik Huizer
Robert Moskowitz
Jay Allard
* re-selected
Internet Engineering Steering Group New Members
Scott Bradner (2 yr. term) *
Allison Mankin (2 yr. term) *
Deirdre Kostick (2 yr. term)
John Klensin (1 yr. term) *
Harald Alvestrand (2 yr. term)
Sue Thomson (1 yr. term)
Frank Kastenholz (2 yr. term)
* re-selected
Acknowledgements: Scott Bradner, Steve Coya, and Jon Postel
RIPE Working Group Summaries
RIPE Working Group summaries were presented.
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The Joint European Networking Conference (JENC6)
The Trans European Research and Education Network Association's
(TERENA) Joint European Networking Conference (JENC6) was held in May
1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel, with approximately 350 attendees.
Words of Welcome to JENC6
Frode Greisen, President of TERENA opened this conference, and stated
that there is a shared workstation environment focus. He hopes the
attendees find inspiration to create new applications for the future.
Steve Druck (on behalf of the JENC program committee) provided a
brief overview of how the conference's network is set up at the Dan
Panorama Hotel. There is a Fiberoptic net to Israel's Metropolitan
Network via Telecom Switzerland with a 2MB line to Geneva. Yitzak
Kaul from the Israel Telecom Corporation stated that this is the
first JENC to take place outside of Europe. Israel is honored TERENA
picked it for its first public event since the convergence of RARE
and EARN. Best wishes for a good conference.
Walter DeBaker - Keynote Speaker, "Europe's Way to the Information
Society and a Global Information Infrastructure"
Society has been interested in this topic before these terms became
popular. Policy Development = Politicians. For example, the Treaty
of Maastricht 1992, the Clinton-Gore NII/GII White Paper, and the
eight G7 Principles:
- dynamic competition
- private investments
- an adaptable regulator framework
- open access to networks with universal provisions
- access to services
- equality of opportunity to the citizen
- diversity of content: cultural and linguistic,
- world-wide cooperation: less developed countries
information = application + content
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Operators supply:
1) services, transport data (network of networks)
2) layer of applications,
3) specific application - medical, etc.,
There should be support for this diversity. Support of this is of
European interest.
New Market Structure
Open systems and convergence of multiple technologies. Think
about a new head division of a market structure. Building the
components must be included in a world wide market with many
options.
Re-engineering Human Activity
Local and world wide communication for citizens and businesses
with instant access to access to information, when and where it is
needed. One should not try to reinvent the wheel. New types need
to be developed. For example: tele-banking, conferencing,
working, shopping, marketing, infotainment, etc. We all must work
together. Who are the actors and what are their new roles?
Potential new roles include: information users, operators,
information producers, component and system producers.
Information Society Forum
Creation of this forum for users, social groups, network
operators, content and services providers, equipment
manufacturers, and institutions. This forum will have 100-150
members, who willn start in July. They will elect a steering
group.
What are the problems?
There are three converging universes - switching (telephone),
broadcasting (radio and TV), routing (computing). All three types
are changing and they will eventually converge. An information
infrastructure is already there, but it is not a single entity.
There are three.
Also, there are barriers in the development, besides three different
universes. For example, monopolies (employment), market
fragmentation, vertical integration, critical mass, slow
standardization, past investments, and lack of awareness and urgency
in these matters.
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Action Plan (July 1994 - Bangerman Report) - Regulatory and legal
framework networks, basic services, etc. Annexes - possible
partnerships pending measure, new measures to consider. G7 summit -
lots of things to ponder.
Search for new ideas -
awareness (problems and opportunities)
partnership (cooperation with competition)
new business practices (services)
research (applications)
regulation (public service obligation)
a new standardization process
There is also a new wave in research on the applications side. What
about regulation? Public service obligations will come from private
companies in competition (interconnection and interoperability), open
access to networks and services (no discrimination, etc.).
The major problems are not technical, economical or managerial, but
how can we safeguard public interest in a free information market?
JENC participants must take on this challenge and be pioneers in this
endeavor.
Ruiz Pinar - Portability via Satellite the PICO - Terminal Network
How a satellite network can be a portable network. Architecture,
Equipment, Protocol Architecture, and Communication Services.
The PICO architecture: terminus MAX antenna size of one meter. USAT
satellite net, portable terminals, data/voice communication,
Star/Mesh topology, outbound TDM, inbound Mesh, integration with
CODE, and Internet access.
The equipment: a suitcase with a 55cm antenna, front end RF, modem
equipment, notebook PC, power supply, and GPS. Hub structure: VSAT
1.5m antenna, RF, modems, PC w/transputer processor.
Protocol architecture: physical layer, DAMA (Demand Assignment
Multiple Access) Aces, Point to Point Data Voice Channels, signaling
channels.
Communication services: duplex point to point communications.
StarMesh communication/vocoded voice 48bps data communication.
Unidirectional communications, star communication, data collection,
and broadcast point. Preliminarly performance testing in the field
has provided good results, so far.
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Peter Jung - SURFNET Internet via ISDN
The ISDN network:
1) Basic Rate access (2-64K synchronous connection and primary rate
access (30*64K) synchronous connection.
2) For data and voice.
3) Cost comparable to PSTN (in the Netherlands).
4) Additional services: calling line identification, presentation,
multisubscriber numbering, etc.
5) Problems: equipment (especially for Internet over ISDN).
Surfnet ISDN Access (SURF-it)
1) ISDN dial-in services for individual users.
2) ISDN dial-in services for small LANs.
3) ISDN for overload and backup for leased lines.
Conditions:
-based on STDs as much as possible
-no async communication over ISDN
-large scale solutions
-no calls from the Internet to the users
Preliminary Pilots
BRA (Basic Rate Access) dial-in services for LAN access/BRA dial-
in services for PC acccess. There were some problems.
Test results:
1) no ISDN access from internet to LAN; consequently, nameserver
off-site/PCP mailservers offsite
2) call set up time - 10 seconds
3) costs - three hours user on working days = leased lines, hence less
than 10 users
4) security: of costs: timers, of access: CHAP
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LAN access further developments:
1) name and mail server onsite
2) bonding on PPP link for 128K access
3) add CLIP for security
4) PRA (Primary Rate Access) dial-in facility
PC access side (access results - no service, yet)
-MS windows work
-Unix workstations work
-Macintosh only one board with PPP driver - still problems
(one PPP driver = 1000 ECU - expensive!)
-Security - use timers and CHAP again
-PKG - for MS windows (and other?) users
Current Status - PC access. See if they can get PRA points. PRA
access router used. Spider multiple BRA access router used. CLIP
can be used. pkg for windows being developed.
Access for LANS
-multiple BRA router
-CLIP can be tested
-on site mail and name server to be tested
Backup and overload: some test have been completed, but not yet
satisfactory results.
Future:
Uniform, large scale peering based access points, higher bandwidth
- multiple 64K channels, ISDN service for backup and overload.
Value added services - (expertise, user support, training
materials, packaging
For further information:
http://www.nic.sufnet.nl/sufnet/projects/surfit
Hans-Peter Axmann - European Commission and Policies on Research
Networking DG13-C
Recommendation to the EC - prepare Europeans for the information
society by fostering an entrepreneurial mentality. Develop a common
regularity approach.
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Launch a European Society, with teleworking, distance learning, 4th
Framework Policy.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Telematics for Knowledge Program (1994-1998)
- Validation of European research interconnection
- Validation of telematics for life long learning
- Remote access to library sources
- Following a user driven approach for research and development
- "Telematics for Research"
Actions involved:
1) national funding and policy bodies
2) National network for research
3) users
4) telematics industry as provide
5) public and private network operators
Priorities - improve trans European networking infrastructure to
support 34/mgbits.
Planning to upgrade to 156 mbits, with full European coverage (phased
roll out, intercontinental links).
The telematics for research as a program looks interesting, but it is
still too early to comment.
Alan Emtage - Publishing in the Internet Environment
Flawed Premise: Electronic materials possess the same inherent
characteristics as paper counterparts
Publisher's Concerns =
Bandwidth & Storage
Implementing specific payment
methods
Providing working directory services
The Internet Culture:
Cultural Transmission
Interactivity
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Intellectual Property
GATT
Berne Conventions
"Fair Use" provisions
"Perceived Value"
Intellectual Property
What are the implications for intellectual property on the Internet?
Distribution: ramifications of a technology like the Internet in
distribution of publications where, "our packets cross borders freely
and our sense of community should be equally open."
Internet = global in scope, with no physical boundaries
The Internet possesses the ability to make everyone a publisher.
Tariffs and Borders, Pricing, Marketing & Sales
How do we price for the global environment?
Solutions, Selling Your Product and Protecting Your Rights
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Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information
for the events listed below.
FYI - New Dates for ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, 1995 NOW Dec. 11-15, 1995
- The 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Systems, Modelling and Analysis
originally scheduled for March 14-17, 1996 has been moved to
March 21-24, 1996. Nashville, TN.
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<http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html> Click on the link for
"meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet
related events".
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1995
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Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI
Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ont, Canada
Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 9-12 PROMS '95 Salzburg, Austria
Oct. 10-11 ANSI X3T11
Oct. 11-13 Intntl Symp. on Multimedia
Comm. & Video Coding New York City, NY
Oct. 15-18 20th Conf. on Local Computer
Netwks (sponsored by IEEE) Minneapolis, MN
Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, AU
Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec
Oct. 30-31 6th MD Workshp on Very High
Speed Networks Baltimore, MD
Oct. 30-Nov. 2 Internet World Boston, MA
Oct. 31-Nov. 2 APPN Implementers Wkshp (AIW) RTP, NC
Nov. 3 CPI-C Implementers Wkshp (CIW) RTP, NC
Nov. 5-9 ACM Multimedia '95 San Francisco, CA
Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec
Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France
Nov. 7-9 OPENNET '95 Goettingen, Germany
Nov. 7-10 ICNP '95 Tokyo, Japan
Nov. 8 Membermtg/GIGI e.V.
German Internet User Group Goettingen, Germany
Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM '95 Singapore
Nov. 14-16 NORDUnet'95 Conf. Copenhagen, Denmark
Nov. 27-29 European IT Conf. (IETC'95) Brussels, Belgium
Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA
Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany
Nov. 29-Dec. 1 Virtual Reality World Boston, MA
Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS
Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm)
Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Firm) Dallas, TX
Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Firm) 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 London, UK
Dec. 11-12 2nd Intntl. Wkshp on High Perf.
Protocol Arch. HIPPARCH'95 Sydney, AU
Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO
Dec. 11-15 1995 IFIP Intntl. Working Conf. Sydney, AU
Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU
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Jan. 9-12 Internet World Canada Toronto, Ont, Canada
Jan. 22-26 USENIX 1996 Tech. Conference San Diego, CA
Jan. 23-25 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Salt Lake City, UT
Jan. 29-31 Multimedia Computing & Netwkg San Jose, CA
Feb. 2-4 Internet World Home Expo New York
Feb. 5-7 Wkshp on Network Security,
Firewalls & Internet Svs. San Jose, CA
Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 San Diego, CA
Feb. 5-9 ATM Forum Los Angeles, CA
Feb. 13-15 Virtual Reality World Europe Stuttgart, Germany
Feb. 14-15 Web Seminars Chicago, IL
Feb. 19-21 EMail World & Internet Expo San Jose, CA
Feb. 19-23 Intntl Zurich Sem. on Digital
Communications Zurich, Switzerland
Feb. 22-23 Internet Society Symp on Ntwk
& Distributed System Security San Diego, CA
Feb. 27-Mar. 1 ICDP '96-IFIP/IEEE Intntl Conf.
on Distributed Platforms Dresden, Germany
Mar. 4-8 35th IETF - CONFIRMED Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 7-9 Internet World Asia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mar. 11-13 Wkshp on Network Security
Firewalls & Internet Svs. New York, NY
Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm)
Mar. 21-24 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Syst.
Modeling & Analysis Nashville, TN
Apr. 1-4 Internet World Brazil Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Apr. 3-4 Interop & NetWorld Las Vegas, NV
Apr. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (Firm) Palm Springs, CA
Apr. 11-12 2nd ACM/SIGRAPH Conf. on
Assistive Tech. ASSETS'96 Vancouver, Canada
Apr. 14-19 ATM Forum (Tentative)
Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA
Apr. 29-May 2 Internet World '96 San Jose, CA
May 13-16 7th Joint European Ntwk Conf. Budapest, Hungary
May 13-17 5th UNIX Sys. Admn, Ntwkng
Security Symp. Washington, DC
May 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO
May 21-23 Internet World Intntl London, England
Jun. 4-6 Internet World Mexico Mexico City, Mexico
Jun. 9-14 ATM Forum (Tentative)
Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm)
Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Santa Fe, NM
Jun. 11-13 EMail World & Internet Expo Chicago, IL
Jun. 11-14 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 San Jose, CA
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Jun. 17-21 2nd Conf. Object-Oriented
Technologies & Sys. (COOTS) Toronto, Ont, Canada
Jun. 23-27 1st Intntl IEEE Wkshp on
Enterprise Ntwkg - w/ICC
SUPERCOM'96 Dallas, TX
Jun. 24-27 ICC '96/SUPERCOMM'96 Dallas, TX
Jun. 24-28 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Jul. 10-13 4th TCL/TK Workshop (TCL/TK 96) Monterey, CA
Jul. 22-25 6th USENIX Security Symposium San Jose, CA
Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Jul. 26-28 Internet World Home Expo '96 San Jose, CA
Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration)
Aug. 5-8 Internet World Brazil Sao Paulo, Brazil
Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Boulder, CO area
Aug. 14-15 Web Seminars '96 Dallas, TX
Aug. 18-23 ATM Forum (Tentative)
Aug. 19-21 Int. World Australia Pacific Sydney, Australia
FALL NSC'96 - Network Services Conf. Bled, Slovenia
Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU
Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm)
Sep. 13-17 10th USENIX Syst. Admin
Conference (LISA '96) Chicago, IL
Sep. 10-12 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA
Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration)
Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ont, Canada
Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL
Oct. 6-11 ATM Forum (Tentative)
Oct. 29-Nov. 1 2nd USENIX Symp. Operating Sys.
Design & Implement. (OSIDI II) Seattle, WA
Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration)
Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration)
Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA
Nov. 27-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, AU
Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 TBD
Dec. 4-6 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 Boston, MA
Dec. 1-6 ATM Forum (Tentative)
Dec. 9-12 Internet World '96 Baltimore, MD
Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm)
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1997
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Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm)
Apr. 6-11 38th IETF (Under Consideration)
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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TERENA SECRETARIAT
Ref. TSec(95)001 October 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
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TERENA Executive Committee
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13 December Amsterdam
TERENA Technical Committee
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TERENA General Assembly
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GA4
19-20 October Rome
GA5
16-17 May 1996 Budapest
TERENA Conference Committee
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6 October Zurich
TERENA Working Groups
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WG-MSG
(with DANTE MAILFlow and EEMA ICE)
23-24 October Utrecht
=================================================================
EBONE
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ECCO (Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations)
16 April 1996 Paris
EMC (Ebone Management Committee)
28 November Amsterdam
RIPE
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11-13 October Amsterdam
April/May 1996 Berlin
NATO/INSIGHT
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16-18 November Budapest
IETF
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4-8 December Dallas, Texas, USA
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EWOS
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Technical Assembly
12/13 December Brussels
Workshops
23-26 October Brussels
15-19 January 1996 "
25-29 March 1996 "
24-28 June 1996 "
21-25 October 1996 "
ETSI
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GA22 5-6 December Nice, France
GA23 18-19 April, 1996 "
GA24 10-11 December, 1996 "
TA23 7-9 November "
TA24 15-17 April, 1996 "
TA25 23-25 October, 1996 "
EEMA
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Regional Conference
29 November - 1 December Malta
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TERENA CONFERENCES
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JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference
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13-16 May 1996
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary
THE ROLE OF RESEARCH NETWORKING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Subject areas are:
-User Support and Education
-Policy, Economic and Societal Issues
-Network Engineering
-Network Technology
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-Application Technology
-Infrastructure Developments
Deadline paper submissions 19 November 1995
For information, email <jenc7-sec@terena.nl>
WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/jenc7
NSC'96 - Network Services Conference 1996
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Autumn 1996,
Convention Centre, Bled, Slovenia
For information, email <nsc96-sec@terena.nl>
WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/nsc96/
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
OTHER CONFERENCES
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nb. For some of the following events, full text information may be
available from the TERENA Document Store under the directory calendar,
in which case the file name is specified under the information
presented below. The files may be retrieved via:
anonymous FTP: ftp.terena.nl
Email: server@terena.nl
Gopher: gopher.terena.nl
World Wide Web: http://www.terena.nl/terena/information/calendar/
Metaforum II/NO BORDERS/HATAROK NELKUL/ Conference
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6-8 October
Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Organized by the Media Research Foundation and the Intermedia
Department of the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy.
This conference will provide an opportunity to examine the nature of
networking, as well as place networking within a historical context,
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and discuss its future potential. For information:
WWW address: http://szocio.tgi.bme.hu/metaform
email address: <intermed@ind.eunet.hu>
<dia@szocio.tgi.bme.hu> <meta4um@desk.nl>
PROMS '95
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9-12 October
Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria
Second workshop on Protocols for Multimedia Systems
"Mozart on Multimedia Highways"
Call for Papers
to be submitted by 20 August. To:
email <proms-submission@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
ftp ftp.cosy.sbg.ac.at /pub/proms
For further information also contact: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/proms
IEE/BMVA COLLOQUIUM
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DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING FOR MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT
4 November
IEE Savoy Place, London, U.K.
Papers to be submitted by 4 August to:
Dr. R.B. Johnson, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Bristol
email <r.b.johnson@bristol.ac.uk>
or
Dr. t. Tan, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Computer Science, University
of Reading - email <t.tan@rdg.ac.uk> or <k.d.baker@rdg.ac.uk>
OPENNET'95
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7-9 November
Goettingen, Germany
For information email <konferenz@digi.de> or <schweiger@multinet.de>
NORDUnet'95 Conference
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14-16 November
Sheraton Copenhagen Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark
Organized by UNI-C, this 15th annual conference will provide a
forum for universities, industry and public organizations.
For information email <Niels.E.Raun@uni-c.dk> or
tel: +45 35 82 83 55 fax: +45 31 83 79 49
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European IT Conference (IETC'95)
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27-29 November
Palais des Congres, Brussels, Belgium
Organized by the European Commission, DGIII, the theme of this conference
is "Managing Change" and will focus on the challenges to individuals,
enterprises and the public secton in contributing and adapting to the
Information Society.
For information contact EITC'95 on Internet:
http://www.cordis.lu
or fax: +32 2 296 99 30
Fourth International World Wide Web Conference
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"The Web Revolution"
11-14 December
Cambridge, Boston. Massachusetts, USA
Organized by MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science and OSF-Research Institute.
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers,
and users working with the World Wide Web.
For further information:
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/conferences/WWW/
email <www4-help@w3.org>
tel: +1 617 253 4087 fax: +1 617 258 5090
1995 IFIP International Working Conference
on User Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications (ULPAA)
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11-15 December
Sydney, Australia
Deadline for submission of papers by 15 May
For further info-> http:/www.ee.uts.edu.au/ifip/ULPAA95.html
MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING 1996
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29-31 January 1996
San Jose, California
This conference is part of the IS&T/SPIE 1996 International Symposium
on Electronic Imaging to be held 28 Jan. - 2 Feb.1996
Deadline of paper submission 10 July - electronic versions to:
<mmcn96@cs.utexas.edu>
For up-to-date information about MMCN96 access web page at:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mmcn96
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INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996
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Broadband Communiations: Networks, Services, Applications,
Future Directions
19-23 February 1996
Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Deadline for submission of papers is 15 May 1995
For further information, email Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner
<izs96-pc-chair@tik.ethz.ch>, fax.+41 1 632 1035
Call for Papers on TERENA Document Server under
rare/information/calendar. The file is called izs96-cfp.txt.
The 1996 Internet Society Symposium on Network
and Distributed System Security
----------------------------------------------
22-23 February 1996
San Diego Princess Resort, San Diego, CA, USA
Advance program and registration information will be made available
on URL: http://nii.isi.edu/info/sndss
ASSETS'96 - The 2nd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies
--------------------------------------------------------------------
(sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and the
Physically Handicapped)
11-12 April 1996
Vancouver Renaissance Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
The conference scope spans disability and special needs of all kinds,
including but not limited to: sensory; motor; cognitive; and emotional.
Submission of papers (17 October) and further info. contact:
David L. Jaffe, Program Chair <jaffe@roses.stanford.edu> or
Ephraim P. Glinert, General Chair <glinert@cs.rpi.edu>
EEMA '96 Conference
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(European Electronic Messaging Association)
11-14 June 1996
Les Pyramides/Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Brussels, Belgium.
Working to shape the future of global messaging, this will be a
user-driven conference, created for the business user.
For information contact: <eemaoffice@attmail.com>
or tel: +44 1386 793 028 fax: +44 1386 793 268
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INET'96
The Internet: Transforming our Society Now
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25-28 June 1996
Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Futher information will be available in the near future.
See WWW page: http://www.crim.ca/inet96/mtl.html
International Congress and Technical Exhibition
"Water: Ecology and Technology"
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17-21 September 1996
Moscow, Russia
Organized by: Russian Federal Committee for Water Management,
Russian Federal Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Environment
and Natural Resources Protection, Municipal Enterprise "Mosvodokanal",
State Enterprise "Vodokanal St. Petersburg",Stock Company "SIBICO
International".
For all further information, contact:
<postmaster@sibico.MSK.RU>
telephone/telefax: +7 095 207 63 60
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updated 03.10.1995
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Madeleine Oberholzer
TERENA Secretary
Address:
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 all general matters)
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