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December 1998 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR-ED@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Details on obtaining the current IMR, or back issues, via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by sending an EMAIL message to "rfc-info@ISI.EDU" with the message body "help: ways_to_get_imrs". For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ Ramos [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Network Solutions Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The IAB wants to express its appreciation for the value of the IMR over many years and for the efforts of its contributors and editors. However, we note that the Web is now widely used as an information service, and in particular that the IETF, IANA and RFC Editor now have very complete Web sites with current information. The IAB has therefore concluded that the IMR was consuming valuable resources that could be better directed elsewhere. We thank you all for your dedication on this project over many years. 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 ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- Internet Monthly Report for December, 1998 1. The next meeting of the IETF will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from March 15-19, 1999. This meeting is being hosted by Ascend Communications. Registration is scheduled to begin the first part of January. Following Minneapolis, the IETF meets in Oslo, Norway in July, and in Washington, DC in November. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meeting sites can always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL is: http://www.ietf.org/ 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF shadow directories in the /iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: October 8, 1998 (iesg.98-10-08) October 22, 1998 (iesg.98-10-22) November 19, 1998 (iesg.98-11-19) Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following six Protocol Actions during the month of December, 1998: o Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IP Header Compression for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IP Header Compression over PPP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The Network Access Identifier for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET): Routing Protocol Performance Issues and Evaluation Considerations for publication as an Informational RFC. o Users' Security Handbook for publication as an Informational RFC. 4. Nine Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of December, 1998: o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security <draft-ietf-ldapext-ldapv3-tls-04> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type <draft-ietf-atommib-sonetng-05> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Mobility Support in IPv6 <draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-07> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Use of Language Codes in LDAP <draft-ietf-ldapext-lang-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Authentication Methods for LDAP <draft-ietf-ldapext-authmeth-03> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism <draft-leach-digest-sasl-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extensions for Dynamic Directory Services <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-dynamic-08> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses <draft-ietf-ipngwg-resv-anycast-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels <draft-ietf-ipngwg-6over4-01> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. One working group concluded: IP Payload Compression Protocol (ippcp) 6. There were 104 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of December 1998: (ipngwg) o IP Header Compression <draft-degermark-ipv6-hc-08.txt> (ifmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for System and Interface Testing <draft-ietf-ifmib-testmib-04.txt> (pppext) o Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) <draft-ietf-pppext-pptp-07.txt> (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extensions for Dynamic Directory Services <draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-dynamic-08.txt> (ediint) o Requirements for Inter-operable Internet EDI <draft-ietf-ediint-req-06.txt> (dhc) o DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-dhc-slp-06.txt> (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks <draft-souvatzis-ipv6-arcnet-05.txt> (ediint) o MIME-based Secure EDI <draft-ietf-ediint-as1-09.txt> (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch Networks Version 1.0 <draft-ietf-rmonmib-smon-06.txt> (ftpext) o Extensions to FTP <draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-05.txt> (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels <draft-ietf-ipngwg-6over4-01.txt> (find) o A Tagged Index Object for use in the Common Indexing Protocol <draft-ietf-find-cip-tagged-07.txt> Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 (mmusic) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol <draft-ietf-mmusic-sip-11.txt,.ps> (idr) o A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation <draft-ietf-idr-aggregation-framework-04.txt> (none) o QoS Routing Mechanisms and OSPF Extensions <draft-guerin-qos-routing-ospf-04.txt> (roamops) o Proxy Chaining and Policy Implementation in Roaming <draft-ietf-roamops-auth-09.txt> (disman) o Notification Log MIB <draft-ietf-disman-notif-log-mib-05.txt> (ipvbi) o THE TRANSMISSION OF IP OVER THE VERTICAL BLANKING INTERVAL OF A TELEVISION SIGNAL <draft-ietf-ipvbi-nabts-01.txt> (dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions <draft-ietf-dnssec-secext2-07.txt> (ip1394) o IPv4 over IEEE 1394 <draft-ietf-ip1394-ipv4-12.txt,.ps> (acap) o ACAP Personal Addressbook Dataset Class <draft-ietf-acap-abook-03.txt> (ngtrans) o Stateless IP/ICMP Translator (SIIT) <draft-ietf-ngtrans-siit-04.txt> (none) o Using TLS with IMAP4, POP3 and ACAP <draft-newman-tls-imappop-06.txt> (nntpext) o Network News Transport Protocol <draft-ietf-nntpext-base-07.txt> (none) o IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations <draft-leiba-imap-implement-guide-08.txt> (dnssec) o Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS) <draft-ietf-dnssec-certs-04.txt> (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 <draft-ietf-cat-rfc2078bis-08.txt> (grip) o Security Expectations for Internet Service Providers <draft-ietf-grip-isp-07.txt> (none) o URLs for GSM Short Message Service <draft-antti-gsm-sms-url-03.txt> (smime) o Cryptographic Message Syntax <draft-ietf-smime-cms-10.txt> (smime) o Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME <draft-ietf-smime-ess-10.txt> (find) o LDAPv2 client Vs the Index Mesh <draft-ietf-find-cip-ldapv2-02.txt> (none) o Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages <draft-yamamoto-charset-iso-2022-jp-01.txt> (none) o Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs <draft-lindberg-anti-spam-mta-07.txt> Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 (mpls) o The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol <draft-ietf-mpls-git-uus-01.txt> (smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification <draft-ietf-smime-msg-06.txt> (smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling <draft-ietf-smime-cert-06.txt> (conneg) o Media Features for Display, Print, and Fax <draft-ietf-conneg-media-features-03.txt> (ipsec) o A GSS-API Authentication Mode for IKE <draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-gss-auth-02.txt> (rap) o The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol <draft-ietf-rap-cops-04.txt> (mpls) o VCID Notification over ATM link <draft-ietf-mpls-vcid-atm-02.txt> (acap) o ACAP Media Type Dataset Class <draft-ietf-acap-mediatype-01.txt> (acap) o ACAP Bookmarks Dataset Class <draft-ietf-acap-book-01.txt> (acap) o ACAP Email Account Dataset Class <draft-ietf-acap-email-01.txt> (acap) o ACAP Email Personality Dataset Class <draft-ietf-acap-pers-01.txt> (adslmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the ADSL Lines <draft-ietf-adslmib-adsllinemib-04.txt> (ipngwg) o DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-lookups-03.txt> (none) o Building Directories from DNS: Experiences from WWWSeeker <draft-rfced-info-moats-03.txt> (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations Using SMIv2 <draft-ietf-disman-remops-mib-03.txt> (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server MIB <draft-ietf-dhc-server-mib-02.txt> (none) o RADIUS Vendor Specific Attributes for ACC/Ericsson Datacom Access <draft-ilgun-radius-accvsa-01.txt> (none) o List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the Identification of Mailing Lists <draft-chandhok-listid-03.txt> (none) o The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1 <draft-coar-cgi-v11-01.txt> (smime) o Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method <draft-ietf-smime-x942-04.txt> (ipsec) o A Hybrid Authentication Mode for IKE <draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-hybrid-auth-01.txt> Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 (none) o Reverse Network Address Translators (RAT) <draft-teoyeow-mip-rat-01.txt> (tcpimpl) o TCP Congestion Control <draft-ietf-tcpimpl-cong-control-02.txt> (none) o Simple Multicast: A Design for Simple, Low-Overhead Multicast <draft-perlman-simple-multicast-01.txt> (ospf) o Multicast Extensions to OSPF <draft-ietf-mospf-mospf-01.txt> (ipsec) o IPSec Monitoring MIB <draft-ietf-ipsec-mib-03.txt> (conneg) o A syntax for describing media feature sets <draft-ietf-conneg-feature-syntax-04.txt> (fax) o Content feature schema for Internet fax <draft-ietf-fax-feature-schema-04.txt> (conneg) o W3C Composite Capability/Preference Profiles <draft-ietf-conneg-W3C-ccpp-01.txt> (ion) o Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5 <draft-ietf-ion-multiprotocol-atm-01.txt> (mboned) + Scoped Address Discovery Protocol (SADP) <draft-ietf-mboned-sadp-00.txt> (tcpimpl) o The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm <draft-ietf-tcpimpl-newreno-01.txt> (none) o UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 <draft-hoffman-utf16-01.txt> (none) o Registration for the 'widetext' Media Type <draft-hoffman-widetext-01.txt> (ipngwg) o Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments <draft-ietf-ipngwg-iana-tla-01.txt> (none) o The iCalendar XML DTD <draft-dawson-ical-xml-dtd-01.txt> (manet) + On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) for Ad-Hoc Networks <draft-ietf-manet-odmrp-00.txt> (none) + SS7 to IP Signaling Gateway Transport Architecture <draft-glaude-ss7-gw-00.txt> (none) + A Simple SCCP Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) <draft-sanchez-garcia-SSTP-v0r2-00.txt> (none) + A framework for QoS support for open control <draft-ranganathan-gsmp-qos-framework-00.txt> (nat) + An SNMP Application Level Gateway for Payload Address Translation <draft-ietf-nat-snmp-alg-00.txt> (mboned) + Multicast-Friendly Internet Exchange (MIX) <draft-ietf-mboned-mix-00.txt> (none) + Textual Conventions Extension 1 <draft-schoenw-snmp-tc-ext-00.txt> (none) + Password Policy for LDAP Directories <draft-vchu-ldap-pwd-policy-00.txt> (none) + IP and ARP over HIPPI-6400 (GSN) <draft-pittet-gsnlan-00.txt> Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 (none) + Multicast Discovery of DNS Services <draft-manning-multicast-dns-00.txt> (mmusic) + SDP Extensions for Fax over IP Using T.38 <draft-ietf-mmusic-sdp-t38-00.txt,.ps> (none) + Voice over Differentiated Services <draft-naser-voice-diffserv-eval-00.txt> (svrloc) + Definition of printer:raw-tcp: URLs for use with Service Location <draft-ietf-svrloc-rawtcp-printer-scheme-00.txt> (none) + INSIGNIA <draft-lee-insignia-00.txt> (idr) + BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP <draft-ietf-idr-route-reflect-v2-00.txt> (none) + PPP over SONET (SDH) at Rates from STS-1 (AU-3) to STS-192c (AU-4-64c/STM-64) <draft-merchant-pppext-sonet-sdh-00.txt> (none) + SS7 Level Two over IP <draft-bressler-sigtran-ipss7l2-00.txt> (none) + Tree Delete Control <draft-armijo-ldap-treedelete-00.txt> (none) + MTU discovery using TCP MSS and Discussion on MSS value in SYN acknowledgment <draft-bvenkat-mtu-tcpmss-00.txt> (ngtrans) + Dynamic Tunneling: A new method for the IPv4-IPv6 Transition <draft-ietf-ngtrans-dti-00.txt> (none) + Simpler and More Secure Architectures for SNMPv3 <draft-freeman-snmpv3-sec-00.txt,.ps> (mospf) + MOSPF Prunes <draft-ietf-mospf-prunes-00.txt> (ldapext) + Families of Entries <draft-ietf-ldapext-families-00.txt> (none) + An Inter-Gateway Signalling Protocol For VoIP Networks <draft-thomas-sigtran-igsp-00.txt> (none) + Diffie-Helman Key Change Management Information Base and Textual Convention <draft-stjohns-snmpv3-dhkeychange-mib-00.txt> (none) + Cabletron's SecureFast VLAN Operational Model Version 1.8 <draft-rfced-info-cabletron-vlan-00.txt> (none) + H.323 Firewall Control Interface (HFCI) <draft-rfced-info-mercer-00.txt> (none) + GUIDE TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES OF THE INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE <draft-rfced-info-iana-00.txt> (none) + Cabletron's VlanHello Protocol Specification Version 4 <draft-rfced-info-cabletron-hello-00.txt> (none) + Cabletron's VLS Protocol Specification <draft-rfced-info-cabletron-vls-00.txt> (svrloc) + The LDAP Service Type <draft-ietf-svrloc-ldap-scheme-00.txt> Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 (svrloc) + The Naming and Directory Service Abstract Type <draft-ietf-svrloc-naming-directory-scheme-00.txt> (none) + The NIS Service Type <draft-ietf-svrloc-nis-scheme-00.txt> (svrloc) + The NIS+ Service Type <draft-ietf-svrloc-nisplus-scheme-00.txt> 7. 25 RFCs were published during this period RFC2355 DS (tn3270e) TN3270 Enhancements RFC2393 PS (ippcp) IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) RFC2394 I (ippcp) IP Payload Compression Using DEFLATE RFC2395 I (ippcp) IP Payload Compression Using LZS RFC2450 I (ipngwg) Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules RFC2452 PS (ipngwg) IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol RFC2454 PS (ipngwg) IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol RFC2460 DS (ipngwg) Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification RFC2461 DS (ipngwg) Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) RFC2462 DS (ipngwg) IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration RFC2463 DS (ipngwg) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification RFC2464 PS (ipngwg) Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks RFC2465 PS (ipngwg) Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group RFC2466 PS (ipngwg) Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group RFC2467 PS (ipngwg) Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks RFC2469 I (none) A Caution On The Canonical Ordering Of Link-Layer Addresses RFC2470 PS (ipngwg) Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks RFC2471 E (ipngwg) IPv6 Testing Address Allocation RFC2472 PS (ipngwg) IP Version 6 over PPP RFC2473 PS (ipngwg) Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification RFC2474 PS (diffserv)Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers RFC2475 I (diffserv)An Architecture for Differentiated Services RFC2476 PS (none) Message Submission Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 RFC2478 PS (cat) The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism RFC2479 I (cat) Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (IDUP-GSS-API) Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- NETWORK SOLUTIONS REPORT ****************************************************** * gopher sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: cat: gopher-server*: No such file or directory 0 Retrievals: cat: gopher-server*: No such file or directory 0 ****************************************************** * wais sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: wais-server*.gz: No such file or directory 0 Retrievals: wais-server*.gz: No such file or directory 0 ****************************************************** * whois sessions * ****************************************************** Client Queries: 39808638 Server Queries: 44118164 ****************************************************** * ftp sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 133003 Retrievals: 181373 ****************************************************** * telnet sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 284194 ****************************************************** * mailserver sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 0 ****************************************************** * http sessions * ****************************************************** Retrievals: 41141864 ops% Phones: 69,425 Emails : 1,077,088 Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 Updates: 320,764 by Ricardo A. Gonzalez <rgonzale@internic.net> THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY THE US DOMAIN ============= The US Domain registration information is available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. Much of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2855 PHONE 50 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 2905 DELEGATIONS: 61 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1431 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:1413 --------------------------- Total 2905 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. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 40 36 48 43 25 29 10 6 =================================================================== Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== LOCALITIES ========== CLARKE.IA.US. BENTON.IA.US. KENNESAW.GA.US. CAYUGA-HEIGHTS.NY.US. HILLSDALE.MI.US. SOMERVILLE.MA.US. MONTCALM.MI.US. WEST-GREENWICH.RI.US. MACUNGIE.PA.US. GLENDALE.CO.US. GLADSTONE.MO.US. REMER.MN.US. SAULT-SAINTE-MARIE.MI.US. ELK-GROVE-VILLAGE.IL.US. OCONEE.GA.US. FOX-CHAPEL.PA.US. OTHERS ====== AKCHIN-TGA.NSN.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== RONNIE.GRANADA-HILLS.CA.US. WCALC.KINGSTON.RI.US. JOES.ALPINE.NJ.US. CI.AZLE.TX.US. CO.SUMTER.FL.US. CORNELL.STOW.MA.US. PA.CADDO.LA.US. CI.WESTON.FL.US. COURTS.COG.KY.US. CLERK.CO.CLAY.FL.US. PASCO-MOSQUITO.DST.FL.US. CI.GLENWOOD-SPRINGS.CO.US. IN.SAN-QUENTIN.CA.US. AOC.FRANKFORT.KY.US. CO.SHELBY.OH.US. CI.TIBURON.CA.US. CO.JEFFERSON.ID.US. CI.VERNON.CA.US. HARRIS.COCONUT-CREEK.FL.US. OUTHOUSE.ESHBACH.PA.US. HEROINE.TAMPA.FL.US. CHECK.GEN.KS.US. CI.GALESBURG.IL.US. HOUSE.WINNETKA.CA.US. REDDING.SHASTA.CA.US. TOWN.VERONA.WI.US. CI.HIGHLAND-BEACH.FL.US. CI.EMORY.TX.US. DSS.CO.CLAY.NC.US. AREA51.GROOM-LAKE.NV.US. CRESTWOOD.WASHINGTON.DC.US. LEBLOND.SAINT-JOSEPH.MO.US. LCS.K12.VA.US. CI.CHEBOYGAN.MI.US. EGALLERY.OAKLAND.CA.US. CI.EAST-PEORIA.IL.US. JIMJ.ALTON.NH.US. WOODLANDACADEMY.K12.VA.US. CI.OAK-PARK.MI.US. RC.RIPON.CA.US. POWHATAN.PVT.K12.VA.US. CI.BELLEVUE.NE.US. CI.STROUD.PA.US. CO.FAIRFIELD.OH.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ by Brenna Guthrie <US-Domain@ISI.EDU> Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes December 1998 Internet engineering activities at Merit Network, Inc. (www.merit.edu). The MRT (Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit) project has joined an international industry/university consortium led by NEC Corporation, the Furukawa Electric Co., and Sumitomo Electric Industries. The new alliance will focus on development and dissemination of standards for QoS, integrated multimedia, priority routing, and other networking technologies. Participating universities include the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hokkaido University, Kyoto University, Kyushu University, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima City University, Teikyo University, and the University of Michigan, Merit's host institution. For more information about MRT, see: http://www.merit.edu/mrt/ At the 43rd IETF in Orlando, Sue Hares chaired the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group session and was co-leader of the Authentication, Accounting, and Authorization (AAA) BOF. IETF was also the site of an informational GateD meeting that included technical briefings, status reports, and administrative updates. MRT was used to establish the IPv6 terminal connection at the Orlando IETF, and at the previous IETF meeting in Chicago. Sue Hares has been active in Internet2 activities in support of the QBone, an interdomain testbed for differentiated services. The QBone seeks to provide the higher-education community with end-to- end services in support of emerging advanced networked applications (see http://www.internet2.edu/qos/qbone/). Hares attended the first meeting of the I2 QBone Interoperability Group, and also led the first meeting of the Internet2 QBone Bandwidth Broker Advisory Council. Bandwidth Broker services make it possible for networks and providers to allocate bandwidth for optimum use of Quality of Service/differentiated service technologies. by Susan R. Harris <srh@merit.edu> Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 UCL ---- UCL are now running IPv6 on the CAIRN link and on part of the LEARNET network. We are also comparing three different IP QoS/CoS queueing schemes - the AltQ, and one from CMU and CBQ - for their efficiency in supporting a particular service letvel with a particualr utilisation in the CAIRN router environment. A collaboration has started with Nortel and Sprint and Sun, on seeing if more and possibly simpler IP multicast service models can be accomodated, particualry within an IPv6 addressing framework. We are working on the implementation details of our watercasting scheme (distributed digital watermakring for multicast realtime data). by John Crowcroft <j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK> IANA REPORT ----------- MIME Media Types 3 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 4 Multicast Addresses: Blocks 1 Private Enterprise Numbers 78 Port Number Assignments 44 SASL Mechanisms 1 Telnet Options 6 by Josh Elliott <elliott@iana.org> Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of December, 1998: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 27 4 24 | 55 month | | New 7 0 0 0 | 7 | | Processed 0 5 0 19 | 24 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 7 22 4 5 | 38 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. by Alegre Ramos <rfc-ed@rfc-editor.org> Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 CALENDAR -------- Last update 1/26/99 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@ietf.org> Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. Northern Europe Address: ftp.nordu.net (192.36.148.198) Southern Europe Address: ftp.nis.garr.it (193.205.245.10) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12) West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) US East Coast Address: ftp.ietf.org cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- <http://www.ietf.org/home.html> Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1999 ----- Jan 31-Feb 2 NANOG 15 Denver, CO Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 Feb. 3-5 1999 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, CA Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum Atlanta, GA Feb. 22-25 USENIX - 3rd Sym. on Oper. Sys Design and Implementation (OSDI '99) New Orleans, LA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Mar. 8-9 Electronic Payments Forum San Francisco, CA Mar. 8-12 IEEE 802 Austin Mar. 15-19 44th IETF Minneapolis, MN Mar. 22-25 14th Int'l Unicode Conference Boston, MA Mar. 24-Apr 1 ITU Fax Standards Meeting Geneva, Switzerland Mar. 24-29 Electronic Messaging Assoc. EMA '99 Geneva, Switzerland Mar. 29-31 USENIX Cambridge, MA Apr. 5-9 Networld+Interop 99 Singapore Apr. 7-10 USENIX Santa Clara, CA Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum Rome, Italy Apr. 26-27 Ninth Int'l Packet Video Wrkshp New York, NY May 3-7 USENIX San Diego, CA May 10-14 IFIP/IEEE Int'l Symposium on Integrated Network Mgmt Boston, MA May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 11-May 14 8th International World Wide Web Conference Toronto, Canada May 23-25 NANOG 16 Eugene, OR May 31-Jun 4 Networld+Interop 99 Tokyo, Japan Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jun 7-10 TERENA-NORDUnet Networking 1999 Lund, Sweden Jun 25-29 INET'99 San Jose, CA Jul 5-9 IEEE 802 Montreal, Canada Jul 12-14 USENIX Seattle, WA Jul 12-16 45th IETF Oslo, Norway Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum New Orleans, LA Aug. 23-26 USENIX 8th Security Symposium Washington, DC Aug. 30-Sep 3 SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Cambridge, MA Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum Bangkok, Thailand Oct. 3-6 USENIX 2nd Conf on Domain-Specific Languages Austin, TX Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 11-14 USENIX Boulder, CO Oct. 12-15 IDMS'99 Toulouse, FRANCE Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA Nov. 3-4 Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT) Crystal City, VA Nov. 7-12 USENIX Lisa '99 Seattle, WA Nov. 8-12 46th IETF Wash DC Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report December 1998 Nov. 8-12 IEEE 802 Kaui Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum Beverly Hills, CA 2000 ---- Feb. 14-18 USENIX 7th TCL/TK Conference Austin, TX Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Albuquerque Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 San Diego, CA MAR 27-31 47th IETF Adelaide, Australia May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative) Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, GA Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Tampa, FL The TERENA Calendar for February 1999 may be found on URL: http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam the Netherlands email <secretariat@terena.nl> tel: +31 20 530 4488 fax: +31 20 530 4499 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ramos [Page 20]
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