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October 1992
INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ACTIVITIES BOARD
IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4
Internet Projects
CERFNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
CIX (COMMERCIAL INTERNET EXCHANGE). . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
JVNCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
LOS NETTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK) . . . page 14
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . page 15
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
NSFNET/INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
SDSC (SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER) . . . . . . . . . . page 20
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23
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IAB MESSAGE
RECENT STANDARDS ACTIONS
The following table shows standards actions approved by the IESG and
IAB during the month October 1992. It also shows those actions still
pending in the IAB.
========================================================================
| |Proposed| Draft |Internet| | |
| Description |Standard|Standard|Standard| RFC | RFC Title |
========================================================================
========================================================================
|STD 16+: | Feb 91 | Aug 91 | Oct 92 | 1212 |Concise MIB |
|Concise MIB | | | | |Definitions |
|Definitions | | | | | |
=======================================================================
| | | | | | |
|Ethernet MIB | Nov 91 | Oct 92 | | in |Definitions of |
| | | | | prep |Managed Objects for|
| | | | | |the Ethernet-like |
| | | | | |Interface Types |
========================================================================
|PPP | Oct 92 | | | 1334 |PPP Authentication |
|Authentication | | | | |Authentication |
|Protocols | | | | | |
=======================================================================
|802.3 Repeater | Oct 92 | | | 1368 |Definitions of |
|MIB | | | | |Managed Objects for|
| | | | | |IEEE 802.3 Repeater|
| | | | | |Devices |
=======================================================================
|OSPF | Oct 92 | | | 1370 |Applicability |
|Applicability | | | | |Statement for OSPF |
|Statement | | | | | |
=======================================================================
|IP and ARP on | Oct 92 | | | 1374 |IP and ARP on HIPPI|
|HIPPI | | | | | |
=======================================================================
|DNCP -- PPP | Oct 92 | | | 1376 |The PPP DECnet |
|DEC Phase IV | | | | |Phase IV Control |
|Control Protocol| | | | |Protocol (DNCP) |
=======================================================================
|OSINLCP -- PPP | Oct 92 | | | 1377 |The PPP OSI Network|
|Network Layer | | | | |Layer Control |
|Control Protocol| | | | |Protocol (OSINLCP) |
=======================================================================
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=======================================================================
|ATCP -- PPP | Oct 92 | | | 1378 |The PPP Appletalk |
|AppleTalk | | | | |Control Protocol |
|Control Protocol| | | | |(ATCP) |
=======================================================================
|MIB Extension | Oct 92 | | | 1381 |SNMP MIB Extension |
|for LAPB | | | | |for X.25 LAPB |
| | | | | | |
=======================================================================
|MIB Extension | Oct 92 | | | 1382 |SNMP MIB Extension |
|for X.25 Packet | | | | |for the X.25 |
|Layer | | | | |Packet Layer |
=======================================================================
|SNMP over |pending | | | | |
|OSI | in IAB | | | | |
=======================================================================
|SNMP over |pending | | | | |
|Appletalk | in IAB | | | | |
=======================================================================
|SNMP over |pending | | | | |
|IPX | in IAB | | | | |
=======================================================================
|BGP Default |pending | | | | |
|Route | in IAB | | | | |
|Advertisement | | | | | |
=======================================================================
|IP and ARP | | | | | |
|over FDDI | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
=======================================================================
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
1. The next IETF is scheduled for November 16-20, 1992 in
Washington, DC. Our local host is U.S. Sprint. The Registration
Reception will be held on Sunday, November 15th, beginning at 6
PM.
There will be some changes in the agenda for the Washington DC
IETF meeting. First off, the agenda for Monday morning will be
for presentations made by Working Groups on technical proposals
for Internet Routing and Addressing. Another change is that
there will be no Area reports on Friday morning. Instead, this
time slot will be available for individual Working Group
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meetings.
Additionally, at this meeting there will be a newcomers
orientation held Sunday afternoon.
2. The following two Working Groups were created in October, 1992:
a. Uninterruptible Power Supply (upsmib)
b. TCP/UDP over CLNP-addressed Networks (tuba)
3. The following Working Groups were concluded:
a. Network Fax (netfax)
b. Automated Internet Mailing List Services (list)
4. The IESG issued two Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
October, 1992:
a. A String Representation of Distinguished Names
<draft-ietf-osids-distnames>
b. Guidelines for IP Address Allocation
<draft-rekhter-ipaddress-guide>
5. The IESG made the following recommendations to the IAB during
the month of October, 1992:
a. PPP Authentication Protocols
<draft-ietf-pppext-authentication> be published as a
Proposed Standard
b. Default Route Advertisement In The Border Gateway
Protocol <draft-ietf-bgp-defaultroute> be published
as a Proposed Standard
c. Concise MIB Definitions <rfc1212> be elevated to Standard
d. Applicability Statement for OSPF
<draft-iab-appl-statement-ospf> be published as a
Proposed Standard
e. IESG Deliberations on Routing and Addressing
<draft-iesg-roadplan> be publised as an Informational RFC
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6. Forty-four (44) Internet Draft actions were taken during the
month of October, 1992:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
WG I-D Title <Filename>
------ ---------------------------------------------------------
(osids) o Using the OSI Directory to Achieve User Friendly Naming
<draft-ietf-osids-friendlynaming-04.txt, .ps>
(mospf) o Multicast Extensions to OSPF
<draft-ietf-mospf-multicast-02.txt, .ps>
(bgp) o IP Multicast Communications Using BGP
<draft-ietf-bgp-multicast-02.txt>
(isis) o Integrated IS-IS Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-isis-mib-01.txt>
(osids) o A String Representation of Distinguished Names
<draft-ietf-osids-distnames-04.txt, .ps>
(dns) o DNS MIB Extensions
<draft-ietf-dns-mibext-03.txt, .ps>
(none) o HYBRID NETBIOS END-NODES
<draft-noon-hybrid-netbios-01.txt>
(none) o Guidelines for IP Address Allocation
<draft-rekhter-ipaddress-guide-05.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control
Protocol (IPXCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-ipxcp-02.txt>
(atm) o Multiprotocol Interconnect over ATM Adaptation
Layer 5
<draft-ietf-atm-multipro-03.txt>
(snmpv2) o Introduction to the Simple Management Protocol
(SMP) Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-intro-01.txt>
(snmpv2) o Textual Conventions for the Simple Management
Protocol (SMP) Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-tc-01.txt>
(snmpv2) o Protocol Operations for the Simple Management
Protocol (SMP) Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-proto-01.txt>
(snmpv2) o Transport Mappings for the Simple Management
Protocol (SMP) Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-tm-01.txt>
(snmpv2) o Coexistence between the Internet-standard
Network Management Framework and the Simple
Management Protocol (SMP) Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-coex-01.txt>
(snmpv2) o Structure of Management Information for the Simple
Management Protocol (SMP) Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-smi-01.txt>
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(snmpv2) o Manager to Manager Management Information Base
for the Simple Management Protocol (SMP) Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-m2m-01.txt>
(snmpv2) o Management Information Base for the Simple
Management Protocol (SMP) Framework
<draft-ietf-snmpv2-mib-01.txt>
(none) o SMTP Service Extensions
<draft-rose-extensions-05.txt>
(none) o SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-cleanliness
<draft-rose-8bit-03.txt>
(none) o SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
<draft-moore-extension-size-03.txt>
(none) o Source Demand Routing Protocol Specification
(Version 1).
<draft-estrin-sdrp-01.txt>
(userdoc2) o FYI on Introducing the Internet--A Short
Bibliography of Introductory Internetworking
Readings for the Network Novice
<draft-ietf-userdoc2-fyi-novice-01.txt>
(bgp) o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the
Internet
<draft-ietf-bgp-application-01.txt>
(iesg) o IESG Deliberations on Routing and Addressing
<draft-iesg-roadplan-01.txt>
(userglos)+ Internet Users' Glossary
<draft-ietf-userglos-glossary-00.txt>
(nasreq) + Network Access Server Proposed Requirements Document
<draft-ietf-nasreq-nasrequirements-00.txt>
(none) + The Tao of IETF: A Guide for New Attendees of the
Internet Engineering Task Force
<draft-malkin-newcomers-guide-00.txt>
(hostmib) + Host Resources MIB
<draft-ietf-hostmib-resources-00.txt>
(disi) + A Survey of Advanced Usages of X.500
<draft-ietf-disi-x500-survey-00.txt>
(none) + IP Version 7 Bibliography
<draft-fink-ipv7-bibliography-00.txt>
(ospf) + The OSPF NSSA Option
<draft-ietf-ospf-nssa-option-00.txt>
(osids) + A strategic Plan for deploying an Internet
Directory Service
<draft-ietf-osids-plan-directory-00.txt .ps>
(none) o Traceroute
<draft-malkin-traceroute-01.txt>
(bridge) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges
<draft-ietf-bridge-objects-01.txt>
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(none) + Requirements for mail based servers
<draft-houttuin-mailservers-00.txt>
(none) + Application Monitoring MIB
<draft-hardcastle-appl-monitormib-00.txt>
(none) + Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822 for a closed
RFC 822 Community
<draft-hardcastle-mapping-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + SMTP Accumulated knowledge
<draft-onions-smtp-knowledge-00.txt>
(none) + IP and ARP on Fibre Channel (FC)
<draft-rekhter-fibre-channel-00.txt>
(none) + Possible Changes in the Standards Development Process
<draft-malamud-process-00.txt>
(none) + A Transport Protocol for Audio and Video Conferences
and other Multiparticipant Real-Time Applications
<draft-ietf-avt-transport-00.txt, .ps>
(pip) + Pip Header Processing
<draft-ietf-pip-processing-00.txt>
(pip) + Pip Objects
7. Nine (9) RFC's were published during the month of October, 1992.
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- ------------------------------------------
RFC1334 PS (pppext) PPP Authentication Protocols
RFC1366 I (none) Guidelines for Management of IP Address
Space
RFC1367 I (none) Schedule for IP Address Space Management
Guidelines
RFC1368 PS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for
IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices
RFC1369 I (ethermib) Implementation Notes and Experience for
The Internet Ethernet MIB
RFC1370 PS (iab) Applicability Statement for OSPF
RFC1371 I (iesg) Choosing a "Common IGP" for the IP Internet
(The IESG's Recommendation to the IAB)
RFC1372 PS (telnet) Telnet Remote Flow Control Option
RFC1373 I (none) PORTABLE DUAs
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us)
Phill Gross (pgross@nis.ans.net)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------
CERFNET
-------
During October CERFnet announced the addition of a new backbone
node, in Palo Alto, California. This new node will provide access
to CERFnet through both leased line and dial-up services. The Palo
Alto node joins the existing nodes in Oakland and San Jose to
provide easy access to CERFnet from anywhere in the Bay Area.
CERFnet also began offering leased line customers the option of
using an SMDS connection to access the CERFnet backbone. CERFnet
is Pacific Bell's first SMDS customer.
Susan Calcari (619) 455-3900
Director, Network Information Services FAX: (619) 455-3990
CERFnet P.O. Box 85608
calcaris@cerf.net San Diego, CA.
92186-9784
Susan Calcari <calcaris@cerf.net>
CIX (COMMERCIAL INTERNET EXCHANGE)
----------------------------------
CIX-WEST usage for September 1992
CIX In Out
Member Octets Packets Errors Octets Packets Errors
--------- --------------------------- ---------------------------
AlterNet 33580459815 135540710 1818 21519170842 144589894 0
CERFnet 29145649835 145665021 20 23355484385 105558618 0
PSINet 22959362863 139467299 7 42388516638 175725250 1
SprintLink 1434513037 5362253 1472 107368762 864454 0
Starting: Aug 31 1992 at 23:50
Ending: Oct 1 1992 at 00:04
SNMP Polling Intervals: 3535
SNMP Polling Frequency: 15 minutes
In - traffic entering the CIX from the CIX member network
Out - traffic exiting the CIX into the CIX member network
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At the present time, approximately 1140 networks within the CIX
membership are using the CIX-WEST. The CIX membership consists of:
AlterNet
CERFnet
PSINet
SprintLink
The Nordic Carries (via Alternet)
EUNET (via Alternet)
PIPEX (via Alternet)
SprintLink moved to using BGP for the exchange of routing
information with the CIX-WEST.
=====================================================================
CIX-WEST usage for October 1992
CIX In Out
Member Octets Packets Errors Octets Packets Errors
--------- ---------------------------- -------------------------
AlterNet 42300192437 165991000 15078 28067445945 179687259 0
CERFnet 29019215924 154416075 5862 29509221590 126508448 0
PSINet 23457940594 154519307 253977 39869067678 173766403 0
SprintLink 3034262770 9934643 248 437967421 5399354 0
Starting: Sep 30 1992 at 23:51
Ending: Nov 1 1992 at 00:04
SNMP Polling Intervals: 5078
SNMP Polling Frequency: 15 minutes
In - traffic entering the CIX from the CIX member network
Out - traffic exiting the CIX into the CIX member network
At the present time, approximately 1231 networks within the CIX
membership are using the CIX-WEST. The CIX membership currently
routing through CIX-WEST consists of:
AlterNet
CERFnet
PSINet
SprintLink
The Nordic Carriers (via AlterNet)
EUNET (via AlterNet)
PIPEX (via AlterNet)
Send mail to info@cix.org for information regarding the CIX.
Mark Fedor (fedor@psi.com)
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ISI
---
GIGABIT NETWORKING
Atomic
The ATOMIC project has installed two SPARCstations on the ATOMIC
LAN. ATOMIC SBus device driver and kernel development has been
completed. The single SBus card supports two parallel input and
output 320 Mb/s host channels that feed into the two incoming and
two outgoing 500 Mb/s network channels. The Address Consultant has
been extended to recognize the SBus host interfaces.
Work on implementing multicast in ATOMIC has begun. We will first
explore using the processing and storage capabilities of the Mosaic
chips to create an intelligent spanning tree.
Preliminary investigations of the AT&T 41mm series differential
drivers have shown them to be capable of driving 25-pair twisted
phone cable for at least 25 meters with negligible loss in margins
down to 9.5ns pulses. Loss of margin and pulse shape occurs rather
abruptly for shorter pulses. Insertion of two 25-pair standard
connectors had little noticeable effect. Driving two neighboring
pairs simultaneously demonstrated little coupling.
Preliminary investigation of a 10m-to-kilometer range fiber-optic
ATOMIC cable was begun. The basic design of the transmission end
appears simple and has been decided. The HDMP 1002 transmitter
part allows direct mating of an asynchronous channel, such as
Mosaic provides, to a synchronous fiber-optic channel. The
reception end will be investigated in November. Reception is
considerably more complex due to the constraints of 600+ Mb/s
synchronous data reception and simultaneous equivalent scan and
reinjection of the packets back into ATOMIC/Mosaic channels.
The fiber-optic cable would transmit over a distance that precludes
use of Mosaic channel byte-by-byte flow control. Thus the ATOMIC
fiber-optic channel must implement flow-control. We will most
probably use an in-band variant of TCP's windowing mechanism. As a
background task we shall begin investigation of the OFC safety
circuit necessary to achieve Class 1 certification for fiber-optic
installation into office environments.
Various performance tools were converted to work with the latest
version of the ATOMIC kernel. In user level performance testing,
using TCP to transfer 10 million data bytes per transfer using
Ethernet max-MTU sized packets (1500 bytes), between two
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SPARCstations, a rate of 9.2 Mb/sec was achieved over the ATOMIC
network, compared to a rate of 6.6 Mb/sec over the Ethernet.
Unfortunately, this points out all too clearly the architectural
faults of the hardware and kernel designs. ATOMIC can deliver 300+
Mb/s of payload to the SBus interface host memory, but the
architecture and stock kernel software precludes actually utilizing
more than 3% of that.
Greg Finn (finn@isi.edu)
Infrastructure
Bob Braden attended the IAB meetings and Interop 92 to give a talk.
Joyce Reynolds was a session leader/speaker at Interop, Oct 28 - 30
in San Francisco, California. Jon Postel attended the Interop
workshops in San Francisco, Oct 28-30. Bob Braden attended and
chaired the End-to-End Research Group meeting at MIT, October 14-
18.
Ten RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1366: Gerich, E., "Guidelines for Management of IP
Address Space", Merit, October 1992.
RFC 1367: Topolcic, C., "Schedule for IP Address Space
Management Guidelines", CNRI, October 1992.
RFC 1368: McMaster, D., (Synoptics Communications, Inc.),
K. McCloghrie (Hughes LAN Systems, Inc.),
"Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3
Repeater Devices", October 1992.
RFC 1369: Kastenholz, F., "Implementation Notes and
Experience for The Internet Ethernet MIB",
FTP Software, October 1992.
RFC 1370: Chapin, L., (IAB, Chair), "Applicability
Statement for OSPF", October 1992.
RFC 1371: Gross, P., (IETF/IESG Chair), "Choosing a
"Common IGP" for the IP Internet (The IESG's
Recommendation to the IAB)", October 1992.
RFC 1372: Hedrick, C., (Rutgers), D. Borman (Cray
Research,Inc.), "Telnet Remote Flow Control
Option", October 1992.
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RFC 1373: Tignor, T., "Portable DUAs", USC/ISI,
October 1992.
RFC 1374: Renwick, J., A. Nicholson, "IP and ARP on HIPPI"
Cray Research Inc., October 1992.
RFC 1375: Robinson, P., "Suggestion for New Classes of IP
Addresses", Tansin A. Darcos & Co., October 1992.
Ann Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)
MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING
The upcoming IETF meeting will mark the third multicast of live
audio and video across the Internet. This time we will try to
transmit two simultaneous channels of audio and video during the
working group breakout sessions, and we may be able to demonstrate
a return video stream to IETF.
We are assisting BBN in preparations for a demonstration of the
Synchronization Protocol they designed, through discussions of how
ISI's packet multimedia teleconferencing programs should be
modified to incorporate the Synchronization Protocol, and in a
distributed performance of multi-part music synchronized using the
protocol.
Eve Schooler completed the paper, "The Impact of Scaling on a
Multimedia Connection Architecture", which will be presented at the
Third International Workshop on Network and Operating System
Support for Digital Audio and Video to be held in San Diego, CA,
November 12-13.
Steve Casner and Eve Schooler (casner@isi.edu, schooler@isi.edu)
JVNCNET
-------
JvNCnet-Global Enterprise Services, Inc.
B6 von Neumann Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
1-800-35-TIGER
New Information
A. New on-line members (fully operational October 1992)
Trenton Public Schools, Trenton, NJ (Sept. 1992)
ARCO Power Technologies, Inc., Washington, DC
Electro Rent Corporation, Van Nuys, CA
ICD/Hearst, Old Bridge, NJ
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KMPG Peat Marwick, Chicago, IL
S. C. Johnson Wax, Racine, WI
The Consortium, Budd Lake, NJ
Theorem Beach, Viola, DE
Data-Tech Institute, Clifton, NJ
B. GES signed CIX agreement
GES signed an agreement to join Commercial Internet
Exchange (CIX) and will connect to CIX-West in Santa Clara,
California. Expected operational date is December 1992.
Rochelle Hammer (hammer@jvnc.net)
LOS NETTOS
----------
We were recently told by GTE that starting in 1993 T1's will no
longer be extended to the location of the CPE. T1's will be
terminated in the phone closet on the correct floor only. It will
be the customers responsiblity to extend the T1 to the equipment on
that floor. GTE further said in the future all of the in house
wiring will be the customers responsibility. The telco wiring will
stop in the basement wiring closet.
Our PacBell representative confirmed that they too will be making
similar changes of their line installation responsibilities.
Neither phone company has said that with this reduced service that
installation costs will be reduced.
Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU)
NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK)
---------------------------------------------------
As of October 28, 1992, NEARnet has grown to 174 member
organizations.
On October 8, 1992, NEARnet held the fifth seminar of its 1992
Mini-Seminar Series. Close to 60 participants attended NEARnet's
"Introducing the Internet to Administrators" Seminar, which was
held at the Newman Auditorium at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN)
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This session focused on the responsibility of administrators to
oversee their organizations' Internet policies and procedures. The
first part of the session included a panel discussion of
administrative topics. The members of the panel included: Houghton
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Leroy, a principal network engineer at the Foxboro Company; Jerry
Olson, director of the office of information systems at Clark
University; Liz Rivet, manager of the technical support services
department at the University of New Hampshire; and Robert Worsham,
manager of the computer resources department of the Atmospheric and
Environmental Research Corporation.
During the second portion of the session, John Rugo, Manager of
NEARnet, presented an overview of commercialization and
privatization issues facing the Internet community. Ed DeHart,
technical coordinator of the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) gave an overview of the CERT project and discussed security
issues facing administrators on the Internet. John Curran, a
member of the NEARnet Staff, concluded the seminar with a
discussion of the NEARnet and NSFNET Acceptable Usage Policies.
The sixth and final seminar of the NEARnet Mini-Seminar Series for
1992 on Upcoming Protocols and Applications is scheduled for
November 6, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at BBN's Newman
Auditorium. This seminar will focus on upcoming protocols and
applications in the Internet. Topics will include, OSI, ISODE,
X.500, the Multicasting Protocol, Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM), and
WAIS (the Wide Area Information Server).
Corinne Carroll <ccarroll@nic.near.net>
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC.
----------------------------------------
The NNSC has begun a new project collecting information about
policies and procedures from all of the known current educational
institutions on the Internet. With the receipt of this information
the NNSC will create a repository of documents and informal
comments on policies and procedures issues. This project is being
done as an effort to learn how administrators at colleges,
universities, K-12 schools, libraries, and museums can guide their
users to make the best use of the Internet while at the same time
avoid common difficulites.
To submit documents to this repository, send mail to: pol-proc-
doc@nnsc.nsf.net. To participate in the new policies and
procedures mailing list, send mail to: pol-proc@nnsc.nsf.net. To
join this mailing list, send mail to: pol-proc-
request@nnsc.nsf.net. The NNSC Staff will send an announcement to
the policies and procedures mailing list <pol-proc@nnsc.nsf.net>
when the anonymous FTP directory has been updated with the first
results of this project.
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The NNSC Staff has completely updated the Internet Resource Guide,
including 84 new or updated entries in this new version. The
latest updates to the guide are available via anonymous FTP at
nnsc.nsf.net in the resource-guide directory and through the NNSC
Info-Server. The guide is also indexed in the WAIS Server on
nnsc.nsf.net.
The NNSC Staff continues to receive and process hundreds of
requests for information on connecting to the Internet due to
articles published in the October issues of BYTE Magazine and IEEE
Spectrum.
Corinne Carroll <ccarroll@nnsc.nsf.net>
NORTHWESTNET
------------
NorthWestNet held its Annual Meeting for member organizations from
October 15-17. Over 200 persons attended including a substantial
number (30+) from the library community. Keynote presenters
included Robert Heterick (president-elect EDUCOM), Ken Kay
(Computer Systems Policy Project), David Staudt (Division of
Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure at the
National Science Foundation), John Waiblinger (University of
Southern California), Ian Taylor (University of Washington), and
Eric Hood (NorthWestNet). Keynote sessions focused on national
initiatives, identifying challenges, and descriptions of major
access projects. Afternoon break-out presentations were offered in
four tracks: technical, user services, researcher, and navigating
the Internet. Birds of a Feather sessions provided opportunities
to discuss major initiatives for NorthWestNet and to establish
working groups that will address these issues during the course of
the next year. Overall, the meeting offered an excellent
opportunity for attendees from distant sites to meet with each
other, broaden their visions of the Internet, exchange ideas, and
collect information.
Since our last meeting in October 1991, NorthWestNet has grown by
27 member institutions including several K-12 sites, public
libraries, corporations (for and not-for-profits), research
institutions, and higher education sites. The diversity of new
member organizations will benefit the region by building electronic
communities working together to promote research, education, and
economic development throughout the Northwest.
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NorthWestNet 15400 SE
30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director
Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services
Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services
Anthony Naughtin, Manager of Member Relations
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho,
Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
by Jan Eveleth <eveleth@nwnet.net>
NSFNET/INFORMATION SERVICES
---------------------------
Merit's "Cruise of the Internet" Version 2.0 has been released for
the Apple Macintosh and IBM-DOS and DOS compatibles running
Windows. A computer-based tutorial for new and experienced
Internet "navigators," the Cruise introduces the world of vast and
varied Internet resources, as well as the tools needed to access
those resources.
The Cruise tutorial will run on any color Macintosh which is
capable of displaying 256 colors:
- A Macintosh II, LC or Quadra series computer
- 8-bit color and any color monitor (12" minimum)
- System 6.05 or 7.x
- Approximately 3 MB of disk space
- 4 MB RAM is recommended
The Windows version requires:
- An IBM-DOS or DOS-compatible computer
- XGA- or XGA-compatible adapter set to display 256 colors at
640 x 480
- Microsoft Windows(TM) version 3.1
- Approximately 1.5 MB of disk space
- 2 MB RAM minimum
Both versions of the Cruise and their associated readme files,
which detail retrieval and installation, are available for
Anonymous FTP from the host nic.merit.edu as
/resources/merit.cruise2.mac.hqx
/resources/merit.cruise2.mac.readme
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and
/resources/merit.cruise2.win.exe
/resources/merit.cruise2.win.readme
Merit's "Cruise of the Internet" was developed by Steve Burdick
using MacroMind Director. It is based on the Merit presentations
"Navigating the Internet: An Information Services Cruise and
Network Tools for Document Delivery" by Laura Kelleher and Mark
Davis-Craig.
Burdick, Davis-Craig and Pat Smith of Merit Information Services
presented the new Windows version of the Cruise in the IBM booth at
the fall InterOp 92 in San Francisco. Other Merit staff
participating in InterOp proceedings included: Chris Weider
speaking on X.500 at the Global Information Services session, an
SMDS presentation by Dory Leifer, Sue Hares addressing the issue of
tools for IDRP, and Mark Knopper participating in Network 911
discussions. Elise Gerich, Enke Chen and John Vollbrecht were also
in attendance on behalf of Merit.
The new Cruise version 2.0 for the Macintosh premiered at EDUCOM,
Baltimore, MD, in the Apple booth with Laura Kelleher and Ellen
Hoffman, of Merit Information Services, at the helm. Hoffman,
manager of Information Services at Merit, gave a preconference
discussion on Internet use. Jim Williams, Merit Associate Director
for National Networking, also attended.
The Merit presentation "Navigating the Internet: An Information
Services Cruise" has been requested at several local, regional and
national seminars: Burdick presented the IS Cruise at a meeting of
the NASA Science Internet in Greenbelt, MD; Davis-Craig, Kelleher
and Smith "Navigated the Internet" with faculty, staff and students
at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, as well as
prepared and directed a hands-on tutorial on Internet resources and
tools as a two-day on-site seminar; Davis-Craig cruised the
Internet with members of the Idaho Library Association at their
meeting in late September. A Spanish translation of "Navigating
the Internet: An Information Services Cruise" was done for an
international audience attending the III Semana de Ingenieria en
Sistemas Computacionales held in Guadalajara, Mexico September 21-
25. Dana Sitzler of Merit gave the presentation in English, with
slides and program notes in Spanish. A translator facilitated the
discussion.
Merit's Information Services group hosted "Making Your Internet
Connection Count: Technology, Tools and Resources" in Ann Arbor, MI
October 19 and 20. Another in the series of Merit Networking
Seminars, nationally recognized leaders in the Internet community
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were featured speakers: Mike Roberts, EDUCOM, "NREN Update"; Tom
Grundner, Cleveland Free-Net, "Community Access"; Ron Larsen,
University of Maryland Libraries, "National Library Resources at
Your Fingertips"; Phill Gross, ANS and the IETF, "Gigabit
Technology Update"; John Duhring, WAIS Project, "Commercial Aspects
of the Internet"; and Douglas E. Van Houweling, Vice Provost for
Information Technology, "Internetworking Futures." Several resident
experts at the University of Michigan also participated: Karen
Drabenstott, School of Information and Library Studies, "Use of
Online Information by Library Patrons and Librarians"; Jeff
Masters, Atmospheric Science, "UM Weather Underground"; and Clancy
Wolf, School of Education, "Interactive Communications and
Simulations." Merit speakers included: Ellen Hoffman, IS,
"NSFNET-- Your Highway to National Networking"; Laura Kelleher, IS,
"Navigating the Internet: An Information Services Cruise"; Mark
Davis-Craig, IS, "Navigating the Internet: Network Tools for
Document Delivery"; John Scudder, Internet Engineering,
"Introduction to Internetworking and TCP/IP"; and Dana Sitzler, K-
12 Outreach, "Project Connect". A hands-on tutorial to teach the
use of mail, telnet, ftp, Gopher and WAIS for effective information
access, was given by Information Services staff following the day-
and-a-half program.
Merit Internet Engineering staff hosted the Merit/NSFNET Technical
Seminar in Ann Arbor, MI, September 21-22. Vint Cerf of CNRI
discussed the "Criteria for Future Internet Protocol Architecture,"
and moderated a panel discussion on long term architecture options
which featured Noel Chiappa on NIMROD, Peter Ford on TUBA, Paul
Tsuchiya on PIP and Dave Crocker on IPAE. "A Unified Approach to
Inter-Domain Routing" was presented by Yakov Rehkter. Merit/ANS
organizational restructuring was addressed by Mark Knopper and
Jordan Becker, who also teamed to provide the status report on the
ANSNET/NSFNET. Route server/NAP experiments were discussed by John
Scudder, Merit IE, and Enke Chen, Merit NMS, described backbone
routing stability monitoring and statistics collection.
The September NREN Policy Workshop sponsored by IEEE, EDUCOM and
Computing Research Associates in Monterey, CA, was attended by Eric
Aupperle, President of Merit Network, Inc. and Jim Williams, Merit
Associate Director. Elise Gerich of Internet Engineering was
Merit's representative to the RIPE quarterly meeting held in Paris,
France in early October. While in Paris, Gerich met with
representatives of EASInet, IBM and ANS to discuss the cutover of
EASInet to T3. Gerich also participated on the INET '93 program
committee meeting held in San Francisco.
Jo Ann Ward (jward@merit.edu)
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SDSC (SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER)
-------------------------------------
SDSC Network Activities
=======================
We have installed a 4th NSC DX box on our FDDI ring. This new box
will provide additional Ethernet ports. It will also serve as the
keystone in splitting our FDDI ring into a building ring and a DMZ
for network to network traffic. This is analogous to our current
Ethernet structure.
We have been actively testing our HiPPi Cray Sun connection via our
NSC P32 switch. This has turned up several problems. The Cray
software has been updated along with portions of the NSC hardware.
We now have traffic flowing between the two systems, though a few
quirks remain.
We have done additional testing over the T3 between SDSC and NCSA.
We hope to be able to publish some figures next month.
Over the weekend of 20-22 Nov, we will be placing our Auspex file
server into production use. During this effort, we will also be
splitting our office building's single Ethernet into multiple
segments. For a good portion of the weekend, many of our systems
will be off the air. Our Cray and other major system will,
hopefully, only be off between 8AM and noon PST, on Sat. This move
will also cause some of our IP address to change. We will be
adjusting our DNS server's timeout values to minimize the impact of
these changes.
Most of the new fiber through out the building has been pulled and
some of the equipment installed. The first portion to be
operational will be the new Ethernets over fiber to support the
Auspex. This will be followed closely by FDDI on each floor.
As I mentioned before, we have taken our Ultra hub out of service.
After a review, we have decided to sell it as it no longer fits in
our LAN plans.
Over 230,000 external mail messages were process through SDSC's
gateways. This is 7% over last month. The growth in mail passing
through the SDSC gateway is growing at 60,000 messages a year. Some
stats follow.
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Year Avg Msg/month
---- -------------
1990 90,000
1991 150,000
1992 210,000
Rough Message Protocol breakdown:
55% TCP/IP
33% BITNET
12% DECnet
How messages span the protocols:
Over 230,000 external mail messages were process through SDSC's
gateways. This is 7% over last month. The growth in mail passing
through the SDSC gateway is growing at 60,000 messages a year. Some
stats follow.
Year Avg Msg/month
---- -------------
1990 90,000
1991 150,000
1992 210,000
Rough Message Protocol breakdown:
55% TCP/IP
33% BITNET
12% DECnet
How messages span the protocols:
from/to tcp/ip BITnet DECnet
tcp/ip 78% 15% 7%
BITnet 90% 3% 7%
DECnet 93% 4% 3%
SDSC has established a MBONE routing node to server the San Diego
area as well as CERFnet for multicast traffic. This system has a
pair of Ethernet interfaces. One is on our Ethernet DMZ, the other
on CERFnet's local backbone.
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SDSC has been awarded a grant by NSF to establish a connection into
the ATM network service being provided to DOE & NASA by Sprint.
This is part of a planned commercial offering and is expected to be
in place at SDSC by Spring.
Paul Love <loveep@sdsc.edu>
UCL
----
Peter Kirstein and Jon Crowcroft attended the 31st ICB meeting at
FGAN in Bonn, Germany. Discusssions on MMHS and PEM were very
fruitful. David Lewis attended the Networks Conference at
Trivandrum, India.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
--------
Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate
for this calendar section. Please send your submissions to
(cooper@isi.edu).
1992 CALENDAR
Sep 28-Oct 2 Int'l. Conf. on Computer Comm., Genova, Italy
Oct 5-9 EWOS Workshops, Brussels
Oct 6 WG15
Oct 6-9 CCITT WP/SG V
Oct 7-9 ETSF Technical Assembly, Nice, France
Oct 12-16 FORTE'92, Lannion, France
Roland Groz (groz@lannion.cnet.fr)
Michel Diaz (diaz@droopy.laas.fr)
Oct 12-16 CCITT WP/SG1
Oct 18 T1AG, T1
Oct 20-23 CCITT WP/SG VI
Oct 25 T1P1
Oct 26-30 CCITT WP/SG VII
Oct 26-30 INTEROP92, San Francisco
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Oct 28-29 NETWORKS '92, Trivandrum, India
S.V. Raghavan (raghavan@shiva.ernet.in)
Nov 2-6 T1S1
Nov 3-5 The Network Services Conference 1992
Organized by EARN, in cooperation with EUNET/
EurOpen, Nordunet, RIPE and RARE, Pisa, Italy
Nov 4-5 European Electronic Mail Assoc. (EEMA), London
Nov 5-6 EARN, TBC
Nov 9-11 COSINE Policy Group, Rome
Nov 9-12 OPEN Networking '92
First Conference for german Internet User
Marriott Hotel, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
DIGI: konferenz@digi.de
Nov 9-13 ANSI X3T5
Nov 10-11 EWOS Technical Assembly, Brussels
Nov 10-12 ANSI X3S3.3, Cambridge, MA
Nov 11 Member Meeting DIGI
German Internet User Group
Marriott Hotel, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
DIGI: vorstand@digi.de
Nov 16-20 IETF, Wash. D.C.
Nov 25-26 ETSI General Assembly, Nice, France
Nov 25-29 EurOpen/Uniform, Amsterdam
Nov 29 T1E1, Anaheim, CA
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Dec 6-9 GLOBECOM '92, Orlando, Florida (See IEEE Publications)
Dec 7-11 DECUS '92, Las Vegas, NV
Dec 13 T1AG
Dec 14-18 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Dec 18 ECTUA General Assembly,
1993 CALENDAR
Jan RARE Council of Administration, TBC
Jan 4-7 Intl Workshop on Intelligent,
Jan 5-7 ANSI X3S3.3, Menlo Park, Ca
Jan 11-15 TCOS WG, New Orleans
Jan 25-27 RIPE, Prague
Jan 25-29 USENIX, San Diego
Feb 1-5 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6/WG3 and WG6, London
Feb 8-12 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6/WG1 and WG4, London
Feb 11-12 PSRG Workshop on network and Distributed System
Security, San Diego, Ca
Feb 28-Mar 3 Modeling & Analysis of Telecommunication
Systems, Nashville, TN
Mar 8-12 INTEROP93, Wasington, D.C.
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Mar 8-12 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Mar 15-18 Uniform, San Francisco
Mar 24-31 CEBIT 93, Hannover, Germany
Apr 5-19 TCOS WG, Boston (tentative)
Apr 14-16 National Net'93, Washington, D.C.
(net93@educom.edu)
Apr 18-23 IFIP WG 6.6 Third International Symposium
on Integrated Network Management, Sheraton
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA (kzm@hls.com)
Apr 20-22 ANSI X3S3.3, Orlando, FL
May 10-13 4th Joint European Networking COnf., JENC93
Trondheim, Norway
May 13-14 RARE Council of Administration, Trondheim
May 23-26 ICC'93, Geneva, Switzerland
May-Jun PSTV-XIII, University of Liege.
Contact: Andre Danthine,
Jun 2-4 ANSI X3S3.3, Raleigh, NC
Jun 7-11 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Jun 15-30 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21, Yokohama
Jun 21-25 USENIX, Cincinnati
Jun 30 RARE Technical Committee, Amsterdam
Jul 12-16 TCOS WG, Hawaii (tentative)
Aug 1-6 Multimedia '93, Anaheim, CA
Aug 17-20 INET'93, San Francisco, CA
(inet93@educom.edu)
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Aug 18-21 INET93, San Francisco Bay Area
Aug 23-27 INTEROP93, San Francisco
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Aug SIGCOMM 93, San Francisco
Sep ?? 6th SDL Forum, Darmstadt
Ove Faergemand (ove@tfl.dk)
Sep 8-9 ANSI X3S3.3, Boulder, CO
Sep 13-17 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Sep 20-31 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6, Seoul, Korea.
Sep 28-29 September RIPE Technical Days, TBC
Sep 30-Oct 2 Paris
Oct INTEROP93, Paris, France
Oct 12-14 Conference on Network Information Processing,
Sofia, Bulgaria; Contact: IFIP-TC6
Oct 18-22 TCOS WG, Atlanta, GA (tentative)
Nov 2-4 ANSI X3S3.3, TBD
Nov 9-13 IEEE802 Plenary, LaJolla, CA
Nov 15-19 Supercomputing 93, Portland, OR
Dec 6-10 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
1994 CALENDAR
Apr 18-22 INTEROP94, Washington, D.C.
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
June 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 ULPAA, Barcelona, Spain
Einar Stefferud (stef@nma.com)
Aug 29-Sep 2 IFIP World Congress
Hamburg, Germany; Contact: IFIP
Sep 12-16 INTEROP94, San Francisco
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
1995 CALENDAR
Sep 18-22 INTEROP95, San Francisco, CA
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
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