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July 1994
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26
NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
NYSERNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
RARE SECRETARIAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39
Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 42
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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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1. The 30th meeting of the IETF was held in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada from July 25 through July 29, 1994. The meeting was
hosted by The University of Toronto. Though not yet final,
there were over 700 attendees.
The next IETF meeting will be in San Jose, California from
December 5-9, 1994. Following that, the IETF will be meeting in
Danvers (a suburb of Boston) from April 3-7, 1995. We currently
working on the summer IETF meeting to be held in Stockholm,
Sweden. 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.
2. The IETF Secretariat has joined the Web! The URL for the IETF
Home Page is "http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html" and
contains information on IETF Working Groups, Internet-Drafts,
RFCs, etc. The proceedings from the Seattle IETF meeting (March,
1994) are on the Web as well.
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following four Protocol
Actions during the month of July, 1994:
o Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interface is a Draft
Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management Version
8.0 is a Proposed Standard.
o RDBMS-MIB is a Proposed Standard.
o Modem MIB is a Proposed Standard.
4. The IESG issued one Last Call to the IETF during the month of
July, 1994:
o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 <draft-rose-pop3-again-03>
for consideration as a Draft Standard.
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5. One Working Group was created during this period:
Mail Extensions (mailext)
Additionally, one Working Groups was concluded:
Character MIB (charmib)
6. A total of 75 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of July, 1994:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
WG I-D Title <Filename>
------ -----------------------------------------------------
(isis) o Integrated IS-IS Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-isis-mib-04.txt>
(mhsds) o Representing Tables and Subtrees in the Directory
<draft-ietf-mhsds-subtrees-05.txt, .ps>
(mhsds) o Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the
Directory Information Tree
<draft-ietf-mhsds-infotree-05.txt, .ps>
(mhsds) o Use of the Directory to support mapping between
X.400 and RFC 822 Addresses
<draft-ietf-mhsds-supmapping-05.txt, .ps>
(mhsds) o MHS use of Directory to support MHS Routing
<draft-ietf-mhsds-routdirectory-05.txt, .ps>
(bgp) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction
<draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4ospf-interact-04.txt>
(ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-ospf-mib-04.txt>
(pem) o PEM Security Services and MIME
<draft-ietf-pem-mime-06.txt>
(avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
<draft-ietf-avt-rtp-05.txt, .ps>
(isis) o Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and
Multi-Protocol Environments
<draft-ietf-isis-tcpip-01.txt>
(rolc) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
<draft-ietf-rolc-nhrp-01.txt>
(uri) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
<draft-ietf-uri-url-04.txt>
(mhsds) o Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project
for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information
in Support of X.400 Routing
<draft-ietf-mhsds-long-bud-intro-01.txt>
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(wnils) o Whois and Network Information Lookup Service Whois++
<draft-ietf-wnils-whois-lookup-01.txt>
(none) o Internet Authentication Guidelines
<draft-haller-auth-requirements-05.txt>
(notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status
Notifications
<draft-ietf-notary-mime-delivery-02.txt>
(ripv2) o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information
<draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-01.txt>
(ifmib) o Management Information Base for Management of
Network Connections
<draft-ietf-ifmib-conntable-02.txt>
(svrloc) o Service Location Protocol
<draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-04.txt>
(pppext) o PPP Stacker LZS Compression Protocol
<draft-ietf-pppext-stacker-01.txt>
(ripv2) o RIP Version 2 MIB Extension
<draft-ietf-ripv2-mibext2-01.txt>
(rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1
Functional Specification
<draft-ietf-rsvp-spec-03.txt, .ps>
(osids) o Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol <draft-ietf-osids-cldap-01.txt>
(none) o Post Office Protocol - Version 3
<draft-rose-pop3-again-03.txt>
(sipp) o Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP): Addressing
Architecture <draft-ietf-sipp-routing-addr-02.txt>
(imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
<draft-ietf-imap-imap4-04.txt>
(ospf) o IP Forwarding Table MIB
<draft-ietf-ospf-cidr-route-mib-03.txt>
(sipp) o Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) Specification
(128-bit address version)
<draft-ietf-sipp-spec-01.txt>
(isn) o K-12 Internetworking Guidelines
<draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide-01.txt, .ps>
(none) o Conventional IP over ATM
<draft-ohta-ip-over-atm-01.txt>
(cat) o The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism
<draft-ietf-cat-kerb5gss-01.txt>
(tuba) o Transition Plan for TUBA/CLNP
<draft-ietf-tuba-transition-01.txt>
(isis) o Integrated ISIS Protocol Analysis
<draft-ietf-isis-prot-anal-01.txt>
(isis) o Experience with the Integrated ISIS Protocol
<draft-ietf-isis-opexp-01.txt>
(none) o Requirements for Uniform Resource Names
<draft-sollins-urn-01.txt>
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(mobileip) o IP Mobility Support
<draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-05.txt>
(none) o Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving, and
Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory Schema
<draft-howes-x500-schema-01.txt>
(ipatm) o ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM
<draft-ietf-ipatm-sig-01.txt>
(pppext) o Proposal for Callback Control Protocol (CBCP).
<draft-ietf-pppext-callback-cp-02.txt>
(pem) o Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and
Multipart/Encrypted <draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-01.txt>
(printmib) o Printer MIB <draft-ietf-printmib-printer-mib-02.txt>
(none) o Shared Media Architecture for the Internet
<draft-ohta-shared-media-01.txt>
(none) o Socks Protocol Version 4
<draft-leech-socks-protocol-v4-01.txt>
(none) + Accounting Meter Services MIB
<draft-brownlee-acct-meter-mib-00.txt>
(none) + BigTen (BT) Packet Format
<draft-ford-bigten-bt-format-00.txt>
(sdr) + SDRP Route Construction
<draft-ietf-sdr-route-construction-00.txt, .ps>
(cat) + The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM)
<draft-ietf-cat-spkmgss-00.txt>
(none) + A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools (DRAFT)
<draft-ietf-uswg-primer-00.txt>
(uri) + Encoding and Use of Uniform Resource Characteristics
<draft-ietf-uri-urc-spec-00.txt>
(ifmib) + IEEE 802.5 MIB
<draft-ietf-ifmib-tokenringmib-00.txt>
(ripv2) o RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement
<draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-applic-01.txt>
(none) + PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP)
<draft-schneider-ppp-sdtp-00.txt>
(dnsind) + Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS):
Architecture and Mechanism
<draft-ietf-dnsind-dynDNS-arch-00.txt>
(none) + The Nimrod Routing Architecture
<draft-castineyra-routing-arch-00.txt>
(dnsind) + Implementation of Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic
Updates <draft-ietf-dnsind-dynDNS-impl-00.txt>
(none) + SC6 Hots up the Pace at its June 20th to 30th
Meeting in Tuusula, Finland
<draft-houldsworth-sc6-hot-finland-00.txt>
(none) + SMTP 521 reply code
<draft-durand-smtp-521-reply-code-00.txt>
(whip) + A Specification for the Simple Internet White Pages
Service. <draft-ietf-whip-iwps-requirements-00.txt>
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(none) + IPng Mobility Considerations
<draft-simpson-ipng-mobility-00.txt>
(sipp) + Simple SIPP Transition (SST) Overview
<draft-ietf-sipp-sst-overview-00.txt>
(idmr) + Internet Group Management Protocol MIB
<draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-mib-00.txt>
(pppext) + The PPP AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-atcp2-00.txt>
(idmr) + IP Multicast Routing MIB
<draft-ietf-idmr-multicast-routmib-00.txt>
(idmr) + Protocol Independent Multicast MIB
<draft-ietf-idmr-pim-mib-00.txt>
(snanau) + Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC
<draft-ietf-snanau-appcmib-00.txt>
(none) + Dynamic DNS <draft-ohta-dynamic-dns-00.txt>
(none) + Mobility Support for Nimrod : Requirements and
Solution Approaches
<draft-ramanathan-mobility-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + Multicast Support for Nimrod : Requirements and
Solution Approaches
<draft-ramanathan-multicast-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + An Architecture for SIPP-16 Address Allocation
<draft-rekhter-arch-sipp16-addr-00.txt>
(none) + IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod Routing
and Addressing Architecture
<draft-chiappa-ipng-nimrod-arch-00.txt>
(none) + SDRP Routing Header Format for SIPP-16
<draft-ford-sdrp-sipp16-format-00.txt>
(snadlc) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link
Control: LLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-llc-mib-00.txt>
(pppext) + The PPP Banyan Vines Control Protocol (BVCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-vines-00.txt>
(pppext) + PPP Kerberos version 4 Authentication Protocol
(KAPv4) <draft-ietf-pppext-kapv4-auth-00.txt>
(tuba) + Extensions to MIB-II for TUBA/CLNP systems
<draft-ietf-tuba-mib-00.txt>
7. There were 25 RFC's published during the month of July, 1994:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1610 S (iab) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS
RFC1627 I (none) Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some
Practices Shouldn't be Codified)
RFC1641 E (none) Using Unicode with MIME
RFC1642 E (none) UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation Format
of Unicode
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RFC1643 S (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Ethernet-like Interface Types
RFC1644 E (none) T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions
Functional Specification
RFC1645 I (none) Simple Network Paging Protocol - Version
2
RFC1646 I (tn3270e) TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer
Selection
RFC1647 PS (tn3270e) TN3270 Enhancements
RFC1648 PS (x400ops) Postmaster Convention for X.400
Operations
RFC1649 I (x400ops) Operational Requirements for X.400
Management Domains in the GO-MHS
Community
RFC1651 DS (smtpext) SMTP Service Extensions
RFC1652 DS (smtpext) SMTP Service Extension for
8bit-MIMEtransport
RFC1653 DS (smtpext) SMTP Service Extension for Message Size
Declaration
RFC1654 PS (bgp) A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
RFC1655 PS (bgp) Application of the Border Gateway
Protocol in the Internet
RFC1656 I (bgp) BGP-4 Protocol Document Roadmap and
Implementation Experience
RFC1657 PS (bgp) Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Fourth Version of the Border Gateway
Protocol (BGP-4) using SMIv2
RFC1658 DS (charmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for
Character Stream Devices using SMIv2
RFC1659 DS (charmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for
RS-232-like Hardware Devices using SMIv2
RFC1660 DS (charmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for
Parallel-printer-like Hardware Devices
using SMIv2
RFC1661 S (pppext) The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
RFC1662 S (pppext) PPP in HDLC-like Framing
RFC1663 PS (pppext) PPP Reliable Transmission
RFC1665 PS (snanau) Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA
NAUs using SMIv2
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING
- ----------------------------------
Network Status Summary
=======================
ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 1.75% in July'94. An
increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of .35% was observed
during the month of July.
April Backbone Traffic Statistics
==============================
The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 62,709,811,154 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up
1.5% from June. The total packet count into the network including
all ENSS serial interfaces was 71,692,393,856 up 1.74% from June.
Router Forwarding Table Statistics
================================
The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during
July was 17,853 up .35% from June.
The number of network destinations configured for announcement to
the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during July was
15,894.
BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status
============================
No new autonomous systems began exchanging routing information with
ANSnet via the BGP-4 protocol during June.
As of August 9th '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 6,732
class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables
that are now represented by 1,157 configured aggregates. Among
these configured aggregates:
1,026 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another
aggregate).
818 of these are actively announced to ANSnet.
683 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other 135
may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements).
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596 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one
configured more specific route.
583 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their
configured more specific routes.
570 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+) of
their more specific routes.
For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu:
pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr-savings.
For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see
merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings.
Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network
============================================
Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring
short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration
or less). This is intended as a measure of overall system
stability rather than complete connectivity. Some instability was
experienced in July mostly due to router restarts required to
accomplish installation of a new AIX build and problems with gated
during reconfiguration. There were also some equipment problems
that caused instability for E222 and E163.
MONTH overall excluding configs
------ ------- -----------------
January 99.1% 99.5%
February 99.0% 99.5%
March 97.5% 99.1%
April 96.1% 97.2%
May 97.4% 98.0%
June 95.5% 96.6%
July 97.3% 97.7%
August 97.5% 97.9%
September 98.1% 98.5%
October 98.0% 98.3%
November 97.2% N/A
December 96.6% N/A
January 98.7% N/A
February 96.6% N/A
...
June 99.5% N/A
July 98.7% N/A
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Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability
follows. During July, most of the nodes fell in the 1-2 hour range
due to the AIX deployment and gated reconfiguration problems. This
instability was during the maintenance window.
MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min
<98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97%
------------------------------------------------------------
January 0 0 1 8 19 55
February 0 0 1 24 19 41
March 0 4 18 23 23 22
April 2 2 3 13 12 57
May 0 4 33 32 15 5
June 3 21 35 18 12 3
July 0 12 28 44 6 1
August 1 5 28 21 17 15
September 1 38 25 10 4 13
October 0 3 3 10 25 50
November 1 2 15 25 24 26
December 0 8 24 46 9 3
January 0 0 4 9 15 54
February 0 4 6 23 40 20
...
June 0 0 0 5 5 67
July 0 7 55 11 10 7
External route flap reports have been rewritten to accomodate
differences in the wayroutes are withdrawn in BGP-4 (there is never
an AS path included) and the support of CIDR. The new reports are
described in:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/daily-reports/README
Notable Outages for June '94
==========================
UNAM suffered extended circuit outages on 06/06 and 06/18.
E222 (InterNIC) suffered an extended circuit outage on 06/17.
E158 (MHPCC) suffered an extended outage due to site maintenance on
06/18.
E138 (Atlanta) lost T3 connectivity due to hardware problems on
06/25.
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UNAM suffered an extended outage due to site maintenance on 06/29.
Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
- ----------------------------
Current BBN projects include:
"Nimrod," an architecture for next-generation internet routing and
addressing. This month, work continued on defining the functions
and protocols needed to enable interaction among the various Nimrod
components, including entity representatives, association agents,
root agents and forwarding agents. Results of this work were
presented at the Toronto IETF meeting.
Point of contact: Martha Steenstrup, msteenstrup@bbn.com
Enhancements to Inter-Domain Policy Routing. During July, work
progressed on implementation of a parser for handling the new
syntax and grammar for the IDPR configuration file. Various
improvements have been designed to make IDPR configuration easier
to understand and less painful. For example, definition of an
adjacent policy gateway and its connections used to involve
multiple configuration statements that have now been consolidated
into one. Specification of source policies used to require per-
flow definitions, and now, one can state a policy and then list all
the flows to which it applies. There are several similar
improvements that should lead to greater flexibility and reduced
verbosity.
Point of contact: Martha Steenstrup, msteenstrup@bbn.com
Determination of token bucket parameters necessary to meet service
requirements of some observed TCP flows. Results could be used,
for example, to guide the future configuration of traffic-shaping
network interfaces.
Point of contact: Craig Partridge, craig@bbn.com
Enhancing the Flow Synchronization Protocol. Under Arpa funding,
BBN developed a protocol for synchronization of multiple flows
across an internetwork. A common application for this protocol is
lip-sync: synchronization of voice and video flows in a
videoconferencing application over wide area networks. The
protocol does not require the flows' sources or their destinations
to share common hardware. It relies on network clock
synchronization protocols (e.g. NTP) to provide time
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synchronization, and it adaptively equalizes the flows' delays
through the networks to a common end-to-end delay. The adaptation
employed allows interactive applications to reach the most
desirable compromise between degree of synchronization and
resultant end-to-end delay. Experiments to date have demonstrated
lip-synchronization and synchronization of a widely dispersed
musical ensemble. A description of the protocol and these
experiments can be found in the February 1994 issue of the IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking (Flow Synchronization Protocol, by
Escobar, Partridge, and Deutsch). This month, work continued on
testing the new GUI-based configuration tool in preparation for a
demonstration to be presented at ACM MultiMedia '94. In addition,
a library of Sync. Protocol code and documentation for implementors
was made available via anonymous ftp.
Point of contact: Julio Escobar, jescobar@bbn.com
Joshua P. Seeger <jseeger@bbn.com>
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or your gopher client to:
is.internic.net
NET-HAPPENINGS
The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information
Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's
SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the
community announcements of interest to network staffers and end
users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers,
publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network
resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only
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mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources
and concentrates them onto one list. To provide better
distribution to a wider audience, net-happenings is being turned
into a USENET newsgroup. The group, if approved, will be named
comp.internet.net-happenings.
A call for votes (CFV) is currently being conducted. Information
about the CFV is available in the net-happenings archive number
4435. To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to:
is.internic.net
and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings.
THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights
Presently the Scout Report has over 7500 subscribers and the HTML
versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of accesses each
week. A new mailing list was created for easier distribution of
the HTML Scout Report, which is located at scout-report-html.
Since its formation the new list has accumulated nearly 100
subscribers.
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet
community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network
activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights
of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the
Internet during the previous week.
The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats --
electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb. WorldWideWeb versions
of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing
instantaneous browsing of items of interest. Comments and
contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to
scout@internic.net.
How to Get the Scout Report
To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each
Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will
be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail
to:
majordomo@is.internic.net
In the body of the message, type:
subscribe scout-report youremailaddress
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To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW
client to:
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
Gopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services
THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES
For current seminar information, including cost, dates and times,
send email to: seminars@internic.net.
NSF NETWORK NEWS
The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 3 (July/August 1994) is
scheduled for publication at the end of August. The upcoming issue
will feature an interview with Laura Breeden, who is currently the
director of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure
Assistance Program (TIIAP). Also highlighted are articles
profiling the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and
its connection and history with NCSA Mosaic; a map designed by
Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS) especially for NSF
News readers that graphs the number of Internet Hosts per capita in
the United States; a useful Registration Services FAQ; an
informativeRhow-toS article on Internet publishing by Daniel Dern;
and the regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the
InterNIC Event Calendar and updates from InterNIC partners. To
subscribe, send email to newsletter-request@internic.net.
The July/August issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the
WorldWideWeb at
http://www.internic.net/newsletter/july-august94/index.html
The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC
InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to
mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the
message:
get /about-internic/newsletter/archives/nsfnews-mar-94.txt
or
get /about-internic/newsletter/archives/nsfnews-sep-93.txt
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REFERENCE DESK
The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for
July:
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 148 4
Phone 2964 78
Fax 632 17
US Mail 12 <1
Referral 35 <1
------- -------- ---------
Total 3793 100.0
Anna Knittle <aknittle@is.internic.net>
REGISTRATION SERVICES
---------------------
I. Significant Events
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 35,000 network
addresses (30,000 to Space and Naval Warfare Command) and
registered over 1800 domains. Blocks of 256 Class C addresses were
assigned to Digital Express, UUNET of Canada, Connected Inc.,
Sprintlink, Westnet, County of Riverside, Worldlink Canada, CSUnet,
GM, EDS, and EDSlink.
I. Registration Statistics For July
Hostmaster Email 4,823
Postal/Fax Applications 240
Telephone Calls 2,220
Domain Registered 1,895
Inverse Addresses 517
Class C's Assigned 35,331
Class B's Assigned 24
ASN Assigned 49
The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
of information retrieval requests during the month of June.
Connections Retrievals
Gopher 46,006 25,118
WAIS 26,564 34,984
FTP 8,656 36,633
Mailserv 2,441
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In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:
Client Server
189,888 580,303
Scott Williamson <scottw@internic.net>
InterNIC Registration Service
ISI
- ---
NETSTATION
----------
Work this month continued to focus on protocol software
investigation and development.
Display Server Investigation
----------------------------
A graduate student, S. K. Munnangi, has split the X-display server
into two parts. The "lower" server portion will reside on the
network display peripheral being constructed. Packets will be sent
between the "higher" portion of the server to the display
peripheral to determine how practical it may be to replace the
system bus with a gigabit LAN.
The higher and lower portions will be prototyped and debugged on
two Sun workstations prior to porting the lower portion to the
display peripheral. A TMS 320C40 emulator and simulator is being
used for porting and testing prior to actual display hardware
arrival.
LANai 1.1 Software Development
------------------------------
The focus of LANai development during the past month has been on
debugging and testing of a sequenced reliable-packet protocol
implemented "inside" the ATOMIC LAN. This allows an application to
treat the LAN as a reliable medium, much as it would now treat a
DMA transmission between the CPU and a device across a system bus.
The work done by the LANai networking chips to achieve this is
straightforward.
SEND,RECV: connection maintenance
SEND,RECV: transmission and reception interrupt service
SEND: sequence number generation and insertion in packets
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SEND: retransmission event creation
SEND,RECV: bad packet, duplicate and out-of-sequence detection
RECV: ACK generation and transmission
SEND: ACK reception and processing
RECV: retranmission event removal
Currently, only one outstanding packet per connection is allowed.
The performance figure per packet is 125.5 microseconds. This
includes all "normal" work performed listed above. It is measured
from the time that the sending LANai notices that a packet should
be sent, until it has sent it, spawned a retransmission event,
processed the returned ACK, removed the retransmission event, and
marked the sending application's buffer as sent.
Testing Notes
-------------
The LANai chips were clocked at 20 MHz to match the SBus clock.
Short IP/UDP/RPC packets of approximately 120 octets were used
during these tests. Cable transmission time across the ATOMIC
network between SPARstation-2 hosts was insignificant. The LANai
channel transmission clock was 60 MB/s. Total one-way transmission
latency should therefore be under three microseconds.
The bulk of the 125 microseconds of overhead per packet for short
packets is LANai program execution at the source and destination,
which introduces a forced latency between packets. For example,
call-out queue event insertion and event removal for the
retransmission time-out consumes 30 microseconds.
The current prototype LANai 1.1 chips can be clocked 50% faster, to
30MHz, but that was not be done due to the difficulties of
interfacing to a 20 MHz SBus.
More testing and development will occur during August. The one-
outstanding-packet restriction will be relaxed to see what
improvement, if any, will be realized.
Presentations
The Los Angeles area NPR station KPCC did a one hour program on the
Internet during their Friday Airtalk program July 22nd. The local
guest speaker was Gregory Finn from USC/ISI.
Gregory G. Finn (finn@isi.edu) Bruce Parham (Parham@isi.edu),
Munnangi (Munnangi@isi.edu)
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Joyce Reynolds, Bob Braden, Jon Postel attended the IETF in
Toronto,
25 RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1610: Internet Architecture Board (IAB), J. Postel, Editor,
"Internet Official Protocol Standards", July 1994.
RFC 1627: Lear, E., (Silicon Graphics, Inc.), E. Fair (Apple
Computer, Inc.), D. Crocker (Silicon Graphics, Inc.)
T. Kessler (Sun Microsystems, Inc.), "Network 10
Considered Harmful (Some Practices Shouldn't be
Codified)", July 1994.
RFC 1641: Goldsmith, D., "Using Unicode with MIMI", Taligent,
Inc., July 1994.
RFC 1642: Goldsmith, D., "UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation
Format of Unicode, Taligent Inc., July 1994.
RFC 1643: Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for
the Ethernet-like Interface Types", FTP Software, Inc.,
July 1994.
RFC 1644: Braden, R., "T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions
Functional Specification", July 1994.
RFC 1645: Gwinn, A., "Simple Network Paging Protocol --
Version 2" Southern Methodist University, July 1994.
RFC 1646: Graves, C., Butts, T., Angel, M., " TN3270 Extensions
for LUname and Printer Selection", Open Connect
Systems, July 1994.
RFC 1647: Kelly, B., "TN3270 Enhancements", Auburn University,
July 1994.
RFC 1648: Cargille, A., "Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations
Operations University of Wisconsin, July 1994.
RFC 1649: Hagens, R (Advanced Network & Services, Inc.), and
A. Hansen (UNINETT), "Operational Requirements for
X.400 Management Domains in the GO-MHS Community,
July 1994.
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RFC 1651: Klensin, J. (WG Chair-MCI), N. Freed (Ed. Innosoft),
M. Rose (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.), E. Stefferud
(Network Management Associates, Inc.), D. Crocker
(Silicon Graphics, Inc), "SMTP Service Extensions"
July 1994.
RFC 1652: Klensin, J. (WG Chair-MCI), N. Freed (Ed. Innosoft),
M. Rose (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.), E. Stefferud
(Network Management Associates, Inc.), D. Crocker
(Silicon Graphics, Inc), "SMTP Service Extensions for
8bit-MIMEtransport", July 1994.
RFC 1653: Klensin, J. (WG Chair-MCI), N. Freed (Ed. Innosoft),
K. Moore, "SMTP Service Extension for Message Size
Declaration", July 1994.
RFC 1654: Rekhter, Y., (T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.),
T. Li, (CISCO Systems), "A Border Gateway Protocol 4
(BGP-4)", July 1994.
RFC 1655: Rekhter, Y., (T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.),
P. Gross (MCI), "Application of the Border Gateway
Protocol in the Internet", July 1994.
RFC 1656: Traina, P., "BGP-4 Protocol Document Roadmap and
Implementation Experience", Cisco Systems, July 1994.
RFC 1657: Willis, S., and S. Burrus, (Wellfleet Communications
Inc.), J. Chu, Editor, (IBM Corp), "Definitions of
Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of the Border
Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) using SMIv2", July 1994.
RFC 1658: Stewart, B., "Definitions of Managed Objects for
Character Stream Devices Using SMIv2", Xplex, Inc.
July 1994.
RFC 1859: Stewart, B., "Definitions of Managed Objects for
RS-232-like Hardware Devices using SMIv2", Xyplex,
Inc., July 1994.
RFC 1660: Stewart, B., "Definitions of Managed Objects for
Parallel-printer-like Hardware Devices using SMIv2",
Xyplex, Inc., July 1994.
RFC 1661: Simpson, W., Editor, "The Point-to-Point (PPP)",
Daydreamer, July 1994.
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RFC 1662: Simpson, W., Editor, "PPP in HDLC-like Framing",
Daydreamer, July 1994.
RFC 1663: Rand, D., "PPP reliable Transmission", Novell,
July 1994.
RFC 1664: Kielczewski, Z., (Eicon Technology Corporation),
D. Kostick (Bell Communications Research), K. Shih,
(Novell), "Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA
NAUs using SMIv2", July 1994.
THE US DOMAIN
=============
Under the current ruling, only 4 year universities are allowed to
register in EDU, all other US schools must register in the US
Domain, including K12, community colleges, and technical schools.
Other related school entities may also register in the US Domain.
The US Domain has a framework established for registering K12
schools. It is in the form:
<school-name>.<district>.K12.<state-code>.US
For example: Clinton-HS.ACSD.K12.TN.US
School related Entities that go under K12:
------------------------------------------
- school districts
- school boards
- special educational service units
- state departments of education
- city and county departments of education
- consortiums connecting school districts
- state agencies connecting K12 schools
- School networks providing connectivity to
schools and school districts
- private schools under PVT pseudo district
School related Entities Registered in Other US Domain Branches:
---------------------------------------------------------------
- US Military Schools ....................> FED
- State Departments fo Education .........> STATE
- City or County Departments of Education.> LOCALITY
- Private K12 schools ....................> LOCALITY
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US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX 425
PHONE Inquiries 153
----------------------------
Total Contacts 578
DELEGATIONS 20
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 17
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 540
---------------------------
Total 578
OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: modifications, application
requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
about names, referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic,
resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and
whois listings by Email and phone.
The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of
registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many
subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those
subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct
registrations in the US Domain.
Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------------
NEH.FED.US Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities
LIB.MD.US Maryland Libraries
NCSC.DNI.US National Center for State Courts
NEWAYGO.MI.US Newaygo County, Michigan, locality
KENT.OH.US Kent, Ohio locality
Other US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------
CI.PASADENA.CA.US City of Pasadena, California
CO.ST-LOUIS.MO.US St. Louis, Missouri, county government
CO.ARLINGTON.VA.US Arlington, Virgnina, county government
CI.LINCOLN.ME.US City of Lincoln, Nebraska
DIT.CO.FAIRFAX.VA.US Fairfax County Dept of Information Tech.
SCOE.CO.SAC.CA.US Sacramento County Office of Education
JUD.STATE.CA.US Judicial Council of California
VCE.GEN.VA.US Virginia Cooperative Extension Service
PWSSC.GEN.AK.US Prince William Sound Science Center
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JSD.K12.AK.US Juneau, Alaska School District
NMH.NORTHFIELD.MA.US Northfield Mount Hermon School
SNS.OKC.OK.US Stardust Network Services
OKLAOSF.STATE.OK.US Oklahoma State Office of Finance
ALCATRAZ.SF.CA.US InterNex Information Services/BofA
ELECTRONIC-PRESS.CAMBRIDGE.MA.US Electronic Publ. & Data Prep. Co.
TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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AK X
AL X
AR X
AZ X X X X X
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CA X X X X
CO X X X X X X X
CT
DC X
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DE X
FL X X X X X X X
GA X X X X
HI
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IA X X X X
ID X X X X X X X
IL X X X X X
IN X X X X X X X
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KS X
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
MA X
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MD X X X X
ME X X
MI X X X X X
MN X X X X X X X
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MO X X X X X
MS X X
MT X
NC X X X X X
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K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
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ND X X X X X X X
NE X X X X
NH X X
NJ X
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NM X X X
NV
NY X X X X X X X
OH X X X X X X X
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OK
OR X X X X X X X
PA X
RI X X X
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SC X X X X X X
SD X X
TN X
TX X X X X
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UT X X X X
VA X X X X
VI
VT X X
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WA
WI X X X
WV X X X X X X X
WY X
===========================================================
For more information about the US Domain please request an
application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to RFC-
INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application". For
example:
To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU
Subject: US Domain Application
help: us_domain_application
Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)
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MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING
At the IETF meeting held in Toronto this month, there were several
sessions relevant to multimedia teleconferencing, in particular
those of the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control (MMUSIC) Working
Group and the Audio/Video Transport (AVT) Working Group. The
MMUSIC session focused on reports from implementors of a range of
multimedia conferencing applications with the goal of identifying
common ground for interoperability of both session managers and
media agents. As a result, there was commitment by several
implementors to document their protocol choices, and to prototype
experiments on interoperation in the near term.
In the first AVT session, rough consensus was given to submit the
revised Real-time Transport Protocol specification for Area
Directorate review and IESG Last Call as a Proposed Standard. This
revision, denoted RTP version 2, incorporates changes requested by
the first AD review in November 1993. It is the refinement by
Steve Casner, Ron Frederick, Van Jacobson and Henning Schulzrinne
of the rough protocol changes presented and discussed at the March
1994 IETF meeting in Seattle. This version of the spec was posted
before the meeting as Internet Draft draft-ietf-avt-rtp-05.txt.
An overview of the revised RTP was presented in the first AVT
session, and the group concurred with the choices made on all of
the previously open issues. It was agreed that the extension hooks
provided were adequate for planned experiments with mechanisms not
included in the current protocol. A few explanatory sections of
the draft need to be completed, then it will be submitted. In the
second AVT session, video encoding specifications for H.261, JPEG
and MPEG were presented. These specifications will also be
completed as Internet Drafts and then submitted as Proposed
Standards.
Steve Casner (casner@isi.edu)
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING
- ------------------------
This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's NSFNET Project
Internet Engineering and Network Management groups.
Merit's work with midlevel networks has resulted in the increasing
use of CIDR route aggregation. During July the NSF/ANSNET routing
tables increased by 62 while 784 specific routes were withdrawn in
favor of their CIDR aggregate announcement.
Joint development work continues with RIPE on the RIPE-81++ syntax
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and documentation. The current draft is available as:
ftp.ripe.net:ripe/drafts/ripe-81++.ps
Merit initially ported the RIPE code and has implemented some of
the extensions of RIPE-81++. We are in the process of designing a
transition from the PRDB to the RRDB which will include generation
of the NSFNET Backbone Router configurations from the RRDB.
Prototype gateD configuration file generators have been written for
the RRDB database. This work is seen as a predecessor for the
generation of configuration files for the Route Server.
Merit staff collaborated in the University of Michigan project to
re-establish a UM Network Operations Center. David Morse,
davmorse@noc.ns.itd.umich.edu, is the NOC manager. The University
of Michigan NOC will provide first level operational support for
the Routing Arbiter project.
Work continues in anticipation of the startup of the first Network
Access Points (NAPs) and the transition from the current backbone
service to the new architecture. On line information about the
transition plan and NAPS is available via a world wide web server
as: http://rrdb.merit.edu/home.html and via anonymous ftp in the
/pub/transition directory on the same host.
Several staff led sessions at the 30th IETF, July 25-29 in Toronto.
Jessica Yu (with Vince Fuller of BARRNET) led the session of the
CIDR Deployment Working Group (cidrd). Sue Hares hosted a workshop
for new working group Chairpersons and presented in the SDRP and
NetStat working group meetings. Elise Gerich participated in the
IAB open meeting. Several staff participated in the ATM-NAP
Workshop for the NSF new architecture awardees which also included
several Network Service Providers.
Kenneth T. Latta, II (klatta@merit.edu)
NEARNET
- -------
NEARNET EXPRESS56(sm) COMPRESSION SERVICE
NEARNET's new Express56 Service increases the throughput of a
56Kbps leased line connection to as high as 256Kbps, without
raising your telephone line costs. For more information, send
email to: nearnet-join@near.net or call the NEARNET sales staff at
617-873-8730.
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THE BBN INTERNET TRAINING GROUP
In response to the overwhelming requests from the Internet
community for more Internet-specific training, BBN has created an
Internet Training Group. In conjunction with the NEARNET staff,
the Training Group has recently begun offering training courses to
the general public.
Training courses are offered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York
City, and, upon request, on-site at the customer's organization.
NEARNET members and educational users are eligible for a 25 percent
introductory discount. To find out more about BBN's Internet
Training Courses, please send email to: net-train@bbn.com or call
617-873-DATA (3282).
NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE
The Summer set of NEARNET member training courses is scheduled for
August 10-12 in BBN's Newman Auditorium. For more information,
please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-
us@near.net or call 617-873-8730.
The three full-day set of courses include: (Day 1) An Introduction
to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New
NEARNET Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet
Technology.
All three days of training are available free of charge to all new
sites. The Internet Resources and Internet Technology courses are
available for existing sites and non-members for a fee. The
NEARNET Orientation is free to all NEARNET sites.
NEARNET USER SERVICES STEERING COMMITTEE (USSC) UPDATE
The latest meeting of the NEARNET USSC was held on August 1 at BBN.
Members of the Boston Computer Society (BCS) participated in the
committee meeting and presented an interesting update on the past,
present, and future activities of the BCS. The next USSC committee
meeting will be held on September 26.
by NEARNET Client Services <nearnet-us@near.net>
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NORTHWESTNET
- ------------
Dr. Eric Hood (Executive Director of NorthWestNet) chaired the July
6-8 FARNET Workshop "Transition to the New NSFNET" held in
Washington, D.C. Also attending from NorthWestNet was Dan Jordt,
Director of Technical Services.
In a continuation of NorthWestNet's regularly scheduled Internet
Training Series, three three-hour classes were held at the
NorthWestNet training facility in Bellevue, Washington. These for-
fee classes are open to the public. Topics covered included an
introduction to the Internet, Electronic Mail (PINE), File Transfer
Protocol, Telnet, and Gopher and Veronica. For information about
upcoming scheduled classes, retrieve the following via anonymous
FTP:
FTP Host: ftp.nwnet.net
directory: /training
filename: course-descriptions.txt
The upcoming series to be offered in late August adds a new course
titled "Internet Discussion Groups." This new class introduces
Usenet and its newsgroups, as well as Internet mailing lists and
LISTSERV lists.
-----------------
NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net
15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director
Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services
Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services
Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
NYSERNET
- --------
NYSERNet EDUCATION PROGRAM UPDATE
The NYSERNet Internet Training and Education Center (NITEC)
recently contributed to training for participants in Project
C.A.R.E. (Sponsored by State Senator Charles D. Cook, Project
C.A.R.E is delivering Internet connectivity to eight rural schools
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in New York's 40th district.) This first in a series of training
events for C.A.R.E. participants focused on integrating
connectivity products into each school's network environment, and
on installing and configuring Internet client software tools. In
subsequent events C.A.R.E. participants will receive training in
the use of these Internet client tools for resource discovery and
educational projects.
The NITEC Fall schedule of courses will be published this August.
To receive a copy of the schedule and be added to the NITEC mailing
list, please contact NYSERNet at training@nysernet.org or call
315-453-2912 ext. 222.
NYSERNET SPONSORED PROJECTS UPDATE
The NYSERNet Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse welcomes the
National Breast Cancer Coalition/Breast Cancer Support Hotline
Adelphi School and Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization as
partners in the BCIC project. Partner organizations participate in
the development and maintenance of the Clearinghouse.
To access the Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse: With a WWW-
client (e.g. Mosaic), use: http://nysernet.org/bcic/ With a gopher
client (e.g. gopher) use: gopher nysernet.org and select item
number eight from the main menu.
Project C.A.R.E.: NYSERNet is currently in the process of getting
the sites' Internet connections up and running prior to the first
two weeks of August, when participants from the schools will
receive their second round of training. (See the NYSERNET
EDUCATION UPDATE above)
INTERNET DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
With funding from the National Center for Educational Statistics,
NYSERNet will coordinate the development of a client/server
application set designed to support the needs of education related
to the collection and dissemination of information. NYSERNet will
coordinate the efforts of six (6) project participants comprised of
representative from State Education Agencies (SEA) and federal
agencies.
This application development project will include three phases: 1)
requirements and analysis, 2) coding, and, 3) testing and
implementation. The process of development includes structured
opportunities for participation of other states, NCES and other
federal agencies during both the requirements and testing and
implementation phases.
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NEW YORK STATE CONTRACTS
The New York State Office of General Services (OGS) has selected
NYSERNet to provide network and application support to make the New
York State Contracts available on the Internet. State Contracts
will be available via Gopher menuing, with both Jughead and WAIS
indexing. The service will be Internet accessible in August, 1994.
NYSERNet has recently partnered with 11 Board of Cooperative
Educational Services (BOCES) Regional Information and Computer
Centers to establish Internet connections to K-12 schools in New
York State. Connections established at BOCES will be used as
models for delivering services to the K-12 community. Connections
will be established in August and a training program conducted by
NYSERNet in the fall.
Teen Health Issues Network
The Teen Health Issues Network of Greater Rochester NY has
completed its first pilot year. This network seeks to
electronically connect the health care givers, school nurses and
counselors, and health teachers who deal with teens in areas of
physical, mental and social health. The Rochester area has a fiber
optics telecommunications network that carries simultaneous audio
and video transmission among 8 sites (2 higher education
institutions and 6 high schools). Live interactive programs geared
for the adults were given for professional development in areas
such as Cults and Their Relationship to Alcohol and Drug Abuse,
Media Literacy and Conflict Resolution. The topics of AIDS and
Teen Pregnancy were addressed in 3 sessions for students which
provided an opportunity to discuss these timely issues openly with
HIV+ patients and pregnant/parenting teens, respectively.
Electronic discussion groups using Internet connections were formed
after each live event to allow ongoing interaction with other
participants, and the panelists, in an anonymous fashion.
The next school year will kick-off the Teen Health Issues Network
programming with a professional development discussion of the
Center for Disease Control's Survey of Youth Risks done in Monroe
County. The first student event will be on Athletic Induced Asthma
for athletes and their coaches. The continuing effort to
electronically connect, equip, and train new users on the Internet
from all sorts of professional teen healthcare settings will be a
primary focus in the second pilot year of this network.
NEW AFFILIATES
NYSERNet welcomes the following new leased-line affiliates: Monroe
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County Library System, Brooklyn Law School, Hitachi America, Ltd.,
and Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
NYSERNet CONFERENCE
NYSERNet's Conference '94 will be held at the Desmond Americana
Hotel in Albany, New York from Thursday, September 29 through
Saturday, October 1, 1994. The theme for this year's statewide
conference is "Connecting the NEW New York". Thursday afternoon's
agenda will include an Open Board Meeting of NYSERNet's Board of
Directors, and a meeting of NYSERTech, NYSERNet's technical user's
group. The NYSERNet community is welcome to attend each of these
events at no charge, although NYSERTech is only open to those
individuals who are members of NYSERTech. A wine and cheese
reception follows, to which all conference attendees are welcome.
Friday's Conference program will feature a keynote speaker, then a
full day of parallel sessions along four program tracks: Government
and Technology, Education, Libraries, and Network Technologies.
Tutorials will be held Saturday, October 1, utilizing the computing
facilities of SUNY Albany and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Half day Tutorials scheduled will include two hands-on sessions:
"Internet Everyday (Beginners)" and "We the People (Advanced)."
Full day technical tutorials scheduled include "Linking your LAN to
Internet," "How To Cook Your UNIX Gopher Server," and "Contributing
to The World Wide Web: Selecting and Installing an HTTP Server."
Other sessions are to be announced.
NEW STAFF MEMBERS
Jeff Renk and Mary Fran Yafchak joined NYSERNet this month as
Network Information Specialists. Jeff and Mary Fran will design,
develop, deliver, and evaluate training and educational materials
on Internet tools. They will also provide help desk support for
NYSERNet affiliates.
Terri Damon (tmdamon@nysernet.ORG)
PREPNET
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Note that this report covers June and July.
PREPnet New Members
- City of Meadville-GREMLAN, Meadville, PA
- Bucks County IU, Doylestown, PA
- Oasis Telecommunications, Allentown, PA
- Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA
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- Grove City College, Grove City, PA
- Composidie, Inc., Apollo, PA
- Compudata, Philadelphia, PA
- Reality Technologies, King of Prussia, PA
- The School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- Icon Technologies, Inc., Mayfield, PA
With these additions, PREPnet now totals 188 members.
PREPnet News
============
Training
--------
Felicia Ferlin conducted PREPnet's Introduction to the Internet
training session at the following sites. With the help of staff on
site, live demos and hands-on training were done using site
software and hardware.
June 3 Beaver College
July 11 Central & Northern Pennsylvania Ben Franklin
Technology Center
July 12 Juniata College
Meetings & Conferences
----------------------
Date Attendee(s) Event
5/23-6/3 Tom Bajzek Internet World
6/2 Felicia Ferlin CAUSE-CNI
6/3 Sean Sasso C-CUE
6/2-3 Iain Boone North American National Operations
Group (NANOG), formerly Regional Techs
6/27-28 Felicia Ferlin Pennsylvania Rural Education
Conference
7/7-8 Tom Bajzek FARNET
Iain Boone
7/25-29 Marsha Perrott IETF
For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC:
305 S. Craig St. E-Mail: nic@prep.net
2nd Floor Telephone: (412) 268-7870
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
PREPnet NIC (nic@prep.net)
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RARE SECRETARIAT
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A RARE UPDATE no. 12, July 1994
(Double Summer issue)
COA Information
RARE members gathered in Darmstadt, courtesy of ESOC, on 19 and 20
May 1994. Meetings included a joint meeting with the EARN Board of
Directors dedicated to the proposed merger between RARE and EARN and
subsequently the 29th CoA meeting.
The joint meeting was perceived as very constructive. The Executive
Committees of both organizations had provided the members with draft
Statutes, Rules and Regulations, a Charter, a Technical Structure and
a budget, encompassing proposals for membership fees and voting
rights. The conclusion of the meeting was that the merger was
feasible and should take place still during 1994 and this event is
scheduled to take place at the event of the next (and last) RARE
Council of Administration meeting on 20 October 1994, in Amsterdam.
A call for a new name for the merged organization has been issued and
several proposals are under investigation.
During the CoA meeting, the RARE accounts were - as is traditional
in May - presented and 1993 financial year was closed with the
approval of the Council of Administration of the accounts 1993.
Two networking organizations were unanimously accepted as RARE Full
National Members: UNICOM-B from Bulgaria and UNIBEL from the Republic
Belarus.
The CoA has asked the Executive Committee to reorganize the RIPE
NCC's management structure by the creation of a management body that
is representative of the whole customer base in order to enhance
cooperation with the RIPE NCC's commercial customers. This management
body will be involved in the fund raising for the RIPE NCC.
RARE Technical Programme
The most recent main event for the RARE Technical Programme was
the INET'94/JENC5 conference, organized by RARE and the Internet
Society (ISOC), which took place in Prague in mid-June.
All the RARE Working Groups took the opportunity to
meet at the conference and were able to present their work to
visitors from across the whole world.
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The Working Group on network operations (WG-NOP) was relaunched
under its new convenor, Manfred Bogen. The new convenors of
the Working Group on Information Services and User Support
(WG-ISUS), Dave Hartland, and the Working Group on Network
Security (WG-SEC), R=FCdiger Grimm, were able to introduce
themselves in person.
Also at the conference, the final stages of two RARE projects
were reported. The task force on Computer Emergency Response
Teams has presented plans for a European coordination centre
for liaison between the front-line support organizations dealing
with network security incidents. This is now being developed
into a business plan (which will be the subject of a call for
tender) for approval by the CoA on 20 October 1994.
The project of the Working Group on Character Sets, which is
developing software for conversion between a wide variety of
coded character sets, was presented at the conference in the
form of a live demonstration of the conversion program.
Two new RARE Technical Reports are in the course of production.
RTR12 on Writing O/R Names is a revision of the guidelines of
the Working Group on Mail and Messaging (WG-MSG) which takes
into account recent international standards in this area. RTR13
is a Status Report on Network Information Retrieval, a
regularly-updated report which gives an overview of the "state
of the art" in this field.
RTR8, 9, 10 and 11 are currently available in printed form
and can be ordered from the RARE Secretariat.
RARE has recently entered into contracts with INRIA to work on
the integration of directory-service access with the World Wide
Web. RARE is also contributing to the support and development of
the World Wibe Web project which is seen as a key element in the
development of information services for researchers.
Looking to the future, RARE has launched its UPTURN (Umbrella
Proposal for Telematics for Users and Research Networks)
initiative to encourage participation in the European Union's
fourth Framework Programme. The Fourth Framework offers the
possibility of European funding to assist in collaborative
projects between commerce and researchers which will result in
the delivery of telematic services which add to the productivity
of industrial and academic researchers. RARE is providing
information on the programme and is assisting in the information
exchange between potential participants via its UPTURN mailing
list. To join this list, send electronic mail to
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mailserver@rare.nl containing the text:
SUBSCRIBE UPTURN your-first-name your-last-name
replacing your-first-name and your-last-name as appropriate.
Once you have joined the list, you can send mail to the other
subscribers at the address upturn@rare.nl.
A large, common RARE Working Groups Meeting is planned for
December 1st and 2nd, in London, subsequent to EARN's NSC
conference, November 28-30, 1994.
Information about the UPTURN initiative, and about RARE and its
technical programme, can be obtained from:
- ftp.rare.nl (by anonymous FTP)
- gopher.rare.nl (by gopher)
- http://www.rare.nl/ (by World Wide Web)
Conferences and Seminars
INET'94/JENC5
RARE's annual Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5) was
held this year in Prague (Czech Republic), in conjunction with
the Internet Society's (ISOC) annual INET conference. In every
respect it was considered a great success. The participants
numbered around 1200 and came from over a 100 different countries.
The Czech Technical University and the Czech Educational and
Scientific NETwork (CESNET) were responsible for the local
arrangements. They furnished the terminal room with over
70 workstations, terminals and desktop computers with worldwide
Internet connectivity. The technical staff also supported the
connectivity in the demonstration area, where up to 12 highly
advanced networking applications were presented to the public
at large. With the support of various sponsors leased lines
with a total capacity of 2.5 Mbit/s connected the conference
centre to the rest of the world. This connectivity allowed
interactive Mbone broadcasts of the plenary sessions of the
conference to hundreds of sites in many countries.
That the conference was a truly global event also became apparent
in the more than 100 presentations and panel discussions in six
different topical areas: user support and training, distributed
applications, policy issues, regional issues, network engineering and
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network technology. The programme presented the developments in
technology on ATM, Multimedia, IPng, Routing and Addressing, Network
Information Tools, Broadband Technology, Performance Analysis,
Electronic Documentation, Networked Simulation and Virtual Reality
and Future Generations of Internet Technology, to mention only a
few of the subjects covered.
These new technological developments, and the exponential growth of
networking in the last few years are bringing past side issues to the
foreground. Policy issues are becoming more and more important
with the increasing number of active Internet users and its broader
scale. Also new user communities are emerging every day, and each of
them has their own specific demands with regard to service, support
and training. The conference proved a good discussion platform for
all of these important issues.
A full set of proceedings was distributed at the conference and a
number of selected papers of high quality are being prepared for
publication in a special issue of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems.
Preceding the conference there was a one day tutorial on ATM
(Asynchronous Transfer Mode), organized and sponsored by Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC).
The week prior to the conference the workshop for Technologically
Emerging Countries took place at the Czech Technical University.
A selected number of participants (approx. 170) from around
80 countries had the unique opportunity to learn how to access and
use worldwide Internet resources, as well as build and manage
national networks in their own countries. The Soros Foundations
funded participation of many Eastern European and CIS attendees.
RARE, with the financial support of NATO, took direct responsibility
for the Network Navigation and Services Track.
JENC6
With the Prague event still fresh in memory, preparations have
already been made for next year's conference that will take place in
the new Dan Panorama Convention Center in Tel Aviv, Israel from 15-18
May. The Programme Committee, under the leadership of Jose Barabera
(FUNDESCO, Spain), has already prepared a Call for Papers that is
available from jenc6-sec@rare.nl.
The conference theme, "Bringing the World to the Desktop", may be
looked upon as a metaphor for two major changes under way:
- the increasing penetration of daily research/educational work and
practices by networks and networking technology;
- the new set of requirements that desktop networking implies for the
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underlying technology and the structures of service provision.
The goal of this conference is to survey the current situation in
networking, to illuminate major unresolved issues and technologies,
but most of all to stimulate discussion on possible future
directions.
The local arrangements are taken care of by ILAN.
For more information about RARE contact:
Internet: raresec@rare.nl or kiers@rare.nl
X.400: C=3Dnl; ADMD=3D400net; PRMD=3Dsurf; O=3Drare; S=3Dkiers
X.400: C=3Dnl; ADMD=3D400net; PRMD=3Dsurf; O=3Drare; S=3Draresec
fileserver: gohper.rare.nl, ftp.rare.nl or http://www.rare.nl/
Judith Kiers <kiers@erasmus.rare.nl>
UCL
- ----
Tony Ballardie, Peter Kirstein, and Ian Wakeman attended the
Toronto IETF. Ballardie ran the WG on Multicast, Kirstein attended
many meetings and Wakeman gave presentations on the UCL work on
Class Based Queueing and on the Conference Control Channel
Protocol.
En route to Toronto, Wakeman had stopped off at SURA, where with
much help from ARPA, and from Erik Sherk and Jennifer Blake-Hedges,
we were able to get the Class Based Queueing code (& Solaris, and
an FDDI card and 2nd Ether card and gated) installed one day. We
will be coordinating with BBN and ULCC to get the routes changed to
load this up with the UK-US traffic to test the resource allocation
and link share code over the next month.
Meanwhile, the CCCP implementation has passed alpha stage, and is
being used to develop a simple floor control protocol, by
Crowcroft.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
- --------
Last update 8/3/94
The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat
as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are
requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this
calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to:
<meeting-planning@cnri.reston.va.us>
************************************************************************
1994
- ------------
Jul. 18-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
WGs and Plenary Southampton, UK
Aug. (mid) SNOWMASS
Aug. 2-5 HPDC-3 San Francisco, CA
Aug. 4 Special Interest Group on
Netwkd Info., Disc. Retrieval McLean, VA
Aug. 7-12 SHARE (IBM) Boston, MA
Aug. 10-12 IFIP Protocols Vancouver, BC
Aug. 22-26 6th Joint EPS-APS Phyicics Lugano, Switzerland
Aug. 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Congress Hamburg, Germany
Aug. 29-Sep 2 SIGCOMM 94 London, England
Sep. IEEE P802.11 Interim TBD
Sep. 7-9 Windows Solutions San Francisco, CA.
Sep. 12-16 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA
Sep. 12-16 OIW
Sep. 13-16 Seybold San Francisco, CA
Sep. 14-16 4th Int'l CCHP Vienna, Austria
Sep. 26-28 2nd IWACA Heidelberg, Germany
Sep. 28 Intnt'l Computer Comm. & Ntwks Bangkik, Thailand
Sep. 29-Oct. 1 NYSERNet Conference '94 Albany, NY
Sep. 29-Oct. 1 NATO Adv. Wkshp on Ntwking
in the NIS Moscow
Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN
Oct. 6-8 Parallel & Dist. Compt. Sys Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 15-20 ACM Conference on Multimedia San Francisco, CA
Oct. 16-20 ACM SIGUCCS
Oct. 24-28 NetWorld+Interop '94 Paris, France
October/November Windows Solutions Germany
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 1st Intntl ACM/SIGCAPH Conf.
Assistive Technolgies (ASSETS) Marina del Rey, CA
Oct. 31-Nov. 3 EDUCOM
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Nov. 2-4 Gigabit testbed jamboree Reston, VA
Nov. 2-4 ACM Conf. of Computer and Comm Fairfax, VA
Security
Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV
Nov. 8-11 German Soc. of Internet Users Munich
Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA
Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria
Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC
Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA
Nov. 15-16 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conf. Brussels
Nov. 18-20 Nerdathon '94 - Windows into
the Internet Lake Tahoe
Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause
Dec. 1-2 RARE Working Groups London, UK
Dec. 5-7 Australian Telecom Networks and
Applications Conf. ATNAC 94 Melbourne, AU
Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA
Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11
Dec. 5-9 10th Comp. Sec. Applications Orlando, FL
Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP
Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dec. 12-16 OIW
1995
- ---------
Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA
Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk &
Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA
Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX
Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
Mar. 13-17 OIW
Mar. 13-17 Email World (confirmed) Santa Clara, CA
Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP
Mar. 16-19 3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems
Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN
Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV
April 3-7 32nd IETF (confirmed) Danvers, MA
April 19-21 5th Network & Operating System
Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA
May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel
May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel
Jun. ISO/IEC JTC 1SC 21
WGs and Plenary (tentative) Turkey
Jun. ISOC Wkshop for Tech.
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Emerging Countries
Jun. 12-16 INET '95 (tentative) Singapore
Jun. 12-16 OIW
Jun. INET95
Jul. 4 Independence Day
Jul. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY
Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden
Jul. 31 - Aug. 4 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden
Sep. 11-15 OIW
Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 9-13 Email World San Jose, CA
(likely to be replaced by Nov. 27-Dec. 1 dates)
Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
Nov. 13-17 34th IETF (Tentative)
Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Probable) Boston, MA
Dec. 4-8 OIW
Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Tentative)
Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible)
Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Possible)
1996
- -----------
Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 18-22 OIW
May ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
WGs and Plenary (tentative) Kansas City, US
Jun. 10-14 OIW
Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU
Sep. 9-13 OIW
Dec. 9-13 OIW
1997
- -----------
Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA
- ---------
Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories
Via gopher: "Internet Society / IETF / IETF Meetings /
Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
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Ref. RSec(94)001-ac August 1994
This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings
are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of
the meeting or the RARE Secretariat. If you have
additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet
(e.mail address: cozanet@rare.nl).
**********************************************************************
MEETING/DATE LOCATION
============ ========
RARE Executive Committee
- ------------------------
1 September Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
2 September
(Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RARE Council of Administration
- ------------------------------
20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam
NewOrg General Assembly
- -----------------------
GA1
20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam
GA2
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
UPTURN BoF
- ----------
27 October Interop, Paris
(from 18.30 till 20.30 hrs)
RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors
- ---------------------------------------
RARE Working Groups
- -------------------
JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING
1-2 December London (after NSC'94)
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RIPE
- ----
12-14 September Lisboa
VARIOUS
- -------
EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM
12 September Lisboa
EBONE
Consortium of Contributing Organisations
02 November Munich
EBONE Management Committee
06 September Copenhagen
EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
10 October Paris
EARN
Board of Directors
30 November - 1 December London
DANTE Shareholders
20 September TBC
Euro-CCIRN
CCIRN
16/17 June 1995 Singapore
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
15/16 December Washington DC
IETF
5-9 December San Jose, California
3-7 April 1995 Danvers, Massachusetts
Summer 1995 Stockholm, Sweden
EWOS
- ----
Technical Assembly
13-14 September Brussels
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
27 September Brussels
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6 December Brussels
Workshops
10-14 October Brussels
ETSI
- ----
General Assembly
22/23 November Nice, France
Technical Assembly
18-20 October Nice, France
*******************************************************************
JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference
15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel
To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to
<jenc6-request@rare.nl>.
For information, email <jenc6-sec@rare.nl>.
To submit a paper, email <jenc6-submit@rare.nl>
*******************************************************************
OTHER CONFERENCES
(nb. For some of the following events, full text information is
available from the RARE Document Store under the directory calendar, in
which case the file name is specified under the information presented
below. The files may be retrieved via:
anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl
Email: server@rare.nl
Gopher: gopher.rare.nl)
6th JOINT EPS-APS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS COMPUTING
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
from 22 till 26 August 1994 in Lugano, Switzerland
Email <pc94@cscs.ch>
13TH WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS - IFIP CONGRESS 94
- -----------------------------------------------
from 28 August till 2 September 1994, in Hamburg, Germany
Tel. +49 40 3569 2242 - Fax. +49 40 3569 2343
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ACM SIGCOMM'94
- --------------
Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications organised by
University College London
from 31 August till 2 September
(Tutorials and Workshops on 30 August)
For further information, contact <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
SIXTH UNICODE IMPLEMENTERS' WORKSHOP
- ------------------------------------
8/9 September 1994
at Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, California
information from: <workshop@unicode.org>
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
(ICCCN'94)
from 11-14 September 1994, San Fransisco, U.S.A.
Conference Chairman: Prof. T. Suda <suda@ics.uci.edu>
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY & APPLICATIONS
- --------------------------------------------------------------
28 September 1994
at Asia Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
(limited budget to pay for local expenses of all international speakers,
ie. local transportation, hotel, meals...)
information from Srisakdi Charmonman, email <charm@abac.au.ac.th>
NATO ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON NETWORKING IN THE NIS
- -----------------------------------------------
"Establishing a cooperative framework for networking in
Russia and her neighbourhing states"
29 September until 1 October 1994
In Moscow, Russian Federation
CLOSED - BY INVITATION ONLY
OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.)
- ---------------------------------------------------------
from 8-11 November in Goettingen (Park Hotel Ropeter)
For further information contact the DIGI board via email:
<vorstand@digi.de>
CEN/CENELEC/ETSI CONFERENCE 1994
- --------------------------------
on 15 and 16 November 1994
in the European Parliament, Brussels.
Information from Kristien Van Ingelgem, fax.+32 2 519 6819
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ICT STANDARDIZATION POLICY WORKSHOP 1994
- ----------------------------------------
28, 29 and 30 November 1994
Chateau du Lac, Genval, Belgium
organised by the European Commission with logistic
support from EWOS.
For information, email <ewos@spl.y-net.be>
NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94
- ------------------------------
from 28 to 30 November 1994
in London (UK)
For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via
email: <A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet>;
Paper submissions to: <NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET>
WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR
INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY
- -------------------------------------------------------
on 1 and 2 December 1994
in Luxembourg.
Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII,
EFTA and STRI.
Registrations before 30 September 1994
For information, email <tobbi@iti.is>
IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING
- -----------------------------------------
from 5 till 11 February 1995
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
- -> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video
Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995
Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445
EEMA MEETINGS
- -------------
Autumn Conference
14-16 September Madrid
Winter Conference
November (tbc) Luxembourg
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