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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 10
BARRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
CONCERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
CSUNET (CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NETWORK). . . . . . . page 18
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
JVNCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24
MERIT/NSFNET/INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK) . . . page 28
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . page 29
OARNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
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INTERNET ARCHITECTURE MESSAGE
IAB POSITIONS
The Internet Activities Board (IAB) has selected Christian Huitema
as its chair for the coming year.
Other IAB positions are as follows:
* Chair of Internet Research Task Force (IRTF): Jon Postel
* RFC Editor: Jon Postel
* Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA): Jon Postel
* Executive Director: Bob Braden
* Liaisons to IESG: Christian Huitema, Yakov Rekhter
* Representative to CCIRN: Barry Leiner
LIAISON WITH ISO AND ITU
At its Tuesday evening open IAB meeting at Columbus in March, there
was a discussion of possible liaisons between the IETF standards
making activities and ISO, and between IETF and ITU.
According to its charter, the IAB is responsible for liaison
arrangements between the Internet standards process and other
standards agencies. The IAB has agreed that detailed negotiations
with ISO and CCITT may be conducted by the ISOC President Vint
Cerf, in consultation with the IAB. If agreement is reached,
liaison would be effected by a formal agreement between that
standards body and the Internet Society, the legal entity that
would represent the IAB/IESG/IETF for this purpose.
The IAB, selected by the IETF membership under the new process,
intends to be fully responsive to the needs and desires of the IETF
and the Internet community. The IAB wishes to strongly affirm
that:
(1) No agreement should or will be made with another standards
body that will in any way impede progress or change the style
of operation of the IETF.
(2) The primary purpose of any such relationship, if it were to be
established, would be to benefit the Internet through official
recognition of the reality that the IETF is an important
source of international computer communication standards.
(3) The outcome of the IPng discussions should in no way be
tied to the progress of such relationship.
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Detailed negotiations on these matters are being conducted by the
ISOC President Vint Cerf, on behalf of the IAB/IESG/IETF. Two
different liaison relationships with ISO are possible for the ISOC,
Category A and Category C. Category A would simply recognize that
the ISOC/IAB/IETF is "another source of international standards",
while Category C would allow liaison at the working group level.
With the advice and consent of the IAB, the ISOC Board of Trustees
previously initiated a request for category A liaison with ISO, and
this request is pending. In an unrelated action, Jack Holdsworth
brought an offer from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 for Category C liaison.
Since the Columbus meeting, it has been erroneously reported in
parts of the trade press that the IAB agreed to pursue Category C
liaison with ISO. This is not correct. The IAB has decided to
delay action on the ISO category C liaison offer until negotiations
on Category A are concluded. Furthermore, there were many issues
and concerns raised by IAB and IETF members attending the Columbus
meeting. Before Category C liaison could proceed, these issues
must be settled to the satisfaction of the Internet community, and
there must be general agreement that such liaison is in the best
interests of the IETF.
The IAB is preparing a more complete statement about these issues.
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
1. Let me remind everyone that the next meeting of the IETF will
be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and is being co-hosted
by SURFnet and RARE. The meeting will run from July 12-16, 1993.
This will be the first time an IETF meeting has been held
outside of North America. The attendee fee for the Amsterdam
IETF meeting will be $200 (USD) and pre-registration and
prepayment is being encouraged.
2. I am pleased to announce that Scott Bradner, Lyman Chapin,
Brewster Kahle, Allison Mankin, and Marshall Rose, have joined
the IESG. The current IESG members are:
Phill Gross IETF Chairman
Brewster Kahle Applications Area
Erik Huizer Applications Area
David Crocker Service Applications Area
Allison Mankin Transport Area
Marshall Rose Network Management Area
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Robert Hinden Routing Area
Stev Knowles Internet Area
David Piscitello Internet Area
Joyce Reynolds User Services Area
Scott Bradner Operational Requirements Area
Stephen Crocker Security Area
Lyman Chapin Standards Management
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 19 actions during
the month of April, 1993:
o Multiprotocol Interconnect over ATM Adaptation Layer 5 as a
Proposed Standard.
o Protocol Operations for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed Standard.
o Introduction to version 2 of the Internet-standard Network
Management Framework as a Proposed Standard.
o Transport Mappings for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed Standard.
o Structure of Management Information for version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed
Standard.
o Coexistence between version 1 and version 2 of the
Internet-standard Network Management Framework as a Proposed
Standard.
o Textual Conventions for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed Standard.
o Manager to Manager Management Information Base as a Proposed
Standard.
o Management Information Base for version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed Standard.
o Conformance Statements for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed Standard.
o Party MIB for version 2 of the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed Standard.
o Security Protocols for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed Standard.
o Administrative Model for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2) as a Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for Administration of SNMP
Parties has a status of Historic.
o SNMP Security Protocols has a status of Historic.
o SNMP Administrative Model has a status of Historic.
o SNMP Security Protocols has a status of Historic.
o FYI on Introducing the Internet--A Short Bibliography of
Introductory Internetworking Readings for the Network Novice
as an Informational RFC.
o FYI on "What is the Internet?" as an Informational RFC.
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4. The IESG issued 4 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
April, 1993:
o RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol specification <RFC1050>
o NFS: Network File System Protocol specification <RFC1094>
o An Echo Function for ISO 8473 <draft-ietf-noop-echo-02>
o SNMP MIB extension for MultiProtocol Interconnect over X.25
<draft-ietf-x25mib-ipox25mib-05>
5. The IESG approved the formation or re-activation of the
following seven (7) new Working Groups:
Character MIB (charmib)
DECnet Phase IV MIB (decnetiv)
Modem Management (modemmgt)
Frame Relay Service MIB (frnetmib)
Mail and Directory Management (madman)
ATM MIB (atommib)
Telnet TN3270 Enhancements (tn3270e)
Additionally, the following two Working Groups were concluded:
Internet Accounting (acct)
Office Document Architecture (oda)
6. Forty-three (43) Internet Draft actions were taken during the
month of April, 1993:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
WG I-D Title <Filename>
------ --------------------------------------------------
(telnet) o Telnet Authentication and Encryption Option
<draft-ietf-telnet-encryption-02.txt>
(cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program
Interface <draft-ietf-cat-genericsec-04.txt>
(cat) o The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
<draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-02.txt, .ps>
(x25mib) o SNMP MIB extension for MultiProtocol Interconnect
over X.25 <draft-ietf-x25mib-ipox25mib-05.txt>
(x400ops) o Routing coordination for X.400 MHS services within
a multi protocol / multi network environment Table
Format V3 for static routing
<draft-ietf-x400ops-mhs-service-06.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control
Protocol (IPXCP) <draft-ietf-pppext-ipxcp-03.txt>
(pppext) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Bridge
Network Control Protocol of the Point-to-Point
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Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-bridgemib-02.txt>
(pppext) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the IP
Network Control Protocol of the Point-to-Point
Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-ipcpmib-02.txt>
(pppext) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Security
Protocols of the Point-to-Point Protocol
<draft-ietf-pppext-secmib-02.txt>
(pppext) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Link
Control Protocol of the Point-to-Point Protocol
<draft-ietf-pppext-lcpmib-02.txt>
(osids) o DSA Metrics <draft-ietf-osids-dsa-metrics-01.txt>
(mimemhs) o HARPOON: Rules for downgrading messages from
X.400/88 to X.400/84 when MIME content-types are
present in the messages
<draft-ietf-mimemhs-harpoon-02.txt>
(none) o IP and ARP on Fibre Channel (FC)
<draft-rekhter-fibre-channel-01.txt>
(noop) o An Echo Function for ISO 8473
<draft-ietf-noop-echo-02.txt>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): Translation of Internet MIB-II (RFC1213) to
ISO/CCITT GDMO MIB (IIMCMIB-II)
<draft-labarre-iimc-mibii-01.txt, .ps>
(wnils) o Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service
<draft-ietf-wnils-whois-01.txt>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): Translation of Internet MIBs to ISO/CCITT
GDMO MIBs (IIMCIMIBTRANS)
<draft-labarre-internetmib-iso-01.txt, .ps>
(pem) o MIME-PEM Interaction <draft-ietf-pem-mime-02.txt>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): Translation of ISO/CCITT GDMO MIBs to
Internet MIBs (IIMCOMIBTRANS)
<draft-newnan-isomib-internet-01.txt, .ps>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): Translation of Internet Party MIB (RFC1353)
to ISO/CCITT GDMO MIB (IIMCPARTY)
<draft-labarre-iimc-party-01.txt, .ps>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): ISO/CCITT to Internet Management Proxy
(IIMCPROXY) <draft-chang-iimc-proxy-01.txt, .ps>
(none) o DNS NSAP RRs <draft-manning-dns-nsap-01.txt>
(pppext) o Compressing IPX Headers Over WAN Media (CIPX)
<draft-ietf-pppext-cipx-03.txt>
(appleip) o AppleTalk Management Information Base II
<draft-ietf-appleip-mib2-01.txt>
(iplpdn) o Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay
<draft-ietf-iplpdn-framerelay-03.txt>
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(822ext) o MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part
One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the
Format of Internet Message Bodies
<draft-ietf-822ext-mime2-02.txt, .ps>
(822ext) o The text/enriched MIME Content-type
<draft-ietf-822ext-text-enriched-02.txt, .ps>
(sip) + SIP Program Interfaces for BSD Systems
<draft-ietf-sip-bsd-api-00.txt>
(822ext) o The Content-MD5 Header
<draft-ietf-822ext-md5-02.txt>
(telnet) o Telnet Environment Option
<draft-ietf-telnet-envmnt-option-01.txt>
(none) o Post Office Protocol - Version 3
<draft-rose-pop3-01.txt>
(cat) o FTP Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-cat-ftpsec-01.txt>
(pip) + The Multi-Level Path Vector Routing Scheme
<draft-ietf-pip-vector-00.txt>
(telnet) + Telnet Environment Option Interoperability Issues
<draft-ietf-telnet-interoperability-00.txt>
(uswg) + FYI on "What is the Internet?"
<draft-ietf-uswg-fyi-00.txt>
(none) + Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary
String Attributes
<draft-rosenbaum-dns-storage-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + Exchanging Routing Information Across
Provider/Subscriber Boundaries in the CIDR
Environment <draft-rekhter-cidr-environment-00.txt>
(mospf) + MOSPF: Analysis and Experience
<draft-ietf-mospf-analysis-00.txt>
(sip) + Administrative Allocation of the 64-bit Number Space
<draft-ietf-sip-64bit-plan-00.txt>
(none) + Connection Multiplexing Protocol (CMP)
<draft-cameron-cmp-00.txt>
(sip) + SIP System Discovery
<draft-ietf-sip-discovery-00.txt>
(uri) + Uniform Resource Locators
<draft-ietf-uri-url-00.txt, .ps>
(tuba) + Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts
<draft-ietf-tuba-sysids-00.txt>
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7. One (1) RFC was published during the month of April, 1993.
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1453 I (none) A Comment on Packet Video Remote
Conferencing and the Transport/Network
Layers
St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard
(PS) Proposed Standard
(DS) Draft Standard
( E) Experimental
( I) Informational
Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
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ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING
----------------------------------
Network Status Summary
======================
The deployment of the AIX 3.2 operating system on the T3 routers began
on April 30th. The deployment will continue through May 21st. This
software will increase the on-card forwarding table capacity to
support 12,000 destinations, and the subsequent release of AIX 3.2
software scheduled for summer '93 will increase the forwarding table
capacity to support 25,000 destinations.
Backbone Traffic and Routing Statistics
=======================================
The total inbound packet count for the network (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 36,527,140,345 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 15.2%
from March. The total packet count into the network including all
ENSS serial interfaces was 40,788,225,452.
As of April 30, the number of networks configured in the Merit Policy
Routing Database was 11248 for the T3 backbone. Of these, 2846 were
never announced to the T3 backbone (e.g. silent nets). The maximum
number of networks announced to the T3 backbone during the month (from
samples collected every 15 minutes) was 8239, up 6.1% from February.
Average announced networks on 4/30 were 8181.
AIX 3.2 Migration Plan Status
=============================
The T3 backbone software upgrade to support the AIX 3.2
operating system began on April 30th. A revised postscript file
illustrating the phased deployment at each POP CNSS and adjacent
ENSS is located on ftp.ans.net in /pub/info/aix32dpmap.ps and may
be summarized as follows:
Phase I (April 30) - Washington D.C.
Phase II (May 7) - Seattle/Denver, San Francisco/Los Angeles
Phase III (May 14) - Greensboro/Atlanta, Houston/St. Louis
Phase IV (May 21) - Hartford/New York City, Cleveland/Chicago
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Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes
===================================
During April two versions of the T3 router software daemon,
rcp_routed, were deployed. The first entitled "Third Party Routes"
primarily addressed problems handling third party routes advertised
by peer routers. Deployment of this began in March and ended in
early April. A second version called "AIX 3.2 Multipath" addressed
multipath routing in AIX 3.2, generated third party routes, and
fixed some memory leaks. Release notes are available in:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/t3-rcp_routed/Release-Notes
FDDI Problem
============
During April, there were a few problems experienced at ENSS sites
that use FDDI interfaces. There was a problem identified on E145
(also observed on E133) where packets are blocked from traversing
an ENSS FDDI->Ethernet path. The problem has occurred three times
during April. We are working on a fix for this, and the an
automatic FDDI interface reset has been instrumented in the
interim.
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). During February the overall stability approached 99% (no
internal disconnects in any part of the network 99% of the time)
and all individual nodes reported 99.8% stability or better.
Overall stability in March was down to 97.5% or 99.1% excluding
instability during the configuration windows. Overall stability in
April was 96.1% or 97.2% excluding instability during the
configuration windows.
E206 (CERN - Geneva, Switzerland) remained the most unstable node
due to recurring T1 circuit problems. CERN was only stable 97.9%
of the time which accounted for much of the overall 96.1% figure.
Of the 15 hours, 10 hours was outside the config window (9:58 98.6%
stable). Much of the remaining time was during the config window
when the circuit was taken for testing.
E130 (Argonne) and E128 (BARRnet) each experienced instability due
to a memory paging problem (described below). E130 experienced
5.25 hours of instability (5:28 99.2% stable) of which 4 hours was
outside of the config window (4:02 99.5% stable). E128 experienced
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3.5 hours of instability (3:35 99.5% stable) with 2.5 hours outside
the config window (2:38 99.7% stable).
A new installation, E229, saw 2.5 hours of instability, mostly
early in April just prior to the production activation of the node.
A few nodes suffered adapter hardware or microcode problems. These
were E133 (Cornell) with 1:35 (99.78% stable), E145, (Fix-E) with
1:04 (99.85% stable), E136 (College Park) with 1:03 (99.85%
stable), and E168 (OARnet) with 0:56 (99.87% stable). E133 only
experienced 0.5 minutes of instability outside the config window,
since the outage fell within the window. E145 had 0:18, E136 had
0:20, E168 had 0:25 minutes of instability outside the config
windows. These are all better than 99.9%. The outages time
incurred when replacing a failing interface is generally much
longer than the outage that the failing interface causes,
consequently the bulk of the instability is during the config
window.
Of the remaining routers, 24 reported between 15-60 minutes of
outage time. The remaining 57 reported under 15 minutes of
instability (better than 99.97%). If the config windows are
excluded, only 4 routers, E206, E130, E128, and E229 reported over
26 minutes of outage. There were 9 routers that reported 10-26
minutes of instability.
Paging Problem at E130 (Argonne) and E128 (Barrnet)
===================================================
On April 6th-9th, E130 experienced intermittent routing
instability. Most of this outage occurred during weekend hours. On
April 17-20 E128 (BARRnet) experienced similar problems. There
were a number of problems occurring which in combination caused AIX
software memory paging problems.
One problem on E128 had to do with the FDDI ring going down. A
larger than normal number of internal buffers (mbufs) used by the
networking code were consumed while this condition existed. This
reduces the amount of memory available for normal processes such as
the routing daemon and network management programs, etc. This was
addressed by reducing the requirement for mbufs for TCP buffering
for BGP sessions, and by correcting problems with the FDDI ring.
This improved but did not solve the problem.
The next problem involved flapping FDDI peers which caused a great
deal of logging that resulted in a very large system messages file
created on April 17. The reading of the system messages file by
another process induced routing daemon memory paging problems on
the node. The solution to the problem involved both reducing the
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routing daemon memory size (since the problem was associated with
paging), and the splitting of the large log file. A new version of
the routing software will be deployed in mid May.
Notable Outages in April '93
============================
E132 (Pittsburgh) lost T3 connectivity due to power problems on
4/11.
E168 (OARnet) suffered an extended outage to hardware failure on
4/23.
E173 (ITESM) suffered extended outages due to power problems on
4/5, 4/11, and due to radio fade on 4/16.
E206 (CERN) suffered extended circuit outages on 4/13, 4/16, 4/23.
Xlink (Germany) suffered an extended circuit outage on 4/6.
C11 (San Francisco) became unreachable on 4/3 causing an outage to
E159, E178, E187, E229.
C17 (Los Angeles) suffered an HSSI card hang on 4/10 causing an
outage to E156, E170, E215, E216.
Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>
BARRNET
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Membership Update
Date: 5/3/93
Member Organizations: 168
New Members, April: California Academy of Sciences,
Austin Scientific, Affymax
Research, Walnut Creek CD ROM,
Electronics For Imaging
Publications
BARRNet has resumed publication of its newsletter, The BARRNetter,
distributed quarterly to its members. The BARRNetter covers the
latest Internet news, noteworthy current events, graphics, maps,
and BARRNet news.
The Spring edition is due out in May.
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BARRNet began publication of its electronic newsletter, "Heard on
the Net" (HOTN), which is distributed via email to BARRNet's
membership. By agreement with Newsbytes News Network, HOTN carries
selected Newsbytes articles relevant to the Internet community, as
well as an eclectic selection of news, resources, reviews,
interviews, opinions, humor, and other items of interest to
BARRNet's membership.
The first issue of BARRTech Notes, technical papers of interest to
the technical personnel of BARRNet's membership organizations, was
published in April, addressing NTP (Network Time Protocol).
The BARRNetter, "Heard on the Net", and BARRTech notes are edited
by John Hoag (jhoag@barrnet.net), BARRNet Communications
Coordinator. Submissions and comments are welcome.
BARRNet info@barrnet.net
Pine Hall, Rm 115 Phone: 415-725-1790
Stanford University Fax: 415-723-0010
Stanford, CA 94305-4122
John Hoag (jhoag@barrnet.net)
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
----------------------------
Defense Simulation Internet (DSI)
The DSI supported three demonstrations this month as well as
ongoing testing for a major demonstration in May. These were all
successful.
The ST2 software release is in beta test. Some bugs still exist,
but these are being fixed as the beta test period continues. More
sites will be added to the beta test over the next couple of weeks.
Several WPSen were relocated to different sites to help reduce
backbone circuit costs. In addition, a second WPS was added to the
D.C. area and another was installed in Norfolk, VA to support the
large number of sites in this area.
A new release of Wideband Packet Switch (WPS) code to support ST2
was deployed on all 11 WPSen.
Increased usage on the network is exceeding the capacity of the T1
backbone. The planning process for increasing the backbone
capacity has begun.
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Scaleability
Work is progressing on adding statistics collection to the flow-
level network simulator, and we are working on an analysis
environment for analyzing simulation results.
(See December '92 Internet Monthly Report for more details about
this project and the toolset being developed.)
Real-time Multicast Communications and Applications
We are currently implementing the shared streams service, using the
Fair Share resource reservation code as a basis for resource
enforcement. An initial version of Resource Coordination Objects
(RCOs) is being designed and implemented to support user-level
reservation for shared streams.
We are also looking at additional applications for the four real-
time multicast services in this project (anycasting, multi-level
flows, shared streams, RCOs). One possibility is the use of RCOs
for network-wide resource reservation, a need that has become
apparent in some DARTnet experiments.
During the month of March, we also worked on improvements to the
video server in two areas. First, we substantially improved the
interface between the workstations that control the Parallax codecs
used to convert analog video to digital video, transmit the digital
video across a wide area network, and receive and display the video
in a window on a workstation. This work provides the basis for two
new capabilities.
First, the video server can make use of multicast communications to
support multiple people viewing the same video simultaneously. In
earlier versions of the video server, if multiple people requested
the same video, a separate unicast data connection was initiated
for each user. In the new version of the video server, if a user
requests the same video (for example, a broadcast channel) as is
being transmitted to another user, then the initial unicast data
connection is broken and a multicast data connection is established
to the two or more users who have requested the same video.
Second, multicast digital video streams can now be broken into
multi-level (i.e. multi-bandwidth) encodings. The multi-level data
stream capability will allow multiple users to receive the same
video stream over different bandwidth connections; one user may
receive a high quality, high bandwidth video stream over high
bandwidth network connections, while another user can
simultaneously view the same video at a lower quality over lower
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bandwidth network connections. One network mechanism that can be
used to support this work is the multi-level flows communications
service that we are developing as part of this project.
In the past month, we have also made improvements to the video
catalog service, a distributed service which catalogs text
information used to index video. In earlier versions of the video
server, the host name of all video catalogs was stored at a well
known host, referred to as the catalog of catalogs. The video
applications used unicast communications to contact the catalog of
catalogs and obtain the names of hosts that contained video
catalogs. In the new catalog service, workstations that contain
video catalogs join the video catalog multicast group; thus, the
information as to where video catalogs are located resides with the
servers and not with the applications. Applications send queries
to locate video information directly to a video catalog multicast
address and the applications receive responses from all servers
that contain video information relevant to the request.
The use of multicast for this service provides an important
capability for wide area video information servers. The multicast
capability allows video server sites to change the machines hosting
catalog services, and it allows sites to add and remove video
servers (and their associated catalogs) without having to modify
video applications and without having to update a centralized
database of video service locations.
(See January '93 and March '93 Internet Monthly Reports for more
details about the application and communications services being
developed.)
Inter-Domain Policy Routing
During the month of April, we completed the IDPR pilot
installation. Many thanks to Brad Passwaters, Shehzad Merchant,
Walt Prue, Tony Ballardie, and Jeff Burgan for assistance in
providing and booting machines and installing software.
The IDPR pilot demonstration will run through May 1993. We will
provide an informational RFC on the pilot and the perceived
results, at the conclusion of this time period.
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We have also been proceeding with the design of multicasting in a
policy-based environment. In particular, we have been making
modifications to both the route generation procedure and the path
control protocol portions of IDPR, in order to accommodate
multicast. We plan to experiment in the DARTnet this summer with
prototype software and to release an Internet Draft describing the
modifications necessary to do multicasting in the context of IDPR.
Karen Seo <kseo@BBN.COM>
CONCERT
-------
The number of accounts connected to the CONCERT network grew by 21
percent during the first quarter of 1993.
CONCERT is currently testing the LARSE Mega-T inverse multiplexer
to deliver a 4Mbs V.35 link using three T1s between the UNC-
Charlotte campus and the CONCERT hub at Research Triangle Park.
For the past several weeks CNIDR (Clearinghouse for Networked
Information Discovery and Retrieval) has provided an alternate
server site for the popular Veronica resource discovery software
developed at the University of Nevada-Reno by Steve Foster and Fred
Barrie. Veronica (very easy rodent-oriented net-wide index to
computerized archives) is an "archie for gopher." The CNIDR server
receives approximately 5000 queries daily from people searching
gopherspace menus.
On April 9, 1993, CNIDR released freeWAIS 0.1, the first upgrade to
WAIS in over 6 months. freeWAIS incorporates many of the
enhancements such as Boolean searching, phrase searching, stemming,
access control, and better document relevance scoring, and a
redundant directory-of-servers. freeWAIS-0.1 is designed to be a
"backwards compatibility" module for freeWAIS-1.0, which will
provide full Z39.50-92 support and is nearing completion. freeWAIS
0.1 is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cnidr.org. For general
information and timely announcements about CNIDR, send e-mail to
info@cnidr.org.
During the month of April, VISTAnet (one of the five testbeds
sponsored by CNRI) achieved partial connectivity over an
experimental Broadband ISDN network operating at 622Mbps.
The VISTAnet network operates between the CRAY-YMP at the North
Carolina Supercomputing Center, the Pixel Planes-5 graphics
processing engine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and a medical workstation at UNC Memorial Hospital Radiation
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Oncology department. Networking services are provided by Bell
South and GTE. The driving application for VISTAnet is real-time
radiation therapy planning.
The VISTAnet network connects the three computational resources
using HiPPI to a Network Terminal Adapter (NTA). The NTA acts as a
HiPPI-to-ATM/SONET modem at SONET rates of OC-12c (622Mbps). Two
switching nodes will provide switched services, a Fast Circuit
Switch provided by GTE and an ATM switch provided by Bell South.
Only partial connectivity was achieved since the GTE circuit switch
must still be added to the network. Using HiPPI test equipment and
the endpoint hosts, data was transmitted and received data at rates
of up to 400Mbps with an acceptable quality of service. For
VISTAnet the target quality of service is less than 4 lost/errored
HiPPI packets in 1 hour of operation.
Also experimented with were the ability and limitations of a BISDN
network to handle very high speed burst data traffic in tandem with
low speed traffic. These experiments gave some insights into the
limitations of statistical multiplexing of ATM networks. We also
developed some guidelines for traffic shaping for both high speed
and low speed traffic.
by Tom Sandoski <tom@concert.net>
CSUNET (THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NETWORK)
-----------------------------------------------
The California State University Network has some newly signed
members for Internet access via CSUnet:
C* Kern County Office of Education (KCOE) [Bakersfield, CA]
C* San Diego County Supt of Schools (SDCSS)
C* Ventura County Supt of Schools (VCSS)
O* Far West Labs (FWL) [San Francisco, CA]
O* Kern High School District (KHSD) [Bakersfield, CA]
P* Taft Community College (TAFT) [Bakersfield, CA]
C* Sonoma County Library (SCL)
*status: C=contract completed, O= operational, P=contract pending
The county educations offices' plan to provide Internet access for
their districts and schools through the new connection to CSUnet.
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New projects: As the POSSIBLE 21st campus of the California State
University, the planning office of CSU Monterey Bay (CSUMB) is
being connected to CSUnet as soon as possible. CSUnet is designing
a Macintosh network to connect the new campus to other CSU campuses
and government offices using the existing CSUnet AppleTalk WAN.
CSUMB wants to move very quickly (ie. they plan to start classes in
28 months!). Networking equipment will be purchased by April 15,
1993.
Mike Marcinkevicz (mdm@CSU.net)
ISI
---
GIGABIT NETWORKING
Infrastructure
Joyce Reynolds atteded the NASA-NSI workshop in San Diego, April
27-29th.
Thirteen RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1441: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Introduction
to version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management
Framework", April 1993.
RFC 1442: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Structure
of Management Information for version 2 of the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2), April 1993.
RFC 1443: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Textual
Conventions for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocols (SNMPv2)", April 1993.
RFC 1444: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Conformance
Statements for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", April 1993.
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RFC 1445: Galvin, J., (Trusted Information Systems), K. McCloghrie
(HUGHES LAN Systems), " Administrative Model for version
2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)",
April 1993.
RFC 1446: Galvin, J., ((Trusted Information Systems), K. McCloghrie
(HUGHES LAN Systems), "Security Protocols for version
2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)",
April 1993.
RFC 1447: McCloghrie, K., (HUGHES LAN Systems), J. Galvin, (Trusted
Information Systems) Party MIB for version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", April 1993.
RFC 1448: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Protocol
Operations for version 2 of the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMPv2)", April 1993.
RFC 1449: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Transport
Mappings for version 2 of the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMPv2)", April 1993.
RFC 1450: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Management
Information Base for version 2 of the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMPv2"), April 1993.
RFC 1451: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Manager-to-
Manager Management Information Base", April 1993.
RFC 1452: Case, J., (SNMP Research, Inc.), K. McCloghrie (HUGHES
LAN Systems), M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.)
S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Coexistence
between version 1 and version 2 of the Internet-standard
Network Management Framework", April 1993.
RFC 1453: Chimiak, W., (BGSM), "A Comment on Packet Video Remote
Conferencing and the Transport/Network Layers",
April 1993.
Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)
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MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING
This month, the Real-time Tranport Protocol (RTP) was integrated
into PVP, ISI's packet video program. Now implemented in several
real-time packet audio and video programs, RTP has allowed
interoperation among different implementations of these tools. A
parameter -N was added to PVP to allow a name to be transmitted in
the RTP protocol so nv will display it when PVP and nv
interoperate. In addition, enhancements were made to PVP to make
it more readily configurable to work with a Bolter codec or a
PictureTel codec.
Steve Casner gave a talk "Internet Video -- Meltdown or the Next
Email?" at the National Net '93 conference in Washington, D.C.
Eve Schooler, Steve Casner (schooler@isi.edu, casner@isi.edu)
JVNCNET
-------
JvNCnet-Global Enterprise Services, Inc.
B6 von Neumann Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
1-800-35-TIGER
I. New Information
A. New on-line members (fully operational April 1993)
BASF Corp., Parsippany, NJ
Datacom Global Communications, Princeton,NJ
Transwitch Corporation, Shelton, CT
Cape Henlopen High School, Lewes, DE
DC Public Schools/Center for Educational Change,
Washington, DC
Dobbins Area Voc-Tech, Philadelphia, PA
DunsNet, Wilton, CT
EIRC, Sewell, NJ
Francis Scott Key High School, Unionbridge, MD
George School, Newtown, PA
George Washington High School, Philadelphia, PA
Gibbs and Cox, New York, NY
Haddonfield Memorial High School, Haddonfield, NJ
MCIU, Erdenheim, PA
Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Flourtown, PA
Neshaminy Schools Ed Services Center, Langhorne, PA
Parkview Elementary, Westville, NJ
Riverview Middle School, Denton, MD
Souderton Middle School, Souderton, PA
Springfield Schools, Philadelphia, PA
Cherry Semiconductor, E. Greenwich, RI
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EMCORE, Somerset, NJ
Health Research & Educational Trust, Princeton, NJ
Knight Ridder Financial. New York, NY
Macro Corp., Horsham, PA
Prism, Middletown, NY
Pros from Dover, Hopewell, NJ
Science Press, Ephrata, PA
TMA, Princeton, NJ
VA Medical Center (UMDNJ), East Orange, NJ
T. Wallace, Wilton, CT
D&Z Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Electronic Systems Associates, New York, NY
II. JvNCnet Symposia: All seminars are open to the public.
Location for seminars: Princeton Marriott Forrestal Village
College Road, Plainsboro, NJ
A. Title: Network management and operations
Date: May 26, 1993
Time: 8:30 to 4:30
Audience: Network operations and technical staff of
TCP/IP-based networks including system administrators
who need to know how to organize a well-functioning
operations system and proper networking monitoring.
Anyone in the Internet community interested in learning
about network operations management will benefit.
What You Will Learn
The attendee will learn the fundamentals associated with
network management and operations:
_ LAN and WAN management including
_ Variables to monitor and associated monitoring process
_ Troubleshooting for corrective and preventative fixes
_ Network weaknesses and planning
_ Capabilities of network monitoring software including
JvNCnet-authored software and technical overviews of
commercial network monitoring packages.
Speakers include: Christopher Tengi, Princeton University;
John Scoggin, Delmarva Power and Light; Heidi Iacurto,
Cisco Systems; Vikas Aggarwal and Steven Williams,
GES, Inc.
B. Title: Systems administration on the Internet
Date: June 29, 1993
Time: 8:30 to 4:30
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Audience: Network technical staff including system
administrators of TCP/IP-based networks who are
responsible for setting up network services at their
site, people who will be managing a new Internet system,
and anyone new to Internet who is interested in learning
about systems administration.
What You Will Learn
sendMail architecture and the anatomy of an email message,
Sendmail and nameservers, Sendmail configuration basics,
Rewrite rules, Domain hiding, reverse aliasing, Versions
of sendmail, and Sources of information and help.
_NEWS: CNews, NNTP reference implementation, INN, and
introduction to newsreaders.
__Domain Name Service includes redundancy and delegation,
primary, secondary and subdomains; types of records
(such as SOA, MX records, CName), initial and final
nameservers, reverse name lookups, nameserver updating,
and troubleshooting.
Attendees will receive explicit concepts to properly set up
these services on a new system and ways to streamline a
current system.
Speakers: Neil Rickert, Northern Illinois University;
Richard Salz, Open Software Foundation; and
Thomas Brisco, Rutgers University
REGISTRATION: Pre-registration preferred. Check or money order
payable to Global Enterprise Services, Inc. Mastercard/Visa
accepted or fax registration to: 609-258-2424.
Mail to: GES, Inc., Attn; R. Hammer,
B6 von Neumann Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Early bird registration by May 14 for the May 26 class and by June
15 for the June 29 class.
Early bird rate: One Day After early bird rate: One day
JvNCnet members $250 JvNCnet members $295
Non-members $275 Non-members $325
Continental breakfast, lunch, course documentation and/or book
complementing each protocol will be provided for each attendee.
by Rochelle Hammer (hammer@jvnc.net)
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MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING
------------------------
During April, the set of major activities included use of the Informix
database system for all NSFNET configuration services; changes to the
international IP network registration process; progress on automating
the submission of database update requests from midlevels; further
analysis of active and inactive network routing announcements;
progress in implementation of IDRP; and progress in testing and
implementation of TUBA.
Informix Database System in Production
======================================
Full production for the new Policy Routing Database (PRDB) and NSFNET
Configuration System began with the configuration run on April 2. The
system is used for registration of network routing announcements as
well as topology configuration for the ANSNET. A set of tools for
parsing and automatically entering database updates from e-mail
templates is now in production.
Automated Submission of Network Announcement Change Requests
============================================================
Requests for network numbers to be added to the NSFNET PRDB have
traditionally been handled by submitting templates via e-mail to the
Merit staff. Recently we have significantly improved the productivity
of configuration operators by automating much of the handling of the
requests and subsequent database entry process.
Our current focus is on the submission process. We are working on a
tool which will allow a midlevel network engineer to interactively
generate a template. Initially it will available as a 'login' style
service on a host at Merit, as a server that allows the information
fields for network information to be filled in.
The interactive program will perform some of the validation and
advance lookups of information to avoid manual cross-checking by
operators. For example, the InterNIC has provided a machine- parsable
output format for whois queries, which can be used to allow the
organizational or point-of-contact information to be directly copied
from whois into the Merit database. The program will also query
Merit's PRDB server to present the current routing configuration
relevant to the reqest being built.
We expect the first release of the interactive process to be available
in early May.
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Changes to International IP Network Registration
================================================
Merit's "IPREGISTER" service is provided to network operators and
administrators in countries which are becoming connected or need
assistance in connecting to the Internet and NSFNET. The goal is to
assist in achieving connectivity to the NSFNET as quickly and
efficiently as possible within contraints of agency policies.
The service was orginally established when IP numbers were allocated
with a "connected" or "unconnected" flag. At that time, NSF had to
sponsor an organization in order for them to receive an IP number with
the "connected" flag. It was important for non-domestic networks to
receive this classification if they desired to communicate with
scientists and researchers via the NSFNET backbone. "Connected"
status was a requirement for routing traffic on the NSFNET backbone.
Since NSF was unable to know the appropriateness of sponsoring each
and every non-domestic network, and there was not a consolidated
European, Asian, South American, and other regional networking
organization to consult, NSF established reciprocal agreements with
designated representatives within countries. This action translated
into a procedure which was implemented by Merit. One of the steps of
the procedure was to delay addition of non-domestic networks into the
NSFNET routing database until the designated representatives from that
country acknowledged and confirmed this addition.
While this procedure served us well during the days when "connected"
status existed and when the IEPG (Intercontinental Engineering
Planning Group), the RIPE NCC, and the EBONE were non-existant, the
procedure was out-dated and delayed the desired connectivity.
Merit has revised its procedure so that we eliminate the requests for
concurrence to designated representatives of foreign countries when
configuring the NSFNET routing tables. We no longer need to delay
routing of non-domestic networks into the NSFNET routing database
while waiting for responses to such requests.
At the same time, it is no longer necessary for NSF to preapprove
access on a network by network basis. Except for a list of specific
countries, all non-US routing requests are handled without any
approval delay. A bi-weekly report is now produced listing all of the
non-US networks added during the configuration run. This works nicely
with the automated processing of routing announcement change templates
that has been added recently.
One important task of IPREGISTER has not changed, and that is in
helping non-domestic networks obtain various network services. Among
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these are submitting requests to the InterNIC or RIPE for IP numbers,
and making sure the whois entry is updated and that it corresponds to
what is in the Merit Policy Routing Database as well as the RIPE
entry, if appropriate.
Further Analysis of Active/Inactive Routing Announcements
=========================================================
Known as "silent nets", a substantial population of networks in the
configuration database are not announced to the backbone. While we are
confident that the backbone router tables will not overflow due to
growth in announced networks, it is our goal to limit the set of
networks in the backbone configuration files to those which are
actually expected to be announced by midlevels to the backbone.
A similar goal has been to analyze the routing tables over time and
determine whether the configuration of Autonomous System path
preference for each network matches the actual announced preference.
In response to our messages to AS administrators, we have received
requests to delete over 400 silent nets. We have also been able to
reconfigure the announcement preferences for many networks to bring
the number of primary network announcements matching the configured
path to 99%.
The "OFFNET" database process collects routing table dumps every 15
minutes from the backbone for analysis. A summary of reports and
information generated from this database follows. Graphs showing
growth of configured networks as compared to actual announcements, and
the AS path preference comparison, can be found via anonymous FTP from
the directory merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/offnet.
OFFNET statistics summary:
04/30/93 11248 configured networks
8824 configured minus April "silent nets" (see below)
8239 maximum announced
8181 average announced
7969 minimum announced
04/01/93 95.0 average % configured primary matches announced primary
04/30/93 99.1
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The maximal number of announced networks of each month:
MONTH MAX RATE(%)
===== ==== ======
07/92 4596
08/92 4866 5.9
09/92 5070 4.2
10/92 5432 7.1
11/92 5772 6.3
12/92 6239 8.1
01/93 6654 6.7
02/93 7037 5.8
03/93 7767 10.4
04/93 8239 6.1
(Avg monthly growth rate: 6.7%)
Networks Silent for 30 days (04/01 - 04/30): 2424
Networks Silent for 7 days (04/27 - 05/04): 2846
IDRP and TUBA Implementation Status
===================================
Some Merit staff have been involved with implementation of OSI
protocols, including TUBA (TCP and UDP over CLNP) and IDRP. The
IDRP implementation is progressing well, and a demonstration was
given to the FAA and Mitre staff on April 20. Merit will
participate in the European JENC conference demo of TUBA in May.
Mark Cochran of IBM visited Merit to assist in AIX 3.2 kernel
development for TUBA, IDRP and CLNP.
Mark Knopper, (mak@merit.edu)
MERIT/NSFNET/INFORMATION SERVICES
---------------------------------
During the month of April, Romania and Bulgaria were the most
recent nations to begin routing traffic over the NSFNET Backbone
Service, as a result of their reclassification to favored nation
status by COCOM.
The text of the report "Review of NSFNET" by the Office of
Inspector General of the National Science Foundation, followed by
the text of NSF's response to the OIG report, is available for
Anonymous FTP from the host nic.merit.edu as /nsfnet/ig.report .
This document is also available via electronic mail by sending a
message to
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nis-info@nic.merit.edu
and specifying
send ig.report
as the first line of text (not subject) of the message.
"Extending the Benefits," the National Net '93 program held April
14 through 16 at Loews L'enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C. was
attended by Jim Williams, Merit Associate Director for National
Networking; Ellen Hoffman, Merit Manager of Information Services;
and Laura Kelleher and Steve Burdick of Merit's Information
Services staff. Kelleher and Burdick presented demonstration and
discussion of Merit's "Cruise of the Internet." The colorful,
computer-based tutorial, developed for new and experienced users of
the Internet, is available in Gopherspace and via Anonymous FTP
from the host nic.merit.edu. The Cruise for the Macintosh and
associated readme file are in the directory /resources/cruise.mac.
The DOS Windows version of the Cruise with readme files is found in
the directory /resources/cruise.dos.
Kelleher also spoke at a meeting of the Delaware Library
Association, where she presented "A Cruise of the Internet,"
overviewing the many and varied resources of the Internet and the
means to discover them.
Elise Gerich, of Merit Internet Engineering, attended meetings of
the IEPG and RIPE held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu)
NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK)
---------------------------------------------------
During the week of April 12, NEARnet held a semi-annual security
test. The test involved calling the designated security contacts
at all NEARnet sites to confirm our readiness in the event of a
Network Security Emergency. The test went very well with
approximately 87% of the sites contacting NEARnet personnel in
response to the test.
As part of the FARNET "Service Excellence" program, two groups of
NEARnet liaisons participated in a focus group which analyzed their
perspectives of NEARnet/Internet services and concentrated on
suggested areas for improvement.
The NEARnet User Services staff has distributed a copy "The Whole
Internet User's Guide and Catalog" by Ed Krol, free of charge, to
the information liaison at every NEARnet member organization as
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part of the information and training services for 1993.
The April issue of the "NEARnet This Month" bulletin has been
distributed. Past issues are available via anonymous FTP at
nic.near.net, in the directory newsletters/nearnet-this-month.
by Corinne Carroll <ccarroll@nic.near.net>
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC.
----------------------------------------
The new InterNIC team begin providing user and information services
on April 1st. The transition from NNSC to the new InterNIC team,
which was announced in the March 1933 Internet Monthly Report, has
been proceeding smoothly. The last issue of the NNSC-produced
newsletter should be available in May.
* NNSC Help Desk
The NNSC Telephone Hotline Number, 1-617-873-3400, is now
forwarded to 1-800-444-4345. The Electronic Help Mailbox
address now forwards mail for nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net to
info@internic.net.
* Important files from the /usr/ftp directory on nnsc.nsf.net
have been moved to the InterNICs.
At INFORMATION SERVICES <is.internic.net>
Pathname below /usr/ftp Pathname below /usr/ftp
on nnsc.nsf.net on is.internic.net
nsfnet/referral-list infosource/getting_started/
getting_connected/providers_na/
internet-access-provider-list
Internet Monthly Reports (yy=year mm=month)
nsfnet/report-yymm
infosource/internet_info_for_everybody/
imr/report-yymm
At DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES <ds.internic.net>
Directory pathnames below /usr/ftp are the same as they were on
nnsc.nsf.net, except for the-scientist.
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Description of Directories Pathname on
ds.internic.net
Internet Resource Guide resource-guide
Internet Policies and Procedures for
Educational Organizations policies-procedures
"Shadow" or "Mirror" Directories
Internet Engineering Steering Group iesg
Internet Engineering Task Force ietf
Internet Drafts (documents in the
process of becoming RFCs) internet-drafts
Internet Society documents isoc
Request for Comments reports rfc
Online version of THE SCIENTIST,
a bimonthly newspaper for scientists pub/the-scientist
* NSF Network Newsletter
The NNSC is in the process of publishing its final issue of
the NSF Network Newsletter, which will appear in May 1993.
This issue will include the NSF Network map and site list.
* Other Services
For information about NNSC services not mentioned here. please
call the new InterNIC phone number 800-444-4345.
Charlotte Mooers <mooers@nnsc.nsf.net>
OARNET
------
IETF Meeting in Late March
The 26th Internet Engineering Task Force meeting was held at
Columbus, OH, hosted by OARnet and The Ohio State University. The
conference was very well attended, and went off excellently. The
terminal room was stocked with 25 PCs, running software donated by
FTP Software, Inc. In addition, there were terminal server ports,
ethernet and appletalk connectors for people bringing in their own
laptops. As an experiment, dialup IP access was provided for all
who requested so. A total of 45 hours of async PPP access, and 11
hours of async SLIP access were logged by the attendees.
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In keeping with the IETF tradition, all the plenaries, and at least
two of each session was simulcast to the Internet using packet
audio and video. Cameras and a VCR for this purpose were donated by
the Ohio Visualisation Laboratory.
To provide reliable access, LCI International, and Ohio Bell
telephone company donated a total of 3 T1 circuits for the IETF.
One of the T1s was used to carry multicast traffic for the
simulcast exclusively, and connected the terminal room directly to
the OARnet POP at Cleveland, while another one carried unicast
traffic from the terminal room to the nearest OARnet backbone POP;
the third T1 was used to interconnect the OARnet POP at Cleveland
to the ANS POP at North Royalton. At peak periods, OARnet offered
approximately 400Kb/sec of IETF audio and video traffic to the ANS
backbone and about 100Kb/sec of IETF terminal room traffic, or
about 500Kb/sec in total.
At this IETF, most of the major "IPv7" contenders, PIP, TUBA, and
SIP/IPAE also demonstrated current implementation status.
Ashley Burns <ashley@oar.net>
UCL
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1. The INRIA Video Conferencing System Software has been merged
with our CODEC software so we can now generate video from a sparc
or SGI and send over IP (multicast) and receive, encapsulate in
H.221 (with CRCs!) and hand to a CODEC, and vice versa. Currently,
this is working at 64kbps and 128 kbps - we will move to higher
speeds as and when.
2. We hosted one of the schools for the Global Schoolhouse
Project's first video class over the Internet on April the 26th
succesfully (after a number of successful demos where the first hop
was running over our campus FDDI, on the day, this broke and we had
to fallbacvk to a copper voicegrade line (driven at 256kbps!) from
UCL to the UK international gateway with some clever last minute
re-routing. Details reports no doubt will appear elsewhere. Many
thanks to the Cornell people for introducing us to CUSeeMe (yet
another neat conferencing program!). J Crowcroft now knows more
about MACs than he cares to admit.
3. We hosted the first SuperJANET demonstration day on te 28th - as
reported before, this net is now being bought up, and many high
speed applications were shown to the various sponsors.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
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Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate
for this calendar section. Please send your submissions to
(cooper@isi.edu).
1993 CALENDAR
Mar 29 - Apr 2, IETF, Columbus, Ohio
Apr 5-19 TCOS WG, Boston (tentative)
Apr 14-16 National Net'93, Wash 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 25-28 IFIP WG6.1 13th Intl. Symposium; Protocol
Specification Testing and Verification
Liege Belgium
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 IETF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jul 12-16 IEEE802 Plenary, Sheraton Denver Tech
Center,Denver, CO
Jul 12-16 TCOS WG, Hawaii (tentative)
Aug 1-6 Multimedia '93, Anaheim, CA
Aug 17-20 INET 93 San Francisco,(Request@inet93.stanford.edu)
Aug 23-27 INTEROP93, San Francisco
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Sep 13-17 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 14 -? IFIP TC6. GMD-Fokus, 2nd Intl Conf.
on Open Distributed Processing, ICODP12, Berlin
Sep 20-31 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6, Seoul, Korea.
Sep 28-29 September RIPE Technical Days, TBC
Oct INTEROP93, Paris, France
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Oct 5-6 IFIP WG 6.6 Intl Workshop on Distributed Systems:
Operations and Management DSOM'93.
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 2-4 EMAIL World, Einar Steffurd <stef@nma.com>
Nov 9-13 IEEE802 Plenary, Crown Sterling Suites,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Nov 15-19 Supercomputing 93, Portland, OR
Dec 6-10 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
1994 CALENDAR
Feb 3-4 ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed
System Security, San Diego, (nessett@llnl.gov)
2-6 May NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com
Jun 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 ULPAA, Barcelona, Spain
Einar Stefferud (stef@nma.com)
Aug 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Computer Congress
Hamburg, Germany; Contact: IFIP
Sep 12-14 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
1995 CALENDAR
Sep 18-22 INTEROP95, San Francisco, CA
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
1996 CALENDAR
Sep 2-6 14th IFIP World Computer Congress
Canberra, Australia Contact: IFIP
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