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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 10
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
CONCERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
INTERNIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
JVNCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
LOS NETTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
MERIT/MICHNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 36
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
IETF MONTHLY REPORT for October, 1993
1. The 28th meeting of the IETF, co-hosted by SESQUINET and Rice
University, was held in Houston, Texas from November 1-5, 1993.
The first meeting of the IETF in 1994 will be held in Seattle,
Washington from March 29 through April 1, 1994. This meeting is
being hosted by NorthWestNet.
Following the March 1994 meeting, it looks like the IETF will
be in Toronto in July, and in the San Francisco Bay Area in the
fall. Once the final 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 IESG has determined how documents from the IPng candidates
will be treated when they are submitted to the IESG for
publication as RFCs.
a. All IPng-related documents will be submitted for publication
as RFCs in normal fashion; that is, as soon as the working
group and the area directorate recommends that the IESG
review them for publication. All IPng-related RFCs will be
published with Experimental status. All IPng-related RFCs
will remain in Experimental status until a single IPng is
selected.
b. At some point, one IPng shall be selected, and it will be
moved onto the standards track as defined in RFC1310 (or its
successor). An Applicability Statement will be prepared to
assign a status of "Recommended" as the Common IPng for
Internet interoperability.
c. Once a "Common IPng" protocol has been selected, the other
(former) IPng candidates will be treated in normal fashion.
That is, they may eventually be moved to Historic status, or,
if recommended by the working group and area directorate,
they may be moved onto the standards track. However, because
there can be only one level three protocol with a status of
"Recommended as the Common IPng for Internet
interoperability", an Applicability Statement must be
prepared that clearly distinguishes between the subject
protocol and the "Recommended Common IPng".
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3. The IESG approved or recommended the following nine Protocol
Actions during the month of October, 1993:
o MOSPF: Analysis and Experience as an Informational document
o OSPF Version 2 as a Draft Standard
o Multicast Extensions to OSPF as a Proposed Standard
o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) as a Draft Standard
o PPP in HDLC Framing as a Draft Standard
o Common DNS Data File Configuration Error as an Informational
document
o Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes. as an
Informational document
o FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR) as an
Experimental Protocol
o Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol
as an Informational document
4. The IESG issued four Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
October, 1993:
o Classical IP and ARP over ATM <draft-ietf-atm-classic-ip-05>
being considered as a Proposed Standard
o OSPF Version 2 <draft-ietf-ospf-version2-04> being considered
as a Draft Standard
o Multicast Extensions to OSPF <draft-ietf-mospf-multicast-04>
being considered as a Proposed Standard
o Telnet Environment Option
<draft-ietf-telnet-envmnt-option-02> being considered as a
Proposed Standard
5. Two Working Groups were created during this period:
Internet Stream Protocol V2 (st2)
Routing over Large Clouds (rolc)
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Additionally, two Working Groups were concluded:
Internet Message Extensions (822ext)
Network News Transport Protocol (nntp)
6. A total of 88 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of October, 1993:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(idpr) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Inter-Domain
Policy Routing Protocol (Version 1)
<draft-ietf-idpr-mib-03.txt>
(x400ops) o Operational Requirements for X.400 Management
Domains in the GO-MHS Community
<draft-ietf-x400ops-mgtdomains-ops-06.txt>
(none) o IDRP for IP <draft-hares-idrp-05.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH
Interface Type <draft-ietf-atommib-sonet-01.txt>
(ospf) o The OSPF NSSA Option
<draft-ietf-ospf-nssa-option-01.txt>
(avt) o Issues in Designing a Transport Protocol for Audio
and Video Conferences and other Multiparticipant
Real-Time Applications
<draft-ietf-avt-issues-01.txt, .ps>
(wnils) o Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service
<draft-ietf-wnils-whois-02.txt>
(x400ops) o Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations
<draft-ietf-x400ops-postmaster-03.txt>
(pem) o MIME-PEM Interaction <draft-ietf-pem-mime-03.txt>
(x400ops) o C=US; A=IMX <draft-ietf-x400ops-admd-03.txt>
(avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
<draft-ietf-avt-rtp-04.txt, .ps>
(avt) o Sample Profile for the Use of RTP for Audio and
Video Conferences with Minimal Control
<draft-ietf-avt-profile-03.txt>
(pppext) o PPP in X.25 <draft-ietf-pppext-x25-02.txt>
(pppext) o PPP in Frame Relay
<draft-ietf-pppext-frame-relay-02.txt>
(pppext) o PPP over ISDN <draft-ietf-pppext-isdn-03.txt>
(dns) o DNS Support for IDPR <draft-ietf-dns-idpr-02.txt>
(iiir) o Resource Transponders
<draft-ietf-iiir-transponders-01.txt>
(rolc) + NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
<draft-ietf-rolc-nhrp-00.txt>
(nir) o A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval:
Tools and Groups
<draft-ietf-nir-status-report-01.txt>
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(none) o Randomness Requirements for Security
<draft-ietf-security-randomness-01.txt>
(iiir) o A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information
Service <draft-ietf-iiir-vision-01.txt>
(telnet) o Telnet Environment Option
<draft-ietf-telnet-envmnt-option-02.txt>
(cat) o FTP Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-cat-ftpsec-03.txt>
(frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay
Service <draft-ietf-frnetmib-fr-04.txt>
(uri) o Uniform Resource Names
<draft-ietf-uri-resource-names-01.txt>
(ifmib) o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II
<draft-ietf-ifmib-evolution-04.txt>
(atm) o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5
<draft-ietf-atm-mtu-03.txt>
(isn) o FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly
Asked "Primary and Secondary School Internet User"
Questions <draft-ietf-isn-faq-02.txt>
(atm) o Classical IP and ARP over ATM
<draft-ietf-atm-classic-ip-05.txt>
(decnetiv) o DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions
<draft-ietf-decnetiv-mibext-03.txt>
(pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-for-bridging-01.txt>
(tn3270e) o TN3270 Enhancements
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-enhancements-02.txt>
(upsmib) o UPS Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-upsmib-01.txt>
(none) o Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux)
<draft-cameron-tmux-01.txt>
(thinosi) o Octet sequences for upper-layer OSI to support basic
communications applications
<draft-ietf-thinosi-cookbook-01.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management
<draft-ietf-atommib-atm-01.txt>
(imap) o INTERACTIVE MAIL ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 2bis
<draft-ietf-imap-imap2bis-02.txt>
(tn3270e) o TN3270 Current Practices
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-current-pract-02.txt>
(none) o Mapping between X.400 P772 and RFC-822
<draft-onions-x400p772-822-mapping-01.txt>
(pppext) o Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point
Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-requirements-01.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-netbios-fcp-01.txt>
(none) + Simple Mobile IP (SMIP)
<draft-penners-mobileip-smip-00.txt>
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(ripv2) + RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information
<draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-00.txt>
(none) o Naming and Structuring Guidelines for X.500
Directory Pilots <draft-rare-nap-x500naming-01.txt>
(sip) + Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP): Overview of
Routing and Addressing Extensions to SIP
<draft-ietf-sip-overview-00.txt>
(none) + MIME Multipart/Header-Set
<draft-crocker-headerset-00.txt, .ps>
(pppext) + PPP Reliable Transmission
<draft-ietf-pppext-reliable-00.txt>
(saag) + ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT TODAY'S
CRYPTOGRAPHY
<draft-ietf-saag-cryptography-faq-00.txt>
(ids) + A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
<draft-ietf-ids-catalog-00.txt>
(none) + SGML-based Personal Contact Information (SPCI)
<draft-adie-spci-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + SGML-based Hierarchical Attribute/Value Encoding
(SHAVE) <draft-adie-shave-00.txt, .ps>
(dns) + Incremental Transfer and Fast Convergence in DNS
<draft-ietf-dns-ixfr-00.txt>
(snadlc) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link
Control <draft-ietf-snadlc-sdlc-mib-00.txt>
(none) o MIME Content Type for BinHex encoded files
<draft-faltstrom-macmime2-01.txt, .ps>
(none) + MIME Content-types for SGML Documents
<draft-levinson-sgml-00.txt>
(ifmib) + Management Information Base for Management of
Network Connections
<draft-ietf-ifmib-conntable-00.txt>
(none) + MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME
<draft-faltstrom-macmime1-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + MIME Content Type for BinHex encoded files
<draft-faltstrom-macmime2-00.txt, .ps>
(bgp) + Application of the Border Gateway Protocol and IDRP
for IP in the Internet
<draft-ietf-bgp-idrp-usage-00.txt>
(none) + Internet Architecture Extensions for Shared Media
<draft-braden-shared-media-00.txt>
(none) o SMTP Service Extensions for Binary Transmission of
Large MIME Messages
<draft-vaudreuil-smtp-binary-01.txt>
(none) + Application/Signature
<draft-vaudreuil-mime-sig-00.txt>
(none) + Row creation with SNMPv1
<draft-waldbusser-v1rows-00.txt>
(snadlc) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link
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Control <draft-ietf-snadlc-mib-00.txt>
(svrloc) o Service Location Protocol
<draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-02.txt>
(none) + SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
<draft-freed-smtp-pipeline-00.txt>
(pppext) + PPP Stacker LZS Compression Protocol
<draft-ietf-pppext-stacker-00.txt>
(none) + SMTP Service Extensions for Command Streaming
<draft-vaudreuil-smtp-stream-00.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-compression-01.txt>
(ripv2) + RIP Version 2 MIB Extension
<draft-ietf-ripv2-mibext2-00.txt>
(none) + Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture:
an Overview. <draft-braden-realtime-outline-00.txt,
.ps>
(none) + A Service Model for an Integrated Services Internet
<draft-shenker-realtime-model-00.txt, .ps>
(pem) + An Alternative PEM MIME Integration
<draft-ietf-pem-mime-alternative-00.txt>
(none) + Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1
Functional Specification <draft-braden-rsvp-00.txt,
.ps>
(pppext) + PPP Gandalf FZA Compression Protocol
<draft-ietf-pppext-gandalf-00.txt>
(none) + Selecting a Direct Provider
<draft-rekhter-direct-provider-00.txt>
(modemmgt) + Modem MIB <draft-ietf-modemmgt-mdmmib-00.txt>
(none) + Multipart/References MIME Content-Type
<draft-moore-mime-references-00.txt>
(iiir) + WAIS over Z39.50-1988 <draft-ietf-iiir-wais-00.txt>
(none) + Introduction to White Pages services based on X.500
<draft-rare-nap-x500intro-00.txt>
(iab) + The MultiProtocol Internet
<draft-iab-multiprotocol-00.txt>
(osids) + Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol <draft-ietf-osids-cldap-00.txt>
(none) + SC6 Documents on Liaison with the IETF in the CIDR
Environment <draft-houldsworth-sc6-documents-00.txt>
(osinsap) + Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet
<draft-ietf-osinsap-allocation-00.txt>
(sip) + Extensions to DNS to support SIPP
<draft-ietf-sip-sippdns-00.txt>
(idmr) + IGMP Router Extensions for Routing to Sparse
Multicast-Groups
<draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-sparse-00.txt>
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(idmr) + IGMP Router Extensions for Routing to Dense
Multicast-Groups <draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-dense-00.txt>
(pppext) + PPP Hewlett-Packard Packet-by-Packet Compression (HP
PPC) Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-hpppc-00.txt>
7. There were 16 RFC's published during the month of October, 1993:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1528 E (none) Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT
Subdomain: Remote Printing -- Technical
Procedures
RFC1529 I (none) Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT
Subdomain: Remote Printing --
Administrative Policies
RFC1530 I (none) Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT
Subdomain: General Principles and Policy
RFC1531 PS (dhc) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
RFC1532 PS (dhc) Clarifications and Extensions for the
Bootstrap Protocol
RFC1533 PS (dhc) DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions
RFC1534 PS (dhc) Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP
RFC1535 I (none) A Security Problem and Proposed
Correction With Widely Deployed DNS
Software
RFC1536 I (dns) Common DNS Implementation Errors and
Suggested Fixes.
RFC1537 I (dns) Common DNS Data File Configuration Error
RFC1538 I (none) Advanced SNA/IP : A Simple SNA Transport
Protocol
RFC1539 I (none) The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New
Attendees of the Internet Engineering
Task Force
RFC1540 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS
RFC1541 PS (dhc) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
RFC1542 PS (dhc) Clarifications and Extensions for the
Bootstrap Protocol
RFC1543 I (none) Instructions to RFC Authors
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
======================
A major T3 network hardware & software upgrade is planned to begin
deployment on November 6th. This upgrade will include several T3
router performance enhancements. New rcp_routed routing software
was deployed in October. New GateD routing software is expected to
begin deployment in November. A new CNSS node was installed in
Albuquerque, New Mexico to support T3 services.
October Backbone Traffic and Routing Statistics
===============================================
The total inbound packet count for the network (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 43,689,832,748 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up
21.9% from September. The total packet count into the network
including all ENSS serial interfaces was 51,080,653,716 up 22.4%
from September.
Major T3 Network Upgrade Planned
================================
Starting on November 6th, a major upgrade to the T3 ANSnet/NSFnet
Service will be deployed. We are calling this the "Phase-5
upgrade" since it represents the 5th major change to network
infrastructure that we have made since 1991. The infrastructure
upgrade to the T3 network will begin deployment on Friday 11/6 in
Seattle and Denver, and will continue at each T3 ENSS site and CNSS
POP location during pre-scheduled weekend maintenance windows
through 12/18. The major changes included in this upgrade are:
o Upgrade of all DS3/HSSI router serial interface adapters (T3
CNSS and ENSS) to support full DS3 bandwidth. The router
adapter bus interface cards will also be upgraded to double
the packet switching rates per interface.
o The architecture for interconnection among CNSS routers at
each MCI POP location will be upgraded from point-to-point
links to a common FDDI ring.
o The T3 DSUs on each DS3 interface will replaced with a T3
bandwidth manager (T3Plus BMX45) to accommodate T3 CNSS-CNSS
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circuits and a Larscom Access-T45 DSU on each end of a T3
ENSS-CNSS circuit.
o New system software and microcode will be installed (already
in progress) prior to the hardware deployment to support the
increased adapter performance. Routing software has already
been deployed to support the new CNSS FDDI ring architecture.
Deployment Schedule Summary
---------------------------
The upgrade will be deployed in six steps, commencing on Friday
evening November 6th, and ending on the weekend of December 18th.
the upgrade will be suspended for the week of Thanksgiving. Some
deployment details and the deployment schedule follow below:
- The T3Plus BMX45N bandwidth managers will be installed
on the first POP visit. CNSS sites will have multiple
visits to upgrade the backbone links.
- T3 ENSS sites are visited once and are upgraded
concurrent with the adjacent DS3 linked CNSS.
- The ANS NOC will create a planned maintenance trouble
ticket with the ENSS site well in advance of maintenance
and will confirm with the site a few days in advance.
- All parts will be delivered to the ENSS site on the
Thursday preceding the scheduled Friday evening upgrade.
Deployment Schedule Detail
--------------------------
Step Date ENSS CNSS
---- ------- ---- ----
1 11/06/93 E143 Seattle Seattle ENSS and Seattle POP
E142 Denver Salt Lake City ENSS and Denver POP
E141 Denver Boulder ENSS and Denver POP
2 11/13/93 E128 San Fran Palo Alto ENSS and San Fran POP
E144 San Fran FIX-W ENSS and San Fran POP
E130 Chicago Argonne ENSS and Chicago POP
---- Seattle 2nd visit for Seattle-San Fran
link upgrade
3 11/20/93 E135 L.A. San Diego ENSS and Los Angeles POP
E179 N. Mex. Sandia Labs ENSS & Albuquerque POP
E172 N. Mex. Phillips Labs ENSS & Albuquerque POP
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E139 Houston Houston ENSS and Houston POP
---- San Fran 2nd visit for San Fran.- L.A.
link upgrade
4 12/04/93 E129 St. Louis Champaign ENSS and St. Louis POP
E140 St. Louis Lincoln ENSS and St. Louis POP
E138 Atlanta Atlanta ENSS and Atlanta POP
---- Greensboro Greensboro POP
---- Denver 2nd visit for Denver-St. Louis
link upgrade
---- Chicago 2nd visit for Chicago-St. Louis
link upgrade
---- Houston 2nd visit for Houston-St. Louis
link upgrade and for Houston-Atlanta
link upgrade
5 12/11/93 E131 Cleveland Ann Arbor ENSS and Cleveland POP
E132 Cleveland Pittsburgh ENSS and Cleveland POP
E137 New York Princeton ENSS and New York POP
---- Chicago 3rd visit for Chicago-Cleveland
link upgrade
6 12/18/93 E133 Hartford Ithaca ENSS and Hartford POP
E134 Hartford Boston ENSS and Hartford POP
E136 Wash D.C. College Park ENSS and Wash D.C. POP
E145 Wash D.C. FIX-East ENSS and Wash D.C. POP
E146 Wash D.C. DARPA ENSS and Wash D.C. POP
---- Cleveland 2nd visit for Cleveland-Hartford
link upgrade
---- Greensboro 2nd visit for Greensboro-D.C.
link upgrade
---- New York 2nd visit for NY-Hartford link
upgrade and for NY-D.C. link
upgrade
Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes
===================================
Rcp_routed maintenance continued in preparation for the upcoming T3
network upgrade and GateD deployment. The "Both IBGP and EBGP
Aggregation" version or rcp_routed was deployed early in October.
The "Both IBGP and EBGP Aggregation" version further improves
performance, and also allows the CNSS nodes to be interconnected
using a FDDI ring rather than point-to-point interfaces within the
carrier POPs.
A new version of rcp_routed will be installed in early November.
This version more efficiently processes policy information (see
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below).
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 stability rather than
complete connectivity. Steady improvement that has been observed
since June.
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%
The figures above exclude logs collected at the ENSS200 router
which was used to provide temporary T3 connectivity for a trade
show. While there was no stability problems with this node, it was
never xntp time synchronized and its skewed timestamps tended to
make any minor instabilities during that week appear longer than
they were. Stability figures for ENSS200 are included by virtue of
the logging information collected on it's IBGP neighbors.
Severe route flap outside of ANSnet affected rcp_routed in October.
A rogue application was discovered walking through the IP address
space, starting with the class A numbers and transmitting UDP echo
packets to these destinations. This affected routers outside
ANSnet, which had difficulty processing the ICMP unreachable
messages to be sent. The volume of route flaps affected ENSS nodes
with a very large number of configured peer network announcements
(5000-8000 networks). The efficiency of the run time search
through configured policy information in rcp_routed was improved to
prevent this in the future. ENSS136, ENSS144, and ENSS145 were
affected. The source network responsible for the rogue application
was isolated and the UDP echo packets have since ceased.
ENSS160 (ANS Elmsford) experienced numerous crashes due a hardware
failure which was subsequently fixed.
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ENSS138 saw instability associated with the cutover of a new T3
circuit. Instabilities were recorded as part of the cutover.
Other than the specific problems cited above, power problems on the
customer premise was responsible for the greatest amount of
measured instability.
A new router system software build was installed at a few T3 ENSS
sites, causing limited instability of on the order of 10 minutes.
Two new versions of rcp_routed were installed during October.
Route convergence has improved, limiting the disruption of a
backbone wide routing daemon install to about 5 minutes.
The number of nodes experiencing more than 30 minutes accumulated
has been significantly reduced. The vast majority of nodes had
less than 15 minutes of accumulated instability over the course of
the month. The breakdown by sites is as follows (these figures
include instabilities recorded during configuration runs):
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
GateD Deployment Update
=======================
During October we continued testing the initial GateD release for
the T3 network that supports BGP4 and interoperability with
rcp_routed. A recent change resulting from testing involves
improved protocol processing during large route downloads from the
AIX kernel to the packet forwarding adapters. We expect deployment
of GateD to begin in November with support for external BGP version
4 peers available soon thereafter.
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Albuquerque POP Installation
============================
On November 5th a new CNSS node will be added to the T3 ANSnet in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. This CNSS will initially support two new
T3 ENSS sites in Albuquerque (Sandia National Laboratories and
Phillips Laboratories). Within the next few months, additional
CNSS equipment will be added to support the attachment of other
networks in the Albuquerque region.
Notable Outages in October '93
==============================
UNAM (Mexico) suffered an extended circuit outages on 10/01 and
10/21.
E173 (ITESM) suffered an extended outage on 10/3 due to power
problems.
EBS2 (Cern) suffered extended circuit outages on 10/5, 10/6, and
10/10.
E173 (ITESM) suffered an extended circuit outage on 10/11.
E141 (Boulder) and E142 (Salt Lake) lost T3 connectivity on 10/12
due to hardware problems due to hardware problems on a core router.
Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
----------------------------
Real-Time Multicast (Communications)
------------------------------------
Work in September concentrated on testing and demonstrating the
various network capabilities developed in the project. With the
help of other DARTnet researchers, we performed several tests on
the DARTnet testbed of multi-level flows, RCOs (Resource
Coordination Objects), and shared streams. These tests used a
modified version of the "nv" video-conferencing program that
supports multi-level video data flows (described in last month's
report), and the standard version of the VAT audio-conferencing
tool, which was used for a shared-stream-based audio conference.
The shared-stream experiment uses RCOs to propagate reservation
information for each VAT audio source, which share common bandwidth
where the flows overlap in the network. The Fair Share resource-
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enforcement mechanism was used to enforce the bandwidth
reservations for the multicast flows.
Inter Domain Policy Routing
---------------------------
During the months of September and October, we made considerable
progress on our implementation of multicast and multipath routing
for IDPR. This involved changes to the procedures for generating
routes, setting up paths, and distributing routing information.
Although only minor changes to the IDPR protocols are required to
support both multicast and multipath routing, the software for
route generation and path setup required extensive redesign to
support these features. We expect to start testing in December.
Karen Seo <kseo@BBN.COM>
CONCERT
-------
CONCERT has received two NSF Connections Grants allowing for the
connection of 16 Universities / Colleges/ Community Colleges in the
State of North Carolina.
The communications research group's resource management experiment
has been slowed down a bit due to switching to Solaris 2.2.
However, the real time (RT) scheduling class in Solaris 2.2 seems
to be useful for a number of networking and multimedia experiments.
For example, we expect to use this support in implementing a leaky
bucket mechanism and in implementing an audio echo cancellation
algorithm.
Work is underway to port the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville implementation of XTP(version 3.6) for the IBM RISC
6000 platforms running AIX to the Cray-YMP-EL running UNICOS. This
implementation of XTP is more efficient compared to the KRM version
(KRM 1.6 and 1.7) that was ported to the Cray earlier this year.
An updated version of the packet video catalog listing packet audio
and video packages (based on the previous work of to Chris Adie)
will be placed on the ftp site ftp.concert.net early this week.
This is a live document and will be updated periodically as new
packages are announced and existing ones evolve.
by Tom Sandoski <tom@concert.net>
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INTERNIC
---------
INFORMATION SERVICES
Contact Information:
Reference Desk Information
Toll-free hotline +1 800 444-4345
email info@internic.net
Fax +1 619 455-4640
InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints
Suggestions suggestions@internic.net
Complaints complaints@internic.net
NSF Network News
newsletter subscriptions
newsletter-request@internic.net
newsletter comments
newsletter-comments@internic.net
Listserv lists
net-happenings listserv@internic.net
net-resources listserv@is.internic.net
nics listserv@is.internic.net
InfoSource
Host Name is.internic.net
Host Address 192.153.156.15
Postal address
InterNIC Information Services
General Atomics
P.O. BOX 85608
San Diego, CA 92186-9784
NIC Fest '93
------------
The first annual NIC Fest workshop was held November 6 in San
Diego. The daylong workshop was held in conjunction with the
ACM SIGUCCS '93 conference. NIC Fest was specifically designed
for network information center (NIC) management, staff, and
other personnel who provide support for Internet users.
Approximately 130 NIC staffers from around the country, as
well as Japan, Hong Kong, Germany and Canada attended the
conference. The following midlevel networks were represented:
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MIDnet, BARRnet, OARnet, CICnet, NYSERNet, PREPnet,
Northwestnet, VERnet, MOREnet, Merit, and CERFnet. All
participants listed some kind of NIC support functions, often
help-desk, documentation, and/or training.
Speakers included:
Alan Emtage, Vice President of Research and Development,
Bunyip Information Systems, and co-developer of Archie
David R. Conrad, Technical Contact for the Asia Pacific
Network Information Center in Tokyo, Japan
Jane Smith, Assistant Director, Clearinghouse for Networked
Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR)
Joyce Reynolds, Technical Staff, ISI; Area Director, IETF User
Services (Internet Engineering Task Force)
The InterNIC Team:
Susan Calcari, InterNIC Information Services
Subu Subramanian, InterNIC Directory and Database Services
Scott Williamson, InterNIC Registration Services
NIC Fest Featured The Following:
--------------------------------
InterNIC Services and Discussion
A summary and discussion of InterNIC services presented by
Susan Calcari of Information Services, Subu Subramanian of
Directory and Database Services, and John Zalubski of
Registration Services.
Network Tools, Parts I and II
An overview of the network tools currently available and how
they work. Presented by Jane Smith of the Coalition for
Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) and Alan
Emtage of Bunyip Information Systems, the discussion also
included future developments of the tools.
NIC Projects, Part I
Joyce Reynolds of the Information Sciences Institute and
Director of the User Services Area of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) presented a broad overview of the IETF Areas
and working groups, and NIC projects being undertaken around
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the US.
NIC Projects, Part II
In this part of the discussion, Joyce Reynolds presented an
overview of NIC Projects from around the world. David Conrad
of the Asia Pacific NIC presented a discussion on the ongoing
development of his NIC.
NICLink
-------
InterNIC Information Services will release a special
introductory issue of NICLink, a CD-ROM subscription product
to be issued quarterly. The NICLink CD will contain the
InfoSource, the Information Services online information
database that highlights the information resources of the
Internet. Additional information, images, electronic books,
and software from the Internet will be included in future
issues. The CD-ROM will be compatible with Macintosh, PC
Windows, and some UNIX configurations. The software used to
present the data is Interleaf's WorldView, which incorporates
full database search functions as well as hypertext linking
capabilities to provide a powerful, easy-to-use interface.
Contact the Information Services Reference Desk or the
InterNIC Store on the InfoSource for details.
NSF Network News
----------------
The September issue of the _NSF Network News_ has been
published and is arriving in mailboxes in all 50 states and 44
countries. The newsletter will be distributed in hard copy
and electronic formats. There is no subscription fee, except
for international suscribers who want to receive hard copy
format. A $30 annual fee will be charged to defray the cost of
overseas shipping and handling. The primary electronic format
will be ascii which will be emailed to users. A PostScript
version will also be available. In addition to subscription
delivery, the newsletter will be placed online in the
InfoSource.
Each issue of the newsletter includes maps of US and
international internet connectivity. The _NSF Network News_
is also available in ASCII format in the InfoSource. The
ASCII version does not contain the connectivity information.
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For more information, or to subscribe, email to
newsletter-request@is.internic.net.
Reference Desk
--------------
The following table gives a summary of the Reference Desk
contacts for October.
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 230 12
Phone 1694 84
Fax 67 3
US Mail 14 < 1
Other 0 n/a
------- -------- ---------
Total 2005 100
by Paul Wilson <wilsonp@is.internic.net
and Karen D. Frazer <kfrazer@is.internic.net>
DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
Since there are many potential users whose sole access to the
Internet is through electronic mail, InterNIC Directory and
Database Services supports a mail server that gives access to many
of our services.
Complete instructions for use of the mail server are available by
sending mail to mailserv@ds.internic.net and putting the word
"help" (without the quotes) in the BODY of the message.
We have tried to make as many services as possible available
through the mail server, including access to all files available
via FTP and the ability to search our Directory of Directories. A
few of our services (e.g. Netfind) require interaction between the
user and the service, so they are not available through the mail
server.
The basic services available include:
- access to all files on our server that can be reached by FTP
- access to X.500 and WHOIS directory searches
- directory of directories searches by topic
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- keyword searches of our document collection
We also support access to archie by mail. For compatability with
the rest of the archie world, archie is accessed by sending mail to
"archie" rather than sending mail to "mailserv".
To help spread the load a bit, there are a few restrictions on use
of the mail server:
- each message is limited to 15 queries and file transfer requests
- the information returned by file transfer is limited to 500K
bytes
- CPU time for message processing is limited to 15 seconds
One frequent cause of errors with the mail server is that the
command is put on the "Subject:" line rather than in the body of
the message. Since our server accepts multiple commands per
message, we accept commands from the body of the message rather
than the "Subject:" line.
A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find
a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and
we will send information about listing your resource in the
Directory of Directories.
by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net>
REGISTRATION SERVICES
I. Significant Events
During the month of October, the InterNIC changed the menu
selections on the 1-800 number. Customers calling the numbers are
now being referred to #1 Information Services, #2 Directory and
Database Services, and #3 Registration Services. This change
reduced confusion for callers and for InterNIC staff members.
The Internet continues to grow every month. According to our
statistics there are over 12,252 domains in the InterNIC database
and we also registered a record 729 inverse addresses as well. The
Internet is becoming more popular than it's ever been and the
general public is reaping the benefits.
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II. Registration Statistics October
Hostmaster Email 3,127
Postal/Fax Applications 233
Telephone Calls 1,360
Domain Registered 577
Inverse Addresses 729
Class C's Assigned 6,676
Class B's Assigned 46
ASN Assigned 55
Connections Retrievals
Gopher Sessions 47,358 15,267
Wais Sessions 17,952 31,974
Ftp Sessions 6,301 26,204
Telnet Sessions 43,318
Mail Server 754
by John Zalubski <johnz@rs.internic.net>
ISI
---
GIGABIT NETWORKING
Atomic Project
Our principal research this month has focused on three topics:
1) Installation and testing of the 100' ATOMIC cables.
2) High-level design of the PC-ATOMIC interface for
the Gateway 486 DX66V personal computer.
3) Release of ATOMIC Software.
4) Testing of a 64-processor Mosaic board.
1) We have installed two ATOMIC cables and have integrated them
into normal operation of the LAN. One cable is 100' long and the
other is 120' long. Each have been tested at about 300Mb/s and
have been running for several weeks without significant
problems.
2) We have been actively examining various design alternatives for
this VL-Bus ATOMIC interface card. Recently we have decided to
replace the Memoryless Mosaic chips in our design with the
forthcoming Lanai chip that should be available in January.
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Pinouts will be available in December, so our complete board
layout will begin at that time. The Lanai chip is optimized for
network interfacing and will include some features for real-time
scheduling.
3) We have moved the Address Consultant code into the kernel This
makes the code more portable to operating systems other than SUN
OS and allows sites without a source license to install the
ATOMIC device driver into their systems. The code has been made
available to selected sites with ATOMIC hardware.
4) We recently installed a 64-processor Mosaic-C board as the main
switch in our LAN. It provides 16 bidirectional ports for
connecting hosts or other switches. We have verified its correct
operation and are working on integrating it into the network.
Annette DeSchon, Bob Felderman, Greg Finn
ISI High Performance Computing and Communication Division
Mike Gorman, Jeff LaCoss
ISI Integrated Systems Laboratory
Infrastructure
Jon Postel, Joyce Reynolds, Bob Braden, Ann Cooper, Steve Casner,
Deborah Estrin, and Paul Mockapetris attened the IETF meetings in
Houston, TX, October 30-Nov 5. Joyce Reynolds, attended the EARN's
Network Services Conference in Warsaw, Poland, October 9-17. Joyce
Reynolds attended CERFnet NIC Fest as keynote speaker, November 5-
7th.
16 RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1528: Malamud, C., (Internet Multicasting Service)
and M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.),
"Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain:
Remote Printing -- Technical Procedures, October
1993
RFC 1529: Malamud, C., (Internet Multicasting Service)
and M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.),
"Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain:
Remote Printing -- Administrative Procedures, October
1993.
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RFC 1530: Malamud, C., (Internet Multicasting Service)
and M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.),
"Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain:
General Principles and Policy, October 1993.
RFC 1531: Droms, R., "Dymanic Host Configuration Protocol",
Bucknell University, October 1993.
RFC 1532: Wimer, W., "Clarifications and Extensions for the
Bootstrap Protocol", Carnegie Mellon University,
October 1993.
RFC 1533: Alexander, S., (Lachman Technology, Inc.) and
R. Droms, (Bucknell University), "DHCP Options
and BOOTP Vendor Extensions", October 1993.
RFC 1534: Droms, R., "Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP"
Bucknell University, October 1993.
RFC 1535: Gavron, E., "A Security Problem and Proposed Correction
With Widely Deployed DNS Software", ACES Research Inc.,
October 1993.
RFC 1536: Kumar, A., (ISI) J. Postel, (ISI) C. Neuman (ISI),
P. Danzig, (ISI), and S. Miller (USC), "Common DNS
Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes",
October 1993.
RFC 1537: Beertema, P., " Common DNS Data File Configuration
Errors", CWI, October 1993.
RFC 1538: Behl, W., B. Sterling (McDATA Corp), W. Teskey, (I/O
Concepts), "Advanced SNA/IP : A Simple SNA Transport
Protocol, October 1993.
RFC 1539: Malkin, G., "The Tao of IETF", Xylogics, Inc.,
October 1993.
RFC 1540: Internet Architecture Board, J. Postel, Editor,
"Internet Official Protocol Standards", October 1993.
RFC 1541: Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol",
Bucknell University, October 1993.
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RFC 1542: Wimer, W., "Clarifications and Extensions for
the Bootstrap Protocol", Carnegie Mellon University,
October 1993.
RFC 1543: Postel, J., "Instructions to RFC Authors", ISI
October 1993.
THE US DOMAIN
-------------
Ann Cooper gave a presentation about the US Domain, at the IETF
USWG working group meeting in Houston, Texas, November 3rd.
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
US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
EMAIL/FAX/PHONE 517
----------------------------
Total Contacts 517
DELEGATIONS 257
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 30
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 230
---------------------------
Total 517
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.
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OCTOBER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS
-----------------------------
K12.AZ.US Arizona K12 Schools
K12.GA.US Georgia K12 Schools
K12.IN.US Indiana K12 Schools
K12.KY.US Kentucky K12 Schools
K12.MS.US Mississippi K12 Schools
K12.NC.US North Carolina K12 Schools
K12.OH.US Ohio K12 Schools
K12.WV.US West Virginia K12 Schools
STATE.AZ.US Arizona State Government
STATE.GA.US Georgia State Government
STATE.IN.US Indiana State Government
STATE.KY.US Kentucky State Government
STATE.MS.US Mississippi State Government
STATE.NC.US North Carolina State Government
STATE.NM.US New Mexico State Government
STATE.OH.US Ohion State Government
STATE.VT.US Vermont State Government
STATE.WV.US West Virginia State Government
STATE.WY.US Wyoming State Government
LIB.AZ.US Arizona Libraries
LIB.GA.US Kentucky Libraries
LIB.IN.US Indiana Libraries
LIB.KY.US Kentucky Libraries
LIB.NC.US North Carolina Libraries
LIB.OH.US Ohio Libraries
LIB.WV.US West Virginia Libraries
TEC.GA.US GeorgiaTechnical Schools
TEC.IN.US Indiana Technical Schools
TEC.KY.US Kentucky Technical Schools
TEC.OH.US Ohio Technical Schools
TEC.WV.US West Virginia Technical Schools
CC.IN.US Indiana Community Colleges
CC.KY.US Kentucky Community Colleges
CC.OH.US Ohio Community Colleges
CC.WV.US West Virginia Community Colleges
GEN.IN.US Indiana "general" subdomain
GEN.KY.US Kentucky "general" subdomain
GEN.OH.US Ohio "general" subdomain
GEN.WV.US West Virginia "general" subdomain
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MUS.IN.US Indiana Museums
MUS.KY.US Kentucky Museums
MUS.OH.US Ohio Museums
MUS.WV.US West Virginia Museums
19 Localities in Georgia
14 Localities in Ohio
164 Localities in South Carolina
OTHER DELEGATIONS
-----------------
EXCEED K12.TN.US Exceed Inc. Consortium for K12 schools
CI.DIAMOND-BAR.CA.US Diamond Bar, California city gov't agencies
CI.JAX.FL.US Jacksonville Florida, City gov't agencies
CI.PHOENIX.AZ.US Phoenix Arizona, City gov't agencies
CI.SANTA-MONICA.CA.US Santa Monica City gov't agencies
CO.LEE.FL.US Lee County, Florida, county agencies
INTERACT.K12.NV.US Clark County Public Education Foundation
OKLADOT.STATE.OK.US Oklahoma Department of Transportation
TELECOMM.CO.ORANGE.FL.US Orange County, Fl. Telecommunications
ELHS.LIMESTONE.K12.AL.US East Limestone High School
BLACKSBURG.VA.US Blacksburg locality
MONTGOMERY.K12.VA.US Montgonery Virginia school district
BEV.PVT.K12.VA.US Private school in Blacksburg
MONTGOMERY-FLOYD.LIB.VA.US Montgomery & Floyd County Regional Libr.
MORGANTOWN.WV.US Morgantown West Virginia
BUCKHANNON.WV.US Buckhannon West Virginia
UEN.GEN.UT.US Utah Educational Network
DE LONG-SJ.CA.US DeLong Family
Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)
MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING
This month, we publicly released mmcc, the multimedia conference
control program. Mmcc is a session orchestration tool that allows
a user to explicitly invite others to participate in a conference,
and alerts them to accept or decline. Mmcc is an X-based tool that
provides both point-to-point and multipoint teleconferences. It
automatically spawns underlying audio, video and groupware programs
among members of a session, then tears them down at session
completion. Currently, mmcc brings up vat by default, and offers
the option to start nv and wb, but in the future we'd like to
support other MBone tools as well. Mmcc will distribute a session
key for confidential sessions. In this preliminary version, the
key is sent in the clear, so it is not secure, but eventually we
expect to use other techniques for secure key distribution.
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Mmcc aims to supplement the large open-style sessions supported by
the existing version of sd. It complements the hailing-channel
approach of public sessions with a more private session style for
smaller conferences. Thus, session advertisement is internal to
the group of participating conferees. The mmcc release software is
available via anonymous FTP from "ftp.isi.edu:confctrl/mmcc.tar.Z".
The Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) specification from the IETF
Audio/Video Transport working group has been augmented to provide
for application-specific option number assignment and to clarify
and explain a number of points. With these edits completed, the
document has been submitted to the IESG for the "Last Call" before
publication as an RFC.
Joe Touch, Eve Schooler, Steve Casner
(Touch@ISI.EDU, Schooler@ISI.EDU, Casner@ISI.EDU)
JVNCNET
-------
JvNCnet-Global Enterprise Services, Inc.
3 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540
voice: 1-800-35-TIGER; 1-609-897-7300, fax 1-609-897-7310
I. How to contact GES:
Network operations center (NOC):
609-897-7319 and 609-897-7320; noc@jvnc.net
Customer Service:
609-897-7318 and 609-897-7337; support@jvnc.net
II. Symposia Series (open to the public)
A. OSI and X.400 and X.500: Planning and Implementation
Date: December 7, 1993
Instructors: Sue Hares, Internet Engineer, Merit,Inc.
and Kevin Jordan, Senior Software Engineer
at Control Data Corp., Minneapolis.
Contact: hammer@jvnc.net
B. Cisco Router Technical Training (open to the public)
Title: Cisco router configuration course
Five day, hands-on class, to learn and practice the
commands to configure routers on a multi-protocol
network. Live network connectivity enhances the experience.
Dates: November 29-December 3, 1993
December 13-17, 1993
January 10-January 14, 1994
For further details, send email to: training@jvnc.net
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C. Partial list of new on-line members (fully operational
September and October, 1993)
American Association of Medical Colleges, Washington,D.C.
Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
Advanced Projects Research, Hightstown, NJ
Toto Software, Waterbury, CT
Casino Control Commission, Atlantic City, NJ
C. Buckley, Plainsboro, NJ
InfoWorks, Inc., Landenberg, PA
Muze, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
National Medical Care Lifechem NJ
D. Bischoff, Somerset, NJ
LRP/Kodak, New Haven, CT
D. Nevins, King of Prussia, PA
New Technology Solutions, Inc., New York, NY
NXT Interiors, New York, NY
OKS Limited, Haverford, PA
Periphonics Corporation, Bohemia, NY
Pharmacopeia Inc., Princeton, NJ
Scholastic, New York, NY
Seth Godin Productions, Inc., Mt. Vernon, NY
Smithco Engineering, Tulsa, OK
G. Sobotka, Bridgeport, CT
TDR, Morristown, NJ
US Capital Insurance, White Plains, NY
Western Connecticut Library Council, Inc, Middlebury,CT
Michael W. Coon & Assoc., Inc., Bloomfield, NJ
by Rochelle Hammer <hammer@jvnc.net>
LOS NETTOS
----------
Walt Prue attended the regional techs meeting at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor October 4th and 5th.
Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU)
MERIT/MICHNET
-------------
At the close of October, Merit has grown to ten member institutions
and 60 affiliates. Northern Michigan University in Marquette is
the newest Merit Member. NMU will initially have two 56Kbps
attachments, one linking the university to the MichNet node at
Michigan Technological University and the other to the backbone
node in Grand Rapids. NMU will host the Marquette MichNet dial-in,
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as well as Michigan State University facilities. The Rapid
Response Manufacturing Center in Redford, Michigan will be
connected at 56Kbps to the MichNet node at Wayne State University.
The manufacturing technology and research organization, sponsored
by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, will fund its
MichNet connection through a grant from the National Institute for
Science and Technology (NIST).
Jackson Community College recently upgraded to a 56Kbps link with
the assistance of an NSF Connections grant. JCC also participated
with Merit in upgrading the Jackson area MichNet dial-in service,
bringing additional phone lines into the Jackson hunt group. The
new modems will also be compatible with Merit's planned Network
Access Servers (NAS) scheduled for deployment throughout the
MichNet backbone in 1994.
The Livingston PortMaster at the University of Michigan MichNet
site is now in production. The dial-in access offered through the
UM/MichNet NAS is currently limited to PPP (Point-to-Point
Protocol) access only and requires authentication. Access will be
broadened to include dumb-terminal emulation in the future. NAS
configuration is specified for flexibility in modem speeds, error
correction and data compression.
Sandra Waite represented Merit/MichNet interests at "Building
Consensus/Building Models for K12 Networking Assistance," a project
funded by the National Science Foundation and carried out by FARNET
and CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking). This new
initiative will work to bring together leaders in K12 education,
networking and public policy to develop models for successful
technical assistance to schools implementing school-based networks.
Dana Sitzler, Merit K-12 Outreach Coordinator, participated in the
National Information Infrastructure Education Forum in Washington,
D.C. Sitzler also presented information on "how to get connected"
to the Internet and Merit's "Cruise of the Internet" at the
Michigan Association for Educational Data Systems (MAEDS)
conference in Bellaire, Michigan and the October Tech Expo held in
Petoskey, Michigan.
Sitzler and Ellen Hoffman, Merit's Development Director, attended
the Great Lakes Council of Governors Summit on Information and
Technology, held in Indianapolis, IN. Laura Kelleher, Merit's
Network Applications Coordinator, presented Merit's "Cruise of the
Internet" at October meetings of MACUL and the Michigan Library
Association. Pat Smith, Merit Customer Service Coordinator,
provided information resources at the MLA gathering. A special
edition of Merit's "Cruise of the Internet" and a hands-on
demonstration of Internet tools and resources for 275 employees
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from various State of Michigan departments was designed and
presented by Smith, Steve Burdick, Betty Van Dam and Ellen Hoffman.
The State of Michigan has adopted TCP/IP as the networking standard
for the state's departmental initiatives.
Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu)
Merit Network, Inc. Information Services
MERIT/NSFNET INTERNET ENGINEERING
---------------------------------
This report contains a summary of recent activities of Merit's
Internet Engineering Group. These include development of
capabilities in the Policy Routing Database system to represent,
generate NSFNET/ANS backbone configuration files, and test new
software, for deployment of the CIDR and BGP-4 routing
architecture. Additionally, Merit staff have made progress on
implementation of a "CIDR Aggregate Registry", described in RFC
1482, for registration of aggregated routing information between
providers.
In early October, Merit hosted a meeting of the Regional-Techs
group, which discussed a number of topics related to coordination
among providers for CIDR deployment and registration of routing
information. The Shared Whois Project (SWIP) is an ongoing joint
project between InterNIC, RIPE NCC and Merit.
Policy Routing Database Changes and CIDR Deployment
In preparation for deployment of the GateD routing daemon on the
ANS backbone, supporting the BGP-4 protocol for CIDR, changes were
completed in the Merit/NSFNET PRDB in order to support inbound
acceptance and outbound announcement of route aggregates. The PRDB
can now generate GateD configuration files for the ANSNET backbone.
These files can include configuration for the new BGP-4 features.
Merit engineers are cooperating with the ANS backbone engineering
staff in testing GateD operation on the T3 research network, and in
the initial deployment of the new version of GateD on the
Washington DC to Geneva, Switzerland circuit.
The initial production deployment of the PRDB changes for CIDR will
include a change in the notation of network numbers to the
classless format ("x.x.x/len"). This change will be visible to all
external users of whois or the PRDB reports. The whois server
commands will start using the new notation, and ans_core.now,
country.now, and net-comp.now will be replaced with their new
versions (currently produced as ans_core.cidr, country.cidr, and
net-comp.cidr). Prefix lengths of 8, 16, or 24 will be put into
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the PRDB for all existing nets with classes A, B and C
respectively.
The Network Announcement Change Request (NACR) templates, both e-
mail and interactive client interfaces, will be changed to accept
aggregated announcements. Once GateD is deployed, BGP-4 will be
supported initially without announcing or accepting aggregated
routes, however. After BGP-4 appears to be stable, controlled
experiments with aggregation will be done in cooperation with
regional and midlevel networks.
Still to be implemented in the database is the "proxy aggregation"
as described in RFC 1482. In this case the backbone can be
configured to aggregate on behalf of the regional network in
response to the announcement of one or a set of network numbers
comprising the total aggregate. This feature will be supported by
the time NACR support for aggregation is made available.
CIDR Aggregate Registry
Changes to the Aggregate Registry function described in RFC 1482
were made at the October Regional-Techs meeting. The original
proposed functionality was split into a Aggregate Registry (one
entry per aggregate, with source AS) and a possible separate Routed
Net registry giving AS topology with aggregate announcements.
Initially these registries will list only network prefixes which
are not class A/B/C nets, but the longer term goal is to allow all
nets regardless of class to be returned by the same server. The
Aggregate Registry project will be implemented first as it is a
relatively straightforward project, with the Routed Net Registry
project being implemented next.
It is expected that these registries will be of assistance in the
global BGP-4 tunnel testbed led by Andrew Partan and Peter
Lothberg.
Regional-Techs Meeting
A meeting of the Regional-Techs group was held in Ann Arbor on
October 4-5. The focus of the meeting was to discuss CIDR
Deployment, routing registration, and NSFNET transition issues with
respect to coordination among network providers. The group decided
that it will be important to broaden its scope to include any
interested network providers rather than restrict the discussion to
NSFNET-attached regionals and midlevels. It was decided that for
the foreseeable future, Merit will continue to host the group, but
meetings may be held at different locations with other network
provider sponsors. A suggestion for a new name for the group was
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North American Network Operators Group, though a name was not
finalized and is open to discussion.
A summary of the meeting is available for anonymous ftp:
merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/regional-techs/1093/rtechs.ps
SWIP Project
The Shared Whois Project is a joint project between Merit, RIPE NCC
and InterNIC to synchronize data among the Internet numbering and
routing registries, and implement various databases and implement
automatic update procedures. It is a goal of the three
organizations to synchronize data by April, 1994 and begin to use
the update procedures at that time. A working document can be found
in
merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/swip/swip.ps
Mark Knopper (mak@merit.edu)
MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES
---------------------------------
Merit/NSFNET Information Services
Merit will present another in its series of Networking Seminars
January 27-28, 1994, in Orlando, Florida. Making Your Internet
Connection Count: Technology, Tools and Resources" will be held at
the Walt Disney World Yacht Club Resort. Co-sponsored by Florida
State University and the University of Florida, this seminar
includes an overview of Internet resources, popular tools for
network access, and the national policies that affect its growth.
Nationally known experts talk to attendees about network resources,
getting connected and how the network is effectively being used
today by universities, research organizations, libraries, and
public schools. Interactive breakout sessions each day make it
possible to get your questions answered by experts.
Scheduled topics and speakers include "The Telecommunications
Future," the keynote address by Bob Hederick, President EDUCOM;
"Information Delivery on the Internet--What's Next for Gopher?,"
Mark McCahill, Gopher Developer at the University of Minnesota;
University of Michigan Weather Underground, Perry Samson, Professor
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University
of Michigan; Electronic Democracy, Jean Armour Polly, Manager of
Network Development and User Training NYSERNet, Inc.; NSFNET and
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the NII, Priscilla Huston, NSFNET Project Director, NSF; and the
closing address by Donna Cox, Directory of Numerical Lab Programs,
NCSA.
Internet connectivity will be available in a hands-on demonstration
room, where seminar attendees can access the many resources on the
Internet using the latest information delivery tools.
The registration fee is $495 until December 23, 1993. After
December 23, the cost is $595. This fee includes the two-day
seminar, all seminar materials, receptions on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, lunches on Thursday and Friday, refreshments and
access to Internet-connected computers.
Limited scholarships will be available. The deadline for
scholarship applications is December 23, 1993.
For more information, send an e-mail message to
nic-info@nic.merit.edu
with the text
send next.seminar
This information is also available as the document
/nsfnet/next.seminar on nic.merit.edu for retrieval using Anonymous
FTP or in the Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70, as Next
Merit/NSFNET Seminar--Jan. '94.
New information available on nic.merit.edu, the Merit Network
Information Center Services host computer includes
A directory devoted to the Proceedings of the annual Internet
Society conference, INET '93, held in San Francisco during August
1993. Available as /conference.proceedings/inet93
The description of EUnet Traveller, allowing Internet access via
local dial-up within much of Europe. Available as
/internet/providers/eunet-traveller.txt
Lebanon and Guam are the newest international sites with
announcement to the NSFNET backbone during October. Foreign
networks now number 7,539 of the total 17,979 networks announced to
the NSFNET backbone. Growth as reflected in the number of domestic
and foreign networks having announcement to the NSFNET
infrastructures, as well as network distribution by country over
the term of the NSFNET project, are available as
/nsfnet/statistics/history.netcount
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and
/nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.country
respectively on nic.merit.edu.
The resources of nic.merit.edu are available through Anonymous FTP,
electronic mail query and a Gopher client connecting to the Merit
Network Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70.
Ellen Hoffman, Merit Development Director, attended the 1993 EDUCOM
program, "Crafting New Communities." Steve Burdick, Coordinator of
Merit Multimedia Applications, traveled to the MacroMedia
conference in San Francisco, CA. Jim Williams, Associate Director
for National Networking, represented Merit at meetings of the
Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee and Western
Cooperative Educational Telecommunications. Eric Aupperle,
President of Merit Network, and Williams attended the October
FARNET meeting held in Washington, D.C.
Jo Ann Ward (jward@merit.edu)
NORTHWESTNET
-------------
NorthWestNet's Annual Meeting was held from October 12-15 at the
Seattle Hilton with approximately 310 registered participants. In
addition to 5 keynote presentations and 21 track sessions, a 7.5
hour, three part series on libraries and computing centers was held
to examine the evolving relationships between these two groups.
The series examined areas of overlap and conflict--from mission
statements to solving users problems--and through dialogue began
exploring the foundations of cooperative production and
distribution of integrated, electronic information services.
Keynote presentations included an inspired and fresh view of what
the Internet and K-12 can bring to each other (Fred Dust, The Bush
School); an overview of the current NSFNET backbone and NREN
(Richard Mandelbaum, NYSERNet); a look at national NII policy under
development (Charles McClure, Syracuse University); an examination
of cooperative ventures and commercial interests in the development
of the NII (Jim Elias, US West); and an overview of the current
state of, and future opportunities for, NorthWestNet (Eric Hood,
NorthWestNet).
All NorthWestNet governance and representative committees--
executive committee, board of directors, institutional
representatives, technical services representatives, and user
services representatives--convened in conjunction with the Annual
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Meeting.
Two major new services for NorthWestNet members were unveiled in
October. First, a NorthWestNet Gopher, that includes an online,
searchable version of "The Internet Passport," was announced and
made available to our member communities. Second, the Willow
graphical information retrieval tool, designed by the University of
Washington, is also now available to the NorthWestNet member
community for use in accessing online, text-based bibliographic
databases.
We welcome our newest NorthWestNet member, R.S. Dow Neurological
Sciences Institute.
-----------------
NorthWestNet 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.
by Jan Eveleth <eveleth@nwnet.net>
PREPNET
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PREPnet New Members:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Advanced Reactor Corp. Pittsburgh, PA
Allentown College Center Valley, PA
Sewickley Academy Sewickley, PA
Microserve Information Systems Plymouth, PA
Bentley Systems Exton, PA
With these additions, PREPnet now totals 144 members.
PREPnet News:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
PREPnet added a new staff member this month. Amy Hauber was hired
as the PREPnet NIC's Secretary.
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PREPnet's Executive Director Tom Bajzek attended the FARNET meeting
October 6-8 in Washington,D.C. Tom is Secretary of FARNET.
On October 12, Tom Bajzek and Daryl Dolan represented PREPnet at
"Technology for Education," an exhibit presented by Computerware
and Apple Computer at Fox Chapel Area High School, in Pittsburgh.
Tom conducted a breakout session on Internet access. With the help
of Fox Chapel Area High School, PREPnet was able to do live
demonstrations during the exhibition. Several applications were
shown, including e-mail, telnet, and gopher.
PREPnet's NIC Manager Marsha Perrott met with representatives from
the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Bell of Pennsylvania
regarding OSPF deployment. During a conference call, an
implementation plan was discussed. The deployment on PREPnet's
core should begin in mid-November.
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)
UCL
----
We demonstrated multiway Internet and ISDN conferencing at Interop
in Paris all week. Mark Handley also presented two papers, on the
MIE project and on a comparison of the various multicast schemes
proposed by the members of the IDMR group.
We had ISDN calls to a variety of places, and then used the MICE
CMMC to mix them into an Internet multiway conference with audio,
video and whiteboards.
An effective demonstration tool has developed - the use of the game
person a word, which they then attempt to draw in a wb, and the
other particpants attempt to guess what the word was. Winner is
frst correct guess, and chooses next word.
While running this, we have been working on a tool for helping
diagnose mbone problems based on background monitoring of the
topology with a triggered traceroute -g on any suspect route, via
the first hop mrouted, to the destination one.
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Two papers were accepted for the Journal of Distributed Systems
Engineering, one on congestion control and another on dual window
control in transport protocols - details available on request.
[have to check the copyright on this journal]
A paper on the Bilateral Policy Routing Protocol was sent to JHSN,
and a paper on a Security Analysis of Intern-Dmain Routing
Protocols was sent to ACM CCR. Details again avaialble on request
[have to locate postscript].
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
--------
Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate
for this calendar section. Please send your submissions to
(cooper@isi.edu).
1993 CALENDAR
Oct INTEROP93, Paris, France
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 14-16 6th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan
Area Networks, San Diego, Del Mar, CA
Oct 18-20 International Workshop on Applications of
Neural Networks to Telecommunications
Princeton, NJ
Oct 18-22 TCOS WG, Atlanta, GA (tentative)
Nov 1-5 IETF Houston, TX.
Nov 2-4 ANSI X3S3.3, TBD
Nov 2-4 EMAIL World
Contact: 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)
Mar 29-Apr 1 IETF, Seattle, Washington
May 2-6 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)
Jun 6-10 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Berlin, Germany
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Jul 25-29 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Tokyo, Japan
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Jul IETF Toronto, Canada
Aug 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Computer Congress
Hamburg, Germany; Contact: IFIP
Aug 29-Sep 2 ACM SIGCOMM 94, UCL, London, England
Contact J. Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk. or ACM
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Sep 12-16 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia
Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
Fall IETF San Francisco, California
Oct 24-28 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
========================================================================
RARE LIST OF MEETINGS
november 93 edition
---------------------
Ref. RSec(92)102-ac
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
------------------------
12 November Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
17 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RARE Council of Administration
------------------------------
3/4 February 1994 Brussels
19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
RARE Technical Committee
------------------------
3 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
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RARE Working Groups
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CERT-TF
2 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RIPE
----
24-26 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF)
16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF)
VARIOUS
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Euro-CAIRN
3 December Brussels
DANTE Steering Committee
16 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
DANTE Shareholders
4 February Brussels
EBONE Management Committee
9 November Copenhagen
EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations
EAT (Ebone Action Team)
29 November Bonn (GMD)
EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
30 November Bonn (GMD)
Euro-CCIRN
TBD
CCIRN
20/21 June TBD (in Europe)
INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
13/14 June Prague
IETF
1-5 November Houston
28 March - 1 April Seattle
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EWOS
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Technical Assembly
23-24 November Brussels
1-2 March Brussels
17-18 May Brussels
13-14 September Brussels
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
14 December Brussels
Workshops
17-21 January Brussels
11-15 April Brussels
27 June - 1 July Brussels
10-14 October Brussels
ECTUA
-----
ETSI
----
General Assembly
9-10 November Nice, France
Technical Assembly
21-23 March Nice, France
EARN
Board of Directors
18-19 May Darmstadt
INET'94/JENC5 Organising Committee
1 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
***********************************************************************
INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5)
13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic
The annual conference of the Internet Society held in conjunction with
the 5th Joint European Networking Conference.
To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a
message to <inet-jenc-request@rare.nl>.
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Deadline for submission of contributions and proposals for
demonstrations is 15 December 1993 - email <inet-jenc-sec@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)
OPENNET 93
----------
The German-speaking countries conference on Internetworking
from 8 to 11 November in Munich
for information, please email <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de>
208z
5TH ACOnet NETWORK SEMINAR FOR SCIENTISTS AND NETWORK MANAGERS
FROM CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE
-------------------------------------------------------------
22-26 November in Vienna, Austria
organised by Vienna University, supported by Digital Equipment Corp.
and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.
More information available from:
Mrs. Elisabeth Zoppoth <zoppoth@cc.univie.ac.at>
tel.+43 1 4065822-351/fax.+43 1 4065822-170
and by anonymous FTP from ftp.univie.ac.at:
/at.local/aconet/i-aconet-sem-5.ps (invitation and registration form) and
/at.local/aconet/p-aconet-sem-5.ps (preliminary program)
(From RARE Document Store, both in ASCII and postscript:
ftp.rare.nl /rare/info/calendar/aconet-seminar.invitation.22.11.93
/rare/info/calendar/aconet-seminar.prelim-prog.22.11.93)
MULTIMEDIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PORTABILITY AND NETWORKING
----------------------------------------------------------
Workshop organised by the Advisory Group on Computer Graphics
from 29 November to 1 December in Abingdon, UK
for more information please email Dr. Anne Mumford
<a.m.mumford@uk.ac.lut>
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3rd HIGH SPEED SYMPOSIUM
------------------------
organised by RARE with support from the CEC
on 2 February 1994 in Brussels
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** to be sent to the High Speed Symposium
Secretariat <hssec@rare.nl> before 21 November 1993.
Participation is free of charge; registration forms can be
obtained from <hssec@rare.nl>.
To be added to the symposium email distribution list, send a
message to <high-speed-request@rare.nl>.
INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY
---------------------------------------------------------------------
on 3 and 4 February 1994
at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego, California
more information from Mr. Robert Shirey of the MITRE Corporation
email <shirey@mitre.org>
(also on RARE Document Store, file name <isoc-security.03.02.94>)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION NETWORKS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
from 18 to 21 April 1994 in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
For information, please email Prof. Pedro Veiga <pmv@inesc.pt>
15TH INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATICS AND PSYCHOLOGY
-------------------------------------------------------------
organised by the Computer Science Department of the Johannes Kepler
University Linz, Austria, in cooperation with the European
Association for Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE)
from 24 till 26 May 1994 in Schaerding, Austria
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 15 January 1994
For further information, contact Michel Tauber
<tauber@uni-paderborn.de>.
NORDUnet 94
-----------
from 31 May to 2 June 1994
in Umea, Sweden
for information, email <nordunet94@umdac.umu.se>
NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 (provisional)
------------------------------
from 18 to 20 October 1994
in Bournemouth (UK)
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EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ASSOCIATION (EEMA)
23/24 November Winter Conference Meeting Athens
"Electronic Messaging - The Business Benefits,
with illustrations from the Transport Industry"
**********************************************************************
1/11/93
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