CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Gene Hastings/ PSC Presentations o Metin Feridun, BBN on Connectivity Tool (see handout) Mail to Metin Feridun if you are interested in using it.(617)-547-1870 o Ted Brunner (with Paul Tsuchiya.) on cartography database proposal Propose a ``MIB-ish'' database format to describe router configuration and interconnection information. See handout. tob@thumper.bellcore.com, tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com Old Business o DOE Community name to be announced to regional operators mailing list. o NASA Community name to be announced to regional operators mailing list. o Map drawing tools - GraphPorter, gplot (PICT>CGM>PS) GraphPorter is a commercial product for the Macintosh that converts PICT files to CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) files. There is a companion product called MetaPICT which does the reverse. Source: GSC Associates 2304 Artesia Blvd., Suite 201 Redondo Beach, CA 90278-3114 213-379-2113 Fax: 213-379-1649 gplot is a free collection of packages available from PSC to manipulate CGM files and render them for arbitrary output devices. Supported devices include Postscript, Tektronix, and X. Source: anonymous ftp tar file from calpe.psc.edu, in pub/gplot. Gplot does not as yet run on a Macintosh, but it will run on most VMS and Unix systems. Sources are in pub/gplot/src. For inclusion in a mail distribution list, send mail to welling@psc.edu or andrews@psc.edu Some difficulty encountered converting MacDraw II PICT files - Standard statistics - still no consensus - efforts to cohere contact databases; Is whois up to date? Up to site administrators to make sure! Make sure there is an in-addr entry for your net, not just for hosts! -> reverse lookup for 128.182.0.0, 192.5.146.0, etc. New business 1 o Gene Hastings volunteered PSC to produce case histories of interesting or anomalous problems from their experience o Matt Mathis: whatUs happening with the phasing out of Net 10? Terrestrial Wideband showed up on a traceroute test from Cambridge Mailbridge to CMU carrying production traffic? o Milo: Some gateways are dumb. There are no administrative routing controls within Wideband-Net. o HWB: Recent change in NSFNET<>MILNET announcements leads to direct routes within MILNET/ARPANET being preferred to NSFNET routes. For networks directly connected to MILNET and its close relatives, like Wideband. It was observed that the change in NSFNET<>MILNET announcements makes sense, but means that network managers directly connected to MILNET or an experimental net like Wideband need to understand this and bias their own announcements to suit their policies. ATTENDEES Scott Brim swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu Ted Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com Greg Dobrich dobrich@a.psc.edu Tom Easterday tom@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu Metin Feridun mferidun@bbn.com Jack Hahn hahn@umd5.umd.edu Gene Hastings hastings@psc.edu Greg Hollingsworth gregh@mailer.jhuapl.edu Tom Holodnik tjh@andrew.cmu.edu Steven Hunter hunter@ccc.mfecc.arpa Robert Reschly reschly@brl.mil Dan Jordt danj@cac.washington.edu Marilyn Martin martin@cdnnet.ca Matt Mathis mathis@pele.psc.edu Milo Medin medin@nsipo.nasa.gov Donald Morris morris@ucar.edu Dave O'leary oleary@noc.sura.net Lee Oattes oattes@utcs.utoronto.ca Roxanne Streeter streeter@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov Paul Tsuchiya tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com Kannan Vardham kannan@oar.net Edward Vielmetti emv@math.lsa.umich.edu John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu Carol Ward cward@spot.colorado.edu Linda Winkler b32357@anlvm.ctd.anl.gov Dan Wintringham danw@igloo.osc.edu Sze-Ying Wuu wuu@nisc.junc.net 2