~ March 1994 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. This report is for Internet information purposes only, and is not to be quoted in other publications without permission from the submitter. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to: Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) NSF Regional reports - To obtain the procedure describing how to submit information for the Internet Monthly Report, send an email message to mailserv@is.internic.net and put "send imr-procedure" in the body of the message (add only that one line; do not put a signature). Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32 PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 36 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. By the time the March IMR is distributed, the 29th meeting of the IETF will have concluded. The meeting was held from March 29 through April 1 in Seattle, Washington, and was hosted by NorthWestNet and the University of Washington. The next meeting of the IETF will be held in Toronto, Canada. and is being hosted by the University of Toronto. The Toronto meeting is scheduled for July 25-29, with the registration reception on July 24th. Following the Toronto meeting, the IETF will be in the San Francisco Bay Area in early December. 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 approved or recommended the following 12 Protocol Actions during the month of March, 1994: o DNS Resolver MIB Extensions approved as a Proposed Standard. o DNS Server MIB Extensions approved as a Proposed Standard. o PPP over ISDN approved as a Proposed Standard. o PPP in X.25 approved as a Proposed Standard. o PPP over SONET/SDH approved as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs approved as a Proposed Standard. o Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet approved as a Draft Standard. o MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME approved as a Proposed Standard. o MIME Content Type for BinHex encoded files be published as an Informational RFC. o IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures be published as an Informational RFC. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 o UPS Management Information Base approved as a Proposed Standard. o FYI on Questions and Answer Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions be published as an Informational RFC. 3. The IESG issued 12 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of March, 1994: o DNS Resolver MIB Extensions for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o DNS Server MIB Extensions for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Using the Internet DNS to distribute RFC1327 Address Mapping Tables for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o PPP Reliable Transmission for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o PPP Stacker LZS Compression Protocol under consideration for publication as an Informational RFC o PPP Hewlett-Packard Packet-by-Packet Compression (HP PPC) Protocol under consideration for publication as an Informational RFC o PPP Gandalf FZA Compression Protocol under consideration for publication as an Informational RFC Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 o PPP Predictor Compression Protocol under consideration for publication as an Informational RFC o PPP BSD Compression Protocol under consideration for publication as an Informational RFC 4. Three Working Groups were created during this period: CIDR Deployment (cidrd) DNS Security (dnssec) ONC Remote Procedure Call (oncrpc) Additionally, four Working Groups were concluded: Domain Name System (dns) Frame Relay Service MIB (frnetmib) User Connectivity (ucp) BGP Deployment and Application (bgpdepl) o Note: BGP Deployment and Application (bgpdepl) was actually renamed and rechartered as CIDR Deployment (cidrd) 5. A total of 102 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of March, 1994: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) WG I-D Title ------ ----------------------------------------------------- (isis) o Integrated IS-IS Management Information Base (mhsds) o Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the Directory Information Tree (mhsds) o Use of the Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822 Addresses (mhsds) o MHS use of the Directory to support distribution lists (mhsds) o Representing Tables and Subtrees in the Directory (mhsds) o A simple profile for MHS use of Directory (mhsds) o MHS use of Directory to support MHS Routing Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 (sdr) o Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and Forwarding Specification (Version 1). (x400ops) o Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations (pem) o PEM Security Services and MIME (iplpdn) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (nir) o A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups (sipp) o SIPP Neighbor Discovery (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Node in Fibre Channel Standard (pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP) (none) o Internet Authentication Guidelines (tn3270e) o TN3270 Enhancements (none) o Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux) (thinosi) o Octet sequences for upper-layer OSI to support basic communications applications (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management Version 7.0 (pppext) o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) (notary) o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (notary) o MIME Content-Types For Delivery Status Notifications (snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: SDLC (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol (pppext) o The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP) (none) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification (modemmgt) o Modem MIB (sipp) o DNS Extensions to support Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 (sipp) o IPAE: The SIPP Interoperability and Transition Mechanism (catnip) o Common Architecture for Next-generation Internet Protocol (sipp) o SIPP Security Architecture (sipp) o SIPP Authentication Header (sipp) o SIPP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 (sipp) o Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP): DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions (pppext) o PPP Option for Data Encapsulation Selection (rdbmsmib) o RDBMS-MIB (none) o A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode (dnssec) o Domain Name System Protocol Security Extensions (charmib) o Character MIB (charmib) o Parallel-printer-like MIB (charmib) o RS-232-like MIB (none) + SNA/Open Gateway Protocol (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric in Fibre Channel Standard (none) + Conventional IP over ATM (oncrpc) + XDR: External Data Representation Standard (cat) + The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism (oncrpc) + RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 (sipp) + SIPP Neighbor Discovery -- ICMP Message Formats (tuba) + Host Group Extensions for CLNP Multicasting (none) + Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update (none) + A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 (tuba) + Transition Plan for TUBA/CLNP (pppext) + PPP in HDLC Framing (sipp) + DNS Extensions to support Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) (pppext) + The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) (sipp) + ICMP and IGMP for the Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) (none) + Writing O/R names (ospf) + OSPF Point-to-MultiPoint Interface (tuba) + Tunneling the OSI Network Layer over IP (EON) (none) + IMSP -- Internet Message Support Protocol (tuba) + Suggested System ID Option for the ES-IS Protocol (tuba) + Dynamic Assignment of OSI NSAP Addresses in the Internet (isis) + Integrated ISIS Protocol Analysis (isis) + Experience with the Integrated ISIS Protocol (sipp) + Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP): Automatic Host Address Assignment (pppext) + The Generic Athentication Protocol (GAP) (none) + RTP Encapsulation of MPEG1/MPEG2 (none) + A Proposal for Adding Flow Support to CLNP (none) + RTP Encapsulation of CellB Video Encoding (none) + IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis (catnip) + CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet (none) + IPng White Paper on transition and other considerations (none) + Address Extension by IP Option Usage (AEIOU) (iab) + Report of IAB Workshop on Security in the Internet Architecture Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 (none) + Requirements of Uniform Resource Names (idmr) + Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Motivation and Architecture (idmr) + Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), Sparse Mode Protocol Specification (idmr) + Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), Dense Mode Protocol Specification (none) + Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures (sipp) + Simple Internet Protocol Plus White Paper (none) + Multiprotocol Interoperability In IPng (none) + Input to IPng Engineering Considerations (none) + A Large Corporate User's View of IPng (none) + IPng Requirements of Large Corporate Networks (mobileip) + IP Mobility Support (pppext) + The Arbitrary Handshake Authentication (AHA) protocol (none) + An IPng Requirements White Paper (none) + IPng Requirements: a cable television industry viewpoint (none) o Technical Criteria for Choosing IP:The Next Generation (IPng) (none) + On Many Addresses per Host (pppext) + PPP Variable Resource Compression (userdoc2) + RECENT INTERNET PUBLICATIONS, MARCH 1994-- A Select Bibliography of Internetworking Readings (mobileip) + Local Care-Of Address Extension (mobileip) + Integrated Mobility Extension (none) + Security Concerns for IPng (none) + IPng Support for ATM Services Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 (none) + Conventions for Simplified Usage of SNMPv2 Security (none) + Implementation Hints for the SNMPv2 Simplified Security Conventions (none) + Overview of SNMPv2 Simplified Security Conventions (pppext) + PPP Kerberos Authentication Protocol (KAP) 6. There were 23 RFC's published during the month of March, 1994: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1580 I (none) Guide to Network Resource Tools RFC1583 DS (ospf) OSPF Version 2 RFC1584 PS (mospf) Multicast Extensions to OSPF RFC1585 I (mospf) MOSPF: Analysis and Experience RFC1586 I (ospf) Guidelines for Running OSPF Over Frame Relay Networks RFC1587 PS (ospf) The OSPF NSSA Option RFC1589 I (none) A Kernel Model for Precision Timekeeping RFC1590 I (none) Media Type Registration Procedure RFC1591 I (none) Domain Name System Structure and Delegation RFC1592 E (none) Simple Network Management Protocol Distributed Protocol Interface Version 2.0 RFC1593 I (none) SNA APPN Node MIB RFC1594 I (uswg) FYI on Questions and Answer Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions RFC1595 PS (atommib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type RFC1596 PS (frnetmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service RFC1597 I (none) Address Allocation for Private Internets RFC1598 PS (pppext) PPP in X.25 RFC1600 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC1601 I (iab) Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) RFC1602 I (iab) The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2 RFC1603 I (iesg) IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures RFC1604 PS (frnetmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 RFC1608 E (osids) Representing IP Information in the X.500 Directory RFC1609 E (osids) Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory St(atus): ( S)Internet Standard (PS)Proposed Standard (DS)Draft Standard ( E)Experimental ( I)Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== ANSnet total packet traffic grew by over 15% in March '94. The process of CIDR aggregation began in March with the announcement of aggregates and the withdrawal of some class- based routes. March Backbone Traffic Statistics ================================= The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 56,860,946,144 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 16.2% from February. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 64,893,607,689 up 15.4% from February. Router Forwarding Table Statistics ================================== The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during March was 19,388 up 9.46% from February. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but were never announced (silent nets) during March was 7,395. BGP4/CIDR Deployment Status =========================== Since the deployment of BGP4/CIDR on ANSnet in February, we have installed BGP4 software on the ANSnet/CIX interconnection. The following autonomous systems are currently passing routing information with ANSnet via BGP4: AS# Peer Network ----------------- 3 MIT 22 NOSC 86 SURANet 101 NorthWestNet 114 SESQUINet 185 MERIT-OFFNET 195 SDSC Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 200 BARRNet 204 PSCNet 279 SURANet 293 ESNet 297 NASA 372 NASA 560 NEARNet 574 PSCNet (test) 600 OARNet 685 NorthWestNet 701 AlterNet 771 NASA 1133 Dante 1240 ICMNet 1263 NASA (test) 1321 ANS (San Francisco) 1324 ANS (New York) 1327 ANS (Washington DC) 1670 ANS (test) 1674 Dante 1740 CERFNet 1800 ICMNet 1838 CERFNet 1879 EUROPE-RS 1957 ANS-CIX 2002 IBM Packet Video 2548 Digital Express 2551 Netcom 2882 COREN 9010 ANS (test) As of early April '94, we have removed 489 class based destinations that are now represented by 93 configured aggregates. Among these 93 configured aggregates: 78 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another aggregate). 52 of these are actively announced to ANSnet. 48 of these have at least one subnet configured. 20 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one configured more specific route. 12 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their configured more specific routes. Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 11 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+) of their more specific routes. This results in the withdrawal of 489 class-based destination announcements from ANSnet. For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings. There are two CIDR problems that were identified in February. The first problem involved a radix trie bug in the router AIX kernel that affects overlapping routes (three or more routes with the same prefix but different address). A fix to the AIX kernel will be deployed in early April to address this problem. The second problem involves gated getting a route with a duplicate AS that shows up in the AS- path twice. This has happened twice, and the problem has been temporarily addressed by filtering the route at the source AS. The problem occurs when gated incorrectly attempts to redistribute this AS-path to BGP3 peers (this is ok for BGP4). This problem will be fixed in a new gated that will be deployed in April. Other gated software changes will be deployed over the next couple of months to improve policy processing (required to support some advanced forms of proxy aggregation). Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ The three different routing stability measurements that have been reported on over the past year were based on rcp_routed log file entries. Gated software was deployed at the end of February to replace rcp_routed. These routing stability reports have not yet been converted to use gated logging. No data is available for the month of March. Data collection is expected to resume in April. Notable Outages in March '94 ============================ E135 (San Diego) suffered an extended fiber outage on 03/04 E134 (Boston) was unreachable via T3 on 03/05 due to DSU problems. E140 (Lincoln) and E129 (Champaign) were unreachable via T3 on 03/10 due to software config problems. Xlink suffered extended circuit outages on 03/16 and 03/21. Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 E222 (InterNIC) suffered an extended circuit outage on 03/22. E168 (OARnet) suffered an extended outage on 03/23 due to hardware failure (rack mounted acsu power supply). UNAM suffered an extended circuit outage on 03/29. Jordan Becker (becker@ans.net) BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- Scalability =========== Under its Defense Simulation Internet (DSI) Engineering contract from ARPA (ASTO), BBN is tasked to study the issue of "scalability" from the perspective of network performance and functionality. The Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) user community has ambitious goals for dramatically increasing the scale of simulated war-fighting exercises. While the largest exercises to date have involved less than 1000 "entities" (tanks, planes, ships, etc.), planned future exercises may involve as many as 100,000. Moreover, the average size of updates exchanged among simulated entities has grown with the development of the DIS messaging standard. With a growing variety of simulators, inclusion of live participants operating in instrumented test ranges, and increasing emphasis on simulation fidelity, latency requirements are becoming more stringent. Within the next two-three years, cost constraints will likely preclude solving these problems by two-order-of-magnitude increases in network bandwidth. Instead, it is more likely that changes to both the DIS applications and the technology of supporting network(s) will be necessary. During March, BBN completed statistical analysis in support of a characterization of DIS traffic and began the design of experiments needed to measure baseline performance of the current DSI. The performance baseline will be used both to determine the maximum scope of exercises supportable today and as a basis for evaluation of future enhancements to the technology of the DSI. In other work, BBN completed the "Scalability Network Simulator," a flow- level network simulation tool capable of modeling dynamic multi- cast membership. It is now equipped with a GUI that facilitates topology editing, configuration of device parameters, and specification of statistics to be displayed and/or logged. Using a recently completed tool that parses simulation updates of both the Simnet protocol and the DIS protocol (an IEEE standard), Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 we analyzed two large samples of traffic collected during demos at last November's I/ITSEC in Orlando. We obtained average and peak per-entity update generation frequencies, simulation packet size distributions, and distributions of simulation packets by type. Eventually, after more data collection and analysis, we expect to be able to use the resultant traffic characterization as an aid in predicting, for a specified exercise scenario, required network capacity. This will require correlating observed traffic phenomena with degree of engagement and events on the virtual battlefield. The results of analysis completed so far were presented at the 10th Workshop for DIS, 14-18 March, and will be published in the proceedings of this meeting. BBN is working in close cooperation with representatives of NRaD and IDA to characterize current and near-term DSI performance in preparation for the STOW-Europe exercise scheduled for the Fall. It is necessary to determine how big an exercise can be supported, and we are now designing experiments to be staged both in the lab and on the operational DSI to determine throughput and latency characteristics of end-to-end paths. In the process, bottlenecks will be identified, and this information will be used to prioritize near-term enhancement efforts. The Scalability Network Simulator (Net Sim) was released for alpha testing to both MIT Lincoln Lab and NRaD. The Net Sim is being ported (from a SPARC-based version) to an SGI for subsequent distribution to a larger number of users. Josh Seeger (jseeger@bbn.com) 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 Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net newsletter comments newsletter-comments@is.internic.net InterNIC Seminar Series seminars@internic.net or +1 800 444-4345 Listserv lists net-happenings listserv@internic.net net-resources listserv@is.internic.net nics listserv@is.internic.net InfoGuide 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 TRAINING RESIDENTS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE The InterNIC Seminar Series ---------------------------------------- InterNIC Information Services (InterNIC IS) is proud to offer instructors who are true pioneers in Internet applications. Of note: Paul Mockapetris, Information Science Institute, the original architect of the Domain Name System; Peter Deutsch and Alan Emtage, Bunyip Information Systems, Inc., creators of archie, the Internet directory service; Chris Weider, Bunyip Information Systems, Inc., one of the primary developers of the Whois++ directory services protocol; Yvonne Andres and Al Rogers, Global Schoolnet Foundation, pioneers in exploring how the Internet can change traditional education in our schools; and Susan Calcari, InterNIC IS, the original Info Scout. Future seminars are scheduled in various locations around the 'Net, including Washington DC, Chicago, IL, Portland, OR, St. Louis, MO, and Tempe, AZ. InterNIC IS would like to make these seminars available to the widest possible audience throughout the country and around the world. Therefore, we offer these seminars in cooperation with network information centers (NICs) at campuses, government agencies, corporations and network service providers. Please contact us if you are interested in hosting a seminar at your location. Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 Below is the Seminar Series Calendar for April and May: ------------------------ Date: April 12, 1994, morning Seminars: Hello Internet: Tools for the Classroom Instructor: Yvonne Andres, Global SchoolNet Foundation Location: San Diego, California Date: April 12, 1994, afternoon Seminar: Making and Managing Global Learning Projects Instructor: Al Rogers, Global SchoolNet Foundation Location: San Diego, California Date: April 29, 1994 Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively Instructor: Chris Weider, Bunyip Location: Chicago, Illinois Host: NetIllinois and CICNet Date: May 22, 1994 Seminar: Building an Electronic Network Information Center Instructor: Peter Deutsch, Bunyip Location: St. Louis, Missouri Host: MIDNET For more information or an electronic registration form, contact the addresses below: email: seminars@internic.net gopher: is.internic.net FTP: is.internic.net phone: 619-455-4600 or 800-444-4345 NSF Network News ---------------- The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 1 (Mar/Apr 1994) has gone to print. Articles in this issue include a feature article on the Global Schoolhouse Project, a news brief on the new NSFNET architecture rebid results, an update on the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center, a first peek at InterNIC Information Services' new InfoGuide, and much, much more. To subscribe, send email to newsletter-request@internic.net. Be sure to include your postal address if you want hardcopy. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 Due to the rise in printing costs and other technical difficulties, the 6-page fold-out map of U.S. Internet Connectivity sites in its present form will no longer be part of the newsletter. In the past, regional and midlevel networks contributed statistics on the number and identity of their connections and customers, as well as the number of dialup customers for inclusion in the Map. We appreciate all of the NICs and service providers who contacted us with statistics for inclusion in the Map and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused. Beginning with the March/April 1994 issue, the _NSF Network News_ will feature a variety of maps from different sources which are better able to chronicle the growth of the NSFNET and Internet community. Reference Desk -------------- The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for March: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 158 4.4 Phone 2912 80.9 Fax 135 3.8 US Mail 16 <1 Other 378 10.5 ------- -------- --------- Total 3599 100 by Karen D. Frazer DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES In March, Directory and Database Services' World Wide Web server started operation. To check it out, use the following URL: http://ds.internic.net/ Our Web server offers access to our Directory of Directories (including the ability to search for particular keywords). It also allows users to search the various document archives on our server (RFCs, internet-drafts, etc.). In addition, Web server allows the user to search for individuals or organizations using WHOIS, Netfind, or X.500. Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 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 ISI --- GIGABIT NETWORKING Infrastructure Deborah Estrin, Jon Postel, Bob Braden, Steve Casner, Eve Schooler, Ann Cooper, Joyce Reynolds attended the 29th IETF meetings in Seattle, Washington, March 27 - April 1, 1994. Bob Felderman was invited to talk at the University of Toronto, March 18-23, 1994. Paul Mockapetris participated at the ARPA HPCC Conference in Alexandria, Virginia, March 14-18, 1994. Netstation ---------- A series of experiments were undertaken, using the prototype hardware environment of the ATOMIC network to determine limits of remote procedure call (RPC) performance. High levels of performance were achieved by combining a number of techniques: User process mapping of network interface memory Application Layer Framing [Tennenhouse and Clark] Packet Stenciling Rewriting the Mosaic packet processing program The ATOMIC network interface buffers are partitioned between dedicated user processes and the standard BSD UNIX protocol stack. This allows selected user processes exclusive access to their own network buffers and to directly frame their own packets. We plan that all Netstation traffic will take place via RPCs, thus an RPC stencil is the only one needed. An minimal-length Sun Microsystems compliant RPC stencil in ATOMIC is 96 bytes long. This header data is composed of 10 bytes of ATOMIC, 20 bytes IP, 8 bytes of UDP, and 48 bytes of RPC information. The task of sending successive RPC messages for the user process consists of changing only those locations in the stencil that are Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 altered from call to call. These are: (1) Destination addresses, in LAN and IP headers (2) Source and destination UDP ports in the UDP header (3) Packet lengths, in LAN and IP headers (4) Checksums, in LAN and IP header (5) Procedure and program indexes, in the RPC header and finally, (6) Supply procedure arguments at the end of the stencil We have timed the updating by a UNIX user process of stencils located in the ATOMIC network interface's shared buffer memory. In terms of raw packet count, the results for a SPARCstation-10 were 9 usec/pkt, or 111,000 packets per second. A more practical measure includes the delays to service the packets in the network interface and to transmit them. This test sent 40,000 packets per second from the user process out over the ATOMIC network. Bruce Parham, an EE formerly with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was hired to design the display and camera network virtual devices. PC-ATOMIC --------- We are in the implementation phase of 486-based VL-Bus ATOMIC interface. These boards are being built for part a project at University of Washington to support ATOMIC drivers for Mach. The interface includes programmed I/O access to LANai memory, and DMA and IP checksum hardware. We have been actively examining various design alternatives for the VL-Bus ATOMIC interface card. We have rejected the use of custom VLSI and gate-level PLAs, and will use three macrocell-level PALs for controlling the following components. - VL-Bus and board control. - DMA transfers to/from the board. - Either host or LANai can control DMA. - IP checksum support in hardware. The board is designed to support programmed I/O and DMA, and to support DMA-completion interrupts in either direction. The DMA and IP checksum control can be accessed by either the LANai or the VL- bus CPU. Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 We have also ported a memory-mapped device driver for the board to the NetBSD operating system to facilitate board verification at ISI. This driver allows user-level code to completely verify correct board operation. Design and implementation of the test code is also well underway. Joe Touch, Annette DeSchon, Bob Felderman, Greg Finn ISI High Performance Computing and Communication Division Mike Gorman, Jeff LaCoss ISI Integrated Systems Laboratory =============================================================== 23 RFCs were published this month. RFC 1580: EARN Staff, (EARN Assoc), "Guide to Network Resource Tools", March 1994. RFC 1583: Moy, J., "OSPF Version 2", Proteon, Inc., March 1994. RFC 1584: Moy, J., "Multicast Extensions to OSPF", March 1994. RFC 1585: Moy, J., "MOSPF: Analysis and Experience", March 1994. RFC 1586: DeSouza, O., M. Rodrigues, "Guidelines for Running OSPF Over Frame Relay Networks", AT&T Bell Lab. March 1994 RFC 1589: Mills, D., "A Kernel Model for Precision Timekeeping", UDEL, March 1994. RFC 1590: Postel, J., "Media Type Registration Procedure", ISI, March 1994. RFC 1591: Postel, J., "Domain Name System Structure and Delegation", March 1994. RFC 1592: Wijnen, B., G., Carpenter, (T.J. Watson Res. Ctr, IBM), K. Curran, A. Sehgal, G. Waters, (Bell Northern Res, Ltd.), "Simple Network Management ProtocolDistributed Protocol Interface Version 2.0", March 1994 RFC 1593: McKenzie, W., J. Cheng, "SNA APPN Node MIB", IBM Networking Systems, March 1994. RFC 1594: Marine, A., (NASA NAIC), J. Reynolds (ISI), G. Malkin, (Xylogics), " FYI on Questions and Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 Answers -- Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions", March 1994 RFC 1595: Brown, T., K. Tesink, Editors, "Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Inteface Type" Bell Communications Research, March 1994. RFC 1596: Brown, T., "Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service", Bell Communications Research, March 1994. RFC 1597: Rekhter, Y., (T. J., Watson Research Center, IBM Corp., B. Moskowitz, (Chrysler Corp.,) D. Karrenberg, G de Groot (RIPE NCC), "Address Allocation for Provate Internets", March 1994. RFC 1598: Simpson, W., " PPP in X.25", Daydreame RFC 1600: Postel, J., Editor, (IAB), "Internet Official Protocol Standards", March 1994. RFC 1601: Huitema, C., (IAB), "Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB", March 1994. RFC 1602: IAB and IESG, "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2", March 1994. RFC 1603: Huizer, E., (SURFnet bv), D. Crocker (Silicon Graphics, Inc.,), "IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures", March 1994. RFC 1604: Brown, T., Editor, "Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service", Bell Communications Research, March 1994. RFC 1608: Johannsen, T., (Dresden Univ.), G. Mansfield, (AIC Systems Lab.), M. Kosters, (Network Solutions, Inc.), S. Sataluri, (AT&T Bell Lab), "Representing IP Information in the X.500 Directory", March 1994 RFC 1609: Mansfield, (AIC Systems Lab.), T. Johannsen, (Dresden Univ.), M. Knopper, (Merit Networks, Inc.) "Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory", March 1994. Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 494 PHONE 29 --------------------------- Total Contacts 523 DELEGATIONS 58 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 26 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 439 --------------------------- Total 523 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. Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- GEN.MO.US General branch of the US Domain RIDGECREST.CA.US Ridgecrest, California, locality SUSANVILLE.CA.US Susanville, California, locality GRANDJCT.CO.US Grand Junction, Colorado, locality PMOSBA.FED.US Program Management Office, Fed. Agency RAMSEY.ND.US. Ramsey, North Dakota, locality STUTSMAN.ND.US Stutsman, North Dakota, locality BURLEIGH.ND.US Burleigh, North Dakota, locality RANSOM.ND.US Ransom, North Dakota, locality MCCLEAN.ND.US McClean, North Dakota, locality MORTON.ND.US Morton, North Dakota, locality MERCER.ND.US Mercer, North Dakota, locality BISMARK.ND.US Bismark, North Dakota, locality CAVALIER, ND.US Cavalier, North Dakota, locality PEMBINA.ND.US Pembina, North Dakota, locality WALSH.ND.US Walsh, North Dakota, locality GRANDFORKS.ND.US Grandforks, North Dakota, locality TOWNER.ND.US Towner, North Dakota, locality ROLETTE.ND.US Rolette, North Dakota, locality GRIGGS.ND.US Griggs, North Dakota, locality STEELE.ND.US Steele, North Dakota, locality TRAILL.ND.US Trail, North Dakota, locality BARNS.ND.US Barns, North Dakota, locality CASS.ND.US Cass, North Dakota, locality Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 RICHLAND.ND.US Richland, North Dakota, locality STARK.ND.US Stark, North Dakota, locality WILLISTON.ND.US Williston, North Dakota, locality WARD.ND.US Ward, North Dakota, locality BOTTINEAU.ND.US Bottineau, North Dakota, locality FARGO.ND.US Fargo, North Dakota, locality MANDAN.ND.US Mandan, North Dakota, locality MINOT.ND.US Minot, North Dakota, locality CARSON-CITY.NV.US Carson-City, Nevada, locality CRYSTAL-BAY.NV.US Crystal-Bay, Nevada, locality GARDNERVILLE.NV.US Gardnerville, Nevada, locality ELKO.NV.US Elko, Nevada, locality FALLON.NV.US Fallon, Nevada, locality FERNLEY.NV.US Fernley, Nevada, locality GERLACH.NV.US Gerlach, Nevada, locality GLENBROOK.NV.US Glenbrook, Nevada, locality INCLINE-VILLAGE.NV.US Incline-Village, Nevada, locality LOVELOCK.NV.US Lovelock, Nevada, locality MINDEN.NV.US Minden, Nevada, locality NIXON.NV.US Nixon, Nevada, locality RENO.NV.US Reno, Nevada, locality SOUTH-LAKE-TAHOE.NV.US South-Lake-Tahoe, Nevada, locality SPARKS.NV.US Sparks, Nevada, locality WINNEMUCCA.NV.US Winnemucca, Nevada, locality Other US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------- WESTMORELAND.CC.PA.US Westmoreland, Community College, PA CO. PINELLAS. FL.US Pinellas, Fl, County Gov't Agencies CI.SUNNYVALE.CA.US Sunnyvale, CA, City Gov't Agencies CO.VENTURA.CA.US Ventura, CA, County Gov't Agencies ED.CO.TULARE.CA.US Turale County Office of Ed, Tulare, CA AMANDA.BUENA-PARK.CA.US US Amada Ltd. NORTHSTAR.K12.AK.US. Fairbanks Northstar Borough School Dist. ODO.CYPRESS.CA.US. Personal Net Access CBMS.KNOX.K12.TN.US Cedar Bluff Middle School, Knox. KY DSMD.STATE.AL.US Data Systems, Div, State Finance Dept. Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK AL X AR X AS AZ X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X X X CO X X X X CT DC X ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X X X X X FL X X X X X GA X X X X HI ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X ID X X X X X X X IL X X X X IN X X X X KS X ----------------------------------------------------------- KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA ME X MI X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MN X X X X X X X MO X X X X X MS X X MT X NC X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- ND X X NE X X X X NH X X NJ X NM X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- NV NY X X X X OH X X X X X X X Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 OK OR X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- PA X RI X X X SC X X X X X SD X X ----------------------------------------------------------- TN TX X X X X UT X X X X VA X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- VI VT X X WA WI X X X WV X X X X X X X WY X =========================================================== For more information about the US Domain please request an application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to RFC- INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application". For example: To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU Subject: US Domain Application help: us_domain_application Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING During the MMusic WG meetings at the Seattle IETF, there appeared to be a convergence of ideas about the general framework and protocols required for session control in the Internet, and a readiness to take steps toward interoperability of existing applications. The group identified at least two services that we as system builders might need and use; CCCP, a bus-based protocol that could provide an API-level messaging abstraction, and the agreement algorithm on which a session service could be built. In addition, there was interest in trying to understand, in the present context of the Internet/MBone/WWW, what constitutes a session and what are the functions that can be performed on sessions once they exist. Thus, a variety of session rendez-vous mechanisms were described. A final discussion focused on the Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 relevance of reliable multicast to a membership management protocol. From formal and informal conversations with working group participants, it was clear that these ideas are ready to be codified and written down. Eve Schooler's talk, "Evolution of MMCC: Session Control Revisited", focused on the architectural framework behind the ISI session orchestration tool, mmcc, and discussed the ongoing evolution of its session control protocol. The main goals of the discussion were to identify similarities and differences among the various session control approaches, and to suggest a synthesis of ideas. Several issues were raised: the tradeoffs between a classic packet format and string-based messaging, how to characterize media agents, QoS, and session policies as part of a session description, the movement toward an adapative soft-state approach (periodic refresh), building a group consensus service on top of unreliable transport, options for cross-module communication, and finally incorporating multicast. Eve Schooler (schooler@isi.edu, Steve Casner, casner@isi.edu) MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ This report contains a summary of recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering Group. We continue development of the Policy Routing Database system's capability to represent the NSFNET/ANS backbone configuration and support deployment of the CIDR and BGP-4 routing architecture and implementation of a "CIDR Aggregate Registry"(described in RFC 1482), for registration of aggregated routing information between providers. The Policy Routing Database has been enhanced to support CIDR aggregate announcements for all peers of AS690 (the NSF/ANSnet backbone). Further, for CIDR-incapable midlevels (routers not running BGP4), we can create classless net announcements. Until the NACR is revised to include a field for proxy aggregation we ask that you include a statement with the NACR making the request. Since beginning CIDR aggregate announcements several midlevels have successfully withdrawn specific network announcements that are now included in an aggregate. This is in keeping with the recommendation of the CIDRD (BGPD) working group and is encouraged in order to reduce the total number of network announcements. The merit server, prdb.merit.edu will show CIDR aggregate listings. Using the command: "whois -h prdb.merit.edu listaggs" will return the Prefix/Length, Netname, Date Announced, and Metric/AS listing for NSFNET announced aggregates. Gated configuration files are Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 available for anonymous ftp from nic.merit.edu in the directory /nsfnet/backbone.configuration and have the name format gated.nss##.t3p where ## is the nss number. The Offnet data collector has been modified to work with gated dumps and enhanced to monitor silent nets (including monitoring specific net withdrawn as part of CIDR aggregation). The offnet data and summary graphics (postscript) will be available for anonymous ftp from merit.edu in pub/nsfnet/offnet. Merit has begun a joint study with BellCore and PacBell on Route Server technology and routing in ATM-based NAP testbeds. We are evaluating routing strategies for multi-media NAPs, exploring the interaction between layers 2 and 3, and resolving general network management concerns. Kenneth T. Latta, II (klatta@merit.edu) NEARNET ------- NEARNET'S MEMBERSHIP EXPANDS As of March 29, 1994, NEARNET has grown to a total of 303 member organizations. NEARNET would like to welcome the following new members who have joined NEARNET during the month of March: Alden Electronics of Westboro, MA Number Nine Computer Corp. of Lexington, MA Weather Services, Inc. of Billerica, MA Eastern Book Company of Portland, ME Aries Systems Corporation of North Andover, MA NEARNET PILOTS MUNICIPAL NETWORKING MODEL The Town of Lexington has joined NEARNET as a pilot model for community networking by connecting the town's municipal offices, public schools, and public library via the town's institutional cable TV network. In addition to providing Internet access and support, BBN is training school and town personnel in hands-on Internet use, and is participating in a project to develop the Lexington Information Network (LINK). The Town-wide Network Project Committee, chaired by Sandra Guryan, Director of Business and Finance for Lexington's public schools, meets regularly to ensure that the project achieves its goals and objectives. The committee includesrepresentatives from Lexington's schools, town offices, library and cable advisory committee, as Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 well as representatives from BBN and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Lexington-based MIT Lincoln Laboratory is providing a physicalconnection to the NEARNET Network, as well as contributing inspiration and technical assistance for the project. Cablevision Systems is providing theinstitutional cable network, and LANcity equipment is being used to allow data to pass over the broadband network. NEARNET CO-SPONSORS INTERNET SEMINAR FOR EDUCATORS NEARNET and Cisco Systems, Inc., will co-sponsor a one-day seminar organized by Editorial Inc. and the Online BookStore (OBS). The seminar, entitled, "An Educator's Introduction and Guide to the Internet: Catching the Internet Wave" will be held on Thursday, April 7, 1994, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium. Seminar leaders will include Laura Fillmore, President of Editorial Inc. and the Online Bookstore in Rockport, Massachusetts. Tracy LaQuey Parker author of the bestselling book, "The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to GlobalNetworking". Tracy is the Education Development Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. Daniel Fleming is a high school and middle school principal in Rockport, Massachusetts. Daniel is an avid proponent of the use of technology in schools and will introduce the speakers. Also participating in the seminar are: James Naro, NEARNET Sales Executive; Juliette Avots, a teacher at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts; James Warner, Jr., Manager, Prospect Innovation Network; and Martin Huntley, of the Educational Technologies Dept. at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. The closing remarks will be delivered by Dr. Richard Rowe of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and Leader of the State Task Force on Education Reform. The seminar fee is $95.00 per person and $85.00 for each additional person from a school district. The seminar registration will cover the costs of the seminar, including: materials, lunch, and a free copy of "The Internet Companion". For more information, please call Al Kaufman of Editorial Inc. at 508-546-7346 or via FAX at 508-546-9807. Videotapes of this seminar will be available for NEARNET members to borrow.Requests should be sent to: nearnet-us@nic.near.net. Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 INTERNET TOOLS AND VALUE-ADDED SERVICES MINI-SEMINAR OVERVIEW Over 170 NEARNET members attended a mini-seminar covering NEARNET- provided Internet tools and value-added services on March 16th at the BBN Newman Auditorium in Cambridge, MA. The seminar was held in order to satisfy the overwhelming interest in Internet applications expressed during the NEARNETAnnual Seminar in December 1993. The seminar speakers introduced NEARNET's new Gopher and World Wide Web (WWW) servers, the InterNavigator, the Global Network Navigator (GNN), and the Commerce Business Daily online service. Videotapes of the seminar are available for NEARNET members to borrow. Requests should be sent to: nearnet-us@nic.near.net. NEARNET MINI-SEMINARS UPDATE "An Introduction to NEARNET Security Services" The second NEARNET Mini-Seminar for 1994, entitled "An Introduction to NEARNET Security Services" will be held on April 13, 1994 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM at the Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Newman Auditorium, 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA. This seminar is being held to satisfy the continued demand for valuable andtimely information on Internet security issues. This seminar includes an overview of NEARNET's improved security services, including: the design of security packet filters and firewalls. Also included is an update on Kerberos and Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) by Jeffrey Schiller of MIT and an overview of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) by Ed DeHart, Technical Coordinator at CERT. "Business and the Internet" The third NEARNET Mini-Seminar for 1994, entitled "Business and the Internet" will be held on May 25, 1994 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM at the Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Newman Auditorium, 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA. This seminar is being held to satisfy the demand for information on how and why organizations are increasingly using the Internet to conduct business services over the Internet. The seminar will be presented in a panel format and will include the following presenters (additional panelist will be announced shortly): John Curran, NEARNET Product Manager, Daniel Dern, Internet analyst and author of "The Internet Guide for New Users", Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 Laura Fillmore, President of Editorial Inc. and the Online Bookstore, Michael Strangelove, Editor of the Internet Business Journal, and author of the soon to be published book, "How to Advertise on the Internet". NEARNET members who wish to attend any of the NEARNET Mini- Seminars, shouldsend mail to: nearnet-seminars@nic.near.net. Additional information on future mini-seminars for 1994 will be announced shortly. NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE NEARNET held the third day of training for its Winter set of three six-hourlecture and demo training courses on March 25. The third day of training was originally scheduled for February 24 and was postponed due to inclement weather. The three full-day set of courses include: (Day 1) An Introduction to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New NEARNET Information and Technical Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet Technology. All three days of training are available free of charge to new Standard Installation sites. The Internet Resources and Internet Technology courses are available for existing sites and non-members for a $250.00 fee (per day/perattendee). The NEARNET Orientation is free to all NEARNET sites. The Spring set of NEARNET Training Courses is scheduled for May 11, 12 and 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium. For more information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-us@nic.near.net or call 617-873-8730, press option 6. NEARNET Client Services NORTHWESTNET ------------ NorthWestNet is pleased to welcome two new members this month: Seattle School District Seattle, WA Vancouver School District Vancouver, WA While bringing new K-12 members onto the Internet, NorthWestNet was also very active in supporting the efforts of a highly-respected Internet engineering group. The 29th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) was co-hosted by NorthWestNet and the University of Washington from March 28th through April 1st. Attendance records Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 were broken with approximately 750 computer scientists, network engineers, and information specialists from around the globe attending. The IETF has the primary responsibility for the development, review, and revision of the Internet standards that allow the exchange of information worldwide. Besides the development of standards, participants also discussed network engineering and operations, user services, and changes to the network infrastructure that would ensure that both new and existing applications function effectively on today's and tomorrow's Internet. The Internet-connected terminal room designed and implemented by NorthWestNet and the University of Washington with support from Cisco Systems, NCD, Sun, and USWest Communications, offered 10mpbs service from the Ethernet LAN to the Internet and T1 connectivity for the MBONE Ethernet. Eighty Internet-connected stations were available to the attendees 24-hours a day throughout the conference. While the IETF was a big event for NorthWestNet, the regular business continued as well. As usual, the NorthWestNet User Services Committee met by teleconference. The topic was "Planning for User Services" and focused on short-term and long-term planning for Internet support. Dan Revel, Systems Manager from Oregon Graduate Institute prepared the discussion outline while Keiko Pitter, Director of Academic Computing at Willamette University and chair of the NorthWestNet User Services Committee, moderated. ----------------- NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000 Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822 Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington. .fi Corinne Carroll Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 PREPNET ------- PREPnet New Members: -------------------- HSH Communications Inc., Beaver Springs, PA Allegheny Health, Education & Research Foundation Headquarters, Pittsburgh, PA Medical College of Pa., Pennsauken, NJ The Vanguard Group, Wayne, PA Ed DeHart, Allison Park, PA The Internet Group, Pittsburgh, PA Bell Altantic Business Systems Services, Frazer, PA Westmoreland County Community College, Youngwood, PA Care Management Science, Philadelphia, PA Bernie Mans, Pittsburgh, PA The Alta Group, Formbell, PA FORMTEK, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA Senate of Pa. Republican Caucus, Harrisburg, PA Delaware County Intermediate Unit, Media, PA Emprise Technologies, Bridgeville, PA US Judaica, Pittsburgh, PA SGML Open, Pittsburgh, PA Miles Burke Associates, Phoenixville, PA Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA Penn State Research Park, State College, PA SHSL, Philadelphia, PA Miles, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA Northwest Tri-county Intermediate Unit, Edinboro, PA Pinnatech Computer Services, Allison Park, PA Advanced Research Technologies, Inc., Rosemont, PA With these additions, PREPnet now totals 169 members. PREPnet News: ------------- PREPnet added three new staff members in March: Felicia Ferlin, Trainer/User Consultant Jon Boone, Production Engineer Sean Sasso, User Consultant Jon Boone and PREPnet's NIC Manager, Marsha Perrott, attended IETF, March 28 - April 1. For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC: Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 305 S. Craig St. E-Mail: nic@prep.net 2nd Floor Telephone: (412) 268-7870 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Felicia Ferlin PREPnet NIC UCL ---- J.Crowcroft, M.Handley, A.Sasse, A.Ballardie and P.Kirstein attended IETF in Seattle. Handley presented the CCCP design for conference control to the MMusic WG, Ballardie charied the IDMR WG, and Crowcroft ran the IPng Requirements BOF. The cccp paper is available from cs.ucl.ac.uk in mice/publications/cccp_us.ps John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 CALENDAR -------- Last update: 4/7/94 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: 1994 ------------ Apr. 11-15 High Performance Computing La Jolla, CA Apr. 18-20 European Exhb. HP Comp/Ntwk Munich, Germany Apr. 18-22 IEEE POSIX Apr. 18-22 '94 TCP/IP Windows Sockets and PPP Bake-Off May 2-6 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV May 4-6 IFIP '94 Hamburg, Germany May 9-12 IEEE P802.11 Interim Oshawa, Ontario May 9-13 X3T5-OSI Upper Layers Rockville, MD May 10-13 ATM Forum Munich, Germany May 16-18 RIPE Amsterdam, NL May 19-20 RARE Council of Admn. Darmstadt Jun. 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 Barcelona, Spain Jun. 6-8 Digital World Los Angeles, CA Jun. 8-10 Seybold Paris Jun. 6-10 USENIX Hynes CC, Boston, MA Jun. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Berlin Jun. 12 RARE Technical Committee Prague Jun. 13-17 INET94/JENC Prague Jun. 13-17 OIW Jun. 20-Jul. 1 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Helsinki Jun. 27-Jul. 1 HPN '94 Grenoble, France Jun. 27-Jul. 1 Home-oriented informatics Copenhagen, Denmark Jul. 11-15 8th ACM Intntl Supercomputing Manchester, England Jul. 11-15 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Orlando, FL Jul. 13-14 W/S on Community Networking Millbrae, CA Jul. 25-29 30th IETF Toronto, Canada Jul. 25-29 Sigraph 94 Orlando, FL Jul. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, JP Aug. (mid) SNOWMASS Aug. 1-2 USENIX Berkeley, CA Aug. 7-12 SHARE (IBM) Boston, MA Aug. 10-12 IFIP Protocols Vancouver, BC Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 Aug. 22-26 6th Joint EPS-APS Phyicics Lugano, Switzerland Aug. 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Congress Hamburg, Germany Aug. 29-Sep 2 SIGCOMM 94 London, England Sep. IEEE P802.11 Interim TBD Sep. 7-9 Windows Solutions San Francisco, CA. Sep. 12-16 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 12-16 OIW Sep. 13-16 Seybold San Francisco, CA Sep. 14-16 4th Int'l CCHP Vienna, Austria Sep. 26-28 2nd IWACA Heidelberg, Germany Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN Oct. 6-8 Parallel & Dist. Compt. Sys Las Vegas, NV Oct. 15-20 ACM Conference on Multimedia San Francisco, CA Oct. 16-20 ACM SIGUCCS Oct. 24-28 NetWorld+Interop '94 Paris, France October/November Windows Solutions Germany Oct. 31-Nov. 3 EDUCOM Nov. 2-4 Gigabit testbed jamboree Reston, VA Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 5-9 10th Comp. Sec. Applications Orlando, FL Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico Dec. 12-16 OIW 1995 --------- Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA Feb. 16-17 PSRG - ISOC Symposium Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) Mar. 13-17 OIW Mar. 13-17 Email World (Probable) Santa Clara, CA Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 20-24 32nd IETF (Tentative) Mar. 27-31 Email World Chicago, IL (likely to be replaced by Mar 13-17 dates) Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 April NOSSADV Workshop Boston, MA May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel Jun. ISOC Wkshop for Tech. Emerging Countries Jun. 12-16 INET '95 (tentative) Singapore Jun. 12-16 OIW Jun. 19-22 USENIX San Francisco, CA Jun. INET95 Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden Jul. 31 - Aug. 4 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden Sep. 11-15 OIW Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 9-13 Email World San Jose, CA (likely to be replaced by Nov. 27-Dec. 1 dates) Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) Nov. 13-17 34th IETF (Tentative) Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Probable) Boston, MA Dec. 4-8 OIW Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Tentative) Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Possible) 1996 ----------- Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 18-22 OIW Jun. 10-14 OIW Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW Dec. 9-13 OIW 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA ---- Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories Via gopher: "Internet Society / IETF / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us ======================================================================= Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 RARE LIST OF MEETINGS april 94 edition --------------------- Ref. RSec(94)001-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 ------------------------ 5 April Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 6 April (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) RARE Council of Administration ------------------------------ 19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt 27/28 October 1994 Bled 1/2 December 1994 CoA invited to attend EARN Bod (London) 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv RARE Technical Committee ------------------------ 22 April (joint WG-Convenors) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 12 June Prague RARE Working Groups ------------------- ATM (closed group) 13 June afternoon Prague WG-CHAR 14 June morning Prague WG-IMM Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 14 June morning Prague WG-IMM (MMEP) Multi Media European Proposal 14 June afternoon Prague WG-ISUS 13/14 June Prague WG-LLT 14 June Prague WG-MSG 14 June afternoon Prague WG-NAP 13 June Prague WG-NOP 14 June morning Prague WG-SEC 13 June morning Prague WORKING GROUPS (various) 1-2 December London (at NSC'94) RIPE ---- 16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF) September (tbc) Lisboa VARIOUS ------- EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 23 June Amsterdam EBONE Management Committee 16 May Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) June (tbc) Prague EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 2-3 May Vienna (ACOnet) EARN Board of Directors 18-19 May Darmstadt Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 30 November - 2 December London DANTE Shareholders Euro-CCIRN CCIRN 20/21 June TBD (in Europe) INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 13/14 June Prague IETF 25-29 July Toronto Autumn San Francisco EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 17-18 May Brussels 13-14 September Brussels 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 7 June Brussels 27 September Brussels 6 December Brussels Workshops 11-15 April Brussels 27 June - 1 July Brussels 10-14 October Brussels ETSI ---- General Assembly 22/23 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 21/22 June Nice, France 18-20 October Nice, France INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee 18 April telephone meeting Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 9 May telephone meeting ******************************************************************* 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 . ******************************************************************* 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) NATIONAL NET '94 ---------------- from 6 till 8 April at the Loews L'enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington DC sponsored by IEEE - USA/CCIP, Internet Society, NSF, etc... for information and registration, email EUROPEAN CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING --------------------------------------------------------------- 18 till 20 April 1994 in Munich, Germany Email 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 EPHOS '94 CONFERENCE Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 -------------------- European Procurement Handbook for Open Systems 21/22 April 1994 in Brussels, Belgium For information, tel.+32 10 411172 IFIP WG10.3 - WORKING CONFERENCE ON PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR MASSIVELY PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ---------------------------------------------------------------- from 25 till 30 April 1994 in Ascona, Switzerland Email FIRST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY ----------------------------------------------------- from 25 till 30 April 1994 in Nancy, France Email MediaActive 94 - "Harnessing Multimedia for Higher Education" ------------------------------------------------------------- from 4 till 6 May 1994 in Liverpool, England Email 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 For further information, contact Michel Tauber . FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB --------------------------------------------------- The conference will include tutorials, topical workshops, panels, presentation of formal papers on WWW technology and theory, user and provider experiences plus a series of special sessions for delegates from business and non- academic organisations. from 25 till 27 May 1994 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland For information, email NORDUnet 94 ----------- from 31 May to 2 June 1994 in Umea, Sweden for information, email INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY ----------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 from 5 till 11 June 1994 at the Czech Technical University in Prague *** apply for admission before 1 March 1994 *** Email ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - ECT 94 -------------------------------------------- 4th International Russian Forum organised by the Academy of National Economy of Moscow, Russia; the International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information; and the Russian-American JV "Ecotrends". from 27 June till 2 July For further information, contact Juri Gornostaev or Juri Andrianov Email First INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTANCE EDUCATION in Russia -------------------------------------------------------------- Distance Learning and New Technologies in Education, and the exhibition BUILDING AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT organised by the State Committee for Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Informationa Systems Research Institute of Russia, Russian Academy of Administration and VIRTUS Institute, USA. from 5 till 8 July 1994 in Moscow *CALL FOR PAPERS* For further information, email . SECOND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADVANCED BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS --------------------------------- from 11 till 15 July 1994 as part of the RACE project BRAIN. the school will be distributed to at least four different sites in Spain. for further information, please email 8th ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUPERCOMPUTING -------------------------------------------------- from 11 till 15 July 1994 in Manchester, England Email 13TH WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS - IFIP CONGRESS 94 Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 ----------------------------------------------- from 28 August till 2 September 1994, in Hamburg, Germany Tel. +49 40 3569 2242 - Fax. +49 40 3569 2343 ACM SIGCOMM'94 -------------- Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications organised by University College London from 31 August till 2 September (Tutorials and Workshops on 30 August) For further information, contact THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (ICCCN'94) from 11-14 September 1994, San Fransisco, U.S.A. *CALL FOR PAPERS* deadline 10 April 1994 Conference Chairman: Prof. T. Suda OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.) --------------------------------------------------------- from 8-11 November in Munich For further information contact the DIGI board via email: vorstand@digi.de NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 ------------------------------ from 28 to 30 November 1994 in London (UK) *CALL FOR PAPERS* deadline 1 July 1994. For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via email: A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet Paper submissions to: NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET EEMA MEETINGS ------------- Security, Privacy & Legal Committee 25 April Brussels Pre-conference Tutorial & EEMA subcommittees 14 June Stockholm 8th Annual General Assembly 14 June Stockholm 7th Annual EEMA Conference Global Messaging '94 Cooper [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report March 1994 15-17 June Stockholm Autumn Conference September (tbc) Madrid Winter Conference November (tbc) Luxembourg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 31/3/94 Cooper [Page 46]