~ June 1995 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 Cooper (IMR@ISI.EDU) Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu". Details on obtaining the current IMR, or back issues, via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by sending an EMAIL message to "rfc-info@ISI.EDU" with the message body "help: ways_to_get_imrs". For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs Ann Cooper (IMR@ISI.EDU) Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects DANTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. The summer IETF meeting will be held in Stockholm, Sweden the week of July 17-21, 1995. Due to the meeting costs, the IETF attendance fee for the Stockholm meeting will be US$300. Logistic information has already been posted to the IETF Announcement list. Following Stockholm, the IETF will be meeting in Dallas, Texas on December 4-8, 1995. Our local host for this meeting is MCI. Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg- sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: June 8, 1995 (iesg.95-06-08) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following four Protocol Actions during the month of June, 1995: o Relative Uniform Resource Locators be published as a Proposed Standard. o Whois and Network Information Lookup Service Whois++ be published as an Informational RFC. o Architecture of the WHOIS++ service be published as a Proposed Standard. o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages be published as an Experimental Protocol. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 4. The IESG issued 22 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of June, 1995: o Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The ESP DES-CBC Transform for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Authentication Header for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Forwarding Table MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 o The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base for consideration as a Draft Standard. o An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Enhanced Mail System Status Codes for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MIME Object Security Services for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Best Current Practices be considered as a new type of RFC. o EDI Meets the Internet: Frequently Asked Questions about Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) on the Internet for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Three Working Groups were created during this period: MIME - X.400 Gateway (mixer) Routing Policy System (rps) One Time Password Authentication (otp) and one Working Group was concluded: Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 Internet White Pages Requirements (whip) 6. A total of 102 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of June, 1995: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 (wnils) o Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service (avt) + RTP payload format for H.261 video streams (pppext) o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) (notary) o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification (ipatm) o IP over ATM: A Framework Document (dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard using SMIv2 (none) o IMSP -- Internet Message Support Protocol (avt) o RTP Payload Format of CellB Video Encoding (none) o Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving, and Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory Schema (none) o OSI INTER-DOMAIN ROUTING PROTOCOL (IDRP) (oncrpc) o Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC (none) o Accounting Meter Services MIB (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC (notary) o The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast -- Protocol Specification (none) o Mobility Support in IPv6 (ipngwg) o IPv6 Program Interfaces for BSD Systems (ipngwg) o Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (none) o ISO Transport Class 2 Non-use of Explicit Flow Control over TCP RFC1006 extension (idmr) o Scalable Multicast Key Distribution (trainmat) o Catalogue of Network Training Materials (snmpv2) o Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Introduction to Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework (snmpv2) o Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Administrative Model for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Security Protocols for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Party MIB for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework (snmpv2) o Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 (none) + ARP Extension - UNARP Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 (none) o Accounting: Usage Reporting Architecture (none) o Routing Aspects Of IPv6 Transition (imap) o IMAP4 STATUS EXTENSION (none) + PGP Message Exchange Formats (idr) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (notary) o Enhanced Mail System Status Codes (ipngwg) o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (none) o Options for Mobility Support in IPv6 (mailext) o Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent checklist (addrconf) o IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (none) o Mechanisms for OSI CLNP and TP over IPv6 (opstat) o A Model for Common Operational Statistics (mailext) o Common Internet Message Attributes (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (snmpv2) o The Simplified Configuration Model for SNMPv2 (snmpv2) o The Basic Configuration Model for SNMPv2 (ipsec) o IP Authentication Header (none) o Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol MIB (intserv) o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service (none) o The SSL Protocol (none) o Issues surrounding a new encapsulation for IP over ATM. (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (none) o Using the MARS to support IP Unicast over ATM (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 (idr) o Destination Preference Attribute for BGP (idr) o Application of the BGP Destination Preference Attribute in Implementing Symmetric Routing (idr) o Current Practice of Implementing Symmetric Routing and Load Sharing in the Multi-Provider Internet (none) o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 (none) o Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors (dhc) + DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions (rmonmib) + Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base (uri) o URN Services (none) + KidCode: Naming Conventions for Protecting Children on the World Wide Web and Elsewhere on the Internet Without Censorship (none) + MaXIM-11 - Mapping between X.400 / Internet mail and Mail-11 mail (none) + A One-Time Password System (none) + Security Mechanisms for Version 1 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv1) (ipngwg) + IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (none) + Entity MIB (uri) + An SGML-based URC Service (none) + Tunneling SSL Through a WWW Proxy (none) + Problems with Proposed IP Cryptography (mixer) + MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME (none) + The LDAP Application Program Interface (none) o Common NNTP Extensions (none) + The Simple MIME eXchange Protocol (SMXP) (isdnmib) + ISDN Management Information Base (none) + The Green Commerce Model Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 (none) + The application/green-commerce MIME Content-type (html) o Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 (none) + Byte Ranges With HTTP URLs (uri) + Thoughts on Standardizing URN Resolution Protocols (none) + IPv6 multicast over ATM (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast (none) + Best Current Practices (none) + Fixing Backbone Partition with Dynamic Virtual Links (none) + Keyed-MD5 for Message Authentication (uri) + The Handle System (nimrod) + DNS Resource Records for Nimrod Routing Architecture (none) o Getconninfo(): An alternative to Gethostbyname() (none) + Security Model Extensibility for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (none) + TELNET CHARSET Option (vgmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Interfaces (vgmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Repeater Devices (none) + Internet Keyed Payments Protocol (iKP) (rsvp) + Routing Support For RSVP 7. There were 15 RFC's published during the month of June, 1995: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1798 PS (osids) Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol RFC1801 E (mhsds) MHS use of the X.500 Directory to support MHS Routing Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 RFC1802 I (mhsds) Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information in Support of X.400 Routing RFC1803 I (ids) Recommendations for an X.500 Production Directory Service RFC1804 E (asid) Schema Publishing in X.500 Directory RFC1805 I (none) Location-Independent Data/Software Integrity Protocol RFC1806 E (none) Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header RFC1807 I (none) A Format for Bibliographic Records RFC1808 PS (uri) Relative Uniform Resource Locators RFC1809 I (none) Using the Flow Label Field in IPv6 RFC1810 I (none) Report on MD5 Performance RFC1811 I (none) U.S. Government Internet Domain Names RFC1812 PS (rreq) Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers RFC1813 I (none) NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification RFC1814 I (none) Unique Addresses are Good St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- DANTE ----- __________________________________________________________________ * * A bi-monthly electronic news bulletin * * reporting on the activities of DANTE, * the company that organises international * network services for the European THE WORKS OF D A N T E research community. No.10, July 1995 Editor: Josefien Bersee __________________________________________________________________ EUROPANET TRANSITION The issue currently highest on DANTE's agenda is the transition process to the new EuropaNET backbone network. In October 1995 a new contract with British Telecom for the operation of the European backbone will come into force. The huge project of migration to the new service involves many partners and DANTE is working very hard to coordinate all activities to ensure a smooth transition. According to current plans, the routers necessary for the service will be delivered in mid-July and most of the necessary circuits will be available at the end of July. Acceptance testing and migration of the national networks to the new service will take place during September. One of the issues that are currently under discussion is the possible integration into BT's service of a high speed link to the US. EUROPANET UPGRADES As a result of the ever increasing traffic load on EuropaNET two more customers (UKERNA and NORDUnet) have upgraded their connection capacity to 4 Mbps. During 1995 traffic on the EuropaNET backbone has seen a 30% growth already. Under the current contract the national networks have the obligation to increase the capacity of their connection as soon as the traffic load reaches a certain level. This is one of the ways a high quality of service on the network can be guaranteed to all customers. From 1 October 1995, this contractual obligation will no longer be in effect but DANTE will still rely on individual national networks to upgrade their access capacity as necessary in order to maintain an acceptable level of service for their end users. Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 A complication is now presenting itself in the fact that the original EMPB infrastructure (and contract) was based on 2 Mbps line and switching equipment. As a result an upgrade to 4 Mbps may show less of a quality of service improvement than expected. This will only be a very temporary problem, as the next contract offers connectivity to customer networks up to a speed of 8 Mbps. TEN-34 CONSORTIUM DANTE is continuing its efforts to finalise the TEN-34 proposal on behalf of the TEN-34 Consortium. The Consortium consists of national networks from 18 European countries and telecommunications operators which have submitted an implementation proposal to the European Commission for the linking up of high-speed national research networks at 34-155 Mbps. DANTE has been asked by the Commission to discuss the proposal with the initiators of JAMES, a PNO-driven proposal, which builds on the work done in the European PNO ATM pilot. DANTE is currently looking at ways to collaborate with the PNO Consortium in relation to the second element of the TEN-34 proposal which specifies the setting up of an international ATM test network. The immediate establishment of a 34 Mbps IP backbone remains a high priority and is being addressed separately. THE PHARE PROJECT DANTE recently completed an international connectivity plan for the PHARE region as part of the PHARE 1994 R&D networking contract. As expected, a range of solutions is needed to build a solid base for future networking activity in this region. As a result each country is being treated to a greater or lesser degree separately from all other beneficiaries. The connectivity plan focuses on finding a solution for each country which is cost effective on the one hand but which provides access to the high capacity and performance networking capabilities provided by existing R&D networks on the other. DANTE is concerned that progress during the first six month period of the contract has been relatively limited due to delays in resolving administrative issues in relation to the Management Contract and the resulting interruption in the flow of funds from the EC. The members of the R&D community in the PHARE countries have expressed their concern that a manageable transition from the PHARE/COSINE Programme (1991-1994) to meet the needs for R&D networking in 1995 has not been taken on urgently enough. As a result, some local initiatives have changed the networking status from the situation which existed in early 1994 when the Programme was approved. Due to these changes and to the increase in networking activity in both Western and Eastern Europe in 1994/5 some of the aims of the PHARE R&D Networking Programme have already been overtaken by events. The planned change Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 of infrastructure supplier for EuropaNET from 1 October 1995 adds an extra layer of complication. Effort so far has been concentrated on preparatory work in the PHARE countries, the fruition of which DANTE expects to become more evident during the next six months. DANTE ANNUAL REPORT 1994 AVAILABLE Paper copies of the latest DANTE Annual Report, which presents an activity and financial review of the last 9 months of 1994, can be obtained by sending the message to dante@dante.org.uk. The URL for the on-line version on DANTE's www server is: http://www.dante.net/Annual-Report94/contents.html NEW STAFF Steven Bakker (NL) joined DANTE on 29 May 1995. He will work with Michael Behringer on network planning and development. Steven has a degree from Amsterdam's 'Free University' in Informatics, with Software Engineering as a specialisation. In his previous position he worked as a Systems Programmer for SARA, the computer centre of the University of Amsterdam and the Free University, where he was involved in UNIX, VAX/VMS, E-mail and News management. His e-mail address is: Steven.Bakker@dante.org.uk. __________________________________________________________________ DANTE - Lockton House - Clarendon Road - Cambridge - CB2 2BH - UK telephone +44 1223 302992 fax +44 1223 303005 E-mail dante@dante.org.uk S=dante; O=dante; P=dante; A=mailnet; C=fi WWW server http://www.dante.net/ Gopher server gopher://gopher.dante.net/ Anonymous ftp ftp://ftp.dante.net/pub/ ___________________________________________________________________ Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES I. Significant Events InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 5,931 network addresses and registered over 13,974 domains. There were no top-level country domains registered during June. The suit that Knowledgenet has filed against Network Solutions and David L. Boone over the knowledgement.com domain has been dismissed. David Boone has agreed to relinquish the domain name to Knowledgenet, Inc. During the month of June, domain requests are averaging between 600- 700+ for new submissions per day. Adjustments continue to be made in domain processing. Additional, staffing is being acquired to accommodate the growth in registration requests. At the close of June 1995, the domain processing queue had again increased from 5,000 to 6,000 new domain registrations. Mark Kosters and Kim Hubbard attended the NANOG meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 22-23, 1995. Mark gave a presentation on the status of the InterNIC and the draft IP allocation practices that has been created in lieu of the general ip allocation document effort, rfc1466bis. RFC1466bis was broken into sections and assigned at RIPE in Jan 1995. Both the APNIC and InterNIC portions where completed. The RIPE section has not yet been completed. Kim Hubbard has agreed to complete the unfinished work in the RIPE section and pull the document together for review. Mark Kosters attended INET95 to give a presentation on the status of the InterNIC. The Scout HQ project began at the University of Wisconsin through a sub-contract with NSI. Susan Calcari relocated to Madison from San Diego and resumed weekly production and distribution of the Scout Report. A new Web site for the Scout Report was established on the Registration Services Web site, URL: http://rs.internic.net/scout_report-index.html. Computer equipment was ordered for the Info Scout and the Assistant Scout, including both desktop and laptop computers. Susan assisted NSI in the NIC Liaison recruitment process by reviewing approximately 40 resumes and recommending which applicants should be considered further. Interviews are expected to occur during June. Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 II. Current Status During the month of June 1995, InterNIC Registration Services received communications as shown below. The majority of the correspondence concerned the assignment and re-assignment of network numbers and the registration or change of domain names. E-mail 32,350 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 309 (primarily IP number requests) Phone 4,383 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of June. Connections Retrievals Gopher 38,614 35,298 WAIS 21,976 21,976 FTP 34,983 108,128 Mailserv 4,251 Telnet 74,529 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 363,708 2,088,075 Debbie Fuller INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES During the period June 19 to June 21, we moved one of our backup servers to a new physical location. ds1.internic.net had been located in a research environment in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It has moved to a computer center environment in Holmdel, NJ. This change will make it possible to get more rapid response to problems that require physical access to the machine. In the new location, ds1 remains physically separated from both our other two servers: ds.internic.net (our primary server) in South Plainfield, NJ; and ds2.internic.net in Columbus, OH. This physical separation has allowed us to keep at least one server accessible to the Internet at all times since we started operation. ds1.internic.net has retained its DNS name, but its address did change as a result of the move. While ds1 was out of service during this period, our other two Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 machines remained available during ds1's move. 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. Rick Huber US DOMAIN REGISTRY The US Domain Registry is in the process of delegating every county name as a locality name in each state. Please send a message to US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU for the new template and information on the registration requirements. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 711 PHONE 250 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 961 DELEGATIONS 73 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 11 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 877 --------------------------- Total 961 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. The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct registrations in the US Domain. To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains get the file "us-domain-delegated.txt" below. URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 48 33 31 46 34 22 21 8 1 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ----------------------- DST.CO.US Colorado, Districts RICHLAND.OH.US CLACKAMAS.OR.US NEW-ULM.MN.US MULTNOMAH.OR.US SANTA-BARBARA.CA.US GRESHAM.OR.US LOVELAND.CO.US LINCOLN.OR.US BELLEVUE.WA.US WASCO.OR.US MALONE.NY.US HOOD-RIVER.OR.US FLORIDA-KEYS.FL.US NEWPORT.OR.US ABERDEEN.WA.US BAINBRIDGE-ISL.WA.US BREMERTON.WA.US FORKS.WA.US GIG-HARBOR.WA.US HOQUIAM.WA.US KEYPORT.WA.US KINGSTON.WA.US OLYMPIA.WA.US PORT-ANGELES.WA.US PORT.LUDLOW.WA.US PORT.ORCHARD.WA.US PORT-TOWNSEND.WA.US POULSBO.WA.US SEQUIM.WA.US SHELTON.WA.US SILVERDALE.WA.US --------------------------- OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS --------------------------- SFPL.LIB.CA.US CO.TOMPKINS.NY.US UTIL.CI.BOYNTON-BCH.FL.US CI.CAMBRIDGE.MA.US CI.BREA.CA.US CI.TORRANCE.CA.US ITB.CI.MIAMI.FL.US HOME.CENTERVILLE.VA.US YOUNG.MCLEAN.VA.US SC.STRATFORD.CT.US GFA.PVT.K12.CT.US CO.CLACKAMAS.OR.US HEALTH.CO.ORANGE.NY.US CI.MERRIAM.KS.US CI.GOODYEAR.AZ.US ALUTH.BURBANK.CA.US ANAHEIM.LIB.CA.US CI.FITCHBURG.MA.US SALEM.CC.NJ.US NKAPC.COG.KY.US TAC.WALTON.KY.US CI.COON-RAPIDS.MN.US JPALMER.NEW-ORLEANS.LA.US MOEBIUS.KINGSTOWNE.VA.US FRANKLIN.TEC.MA.US CI.TACOMA.WA.US CO.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US CI.ORLANDO.FL.US CI.PACIFICA.CA.US BAJA-MAN.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US CI.FULLERTON.CA.US SIW.NW.DC.US Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 HEALTH.CO.SULLIVAN.NY.US SAI.VEINNA.VA.US BELTRAMO.ORTONVILLE.MI.US WONKY.BOSTON.MA.US AUTOSYS.LINCOLN.NE.US CI.LEAWOOD.KS.US DBRAD.LEXINGTON.VA.US PA.CO.ORANGE.FL.US CO.YELLOWSTONE.MT.US ALEXANDRIA.LIB.VA.US For more information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or select one of the following URLs below. URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-questionnaire.txt URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-blurb.txt Ann Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) Project. The Routing Arbiter Database (RADB) is now fully in production, and is being used to generate configurations for the ANSNET backbone network and the RA project's Route Servers. Providers worldwide now enter data directly in the database; the RADB staff focused this month on providing consultation and documentation for those users. Information on the RADB home page, http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/RADB.tools.docs.html, now includes: * How to Delete Objects from the RADB * How to Query the RADB for Information on Networks, ASs, and Maintainers * PRDB to RADB Transition * How to Register in the RADB (IRR) * Updating Maintainer Objects * Ripe-181 Providers now only need to register routing information in one of the registries in the Internet Routing Registry. Currently, these include the Routing Arbiter Database and the RIPE NCC, InternetMCI, CA*net, and ANS Routing Registries. User updates to the RADB are immediately visible through whois commands such as: whois -h whois.ra.net 193.101.106.0 whois -h whois.ra.net AS800 Users were notified early this month about two modifications to be made to data in the RADB. First, Route objects without the Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 required information about Origin AS (Home AS) were listed on the RADB Web pages and then removed from the database. Next, Route objects with advisory lines specifying non-existent peers were identified; many of these were entries that had not been modified to reflect the retirement of the NSFNET Backbone Service on April 30. Users were given the opportunity to modify these objects. Data that had not been corrected by the end of June was then modified directly by the RADB staff. Merit recently modified the RIPE-181 (RFC 1786) code, which is used to express routing policy in the Routing Arbiter Database. The code now supports syntax checking for the draft AS path regular expressions specified by the IETF Routing Policy System (RPS) Working Group. Merit also continues to add new capabilities to 'radbserver,' an enhanced whois server that provides information collected from all the registries that form part of the Internet Routing Registry. The number of peering sessions being established with Route Servers at the interconnection points continues to grow, as more providers take advantage of services offered by this state-of-the-art technology. Information about the status of current Route Server peering sessions is available at: http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/.bgp.peers.html CERT, in a follow-up to its security review of RA systems at Merit and ISI, visited the MAE-East, Sprint, AADS, and PacBell NAPs and MAE-West to advise the RA team on potential security issues with the fielded Route Servers. This month Jessica Yu presented a paper titled "The U.S. Internet Infrastructure and its Evolution" at the Eighteenth Pacific Science Conference in Beijing, China. Laurent Joncheray presented a paper titled +A Simple Active Attack Against TCP+ at the Fifth USENIX UNIX Security Symposium in Salt Lake City. Elise Gerich attended an NSF- sponsored "Workshop on the vBNS and the Research Agenda for Networking and Applications" in Washington D.C. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 UCL ---- Mark Handley attended meetings to align the MICE/MERCI PNO ATM Pilot use with the Terena project. A pan-european Mbone is emerging. Crowcroft attended a workshop in Dagstuhl and gave a talk about traffic policy management. Peter Kirstein attended the CCIN and INET in Hawai, as well as running the ICB meeting at ISI. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 CALENDAR -------- Last update 7/7/95 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: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. FYI - New Dates for ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, 1995 NOW Dec. 11-15, 1995. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) cd ietf ls *0mtg* Gopher ------- Available on the Gopher Server running on IETF.CNRI.RESTON.VA.US (132.151.1.35) under "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar". WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1995 --------- Jul. 6-8 Tcl/Tk Workshop Toronto, CA Jul. 10-13 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Maui, HI Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 Jul. 11-14 USENIX Wkshp on Electronic Commerce New York City, NY JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 13-14 1st Intntl Wkshp on Intellig. & Multimodality in Multimedia Interface Edinburgh, Scotland Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF Stockholm, Sweden Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan Jul. 17-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 Ottawa, Ontario Aug. 1-4 4th IEEE Symp. on High Perform. Distributed Computing (HPDC-4) Pentagon City, VA Aug. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 19-21 14th Intntl Conf. on AI (IJCAI-95) Montreal, CA Aug. 21-24 ICCC '95 Seoul, Korea Aug. 21-24 APPN Implementers Wkshp (AIW) RTP, NC Aug. 23-25 IEEE Wkshp on Arch. & Implement of HPC Subsystems HPCS'95 Mystic, CT Aug. 28-31 IFIP IN'95 Working Conf. & Workshop Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA Aug. 30-Sep. 1 ACM SIGCOMM '95 Cambridge, MA SEPTEMBER Windows Solutions Paris Paris, France Sep. 12-14 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Linthicum, MD Sep. 18-22 Ninth Systems Admin Conf (LISA) Monterey, CA Sep. 25-29 7th SDL Forum Oslo, Sweden FALL 1995 Seybold Europe Sep. 4-6 8th IFIP WG6.1 Intntl Wkshp on Protocol Test Systems Every, France Sep. 4-7 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) London, England Sep. 11-15 6th IFIP High Performance Networking, HPN'95 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Sep. 11-15 OIW (Firm) Sep. 18-22 7th Annual Comp. Security Incident Handling Workshop Karlsruhe, Germany Sep. 20-23 4th Intntl Conf. Computer Commun. & Networks (IC3N'95) Las Vegas, NV Sep. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 26-29 Seybold San Francisco San Francisco, CA Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 9-12 PROMS '95 Salzburg, Austria Oct. 10-11 ANSI X3T11 Oct. 11-13 Intntl Symp. on Multimedia Comm. & Video Coding New York City, NY Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 Oct. 15-18 20th Conf. on Local Computer Netwks (sponsored by IEEE) Minneapolis, MN Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, AU Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec Oct. 31-Nov. 2 APPN Implementers Wkshp (AIW) RTP, NC Nov. 3 CPI-C Implementers Wkshp (CIW) RTP, NC Nov. 5-9 ACM Multimedia '95 San Francisco, CA Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Nov. 7-9 OPENNET '95 Goettingen, Germany Nov. 7-10 ICNP '95 Tokyo, Japan Nov. 8 Membermtg/GIGI e.V. German Internet User Group Goettingen, Germany Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM '95 Singapore Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm) Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Firm) Dallas, TX Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Firm) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Windows Solutions Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Dec. 4-8 X/Open Security Dec. 10-15 ATM Forum London, UK Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO Dec. 11-15 1995 IFIP Intntl. Working Conf. Sydney, Australia Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU 1996 ----------- Jan. 22-26 USENIX 1996 Tech. Conference San Diego, CA Jan. 23-25 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Salt Lake City, UT Jan. 29-31 Multimedia Computing & Netwkg San Jose, CA Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Feb. 5-9 ATM Forum Los Angeles, CA Feb. 19-21 EMail World & Internet Expo San Jose, CA Feb. 19-23 Intntl Zurich Sem. on Digital Communications Zurich, Switzerland Feb. 22-23 Internet Society Symp on Ntwk & Distributed System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 27-Mar. 1 ICDP '96-IFIP/IEEE Intntl Conf. on Distributed Platforms Dresden, Germany Mar. 4-8 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 14-17 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Sys. Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 Mar. 18-22 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Apr. 8-13 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 11-12 2nd ACM/SIGRAPH Conf. on Assistive Technologies Vancouver, Canada Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 14-19 ATM Forum (Tentative) May. 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO Jun. 9-14 ATM Forum (Tentative) Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Jun. 11-13 EMail World & Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jun. 24-27 ICC '96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-28 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Aug. 18-23 ATM Forum (Tentative) +Aug. 26-30 SIGCOMM '96 (Tentative) Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 10-12 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ontario, CA Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Oct. 6-11 ATM Forum (Tentative) Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 1-6 ATM Forum (Tentative) Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) 1998 ----------- Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 ********************************************************************** Ref. TSec(95)001 July 1995 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 TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail . ********************************************************************** MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 14 July Amsterdam 15 September " TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA4 19-20 October Rome GA5 16-17 May 1996 Budapest TERENA - Other -------------- NCC-Contributor's 1 September Amsterdam WG-MSG 16 July Stockholm WG-ISUS 16 July Stockholm RIPE ---- 11-13 October Amsterdam April/May 1996 Berlin Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 European Commission ------------------- ICT Partnership General Meeting 6 July Brussels EBONE ----- ECCO (Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations) 12 September Paris EMC (Ebone Management Committee) 29 August Paris IETF ---- 17-21 July Stockholm, Sweden 4-8 December Dallas, Texas, USA EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 19/20 September Brussels 12/13 December " Workshops 23-26 October Brussels 15-19 January 1996 " 25-29 March 1996 " 24-28 June 1996 " 21-25 October 1996 " ETSI ---- GA22 5-6 December Nice, France GA23 25-26 April, 1996 " GA24 10-11 December, 1996 " TA23 7-9 November " TA24 22-24 April, 1996 " TA25 23-25 October, 1996 " Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 CONFERENCES ******************************************************************* JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference ------------------------------------------------ 13-16 May 1996 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary For information, email WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/jenc7 NSC'96 - Network Services Conference 1996 ----------------------------------------- Autumn 1996, Convention Centre, Bled, Slovenia For information, email WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/nsc96/ ******************************************************************* OTHER CONFERENCES nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available from the TERENA 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.terena.nl Email: server@terena.nl Gopher: gopher.terena.nl World Wide Web: http://www.terena.nl/terena/information/calendar/ WWW National Conference ----------------------- 6-8 July Minho University, Braga, Portugal Aims to analyse the state of the art of WWW technology For information contact Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 URL: http://www.di.uminho.pt/cnw3.html 95 FIRST Conference/Workshop ---------------------------- The Forum of Incident Handling and Security Teams (FIRST) will hold its annual conference from: 18-22 September University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany For information contact: or fax no: +49 721 32 550 JOINT WORKING CONFERENCE IFIP TC-6 TC-11 and AUSTRIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY -------------------------------------------- 20-21 September Graz, Austria on professional communication and multimedia application in relation to security aspects. Deadline paper submission 28 February to For further information contact Dr. Peter Lipp at: tel: +43 316 82 65 88 13. fax:+43 316 85 0144 IC3N'95 - FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS ----------------------------------------- 20-23 September Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Call for Papers information: or URL: http://www.nscee.edu/~eugene/ic3n/. Paper submission deadline is 17 March. For conference information: or WWW home page. URL is http://www.nscee.edu/~eugene/ic3n/. PROMS '95 --------- 9-12 October Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria Second workshop on Protocols for Multimedia Systems "Mozart on Multimedia Highways" Call for Papers to be submitted by 20 August. To: Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 email ftp ftp.cosy.sbg.ac.at /pub/proms For further information also contact: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/proms IEE/BMVA COLLOQUIUM ------------------- DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING FOR MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT 4 November IEE Savoy Place, London, U.K. Papers to be submitted by 4 August to: Dr. R.B. Johnson, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Bristol email or Dr. t. Tan, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Reading - email or OPENNET'95 ---------- 7-9 November Goettingen, Germany For information email or 1995 IFIP International Working Conference on User Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications (ULPAA) --------------------------------------------------------------- 11-15 December Sydney, Australia Deadline for submission of papers by 15 May For further info-> http:/www.ee.uts.edu.au/ifip/ULPAA95.html MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING 1996 ---------------------------------------- 29-31 January 1996 San Jose, California This conference is part of the IS&T/SPIE 1996 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging to be held 28 Jan. - 2 Feb.1996 Deadline of paper submission 10 July - electronic versions to: For up-to-date information about MMCN96 access web page at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mmcn96 Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- Broadband Communiations: Networks, Services, Applications, Future Directions 19-23 February 1996 Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland Deadline for submission of papers is 15 May 1995 For further information, email Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner , fax.+41 1 632 1035 Call for Papers on TERENA Document Server under rare/information/calendar. The file is called izs96-cfp.txt. ASSETS'96 - The 2nd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies -------------------------------------------------------------------- (sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped) 11-12 April 1996 Vancouver Renaissance Hotel, Vancouver, Canada The conference scope spans disability and special needs of all kinds, including but not limited to: sensory; motor; cognitive; and emotional. Submission of papers (17 October) and further info. contact: David L. Jaffe, Program Chair or Ephraim P. Glinert, General Chair ================== updated 05.07.1995 ================== -------------------- Madeleine Oberholzer TERENA Secretary Address: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466 - 468 NL - 1017 AW AMSTERDAM Voice : + 31 20 639 11 31 Fax : + 31 20 639 32 89 Email : secretariat@terena.nl (for all general matters) Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report June 1995 Cooper [Page 32]