November 1997 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. 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 "IMR-ED@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ Ramos [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 ZD Comdex and Forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. The final meeting of the year will be held in Washington, DC from December 8-12, 1997. Our local host is Newbridge Networks. The IETF will meet in Los Angeles from March 30 - April, 3, 1998 and then in Chicago August 24-28. We have a host and city for the the final meeting of 1998, but are still evaluating meeting sites. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meetng sites can always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL is: http://www.ietf.org/ 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF shadow directories in the iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: November 6, 1997 (iesg.97-11-06) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 19 Protocol Actions during the month of November, 1997: o Test Cases for HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA-1 for publication as an Informational RFC. o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2 for publication as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 o An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications for publication as a Proposed Standard. o OTP Extended Responses for publication as a Proposed Standard. o ACAP -- Application Configuration Access Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Anonymous SASL Mechanism for publication as a Proposed Standard. o ATM Signalling Support for IP over ATM - UNI Signalling 4.0 Update for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Netware/IP Domain Name and Information for publication as a Proposed Standard. o DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for DLUR using SMIv2 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for HPR for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The Interfaces Group MIB using SMIv2 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The TLS Protocol Version 1.0 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations for publication as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 4. 20 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of November, 1997: o Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics for consideration as a Draft Standard. o IPv6 Testing Address Allocation for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Introduction to IP Multicast Routing for consideration as an Informational RFC. o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 Namespace for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Repeater Devices for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o SNMPv3 Applications for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 o View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The mailto URL scheme for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o NHRP Protocol Applicability Statement for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The End-to-End (EEP) PacketWay Protocol for High-Performance Interconnection of Computer Clusters for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Three new working groups were created S/MIME Mail Security (smime) RSVP Admission Policy (rap) Schema Registration (schema) 6. There were 329 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of November, 1997: (ion) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (wts) o The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (none) o The Auto-Submitted, Supersedes and Expires Headers in E-mail and Netnews (cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (cat) o Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (none) o Fixing Backbone Partition with Dynamic Virtual Links (cat) o The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (asid) o A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 (receipt) o An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2 (ospf) o OSPF for IPv6 (ospf) o The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (dhc) o Interaction between DHCP and DNS (ipngwg) o IP Header Compression (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) (idmr) o Core Based Tree (CBT) Multicast Border Router Specification (mhtml) o Sending HTML in MIME, an informational supplement to the RFC: MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML) (asid) o vCard MIME Directory Profile (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types (ipsec) o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (ipsec) o IP Authentication Header Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (acap) o ACAP -- Application Configuration Access Protocol (none) o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (ids) o Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol (SNQP) (ipsec) o The resolution of ISAKMP with Oakley (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Protocols (none) o IMAP4 OPTIMIZE-1 extension (svrloc) o Service Location Modifications for IPv6 (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names (avt) o RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG (none) o Firewall Support for Mobile IP (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' (otp) o OTP Extended Responses (ids) o Internet Nomenclator Project (mboned) o Administratively Scoped IP Multicast (tip) o Transaction Internet Protocol Version 2.0 (dhc) o The User Class Option for DHCP (drums) o Mail and Netnews Header Registration Procedure (ipsec) o The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP (svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Delegation of Management Scripts (none) o The Weak Authentication and Tracing Option Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks (svrloc) o An API for Service Location (cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm Authentication in Kerberos (applmib) o Application Management MIB (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services (radius) o RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol Support (rps) o Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) (tls) o The TLS Protocol Version 1.0 (find) o A Tagged Index Object for use in the Common Indexing Protocol (ippm) o Framework for IP Performance Metrics (ippm) o A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM (mmusic) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol (none) o Originator-Info Message Header (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 over PPP (none) o The mailto URL scheme (dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) (none) o The Multicast Attribute Framing Protocol (none) o Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - Application F (svrloc) o The 'wp' and 'yp' Abstract Service Types (mboned) o Some Issues for an Inter-domain Multicast Routing Protocol (mixer) o Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER address mapping Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks (dnssec) + Zone KEY RRSet Signing Procedure (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB (spki) o Simple Public Key Certificate (run) o DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*) (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (http) o HTTP State Management Mechanism (dhc) o Multicast address allocation extensions options (dhc) o Multicast address allocation extensions to the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAPv2 (asid) o LDAP Multi-Master Replication Protocol (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS (ippm) o A Packet Loss Metric for IPPM (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks (none) o RSVP over ATM Implementation Guidelines (none) o S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification (none) o S/MIME Version 2 Certificate Handling (rps) o RIPE-181 to RPSL Transition Plan (avt) o Real-Time Transport Protocol Management Information Base (pppext) o PPP over AAL5 (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Protocol Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (secsh) o SSH Authentication Protocol (secsh) o SSH Connection Protocol (tcpimpl) o Known TCP Implementation Problems (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics (urn) o URN Namespace Registration and Standardization Process Mechanisms (avt) o RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control (asid) o A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3 (none) o An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service (disman) o Event MIB (disman) o Expression MIB (none) o Obtaining an URL to a user's calendar and free/busy time (none) o THE TRANSMISSION OF IP OVER THE VERTICAL BLANKING INTERVAL OF A TELEVISION SIGNAL (avt) o RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video (none) o IMAP4 Namespace (issll) o Network Element Service Specification for Low Speed Networks (mpls) o A Framework for Multiprotocol Label Switching (agentx) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents (none) o Dynamical routing (unicast and multicast) for the Ipv6 protocol (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (none) o Use of Label Switching With RSVP (tn3270e) o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Using SMIv2 (dnssec) o Storage of Diffie-Hellman Keys in the Domain Name System (none) o Plaintext Password SASL Mechanism for Transitioning Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (ftpext) o Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol (http) o Scenarios for the Delivery of Negotiated Content (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks (ipsec) o The use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH (ipsec) o The Use of HMAC-MD5-96 within ESP and AH (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Dynamic Attributes (mhtml) o MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (calsch) o Internet Calendar Model Specification (ipcdn) o Cable Device Management Information Base for MCNS compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems (ipcdn) o Radio Frequency (RF) Interface Management Information Base for MCNS compliant RF interfaces (issll) o RSVP over ATM Implementation Requirements (dnsind) o Test and Example Top Level Domain Names (pppext) o The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis) (ipp) o Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols (tcpimpl) o Some Testing Tools for TCP Implementors (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Protocol Specification (ipngwg) o TLA and NLA Assignment Rules (ippcp) o IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (ipp) o Rationale for the Structure of the Model and Protocol for the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) (webdav) o Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web -- WEBDAV (ipsec) o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (issll) o A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM (none) o SOCKS V5 UDP and Multicast Extensions to Facilitate Multicast Firewall Traversal (asid) o LDAP Replication Requirements (ion) o Intra-area IP unicast among routers over legacy ATM (none) o Directory Schema Listing Requirements (ip1394) o Ipv4 over IEEE 1394 (none) o RTP Payload Format for BT.656 Video Encoding (ngtrans) o Stateless IP/ICMP Translator (SIIT) (bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for Firewall Performance (tn3270e) o Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2 (svrloc) o Conversion of LDAP Schemas to and from SLP Templates (ospf) o The OSPF Address Resolution Advertisement Option (none) o IP Tunnel MIB (none) o An Internet Firewall Transparency Requirement (fax) + SMTP Service Extension for Capabilities Exchange (fax) o SMTP Service Extension for Immediate Delivery (none) o URLs for Telephony (none) o Using TLS with IMAP4 and POP3 (none) o IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations (dnssec) o DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (dnssec) o Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (dnssec) o Indirect KEY RRs in the Domain Name System (http) o The Alternates Header Field Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (none) o Use of Label Switching With Frame Relay Specification (fax) o PSTN and fax address format in e-mail services v3.6 (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture (ipsec) o The ISAKMP Configuration Method (tcpsat) o Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms (iesg) o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs (webdav) o WebDAV Tree Operations (none) o A MIME Directory Profile for LDAP Schema (secsh) o SSH Protocol Architecture (none) o Directory Schema Listing File Names (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (grip) o Security Expectations for Internet Service Providers (radius) o RADIUS Attributes for MS-CHAP Support (smime) o Cryptographic Message Syntax (pppext) + L2TP Header Compression (''L2TPHC'') (smime) + Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME (urlreg) + Uniform Resource Locators (URL): NOREG URL Naming Scheme (none) + Self-Synchronous Scramblers For PPP Over Sonet/SDH: Some Analysis (find) + LDAPv2 client Vs the Index Mesh Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (svrloc) + Service Location Protocol (none) + On-Demand Mail Relay (idr) + BGP Route Flap Damping (none) + S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification (none) + The TPING option for the Telnet protocol (cat) + Initial Authentication with Kerberos and the GSS-API (IAKERB) (none) + Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts (ospf) + OSPF Version 2 (none) + A Caution On The Canonical Ordering Of Link-Layer Addresses (none) + To Be Multihomed: Requirements & Definitions (none) + Directory Schema Listing Procedures (none) o Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics (none) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Dynamic Attributes for the Remote Access Dialin User Service (RADIUS) (none) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Schema for the Remote Access Dialin User Service (RADIUS) (none) + One Pass Multipart/Alternative Processing (none) + Simple Differential Services: IP TOS and Precedence, Delay Indication, and Drop Preference (fax) o Requirements for Internet Fax (none) + BGP-4 Capabilities Negotiation for BGP Multiprotocol Extensions (idr) + Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing (none) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for PPP Authentication (none) + Authentication Methods for LDAP Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (none) + Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (radius) + RADIUS IP Security Extensions (none) + Supporting IP Multicast Integrated Services in ATM Networks (none) + Notary Protocols (none) + Time Stamp Protocols (svrloc) + Definition of printer: URLs for use with Service Location (radius) o RADIUS Attributes for MS-CHAP Support (fax) + Scenarios for Delivery of FAX messages over SMTP (ipngwg) + DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 (webdav) + WebDAV ACL Protocol (none) + Service Discovery Protocol (none) + Persistent Document Identifiers (none) + Anti-Spam Requirements on an SMTP MTA (none) + IMAP4 Language Extension (none) + Bulk Mail Transfer Protocol (pppext) + Multi-link Multi-node PPP (none) + Metadata Content-Disposition Type (none) + POP3 Extension Mechanism and Error Codes (none) + The Audio/L16 MIME content type (none) + Form-based Device Input and Upload in HTML (none) + Registration of a Ukrainian Cyrillic Character Set KOI8-RU (as extension to Russian KOI8-R and ISO-IR-111) (udlr) + An IP tunneling approach for Uni-directional Link routing (none) + IMAP4 Child Mailbox Extension (udlr) + Supporting Unidirectional Paths in the Internet Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (udlr) + VIPRE -- Virtual Internet Packet Relay An Encapsulation Architecture for Unidirectional Links (udlr) + Domain Wide Multicast Group Membership Reports (avt) + RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+) (udlr) + Dynamic Tunneling Path Configuration for Uni-directional Link Routing (udlr) + Handling of unidirectional links with RIP (udlr) + Handling of unidirectional links with OSPF (udlr) + Handling of unidirectional links with DVMRP (mobileip) + IP Mobility Support version 2 (none) + Load Sharing using IP Network Address Translation (LSNAT) (none) + Framework for Interconnecting Internet with Public Circuit-Switching Network (pppext) + PPP over SONET/SDH (none) + LDAP Servers Finding Other LDAP Servers (none) + LDAP Clients Finding LDAP Servers (none) + Use of Label Switching With ATM (none) + Recording MBone Sessions to ASF Files (openpgp) + OP Formats - OpenPGP Message Format (none) + A Directory for organizations and services from DNS and WHOIS. (none) + IPV6 NUMBER ASSIGNMENT PROTOCOL Rev 0.1 (none) + A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPv6 and to TCP (mpls) + MPLS Label Stack Encoding (none) + Comparison of MPLS LAN Encapsulation Proposals (none) + MPLS Label Stack Encoding on LAN Media Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (none) + A Legal Domain Name Allocation Method (ediint) + HTTP Transport for Secure EDI (none) + Handle System: A Persistent Global Naming Service Overview and Syntax (none) + The Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) for Ad Hoc Networks (pppext) + PPP Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing (COBS) (ipsec) + The Use of HMAC-RIPEMD-160-96 within ESP and AH (none) + Directory Schema Listing Meta Data (none) + The ISAKMP Applications on Security Related Failure Handling (none) + The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol (none) + IMAP MailConnect 3 Report (ipngwg) + Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 (none) + The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol (fax) + Extensions to Delivery Status Notifications for Fax (fax) + Facsimile over Internet Mail (none) + Requirements for DAV Searching and Locating (none) + The uuid: URI scheme (none) + Network Service Discovery using RMON-MIB. (none) + Firewall Management Information Base (none) + Scalable Resource Reservation for the Internet (webdav) + Requirements for Access Control within Distributed Authoring and Versioning Environments on the World Wide Web (none) + Generic Label Distribution Protocol Specification (none) + BGP-4 MD5 Authentication Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (none) + BGP-4 over ATM and Proxy PAR (none) + Proxy PAR (pppext) + PPP EAP KEA Public Key Authentication Protocol (pppext) + PPP Certificate Exchange Protocol (ngtrans) + Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (none) + IP Extension for Reliable Multicast (tip) + Using the Transaction Internet Protocol (TIP) with HTTP (pppext) + PPP Fortezza Encryption Encapsulation Protocol (fax) + Fax Profile for Internet Mail (none) + Features for Media Display (pppext) + PPP EAP DSS Public Key Authentication Protocol (ngtrans) + IPv6 routing issues (iab) + Report of the IAB Security Architecture Workshop (none) + Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery (none) + Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks (smime) + S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification (smime) + S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling (pppext) + PPP with Framing Conversion (none) + IPv6 traceroute option (dhc) + DHCP Failover Protocol (pppext) + PPP in Frame Relay (none) + A New Scheme for the Compression of Domain Names (rps) + Guidelines for Extending RPSL (ldapext) + The Java LDAP Application Program Interface Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (none) + Java LDAP Controls (none) + LDAP Proxied Authentication Control (ngtrans) + No Network Address Translation (NNAT) for IPv6 (pint) + IP Access to PSTN Services: Basic Service Requirements, Definitions, and Architecture (pint) + PSTN-Internet Internetworking - An Architecture Overview (pint) + Pre-PINT Callback Service Implementation Experiences (ippm) o Connectivity (cat) + Kerberos over TCP (avt) + RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video (none) + Using the UTF-8 Character Set in the Domain Name System (pint) + SIP for Click-To-Dial-Back and Third-Party Control (pppext) + PPP in X.25 (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Server Cache Synchronization Protocol Using SMIv2 (dhc) + DHCP Continuation Option Code (none) + VPIM Directory Schema Definition & Profile (smime) + Certificate Request Syntax (none) + Rendezvous Protocol (svrloc) + SNMP MIB for SLP Directory Agents (rap) + A Framework for Policy-based Admission Control (none) + GSS Algorithm for TSIG (GSS-TSIG) (none) + A Communication Mechanism between IPv4 and IPv6 (none) + Explicit Route Support in MPLS (roamops) + An LDAP Schema for Phone Books (none) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Schema for the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (none) + Enabling Transparency for the PPP over SONET/SDH Mapping (ipsec) + A GSS-API Authentication Mode for ISAKMP/Oakley (none) + THE TRANSMISSION OF IP OVER THE VERTICAL BLANKING INTERVAL OF A PAL TELEVISION SIGNAL (spki) + SPKI Certificate Theory (none) + Pre-Shared Key Extensions for ISAKMP/Oakley (fax) + PROCEDURES FOR REAL TIME GROUP 3 FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TERMINALS USING IP NETWORKS (http) + HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication (aft) + SOCKS V5 Protocol extension for Multiple Firewalls Traversal (none) + Coexistence and Interoperability of NTP Authentication Schemes (none) + Token Card Extensions for ISAKMP/OAKLEY (none) + Configuration of Tunnel Mode Ipsec Endpoint Parameters (dnssec) + DNSsec Authentication Referral Record (AR) (idmr) + The Multicast Address Set Claim (MASC) Protocol 7. 14 RFCs were published during this period RFC2230 I (none) Key Exchange Delegation Record for the DNS RFC2231 I (none) MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations RFC2232 PS (snanau) Definitions of Managed Objects for DLUR using SMIv2 RFC2233 PS (ifmib) The Interfaces Group MIB using SMIv2 RFC2234 PS (drums) Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF RFC2235 I (none) Hobbes' Internet Timeline RFC2236 PS (idmr) Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 RFC2237 I (none) Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages RFC2238 PS (snanau) Definitions of Managed Objects for HPR using SMIv2 RFC2239 PS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2 RFC2240 I (none) A Legal Basis for Domain Name Allocation RFC2241 PS (dhc) DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services RFC2242 PS (dhc) NetWare/IP Domain Name and Information RFC2243 PS (otp) OTP Extended Responses Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES Gopher Sessions: 70,460 Retrievals: 6,826 WAIS Sessions: 7,878 Retrievals: 7,068 FTP Sessions: 98,456 Retrievals: 157,961 Telnet Sessions: 71,884 HTTP: 12438881 Whois Client Queries: 4,035,459 Whois Server Queries: 20,833,224 Updates: 95,707 email: 444,752 Phone: 35,967 by Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The Netfind seed database for November contained 2.3 million entries. A point release of Netfind (5.1.1) is now available. It fixes some bugs that were found by users in Europe. The parallel version of Nomenclator was received from Lucent Technologies and has been modified to run in a Sun/Solaris environment. It is currently in test. The NSF Cooperative Agreement for InterNIC Directory and Database Services will expire at the end of March 1998. We are working with other organizations to find new homes for many of the repositories that we operate. 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. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: Ramos [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html by Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY The US Domain registration form is now available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. The US Domain has the maps of all the delegated special domains online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. Recent announcements: 1. A new policy has been added to avoid several cases of misleading, erroneous, and outright false information provided on registration applications. One situation that occurs is that one individual represents himself as several distinct companies in order to bypass some limitations on the number of delegations allowed (e.g., the 50/500 rule). Another situation is that with the requirement to provide a government employee as the administrative contact for a locality delegation. Some applications have been received with a government employee's contact information but that person has no idea that such an application has been submitted. Some applications provide contact information for an individual that knows what is going on but is not an employee of the locality government. Still other applications have been received where the administrative contact information is fictional. The US Domain Administration may choose to verify any or all of the information on registration applications (including the administrative contact) and if it is determined that the an application contains false of substantially misleading information that application may be denied, or if already acted on the delegation may be revoked, and in either case all other delegations made to the party submitting the false or misleading application may also be revoked. Ramos [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 2. A total of about 2000 locality domains that were delegated to several domain name managers have been returned to the US Domain administrator. These localities will be made available for redelegation in the coming months. 3. For delegations made after 1-Jul-97, it is assumed by the US Domain Administrator that every applicant for the delegation (or redelegation) of a locality name has the written agreement of the legitimate government for that locality for the applicant to manage the domain name of that locality. Evidience of such an agreement does not need to be presented at the time of delegation (except that the administrative contact on the application template must be the government representative). However, if the delegation is later challenged or contested, the manager of the locality domain must produce the agreement. Failure to do so will most likely result in the transfer of the management of the locality domain to another manager that does have such an agreement. If there is a dispute as to what is the legitimate government for a locality is and who may act for it, the league of cities or association of municipalities that each state (as recognized by the National League of Cities) may be asked to assist in resolving such disputes. In some places there are overlapping jurisdictions with the same name (for example, the city of Los Angeles and the county of Los Angeles). In such cases, the higher level government should have priority. A new policy has been added regarding the charges for the domain name passed on during delegation. The administrator of the locality has to notify one year in advance before charging for those domains. 4. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2961 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3461 Ramos [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 DELEGATIONS: 95 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1551 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:1815 --------------------------- Total 3461 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES include referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 52 39 36 48 41 27 30 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== STATE.MT.US. State Governments, Montana. LOCALITIES ========== PARLIER.CA.US. WORMLEYSBURG.PA.US. SHOSHONE.ID.US. MONTGOMERY.NC.US. SPRING-VALLEY.MN.US. ELLIS.KS.US. GOVE.KS.US. VICTORIA.KS.US. PRINCETON-TOWNSHIP.NJ.US. SARATOGA.CA.US. ANDERSON.KS.US. ROSELLE.IL.US. WATERLOO.IL.US. ANGLETON.TX.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== CI.TIFTON.GA.US. COURTHOUSE.KAY.OK.US. PUSHHOSP.PUSHMATAHA.OK.US. CCGH.COAL.OK.US. GINY.MIAMI.FL.US. CO.HINDS.MS.US. CO.SAN-JUAN.NM.US. TOWN.IPSWICH.MA.US. HERITAGE-PARK.WEBSTER.TX.US. FUGAWI.SOMERVILLE.MA.US. Ramos [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 SAINTJAB.TAMPA.FL.US. ASYLUM.OCEAN-VIEW.DE.US. JONG.ORLANDO.FL.US. CI.VILLA-PARK.CA.US. CYBERCITY.ORLANDO.FL.US. GODWIN-DRIVE.MANASSAS.VA.US. WELLINGTON-ROAD.MANASSAS.VA.US. SUDLEY-ROAD.MANASSAS.VA.US. NOKESVILLE-ROAD.MANASSAS.VA.US. CENTREVILLE-ROAD.MANASSAS.VA.US. EUCLID-AVENUE.MANASSAS.VA.US. DALE-BOULEVARD.DALE-CITY.VA.US. CI.OVIEDO.FL.US. MINNIEVILLE-ROAD.DALE-CITY.VA.US. CI.MIDLAND.MI.US. PRINCE-WILLIAM-PARKWAY.DALE-CITY.VA.US. YVRLS.LIB.WA.US. CONTED.CALDWELL.WEST-CALDWELL.NJ.US. RANDY.HOUMA.LA.US. HOLT.PROVO.UT.US. BUTLER.CO.BUTLER.OH.US. UNIDS.HAVERHILL.MA.US. UNIDS.NORTH-ANDOVER.MA.US. SHERIFF.FAIRFIELD.OH.US. CCSWA.CENTRE.PA.US. PEABODY-INSTITUTE.LIB.MA.US. FOXBERRY.MONROE.MI.US. KBBINC.NOKESVILLE.VA.US. MAR.NW.DC.US. CI.RALSTON.NE.US. UR-COG.COG.OR.US. MNA.MUS.AZ.US. CO.CUMBERLAND.NC.US. CI.EL-PASO.TX.US. POSTAL.ORLANDO.FL.US. POW.ORLANDO.FL.US. BIZSUITE.CHEROKEE.GA.US. CI.EMERYVILLE.CA.US. CO.MADISON.MS.US. CI.HELENA.MT.US. LOGICA.LEXINGTON.MA.US. LOGICA.FORT-LAUDERDALE.FL.US. LOGICA.DEARBORN.MI.US. CI.LAKE-FOREST-PARK.WA.US. LAWRENCE.LIB.MA.US. CI.SHAWNEE.OK.US. THEDEPOT.BATESVILLE.AR.US. CLERKOFCOURT.CO.JEFFERSON.LA.US. CO.EDGECOMBE.NC.US. CI.LEANDER.TX.US. KENANTHONY.ORLANDO.FL.US. PCS.VICTORVILLE.CA.US. FAMILY.MAYVILLE.NY.US. JTYOCUM.ARLINGTON.WA.US. CI.NEWTON.MS.US. RECREATION.PUBLIC-LANDS.GEN.AZ.US. CI.EDMONDS.WA.US. TIS.WICHITA.KS.US. CI.SOMERVILLE.MA.US. K12.SOMERVILLE.MA.US. SHERIFF.CO.SHASTA.CA.US. COC.CI.CALLAWAY.FL.US. CO.JOHNSON.IN.US. CI.SILVERSTON.OR.US. HPCTC.HIGHLAND-PARK.NJ.US. CI.GREENBELT.MD.US. FIKEFORCE.UTICA.MI.US. VILLAGE.BAL-HARBOUR.FL.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes November 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Ramos [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 Jake Khuon is folding the powerful Route Server Daemon (RSd) code back into GateD, which is now handled by the Merit GateD Consortium (http://www.gated.org). RSd, which is derived from GateD, was developed as part of the NSF-funded Routing Arbiter project by Ramesh Govindan of the USC Information Sciences Institute. Designed for the Route Servers at the Network Access Points, RSd makes it possible to offload computationally intensive routing tasks from exchange point peer routers, freeing processing time and providing a boost in throughput for each peer system. The Route Servers now operate as part of Merit's Route Server Next Generation project (http://www.rsng.net). Govindan added many new features to RSd, including configuration and transparent passing of BGP MEDs, BGP route flap dampening, aggregation, and AS path matching. Support for BGP MEDs and BGP route flap dampening has already been added back into GateD, greatly strengthening the GateD code base. Other new features to be added back include the recent multiprotocol extensions to BGP, new attributes such as BGP communities, and the ability to handle larger reconfigurations more quickly. The merger gives GateD a richer parser and wider range of configuration options. The shared code base will also simplify the process of reflecting future RSd improvements back into the GateD library. The shared code will be released as part of GateD Consortium Release 7.0, to be available without charge for academic and research usage, i.e., any usage that provides research, learning or inspection of the code in an academic or commercial environment. The only use that is not defined as "academic and research" is inclusion of GateD in a product, or as a means of providing a commercial service. Gerald Winters attended a "Directory-Enabled Networks" workshop presented by Microsoft and Cisco. The goal of the workshop was to introduce concepts for enhancing networking through integration with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. LDAP provides a common means of accessing directory services from diverse clients. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- We have completed a prototype implementation of our priced TCP - see http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/hipparch/pricing.html [Slides and paper avaialble]. Ramos [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 This work has been presented in a couple of seminars to Berkeley, BT labs and Cambridge University Computer Society. The idea is complimentary to the current work on Differentiated Services in the IETF (also mentioned in earlier HIPPARCH work). The CAIRN link was used to transmit the mbone presentation of this work to Berkeley, and operated faultlessly. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) IANA REPORT ----------- Country Codes 4 Media Types 3 Novell SAP Numbers 3 Private Enterprise Numbers 48 Port Numbers 29 SMI Numbers 4 by Josh Elliott RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of November, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 7 1 13 | 21 month | | New 23 0 0 0 | 23 | | Processed 14 4 1 2 | 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 9 3 0 11 | 23 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication Ramos [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Alegre Ramos (rfc-ed@isi.edu) Ramos [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 CALENDAR -------- The TERENA Calendar for December 1997 may be found on URL: http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam the Netherlands email tel: +31 20 639 1131 fax: +31 20 639 3289 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ZD COMDEX AND FORUMS -------------------- ZD Comdex & Forums 303 Vintage Park Drive Foster City, CA 94404 (650) 578-6900 Fax: (650) 525-0194 http://www.zdcf.com 1998 Future Event Calendar Business Conferences & Expositions Network Entertainment World * Beverly Hilton Beverly Hills, CA Customer Service (800) 953-4932 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7074 (International) Conference: Feb 12-13, 1998 Seybold Seminars New York Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY http://www.seyboldseminars.com Ramos [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 Customer Service (888) 800-8922 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7072 (International) Conference: Mar 16-20, 1998 Exposition: Mar 17-19, 1998 Global Information Infrastructure Awards * New York, NY http://www.gii.com Customer Service (888) 282-0809 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 578-6975 (International) Banquet: March 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Singapore Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre Singapore http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (65) 227 5755 Conference: Mar 30-Apr 3, 1998 Exhibition: Apr 1-3, 1998 Comdex Japan Makuhari Messe Tokyo, Japan Information 011 (81) 3 5642 8433 Conference: Apr 6-9, 1998 Exposition: Apr 6-9, 1998 Support Services Conference & Expo 98 * Washington DC Convention Center Washington DC http://www.sbforums.com/ssce Customer Service (800) 801-1354 (U.S. only) (650) 378-1032 (International) Conference: Apr 20-22, 1998 Exposition: Apr 19-22, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Las Vegas Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, NV http://www.interop.com/events Customer Service (800) 944-4629 (U.S. & Canada) Ramos [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 (650) 372-7090 (International) Conference: May 4-8, 1998 Exhibition: May 5-7, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Tokyo Makuhari Messe Tokyo, Japan http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (81) 3 5642 8433 Conference: June 1-5, 1998 Exhibition: June 3-5, 1998 Learning Technology * Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta, GA http://interactive.sbforums.com Customer Service (800) 909-9848 (U.S. only) (650) 372-6734 (International) Conference: June 14-17, 1998 Exhibition: June 14-17, 1998 Seybold San Francisco Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA http://www.seyboldseminars.com Customer Service (888) 473-9265 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7078 (International) Conference: Aug 31-Sept 4, 1998 Exposition: Sept 1-3, 1998 Support Service Conference & Expo West * Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA http://www.sbforums.com/ssce Customer Service (888) 427-5477 (U.S. only) (650) 372-6724 (International) Conference: Sept 8-11, 1998 Exposition: Sept 8-10, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 London Earls Court 2 London, England http://www.interop.com/events Information Ramos [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 011 (44) 0181 261 4415 Conference: Oct 6-8, 1998 Exhibition: Networld+Interop 98 Atlanta Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta, GA http://www.interop.com/events Customer Service (800) 962-6513 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7079 (International) Conference: Oct 19-23, 1998 Exhibition: Oct 21-23, 1998 Windows NT Intranet Solutions Japan Makuhari Messe Tokyo, Japan Information 011 (81) 3 5642 8433 Conference: Nov 4-6, 1998 Exhibition: Nov 4-6, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Paris Porte de Versailles Paris, France http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (33) 1 46 39 5656 Conference: Nov 3-6, 1998 Exhibition: Nov 4-6, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Sydney Sydney Convention Center Sydney, Australia http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (61) 2 9369 1242 Conference: Nov 23-27, 1998 Exposition: Nov 25-27, 1998 Java Internet Business Expo Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY http://www.javaexpo.sbforums.com Customer Service (888) 528-2397 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7069 (International) Conference: Dec 7-10, 1998 Ramos [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report November 1997 Exposition: Dec 8-10, 1998 Seybold Seminars Tokyo Makuhari Messe Tokyo, Japan http://www.seyboldseminars.com Information 011 (81) 3 5642 8433 Conference: Dec 8-11, 1998 Exposition: Dec 9-11, 1998 Strategic Networks Seminars Strategic Networks offers one-day seminars for Interop Remote Access, Interop NetSwitch, Interop WAN, and Interop Secure ManageNet periodically throughout the year in various locations in the United States. For registration information, please call Strategic Networks at 800-898-7488. For sponsor opportunities, please call Strategic Networks at 800-999-7624. Help Desk Institute Regional Seminar and Expo Series Help Desk Institute offers several seminar series periodically throughout the year in various locations across the United States. For registration information, please call (800) 248-5667 or (719) 531-5138 . Software Support Professionals Association (SSPA) SSPA offers a variety of support programs throughout the year which include executive forums, software support conferences, and monthly on-line roundtable and executive sessions. For a description of the events and for registration information, please call SSPA at (800) 801-1354 or (719) 531-6522. SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact Seminars SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact offers SkillTech Professional Seminars periodically throughout the year in various locations throughout the United States. For a calendar of 1997 events and registration information, please call SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact at 800-34-TRAIN. All dates are subject to change Revision date: 12/04/97 *Indicates an addition or correction This document is for internal use only Ramos [Page 35]