~ October 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 October 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND DIRECTORY SERVICE . . .. . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET PROJECTS ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 8 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 CSUNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 MIDNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 40 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 44 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND DIRECTORY SERVICE ---------------------------------------- The Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery (IRTF-RD) has made its Harvest software system available on the Internet. Harvest is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information across the Internet. With modest effort users can tailor Harvest to digest information in many different formats, and offer custom search services on the Internet. Moreover, Harvest makes very efficient use of network traffic, remote servers, and disk space. We have built a number of content indexes with Harvest, including an index of AT&T's 1-800 phone numbers, an index of WWW home pages, and an index of over 24,000 Computer Science technical reports from around the world. We have been beta testing Harvest for four months, and starting today are making the software available on the Internet. You can get to demonstrations, papers, software and documentation at http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/. Mike Schwartz, IRTF-RD Chair Mike Schwartz (schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu) INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. Let me remind everyone that the next IETF meeting will be in San Jose, California from December 5-9, and the Registration Reception will held on Sunday, December 4th. San Jose logistic information and draft agendas have already been sent to the IETF announcement list and made available via gopher and on the Web. The IETF meetings for 1995 are starting to firm up. The IETF will be meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) from April 3-7, 1995. 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. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 The final meeting for 1995 will be held in Dallas, Texas. 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/home.html 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: September 22, 1994 (iesg.94-09-22) October 6, 1994 (iesg.94-10-06) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following five Protocol Actions during the month of October, 1994: o AppleTalk Management Information Base II for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IEEE 802.5 MIB for publication as a Draft Standard. o Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information in Support of X.400 Routing be published as an Informational RFC. o Requirements for Internet gateways has been reclassified as Historic. o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction is a Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG issued three Last Calls to the IETF during the month of October, 1994: o Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: SDLC for consideration as a Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Proposed Standard. 5. Four Working Groups were created or reactivated during this period: SNMP Version 2 (snmpv2) Authenticated Firewall Traversal (aft) TFTP Extensions (tftpexts) Responsible Use of the Network (run) Additionally, one Working Groups was concluded: Minimal OSI Upper-Layers (thinosi) 6. A total of 45 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of October, 1994: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+)) (idr) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction (none) o IP and ARP on Fibre Channel (FC) (none) o Randomness Requirements for Security (uri) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL) (snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: SDLC (none) o Simple Object Look-up protocol (SOLO) (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base (imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 (none) o IMSP -- Internet Message Support Protocol (uri) o Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names (none) o MIME/ESMTP Profile for Voice Messaging (cat) o The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM) (ifmib) o IEEE 802.5 MIB (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC (ospf) o OSPF MD5 Authentication Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 (none) o An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation (none) o A Convention for Human-Readable 128-bit Keys (uri) o Relative Uniform Resource Locators (none) o IP Multicast over UNI 3.0 based ATM Networks. (tftpexts) o TFTP Option Extension (ifmib) o IEEE 802.5 Station Source Routing MIB (tftpexts) o TFTP Blocksize Option (none) o The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol (none) + IPv6 Neighbor Discovery -- Processing (none) + DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 (none) + IP Next Generation Addressing Architecture (none) + ICMP and IGMP for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (none) + IPv6 Program Interfaces for BSD Systems (none) + IP Next Generation Overview (none) + Simple Internet Transition Overview (st2) + Internet Stream Protocol Version 2 (ST2) Protocol Specification - Version ST2Plus (none) + Internet Perceptions (isn) + Ways to Define User Expectations (none) + Connection Oriented and Connectionless IP Forwarding Over ATM Networks (sdr) + Explicit Routing Protocol (ERP) for IPv6 (asid) + Schema Publishing in X.500 Directory (none) + Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (none) + Discussion paper for nosi BOF (none) + ISO Transport Service over TCP RFC1006 extension Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 (opstat) + The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics Retrieval (ipsec) + Simple Key-Management For Internet Protocols (SKIP) (aft) + SOCKS Protocol Version 5 (none) + Scalable Multicast Key Distribution (trainmat) + Catalogue of Network Training Materials (none) + OSI NSAP usage in IP6 7. There were 12 RFC's published during the month of October, 1994: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1698 I (thinosi) Octet Sequences for Upper-Layer OSI to Support Basic Communications Applications RFC1700 S (none) ASSIGNED NUMBERS RFC1701 I (none) Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) RFC1702 I (none) Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks RFC1703 I (none) Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Radio Paging -- Technical Procedures RFC1704 I (none) On Internet Authentication RFC1705 I (none) Six Virtual Inches to the Left: The Problem with IPng RFC1706 I (none) DNS NSAP Resource Records RFC1707 I (none) CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet RFC1708 I (none) NTP PICS PROFORMA For the Network Time Protocol Version 3 RFC1710 I (sipp) Simple Internet Protocol Plus White Paper RFC1711 I (none) Classifications in E-mail Routing St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ======================= ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 14% in October '94. An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 0.58% was observed during the month of October. August Backbone Traffic Statistics ================================== The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 85,499,744,741 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 15.82% from September. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 96,279,824,426 up 14.30% from September. Router Forwarding Table Statistics ================================== The maximum number of destinations announced to ANSnet during October was 18,886 up .58% from September. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during October was 19,877. BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status ============================ As of November 4th '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 9,261 class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables that are now represented by 2,014 configured aggregates. Among these configured aggregates: 1,651 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another aggregate). 1,270 of these are actively announced to ANSnet. 990 of these have at least one subnet configured (the Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 other 280 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements). 906 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one configured more specific route. 894 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their configured more specific routes. 837 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+) of their more specific routes. For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu: pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr_savings. For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings. Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration or less). This is intended as a measure of overall system stability rather than complete connectivity. If all nodes are considered, October 1994 had the most instability ever recorded on ANSNET. This is due to the criteria of considering stability to be the amount of time that 100% of ANSNET is not undergoing routing change and due mostly to a persistant problem with a single T1 circuit. There were other problems, most notably an FDDI problem at the Hayward POP. If the one node affected is excluded, October was approximately as stable as September. The problem circuit was an Ameritec leg of a T1 tail circuit provisioned through MCI which turned out to be a bad smartjack at the customer premise. This caused a very high level of packet loss. MONTH overall excluding configs -------- -------- ------------------ January 99.1% 99.5% February 99.0% 99.5% March 97.5% 99.1% April 96.1% 97.2% May 97.4% 98.0% Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 June 95.5% 96.6% July 97.3% 97.7% August 97.5% 97.9% September 98.1% 98.5% October 98.0% 98.3% November 97.2% 97.9% December 96.6% 96.8% January 98.7% 99.0% February 96.6% 97.6% ... June 99.5% 99.7% July 98.7% 99.5% August 99.7% 99.7% September 99.4% 99.5% October 99.5% ** 99.6% ** - excluding one T1 ENSS Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability follows. ENSS212 had 107 hours of instability (4.9 days). If this node is excluded from the data, very little instability in the other nodes was evident. Large packet bursts coupled with transient link outages induced some congestion problems as link utilizations grew to 60%+ on T3 links at the NY, DC, Chicago and Cleveland POPs. These problems have been corrected by deploying new router adapter code that more efficiently allocates packet buffering memory. CNSS32 had 36 minutes of routing instability due to the congestion problems. MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min <98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97% ---------------------------------------------------------------- January 0 0 1 8 19 55 February 0 0 1 24 19 41 March 0 4 18 23 23 22 April 2 2 3 13 12 57 May 0 4 33 32 15 5 June 3 21 35 18 12 3 July 0 12 28 44 6 1 August 1 5 28 21 17 15 September 1 38 25 10 4 13 October 0 3 3 10 25 50 November 1 2 15 25 24 26 December 0 8 24 46 9 3 January 0 0 4 9 15 54 February 0 4 6 23 40 20 ... June 0 0 0 5 5 67 Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 July 0 7 55 11 10 7 August 0 0 0 0 0 67 September 0 0 0 1 14 57 October 0 0 0 1 3 61 ** ** - excluding one T1 ENSS External route flap reports are described in: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/daily-reports/README Notable Outages in October '94 ============================== E134 (Boston) suffered an extended outage due to power problems on 10/03 E144 (FIXWEST) suffered an extended outage due to router crash on 10/19 E128 (Palo Alto) was unreachable via T3 due to router crash on 10/19 E141 (Boulder) and E142 (Salt Lake City) were unreachable via T3 due to scheduled maintenance on 10/26 Jordan Becker BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- Scalability This month, in preparation for analysis of DIS traffic characteristics during the STOW-Europe exercises, BBN investigated the issue of post-processing time synchronization among participating sites. Sychronization of host clocks in distributed simulation affords two major benefits: 1 - Application PDUs are being logged in a distributed manner by deploying a logging host at each site. No single repository of all PDUs generated during the exercise will exist. Therefore, in order to enable an accurately sequenced after-action review, we will need to have a way to ensure consistency among time stamps on the separately logged PDUs. 2 - Time synchronization among hosts exchanging data during the exercise will provide us with measurements of one-way end-to-end delay. These measurements will give us a baseline of DSI Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 performance against which to measure improvement afforded by future communications architectures, and they will enable us to calibrate network simulators used to predict performance of the DSI in the presence of distributed simulation traffic. We are investigating the applicability of tools developed by Greg Troxel (BBN) as part of his Ph.D. work at MIT. These tools enable us to correct for clock differences after the fact, even, to some extent, when no attempt at real-time synchronization (for example, running NTP) was being made. If NTP is used during the exercise, Greg's tools will be even more effective at correcting for inaccuracies that might have resulted from asymmetric delays. Greg has been refining and testing his programs and analysis techniques during September and October, and next month we expect to be applying them to STOW-E data. Flow Synchronization Protocol Over the past two months we prepared for and presented a demonstration of flow synchronization across the Internet. The two main issues we tackled were porting the synchronization code to new, more powerful platforms (Sparc 10s and SS 20's) and interoperability between video flows and music flows for synchronization. We added to our software a Graphical User Interfaces and other tools to facilitate use and development. Regarding video and music interoperability, previous tests addressed only the synchronization of video streams with voice streams. Since synchronizing multiple music streams has special requirements in the ways it adapts delays, it became necessary to create a version of the video software tailored to the music requirements. On October 20th, 1994, we became the first research group to demonstrate topology-independent tight synchronization of multimedia flows over wide area networks using the Internet and geographically dispersed sites across the continental US. The public demonstration, at the ACM Multimedia 94 Conference, San Francisco, consisted of synchronizing three music audio flows and a video flow from sites in Boston and San Francisco playing a Hayden piano Trio in G major. The set up served to demonstrate audio- video synchronization and tight audio-audio synchronization among the flows from the players. The audience on site and through the Mbone was shown the contrast between unsynchronized and synchronized flows. The live players were Martha Steenstrup (BBN) in Boston and Eve Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Schooler (Cal Tech, formerly at ISI) in San Francisco. We used a piano recording to act as a "conductor" or metronome. Its sound was delivered at the same time to both players, who played along on keyboards the parts of the other two instruments (cello, violin). The piano recording was also delivered to a repeater site. All three music flows plus motion video from Martha Steenstrup in Boston were sent and played out synchronized at the demo room in San Francisco. The synchronization protocol used for this demonstration was developed with ARPA funding. It made use of the Network Time Protocol to obtain clock synchronization, and it used Nevot for audio flows and PVP to NV for the video flow. Synchronization to within a few tens of milliseconds or better is necessary for music synchronization in this demo. We also demonstrated a Graphics User Interface for the protocol use, built as an extension of the Nevot Graphics User Interface. During regular operation, it simply calls for a button to set or unset synchronization. For experimentation and testing, it allows protocol parameters to be set and protocol delays to be displayed and tracked. Joshua P Seeger CSUNET ------ In order to provide regional connectivity for the Pacific Internet Consortium (CSUnet, Los Nettos, WestREN) for southern California, CSUnet and Los Nettos requested MCInet networking services be ordered by WestREN/BARRnet. The northern California portion is already in place and undergoing testing. MCInet expects to provide the southern California connectivity at the end of November. CSUnet and Los Nettos will begin testing and expect to cutover production traffic to the new connection as soon as it is stable. Mike Marcinkevicz CSUnet Engineering (mdm@csu.net) Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 INTERNIC -------- INFORMATION SERVICES Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Phone +1 619 455-4600 email info@internic.net Fax +1 619 455-4640 InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints Suggestions suggestions@internic.net Complaints complaints@internic.net NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net newsletter comments newsletter-comments@internic.net NICLink General Information info@internic.net Problems/bugs niclink-bugs@is.internic.net InterNIC Seminar Series General Information seminars@internic.net Listserv lists net-happenings majordomo@is.internic.net net-resources majordomo@is.internic.net scout-report majordomo@is.internic.net InfoGuide Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 URL: http://www.internic.net/ Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 THE InterNIC INFOGUIDE The InterNIC InfoGuide is a comprehensive online information service which provides information about the Internet and online Internet resources. Accessible through gopher and the WorldWideWeb, Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 the InterNIC InfoGuide replaces the older InterNIC information server, the InfoSource. The InfoGuide includes new services such as the Scout Report and an online hypertext version of the _NSF Network News_. To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html or your gopher client to: is.internic.net NET-HAPPENINGS The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the community announcements of interest to network staffers and end users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers, publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources and concentrates them onto one list. To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to: is.internic.net and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings. THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights Presently the Scout Report is now reaching over 14,000 subscribers and the HTML versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of accesses each week. A new mailing list was created for easier distribution of the HTML Scout Report, which is located at scout- report-html. The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the Internet during the previous week. Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats -- electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb. WorldWideWeb versions of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing instantaneous browsing of items of interest. Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout@internic.net. How to Get the Scout Report To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail to: majordomo@is.internic.net In the body of the message, type: subscribe scout-report youremailaddress To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html nnGopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES "Learning the Whole Internet" is now available for users needing Internet training. The InterNIC has already presented a beta version of the course which includeded a copy of _The Whole Internet_ as well as class handouts of the PowerPoint presentation. NSF NETWORK NEWS The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 4 (September/October 1994) is scheduled for publication within the next two weeks. The newsletter will spotlight K-12 resources on the Internet. Highlights will include: how to evaluate Internet resources; examples of cyber-field trips; lesson plans found on the Internet; a seminar spotlight; and the regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and updates from InterNIC partners. To subscribe, send email to newsletter- request@internic.net. The July/August issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the WorldWideWeb at http://www.internic.net/newsletter/jul-aug94/index.html The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the message: get /about-internic/newsletter/nsfnews-aug94.txt REFERENCE DESK The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for October: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 267 46 Phone 388 31 Fax 181 21 US Mail 14 2 Referral 2 <1 ------- -------- --------- Total 852 100.0 by Anna Knittle INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES AIDS Patent Database In October, CNIDR (Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval), the US Patent and Trademark Office, and Directory and Database Services made available a collection of AIDS-related patents on World Wide Web. The patents are searchable in free text or boolean queries, and the collection can also be browsed (but be warned - it is a large collection). The US Patent Classifications can also be browsed. All the figures and diagrams associated with the patents are available. On our server (ds0.internic.net), the patent database is available under "InterNIC Database Services (Public Databases)". Printed Copies of the Directory of Directories Directory and Database Services maintains a Directory of Directories which is available on-line through WAIS, Gopher, World Wide Web, FTP, telnet, and via electronic mail request. Over time, we have had a number of requests for a printed version in addition to the on-line versions, and a printed version is now available. Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 To order a printed copy of the Directory of Directories, call 800- 432-6600. The order number is 451-206, and the price is $43.20. The current version is 806 pages long. We will make a new printed version available every 6 months. There will be no automatic updates. 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 REGISTRATION SERVICES Progress Report for period October 1, 1994 through October 31, 1994 I. Significant Events InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 8,173 network addresses and registered over 2,747 domains. One top-level country domain was unregistered during the month; Czechoslovakia. II. Current Status During the month of October 1994, 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 7,614 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 301 (primarily IP number requests) Phone 2,631 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of October. Connections Retrievals Gopher 71,916 41,648 WAIS 67,957 67,160 FTP 11,487 53,027 Mailserv 3,326 Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 267,730 1,140,537 Debbie Fuller ISI --- NETSTATION ========== Performance Testing of TCP/IP Protocol Suite -------------------------------------------- We have compared some experimental implementations of optimized TCP/IP in the ATOMIC LAN environment. Here we present the results of a fast-TCP compared to "as-shipped" TCP. We compared the transmission of 4,096 byte packets (with 40-byte headers) between two SPARC2 workstations, using an optimized TCP and TCP as-shipped, with IP checksumming both enabled and disabled. In addition we measured the performance of loopback taking place at various levels in the protocol stack using both SPARC20 and SPARC10 workstations. For these comparisons we used Myricom's implementation of the ATOMIC host interfaces. There were two versions of the interface available: the first supported only programmed I/O, and the second had integrated DMA and hardware IP checksum. The performance measures for the former were performed at ISI, and the latter were performed at ISI by Myricom. We measured different kernel buffer size areas over host-host, loopback at the Mosaic interface, and loopback above the Atomic driver, at the IP level in the kernel. TCP between two hosts runs at 25 Mbps on a Sparc-2, regardless of whether the optimized implementation or as-shipped was used. Turning off the IP checksum increased the rate to 29 Mbps. Mosaic loopback performed less well, because a single host was involved in both the send and receive functions. We expected the useful bandwidth would drop to half the host-host rates, and this was verified. We performed a kernel loopback, to measure the protocol processing overhead independent of the cost of the data movement. We expected the as-shipped TCP to become approximately five times faster (100 Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 instructions per TCP header + 1000 instructions per context switch + 4000 instructions for programmed I/O = 5100 instructions, which drops to 1100 without the data movement). We also expected this to be an upper-bound on the speed of the protocol in DMA-mode, which newer ATOMIC boards from Myricom support. We found that the as-shipped TCP increased to 24 Mbps (30 without checksum). This is only a factor of two increase, back to values seen for host-host transfers. The optimized TCP was more sensitive to kernel buffer sizes, ranging 35-55 Mbps (50-100 without checksum). The non-checksum case is a fair measure of the bandwidth, because checksumming can occur in parallel with data movement at low cost. The optimized non-checksum TCP was increased by a factor of four, which is within our estimate. The kernel loopback of the as-shipped TCP on the Sparc-10 was nearly as effective as the optimized TCP on the Sparc-2. We measured 45-50 Mbps (50-70 without checksum). In conjunction with Myricom, we measured the performance of the Sparc-2 TCP versions on a DMA-capable ATOMIC interface. We expected to see performance near the kernel loopback values, because the DMA transfers can be overlapped with other operations. We found the as-shipped TCP host-host bandwidth was 40 Mbps (45 with checksumming in hardware, which is nearly equivalent to "checksumming off"). The optimized TCP achieved 45 Mbps (70 with hardware checksumming). These results verified our predictions. We conclude that some of the optimizations we tested are useful, but did not fully utilize the board capabilities of 440 Mbps through the DMA channel. We believe that there is a potential for a 2- to 3-fold increase by hardware modifications, but that the preponderance of speedup potential is in the operating system. Annette Deschon ATOMIC-2 -------- The ATOMIC-2 project extends the results of the ATOMIC, which developed a LAN from supercomputer chips. ATOMIC-2 was originally charged with augmenting the ATOMIC LAN lab prototypes into a production office environment, replacing the Ethernet LAN in the entire HPCC Division of ISI, and developing a number of host interfaces. Myricom was formed to commercialize the ATOMIC LAN, and so the ATOMIC-2 project has been redirected to address LAN interconnection over WAN ranges, integrated service issues, and network peripherals. All subsequent ATOMIC-2 work will be link- Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 compatible with Myricom's Myrinet. We are currently developing an ATOMIC-ATM IP-level gateway. We are also developing an ATOMIC network disk server. We are continuing efforts to deliver a significant portion of ATOMIC's 640 Mbps network bandwidth to the user application, subject to host backplane limitations. We are serving as an alpha test-site for Myricom's production software. Joe Touch , Annette DeSchon Hong Xu , Ted Faber PC-ATOMIC --------- Design of 486-based VL-Bus ATOMIC interface. We completed the PC-ATOMIC prototype card, a i486 VL-Bus (VESA) interface supporting channel-level compatibility with the Myrinet LAN. The card supports programmed I/O reads at 88 Mbps and writes at 144 Mbps. It also supports DMA, currently under testing. The board has hardware support for IP checksums during either DMA or programmed I/O. The checksum is performed during reads or writes, with zero overhead, and can be enabled via a control register bit. The communications interface has been tested, and found to have zero errors over 10 million packets in, on-board pre-driver loopback, on-board post-driver loopback, i486-i486, and i486 to MyriCom S-Bus interface. All tests involved zero errors over 10 million packets. A limited number of these boards will be available shortly in small quantities. In addition, we have performed some experiments regarding the programmed-I/O bandwidth capabilities of the PC-ATOMIC boards, including a comparison to Myricom's 2.x SPARC S-Bus interface cards. Graphs show read (from host to board) and write (from board to host) programmed I/O bandwidth. Note that the READ bandwidth is more critical because it is the bottleneck in programmed I/O mode. Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 LEGEND: ISI's PC-Atomic = *** Myricom's SPARC SBus v2.x = ### Bandwidth (Mbps) READ Bandwidth 100 ++--+----+--++---+----+--++---+-----+-+-+---+----+--++---+----+--++ + + + + + + | ******* | 80 ++ **** ++ | **************########### | | ******** | 60 ++ #**** ++ | #** | | #** | | ##* | 40 ++ ##** ++ | ##** | | ##** | 20 ++ ##** ++ | #** | + * + + + + + 0 ++--+----+--++---+----+--++---+-----+-+-+---+----+--++---+----+--++ 1 10 100 1K 10K 100K Packet size (bytes) Bandwidth (Mbps) WRITE Bandwidth 200 ++--+----+--++---+----+--++---+-----+-+-+---+----+--++---+----+--++ + + + + + + | ####################### | | #### | 150 ++ ### ********************* ++ | ###***** * | | ##*** **** | | ##** | 100 ++ #*** ++ | #** | | ** | | ** | 50 ++ ** ++ | *** | | ** | + ** + + + + + 0 ++--+----+--++---+----+--++---+-----+-+-+---+----+--++---+----+--++ 1 10 100 1K 10K 100K Packet size (bytes) Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 All graphs have been computed with 90% confidence intervals which are near +/- 2 Mhz for each data point. The i486 PC-ATOMIC system performance degrades at 8K byte packets, due to crossing page boundaries. These performance numbers are for programmed I/O only; DMA numbers will be higher. Joe Touch , Annette DeSchon Hong Xu , Ted Faber Jeff LaCoss RSVP PROJECT ============ RSVP (ReserVation Protocol) and traffic control, as well as the MBONE, were demonstrated at the ACM Multimedia '94 Conference in San Francisco. This demo was accomplished by a collaboration of researchers at ISI, MIT, PARC, UDEL, and LBL. A number of vendors provided equipment in support of this demo: Sun, HP, DEC, and SGI provided workstations, and Fore provided ATM switches. PAC Bell provided the DS3 line from the hotel to a BAGNET switch in an Oakland central office, and BAGNET provided a dedicated PVC from there to Palo Alto. The demo used an unloaded DS3 link (using ATM, as described later) between the conference network and a DARTnet router (Sparc) at PARC. RSVP and traffic control were running in DARTnet. DARTnet was flooded with background traffic, causing speech carried by VAT to be broken up in the absence of RSVP reservations, but clear with RSVP reservations in place. The DARTnet routers were running a SunOS kernel that included a packet scheduler implementing a simple subset of the CSZ service model. Specifically, it implemented two levels of Predictive service, essentially two priority levels. The routers also ran the ISI implementation of RSVP, which was invoked through modified VAT modules. Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Here is a simplified picture, to illustrate the demo schenario: ---------------- DARTnet ------------------- Xerox T1 <------ PARC --------> | | _____ __|__|_ | | | | | SF Hotel |--| PARC|----X----| AMES |----- Y --> MM '94 | |_____| |_______| To rest _____ ______ | | of DARTnet | | | PARC | | | | mm94|-.-.-.-.-.-.| THa |--| | |_____| |______| | T2 | ______ | | PARC | | | THb |--| |______| | | All the boxes shown are Sparcstations. mm94: represents demo computer in demo room of SF hotel -.-.-. : represents link between hotel and PARC An HP workstation connected the show Ethernet to a Fore Switch in the hotel. The Fore switch drove a DS3 line to a BAGNET switch in Oakland. The little cells then traversed BAGNET to Palo Alto, where they crossed a short hop to a BADLAN switch within PARC. The BADLAN switch was then connected to an ATM card in the DARTnet test host THa. This provided an unloaded, high speed path from DARTnet to the show Ethernet. The intermediate switches did not run RSVP or traffic control and were effectively transparent to the demo. PARC THa, PARC THb: Test hosts on test Ethernet at PARC. PARC THa ran RSVP (but not traffic control, as it happens). PARC THb served only as a sink for flooding traffic from traffic generators T1 and T2. PARC: DARTnet router at PARC. Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 AMES: DARTnet router at NASA Ames. Traffic generators T1 and T2 at other DARTnet sites not shown each sent about 800Kb/s of UDP junk traffic to sink at PARC THb. The result was to saturate the link marked X towards MM 94; measurement tools showed link X loaded very close to its full capacity of 1.344Mbps. The link marked Y leads to the rest of DARTnet, including ISI and MIT, which were multicasting VAT audio traffic towards MM 94. This traffic collided with the background traffic from T1 and T2 in the AMES router, in the output driver for link X. Basically the packet scheduling kernel established two output queues, one for reserved traffic and one for the rest. The mm94 machine was running a version of VAT that not only invoked RSVP, but also had a "big button" that could disable or enable RSVP for the demo. With RSVP invoked, Resv messages were traveling from mm94 upstream through DARTnet towards all the senders that were sending Path messages downstream (in this case, MIT and ISI). This caused the packet scheduler in the AMES router to give the VAT stream higher priority than the background traffic. In addition to the VAT reservation, there was a (small) reservation established for RSVP traffic, so that Path and Resv messages also used the high-priority queue. This demo made extensive use of the automatic tunneling capability of RSVP. Jim Berson , Bob Braden , Steve Casner INFRASTRUCTURE Paul Mockapetris attended IAB's IIA Workshop in Reston, Virginia, and was keynote speaker at the Colorado Internet Meeting. Joyce Reynolds, attended the IAB's IIA Workshop in Tysons Corner, Virgina. Steve Berson, attended the ACM Multimedia Conference in San Francisco, California. 12 RFCS WERE PUBLISHED THIS MONTH. 1698 Octet Sequences for Upper-Layer OSI to Support Basic Communications Applications. P. Furniss. October 1994. 1700 ASSIGNED NUMBERS. J. Reynolds,J. Postel. October 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1340) (Also STD0002) Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 1701 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE). S. Hanks, T. Li, D. Farinacci, P. Traina. October 1994. 1702 Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks. S. Hanks, T. Li, D. Farinacci, P. Traina. October 1994. 1703 Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Radio Paging -- Technical Procedures. M. Rose. October 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1569) 1704 On Internet Authentication. N. Haller & R. Atkinson. October 1994. 1705 Six Virtual Inches to the Left: The Problem with IPng. R. Carlson & D. Ficarella. October 1994. 1706 DNS NSAP Resource Records. B. Manning & R. Colella. October 1994, (Obsoletes RFC1637) 1707 CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet. M. McGovern & R. Ullmann. October 1994. 1708 NTP PICS PROFORMA - For the Network Time Protocol Version 3. D., Gowin. October 1994. 1710 Simple Internet Protocol Plus White Paper. R. Hinden. October 1994. 1711 Classifications in E-mail Routing. J. Houttuin. October 1994. THE US DOMAIN ============= THE US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ---------------------------------------- EMAIL/FAX 648 PHONE 95 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 743 DELEGATIONS 94 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 29 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 620 --------------------------- Total 743 Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 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 you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp. Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- K12.HI.US Hawaii, K12 schools K12.SD.US South Dakota K12 Schools K12.WY.US Wyoming K12 Schools TEC.SD.US South Dakota Technical Schools TEC.MN.US Minnesota Technical Schools CC.HI.US Hawaii, Community Colleges CC.MN.US Minnesota Community College CC.SD.US South Dakota Community Colleges STATE.HI.US State of Hawaii, gov't agencies LIB.HI.US Hawaii Libraries LIB.SD.US South Dakota Technical Schools MUS.TX.US Texas, Museums GEN.TX.US Texas, general independent entities FERC.FED.US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission THETA-DELTA-CHI.DNI.US Theta-Delta-Chi Fraternity COCONINO.AZ.US Coconino, AZ, locality EDWARDS.CA.US Edwards, CA, locality UKIAH.CA.US Ukiah, California, locality AURURA.CO.US City of Aurora Colorado, gov't agencies CONIFER.CO.US Conifer, CO, locality THORTON.CO.US Thornton, Colorado, locality TERRA.CO.US Terra, Colorado, locality OAHU.HI.US Oahu, Hawaii, locality MAUI.HI.US Maui, Hawaii, locality KAUAI.HI.US Kauai, Hawaii, locality LANAI.HI.US Lanai, Hawaii, locality HAWAII.HI.US Hawaii, Hawaii, locality MOLOKAI.HI.US Molokai, Hawaii, locality HNL.HI.US Honolulu, Hawaii, locality Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 BOISE.ID.US Boise, Idaho, locality GLENVIEW.IL.US Glenview, Illinois, locality NORTHBROOK.IL.US Village of Northrook, IL, locality FAY.NC.US Fay, North Carolina, locality STATE.NJ.US New Jersey State gov't agencies POTSDAM.NY.US Potsdam, New York, locality LEXINGTON.OH.US Lexington, Ohio, locality STEUBENVILLE.OH.US Steubenville, Ohio, locality STRONGSVILLE.OH.US Strongsville, Ohio, locality TULSA.OK.US Tulsa, Oklahoma, locality MOCITY.TX.US Missouri City, Texas, locality Other US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------- GSA.TUSCALOOSA.AL.US Geological Survey of Alabama MAYBECK.BERKELEY.CA.US Maybeck High School in Berkeley PAN.SF.CA.US Pan Inc, San francisco, CA STOCKTON.LIB.CA.US Stockton-San Joaquin Country Library SJVLS.LIB.CA.US San Joaquin Valley Library System DRS.STATE.CT.US Department of Revenue Services STRATFRDPL.LIB.CT.US Stratford Library Association NORWALKPL.LIB.CT.US Norwalk Public Library CTHISTSOC.LIB.CT.US Connecticut Historical Society Library CTSTATELIB.LIB.CT.US Connecticut State Library STAMFORDPL.LIB.CT.US Ferguson Lirary, Stamford, CT SHELTONPL.LIB.CT.US Plumb Memorial Library NBRANFRDPL.LIB.CT.US North Branfrd Public Library NWCANAANPL.LIB.CT.US New Canaan Library HARTFORDPL.LIB.CT.US Hartford Public Library GROTONPL.LIB.CT.US Groton Public Library WATERBURYPL.LIB.CT.US Silas Bronson Public Library HEBRONPL.LIB.CT.US Douglas Library COLUMBIAPL.LIB.CT.US Saxton B. Little Library BRDGPRTPL.LIB.CT.US Bridgeport Public Library ANDOVERPL.LIB.CT.US Andover Public Library UNEWHANEN.LIB.CT.US University of New Haven Library CCSU.LIB.CT.US Central Connecticut State. Univ. MSPORTERSC.FARMINGTON.PVT.K12.CT.US Miss Porter School, CT STMRGRETM.WATERBORU.PVT.K12.CT.US St. Margaget McTernam School LISBONCENS.LISBON.K12.CT.US Lisbon Central School EASTLYMEHS.EASTLYME.K12.CT.US East Lyme High School Library FLANDERS.EASTLYME.K12.CT.US Flanders Elementary School Library CONARDHS.W-HARTFORD.K12.CT.US Conard High School AMERSCHDEL.W-HARTFORD.PVT.K12.CT.US American School of the Deaf PLAINFLDHS.PLAINFIELD.K12.CT.US Plainfield High School ALA.NE.DC.US American Library Association YARCOMM.SF.CA.US Yar Communications, CA Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 IAT.NORCROSS.GA.US Arena Electronics, Inc. MILLEDGEVILLE.GA.US City of Milledgeville, GA JOHNCO.CC.KS.US Johnson County Community College, KS CCC.CC.KS.US Coffeyville Community College, KS JOHNCO.CC.KS.US Johnson County Community College ASTRO.LOU.KY.US AstroSphere Graphics Group SHARON.LIB.MA.US Sharon Public Library WALPOLE.LIB.MA.US Walpole Public Library SLUG-ST-LOUIS.MO.US St. Louis Users Group for the PC ICON.ST-LOUIS.MO.US St. Louis Internet Connection HAVEN.BOSTON.MO.US Personal computer, MA MUSIC.GEN.MT.US College Music Society, Missoula, MT ROSE.CC.OK.US Rose State College, Oklahoma DARKMATTER.NORMAN.OK.US Vapourspace Communications FPLP.LIB.PA.US Free Public Library of Philiadelphia ECTI.TEC.PA.US Erie County Technical Institute LCLS.ERIE.LIB.PA.US Erie County Library System AAPA.ALEXANDRIA.VA.US American Academy of Physician Assistants PUB-LIB.CI.ARLINGTON.TX.US Arlington Public Library NICHOLSON-PL.CI.GARLAND.TX.US Nicholson Memorial Library SW-ENG.FALLS-CHURCH.VA.US Ada Inforamtion Clearinghouse DELEGATED ZONES UNDER .US K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK X AL X AR X X AZ X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X X CO X X X X X X X CT DC X ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X FL X X X X X X X GA X X X X HI X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X ID X X X X X X X IL X X X X X IN X X X X X X X Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- KS X X KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MD X X X X ME X X MI X X X X X MN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MO X X X X X X MS X X X X MT X NC X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- ND X X X X X X X NE X X X X NH X X NJ X X ----------------------------------------------------------- NM X X X NV NY X X X X X X X OH X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- OK OR X X X X X X X PA X X RI X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- SC X X X X X X X SD X X X X X X X TN X TX X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- UT X X X X VA X X X X VI VT X ----------------------------------------------------------- WA X WI X X X WV X X X X X X X WY X X =========================================================== Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 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) MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering and Network Management groups with regard to the NSFNET Backbone Service Project and the Routing Arbiter Project. Bill Norton and Enke Chen continue implementation of the Network Management System for the Routing Arbiter architecture. The distributed architecture will support bilingual SNMP (V1/V2), out- of-band access and router discovery algorithms. Laurent Joncheray has ported PGP ('Pretty Good Privacy') 2.6 into the RIPE routing registry software. PGP is a public key encryption method which provides for authentication of the sender of a message and, optionally, encryption of the message contents. PGP is being evaluated by the RIPE team as one method for securing Routing Registry databases. Andy Adams and Rick Riolo of Merit, in collaboration with Cengiz Alaettinoglu of ISI, have implemented a RIPE-181 policy language analysis library that parses RIPE-181 policy syntax and makes queries to the Routing Arbiter Database to produce output such as AS lists and net lists. The output is suitable for all sorts of configuration file formats, in addition to the Route Server's configuration files. The routines will also be very useful for policy analysis, both for the Routing Arbiter's use and for others. For example, the code can be used to normalize and compare policy expressions or minimize policy expressions. The code could parse a complex policy in RIPE-181 syntax and output an equivalent, more compact expression, such as 'Accept ANY'. If this was not the intended meaning, the developer could redo the policy to express the correct meaning. Other network providers have shown interest in using this code, in the form of libraries, to generate their own configuration files. Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Merit hosted the North America Network Operators Group (NANOG) meeting on October 24th and 25th. The focus of the meeting was the transition from an NSFNET-provided backbone service to an architecture based on Network Access Points for multiple backbone providers. Elise Gerich updated the group on the NSFNET transition and on the migration from the Policy Routing Data Base (PRDB) to a Global Routing Registry. The Routing Arbiter panel of Bill Manning (ISI), Yakov Rekhter (IBM) and Elise Gerich answered questions concerning different aspects of the collaborative project. John Scudder presented an NSFNET traffic analysis with projected NAP traffic loads, which was based on work by Scudder and Sue Hares. Curtis Villamizar (ANS) presented results from the joint ANS- Bellcore NAP testbed and a study on TCP performance. Paul Vixie (vix.com) discussed DNS security considerations. Peter Lothberg introduced the European Operator's Forum and the interconnectivity of its principal participants. Yakov Rekhter (IBM) provided an update on CIDR aggregation. Sean Doran (Sprint) discussed their backbone reengineering. Andy Schmidt (Ameritech) discussed their NAP Laboratory. The San Francisco NAP status, testbed results and future ATM/NAP plans were presented by PacBell representatives Frank Liu, Al Broscius and Chin Yuan. Tim Salo (Minnesota Supercomputer Center and SPRINT-NAP Co-PI) discussed ATM implementation problems and future directions. Several of the presented papers, the NANOG charter, meeting minutes and related documents are available on the Merit-IE World Wide Web server RA Info page, http://www.ra.net/rainfo.html and/or for anonymous FTP from merit.edu in the directory /pub/nanog/presentations. A recurrent problem on the ANS/NSFNET backbone has involved the dropping of BGP peer sessions with midlevel network peers. The problem was particularly evident during the twice-weekly GateD reconfigurations. The configuration files are fairly large and primarily composed of statements controlling the export of routing information to the midlevel peers. Since many of the midlevels are learning many of these routes from other midlevel peers at the same ENSS, it is not necessary for them to also receive these routes from the ENSSs. At ENSS 136, the problem became acute with a configuration file of over 120,000 lines. By working with the ENSS 136 peers we were able to initially remove 5,000 lines with more to follow. Merit also has begun work with peers of ENSSs 144 and 145, which also have large configuration files and many peering sessions. By working with these peers, and especially NSI as it migrated from EGP to BGP and consolidated into a single AS, almost 20,000 lines were removed from the ENSS 144 configuration file. Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 These changes should improve overall routing performance and reduce problems seen during routing updates. If you peer with other networks at these or other primary ENSSs, please consider a review of your AS policies to help us eliminate redundant network announcements. Merit staff are also continuing work with midlevel networks to promote CIDR aggregation of their routing announcements. Several files on current aggregation status are maintained for anonymous FTP from merit.edu in the directory /pub/nsfnet/cidr. The configured and announced aggregates, potential aggregates and potential savings are all available. The information and related charts and tools are available on the Merit-IE World Wide Web server; http://www.ra.net/home.html is the entry point to the web collection. Version 1.0 of the InterDomain Routing Protocol implementation for the FAA has been released. This release provides a fully functional and hopefully stable IDRP implementation. Gated-IDRP version 1.1, which supports more advanced policy descriptions, will be available shortly. Version 1.0 is available for anonymous FTP from merit.edu in the file /pub/iso/idrp/faa/gated-idrp-1.0.tar.Z . The FAA is funding this research on advanced features of IDRP in GateD as a cooperative effort of the FAA, Merit and MITRE Corporation. Jessica Yu and Enke Chen hosted a delegation from CERNet, the Chinese National Education and Research Network, on October 31. The program included presentations by Merit's President Eric Aupperle, Elise Gerich, Bill Norton, Sheri Repucci, and Jessica Yu. Merit staff shared their experiences with building MichNet and the NSFNET backbone. The Chinese delegation presented its engineering plan to build a national, research and education, TCP/IP-based network to serve the 1,093 universities in China. Kenneth T. Latta, II (klatta@merit.edu) MIDNET ------ *MIDnet Brings Enhanced Internet Services to St. Louis* In early October of this year, MIDnet upgraded its services for St. Louis customers with an additional connection to the national network backbone. "We have significantly increased the capacity of MIDnet's St. Louis connection to the Internet with the establishment of a high-speed (45 Mbps) hub," said Mary McLaughlin, executive director of MIDnet. Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 "St. Louis, with its core of technology-based businesses and organizations, is an important market for us. By providing a direct hop to the Internet, we are giving our St. Louis customers even faster, more reliable access to the Internet." In support of the St. Louis facility, a Sales Center was also established at MIDnet's headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Sales Center can be reached through a toll-free number, 1-800-682- 5550. "We want to make it as easy as possible for members and prospective clients to reach us," states Carol Farnham, Director of Member Services. "Providing a central point of contact for information lets us be more effective in responding. We feel the Sales Center will benefit our current members as well as promote interest in the Internet." *MIDnet NIC Fully Staffed* MIDnet's Network Information Center has been operational and fully staffed since July of this year. The NIC staff, consisting of three full-time employees and a student assistant, devotes its time to supporting the information services needs of MIDnet members, and to promoting use and understanding of the Internet through educational presentations. Since its establishment, the NIC has produced and distributed MIDnet's first member newsletter, coordinated arrangements for the semi-annual member conference held in Lincoln, and sponsored several Internet presentations. The NIC staff is also heavily involved in the design and development of mechanisms to facilitate resource discovery on the Internet. The deployment of these mechanisms will occur in mid-November when Midnet announces its FTP, Gopher, and WWW servers to the Internet. MIDnet's NIC can be reached via e-mail at: nic@mid.net. *MIDnet Security Seminars* MIDnet has announced a series of one-day seminars focusing on Internet security. The seminars, entitled "A Practical Guide to Secure Internet Connections", will be held in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago on November 29, 30, and December 1, respectively. For additional seminar information, send e-mail to security@mid.net or call 1-800-709-5550. *MIDnet Fall Conference* Lincoln, Nebraska was the site of MIDnet's semi-annual membership meeting, held October 3-4, 1994. Conference participation was at an all-time-high, with more than 150 members in attendance. Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 The meeting opened with a "State of MIDnet" address given by Mary Eileen McLaughlin, MIDnet's Executive Director. The keynote speech, "The NSF Transition", was delivered by David Staudt of NSFNET. The second day featured a plenary session focusing on Internet security, with Robert Darden of Trusted Information Systems as guest speaker. Additional conference activities included educational sessions on Sendmail, Kerberos, PGP, DNS, ATM, and SNMP. Panel discussion topics included Trends in K-12 Networking, Sorting Out Campus ATM Deployment Strategies, Trends in Campus Computing, and Trends in Government Computing and Networks. Information on MIDnet services can be requested by calling 1-800- 682-5550, or by sending e-mail to: info@mid.net MIDnet NIC NORTHWESTNET ------------ Eighth Annual Meeting Nov. 8-10 =============================== NorthWestNet's Eighth Annual Meeting will be held in Portland Oregon from November 8-10. Some of the scheduled speakers and presenters include: Laura Breeden Director TIIAP, Dept. of Commerce Mayor Liz Kniss City of Palo Alto Stephen Wolff Director DNCRI, National Science Foundation Robert Gillespie Principal, Robert Gillespie Associates Elise Gerich Manager Internet Engineering Group, MERIT Andy Beecher Telecommunications Planner Analyst, TCI Eric Hood Executive Director & CEO, NorthWestNet and President, FARNET Mark McCahill Gopherspace Engineer, Univ. of Minnesota Clifford Neuman Scientist/Research Asst. Prof, Univ. of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Joan Feldman President, Computers Forensics Inc. Thomas Longstaff Technical Staff, Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Mitchell London President & CEO, ConnectSoft Russ Jones Internet Program Manager, DEC Chuck Pettis Principal, Floathe Johnson For more information about the meeting: Gopher: gopher.nwnet.net 3333 9. NorthWestNet's Eighth Annual Meeting Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 or, contact NorthWestNet at info@nwnet.net. The Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online 5th Ed. =============================================================== Novices and experts alike appreciate the clarity and accuracy of "The Internet Passport"--both as a how-to manual and as a remarkably complete reference. Now in its fifth edition, "The Internet Passport" is fully updated--and all resources have been newly verified. Brand-new coverage includes a detailed guide to becoming an information provider, and a comprehensive catalog of Internet health care resources. "The Internet Passport" is ideal for MIS Managers, Information professional, students and teachers, medical practitioners, scientists, government officials and anyone else responsible for accessing the Internet For the past several years, NorthWestNet has self-published this popular Internet resource guide. To better serve the demand for the book and to reach a wider audience, NorthWestNet has signed with Prentice Hall PTR division to publish the fifth edition. The book is in production now and is expected to be available in late December. For more information about the book, contact Prentice Hall at 1-800-382-3419. NorthWestNet Internet Training Series ====================================== October saw the completion of a new training module for the NorthWestNet Internet Training Series. "Travelling the World Wide Web" was beta-tested this month and will be formally introduced at a preconference workshop at the November NorthWestNet Annual Meeting. This class will appear on future public class schedules. Standard training classes open to the public were held at the NorthWestNet training facility as they have been in previous months. For more information: Gopher: gopher.nwnet.net port 3333 directory: 5. NorthWestNet Information and Resources 1. NorthWestNet Internet Training Series FTP Host: ftp.nwnet.net directory: /training filename: course-descriptions.txt Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 ----------------- 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. PREPNET ------- New PREPnet Members ------------------- - Internet Securities Pittsburgh, PA - The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA - Infobahn International, Inc, Pittsburgh, PA - Flower Franchising, Lebanon, PA - St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA - CityNet, Pittsburgh, PA - Automation News Network, Pittsburgh, PA - Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA - ERIENET, Erie, PA - Lancaster - Lebanon Intermediate Unit, East Petersburg, PA With this addition, PREPnet now totals 201 members. PREPnet News ------------ Conferences ----------- Felicia Ferlin attended the Commonwealth Libraries 10th Annual Technology Conference in Lancaster, Pa. on Oct. 24. Meetings -------- Marsha Perrott attended NANOG in Ann Arbor, Mi. on Oct. 24 and 25. Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Training -------- On Oct. 25, Felicia Ferlin, conducted PREPnet's Introduction to the Internet training session: Oct. 25 Telebase Systems, Inc. Oct. 26 Bucks County Intermediate Unit For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC: 305 S. Craig St. E-Mail: nic@prep.net 2nd Floor Telephone: (412) 268-7870 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 UCL ---- J Crowcroft attended ACM Multimedia and spoke on a panel session about video mediated communication. A paper was presented at the UK Unix User Group meeting on a future architecture for multimedia applications on multiservice networks: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/jon/skynet/skynet.html THe BT funded research project in the area of Management of Multiservice Networks, on the UK SuperJANET network had its inaugural technical meeting. This involves: UCL Computer Science Department Cambridge Computer Lab Department of Computing, Imperial College Lancaster Computing Department Loughborough University of Technology Oxford Brookes University Three of the sites have a private ATM network infrastructuer (currently at 34Mbps), while all 6 are connecvted via the UKERNA IP over SMDS network. Research work includes; i) Configuration Management - graphical tools to support the initial construction and subsequent dynamic change of the software components of the network services, the management system itself and distributed applications. Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 ii) Policy Based Traffic Management - This will provide a language and associated tools for specifying policy which can be used to modify the behaviour of automated manager agents to enable them to deal with network congestion in real-time. iii) Quality of Service Management - this will permit multi-media, application specific QoS requirements to be specified and mapped onto the required support mechanisms in the underlying services. iv) Traffic Monitoring and Measurement - distributed traffic monitoring using statistical algorithms will be provided as well as a traffic source based on a multi-bitrate video and audio service to evaluate performance. v) Security - an architecture for assuring secure and authenticated signalling will be developed, as well as a unified approach for authenticating end-user traffic flows based on virtual channels. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 CALENDAR -------- Last update 11/9/94 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: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. FYI - New Dates for Email World Spring 1995 - New Dates for U.S. APPC/APPN (AATC) Technical Conf. moved from July to May. ************************************************************************ 1994 ------------ Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV Nov. 8-10 7th IFIP WG6.1 Wkshp on Protocol Test Systems Tokyo, Japan Nov. 8-11 OPENNET '94 German Soc. of Internet Users Munich Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria Nov. 14-16 ISDN User Forum Copenhagen, Denmark Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA Nov. 15-16 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conf. Brussels Nov. 18-29 Nerdathon '94 - Windows into the Internet Lake Tahoe Nov. 21-22 ATM: Real Choices Wkshp Univ. Md. Baltimore Nov. 28-29 ICT Standardization Pol. Wkshp Belgium Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK Nov. 28-Dec. 1 GLOBECOM '94 San Francisco, CA Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Windows Solutions Frankfurt, Germany Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause Dec. 1-2 RARE Working Groups London, UK Dec. 1-2 Wkshp on European Reqs for Internationalisation of IT Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 and Charset Technology Luxembourg Dec. 5-7 Australian Telecom Networks and Applications Conf. ATNAC 94 Melbourne, AU Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 San Jose, CA 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 (Firm) Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks Madras, India 1995 --------- Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks Madras, India Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA Feb. 5-10 ATM Forum San Francisco, CA Feb. 5-11 IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging San Jose, CA Feb. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk & Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 20 Int'l Internet OGs Meetings San Diego Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb. 21-22 Int'l Internet Ops Conference San Diego Feb. 22-24 ICODP '95 Brisbane Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) West Palm Beach, FL Mar. 6-10 SNMP Test Summit III Mar. 13-17 OIW (Firm) Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 16-19 3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV Mar. 28-31 Seybold Seminars Boston, MA Apr. 2-6 IEEE Infocom '95 Boston, MA Apr. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 Monterey, CA Apr. 3-7 32nd IETF (Definite) Danvers, MA Apr. 4-5 Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee Arlington, VA Apr. 9-14 ATM Forum Denver, CO Apr. 17-21 Email World (Firm) Santa Clara, CA Apr. 19-21 5th Network & Operating System Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA Apr. 24-25 IFIP TC6 Wkshp Personal Wireless Commun. Prague, Czech Republic May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 May 22-25 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Chicago, IL May 28-Jun. 2 NetWorld+Interop '95 Frankfurt, Germany Jun. ATM Forum Europe Jun. 5-7 Digital World Los Angeles, CA Jun. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Rochester, MN Jun. 12-16 OIW (Firm) Jun. 13-16 IFIP WG6.1 PSTV-XV Warsaw Jun. 16-17 CCIRN Singapore Jun. 18-22 ICC '95 Seattle, WA Jun. 18-24 ISOC Developing Country Wkshp Hawaii Jun. 25-27 ISOC K-12 Workshop Hawaii Jun. 26-27 ISOC Trustees & Council Hawaii Jun. 28-30 INET '95 Hawaii Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 10-13 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Maui, HI JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY 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. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA SEPTEMBER Windows Solutions Paris Paris, France 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. 25-29 7th SDL Forum Oslo 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. 10-11 ANSI X3T11 Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, Australia Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Nov. 7-10 ICNP-95 Tokyo 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) Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Dec. 4-8 34th IETF 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. 10-15 ATM Forum Orlando, FL Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU 1996 ----------- Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Apr. 8-13 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA May. 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Jun. 24-27 ICC'96 Dallas 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 Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1/FORTE/PSTV'96 (Tenative) Kaiserslauten Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL 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. 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 ----------- Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary --------- Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories Via gopher: "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us ********************************************************************** Ref. RSec(94)001-ac November 1994 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 Anne Cozanet (e.mail address: cozanet@rare.nl). MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 7 November Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat) TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA2 2 December London GA3 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv (tbc) UPTURN ------ 30 November (afternoon) London TERENA Working Groups --------------------- WG-ISUS 1/2 December London WG-LLT 1 December (morning) London WG-NOP 1 December (morning) London Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 LOCAL ACCESS TF 1 December (afternoon) London ATM TF 12 December (all day) Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat) RIPE ---- 25-27 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF, WCW) 12-14 April 1996 Berlin PRIDE COURSES ------------- 7 November Amsterdam 11 November Pisa 14 November London 18 November Vienna VARIOUS ------- EuroCAIRN EuroCAIRN Consultation Meeting 8 November Brussels (Sheraton Hotel) (DANTE EuroCAIRN project team and representatives of the national networks meet to discuss work done for EuroCAIRN to date. closed, by invitation ony) EUROPEAN CERTs (experts and interested parties) 8-9 November Hamburg CEENet General Assembly EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM 25 November London EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 02 November Munich EBONE Management Committee 7 December Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat) Cooper [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 EOT (Ebone Operations Team) ? December (tbd) Munich EARN Board of Directors 30 November - 1 December London CCIRN 16/17 June 1995 tbc INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 15/16 December Washington DC IETF 5-9 December San Jose, California 3-7 April 1995 Danvers, Massachusetts 17-21 July 1995 Stockholm, Sweden 4-8 December 1995 Dallas (tbc) EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 6 December Brussels ETSI ---- General Assembly 22/23 November Nice, France CONFERENCES ******************************************************************* JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference 15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to . For information, email . To submit a paper, email JENC6 Programme Committee ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1 December London Cooper [Page 46] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference 13-16 May 1996 in Budapest, Hungary ******************************************************************* NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 ------------------------------ from 28 to 30 November 1994 in London (UK) For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via email: ; Paper submissions to: 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.rare.nl Email: server@rare.nl Gopher: gopher.rare.nl OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.) --------------------------------------------------------- from 8-11 November in Goettingen (Park Hotel Ropeter) For further information contact the DIGI board via email: CEN/CENELEC/ETSI CONFERENCE 1994 -------------------------------- on 15 and 16 November 1994 in the European Parliament, Brussels. Information from Kristien Van Ingelgem, fax.+32 2 519 6819 ICT STANDARDIZATION POLICY WORKSHOP 1994 ---------------------------------------- 28, 29 and 30 November 1994 Chateau du Lac, Genval, Belgium organised by the European Commission with logistic support from EWOS. For information, email EMAIL WORLD ----------- The Mail Enabled Technologies Conference from 29 November to 1 December 1994 Cooper [Page 47] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA, USA For further information, email Tel. +1 508 470 3880; Fax. +1 508 470 0526 WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY ------------------------------------------------------- on 1 and 2 December 1994 in Luxembourg. Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII, EFTA and STRI. Registrations before 30 September 1994 For information, email IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING ----------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA -> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995 Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445 MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING & NETWORKING --------------------------------- from 6 till 8 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA for registration and info, email DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION: ALGORITHMS & TECHNOLOGIES ---------------------------------------------------- from 7 till 10 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA for registration and info, email INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY ----------------------------------------------------- 16-17 February 1995 Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California USA Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 1995. For further information, email David Balenson EEMA MEETINGS ------------- Winter Conference 15-17 November Luxembourg Cooper [Page 48] Internet Monthly Report October 1994 Cooper [Page 49]