~ May 1995 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. This report is for Internet information purposes only, and is not to be quoted in other publications without permission from the submitter. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to: Ann Cooper (IMR@ISI.EDU) Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu". Details on obtaining the current IMR, or back issues, via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by sending an EMAIL message to "rfc-info@ISI.EDU" with the message body "help: ways_to_get_imrs". For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 USER SERVICES REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 41 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. The summer IETF meeting will be held in Stockholm, Sweden the week of July 17-21, 1995. Due to the meeting costs, the IETF attendance fee for the Stockholm meeting will be US$300. Hotel information has been sent to the Announcement list, and attendees are encouraged to make their plane and hotel reservations. Logistic information has already been posted to the IETF Announcement list. Following Stockholm, the IETF will be meeting in Dallas, Texas on December 4-8, 1995. Our local host for this meeting is MCI. Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: March 23, 1995 (iesg.95-03-23) April 13, 1995 (iesg.95-04-13) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following four Protocol Actions during the month of May, 1995: o Recommendations for an X.500 Production Directory Service be published as an Informational document. o Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol be published as a Proposed Standard. o Schema Publishing in X.500 Directory be published as an Experimental Protocol. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 o Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers be published as Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG issued 10 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of May, 1995: o Relative Uniform Resource Locators for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Chemical Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Whois and Network Information Lookup Service Whois++ for consideration as an Informational RFC. o finger URL Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o XDR: External Data Representation Standard for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Architecture of the WHOIS++ service for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Content-MD5 Header Field for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Mailserver URL Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 5. Five Working Groups were created during this period: ISDN MIB (isdnmib) 100VG-AnyLAN MIB (vgmib) Web Transaction Security (wts) Detailed Revision/update of message standards (drums) Humanities and Arts (harts) Additionally, five Working Groups were concluded: Router Requirements (rreq) TCP/UDP Over CLNP-Addressed Networks (tuba) Internet Message Access Protocol (imap) Common Architecture for Next Generation IP (catnip) Quality Information Services (quis) 6. A total of 63 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of May, 1995: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (rolc) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (cat) o FTP Security Extensions (notary) o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (mailext) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol (pppext) o PPP BSD Compression Protocol (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extensions (none) o MIME/ESMTP Profile for Voice Messaging (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies (cat) o The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM) (snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: LLC Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 (notary) o The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages (idr) o Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS) (ipatm) o Support for Multicast over UNI 3.1 based ATM Networks. (none) + IP Next Generation Overview (none) o Simple Internet Transition Overview (opstat) o The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics Retrieval (none) o Simple Key-Management For Internet Protocols-Plus (SKIPP) (aft) o SOCKS Protocol Version 5 (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (pppext) o The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP) (ngtrans) o Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (html) o Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 (notary) o Enhanced Mail System Status Codes (mimesgml) o The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (aft) o Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5 (ipsec) o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples (none) + CBC Encryption (none) + Using the MARS to support IP Unicast over ATM Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 (uri) + Trivial URC Syntax: urc0 (none) + SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (uri) + URN Resolution Overview (uri) + x-dns-2 URN Scheme (uri) + Generic URN Syntax (html) + Character Set Considered Harmful (rmonmib) + Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base (cat) + FTP Security Extension Alternate Proposal (none) + ACC ISDN MIB Extensions (idr) + Multi-Provider Preference Attribute for BGP (idr) + Analysis and Critique of the Current Practice of Implementing Symmetric Routing in the Multi-Provider Internet (idr) + Application of the BGP Multi-Provider Preference Attribute in Implementing Symmetric Routing (822ext) + Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures (none) + Public Key Encryption Support for TCP (cidrd) o On the Implications of Address Ownership for Internet Routing (none) o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 (run) + Netiquette Guidelines (none) + Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors (cidrd) + An Appeal to the Internet Community to Return Unused IP Networks(Prefixes) to the IANA (none) + Classless in-addr.arpa delegation (cidrd) + Observations on the use of Components of the Class A Address Space within the Internet (none) + Mapping of IP Flow to Datalink Layer Connection Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 (none) + IPv6 Mobility Support (none) + OSI NSAPs and IPv6 (pppext) + The PPP DES Encryption Protocol (DESE) (mimesgml) + Encapsulating SGML Documents Using the Multipart/Related Content-Type (mimesgml) + Message/External-Body Content-ID Access Type 7. No RFC's were published during the month of May, 1995. Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- NIMROD - NEXT GENERATION ROUTING AND ADDRESSING FOR THE INTERNET The goal of the Nimrod project is to design, specify, implement and test a flexible new routing and addressing architecture suitable for very large scale internets. The basic architecture for computation of routes will be based on distribution of network topology maps, with source-specified route selection, and local (i.e. not hop by hop) computation of routes. The architecture provides a single homogeneous framework for all routing, including both inter-domain and intra-domain. During the month of May, we completed the design of the software architecture for the prototype implementation of Nimrod. This includes specification of functionality, protocols, software modules, service interfaces between modules, and data structures. We are nearing completion of the detailed design of the software for three of the major protocols for Nimrod: database update, database query-response, and path management. In June, we will begin the implementation of the Nimrod software (in C over NetBSD). PI = Martha Steenstrup (msteenst@bbn.com) Co-chair of Nimrod WG = Isidro Castineyra (isidro@bbn.com) REAL-TIME INFORMATION TRANSFER AND NETWORKING (RITN) RITN is the successor program of what used to be called "Scalability." Its goal is to provide networking support to very large scale distributed interactive simulations (DIS). BBN is presently working cooperatively with ATI, NRaD, NRL, Lincoln Lab and Loral Advanced Distributed Simulation (LADS) to implement a prototype system for reducing the wide-area traffic load of DIS exercises while maintaining their fidelity. It is called the Application Control Techniques (ACT) System, and BBN is designing and implementing functions to provide advanced network services in support of its traffic reduction and fidelity control objectives. During May, we implemented and tested code that will facilitate NTP-based time synchronization of all SGI application hosts including ModSAF platforms and the simulation loggers. Calls to the system clock were deemed to expensive for ModSAF, and so we Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 enabled NTP synchronization of an alternative clock based on the SGI's cycle counter and wrote an API for developers wishing to access this clock. Implementation of bilevel multicast routing and quality of service functions got under way, and coordination with other ACT System developers on integration issues and MIB definition continued. For bilevel QOS, we imported ISI's latest implementation of the RSVP daemon and began porting it to the SGI. We completed work on a traffic generator that can output a packet flow with packet size and arrival distributions identical to those of a previously recorded DIS packet trace. The output packets can be addressed according to a table associating destination addresses with simulation entities. We started work on a companion receiver that can be programmed to send IGMP join and leave messages at specified times. These tools will be time-synchronized with each other and used to test the bilevel multicast routing services Walter Milliken completed a draft report outlining the issues of providing IP multicast services for real-time applications in internetworks incorporating ATM subnets. After review by our Government sponsor, this will be presented as an ID within the IP- over-ATM Working Group. Joshua Seeger (jseeger@bbn.com) INTERNIC -------- INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES InterNIC Directory and Database Services has a WWW home page for the NIC Locator Database (aka NIC Profiles). This database is hosted by DS for the IETF NISI working group. The entries point to Network Information Centers on the Internet with some snippets of information such as services and publications available, contacts, hours of operation, primary audience, etc. The WWW home page may be found at: http://ds.internic.net/ds/niclocate.html All NICs on the Internet are invited to place an entry in this database. The entry template may be found at: ftp://ds.internic.net/pub/niclocator.template Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Or - you may submit an entry via the NIC Locator DB home page. Entries should be forwarded to scout@ds.internic.net, scal@cts.com, and debbie@internic.net. For directory services, we started a new X.500 DSA named "Red-Faced Tamarin" on one of our secondary machines (ds1.internic.net). The main function of this DSA is to act as a slave DSA for the top-level entries of X.400 information in the Open Community routing tree in the Long Bud project started by the IETF MHS-DS working group. The Long Bud project comprises four DSAs holding the top-level entries - two in USA and two in Europe. The four DSA's fully replicate each other's routing tree entries. All nonleaf entries in the routing tree include slaveDSA attributes so that pilot participants will be able to find backups when primary DSA's are unreachable. The new DSA will also provide additional redundancy for our other X.500-based services. 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 INTERNIC REGISTRATION SERVICES I. Significant Events InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 9,503 network addresses and registered over 13,974 domains. One top-level country domains were registered during May for: Cameroon (CM). The suit that Knowledgenet has filed against Network Solutions and David L. Boone over the knowledgement.com domain is still pending. This case could establish precedence that refutes InterNIC Registration Service's current policy of first-come first served by binding trademarked names with a domain name. Released the new domain template. It now handles new, update, and delete actions through the same template. Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 During the month of May, domain requests are averaging between 400+ 500+ for new submissions per day. Adjustments continue to be made in domain processing. Additional, staffing is being acquired to accommodate the growth in registration requests. At the close of May 1995, the domain processing queue had decreased from 8,000 to 5,000 new domain registrations. The final draft of the InterNIC policy and procedures guidelines for Network numbers was approved by Jon Postel. Also, the new Internet Service Provider (ISP) template was approved. Both are available on-line from RS.INTERNIC.NET. II. Current Status During the month of May 1995, InterNIC Registration Services received communications as shown below. The majority of the correspondence concerned the assignment and re-assignment of network numbers and the registration or change of domain names. E-mail 22,954 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 299 (primarily IP number requests) Phone 4,587 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of May. Connections Retrievals Gopher 48,443 46,079 WAIS 66,213 46,447 FTP 30,442 97,672 Mailserv 4,365 Telnet 80,244 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 325,772 1,818,411 Debbie Fuller Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 ISI --- THE US DOMAIN ============= US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 560 PHONE 230 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 790 DELEGATIONS 78 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 7 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 705 --------------------------- Total 790 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. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 48 33 31 46 34 22 21 7 1 =================================================================== Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 -------------------------------------------- THIRD LEVEL US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------------- STATE.NH.US STATE, New Hampshire K12.VT.US K12 schools, Vermont LIB.VT.US LIBRARIES, Vermont LOCALITIES ---------- ROANOKE.VA.US FARM.CO.US DUBLIN.OH.US ROLLA.ND.US LAKE-GEORGE.NY.US PIERCE.ND.US SUNRISE.FL.US RUGBY.ND.US HIGH-POINT.NC.US BENSON.ND.US LEXINGTON.NC.US MINNEWAUKEN.ND.US CONCORD.NC.US WELLS.ND.US FESSENDEN.ND.US TOWNER.ND.US MCHENRY.ND.US EMMONS.ND.US SIOUEX.ND.US FORT-YATES.ND.US CARSON.ND.US GRANT.ND.US CENTER.ND.US OLIVER.ND.US STANTON.ND.US RENVILLE.ND.US MOHALL.ND.US BURKE.ND.US BOWBELLS.ND.US MOUNTRAIL.ND.US STANLEY.ND.US CROSBY.ND.US DIVIDE.ND.US MCKENZIE.ND.US WATFORD-CITY.ND.US DUNN.ND.US KILLDEER.ND.US MANNING.ND.US BILLINGS.ND.US MEDORA.ND.US GOLDEN-VALLEY.ND.US BEACH.ND.US SLOPE.ND.US AMIDON.ND.US BOWMAN.ND.US ADAMS.ND.US HETTINGER.ND.US MOTT.ND.US ESCONDIDO.CA.US DERWOOD.MD.US CAMBRIDGE.NE.US SUN-VALLEY.NV.US -------------------------------------- OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- ROCEMBRA.ANTELOPE.CA.US CO.WAUKESHA.WI.US CI.SANBRUNO.CA.US BVHD.DILLON.MT.US SFI.LA.CA.US WWW.LA.CA.US YN.LA.CA.US CED.NASHUA.NH.US OHA.OAKLAND.CA.US FINNEMB.NW.DC.US ICELANDEMB.NW.DC.US LEARN.K12.CT.US Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 CO.MONROE.FL.US NEWELL.ARLINGTON.VA.US RESUME.K12.CT.US CALS.LIB.AR.US CTC.TEC.AR.US PJTC.TEC.AR.US RMCC.CC.AR.US MCCC.CC.AR.US CI.WEST-HOLLYWOOD.CA.US FRISCH.PARAMUS.NJ.US DTP.NEWARK.DE.US DANBURY.LIB.CT.US LAPL.LIB.CA.US DACHER.RESTON.VA.US MDGOVERNOR.STATE.MD.US CO.HENRICO.VA.US COMET.CHV.VA.US WAVE.PARK.WY.US 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 Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ With the successful retirement of the NSFNET Backbone Service, Merit's Internet Engineering and Network Management groups now focus on the NSF- funded Routing Arbiter (RA) project, charged with providing routing coordination for the post-NSFNET network infrastructure. Merit's partners in the RA project are the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI); IBM, as a subcontractor to ISI; and the University of Michigan ROC, as a subcontractor to Merit. Merit is preparing a history of the NSFNET that will trace the growth and influence of the backbone since its beginnings in 1988. We are particularly interested in hearing about how the NSFNET enhanced the research capabilities of scientists and researchers around the country. If you would like to contribute examples of backbone advancements for your work in the sciences or humanities, please contact Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu). Merit reached a milestone at 09:00 EST on Monday, May 8, when the venerable Policy Routing Database (PRDB) was turned off and replaced by the Routing Arbiter Database (RADB). The PRDB had been used to configure the NSFNET Backbone Service and ANSNET (AS690) since 1989. Under the RADB, the method for submitting new routes has changed. Instead of submitting Network Announcement Change Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Requests (NACRs) for human processing, users directly register information by sending in RADB "Route objects" for immediate inclusion in the database system. Additions and entries to the new registry are made by the home AS that creates the route, rather than by a peer AS of AS690. The RADB is used to configure the Routing Arbiter's Route Servers and the ANSNET backbone. A new routing tool set, the RAToolSet, is now freely available from the Routing Arbiter partnership. Among the new tools is 'radbserver,' an enhanced whois server that provides information collected from all the registries that form part of the Internet Routing Registry (IRR). The IRR currently includes internetMCI's registry and the database maintained by CA*net, in addition to the RIPE NCC and Routing Arbiter databases. These linked registries provide information on most of the networks and ASs routed in the Internet today. The RADB whois server is easy to use. For example, the following command queries the RADB for information about a network with the address 193.101.106.0 . (The -h parameter tells the whois client on your machine that you want to talk to the whois server supplied by the Routing Arbiter service): whois -h whois.ra.net 193.101.106.0 The output comprises two Route objects containing information about that network: one Route object from the RIPE NCC's database, and one from the RADB. You can also request information about a particular AS: whois -h whois.ra.net AS800 The RADB output comprises two AS objects, one from the RADB and one from the CA*net registry. The following query asks for information about the individuals who maintain routing information for AS800: whois -h whois.ra.net MAINT-AS800 The output is an RADB Maintainer object. We encourage network operators and providers to register their policy in the RADB or one of the other registries in the IRR; this will enable other members of the Internet community to obtain a consistent view of your routing policy. For more information about registering in the RADB, see http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/RADB.tools.docs/register.html. Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Other tools in the RAToolSet include: peval A policy evaluator that inputs a RIPE-181 policy expression, performs essential background calculations such as symbolic evaluations and expansions, and outputs another RIPE-181 policy expression that is used by other tools, such as RTConfig. RTConfig A router configuration tool that can be used by providers to generate router configs directly from the RADB or other IRR registries. Currently in production use for the RA Route Servers, ANSNET, and CA*net, RTConfig is a front-end tool that uses peval and radbserver transparently to users. Peval and RTConfig are available at ftp://ftp.ra.net/routing.arbiter/tools/RAToolSet/. Peval is included in the RTConfig source code. Work continues on establishing peering sessions for the RA project's Route Servers at the NAPs and other interconnection points. The Route Servers--Sun SPARC 20 workstations installed at each connection point-- eliminate the need for pair-wise peering among the attached Internet Service Providers (ISPs.) The Route Servers input routing information from each ISP router, create a "view" (a Routing Information Base) reflecting that ISP's policy requirements, and pass the processed routing information to each ISP's router. The Route Servers thus reduce the number of peering sessions each ISP router needs to process from O(n) to O(1). Routing information at the interconnection points flows only between ISP's routers and the Route Servers; traffic flows only between ISP routers. Route Servers are physically in place at the AADS, Sprint, PacBell, MAE-East, and MAE-West interconnection points, and are expected to be in full production mode by June 30, 1995. Further information about the Route Servers is available from the RA home page, cited earlier in this report. Merit hosted the fourth North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Ann Arbor on May 22-23. Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the meeting. They will soon be available at http://www.academ.com/nanog and at Merit's Web site, http://www.merit.edu. Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Bill Norton of Merit moderated the meeting, which featured the following presentations: --RA Project Update (Elise Gerich and Jessica Yu, Merit) --IP Provider Metrics WG (Matt Mathis, Pittsburgh Supercomputng Center) --Updates from the Interconnection Points --Sprint NAP (Bilal Chinoy, SDSC) --AADS NAP (Mark Knopper, AADS) --PacBell NAP (Warren Williams, PacBell) --MAE-East (B.J. Chang, MFS Datanet) --MAE-West (Milo Medin, NASA Ames Research Center) --CIX (Paul Vixie, CIX) --Symmetric Routing in a Multi-Provider Internet (Enke Chen, MCI) --Maintaining Consistency Among Distributed Routing Registries (Brian Renaud, Merit) --New SNMP Management Capabilities in MRouteD (Allan Rubens, Merit) --Public Key Encryption Support for TCP (Laurent Joncheray, Merit) --ATM Networking in Oregon (David Meyer, University of Oregon) --SNMP v2 Operational Deployment (Bill Norton, Merit) --OPS (Operational Requirements) Review of IETF Documents; Status of RFC 1797 ("Class A Subnet Experiment") Operational Activities (Bill Manning, ISI) --InterNIC Registration Procedures (Mark Kosters, Network Solutions, Inc.) --Introducing MRT: the Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (Craig Labovitz, Merit) --CIX Registry Tools Proposal (Paul Vixie and Jerry Scharf, CIX) --RPS (Routing Policy System) WG (Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI) Elise Gerich presented updates on the final stages of the NSFNET transition at the European Operator's Forum/21st RIPE meetings in Rome. At the RIPE Routing Working Group, she gave a presentation on the transition from the PRDB to the Routing Arbiter Database. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- Crowcroft attended Interop in Frankfurt and talked about the use of ATM in the European PNO pilot to carry Mbone traffic around, and about the Hipparch project work on network conscious applications and thir lack of need for ATM. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Mark Handley attended a MICE meeting and a Terena meeting on planning the European ATM based Mbone pilot. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) USER SERVICES REPORT -------------------- Trip Report 20th RIPE Meeting - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Joyce K. Reynolds USC/Information Sciences Institute The 20th RIPE Meeting The 20th RIPE Meeting was held in January 1995 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Approximately 115 people attended. Introduction to RIPE Due to new members attending the RIPE meetings for the first time, Rob Blokzijl and Daniel Karrenberg presented an introduction to RIPE and the RIPE NCC (Network Coordination Center). Rob lead the talk describing when the Internet came into Europe on a large scale (1987-1988), they wanted to communicate with the U.S. In the 1980's the term "IP" was a dirty word in Europe. The first RIPE meeting that was held had an attendance of 14 people. It was originally called the "European IP Coordinating Committee". Rob stated that the attendance at this meeting will be over 100. This group invented a name (RIPE - Reseaux IP Europeens) and worked out a terms of reference (charter) in 1989, which explained what RIPE is, what it does, and what it doesn't do: - RIPE operates as an exchange mechanism with IP technology - The area of operations is Europe (this term is used loosely - in this context it includes Algeria, Israel, East Europe, etc.) - Whoever operates wide area networks are encouraged to participate - RIPE is not organized by country, but by widescale organizations - Promotes and coordinates IP networks - RIPE is not a network service provider - RIPE serves as the forum for a focal point for other common activities of the participants related to IP networking - It is open and equal, like the Internet - All documents are published openly - RIPE establishes agreement on common network management Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 How is RIPE organized in practice? - meets three times a year - working groups, plenary sessions - the plenary agenda includes reports of action items, reports on the RIPE NCC, financial reports, etc. - InterNIC/APNIC Reports - TERENA Report - IETF Report - IPv6 report from the European perspective Rob stated to the attendees that the Internet is like a great ocean. It is huge. No one owns it. TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Network Association) - An Association of Research Networks - Does not operate a network The RIPE NCC - Forum for Europe on IP - Does not operate a network - Meets at the RIPE meeting 3 times a year - Five permanent staff - Daniel Karrenberg is the manager - 1 Administrator - David Kessens - 3 Engineers - Anne Lord, Mirjam Kuehne, Geert Jan de Groot - 1 Conscientious Objector - Roderik Muit (He is doing his national service for one year.) - 10 Workstations, 7 Gigabyte of disk RIPE NCC Core Activities - Funded by (all) European Service Providers - Reported in public Quarterly Reports - 1995 budget of ECU 407,500 - Defined in NCC activity plan - Internet Registries - RIPE document store and access - NCC support of RIPE meetings Joint projects outside of the NCC Core Activities - Funded per project - Reported in project reports (RTRs and RFCs) - Tony Bates, Marten Terpstra Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Rob stated that RIPE has no formal membership. If you come to a RIPE meeting, you are member. The NIDUS Working Group Meeting - Nandor Hovarth GARR Report - A. Blasco Bonito The Network Resources Project is still going on since the last GARR Report at the RIPE meetings in Lisbon last September. The project is partially completed. A modified WAIS server has been created. About 60% of the academic community in Italy is now in the map. The largest problem so far is keeping the maps up to date. So far, this project has completed the following: 1) X.500 Directory - includes all information of Italian organizations and people. 2) In parallel with the WHOIS database, with RIPE technology. 3) Modified WAIS server from the technical point of view. The user has all the information they need to find resources. 4) The problem is gathering the resources correctly and ALL the information, not just pieces of information. 5) A template has been created to be filled out. They have established a Network Information Retrieval group in Italy, which is gathering up the information. 6) Tools are in place and are able to collect the information. There was a question from one attendee on what the percentage of available resources are registered? The answer was 60-75% of the information in the academic world has been registered. In the commercial world it is not yet known. The information collected is just about Italy, not other countries. Another attendee asked if it was possible to install a map via the World Wide Web automatically. The reply was that is certainly be possible, but that the software to do this isn't quite there yet. Additional information can be found at: wais://wais.nis.garr.it. TERENA - Frode Greisen TERENA = A RARE+EARNINFO Merger TERENA is one national network organization per country, but not limited to Europe. Though, it is Europe oriented. The associate membership includes the International Treaty Organization (ITO). TERENA is investigating if it would be possible to allow for associate members, which is for organizations who are interested in TERENA, and for international members, for example inter- governmental organizations like the UN. There is a General Assembly, which is the Executive Committee, and three Vice- Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Presidents. There is a Technical Committee which decides about new projects. Rob Blokzijl, as RIPE Chair, is now a member of this committee, but this may change if RIPE intends to incorporate. The reason for the merger was less overhead, more volunteers, less paid staff, and to provide a glue for international networking. The working groups originally in RARE will still be in existence, but central funding will not be available as in the earlier days. Today, volunteers will do the work. There was a call for proposals last fall. Fifty proposals were submitted, and are currently under review. Connectivity WG - Milan Sterba There were many new countries represented at this RIPE meeting. So, Milan opened the session by explaining what the RIPE Connectivity WG is about. It is interested in new countries starting out in the Internet, and connectivity in general, also. There are big differences in hostcounts in each country. Some have more than one host per 1,000 people, other less than one host per 1,000 people. National reports are requested at these sessions so that attendees can be informed of what's new in international connectivity, new services, problems, territorial coverage progress, international coverage progress, and related projects. National Reports: Albania: no representative Baltic Countries: no representative Bulgaria: no representative Crotia: no representative Czech Republic: There are two international lines, 512kbs from Praha to Amsterdam and 128kbs from Praha to Vienna. The Vienna line will be updated to 256kbs. There are 128kbs and 64kbs national lines connecting Liberec, Ostrava, Olomouc, Brno, Plzen and Ceske Budejovice. Service providers in the Czech Republic currently include CESnet, COnet, and EUnet CZ. They do not have an official agreement between them, but exchange traffic. A new item since the last report is that the Prague academic MAN now runs on an ATM backbone on six sites. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Egypt: no representative Estonia: no representative Faroe Island: NORDUNET connection Hungary: Business as usual. The two Vienna lines, which are 64kbs from Budapest to Vienna, will be replaced by one 256kbs line. There is a Europanet connection which is one line to Prague. This hasn't changed since the last RIPE meeting. Jordan: There is a NETS company that provide services to the Internet. It has been operational since October 1994, with about 120 customers. There are only analog circuits available. The situation is similar to Lebanon. $15,000 for an analog circuit. It is hard to start a service provider business in Jordan. There are also technical problems. Lebanon: Lebanon is just coming out of a twenty year war. They do not have any domestic communication infrastructure. There is a satellite link provided by LIBANPAC (France Telecom/Italian Cable), X.25, satellite and marine cable. The X.25 network is very expensive, and there are strict rules and regulations about running it outside of the country. Currently, it is tough dealing with the Lebanese on the concept of the Internet. Internally, they are not allowed to provide services to users or other countries. Charges are expensive to the outside world and it is not feasible to start an Internet service provider business. There is also not much technical expertise in this environment at this point in time. Liechtenstein: There is a new connection now that EUnet is managing it (email only). Macedonia: Has email connectivity provided by Slovania. Malta: Email connectivity only at this point in time. Morocco: A new country with email connectivity only to their School of Engineering via EUnet. Poland: Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 The 9.6kbs line from Minsk is one host now. The line from Warsaw now goes to Stockholm via 2Mb (satellite NORDUNET and UNISOURCE). A question came up if pictures are available. Yes, via URL: http://www.nask.org.pl/NASK/ripe-info.html. The NASK box is a Polish box in Stockholm that operates two lines. Another question was what are Poland's plan with routing issues? Poland has had problems in the past, but now they are routing EBONE via Stockholm and the problem has been solved. Romania: There are two 9.6kbs lines, one from Bucharest to Vienna, which will be replaced by a 64kbs satellite, and the other from Bucharest to the EMPB/Europanet. All links are loaded at present with about 2 1/2 gigabytes per month. This is the academic network. For commercial providers, they have a different international link. Russia: There are different points of view in state problems with the Internet in Russia. The situation in Russia is that the academic community relies on both commercial (Relcom, IASnet) and academic providers (Moscow State University/DFN), Russian Space Science Agency, Freenet (represents Russia in TERENA)) Building a large academic network for all is a large state program task. The RELARN (Russia Electronic Academic Research Network) project has been started up, with two goals: - better connectivity - better services through regional, commercial nets This task of providing services to all the scientific community by means of all networks which work correctly is difficult with cost sharing of the backbone. There has been a lot of experience in technical work. Part of the backbone development of this project is under the guidance of the Soros Foundation, the other part of the development is a planned state project. The end-user support of the original network used to be provided by Relcom. The Ministry of Science understands the implications of supporting the Internet in Russia, but the budget support is poor now, and not very optimistic for the future. In the local regions of Russia, there is a poor information infrastructure. Moscow is now the most expensive city in the world. The concept is to create regional NAPs (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Chabarovsk) and a backbone network to interconnect them. Users connect to the net through Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 regional providers, connected to the NAPs. Also, to start using ex-military satellites, and other communication satellites. The major digital information infrastructure communication players in the IP market include SovAm, GTS (Global Telecommunication Systems), Sprint Group, Relcom, and RUNNET (Russia University Net). They all have important plans to implement national backbones over higher-speed satellite links. They have been encouraged to: 1) establish relationships and connectivity within Moscow 2) proceed jointly in setting up national satellite overlay 3) jointly participate in the CIX international. There are plans to establish digital links to 15 cities this year. The Sprint Group intends to build satellites and expand IP services, and provide digital links with IP for the Internet for large cities of Russia by the end of this year. There have been requests received for IP connection from Africa (Central and South), and Asia to connect to the Internet via Russia. There is a Russia/European problem of a "dead area", concerning the links through Scandinavia. There is a need for communication with Europe and the West. This also is in need of funding. GTS provides $300 million, and Sprint provides $100 million. Currently, Relcom and Sprint are the core of the Russia commercial activity. Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 RIPE General Plenary Rob Blokzijl lead the review and approval of the agenda and minutes of the last meeting. IETF Report Joyce Reynolds presented an Internet Engineering Task Force report from the San Jose IETF, held in November 1994. (See Appendix A.) This report updated the RIPE attendees on the current "hot" topics the IETF is focusing on and updated progress. This included IPng, security matters, etc. The User Services Area of the IETF Report A report was given to the RIPE plenary attendees by Joyce Reynolds about the state and status of the User Services Area of the IETF. (See Appendix B.) This item was originally on the NIDUS working group agenda. It was decided by Rob Blokzijl that this presentation should be rescheduled to take place at the plenary session. RIPE NCC Report - Daniel Karrenberg See also, "Introduction to RIPE" section. Daniel Karrenberg presented the RIPE NCC Report. There are 148 local registries as of 24 January 1995. Daniel stated that the growth in the number of registries is like the DNS hostcount growth - it is almost out of control, but it is improving slowing. The relationship between the number of DNS hosts and the parallel growth of the number of registries has not changed. It is predicted that there will approximately 240 registries by the end of this year. The new provider registries continue to require more support and guidance from the NCC than those having a long Internet history. It is close to getting out of hand, but new registries do provide more income for the NCC. Registry workload growth continues to be overwhelming. The hostmaster alone receiveds at least 37 messages a day, and the mailbox receives 41 messages a day. More than 50% of these messages are routine questions, and this is resulting in staff burnout. Daniel is a bit more optimistic about the NCC work load situation then when last reported at the RIPE meeting in Lisbon. There is still a backlog in the hostmaster queue, but there are some signs of improvement. Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 There are now five personnel available (seven are planned for 1995). However, Marten Terpstra is leaving the NCC after the PRIDE project has been finished, and Tony Bates left recently, also. The FTEs (Full Time Equivalents) that are actually needed for the NCC is still lagging behind the workload. It is still not possible to do everything that should be done according the RIPE NCC Activity Plan. For the coming period it is planned to develop training and documentation for new registries. Furthermore, a ticketing system will be introduced to keep better track of the larger number of requests the NCC expects. The billing procedures will be streamlined to make less errors and to keep up with the larger number of registries and also a new charging model for 1996 should be developed. The Quarterly reports which have been delayred will be restarted in a new revised format. The most important task is to keep up with the growth. RIPE Financial Report Progress Daniel presented the RIPE NCC financial report. There was no agreement reached on a funding model for 1995, despite several efforts by TERENA and the NCC. However, consensus was reached that the 1996 funding model should be more usage based and the NCC committed to develop alternatives by mid-1995. A conservative budget of ECU 407,500, compared to the ECU 245,000 of 1994 was presented and discussed. As of 23rd January, the revenue showed that 70% of the budget was confirmed informally (via EMail or Phone), but 20% was actually secured by getting a formal commitment. On 1st February, the RIPE NCC will process requests from contributing registries before those from non- contributing registries and individuals. This is in fairness to those contributing to the costs of the service. More information regarding the new charging scheme can be found in: URL: ftp:/ftp.ripe.net/ripe/new-registry Policy Based Routing Implementation and Deployment in Europe (PRIDE) - Marten Terpstra Marten Terpstra presented the final report of the PRIDE project. The PRIDE project ended in October 1994. The main objectives of the PRIDE project were to provide tools that make use of a Routing Registry, to provide information about the routing registries, and to coordinate with other routing registries. The PRIDE tools were released in two stages. Most of the tools are ready to use now, although "prconn" and "prconfig" are not finished due to changing requirements (CIDR) and time constraints. For more information Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 see: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pride/tools/pride.tools.ps.tar.Z Information about the routing registries was provided by the PRIDE guide which gives information about how to register in a routing database and how to use the information in the database. The guide is available at: ftp.ripe.net/pride/docs/guide-1.0.ps.tar.Z. Training was provided for internet service providers, which focussed on the use of the tools and the Guide. The courses were considered useful. PRIDE's second guide was dependent upon RIPE-81++ developments. There has been a large amount of effort put into the development of RIPE-81++. As part of this coordination effort, the RIPE-181 document is now generally accepted as "de facto" Routing registry standard. Many people are now using ripe-181 and the ripe database software. Many other routing registry projects were started in various places. The PRIDE project team tried to keep close contact to these groups and to try to develop one standard. Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Appendix A IETF REPORT RIPE Meeting Amsterdam, The Netherlands January 25 - 27, 1995 Joyce K. Reynolds Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California Marina del Rey, California USA jkrey@isi.edu San Jose IETF Stats IPng Area HTTP BOF/SGML WG IIIA - IAB Retreat User Services Area San Jose IETF Stats 1107 Total Attendees From the Multicast side: 710 hosts from 25 countries 77 Groups met (This includes WGs, BOFs, Directorates, and the IAB) [Some in multiple sessions.] IPng Co-Area Directors: Allison Mankin Scott Bradner Topics: -Addressing Plan -Autoconfiguration -Security -European Perspective -Related WGs & BOFs -Suggested Reading Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 IPng Area - Comments on IPv4 Addressing - Changes in address assignment policies are not recommended. - Reclamation of underutilized assigned addresses is not currently recommended. - Efforts to renumber significant portions of the Internet is not currently recommended. - Recommend consideration of assigning CIDR-type address blocks out of unassigned Class A addresses. IPng Area - Addressing Plan - hotly discussed issue - four basic views: - 8 bytes is enough, more is inefficient - 16 bytes is about right, 8 is not enough - use 20 byte NSAPs, provide global harmonization - variable length gives best safety and efficiency - many detailed arguments - consensus is that expansion to 16 byte address space is enough IPng Area-Autoconfiguration - Transparent address (plug & play) - Security considerations - Formation of an Address Autoconfiguration WG (addrconf) to focus on the allocation of dynamic addresses to IPng hosts. IPng Area - Security Recommendations: - Support for the Authorization Header be required. - Support for a specific authentication algorithm be required. - Support for the Privacy Header be required. - Support for a specific privacy algorithm be required. - "IPng Framework for Firewalls" be developed. Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 IPng Co-Area Directors' Thoughts on the European Perspective Security: - Security requirements should not be hindered by patent rights in Europe (or elsewhere). - Interested in encouraging European activism in deploying secure IPng. - Comparable to European Unix Crypto Algorithm Competition. IPng Co-Area Directors' Thoughts on the European Perspective Address Architecture: - Modified for Europe due to widely accepted provider-based addressing. - Geography/Provider match may change. - Set a context for provider planning now. IPng Transition - Proposed WGs IPng Transition Chairs: Ross Callon, Steve Deering Document Editor: Bob Hinden Goals: Resolve any remaining issues. Cooperate with work in other areas impacted by IPng. IPng Transition - Proposed WGs AUTOCONF Chairs: Sue Thomson and Dave Katz Goals: short term Working Group focus on documents for server-less and stateless-server modes of address autoconfiguration DHCP done in DHCP WG coordinate with other IETF activities Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 affected by autoconfiguration such as CNS (for autoregistration) and CAT (for authentication) IPng Transition - Proposed WGs Two IPng transition efforts: short term - refine IPng-specific documents for proposed standard long term - transition, coexistence and testing work together IPng Transition - Proposed WGs NGTRANS Chair: Bob Gilligan Goals: short term Working Group focus on IPng transition and coexistence work with TACIT WG finalize IPng transition overview develop documents relating directly to the IPng transition IPng Transition - Proposed WGs TACIT Chairs: TBA Goals: long term Working Group learn from other transition and deployment efforts detail problem areas in transition and coexistence facilitate transition plans from other network technologies (e.g., IPX, CLNP) IPng Transition - Proposed WGs TACIT Goals (Continued): recommendation of specific testing procedures recommendation of coexistence Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 operations procedures with IPv4 recommendations for the smoothing of decentralized transition planning IPng Transition - Proposed WGs NOSI Chair: Brian Carpenter Items to pursue: RFC 1006bis (ISO transport over TCP, small modifications to existing RFC) Classic CLNP over IPng tunnels (NextHeader = CLNP; probably no new document needed, at most a very short RFC) TP4 over IPng (requires some real work, volunteer needed) IPng Reviewer Appointment of an IPng reviewer specifically responsible for ensuring that a consistent view of IPng is maintained across related WGs. Needed since IPng related work will be going on in a number of IETF areas. Job is long term, offering broadest perspective. Must be able to question, connect all the efforts, spot gaps and misunderstandings, but not making architectural decisions. Dave Clark IPng Area - Suggested Reading RFC 1752 "The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol" URL: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/rfc1752.txt RFC 1636 "Report of IAB Workshop on Security in the Internet Architecture February 8-10, 1994" URL: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/rfc1636.txt Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 HTTP BOF/SGML WG - HTTP BOF - MIMESGML WG IIIA - IAB Retreat Report to be published. User Services Area - not end-user specific area - second level service - HTMLing FYI RFC series - USV-WEB - Bringing in other disciplines - New WGs - Liase with TERENA ISUS and RIPE NIDUS Acknowledgements Paul Mockapetris Steve Coya Allison Mankin Scott Bradner Jon Postel Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Appendix B The User Services Area of the IETF RIPE Meeting Amsterdam, The Netherlands January 25 - 27, 1995 Joyce K. Reynolds Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California Marina del Rey, California USA jkrey@isi.edu - Started in 1989 as one Working Group within the IETF (USWG). - January 1991 - User Services Area (USV) created. - Currently, we have 11 WGs. - International in scope. - Interact and liase with other global organizations (e.g., TERENA, RIPE, CNI, APNIC, etc.) - IETF User Services Area is a second level service. - We are NOT an end-user specific entity. - ALL levels of users, not just novice. - User, Information, and Network Services. - Act as a neutral point for NICs of all levels (local, regional, global) to participate in the IETF forum to exchange ideas. - We interact with other Areas in the IETF (e.g., Applications, Operations, Security, etc.). - Interact with other disciplines (e.g., Librarians, School Teachers, etc.) IETF User Services Working Groups and Projects *Integrated Directory Services (IDS) *Integration of Internet Information Resources (IIIR) Internet School Networking (ISN) Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI) *Joint APP/USV effort Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Network Training Materials (TRAINMAT) [IETF/TERENA endeavor] Responsible Use of the Network (RUN) *Quality of Information Services (QUIS) *Joint APP/USV effort **Site Security Handbook (SSH) *Universal Resource Identifiers (URI) User Services (USWG) *Whois and Network Information Lookup Services (WNILS) *Joint APP/USV effort **Joint SEC/USV effort Arts and Humanities - Sharing Center Stage on the Internet (ARTS) BOF *Referral Whois Protocol (RWHOIS) BOF User Services Area Council (USAC) *Joint OPS/APP/USV effort - The FYI RFC Series of Notes. Currently, 27 FYI RFCs. Handbooks, Catalogues, Glossaries, etc. For example, Site Security Handbook, Internet Users' Glossary, NOCTools Catalogue, etc. Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 CALENDAR -------- Last update 5/31/95 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. FYI - New Dates for ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, 1995 NOW Dec. 11-15, 1995 - The 6th MD Wkshp on Very High Speed Networks will be rescheduled for sometime in June (date TBD), original date had been: March 20-21, 1995 A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) cd ietf ls *0mtg* Gopher ------- Available on the Gopher Server running on IETF.CNRI.RESTON.VA.US (132.151.1.35) under "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar". WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 ********************************************************************** 1995 --------- May 28-Jun. 2 NetWorld+Interop '95 Frankfurt, Germany JUNE 6th MD Wkshp on Very High Speed Networks Baltimore, MD Jun 4-9 ATM Forum Orlando, FL Jun. 5-7 Digital World Los Angeles, CA Jun. 5-7 USENIX UNIX Security Symp. Salt Lake City, UT 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. 20-22 2nd Intntl Wkshp on Community Netwkg multimedia to the home Princeton, NJ Jun. 25-27 ISOC K-12 Workshop Hawaii Jun. 26-27 ISOC Trustees & Council Hawaii Jun. 26-29 Conf. on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS) Monterey, CA Jun. 26-30 Advanced Broadband Comm. Madrid, Spain Jun. 28-30 INET '95 Hawaii Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 6-8 Tcl/Tk Workshop Toronto, CA Jul. 10-13 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Maui, HI Jul. 11-14 USENIX Wkshp on Electronic Commerce New York City, NY JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 13-14 1st Intntl Wkshp on Intellig. & Multimodality in Multimedia Interface Edinburgh, Scotland Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF Stockholm, Sweden Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan Jul. 17-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 Ottawa, Ontario Aug. 1-4 4th IEEE Symp. on High Perform. Distributed Computing (HPDC-4) Pentagon City, VA Aug. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 19-21 14th Intntl Conf. on AI (IJCAI-95) Montreal, CA Aug. 21-24 APPN Implementers Wkshp (AIW) RTP, NC Aug. 23-25 IEEE Wkshp on Arch. & Implement of HPC Subsystems HPCS'95 Mystic, CT Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA Aug. 30-Sep. 1 ACM SIGCOMM '95 Cambridge, MA Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 SEPTEMBER Windows Solutions Paris Paris, France Sep. 12-14 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Atlanta, GA Sep. 18-22 Ninth Systems Admin Conf (LISA) Monterey, CA Sep. 25-29 7th SDL Forum Oslo, Sweden FALL 1995 Seybold Europe Sep. 4-6 8th IFIP WG6.1 Intntl Wkshp on Protocol Test Systems Every, France Sep. 4-7 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) London, England Sep. 11-15 6th IFIP High Performance Networking, HPN'95 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Sep. 11-15 OIW (Firm) Sep. 18-22 7th Annual Comp. Security Incident Handling Workshop Karlsruhe, Germany Sep. 20-23 4th Intntl Conf. Computer Commun. & Networks (IC3N'95) Las Vegas, NV Sep. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 26-29 Seybold San Francisco San Francisco, CA Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 10-11 ANSI X3T11 Oct. 11-13 Intntl Symp. on Multimedia Comm. & Video Coding New York City, NY Oct. 15-18 20th Conf. on Local Computer Netwks (sponsored by IEEE) Minneapolis, MN Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, AU Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec Oct. 31-Nov. 2 APPN Implementers Wkshp (AIW) RTP, NC Nov. 3 CPI-C Implementers Wkshp (CIW) RTP, NC Nov. 5-9 ACM Multimedia '95 San Francisco, CA Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Nov. 7-10 ICNP '95 Tokyo, Japan Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM '95 Singapore Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm) Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Firm) Dallas, TX Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Firm) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Windows Solutions Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Dec. 4-8 X/Open Security Dec. 10-15 ATM Forum London, UK Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 1996 ----------- Jan. 22-26 USENIX 1996 Tech. Conference San Diego, CA Jan. 23-25 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Salt Lake City, UT Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Feb. 5-9 ATM Forum Los Angeles, CA Feb. 19-21 EMail World & Internet Expo San Jose, CA Feb. 27-Mar. 1 ICDP '96-IFIP/IEEE Intntl Conf. on Distributed Platforms Dresden, Germany Mar. 4-8 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 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 Apr. 14-19 ATM Forum (Tentative) May. 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO Jun. 9-14 ATM Forum (Tentative) Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Jun. 11-13 EMail World & Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jun. 24-27 ICC '96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-28 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Aug. 18-23 ATM Forum (Tentative) +Aug. 26-30 SIGCOMM '96 (Tentative) Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 10-12 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ontario, CA Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Oct. 6-11 ATM Forum (Tentative) Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 1-6 ATM Forum (Tentative) Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) 1998 ----------- Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary ********************************************************************** From: secretariat@terena.nl (TERENA Secretariat) Subject: TERENA Calendar-June'95 Ref. TSec(95)001 June 1995 This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation. If in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail . ********************************************************************** MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 2 June Amsterdam 11 July " (5) September " TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA4 19 - 20 October tbd RIPE ---- 2-4 October Amsterdam Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 April/May 1996 Berlin NCC-Contributor's September Amsterdam ATM Task Force -------------- 16 June Bologna DANTE Shareholders ------------------ 2 June Amsterdam TEN-34 ------ 1 June Amsterdam ICE --- 6 June Amsterdam European Commission ------------------- Texis Support Team (Info 2000 STM) 8 June Luxembourg VARIOUS ======= ECCO (Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations) 12 September Paris EMC (Ebone Management Committee) 16 June Amsterdam CCIRN ----- 24-25 June Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 IETF ---- 17-21 July Stockholm, Sweden 4-8 December Dallas, Texas, USA EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 19/20 September Brussels 12/13 December " Electronic Commerce (EWOS Expert Group on EDI) 28 June Brussels Workshops 26-29 June Brussels 23-26 October " 15-19 January 1996 " 25-29 March 1996 " 24-28 June 1996 " 21-25 October 1996 " ETSI ---- GA22 5-6 December Nice, France GA23 25-26 April, 1996 " GA24 10-11 December, 1996 " TA22 19-20 June Nice, France TA23 7-9 November " TA24 22-24 April, 1996 " TA25 23-25 October, 1996 " ECTUA ----- INTUG 6-8 June The Hague CONFERENCES ******************************************************************* Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference 13-16 May 1996 Budapest, Hungary For information, email WWW address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/jenc7 NSC96 -Network Services Conference 1996 Autumn 1996, Bled, Slovenia For information, email ******************************************************************* OTHER CONFERENCES nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available from the TERENA Document Store under the directory calendar, in which case the file name is specified under the information presented below. The files may be retrieved via: anonymous FTP: ftp.terena.nl Email: server@terena.nl Gopher: gopher.terena.nl World Wide Web: http://www.terena.nl/terena/information/calendar/ WWW National Conference ----------------------- 6-8 July Minho University, Braga, Portugal Aims to analyse the state of the art of WWW technology For information contact URL: http://www.di.uminho.pt/cnw3.html EEMA 8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE -------------------------- 6-9 June RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Focussing on in-depth discussions of bringing together users, vendors, service providers and telecom operators Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 For registration and information: or tel. no: +1 612 625 1300 INET Workshop on Network Technology for Developing Countries ------------------------------------------------------------ 18-24 June Manoa Campus,University of Hawaii - Honolulu, Hawaii For information contact: INET 95 - Annual Meeting of the Internet Society ------------------------------------------------ 27-30 June. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA The 5th Annual Conference of the Internet Society, focusing on worldwide issues of Internet networking. Registration (incl. hotel reservations) via www at: http://www.isoc.org/inet95.html or email registration at: and email hotel bookings: For further information contact: URLs: http://www.isoc.org/inet95.html gopher: //gopher.isoc.org/11isoc/inet95 ftp: //ftp.isoc.org/isoc/inet95 Email: or fax no: +49 721 32 550 JOINT WORKING CONFERENCE IFIP TC-6 TC-11 and AUSTRIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY -------------------------------------------- 20-21 September Graz, Austria on professional communication and multimedia application in relation to security aspects. Deadline paper submission 28 February to For further information contact Dr. Peter Lipp at: tel: +43 316 82 65 88 13. fax:+43 316 85 0144 IC3N'95 - FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS ----------------------------------------- 20-23 September Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Call for Papers information: or URL: http://www.nscee.edu/~eugene/ic3n/. Paper submission deadline is 17 March. For conference information: or WWW home page. URL is http://www.nscee.edu/~eugene/ic3n/. Cooper [Page 46] Internet Monthly Report May 1995 1995 IFIP International Working Conference on User Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications (ULPAA) --------------------------------------------------------------- 11-15 December Sydney, Australia Deadline for submission of papers by 15 May For further info-> http:/www.ee.uts.edu.au/ifip/ULPAA95.html INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- Broadband Communiations: Networks, Services, Applications, Future Directions 19-23 February 1996 Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland Deadline for submission of papers is 15 May 1995 For further information, email Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner , fax.+41 1 632 1035 Call for Papers on TERENA Document Server under rare/information/calendar. The file is called izs96-cfp.txt. ================== updated 06.06.1995 ================== ========================== Madeleine Oberholzer TERENA Secretary Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association TERENA - Established by merger of RARE and EARN TERENA Secretariat Singel 466 - 468 NL - 1017 AW AMSTERDAM Voice : + 31 20 639 11 31 Fax : + 31 20 639 32 89 Email : secretariat@terena.nl - for general matters bookkeeping@terena.nl - for financial matters Cooper [Page 47]