~ February 1996 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 "IMR@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 CALENDAR OF EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. As I write this report, we are getting ready for the next IETF meetig, which will be held in Los Angeles, California from March 4-8, 1996. There will not be a local host for this meeting, but the terminal room facilities will be provided by Interop. Following Los Angeles, the IETF will be meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. If this date looks familiar, it is the same date as INET '96! This is not a "joint" meeting per se, but both meetings will be held in the Montreal Convention Center, and INET will be providing an extraordinarily large terminal room for both INET96 and IETF attendees. Closing out the year, the IETF will be returning to San Jose, California on December 9-13, 1996. Following that, the IETF travels to Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 1997. 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: January 18, 1996 (iesg.96-01-18) February 8, 1996 (iesg.96-02-08) Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 17 Protocol Actions during the month of February, 1996: o Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS) for publication as a Best Current Practives RFC. o Building an X.500 Directory Service in the US for publication as an Informational Document. o Variance for The PPP Connection Control Protocol and The PPP Encryption Control Protocol for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 is now an Internet Standard. o Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5 is now a Proposed Standard. o An Appeal to the Internet Community to Return Unused IP Networks (Prefixes) to the IANA for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Enterprise Renumbering: Experience and Information Solicitation for publication as an Informational Document. o SOCKS Protocol Version 5 is now a Proposed Standard. o RIPv1 Applicability Statement for Historic Status for publication as an Informational Document. o A One-Time Password System is now a Proposed Standard. o How to interact with a Whois++ mesh is now a Proposed Standard. o Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service is now a Proposed Standard. o "Local/Remote" Forwarding Decision in Switched Data Link Subnetworks for publication as an Informational Document. o HTML Tables as an Experimental Protocol. o Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and Forwarding Specification (Version 1). for publication as an Informational Document. Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 o Routing Information Protocol has been reclassified as Historic. o Frequently Asked Questions for Schools for publication as an Informational Document. 4. The IESG issued 18 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of February, 1996: o IP Encapsulation within IP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Domain Name System Security Extensions for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Mobile Node function of IP Mobility Support for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Mobility Support for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Applicability Statement for IP Mobility Support for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Mapping Autonomous Systems Number into the Domain Name System for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Security function of IP Mobility Support for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Minimal Encapsulation within IP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o HTML Tables for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 o Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet Routing for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Foreign Agent function of IP Mobility Support for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Home Agent function of IP Mobililty Support for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP DES Encryption Protocol (DESE) for consideration as an Informational document. o The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o PPP in Frame Relay for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. One Working Group was created during this period: Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement (rtfm) and three working groups were concluded: IP Over AppleTalk (appleip) Privacy-Enhanced Electronic Mail (pem) Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (wnils) 6. A total of 171 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of February, 1996: Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol (pppext) o PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification (ipatm) o IP over ATM: A Framework Document (cat) o The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support (rtfm) + Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB (nimrod) o The Nimrod Routing Architecture (ipatm) o Support for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks. (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast -- Protocol Specification (bmwg) o Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 (ipngwg) o An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format (dnsind) o Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS (cat) o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (IDUP-GSS-API) (uri) o Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50 (mobileip) o Route Optimization in Mobile IP (dnsind) o A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY) (wts) o The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol (none) o Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) (dnsind) o Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE) Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 (nimrod) o Mobility Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches (nimrod) o Multicast Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches (ipsec) o The Photuris Session Key Management Protocol (rolc) o NHRP Protocol Applicability Statement (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 (ipsec) o Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) (aft) o GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5 (rip) o RIPng for IPv6 (cat) o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface: C-bindings (mimesgml) o Encapsulating SGML Documents Using the Multipart/Related Content-Type (ipngwg) o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) (isdnmib) o ISDN Management Information Base (http) + Byte Range Retrieval Extension to HTTP (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Architecture (none) o TELNET CHARSET Option (vgmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Interfaces (http) o Persistent HTTP Connections (cat) o Simple GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (mixer) o Equivalences between X.400 and RFC-822 Message Bodies (cat) o PEM-Based IDUP Mechanism (PIM) (atommib) o Definitions of Textual Convention and OBJECT-IDENTITY Objects for ATM Management (cat) + The FIPS PUB JJJ Entity Authentication GSS-API Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 Mechanism (none) + Telnet Authentication and Encryption Option (html) o HTML Tables (none) + Telnet Authentication and Encryption: GSSAPI Option (asid) o Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and a Object Class to Hold public PGP keys. (html) o Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 (rip) o Triggered Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits (ipatm) o IPv6 and Neighbour Discovery over ATM (ipatm) o Classical IP and ARP over ATM (poised95) o The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3 a proposed revision of part of RFC 1602 (poised95) o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees (grip) o Expectations for Security Incident Response (mimesgml) o Using SGML Open Catalogs and MIME to Exchange SGML Documents (isdnmib) o Dial Control Management Information Base (none) o The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type (none) o ISO Transport Service on top of TCP (ITOT) (ipngwg) o Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 (none) o The Text/HTML content type and the Content-Location MIME header or Sending HTML documents via MIME e-mail (poised95) + The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 (isn) o Frequently Asked Questions for Schools (intserv) o Intgrated Services Management Information Base (none) o A Framework for IPv6 Over ATM (pppext) o PPP EAP RSA Public Key Authentication Protocol (ipsec) o ICMP Security Failures Messages (rsvp) o RSVP Management Information Base (ipatm) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (intserv) o Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service (ipngwg) o Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices (ids) o The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 For IP Version 6 (none) o The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (none) o Multiple Response Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (mobileip) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Foreign Agent function of IP Mobility Support (mobileip) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Mobile Node function of IP Mobility Support (mobileip) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Home Agent function of IP Mobililty Support (mobileip) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Security function of IP Mobility Support (msgway) o Proposed Specification for the MessageWay Protocol (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 over PPP Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 (none) o The ESP DES-CBC plus MD5 Transform (none) o The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1 (pppext) o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) (poised95) o IETF-ISOC relationship (none) o Proposed RSVP Extensions for IPSEC IPv4 Data Flows (ifmib) o The Interfaces Group MIB (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Applications (pppext) o Level Two Forwarding (Protocol) "L2F" (none) o GZIP file format specification version 4.3 (none) o ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3 (none) o DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 (none) + Support for Sparse Mode PIM over ATM (dhc) + Procedure for Defining New DHCP Options (none) + INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0 Bundle Interface Type (dnsind) o Serial Number Arithmetic (dhc) + Interaction between DHCP and DNS (none) + The Mobility Agent Configuration Option to PPP IP Control Protocol (IPCP) (none) + "Data: URL scheme" (bmwg) + Benchmarking Methodology for Ethernet Switches (none) + RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Stream (ipngwg) o Identifying Interfaces in IPv6 link-local addresses (dhc) o Authentication for DHCP Messages Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 (dhc) o An Extension to the DHCP Option Codes (dhc) + FQDN DHCP Option (wts) + Security Extensions For HTML (none) + Preference for Broadcast Datagram Support with Mobile IP (rtfm) + Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture (bridge) + Managed Objects for Bridges defined using the SNMPv2 SMI (none) o Protected Best Effort Service (none) + IPv6 over NBMA Networks (none) + Header Compression for IPv6 (none) + Dynamic Reassignment of IP Addresses for TCP and UDP (dhc) + Extensions for DHCPv6 (none) + A design for caching in HTTP 1.1 Preliminary Draft (dnsind) + Selection of Secondary DNS Servers (dnsind) + Clarifications to the DNS Specification (none) + Packaging Aggregate HTML Objects Inside MIME (none) + Multi-homing Support in IPv6 (ipsec) + The Oakley Key Determination Protocol (pier) + RFI: Enterprise Network Renumbering (none) + MIME with the Message Security Protocol (userglos) + Internet Users' Glossary (dnsind) + Scheduled Expiration of DNS Resource Records (bridge) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Source Routing Bridges in the SNMPv2 SMI (bridge) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Source Routing Bridges (none) + TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 (none) + WHOIS++ URL Specification (idmr) + Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (ipsec) + SKIP extension for Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) (pppext) + PPP Protocol Spoofing Control Protocol (PSCP) (none) + Providing Integrated Services in the Presence of Layer-2 Frame Switching Devices (none) + Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) - NBMA (none) + Multi-party Security Contexts Within the GSS-API (ipsec) + Combined DES-CBC, MD5 and Replay Prevention Security Transform (none) + Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol Specification for IPv4 Version 1.0 (none) + The Transmission of Flow Labelled IPv4 on ATM Data Links Version 1.0 (find) + The Common Indexing Protocol (none) + IP Mobility Support with IP-squared(IP2) (none) + Multicast Server Architectures for MARS-based ATM multicasting. (pkix) + Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part I: X.509 Certificate and CRL Profile (none) + Multicast Inscalability over Large Cloud (nimrod) + Nimrod Functionality and Protocol Specifications, Version 1 (dnssec) + Detached Domain Name System Information (mmusic) + Simple Conference Invitation Protocol (dnssec) + Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update (none) + Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for ATM Networks (none) + VEMMI URL Specification (none) + Proposed Content Negotiation Definitions for HTTP/1. Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 (pppext) + PPP LCP Extensions (none) + Proposed HTTP State Management Mechanism (none) + Managed Objects for Managing the Collection and Storage of ATM Accounting Information (none) + Notification for Proxy Caches (none) + Extended Log File Format (none) + IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response (none) + User Location Service (none) + Session Identification URI (none) + PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 0.95 (none) + Support for RSVP-based Service over an ATM Network (cidrd) + Suggestions for Market-Based Allocation of IP Address Blocks (none) + Multicast Routing over ATM (rps) + Geographic Location Extension to Ripe-181 (none) + Preference for Multicast Support with Mobile IP (ipsec) + DSS Profile for X.509 Certificates (rsvp) + RSVP Diagnostic Messages 7. There were 14 RFCs published during the month of February, 1996: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1895 I (none) The Application/CALS-1840 Content-type RFC1896 I (none) The text/enriched MIME Content-type RFC1898 I (none) CyberCash Credit Card Protocol Version 0.8 RFC1900 I (none) Renumbering Needs Work RFC1909 E (none) An Administrative Infrastructure for SNMPv2 RFC1910 E (none) User-based Security Model for SNMPv2 Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 RFC1911 E (none) Voice Profile for Internet Mail RFC1912 I (none) Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors RFC1913 PS (wnils) Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service RFC1914 PS (wnils) How to interact with a Whois++ mesh RFC1915 B (none) Variance for The PPP Connection Control Protocol and The PPP Encryption Control Protocol RFC1916 I (pier) Enterprise Renumbering: Experience and Information Solicitation RFC1917 B (cidrd) An Appeal to the Internet Community to Return Unused IP Networks (Prefixes) to the IANA RFC1918 B (cidrd) Address Allocation for Private Internets St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES In February, we started porting our production servers to Solaris. The porting process takes some time, since all applications must be tested on the new operating system to make sure the setup was done properly. In addition, some applications (notably Archie) require that databases be rebuilt because we are using new versions of the software. This means that the server being converted to Solaris will be out of service for an extended period. This should not bother users connecting to ds.internic.net, since they will reach one of the servers that is still up. If users connect to a specific server, either by name (i.e. ds1.internic.net instead of the general ds.internic.net) or by specific address, they will see outages. Users may also see problems if they have bookmarks or other saved pointers to a specific machine. The first server to be upgraded is ds1. It will be followed by ds0 and ds2. We will never intentionally take down more than one of our servers at a time. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html by Rick Huber Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ---------------------- The US Domain Registry has installed a client/server Rwhois protocol to support the US Domain WHOIS information. We register third level delegations. For example, K12.IL.US, TACOMA.WA.US, or STATE.MN.US would have entries in the US WHOIS database. To look up a US domain name, do the following: whois -h nii.isi.edu We request all third level subdomain administrators of the US Domain to operate a RWHOIS server for those subdomains under them. See http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/RWhois Sources and Information for more information. For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or browse our WEB page: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 1180 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 1680 DELEGATIONS 76 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS: 350 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1257 --------------------------- Total 1680 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and "us-domain-delegated.txt" below. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 35 32 47 37 23 23 9 2 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================= DST.WA.US District, Washington GEN.IA.US General, Iowa LOCALITIES ========== CENTRALIA.WA.US CHEHALIS.WA.US HOT-SPRINGS.AR.US VENTURA.CA.US MAIN.NC.US SACKETS-HARBOR.NY.US LAKE.OH.US NEWBERG.OR.US LEE.FL.US NORTH-POLE.NY.US OSAKALOOSA.IA.US SPRINGDALE.AR.US NEWPORT-NEWS.VA.US SEYMOUR.CT.US SOUTHBURY.CT.US WALLINGFORD.CT.US WATERBURY.CT.US OXFORD.CT.US WOODBRIDGE.CT.US WOLCOTT.CT.US WEST-HAVEN.CT.US MERIDEN.CT.US MIDDLEBURY.CT.US MADISON.CT.US HAMDEN.CT.US GUILFORD.CT.US DERBY.CT.US BETHANY.CT.US BRANFORD.CT.US ANSONIA.CT.US BEACON-FALLS.CT.US PENSACOLA.FL.US PROSPECT.CT.US ORANGE.CT.US NORTH-HAVEN.CT.US NEW-HAVEN.CT.US NORTH-BRANFORD.CT.US NAUGATUCK.CT.US GALLUP.NM.US CERRITOS.CA.US NOBLESVILLE.IN.US NEWTOWN.PA.US NORTHAMPTON.PA.US WINFIELD.AL.US HENNIKER.NH.US RUNNELLS.IA.US DEXTER.IA.US WINDSOR-HEIGHTS.IA.US ALTOONA.IA.US PLEASANT-HILLS.IA.US GRIMES.IA.US CANDLER.NC.US CHARLESTOWN.MA.US FITCHBURG.WI.US GRANTS.NM.US KENWOOD.CA.US WINDSOR.CA.US COTATI.CA.US VALLEY-FORD.CA.US GUERNEEVILLE.CA.US GEYSERVILLE.CA.US BODEGA-BAY.CA.US DANA-POINT.CA.US WATSONVILLE.CA.US Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 CASTROVILLE.CA.US SALINAS.CA.US ST-PETERS.MO.US ANNAPOLIS.CA.US HEALDSBURG.CA.US ROHNERT-PARK.CA.US SEBASTOPOL.CA.US PETALUMA.CA.US OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- TOWNHALL.CI.BURLINGTON.MA.US GOLDEN.ASPEN.CO.US RPL.LIB.AR.US CO.VOLUSIA.FL.US CI.KNIGHTDALE.NC.US GATEWAY.CHAUTAUQUA.NY.US MIRAGE.ANGOLA.IN.US CI.VICKSBURG.MS.US WALKER.RESTON.VA.US CI.BENTON-HARBOR.MI.US RCPL.LIB.CA.US CO.WARREN.OH.US CI.EL-CERRITO.CA.US CITY.VIRGINIA-BEACH.VA.US WWW.VIRGINIA-BEACH.VA.US CO.DOUGLAS.NE.US RESPLAN.JAMESTOWN.NY.US FLDDSO.ELMIRA.NY.US EDC.CI.BERLIN.CT.US LIB.CI.CLEARWATER.FL.US QUINNCOM.PBG.FL.US CO.MOHAVE.AZ.US CI.PBG.FL.US BUENA-PARK.LIB.CA.US TWP.PINE.PA.US OTBSVCS.GARRARD.KY.US CO.WEBER.UT.US NCDS.NEWTON.MA.US CO.NAPA.CA.US WWW.CI.VIDOR.TX.US CC.SOUTH-FORK.CO.US 2600.MIDDLE-ISLAND.NY.US NEONET.CC.OK.US CI.SAN-MARCOS.CA.US CI.WILKINSBURG.PA.US CI.MARTINEZ.CA.US CI.MADERA.CA.US BARFING-YAK.ANAHEIM.CA.US KAUFMAN.BOSTON.MA.US MCAG.COG.CA.US CI.WILLIAMSBURG.VA.US CI.BARTLETT.TN.US NORTH-OK.CC.OK.US AQUINAS.LA-CROSSE.WI.US WINDROSE.OMAHE.NE.US OEM.CO.BURLINGTON.NJ.US RED-AGNES.LA.CA.US RED-HERRING.LA.CA.US UNIONSANITARY.DST.CA.US DRAGON.SLC.UT.US CONNECTNET.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US CI.CARTERET.NJ.US CO.BROOME.NY.US CI.ONTARIO.CA.US CI.FROSTBURG.MD.US CI.RICHMOND.VA.US CHAMBER.BLOUNT.TN.US CI.WATAUGA.TX.US WYOMINGTECH.TEC.WY.US CI.DANVILLE.CA.US OHWW.NORMAN.OK.US BOB.NASHVILLE.TN.US CO.KENT.MI.US CI.MIAMI-BEACH.FL.US FAULKNER.CC.AL.US SPUDNIK.MOSCOW.ID.US COVINA.LIB.CA.US REQUIEM.SANTA-MONICA.CA.US CI.LOMPOC.CA.US CI.ASHEVILLE.NC.US CI.BILLINGS.MT.US Ann Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. A new set of Routing Arbiter Web pages takes users step-by-step through the process of registering in the Routing Arbiter Database and establishing a peering session with Route Servers at the NAPs. The materials introduce the RADB and other registries based on the RIPE-181 specification and explain how to specify various routing policies in the RADB. A series of forms and templates then automates the process of obtaining an AS number from the InterNIC and an IP address for the user's router at the NAP. The materials are available at: http://www.ra.net/nap_customer The new worksheets were presented at a workshop for NAP customers following the sixth North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting, hosted by the San Diego Supercomputer Center on February 15-16. Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the meeting. They are available through Merit's Web site, http://www.merit.edu/~nanog. Bill Norton moderated the meeting, which featured the following presentations: > Updates from the Interconnection Points --PacBell NAP (Warren Williams, PacBell) --Sprint NAP (Bilal Chinoy, SDSC) --MAE East, MAE West (Steve Feldman, MFS Datanet) --MAE-Phoenix, Tucson NAP (Dave Siegel, RTD Systems & Networking --Ameritech NAP (John Scudder, Ameritech) > Application of the BGP Community in Multi-home Routing (Enke Chen, internetMCI) > Network Analysis and Statistics (Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC) > Information Caching (Hans-Werner Braun, Peter Danzig, USC, and Donald Neal, Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand) > IPv6 Transition: Update for Operators & Providers (Bob Gilligan, Sun) > Large-scale Autorenumbering in IPv6 (Allison Mankin, ISI) > Data Over Cable & the @home Network (Milo Medin, @home) > Internet Routing Study & TCP Dynamics Analysis (Vern Paxson, Lawrence Berkeley Lab) > Coordination & Authorization Issues in IP Address Allocation and Delegation (Randy Bush, RGnet) > RA Update --Elise Gerich, Merit --Ramesh Govindan, ISI --Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 --Satish Kumar, ISI > Framework for a Global Hierarchical Multicast (Robert Voigt, Naval Postgraduate School) > DVMRP/PIM Pilot Project (Dave Meyer, Univ. of Oregon) > DVMRP/PIM Updates to GateD (Sue Hares, Merit) > Proposal for Route Advertisement Charging (Yakov Rekhter, Cisco) > Collaborations in Internet Security: Federal Initiatives (Phil Dykstra, Army Research Lab) > PIER IP Address Survey (Bill Manning, ISI) > Draining the Swamp: A Survey of Usage in 192/8 (Suzanne Woolf, ISI) January and February's efforts to identify, correct, and remove inaccurate or obsolete AS objects from the Routing Arbiter Database have significantly improved the accuracy of data in the RADB. After working with the individuals authorized to modify the AS's database records, the RADB staff removed from the database 179 AS objects that were duplicated in other IRR registries and had no policy information (i.e., no as-in and as-out definitions). Almost all of these objects were remnants of the May 1995 transition from the Policy Routing Database to the Routing Arbiter Database. Among the RADB AS objects that are not duplicated in another IRR registry, 120 have policy information and 324 do not. Those non-duplicated AS objects without policy lines will be retained in the RADB to serve as input for global routing tools. New Route Server peering sessions were established this month by IConNet, CWInet, HLCnet, MFSnet, and Scruz-Net. More than 39 providers are now peering with the RSs at the interconnection points. For a complete list of peers, see: http://www.ra.net/statistics/bgp.peers Bill Norton and Elise Gerich attended an NSF workshop on Internet Statistics Measurement and Analysis this month. Discussion topics included characterization of the Internet work load, Internet measurement infrastructure, flow characterization and control, scaling, security, and pricing. Gerich also attended a meeting of the Engineering and Operations Working Group/FEPG. At a workshop focusing on future directions for U.S. Internet registries, she moderated a panel on DNS administration and IP address allocation. The workshop was sponsored by NSF and hosted by the CIX. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 CALENDAR -------- Last update 03/12/96 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 - The 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Systems, Modelling and Analysis originally scheduled for March 14-17, 1996 has been moved to March 21-24, 1996. Nashville, TN. 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) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.8) 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 22] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 ********************************************************************** 1996 ---- Mar. 11-13 Wkshp on Network Security Firewalls & Internet Svs. New York, NY Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '96 QLogic San Diego, CA Mar. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hyatt Regency La Jolla, CA Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Mar. 20 Commercenet Washington DC Mar. 20-23 1st ACM Int'l Conference on Digital Libraries Bethesda, MD Mar. 21-24 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Syst. Modeling & Analysis Nashville, TN Mar. 25-28 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Mar. 24-28 IEEE Infocom '96 Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Apr. 1-4 Internet World Brazil '96 Rio de Janiero, Brazil Apr. 1-5 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV Apr. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (Firm) Palm Springs, CA Apr. 11-12 2nd ACM/SIGRAPH Conf. on Assistive Tech. ASSETS'96 Vancouver, Canada Apr. 11-14 IEEE SOUTHEASTCON '96 Tampa, FL Apr. 15-19 ATM Forum Anchorage, Alaska Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 17 Commercenet (and FSTC) San Francisco, CA Apr. 18-19 34th ACM Southeast Conference Tuskegee, Al>abama Apr. 28-May 1 EMA Annual Conference Anaheim, CA Apr. 29-May 3 Spring Internet World '96 San Jose, CA May 5-9 Object World East Boston, MA May 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '96 Adaptec Ft. Lauderdale, FL May 6-10 5th Int'l WWW Conference Paris, France May 7-10 1st Annual Conf. Emerging Tech & Appl in Communications Portland, OR May 6-8 IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy Oakland, CA May 6-8 ATM Year '96 San Jose, CA May 8-10 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Oakland, CA May 13-15 ADL '96 Forum: Forum on Research & Tech. Adv. in Digital Libraries Washington, DC May 13-16 7th Joint European Ntwk Conf. Budapest, Hungary May 13-17 5th UNIX Sys. Admn, Ntwkng Security Symp. Washington, DC May 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO May 15-17 Internet World Japan '96 Makuhari Messe, Japan May 16 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 May 21-23 Internet World Intntl '96 London, England May 23-24 3rd Intntl Wkshp on Community Networking (Tentative) Antwerpen, Belgium May 28-31 Internet World Korea '96 Seoul, Korea Jun. 3-5 18th Biennial Symposium on Communications Kingston, Ont, Canada Jun. 3-7 OMG TC (DISA, NSA) Washington, DC Jun. 4-6 Internet World Mexico '96 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 6 Commercenet Boston, MA Jun. 10-14 ATM Forum Orlando, FL Jun. 10-14 NetWorld+Interop Frankfurt, Germany Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Santa Fe, NM Jun. 10-15 Americas TELECOM '96 Rio de Janeiro Jun. 11-13 EMail World & Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jun. 11-14 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 San Jose, CA Jun. 17-21 2nd Conf. Object-Oriented Technologies & Sys. (COOTS) Toronto, Ont, Canada Jun. 18-21 Object World United Kingdom London, England Jun. 23-27 1st Intntl IEEE Wkshp on Enterprise Ntwkg - w/ICC SUPERCOM'96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-27 ICC '96/SUPERCOMM'96 Dallas, TX Jun. 25-28 INET '96 Montreal, Canada Jun. 24-28 36th IETF Montreal, Canada Jun. 28-29 Asia Pacific Networking Montreal, Canada Jul. 8-12 IEEE 802 '96 Univ of Twente Enschede, Netherlands Jul. 10-13 4th TCL/TK Workshop (TCL/TK 96) Monterey, CA Jul. 11-14 Virtual Reality World & VRML World San Jose, CA Jul. 15-18 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Jul. 15-19 ANSI X3T10 '96 Symbios Logic Colorado Springs, CO Jul. 15-19 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan Jul. 17 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Jul. 19-22 Internet World Korea '96 Seoul, Korea Jul. 22-25 6th USENIX Security Symposium San Jose, CA Jul. 26-28 Internet World Home Expo '96 San Jose, CA Jul 29-Aug 2 OMG TC (Telefonica I+D) Madrid, Spain Aug. 5-8 Internet World Brazil '96 Sao Paulo, Brazil Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Boulder, CO area Aug. 12-16 12th Europ. Conf. on AI (ECAI) Budapest, Hungary Aug. 14-15 Web Developer '96 Dallas, TX Aug. 18-21 Object World West San Jose, CA Aug. 19-23 ATM Forum Baltimore, MD Aug. 20-22 Int. World Australia Pacific Sydney, Australia Aug. 21 Commercenet Pittsburgh, PA Aug. 25-28 8th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metro. Area Networks Berlin, Germany Aug. 26-30 SIGCOMM '96 Stanford, CA Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 Aug. 27-30 Object World Australia Sydney, Australia FALL NSC'96 - Network Services Conf. Bled, Slovenia Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 ANSI X3T10 '96 Digital Natick, MA Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 13-17 10th USENIX Syst. Admin Conference (LISA '96) Chicago, IL Sep. 10-12 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 16-20 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 16-20 OMG TC (Software 2000) Hyannis, MA Sep. 17-19 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Washington, DC Sep. 18 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Sep. 25-27 Internet World Philippines '96 Manila, Philippines Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ontario, CA Oct. 2-4 Object World Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Oct. 7-11 ATM Forum Montreux, Switzerland Oct. 7-11 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Oct. 7-11 Performance 96 Conference Lausanne, Switzerland Oct. 9-11 Object World Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 15 Commercenet New Orleans, LA Oct. 21-25 ICECCS'96 (held jointly with 6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW) Montreal, Canada Oct. 28-Nov. 1 NetWorld+Interop London, England Oct. 29-Nov. 1 2nd USENIX Symp. Operating Sys. Design & Implement. (OSIDI II) Seattle, WA Nov. 1996 OMG TC (Groupe Bull) Nice, France Nov. 4-7 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Nov. 4-8 ANSI X3T10 '96 Western Digital Palm Springs, CA Nov. 10-12 2nd annual of ACM's MobiCom '96 Rye, New York Nov. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hotel Vancouver Vancouver, BC Canada Nov. 12-15 3rd Int'l Conf. on Multimedia Modeling Toulouse, France Nov. 13 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Nov. 18-20 2nd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce Oakland, CA Nov. 18-22 ACM Multimedia '96 Boston, MA Nov. 18-22 IEEE Globecom 96 London, England Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Nov. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 TBD Dec. 2-6 ATM Forum Vancover, BC Dec. 4-6 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 Boston, MA Dec. 9-12 Internet World '96 Baltimore, MD Dec. 9-13 37th IETF San Jose, CA Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Dec. 10-13 Fall Internet World '96 New York, NY Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report February 1996 Dec. 13 Commercenet Albuquerque, NM 1997 ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 6-10 USENIX '97 Annual Technical Conf. Anaheim, CA Jan. 7-10 13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf on Systems Sciences Maui, Hawaii Jan. 28-30 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Orlando, FL Mar. 1-5 ACM '97: The Next 50 yrs. of Computing San Jose, CA Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 '97 Irvine?/Albuquerque? Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Apr. 7-11 38th IETF Memphis, TN May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) 1998 ----------- Spring 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary 1999 ----- Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Cooper [Page 26]