April 1997 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR-ED@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ IMR Editor [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- Internet Monthly Report for April 1. The IETF returns to Europe for the summer meeting in Munich, Germany from August 11-15, 1997. Our hosts for this meeting will be Digi/ISOC.DE. The final meeting of the year will be held in the D.C. area, hosted by Newbridge. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meetng sites can always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL is: http://www.ietf.org/ 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF shadow directories in the iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: March 20, 1997 (iesg.97-03-20) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following two Protocol Actions during the month of April: o URN Syntax for publication as a Proposed Standard. o MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES AND FUNCTIONS for publication as a Proposed Standard. 4. 25 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of April: o RSVP Cryptographic Authentication for consideration as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 o Integrated Services Management Information Base for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o General Characterization Parameters for Integrated Service Network Elements for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A One-Time Password System for consideration as a Draft Standard. o OSPF Version 2 for consideration as a Standard. o Integrated Services Management Information Base Guaranteed Service Extensions for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The TLS Protocol Version 1.0 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Network Element Service Specification Template for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on Deployment for consideration as an Informational RFC. o RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows for consideration as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 o Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Kitchen Sink Resource Record for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Management Information Base for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IPv6 Router Alert Option for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Message Processing Rules for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Telnet Comport Control Option for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The "data" URL scheme for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data for consideration as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 5. There were 107 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of April: (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol (none) o Routing Aspects Of IPv6 Transition (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management (none) o Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol MIB (cat) o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface: C-bindings (none) o Common NNTP Extensions (cat) o The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (mixer) o Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message Bodies (ion) o Classical IP and ARP over ATM (none) o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) (ids) o A Common Schema for the Internet White Pages Service (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (http) o PEP - an Extension Mechanism for HTTP (applmib) o Definitions of System-Level Managed Objects for Applications (ion) o Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) (none) o Internet Security Transform Enhancements (ids) o Best Current Practice for the Internet White Pages Service (none) o TCP Control Block Interdependence (oncrpc) o RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 (none) o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (ipngwg) o IPv6 Router Alert Option IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 (agentx) o Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 (none) o VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names (stdguide) o Guide for Internet Standards Writers (otp) o OTP Extended Responses (none) + The TACACS+ Protocol (mboned) o Administratively Scoped IP Multicast (none) o Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 (none) o PDC/NetApp Backup Protocol (ion) + Inverse Address Resolution Protocol (none) o PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2 (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for HPR (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for DLUR (none) o The Kitchen Sink Resource Record (rps) o Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) (drums) o Message Format Standard (none) o Telnet Comport Control Option (none) o IP over MAPOS Version 1 (none) o IMAP4 Referrals (calsch) o Core Object Specification - Issues Document (none) o MAPOS - Multiple Access Protocol over SONET/SDH Version 1 (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - Class F (ion) + Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM using Sparse Mode PIM IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 (none) o APPN Implementer's Workshop Closed Pages Document DLSw v2.0 Enhancements (radius) o RADIUS Server MIB (radius) o RADIUS Client MIB (none) o IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice (asid) o The LDAP URL Format (asid) o The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters (none) o A Stream Cipher Encryption Algorithm (none) + RETHER : A Protocol for Real-Time Traffic Support on Ethernet (dhc) + An Inter-server Protocol for DHCP (none) + Data Over Cable Service (DOCS) Radio Frequency (RF) Interface Management Information Base (MIB) (ion) + A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP (ion) + A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP (none) + UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646 (none) + NETBLT (Network Block Transfer Protocol) (asid) + An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service (none) + Switched Fabric Connection Tap (SFCT) Protocol (none) + SBCD Protocol Specification (none) + Address Resolution and Location Discovery (ARLD) Protocol (none) + Loop-free Interswitch Message Path (LSMP) Protocol (none) + Network Security For Large Trade Shows (none) + Network Security For Large Trade Shows (find) + Hierarchical Extensions to the Common Indexing Protocol IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 (asid) + LDAP Control Extension for Server Side Sorting of Search Results (none) + HTTP based Spatial and Temporal Searching. (intserv) + A Measurement Based Admission Control Algorithm for Controlled-Load Service (none) + IPSEC File Import/Export Format (none) + SIEVE: A Mail Filtering Language (none) + Hierarchical HTTP Routing Protocol (none) + HTTP/1.1 Operation without a Clock (none) + The Java LDAP Application Program Interface (urn) + Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names (acap) + ACAP TYPE Extension (none) + Comparison of Tag Switching and Cell Switch Router (none) o XODL: External Object Description Language (none) + Application of Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 (disman) + Event MIB (none) + A MAPOS version 1 Extension - Switch-Switch Protocol (disman) + Expression MIB (disman) + Management Target MIB (disman) + Notification MIB (mboned) + Administratively Scoped IP Multicast (rsvp) + Partial Service Deployment in the Integrated Services Architecture (none) + Schema for Storing Calendaring Information in a Directory Service (none) + A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools and Utilities (none) + The CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 (none) + MAPOS Version 1 Assigned Numbers (none) + A MAPOS version 1 Extension - Switch-Switch Protocol (ipsec) + The ESP RC5-CBC Algorithm (acap) + ACAP Datatyping and Datatyping Discovery (none) + E-Mail Headers to Facilitate Mailing List Subscriptions and Unsubscriptions (none) + THE TRANSMISSION OF IP OVER THE VERTICAL BLANKING INTERVAL OF A TELEVISION SIGNAL (none) + DHCP Options For Host System Characteristics (snmpv3) + Architecture for the Next Generation Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPng) (printmib) + Job Monitoring MIB - V0.81 (avt) + RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video (none) + Security-Oriented Extension to Mobile IP (SOMIP) (none) + Referral Whois (RWhois) Protocol V1.5 (none) + SNDM Protocol Specification (none) + IP Header Compression over PPP (snmpv3) + Local Processing Model for the Next Generation (none) + IMAP4 Namespace IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 7. 13 RFCs were published during this period RFC2100 I (none) The Naming of Hosts RFC2116 I (ids) X.500 Implementations Catalog-96 RFC2129 I (none) Toshiba's Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (FANP) Specification RFC2130 I (none) The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996 RFC2131 DS (dhc) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol RFC2132 DS (dhc) DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions RFC2133 I (ipngwg) Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 RFC2135 I (none) Internet Society By-Laws RFC2136 PS (dnsind) Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE) RFC2137 PS (dnssec) Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update RFC2138 PS (radius) Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) RFC2139 I (radius) RADIUS Accounting RFC2140 I (none) TCP Control Block Interdependence IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES Current Status April: Email: 372,040 Phone: 49,305 Updates: 145,812 Gopher connections: 203,907 retrievals: 457,367 WAIS connections: 773,665 retrievals: 410,002 FTP connections: 1,104,582 retrievals: 2,211,133 Telnet: 1,263,547 Http: 57,626,159 Whois Queries: 19,814,905 Total Registrations: 116,366 Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES As planned, we moved our primary server to a new location on April 25. The primary server was out of service for most of the day, but both backups were available. The Netfind Seed Database for April contains about 1.3 million entries. Growth was somewhat less than normal since we changed the database generation process to improve the accuracy of the database. We continue to generate the database from data maintained by the registries, but we also check to see if the domain name defined by the record actually exists in DNS. Since this check requires a large number of DNS lookups, we do not check every entry every month. We do a different part of the database each month. IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 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 THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY The US Domain registration form is now available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. The US Domain has the maps of all the delegated special domains online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. A new policy has been added regarding the charges for the domain name passed on during delegation. The administrator of the locality has to notify one year in advance before charging for those domains. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2910 PHONE 450 ----------------------------- Total Contacts 3360 IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 DELEGATIONS(3rd level) 149 DELEGATIONS(4th level) 61 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1273 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1877 ----------------------------- Total 3360 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES include referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 52 38 34 47 40 26 26 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== LIB.WY.US. Libraries, Wyoming. LOCALITIES ========== We delegated 149 localities in Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississipi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming this month. IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== OPENDOOR.CORVALLIS.OR.US. CI.TANEYTOWN.MD.US. WATSONVILLE.LIB.CA.US. CITYHALL.CI.CHENOA.IL.US. ADAMS-MORGANf.WASHINGTON.DC.US. DUPONT-CIRCLE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. M-STREET-GEORGETOWN.WASHINGTON.DC.US. NEW-YORK-AVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. MARYLAND-AVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. EMBASSY-ROW.WASHINGTON.DC.US. INDEPENDENCE-AVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. P-STREET.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CONSTITUTION-AVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. POTOMAC-STREET.WASHINGTON.DC.US. NEW-JERSEY-AVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. K-STREET.WASHINGTON.DC.US. VERMONT-AVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. VIRGINIA-AVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. WES-WATKINS.TEC.OK.US. G-STREET.WASHINGTON.DC.US. 14TH-STREET.WASHINGTON.DC.US. 19TH-STREET.WASHINGTON.DC.US. COLUMBUS-CIRCLE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. SCOTT-CIRCLE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. MT-VERNON-CIRCLE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. H-STREET.WASHINGTON.DC.US. THOMAS-CIRCLE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. HAMILTON-PLACE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. LAFAYETTE-SQUARE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. STATE-PLACE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. WEST-EXECUTIVE-DRIVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. E-STREET.WASHINGTON.DC.US. EAST-EXECUTIVE-DRIVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CI.CLAY-CENTER.NE.US. MADISON-DRIVE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CHAMBER.AMHERST.VA.US. TREEBEARD.BONE-CAVE.TN.US. YHSCNJ.HIGHLAND-PARK.NJ.US. ARDMOREPUBLIC.LIB.OK.US. SBVWCD.DST.CA.US. EVRCD.DST.CA.US. RESERVATIONS.CHAMA.NM.US. HCS.HUDSONVILLE.MI.US. CO.CLARKE.VA.US. CI.ISSAQUAH.WA.US. CTSRR.CHAMA.NM.US. HUNT.PORTLAND.OR.US. WPUMC.PORTLAND.OR.US. CI.NORTH-HEMPSTEAD.NY.US. BARRACUDAS.PORTLAND.OR.US. CI.PETERSBURG.NE.US. KEITHWILHITE.SCROGGINS.TX.US. CI.GREENFIELD.NH.US. VERMILIONNET.ORR.MN.US. RESIDENT-DNS.TWINSBURG.OH.US. JAMES.GRAHAM.TX.US. RESIDENT-DNS.VALLEY-CITY.OH.US. CI.WEST-POINT.NE.US. RESIDENT-DNS.CHATHAM.OH.US. AQUACULTURE-SCH.TEC.CT.US. CONNECTICUT-AVENUE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes April 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Two new mailing lists have been created by the Route Server Next Generation project. Both lists were established in response to a discussion at the February 1997 Route Server BOF, held at the San Francisco NANOG. The first list, RS-discuss@merit.edu, provides a forum for discussing Route Server technology, pros and cons of the service, issues with the existing service, and suggestions for improvement. Abha Ahuja, Brad Robertson, Bill Norton, and Jake Khuon of the RSng staff hope that the list will stimulate broad discussion in the Internet community, addressing not only specific RSng issues, but also issues related to the use of Route Servers worldwide. The second list, RS-announce@merit.edu, will be used for announcements of Route Server maintenance and outages. We recommend that all organizations peering with the Route Servers at the exchange points subscribe to this list. To subscribe to the new lists, send a message to majordomo@merit.edu with the following in the body of the message: subscribe rs-discuss or: subscribe rs-announce For more information about the Route Server Next Generation project, see: http://www.rsng.net Merit staff members Sue Hares, Bill Norton, Craig Labovitz, Jerry Winters, and Jake Khuon attended the 38th IETF in Memphis during the week of December 9. Hares, who has been proposed as Chair of the Internet Research Task Force's Routing Research Group, chaired the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group meeting. Labovitz demonstrated the NetNow and ASExplorer tools to ISPs and other researchers. IETF was also the site of an informal Merit GateD Consortium meeting led by Hares. IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 Merit's Routing Arbiter Database support staff is playing an integral role in implementing the next-generation Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL), which will replace RIPE-181 (RFC 1786) as the language used to express routing policy in the RADB and other Internet Routing Registry databases. The new language is being developed by the IETF Routing Policy System Working Group, which is chaired by Cengiz Alaettinoglu of the USC Information Sciences Institute and Daniel Karrenberg of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre. RPSL offers many powerful new capabilities, most notably the ability to express routing policy much more precisely than in RIPE-181. Craig Labovitz' paper, "Internet Routing Instability," has been accepted to SIGCOMM '97. Co-authored with student Robert Malan and Professor Farnam Jahanian of the University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the paper examines the BGP updates exchanged between ISP border routers at the MAE- East, AADS, Sprint, and PacBell NAPs, and at MAE-West. The authors describe several unexpected trends in routing instability, and examine a number of anomalies and pathologies observed in the exchange of inter-domain routing information. The researchers then show that the volume of these routing updates is several orders of magnitude more than expected and that the majority of this routing information is redundant, or pathological. Furthermore, the analysis reveals several unexpected trends and ill-behaved systematic properties in Internet routing. Several explanations for these anomalies are put forth and evaluated with regard to their potential impact on the Internet infrastructure. The National Science Foundation funded much of Labovitz' research as part of Merit's Routing Arbiter project, a partnership with the USC Information Sciences Institute. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- Our CAIRN Link is now operational. A number of IETF WGs were attended in Memphis, as well as LSMA and IDMR being co-chaired. We presented at others, and wrote up the minutes for the new IRTF Reserarch Group on Reliable Multicast. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 IANA REPORT ----------- Here is the IANA monthly report for April 1997: AS Numbers: Blocks 1 Cable Address Blocks 2 Country Codes 2 DHCP Options 1 IPv4 Address Space 3 Media Types 1 Multicast Addresses: Individual 2 Multicast Addresses: Blocks 1 Private Enterprise Numbers 65 Port Assignments 55 SMI Numbers 5 Josh Elliott RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of April, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 4 2 10 | 38 month | | New 22 0 0 0 | 22 | | Processed 5 4 2 2 | 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 17 0 0 8 | 25 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Mary Kennedy IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 CALENDAR -------- Last update 05/08/97 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. 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 (196.4.160.12) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1997 ----------- May 11 TERENA Technical Committee Edinburgh, Scotland May 11-12 TERENA TF and WG Groups Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-15 8th JENC8 Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-15 MWCN '97 First Int'l Workshop on Mobile & Wireless Communications Networks Paris, France IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 May 12-16 IFIP/IEEE San Diego, CA May 13-14 EWOS Assembly Brussels May 15-16 TERENA General Assembly Edinburgh, Scotland May 19-21 NOSSDAV'97 - 7th Int'l Workshop on Ntwk & Oper for Digital Audio & Video St. Louis, MO May 21-23 RIPE 27 Dublin May 21-23 ECMAST'97 (European Conf. on Multimedia Applications, Services, and Techniques Milano, Italy May 27-29 IS&N '97 4th Int'l Conf. on Intelligence in Services & Networks Como, Italy May 28-30 ETW'97 IEEE Europen Test Wrkshop Cagliari,Italy May 28-30 Web Developer '97 Chicago, IL Jun. 2-3 IEEE Internet Computing New Orleans, LA Jun. 2-6 IEEE Multimedia Systems '97 Ottawa, CANADA Jun. 3-5 Internet World Mexico '97 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 6 DANTE Shareholders Amsterdam Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 (joint with ENM) Montreal, CANADA Jun. 9 TERENA Executive Committee Amsterdam Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jun. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (host by Boeing) Seattle, WA Jun. 10-12 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Alexandria, VA Jun. 11-12 IEEE Enterprise Networking Miniconference 1997 (ENM-97) Montreal, CANADA Jun. 16-18 EEMA'97 Netherlands Jun. 16-19 3rd Conf on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS '97) Portland, Oregon Jun. 16-20 EWOS Workshops Brussels Jun. 17 EEMA General Assembly Maastricht Jun. 23 CCIRN Kuala Lumpur Jun. 23-25 4th IEEE Wrkshp on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication Systems (HPCS'97) Sani Beach, Greece Jun. 15-22 Internet Society's Workshop on Network technology for countries in the early stages of Internet networking Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jun. 24 Internet Society's Education (K-12) Workshop Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jun. 24 Internet Society's African Networking Symposium Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jun. 24-27 INET '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 7-11 24th Int'l Colloquium on Automata, Languages & Programming (ICALP '97) Bologna, Italy Jul. 14-17 5th TCL/TK Workshop Boston, MA IMR Editor [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jul. 14-17 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Jul. 17-19 VTIC-97 San Jose CA Jul. 20-25 ATM Forum Montreal, CANADA Jul. 23-26 ACM DL '97 2nd ACM Int'l Conf. on Digital Libraries Philadelphia, PA Jul. 24-25 DMS '97 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (host by Hitachi) Honolulu, HI Aug. 11-15 39th IETF (host by German ISOC) Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Aug. 13-15 IEEE 25th Annual Int'l Computer Software and Application Conference Washington, DC Sep. RIPE28 TBD Sep 2-5 1997 Int'l Conference Intelligent Networks and Intelligence in Networks Paris, France Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland Sep. 10-12 IDMS '97 w/ ACM SIGMM, GMD, IEEE Darmstadt, Germany Sep. 11-12 4th Int'l Workshop on Community Networking (IEEE) Atlanta, Georgia Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Sep. 16-17 EWOS Assembly Brussels Sep. 21-26 ATM Forum Paris, France Sep. 26-30 3rd ACM/IEEE on Mobile Computing & Networking 1997 (MobiCom'97) Budapest, Hungary Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 (host by FSI) Tucson, AZ Oct. 7-10 COMDEX Internet '97 and Object World '97 Internet Forum Europe (IFE) & Object World Frankfurt (OWF) Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 15-17 ACM SIGPLAN - Conf. on Domain-Specific Languages Santa Barbara, CA Oct. 23-24 TERENA General Assembly Madrid Oct. 23-25 ETSI Nice, France Oct. 26-31 LISA '97 - 11th Systems Administration Conference San Diego, CA Oct. 27-31 EWOS Workshops Brussels Oct. 28-31 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols Atlanta, GA Nov. 3-5 Int'l Test Conference 1997 Sheraton Washington Hotel Washington, DC Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 Nov. 3-7 SPIE Int'l Symposium Voice, Video & Data Communications Conf. on Performance & Control of Network System - Special Session on Switching & Traffic Mgmt in High Speed Networks Dallas, TX Nov. 3-7 2nd French/Brazilian Symposium on Distributed System Architectures: Telecommunication Multimedia Architectures Ceara, Brazil Nov. 8-14 ACM MULTIMEDIA '97 Seattle, WA Nov. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary Queen Elizabeth, Montreal Nov. 12-13 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Brussels Nov. 19-21 ICCC'97 Cannes, France Nov. 24-26 PROMSMmNet '97 Multimedia Networking Santiago, Chile Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-3 30th IEEE/ACM Int'l Symposium on Microarchitecture RTC, NCA Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 2-3 EWOS Assembly Brussels Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (tentative) Washington, DC Host by NewBridge Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 9-12 WITS (Workshop on Internet Technology and Systems) Monterey, CA TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) 1998 ----------- Jan 6-8 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jan 26-29 7th Security Symposium San Antonio, TX Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum TBA Feb 7-9 DCI'S Internet Expo San Jose, CA Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA Mar. 29-Apr 2 IEEE INFOCOM '98 - Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA Apr. 12-17 WWW7 Brisbane, Australia Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum TBA Apr 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Spring 1998 41st IETF (Tentative) TBD Summer 1998 42nd IETF (Tentative) Chicago, IL Jun 13-17 USENIX '98 Technical Conf. New Orleans, LA Jun 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum TBA IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum TBA Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov. 30-Dec 4 ATM Forum TBA Dec. 6-11 12th Systems Administration Conf. (LISA '98) Boston, MA 1999 ----- Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA May 31-Jun 4 WWW8 Toronto, CANADA Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland IMR Editor [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 TERENA CALENDAR OF EVENTS -------------------------- 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 . ********************************************************************** NAME / DATE LOCATION TERENA General Assembly GA7 15-16 May Edinburgh GA8 23-24 October Madrid TERENA Executive Committee 9 June Amsterdam TERENA Technical Committee 11 May Edinburgh TF and WG Groups 11-12 May Edinburgh TF-TEN 15-16 May Edinburgh Tutorial Meetings 16 May Edinburgh +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CEN/CENELEC/ETSI ---------------- 12-13 November Brussels CCIRN ----- 23 June Kuala Lumpur IMR Editor [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 DANTE Shareholders ------------------ 6 June Amsterdam EEMA ---- General Assembly 17 June Maastricht ETSI ---- Seminar 5-7 May Brussels EWOS ---- EWOS Assembly 3, 13-14 May Brussels EWOS Assembly 4, 16-17 September " EWOS Assembly 5, 2-3 December " Workshops 38: 16-20 June Brussels 39: 27-31 October " IETF --- 39, 11-15 August Munich, Germany 40, 8-12 December (tentative) Washington, DC 43, 6-11 December 1998 Adelaide, Australia NATO ---- Workshop 5-9 May Edinburgh RIPE ---- RIPE27 21-23 May Dublin RIPE28 September tbd IMR Editor [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference "Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape" 12-15 May Edinburgh, Scotland This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele-communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications, and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is currently being developed Subject Areas: * Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering * User Support, Training and Education * Security and Management Issues * Information Systems and Distributed Applications * Economic and Political Issues Programme to be found on: http://www.terena.nl/conf/jenc8/programme-main.html For further information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 email: http://www.terena.nl/jenc8 or JENC8 Local Organization c/o Concorde Services Ltd Unit 5, SECC Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland email: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMR Editor [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 OTHER CONFERENCES The Arab World and the Information Society - Regional Symposium --------------------------------------------------------------- 5-9 May Tunis, Tunisia Organized by ITU and UNESCO, in cooperation with the government of Tunisia and in the framework of RAITNET (Regional Arab Information Technology Network) For information see www site: http://www.irsit.rnrt.tn/symposium and/or email "Flexible Learning on the Information Superhighway 1997" (FLISH97) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 19-20 May Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Including the traditional teaching uses of the Internet (computer conferencing and the Web), will be the whole range of services on the Internest, as well as real-time audio and video services migrating from ISDN and the broadband services. Information and applications obtainable from Hallam University at: fax number +44 114 253 3161 IS&N '97 4th International Conference on Intelligence in Services & Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------- 27-29 May Como, Italy Title: "Technology for Co-operative Competition". The conference will provide a forum for the discussion of issues and the exchange of outstanding technical results related to the engineering of advanced communication services and experiments on their use. Sponsored by the European Commission and Italtel, and supported by ACTS projects in IS&N domain. Further information is available on WWW: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/SONAH/Acts/domain5 IMR Editor [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 Online Cooperation Berlin International Conference on Teleworking --------------------------------------- June Hotel Intercontinental, Berlin, Germany Aims to provide a showcase and forum for leading edge development in cooperation services as well as building on the interest being shown in Europe "online work", cooperation technologies and internet-based sersvices. Organized by ICEF For information email <100770.3.3@compuserve.com> ECOOP'97 11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ------------------------------------------------------- 9-13 June University of Jyvdskyld, Jyvdskyld, Finland For information see www page: http://www.trese.cs.utwente.nl/ecoop97 or http://www.ecoop97.jyu.fi EEMA'97 - Annual Conference and Exhibition Electronic Commerce and Messaging in Europe, "The Premier European Forum for Advanced Business" ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15-18 June Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands Issues of the conference will be: Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services; Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European Initiatives; Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology & Management Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots. For information see www site: http://www.eema.org/ IMR Editor [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 MADEIRA'97 2nd International Distributed Conference on Network Interoperability -------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-18 June Madeira Organized by ACTS project GINA and sponsored by the European commission, this conference is open for all involved in networking solutions for information society. Paper submission by 28 February Contact for information and submissions email Apply for admission by 7 February 1997 to e-mail IMR Editor [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 INET'97 7th Annual Internet Society Conference --------------------------------------- 24-27 June Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education, commerce and societies throughout the world. -information on INET97, the K-12 workshop, the Tutorials, and the associated Developing Countries Workshop, along with an abstract submission form, can be found on the ISOC web page: http://isoc.org/inet or, for information via e-mail: - for details of submission procedure email - for other information email FIRST - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams 9th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Workshop ------------------------------------------------------- 23-27 June Marriott Hotel, Bristol, England This annual workshop is part of FIRST's ongoing program of education and raising awareness for its members and others. Paper submission deadline 15 January For information see: http://www.first.org/ NORDUnet ' 97 - Nordic Internet Conference ------------------------------------------ 29 June - 1 July Reykjavik, Iceland Topics: Organization of the Internet; Internet and Society; Information Services; Internet Technical Development For information see web page: http://www.isnet.is/nordunet97/ or email Sigurdur Jonsson IMR Editor [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 Seminar on Internet and UNIX Security ------------------------------------- 2 July Reykjavik, Iceland Seminar by Rik Farrow, instructor, author of UNIX System Security Information on web page: http://www.isnet.is/nordunet97/ FMOODS'97 - Second IFIP Interrnational Workshop on Formal Methods for Open-based Distributed Systems ----------------------------------------------------- 21-23 July Canterbury, United Kingdom Objective is to provide an integrated forum for the presentation of research in several related fields. Paper submission deadline 14 January 1997 For all information: e-mail or web page: http://alethea.u,c.ac.uk/Dept/Computing/Research/NDS/FMOODS/ ICTE Oslo 1997 4th Annual International Conference on Technology and Education --------------------------------------------------------------- 10-13 August University of Oslo, Norway For all information about the programme/registrations, see web site: http://www.icte.org For queries, email: Eleventh International Unicode Conference & Global Computing Showcase --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-5 September San Jose, CA, USA Software Development and the Internet: Going Global with Unicode (R) This conference will address all issues and topics relating to global computing with Unicode Paper submission by 18 April For information see www site: http://www.unicode.org or email: IMR Editor [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report April 1997 Forum: Europe/North America/Japan Smart Communities : Shaping the Future Economic Development in a Global Information Society ---------------------------------------------------- 8-12 September Nice, France and Rome, Italy (simultanteously) Promoted by DGXIII. Will cover a wide range of issues and development in the field of telecommunications policy and ICT applications. Further informations to become available. IDMS'97 European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10-12 September Darmstadt, Germany In cooperation with ACM SIGM, Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, GMD, IEEE Computer Society and VDE ITG The purpose of this 4th workshop is to provide a forum for the presentation, exploration and discussion of technologies and their advancements in the broad field of interactive distributed multimedia systems. Paper submission due 1 March 1997 For additional information se www: http://www.th-darmstadt.de/idms97 9th Annual EAIE Conference (European Association for International Education) -------------------------------------------------- "Boundaries and Bridges in International Education" 20-22 November Barcelona, Spain For further information contact:the EAIE Secretariat at: email: