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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ Ramos [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Network Solutions Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 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 June, 1998 1. The next meeting of the IETF will be held Chicago August, Illnois from August 24-28, 1998. Our local host is Motorla. The final meeting of 1998, hosted by Microsoft, will be held in Orlando, Florida. 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: June 4, 1998 (iesg.98-06-04) June 18, 1998 (iesg.98-06-18) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following five Protocol Actions during the month of June, 1998: o Guide for Internet Standards Writers for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification for publication as an Experimental Protocol. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 o IETF Criteria For Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols for publication as an Informational RFC. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 UIDPLUS extension for publication as a Proposed Standard. 4. Eight Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of June, 1998: o RSVP over ATM Implementation Guidelines for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM for consideration as an Informational RFC. o XML Media Types for consideration as an Informational RFC. o RSVP over ATM Implementation Requirements for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Interoperation of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed-Service with ATM for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Using SMIv2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Protocol and Managed Objects for TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2 (TN3270E-RT-MIB) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The audio/mpeg Media Type for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. One new working group was created: Internet Open Trading Protocol (trade) Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 And one working group concluded: Procedures for Internet/Enterprise Renumbering (pier) 6. There were 114 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of June, 1998: (wts) o The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol (madman) o Directory Server Monitoring MIB (ospf) o The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (dhc) o Authentication for DHCP Messages (wts) o Security Extensions For HTML (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure X.509 Certificate and CRL Profile (mhtml) o Sending HTML in MIME, an informational supplement to the RFC: MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (svrloc) o Finding Stuff (How to discover services) (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types (none) o Message Submission (ipsec) o The Internet Key Exchange (IKE) (none) o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (issll) o Interoperation of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed-Service with ATM (none) o Internet Calendar Access Protocol (ICAP) (ripv2) o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information (dnsind) o Secret Key Transaction Signatures for DNS (TSIG) (ediint) o MIME-based Secure EDI (ion) o Classical IP to NHRP Transition Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 (mboned) o Administratively Scoped IP Multicast (none) o PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2 (svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Delegation of Management Scripts (svrloc) o An API for Service Location (ippm) o A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM (mmusic) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol (none) o The mailto URL scheme (none) o Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration (none) o VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration (none) o Content Duration MIME Header Definition (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks (run) o DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*) (http) o HTTP State Management Mechanism (none) o Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data (rip) + RIP Version 2 MIB Extension (ippm) o A Packet Loss Metric for IPPM (issll) o RSVP over ATM Implementation Guidelines (aft) o SOCKS Protocol Version 5 (none) + Calendar attributes for vCard and LDAP (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (tn3270e) o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Using SMIv2 Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 (issll) o RSVP over ATM Implementation Requirements (dnsind) o Reserved Top Level DNS Names (ipngwg) o Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules (ip1394) o IPv4 over IEEE 1394 (tn3270e) o Definitions of Protocol and Managed Objects for TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2 (TN3270E-RT-MIB) (none) o When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers (svrloc) o Conversion of LDAP Schemas to and from SLP Templates (none) o URLs for Telephone Calls (none) o Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating Systems, Version 1.0 (manet) o Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET): Routing Protocol Performance Issues and Evaluation Considerations (fax) o GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services v3.11 (none) o SDP syntax for H.263 options (usefor) + Identification of messages delivered via both mail and news (none) o URLs for GSM Short Message Service (smime) o Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol, Version 2 (none) o On-Demand Mail Relay (none) o Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (none) o Time Stamp Protocols (none) o Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs (openpgp) o OpenPGP Message Format Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 (mpls) + The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol (fax) o Extensions to Delivery Status Notifications for Fax (none) o IP Extension for Reliable Multicast (dnsind) o Bigger Domain Name System UDP Replies (idr) o Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option (none) o A Description of the MISTY1 Encryption Algorithm (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Scheduling Management Operations (printmib) o Printer Finishing MIB (pkix) o Internet X.509 Certificate Request Message Format (tcpimpl) o Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window Size (ipfc) + IP and ARP over Fibre Channel (webdav) o Requirements for Advanced Collection Functionality in WebDAV (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Message Formats (none) o The KeyNote Trust Management System (none) o Bay Networks SS7-Internet Gateway Architecture (none) o XML Media Types (none) o PPP LCP extensions for Initial Program load, Discard received, Link Bandwidth and Link Delay measurement (none) + Drop Preference Services (smime) + Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method (none) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Schema for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 (diffserv) + A Framework for Differentiated Services (none) + Class-Based Service Differentiation (webdav) + WebDAV Advanced Collections Protocol (idr) + Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (urn) + Assignment Procedures for the URI Resolution using DNS (RFC2168) (none) + A proposal for Backward ECN for the Internet Protocol (IPv4/IPv6) (none) + Data Certification Server Protocols (none) + Guaranteed Rate in Differentiated Services (none) + The Extended LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIFext) Technical Specification (none) + Bay Networks SS7-Internet Access Signaling Protocol (none) + A taxonomy of multicast security issues (temporary version) (none) + A Web Versioning Protocol (usefor) + Recommendations for generating Message IDs (none) + POP3 XTND Extensions (none) + Event Notification Protocol - ENP (none) + An RTP Simple Multiplexing Transfer Method for Internet Telephony Gateway (none) + HNEWS: An HTTP-Tunneling News Protocol (none) + The hnews URL scheme (none) + The Reliable Signaling Gateway Control Protocol (RSGCP) (none) + Secure, Remote Access over the Internet using IPSec (none) + A Hybrid Authentication Mode for IKE Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 (rsvp) + A Framework for Use of RSVP with Diff-serv Networks (svrloc) + The jndi-drivers Abstract Service Type (none) + TELNET SUPPRESS LOCAL ECHO OPTION (none) + NHRP for Destinations off the NBMA Subnetwork (svrloc) + The Service Agent Service Type (none) + A Protocol For Identifying The Bulk Mail Receipt Preferences of an Electronic Mail Address. (pppext) + L2TP Dynamic Data Window Adjustment (none) + Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) (cat) + Extension to Kerberos V5 For Additional Initial Encryption (snmpv3) + Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet Network Management Framework (none) + Content-Specific Hypertext Transfer Protocol (none) + Where to terminate a phone call 7. Ten RFCs were published during this period: RFC2350 B (grip) Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response RFC2354 I (avt) Options for Repair of Streaming Media RFC2355 DS (tn3270e) TN3270 Enhancements RFC2356 I (mobileip) Sun's SKIP Firewall Traversal for Mobile IP RFC2357 I (none) IETF Criteria For Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols RFC2358 PS (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types RFC2359 PS (none) IMAP4 UIDPLUS extension RFC2360 B (stdguide) Guide for Internet Standards Writers RFC2361 I (none) WAVE and AVI Codec Registries RFC2362 E (idmr) Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- NETWORK SOLUTIONS REPORT ****************************************************** * gopher sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 0 Retrievals: 0 ****************************************************** * wais sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 0 Retrievals: 0 ****************************************************** * whois sessions * ****************************************************** Client Queries: 12251538 Server Queries: 18397859 ****************************************************** * ftp sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 98395 Retrievals: 151296 ****************************************************** * telnet sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 112205 ****************************************************** * mailserver sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 0 ****************************************************** * http sessions * ****************************************************** Retrievals: 17606140 Phones: 64,708 Emails : 771,372 Updates: 258,044 by Ricardo A. Gonzalez Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY The US Domain registration information is available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. Much of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. Recent announcements: About a year ago we raised the possibility that it might be necessary to begin charging for delegations of locality names in the US domain. It turns out that we have avoided that by obtaining further funding through 30-Sep-98. And we have had discussions that will most likely lead to funding for the next year (Oct98 - Sep99) or more from the United States Postal Service (USPS). Since there has been some news about the USPS becoming involved in the US domain today we want to clarify the situation. ISI will need some funds from a new source to continue management of the US domain after 30-Sep-98. Brian Kahin (of the US Government, OSTP) introduced management people in the USPS to me, and we have had some positive meetings, and now have a general understanding that the USPS is interested in supporting our work on managing the US domain at ISI for the year Oct98 - Sep99 (and possibly additional years). No contract as yet, though pre-contract paper work has been exchanged. It may be that in the long run nearly all the country codes will have some government influence acting on their management. Within the US, the USPS is a very unusualy organization in that it is not officially part of the government but an independent non-for-profit corporation, yet closely supervised by the government. If the US Government told the IANA to allocate the US domain to some agency or another there could be a lot of worse choices. The USPS is trying to think of ways to provide additional services through the the US domain. They've asked me to review some of these and there may be some ideas they haven't told me about yet. One of the discussions is about ways to add branches to the US domain to make more desirable to businesses to use names in the US domain. Another idea is that everyone with an address that the USPS can deliver physical mail to could Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 automatically have an email address in the US domain. I think this idea still needs a lot of work to understand all the implications both technically and socially. In managing the postal system the USPS is a very significant user of Internet technology. The following is a brief description of some of their Internet capability. The USPS provides the following information: "The Postal Service currently manages a large information systems network. The USPS manages a class A license for IP addresses (56.X.X.X). Within the internal USPS network are 15 autonomous systems, with 16 areas each, which provide service to up to 34,000 local area networks. When fully deployed, the USPS internal network will provide TCP/IP connectivity to over 150,000 individual networked devices. Within the usps.gov second level domain, the USPS has one primary and sixteen secondary domain name servers which currently handle over 125,000 individual host names. Because of the high bandwidth demands of the digital image traffic used in mail sorting, USPS networks have a total capacity equivalent to over 700 T1 lines. Firewalls between the USPS intranet and the public Internet handle 1.5 million transactions per day at a peak rate of 140,000 transactions per hour, exchanging 14 GB of data in the form of web pages and files. In addition, the USPS, as a non-profit government enterprise, is able to obtain the best technical expertise available from private industry through consulting and contracting arrangements. The USPS organizational structure and supplier outsoucing agreements currently in place can provide services within the existing .us TLD, and will scale readily to handle any growth in future demands." US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2445 PHONE 575 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3020 DELEGATIONS: 75 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1040 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:1905 --------------------------- Total 3020 Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 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 40 37 48 42 26 30 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== There was no third level delegations. The following domains were returned to our management. K12.VA.US. GEN.VA.US. TEC.VA.US. MUS.VA.US. LOCALITIES ========== COLD-SPRING.NY.US. GARRISON.NY.US. ALSIP.IL.US. COCKRELL-HILL.TX.US. GRANDVIEW.WA.US. CROSS-PLAINS.WI.US. GERMANTOWN.OH.US. WEST-CARROLLTON.OH.US. MORAINE.OH.US. OAKWOOD.OH.US. MONROEVILLE.PA.US. MUSKOGEE.OK.US. INDIAN-LAKE.PA.US. GRAND-ISLAND.NY.US. NORTHMONT.OH.US. MILLSTONE.NJ.US. SELMA.CA.US. DE-FOREST.WI.US. EAST-AURORA.NY.US. FISHER.IL.US. CARMEL.NY.US. PLEASANT-VALLEY.NY.US. ISLAND-LAKE.IL.US. OTERO.NM.US. NORTH-ATTLEBORO.MA.US. ACUSHNET.MA.US. WATERFORD.MI.US. NICHOLS.NY.US. KINGS.CA.US. MONROEVILLE.PA.US. KENNER.LA.US. GURNEE.IL.US. Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 We delegated 1 domain under NSN.US. WALKER-RIVER-PAIUTE.NSN.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== ROUTING.NEWVILLE.PA.US. WEBDESIGN.FRASER.MI.US. BELMONTFOREST.CI.ASHBURN.VA.US. BELMONTBUZZ.CI.ASHBURN.VA.US. PRISON.SAN-QUENTIN.CA.US. CO.POWHATAN.VA.US. WSCHOOL.GREENVILLE.MS.US. CI.SOUTHSIDE-PLACE.TX.US. DRIVEN.WYANDOTTE.MI.US. PFAC.MUS.NC.US. FAC.MUS.NC.US. CI.LAKE-MARY.FL.US. CI.LAVA-HOT-SPRINGS.ID.US. CI.BROWNVILLE.NE.US. TWP.FAIRVIEW.PA.US. IN.HOLMDEL.NJ.US. IN.HOWELL.NJ.US. IN.WALL.NJ.US. CAMERON.MIDDLESEX.MA.US. LIGHTHOUSE.PENOBSCOT.ME.US. CI.HEFLIN.AL.US. CI.ROLESVILLE.NC.US. TOWN.QUEENSBURY.NY.US. CI.POMPANO-BEACH.FL.US. IN.SPRING-LAKE.NJ.US. CI.MEDINA.MN.US. CI.DELTONA.FL.US. SHERIFF.CO.POLK.FL.US. CO.FREDERICK.VA.US. CI.HAPPY-VALLEY.OR.US. ALUMNI.JOLIET.IL.US. PA.MARION.FL.US. CI.UNALASKA.AK.US. CI.JANESVILLE.WI.US. CI.GROTTOES.VA.US. CI.DUTCH-HARBOR.AK.US. CO.GALLATIN.MT.US. TOWN.COLONIE.NY.US. INFORMATION.EL-PASO.TX.US. CI.ALMA.MI.US. CI.BROOKLINE.MA.US. PEDDYCORD-FOUNDATION-FOR-AIRCRAFT-CONSERVATION.MUS.NC.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ by Shanthi Ranganathan MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes June 1998 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group. Merit hosted the 13th North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, on June 7-9. Bill Norton of Merit moderated the meeting and Susan Rebecca Harris planned the agenda. Presentations included: - Tools From the Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis Project (Craig Labovitz, Merit) Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 - Notes on Using RED (Random Early Detection) for Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance (Van Jacobson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) - RED Experience and Differentiated Queueing Ebone and Differentiated Queueing (Sean Doran, Ebone) - Differentiated Services: Working Group Update and Viewpoints From the Community (Kathleen Nichols, Bay Networks, moderator) - Priority Service for Internet Traffic (Van Jacobsen) - Differentiated Services: The Managed Expectations Internet (Fred Baker, Cisco) - Diff Serv and QoS Support in Microsoft Hosts (Peter Ford, Microsoft) - The NETPERF.NET Inter-Provider Network Performance Monitoring Project (Avi Freedman, Net Access) - Path and Round-Trip Time Measurements: a New Project at CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) (Daniel McRobb, CAIDA) - IPMA Probe Machines (Craig Labovitz, Merit) - Building Large-Scale Internet Measurement Infrastructure (Vern Paxson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) - Routing Policy System Status (Curtis Villamizar, ANS) - Overview of FBI Computer Investigations (Scott Larson, FBI; Stephen Schmidt, American Information Systems/FBI) - Network-based Denial of Service Attacks (Craig Huegen, Cisco) - What Is a VPN? (Paul Ferguson, Cisco) - Dial-in Virtual Private Networking Using Layer 3 Tunneling (Gary Malkin, Bay Networks) - Broadband VPNs - Outsourcing ISP Services to Cable TV and XDSL Providers (Bruce Perlmutter, Bay Networks) - Using Geosynchronous Satellite for Bandwidth Augmentation, News, and HTTP Broadcast Services (Avi Freedman, Net Access) - Scaling and Other New BGP Features (Mark Turner, Cisco) - American Registry for Internet Numbers (Kim Hubbard, ARIN) - InterNIC Registration Services (Mark Kosters, InterNIC) - Internet2 Update: R/D and Infrastructure (Guy Almes, UCAID) The meeting also featured several tutorials: - Routing Coordination Through the Internet Routing Registry (Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI; Curtis Villamizar, ANS; Jake Khuon, Merit) - Introduction to Multicast (Dave Meyer, Cisco) - Interesting Things to Do With OSPF (Howard Berkowitz) BOFs included: - User Experience and Data from the SkyCache Beta (Doug Mohney, SkyCache) Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 - Internet Monitoring, QoS, and Network Visualization (John Quarterman, Matrix Information and Directory Services) - Planning for a Network Event Reporting Facility (Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates) For more details about this and future meetings, see: http://www.nanog.org/ Craig Labovitz gave a talk titled "Boosting Network Efficiency with Measurement Tools" at NetWorld+Interop '98 in Tokyo. The presentation included a survey of ongoing developments in commercial and research measurement, including the Merit/University of Michigan Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis project (www.merit.edu/ipma/). by Susan R. Harris UCL ---- J Crowcroft and I Kouvelas attended the NOSSDAV workshop and gave papers on Self Organising Transcoders (we believe the first implementation of a self-organising mbone hierarchical application), and on Application Level Adaption using fuzzy logic decisions (not controllers!) The main authors of these papers, Isidor Kouvelas and Saleem Bhatti respectively, were conveniently awarded their PhDs in the same month. J Crowcroft attended the Smart Spaces workshop at Stanford sponsored by the Hewlett Packard Internet Research Institute and SICS. by John Crowcroft Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 IANA REPORT ----------- ACAP Registrations 2 ICMPv6 Parameters 5 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 2 Port Numbers 43 Private Enterprise Numbers 77 Protocol Assignments 1 SMI Numbers 1 Telnet Options 2 by Josh Elliott RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of June, 1998: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 6 3 11 | 20 month | | New 18 0 0 0 | 18 | | Processed 5 5 1 2 | 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 13 1 2 9 | 25 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication 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. Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 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. by Alegre Ramos Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 CALENDAR -------- Last update 7/27/98 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. Northern Europe Address: ftp.nordu.net (192.36.148.198) Southern Europe Address: ftp.nis.garr.it (193.205.245.10) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12) West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) US East Coast Address: ftp.ietf.org cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1998 ----------- Aug. 3-5 USENIX 2nd Windows NT Seattle, Washington Aug. 5-7 USENIX 2nd Large Instal. Sys. Admin of Windows NT(LISA NT) Seattle, Washington Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 Aug. 24-28 42nd IETF Chicago, IL Aug. 29-Sep 4 SIGCOMM '98 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 31-Sep 3 USENIX 2nd Workshop on Electronic Commerce Boston, MA Aug. 31-Sep 4 SEC '98 14th Int'l Information Vienna, Austria and Security Conference Budapest, Hungary Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 14-18 USENIX - 6th TCL/TK Conf. San Diego, CA Sep. 14-18 pulver.com's Fall '98 Voice on the Net(TM) Boston, MA Sep. 17-18 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) Boston, MA Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum Gold Coast, Australia Oct. 5-8 TERENA (host by DFN) TNC'98 Dresden, Germany Oct. 13-16 Intl Conf on Netw Protocols Austin, TX Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA Oct 25-30 MobiCom'98 4th Annual ACM/IEEE Dallas, TX Nov. 2-5 5th ACM Conf. on Computer & Communications Security San Francisco, CA Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov 25 TERENA Executive Committe Amsterdam Nov. 29-Dec 4 ATM Forum Nashville, TN Dec. 6-11 12th Systems Administration Conf. (LISA '98) Boston, MA Dec. 7-11 43rd IETF Orlando, FL 1999 ----- Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Feb. 22-25 USENIX - 3rd Sym. on Oper. Sys Design and Implementation (OSDI '99) New Orleans, LA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Mar/April 44th IETF (tentative) TBA Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Apr. 26-27 Ninth Int'l Packet Video Wrkshp New York, NY May 10-14 IFIP/IEEE Int'l Symposium on Integrated Network Mgmt Boston, MA May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 10-May 14 8th IW3C Toronto, CANADA Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jul 12-16 45th IETF (tentative) Oslo, Norway Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Boston, tentative Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report June 1998 Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA Nov. 8-12 46th IETF (tentative) Wash DC (tentative) Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA 2000 ---- MAR 27-31 47th IETF Adelaide, Australia May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative) Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, GA The TERENA Calendar for August 1998 may be found on URL: http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam the Netherlands email tel: +31 20 530 4488 fax: +31 20 530 4499 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ramos [Page 22]