September 1998 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/ Ramos [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 Network Solutions Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report September 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 September, 1998 1. The final meeting of the year will be held in Orlando, Florida from December 7-11, 1998. This meeting is being hosted by Microsoft. Registration is scheduled to begin the first part of October. 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: August 13, 1998 (iesg.98-08-13) September 10, 1998 (iesg.98-09-10) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 19 Protocol Actions during the month of September, 1998: o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o A Caution On The Canonical Ordering Of Link-Layer Addresses for publication as an Informational RFC. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 o Multi-link Multi-node PPP for publication as an Informational RFC. o Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions for publication as an Informational RFC. o Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking for publication as an Informational RFC. o IP Version 6 over PPP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Triple-DES Encryption Protocol (3DESE) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration for publication as a Proposed Standard. o VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Content Duration MIME Header Definition for publication as a Proposed Standard. o FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for BT.656 Video Encoding for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay (Standard) Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 4. 22 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of September, 1998: o Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Media Feature Tag Registration Procedure for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 for consideration as a Draft Standard. o HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication for consideration as a Draft Standard. o The Batch SMTP Media Type for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Directory Server Monitoring MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o OpenPGP Message Format for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Message Submission for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The One-Time-Password SASL Mechanism for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 o Definitions of Textual Conventions and OBJECT-IDENTITIES for ATM Management for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Accounting Information for ATM Networks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Managed Objects for Controlling the Collection and Storage of Accounting Information for Connection-Oriented Networks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IPv6 over ATM Networks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Application Management MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Two new working groups were concluded this period: Internet School Networking (isn) RWhois Operational Development (rwhois) Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 6. There were 148 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of September, 1998: (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management (atommib) o Definitions of Tests for ATM Management (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile (atommib) o Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type (svrloc) o Finding Stuff (How to discover services) (none) o Message Submission (ion) o Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay (dnsind) o Secret Key Transaction Signatures for DNS (TSIG) (none) o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks. (ftpext) o FTP Extensions for IPv6 (tls) o Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) (rtfm) o RTFM Working Group - New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement (radius) o RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol Support (lsma) o Limitations of Internet Protocol Suite for Distributed Simulation in the Large Multicast Environment (applmib) o Application Management MIB (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services (none) o Securing FTP with TLS (bmwg) o Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 (mmusic) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol (calsch) o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) (svrloc) o Advertising Services (Providing information to support service discovery) (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAPv2 (none) o DIAMETER Base Protocol (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS (poisson) o IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures (ipngwg) o Router Renumbering for IPv6 (none) o Calendar attributes for vCard and LDAP (none) o Representing non-ASCII Characters in URIs and Extended URIs (calsch) o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) (mhtml) o MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (none) o Key Management for Multicast: Issues and Architectures (none) o Path MTU discovery in the presence of security gateways (calsch) o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries (ion) o A Distributed MARS Service Using SCSP (ip1394) o IPv4 over IEEE 1394 (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 (fax) o GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture (tcpsat) o Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms (ipsec) o The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms (iesg) o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (pkix) o X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP (ipngwg) o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (none) o Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts (openpgp) o OpenPGP Message Format (mpls) o MPLS Label Stack Encoding (manet) o The Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) for Ad Hoc Networks (none) o The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol (conneg) o Media Features for Display, Print, and Fax (none) o Authentication Scheme Extensions to NTP (http) o HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication (radius) o RADIUS Accounting Modifications for Tunnel Protocol Support (fax) o Terminology and Goals for Internet Fax (none) o The Batch SMTP Media Type (none) o LDAP Schema Definitions for Intranet Mail Routing - The mailRecipient Object Class (tn3270e) o TLS-based Telnet Security Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 (none) o Provider Architecture for Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering (PASTE) (printmib) o Job Submission Protocol Mapping Recommendations for the Job Monitoring MIB (none) o Duplicate IP Address Detection Based on Gratuitous ARP (none) o POP3 Extension Mechanism (dnssec) o Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR) (dnsind) o Binary Labels in the Domain Name System (tn3270e) o 5250 Telnet Enhancements (ipfc) o IP and ARP over Fibre Channel (tls) o TLS extensions for AttributeCertificate based authorization (none) o Hyper Text Caching Protocol (HTCP/0.0) (dnsind) o Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection (pint) o Toward the PSTN/Internet Inter-Networking --Pre-PINT Implementations (rtfm) o SRL: A Language for Describing Traffic Flows and Specifying Actions for Flow Groups (pppext) o Microsoft Point-To-Point Encryption (MPPE) Protocol (none) o Using IPv6 Addresses in URLs (fax) o Extended Facsimile Using Internet Mail (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure LDAPv2 Schema (pppext) o PPP LCP Internationalization Configuration Option (ipngwg) o DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6 (fax) o Extended MDN for Internet Fax Full Mode (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Operations Using SMIv2 Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 (none) o The application/smil Media Type (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN TRAPS (none) o Simple Gateway Control Protocol (SGCP) (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN/HPR in IP Networks (dhc) o DHCP Option to Disable Stateless Auto-Configuration in IPv4 Clients (diffserv) + Assured Forwarding PHB Group (none) o XDR Extensions (fax) o Offramp Gateway Extensions to DSN and MDN (none) o PKCS 1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.0 (none) o PPP Over Ethernet 'PPPOE' (none) o MULTI_NETWORK DATAGRAM TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL (none) o RSVP Extensions for IPv6 Flow Label Support (none) o Integrating SDP Functionality Into SMIL (dhc) o DHCP Option for User Authentication Protocol (none) o Definition of the LZJU90 MIME Content Transfer Encoding Type (none) o Anti-UBE and Anti-UCE Keywords in SMTP Banners (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Service Level Agreements Performance Monitoring (none) o ISAKMP Key Recovery Extensions (dnsind) + Extensions to DNS (EDNS1) (dnsind) + Extension mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0) (dnsind) + A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) (tn3270e) + TN3270E Functional Extensions (usefor) + Guidelines for the Generation of Message IDs and Similar Unique Identifiers Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 (mhtml) + The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type (none) + Pluggable Authentication Modules (none) + Simple Commerce Messaging Protocol (SCMP) (none) o DIRECTORY SUPPORTED CERTIFICATE STATUS OPTIONS (none) + Basic Definition of Message Tracking (none) + MIME Types for Use with the ISO ILL Protocol (none) + Admin Core - Administrative Container Metadata (none) + Multicast Manager (MCM): A Multipoint-to-Multipoint Multicasting Protocol for ATM (ipsec) o PKI Requirements for IP Security (nfsv4) o NFS Version 4 Requirements (mpls) + Use of Label Switching With ATM (none) + Notification - An extension to POP3 (rtfm) + RTFM: Applicability Statement (fax) + MIME content-type for Internet Fax Full Mode (none) + DIAMETER Proxy Server Extensions (none) + DIAMETER Device Configuration Extensions (none) + Requirements for A Telephony Gateway Device Control Protocol (ospf) + Multicast Extensions to OSPF (none) o The Role of DMIF in Support of RTP MPEG-4 Payloads (none) + Requirements for DAV Searching and Locating (none) + IANA Address MIB (none) + LDAP Replication Architecture (none) + ACK Spacing for High Delay-Bandwidth Paths with Insufficient Buffering Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 (none) + List and Read Operations: LDAP-X.500 Alignment (none) + Service Controls: LDAP-X.500 Alignment (none) + Scenarios for DASL (none) + The Use of MPEG-4/DMIF and RSVP with Integrated Services (pppext) + Deriving MPPE Keys From MS-CHAP V1 Credentials (trade) o Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0 (none) + Use of the Content-Disposition header with HTTP. (tls) + An Internet AttributeCertificate Profile for Authorization (none) + The Role of DMIF with RTSP and MPEG-4 (ipngwg) + Routing of Scoped Addresses in the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (calsch) + iCalendar v2.0 Formal Public Identifier (pkix) + Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time Stamp Protocols (pkix) + Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Data Certification Server Protocols (dhc) + Automaticly Choosing an IP Address in an Ad-Hoc IPv4 Network (ipsec) + IPSec MIB (ipsec) + IPv4 ICMP messages and IPsec security gateways (ipsec) + Options for handling ICMP messages that must be forwarded (none) + Distribution: LDAP server transition to X.500 (conneg) + A syntax for describing media feature sets (fax) + Content feature schema for Internet fax (fax) + Internet fax T.30 Feature Mapping Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 7. 20 RFCs were published during this period RFC2377 I (ids) Naming Plan for Internet Directory-Enabled Applications RFC2378 I (ids) The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture RFC2390 DS (ion) Inverse Address Resolution Protocol RFC2400 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC2413 I (none) Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery RFC2414 E (tcpimpl) Increasing TCP's Initial Window RFC2415 I (tcpimpl) Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window Size RFC2416 I (tcpimpl) When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers RFC2417 PS (ion) Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks RFC2418 B (poisson) IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures RFC2419 PS (pppext) The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis) RFC2420 PS (pppext) The PPP Triple-DES Encryption Protocol (3DESE) RFC2421 PS (none) Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 RFC2422 PS (none) Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration RFC2423 PS (none) VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration RFC2424 PS (none) Content Duration MIME Header Definition RFC2425 PS (asid) A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information RFC2426 PS (asid) vCard MIME Directory Profile RFC2427 S (ion) Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay RFC2428 PS (ftpext) FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- NETWORK SOLUTIONS REPORT ****************************************************** * gopher sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 0 Retrievals: 0 ****************************************************** * wais sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: wais-server*.gz: No such file or directory 0 Retrievals: wais-server*.gz: No such file or directory 0 ****************************************************** * whois sessions * ****************************************************** Client Queries: 30038294 Server Queries: 43942423 ****************************************************** * ftp sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 105231 Retrievals: 159007 ****************************************************** * telnet sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 130589 ****************************************************** * mailserver sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 0 ****************************************************** * http sessions * ****************************************************** Retrievals: 34615224 ops% Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 Phones: 60,600 Emails : 1,087,571 Updates: 375,104 by Ricardo A. Gonzalez THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY THE US DOMAIN ============= 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. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2633 PHONE 98 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 2731 DELEGATIONS: 77 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1210 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:1444 --------------------------- Total 2731 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 =================================================================== 51 40 36 48 43 25 29 10 6 =================================================================== Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== LOCALITIES ========== OBETZ.OH.US. MIDLOTHIAN.TX.US. AVALON.NJ.US. YARMOUTH.ME.US. SHIPPENSBURG.PA.US. OAK-GROVE.MN.US. WESTBROOK.ME.US. BOCA-RATON.FL.US. BUCHANAN.MI.US. BATH.PA.US. RANDOLPH.VT.US. STAMFORD.VT.US. GREENFIELD.NH.US. BLAIR.NE.US. AURORA.IL.US. WAKULLA.FL.US. ONONDAGA.NY.US. HANCOCK.NH.US. TRUMBULL.OH.US. TALLASSEE.AL.US. OTHERS ====== GRIC.NSN.US. PGST.NSN.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== BOROUGH.SHIPPENSBURG.PA.US. CO.OKLAHOMA.OK.US. CI.FRASER.MI.US. CI.TROY.MI.US. CO.FLATHEAD.MT.US. FLORENCE.CO.FLORENCE.WI.US. LOUIS.MILACA.MN.US. CBA.PVT.K12.VA.US. GUSTAVUS.LIB.AK.US. CI.KETCHUM.ID.US. BILL-LOEFFLER.PITTSBURGH.PA.US. WNCNET.FRANKLIN.NC.US. CI.OLIVE-BRANCH.MS.US. CI.FORT-MYERS.FL.US. HANKS.BROOKEVILLE.MD.US. CO.WALTON.GA.US. CO.GEAUGA.OH.US. PACIFICGROVE.LIB.CA.US. STATELIB.LIB.WA.US. SHERIFF.CO.WHITE.IN.US. CI.COLEMAN.WI.US. JBETTS.TAMPA.FL.US. CA.PVT.K12.VA.US. MENTOR.WILSONVILLE.OR.US. FORE.TALLAHASSEE.FL.US. FATCHOY.CHINATOWN.NY.US. BODIE.TAMPA.FL.US. CI.BLOOMFIELD.NE.US. BURR.OREM.UT.US. OKIE.BLANCHARD.OK.US. GEEKAZOID.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US. ACORNOPRY.BENTON.IL.US. CI.CHOWCHILLA.CA.US. CONSUMER.WASHINGTON.DC.US. TOWNSHIP.SHIELDS.IL.US. TWP.LAKEWOOD.NJ.US. TANIS.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US. GIZMO.ARMONK.NY.US. Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 PROVIDENCEUMC.GRAFTON.VA.US. DHS.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CI.CLAWSON.MI.US. TWP.FERGUSON.PA.US. CO.PINAL.AZ.US. STGREGORY.PVT.K12.VA.US. SHERIFF.CO.MODOC.CA.US. COMMUNITY.EL-PASO.TX.US. CI.NEWPORT.ME.US. RIND.DETROIT.MI.US. ETHNET.PENNSAUKEN.NJ.US. CI.LAPEER.MI.US. CI.OLDSMAR.FL.US. MARLYSWATSON.ZEBULON.GA.US. CI.SOUTH-PASADENA.CA.US. STLEOSCHOOL.PVT.K12.VA.US. NANTICOKE.ELLICOTT-CITY.MD.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ by Brenna Guthrie MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes September 1998 Internet engineering activities at Merit Network (www.merit.edu). Members of the Route Server Next Generation (www.rsng.net) team traveled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to provide training and consulting for the Route Servers at the Emirates Telecom Corporation's new exchange point, dubbed ETISALAT. During the previous months, RSng had worked closely with the ETISALAT staff to design the exchange point and create a regional routing registry for the UAE. Abha Ahuja, Jake Khuon, and Tom Spindler configured the Route Servers at Merit's facilities and shipped them to Dubai; while on site, the Merit team completed the installation and worked with ETISALAT engineers to ensure the systems were running smoothly. Now that the RSs are in production, they are monitored and operated by the ETISALAT engineers themselves. Gerald Winters gave three presentations at the 31st RIPE meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the plenary session, he gave a talk titled "Post-Routing Arbiter Activities at Merit." At the Routing Working Group, he presented talks on a proposed acceptable use policy for the Internet Routing Registry and deployment of the Routing Policy Specification Language in the RADB. Craig Labovitz gave a talk titled "Route Flap Analysis" at the ISMA Backbone Engineering Data and Analysis conference, sponsored by the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA). Labovitz also attended ACM SIGCOMM '98. by Susan R. Harris Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 UCL ---- We've been looking at providing protection to multicast data from re-multicast - there is a paper about one idea Watercasting: Discouraging Disclosure of Multicast Media This is a brief paper about a novel idea for providing some level of discouragement to deter recipients of a multicast stream from re-distributing it to further consumers. There is a relationship between the requirements for the scheme proposed here, and the requirements for reliable multicast protocols, and the need for mechanism to support layered delivery of streamed data. see ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/watercast.ps Meanwhile, we have also been working on alternate models for IP Multicast to the Internet Standard one devised by Steve Deering. This will be forthcoming in Internet Drafts for the next IETF, but the gist is to abandon the separation of intra and inter-domain multicast as a bad idea, and concentrate on scaling multicast through simple mechanisms. by John Crowcroft IANA REPORT ----------- Domain System Parameters 2 MIME Media Types 1 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 13 PPP Numbers 1 Private Enterprise Numbers 72 Port Numbers 54 SMI Numbers 3 Telnet Options 7 by Josh Elliott Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of September, 1998: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 36 5 13 | 54 month | | New 22 0 0 0 | 22 | | Processed 6 11 4 4 | 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 16 25 1 9 | 51 * 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. 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 20] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 CALENDAR -------- Last update 10/22/98 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 ----------- Nov. 2-5 5th ACM Conf. on Computer & Communications Security San Francisco, CA Nov. 2-6 NetWorld+Interop 98 Paris Paris, France Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 Nov. 3-6 NetWorld+Interop 98 Brazil Sao Paulo, Brazil Nov. 8-10 NANOG 14 Atlanta, GA Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov 24-26 Networld+Interop 98 Syndney Sydney, Australia 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. 3-5 1999 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, CA Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum Atlanta, GA 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. 8-9 Electronic Payments Forum San Francisco, CA Mar. 8-12 IEEE 802 Austin Mar. 15-19 44th IETF TBA Mar. 24-Apr 1 ITU Fax Standards Meeting Geneva, Switzerland Mar. 24-29 Electronic Messaging Assoc. EMA '99 Geneva, Switzerland Apr. 5-9 Networld+Interop 99 Singapore Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum Rome, Italy 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 11-May 14 8th International World Wide Web Conference Toronto, Canada May 31-Jun 4 Networld+Interop 99 Tokyo, Japan Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jun 7-10 TERENA-NORDUnet Networking 1999 Lund, Sweden Jun 25-29 INET'99 San Jose, CA Jul 5-9 IEEE 802 Montreal, Canada Jul 12-16 45th IETF Oslo, Norway Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum New Orleans, LA Aug. 30-Sep 3 SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Cambridge, MA Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum Bangkok, Thailand Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA Nov. 3-4 Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT) Crystal City, VA Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report September 1998 Nov. 8-12 46th IETF Wash DC Nov. 8-12 IEEE 802 Kaui Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum Beverly Hills, CA 2000 ---- Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Albuquerque Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 San Diego, CA 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 Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Tampa, FL The TERENA Calendar for November 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 23]