~ February 1994 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. This report is for Internet information purposes only, and is not to be quoted in other publications without permission from the submitter. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to: Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) NSF Regional reports - To obtain the procedure describing how to submit information for the Internet Monthly Report, send an email message to mailserv@is.internic.net and put "send imr-procedure" in the body of the message (add only that one line; do not put a signature). Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 8 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 CSUNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 JVNCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 MRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30 RARE SECRETARIAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 CALENDAR OF EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for February, 1994 1. Let me remind everyone that the next IETF meeting will be held in Seattle, Washington from March 29 through April 1, 1994. This meeting is being hosted by NorthWestNet. Following the March 1994 meeting, the IETF will be meeting in Toronto July 25-29. The third meeting of the year will be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Arrangements are still underway, but it looks like the meeting will be the first week of December. Once the final arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg- sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. 2. The IESG approved or recommended the following two Protocol Actions during the month of February, 1994: o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service as a Proposed Standard. 3. The IESG issued seven Last Calls to the IETF during the month of February, 1994: o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet for consideration as a Draft Standard. o TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o DNS Support for IDPR for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 o MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MIME Content Type for BinHex encoded files for consideration as an Informational document. o UPS Management Information Base for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 4. Three Working Groups were created during this period: Notifications and Acknowledgements Requirements (notary) Simple Internet Protocol Plus (sipp) Common Architecture for Next-Generation IP (catnip) Note that sipp is actually the consolidation of SIP and PIP, and that CATNIP is a revamp of TPIX (with a new charter and milestones). Additionally, one Working Groups was concluded: Network Printing Protocol (npp) 5. A total of 49 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of February, 1994: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (bgp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence (IIMC): Translation of Internet MIBs to ISO/CCITT GDMO MIBs (IIMCIMIBTRANS) (none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence (IIMC): Translation of ISO/CCITT GDMO MIBs to Internet MIBs (IIMCOMIBTRANS) (none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence (IIMC): ISO/CCITT to Internet Management Security (IIMCSEC) Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 (none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence (IIMC): Translation of Internet MIB-II (RFC1213) to ISO/CCITT GDMO MIB (IIMCMIB-II) (none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence (IIMC): ISO/CCITT to Internet Management Proxy (IIMCPROXY) (appleip) o AppleTalk Management Information Base II (atm) o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5 (iafa) o How to Use Anonymous FTP (frnetmib) o Service Management Architecture for Virtual Connection Services (none) o Characters and character sets for various languages (pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP) (tn3270e) o TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection (upsmib) o UPS Management Information Base (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs (pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) (ids) o A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations (none) o MIME Content-types for SGML Documents (ifmib) o Management Information Base for Management of Network Connections (none) o MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME (none) o Introduction to White Pages services based on X.500 (sipp) o Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP): Routing and Addressing (none) + Internet Multilingual Text Encoding: ISO-2022-INT-* (none) + Instructions to RFC Translators (rmonmib) + Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 (iab) + Coordinated Response to Draft FIRP Report (none) + MIME charset names for ISO 10646 (ifmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces (imap) + INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 (sip) + SIPP Extensions to BOOTP/DHCP (pppext) + PPP Option for Data Encapsulation Selection (rdbmsmib) + RDBMS-MIB (none) + Using Unicode with MIME (ifmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types (none) + A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode (none) + The Internet Mobile Host Protocol (IMHP) (uswg) + FYI on Questions and Answer Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions (ospf) o IP Forwarding Table MIB (sip) + OSPF for SIPP (none) + Loose Source Routing for Mobile Hosts (none) + Support for Mobility with Connectionless Network Layer Protocols (Transport Layer Transparency) (none) + Intra-AS Route Server (sipp) + Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) Specification (dnssec) + Domain Name System Protocol Security Extensions (charmib) + Character MIB (charmib) + RS-232-like MIB (charmib) + Parallel-printer-like MIB (isn) + K-12 Internetworking Guidelines Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 6. There were 7 RFC's published during the month of February, 1994: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1574 I (noop) Essential Tools for the OSI Internet RFC1575 DS (noop) An Echo Function for CLNP (ISO 8473) RFC1578 I (isn) FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked "Primary and Secondary School Internet User" Questions RFC1579 I (none) Firewall-Friendly FTP RFC1581 I (none) Protocol Analysis for Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits RFC1582 PS (none) Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits RFC1588 I (none) WHITE PAGES MEETING REPORT St(atus): (S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard (E) Experimental (I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== All ANSnet unix-based routers were upgraded to support gated software, which supports BGP4/CIDR. The older rcp_routed software has been completely phased out of the ANSnet. Configurations that support CIDR aggregation will be deployed in March. February Backbone Traffic Statistics ==================================== The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 48,359,374,681 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 5.6% from January. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 56,238,624,890 up 4.46% from January. Router Forwarding Table Statistics ================================== The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during February was 17,713 up 8.8% from January. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but were never announced (silent nets) during February was 6,419. Gated/BGP4 Deployment Complete ============================== On February 27th, we completed the deployment of gated software on all ANSnet AS690 routers. The AS690 system is now CIDR capable. All routers are running IBGP4 internally, and we are peering externally via BGP (using version negotiation for versions 2,3,4) and EGP. The peer providers that we are exchanging BGP4 routes with include: AlterNet (AS701) BARRNet (AS200) CERFNet (AS1740, AS1838) COREN (AS2882) Dante (AS1133, AS1674) ESNet (AS293) ICMNet (AS1240, AS1800) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 NASA (AS297, AS372) NEARNet (AS560) OARNet (AS600) SESQUINet (AS114) SURANet (AS86) Because the AS690 configuration for all CIDR aggregates has not yet been completed, we have left AS690 pointing default to AS1133. The AS690 default route will be removed when all CIDR routes (for which class-based routes are not being announced) have been configured. We are working on a tool that would allow us to monitor which more specific class-based routes (that are represented by announced aggregates) are getting withdrawn on a weekly basis. We hope this will allow us to debug any connectivity problems that are reported, which may be correlated to CIDR transition. There are a number of planned enhancements to gated that we will be deploying over the next few weeks including (a) support for FDDI broadcast media that interconnect CNSS routers, (b) reduction of the IBGP4 internal mesh from 92->60 (approximately), (c) reduction in gated memory utilization, (d) enhanced support for gated policy. Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes =================================== As of February 27th, Rcp_routed software has been replaced by gated. Many thanks are owed to Curtis Villamizar, Steve Heimlich, and Yakov Rekhter for their work on rcp_routed over the years. Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration or less). This is intended as a measure of overall system stability rather than complete connectivity. February stability was down from the prior month due to gated routing software deployment: MONTH overall excluding configs ------ ------- ----------------- January 99.1% 99.5% February 99.0% 99.5% March 97.5% 99.1% April 96.1% 97.2% May 97.4% 98.0% June 95.5% 96.6% Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 July 97.3% 97.7% August 97.5% 97.9% September 98.1% 98.5% October 98.0% 98.3% November 97.2% N/A December 96.6% N/A January 98.7% N/A February 96.56 N/A This histogram of overall stability recorded by each node over the last 12 months is as follows: MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min <98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97% ------------------------------------------------------------ January 0 0 1 8 19 55 February 0 0 1 24 19 41 March 0 4 18 23 23 22 April 2 2 3 13 12 57 May 0 4 33 32 15 5 June 3 21 35 18 12 3 July 0 12 28 44 6 1 August 1 5 28 21 17 15 September 1 38 25 10 4 13 October 0 3 3 10 25 50 November 1 2 15 25 24 26 December 0 8 24 46 9 3 January 0 0 4 9 15 54 February 0 4 6 23 40 20 Stability figures for the 2nd half of February are incomplete due the rcp_routed transition to gated software, and will be updated in March to support gated logging information. External route flap measured by ANSnet routers increased in February. This is most likely secondary flapping resulting from route flaps caused by the ANSnet gated deployment. The measurement method is described in: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/ExternalRouteFlapReports This report measures overall Internet stability associated with the number of times networks are announced as unreachable. The following represents the monthly totals in terms of number of networks declared unreachable per hour during the last 12 months. Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 January 844 February 876 March 1104 April 1038 May 1134 June 1560 July 1815 August 1874 September 2395 October 2272 November 2321 December 2008 January 2414 February 3605 Plots of the internal routing stability, external peer session stability and external route flap are available as the files: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/internal.ps ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/external.ps ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/flap.ps External Internet route flapping increased to a new monthly high in February. Three destinations were announced as unreachable over 5,000 times (1 US). Another 8 destinations were announced as unreachable over 1,000 times (4 US). Another 179 destinations were announced as unreachable over 500 times (72 US). Another 1045 destinations were announced as unreachable 100 times or more (250 US). 1917 destinations were announced as unreachable 50 time (302 US) and 12,872 destinations were announced as unreachable 1 to 50 times (8,313 US). On average 2414 destinations were withdrawn per hour over the course of the month. Number of times each destination is declared unreachable January: >=5000 >=1000 >=500 >=100 >=50 <50 3 8 179 1,045 1,917 12,872 total 1 4 72 250 302 8,313 US 2 4 107 795 1,615 4,559 non-US February: >=5000 >=1000 >=500 >=100 >=50 <50 0 15 118 3,512 1,694 10,751 total 0 2 17 220 823 7,896 US 0 1 101 3,292 871 2,855 non-US The external route flap reports will be temporarily unavailable until the reports can be adapted to use gated log files. Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 Notable Outages in February '94 =============================== E131 (Ann Arbor) suffered an extended outage due to a fiber cut on 02/02. The 02/02 fiber cut was caused by contractor digging and affected 92 DS3's. The outage lasted from 10:05 to 21:13 EST for a total of 11 hours and 8 minutes downtime. While the Network Operations Center in Ann Arbor was isolated from the national network, network monitoring continued from the ANS backup NOC in Elmsford. The Ann Arbor NOC accessed these monitoring tools via dialup connections. There was some blockage of calls to the 1-800 number due to reduced capacity into the area. Jordan Becker, BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- Defense Simulation Internet =========================== DSI Network Upgrade =================== In February, the DSI backbone bandwidth was increased to an effective throughput rate of 2.6 Mbit/s. New ST-II Protocol Software Deployed ==================================== All sites now have the new ST-II version 2.0 protocol software. Among other capabilities, version 2.0 provides a new interface (designated E3I) for connecting a secure gateway to the Network Encryption System (NES). Version 2.0 also has a new commands interface and a new file-compression utility. Scalability Under its Defense Simulation Internet (DSI) Engineering contract from ARPA (ASTO), BBN is tasked to study the issue of "scalability" from the perspective of network performance and functionality. The Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) user community has ambitious goals for dramatically increasing the scale of simulated war-fighting exercises. While the largest exercises to date have involved less than 1000 "entities" (tanks, planes, ships, etc.), planned future exercises may involve as many as 100,000. Moreover, the average size of updates exchanged among simulated entities has grown with the development of the DIS messaging standard. Cost Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 constraints preclude solving this problem by order-of-magnitude increases in network bandwidth. Instead, it is more likely that changes to both the DIS applications and the technological basis of supporting network(s) will be necessary to accommodate this growth. During February, work continued on two subtasks. The first task involves characterization of DIS network traffic and DSI performance. Statistics collected during demonstrations at November's Industry/Interservice Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) and during the first of several Synthetic Theater of War (STOW) Engineering Demonstrations are being analyzed. One component of the collected data consists of actual packet traces collected using the utility 'tcpdump'. This month, we completed a program that fully parses simulation updates of both the Simnet protocol and the DIS protocol (an IEEE standard). This program was then applied to the traces in order to correlate traffic statistics, such as delay, throughput and packet size, with simulation entities. This level of detail is of value in predicting the traffic loads of future exercises. Since one host can typically generate as many as 50-60 entities, and since update frequencies vary with the virtual activity of an exercise, it is not enough to observe traffic at the host level. The second task consists of further development of the DSI network simulator. This tool, part of the Scalability Toolset, is being equipped with a graphical user interface for easy editing and configuration of the topology of the modeled network. This month, work focused on fixing bugs and enhancing the cosmetic features of the display. We also provided support to Lincoln Laboratory in their porting of the Network Simulator to the SGI workstation in preparation for further distribution of the Scalability Toolset to other members of the DIS research community. (BBN's version runs on a Sun SPARC-2.) Point of Contact: Josh Seeger (jseeger@bbn.com) CSUNET ------ CSUnet was awarded a Pacific Bell CALREN grant to perform Masters of Library Information Sciences courses over ATM at 2 and 8 Mb/sec JPEG video between four sites (two in Northern and two in Southern California). Meanwhile in the K12 and CC connectivity arena, CSUnet continues to show its support for the educators by rolling out a new Frame Relay service initially in LATAs 1, 4, and 5 using GTE and Pacific Bell's Frame Relay networks. CSUnet is GTE's first Frame Relay customer Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 in California. New K12 and CC subscribers this month include: Compton Community College, State Center Community College District (Fresno), San Luis Obispo County Office of Education, and Desert Sands Unified School District (Palm Springs area). Mike Marcinkevicz INTERNIC -------- INFORMATION SERVICES Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Toll-free hotline +1 800 444-4345 email info@internic.net Fax +1 619 455-4640 InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints Suggestions suggestions@internic.net Complaints complaints@internic.net NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net newsletter comments newsletter-comments@is.internic.net InterNIC Seminar Series seminars@internic.net or +1 800 444-4345 Listserv lists net-happenings listserv@internic.net net-resources listserv@is.internic.net nics listserv@is.internic.net InfoGuide Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 TRAINING RESIDENTS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE The InterNIC Seminar Series ---------------------------------------- The InterNIC Seminar Series continued its run on February 18, 1994, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Featuring the seminar "Using Network Tools Effectively," over 50 new and experienced InterNauts learned the use of FTP, telnet, WorldWideWeb, gopher, archie, X.500, Whois++, and NCSA Mosaic. Seminar highlights included demonstrations of network tools and pointers to valuable resources on the Internet. InterNIC Information Services (InterNIC IS) is proud to offer instructors who are true pioneers in Internet applications. Of note: Paul Mockapetris, Information Science Institute, the original architect of the Domain Name System; Peter Deutsch and Alan Emtage, Bunyip Information Systems, Inc., creators of archie, the Internet directory service; Chris Weider, Bunyip Information Systems, Inc., one of the primary developers of the Whois++ directory services protocol; Yvonne Andres and Al Rogers, Global Schoolnet Foundation, pioneers in exploring how the Internet can change traditional education in our schools; and Susan Calcari, InterNIC IS, the original Info Scout. Future seminars are scheduled in various locations around the 'Net, including Washington DC, Chicago, IL, Portland, OR, St. Louis, MO, and Tempe, AZ. InterNIC IS would like to make these seminars available to the widest possible audience throughout the country and around the world. Therefore, we offer these seminars in cooperation with network information centers (NICs) at campuses, government agencies, corporations and network service providers. Please contact us if you are interested in hosting a seminar at your location. Below is the Seminar Series Calendar for April and May: Date: April 4, 1994 Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively Instructor: Alan Emtage, Bunyip Location: Washington, D.C. Date: April 6, 1994 Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively Instructor: Alan Emtage, Bunyip Location: Washington, D.C. Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 Date: April 12, 1994, morning Seminars: Hello Internet: Tools for the Classroom Instructor: Yvonne Andres, Global SchoolNet Foundation Location: San Diego, California Date: April 12, 1994, afternoon Seminar: Making and Managing Global Learning Projects Instructor: Al Rogers, Global SchoolNet Foundation Location: San Diego, California Date: April 14, 1994 Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively Instructor: Alan Emtage, Bunyip Location: Tempe, Arizona Host: ASPIN Date: April 21-22, 1994 Seminar: Internet Naming and Directory Services Instructor: Paul Mockapetris, ISI Location: San Francisco, California Date: April 29, 1994 Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively Instructor: Chris Weider, Bunyip Location: Chicago, Illinois Host: NetIllinois and CICNet Date: May 22, 1994 Seminar: Building an Electronic Network Information Center Instructor: Peter Deutsch, Bunyip Location: St. Louis, Missouri Host: MIDNET For more information or an electronic registration form, contact the addresses below: email: seminars@internic.net gopher: is.internic.net FTP: is.internic.net phone: 619-455-4600 or 800-444-4345 NSF Network News ---------------- The _NSF Network News_, on hiatus since December, has resumed preproduction with Vol. 1, No. 1 (March/April 1994). Articles in this upcoming issue include a feature article on the Global Schoolhouse Project, a news brief on the NSFNET architecture rebid Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 results, an update on the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center, a first peek at the creation of InterNIC Information Services' new InfoGuide, and much, much more. To subscribe, send email to newsletter-request@internic.net,and it will be delivered to you by email. Be sure to include your postal address if you want hardcopy. Due to the rise in printing costs and other technical difficulties, the 6-page fold-out map of U.S. Internet Connectivity sites in its present form will no longer be part of the newsletter. In the past, regional and midlevel networks contributed statistics on the number and identity of their connections and customers, as well as the number of dialup customers for inclusion in the Map. We appreciate all of the NICs and service providers who contacted us with statistics for inclusion in the Map and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused. Beginning with the March/April 1994 issue, the _NSF Network News_ will feature a variety of maps from different sources which are better able to chronicle the growth of the NSFNET and Internet community. Reference Desk -------------- The number of open records (contacts awaiting attention) closed by Reference Desk staff was almost double the number closed in January due to new staff hirings. The backlog of open records was reduced from 2,560 to 229 in the same period. The following table gives a summary of the Reference Desk contacts for February: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 543 12.7 Phone 3231 75.4 Fax 471 11.0 US Mail 21 <1 Other 18 <1 ------- -------- --------- Total 4284 100 by Karen D. Frazer Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES InterNIC Directory and Database Services operates a number of servers that are available to anyone on the Internet with the appropriate client software. One example is our WAIS server, which supports a number of databases. Currently, the set of databases is as follows: conf.announce A database of conferences and seminars that are announced on the Internet. ddbs-info Information about InterNIC services. dirofdirs InterNIC Directory of Directories - information about resources on the Internet. fyis RFCs that are informational in nature. iesg IESG information, working group charters, and meeting minutes. ietf IETF information, meeting announcements, working group charters and minutes. internet-drafts IETF Internet Draft Documents. isoc Internet Society Documents. netpolicy Network Policies and Procedures documents from a variety of networks and institutions. nsf Documents from the NSF and from NSF-supported events. people Non-point-of-contact, non-military entries from the old DDN NIC WHOIS database. rfcs Request For Comments documents - INTERNET standards and information. stds The subset of all the RFCs that have been designated standards by the IETF. the-scientist THE SCIENTIST - A biweekly newspaper for research scientists, and managers in industry, academia, and government. Focuses on life sciences and biotechology. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 tutorial Tutorial information for the InterNIC Directory and Database Services WAIS client. Our WAIS server is available on the standard WAIS port (port 210) on our server, ds.internic.net. If you do not have a WAIS client, you can telnet to our server, login as "wais" (no password required), and use our client. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. by Rick Huber REGISTRATION SERVICES Significant Events --------------------- InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 14,754 network addresses and registered 826 new top- and second-level domains. A top-level domain for Algeria, DZ, was registered and applications from Bahrain, Belarus, and Iran were also received. A number of service providers have begun implementing inverse addressing on their existing CIDR blocks. Registration Services is working with each of these providers in transistioning inverse addressing so no customers are inconvenienced. Registration Statistics for February Hostmaster Email 3,246 Postal/Fax Applications 180 Telephone Calls 2,103 Domain Registered 826 Inverse Addresses 433 Class C's Assigned 14,641 Class B's Assigned 113 ASN Assigned 57 Connections Retrievals Gopher Sessions 51,770 17,904 Wais Sessions 20,817 36,469 Ftp Sessions 6,580 29,315 Telnet 50,013 Mailserver 1,117 by John Zalubski Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 ISI --- GIGABIT NETWORKING Infrastructure The 1994 IAB workshop waas held at ISI Feb 8-10, 1994. Jon Postel attended the ISOC meetings in Washington, DC, February 6-9 1994. Eve Schooler and Bob Felderman went to Washington, DC to work at NRL, February 22-23, 1994. Seven RFCs were published this month. RFC 1574: Hares, S., (Merit/NSFNET), C. Wittbrodt (Stanford Univ/Barrnet), "Essential Tools for the OSI Internet" February 1994. RFC 1575: Hares, S., (Merit/NSFNET), C. Wittbrodt (Stanford Univ/Barrnet), "An Echo Function for CLNP (ISO 8473) February 1994. RFC 1578: Sellers, J., "FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly Asked 'Primary and Secondary School Internet User' Questions", NASA NREN/Sterling Software, February 1994. RFC 1579: Bellovin, S., "Firewall-Friendly FTP", AT&T Bell Laboratories, February 1994. RFC 1581: Meyer, G., "Protocol Analysis for Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits", Spider System, February 1994. RFC 1582: Meyer, G., "Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits", Spider System, February 1994. RFC 1588: Postel, J., and C. Anderson, "White Pages Meeting Report", ISI, February 1994. RFC 1589: Mills, D., "A Kernel Model for Precision Timekeeping" University of Delaware, March 1994. Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ See "RFC 1591 - Domain Name System Structure and Delegation". US DOMAIN NAMING STRUCTURE ========================== ...US = city/locality based names ..K12..US = kindegarten thru 12th grade .PVT.K12..US = private K thru 12th grade ...US = locality opt: for PVT schools .CC..US = community colleges .TEC..US = technical or vocationalschools .LIB..US = libraries .STATE..US = state government agencies .COG..US = councils of governments .MUS..US = museums .GEN..US = statewide assoc,clubs,domainparks .FED.US = federal government agencies .DNI.US = distributed national institutes IN-ADDR RECORDS =============== 1) The administrator of your network has to add to his nameserver an IN-ADDR PTR record for your host. For example: 11.8.146.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA PTR DSCC.CC.TN.US (hostname) 2) The network number needs to be listed in the root servers IN-ADDR zone file on the Internic with a NS delegation to your name server. Send message to (netreg@internic.net). In the root server the following type of record is added: 8.146.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA NS dsccvv.dscc.tn.us (nameserver) Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 CONTACTS ======== EMAIL/FAX 479 PHONE 40 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 519 DELEGATIONS 19 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 18 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 482 --------------------------- Total 519 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- STATE.DE.US Delaware State Gov't Agencies STATE VA.US Commonwealth of Virginia State Gov't Agencies STATE.RI.US Rhode Island State Gov't Agencies STATE.KS.US Kansas State Gov't Agencies CC.RI.US Oregon Community Colleges GEN.UT.US General branch of US Domain TEC.NC.US North Carolina Technical/Voc Schools MENTOR.OH.US Mentor, Ohio, locality CANFIELD.OH.US Canfield, Ohio, locality APEX.NC.US Apex, North Carolina, locality DADE.FL.US Dade County, Florida, locality Other US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------- CI.NYC.NY.US New York City, NY, City Gov't Agencies LALAW.LIB.CA.US Los Angeles County Law Library WLS.LIB.NY.US. Westchester, NY, Library System NACTC.CC.AR.US North Arkansas Community Technical College TULSA.CC.OK.US. Tulsa Junior College, Tulsa, Ok GONZAGA.PVT.K12.DC.US Gonzaga College High School CBMS.KNOX.K12.TN.US Cedar Bluff Middle School, TN BHS.PANAMA.DODDS.FED.US Balboa High School, Panama, DOD School Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK AL X AR X AS ----------------------------------------------------------- AZ X X X X X CA X X X X CO X X X X CT ----------------------------------------------------------- DC X DE X X X X X FL X X X X X GA X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- HI IA X X X X ID X X X X X X X IL X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- IN X X X X KS X KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MA ME X MI X X X X X MN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MO X X X X MS X X MT NC X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- ND X X NE X X X X NH X X NJ X ----------------------------------------------------------- NM X X X NV NY X X X X OH X X X X X X X Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 ----------------------------------------------------------- OK OR X X X X X X X PA X RI X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- SC X X X X X SD X X TN TX X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- UT X X X X VA X X X X VT X X WA ----------------------------------------------------------- WI X X X WV X X X X X X X WY X =========================================================== For more information about the US Domain please request an application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to RFC- INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application". For example: To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU Subject: US Domain Application help: us_domain_application Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) JVNCNET ------- Global Enterprise Services, Inc. JvNCnet 3 Independence Way Princeton, New Jersey 08540 voice: 800-35-TIGER 609-897-7300 fax: 609-897-7310 How to contact GES: Member Services: 609-897-7318 609-897-7337 support@jvnc.net Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 Seminar/Training ---------------- A) Cisco Router Technical Training (open to the public) Title: Cisco Router Configuration Course Five day, hands-on class, to learn and practice the commands to configure routers on a multi-protocol network. Live network connectivity enhances the experience. Dates: March 7-11, 1994; March 21-25, 1994 For further details, please email to training@jvnc.net or call 609-897-7318. B) GES Seminar Series Introduction to Data Networking and TCP/IP, and Advanced TCP/IP. GES will offer two one-day seminars on TCP/IP and data networking on March 22nd and 23rd, 1994. The seminars may be taken individually or as a group, and will be taught by Dr. Paul Schragger. Dr. Schragger received a doctorate on future high speed communications from the University of Delaware. The conference location is the The Scanticon Princeton Hotel, 100 College Road East, Plainsboro, NJ. Registration by March 1, 1994 (to attend both days) JvNCnet members: $470 Non-members: $515 For more information or to register, call 609-897-7318 or 1-800- 35-TIGER or send email to: registration@jvnc.net. Classes are open to anyone in the Internet community and the public. Partial list of new on-line members ----------------------------------- KPMG Peat Marwick National Westminster Bank Union Camp Corp. SmithKline Beecham T&T Software System Documentation, Inc. Bell Atlantic Mobile by Teri Schuler, Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 MERIT/NSFNET INTERNET ENGINEERING --------------------------------- The CIDR/BGP-4 registration system was completed and installed in parallel with the deployment of gated on the ANS/NSFNET backbone. The Merit Policy Routing Data Base supports CIDR aggregation and the NACR submission format has been changed to reflect this. For example the NWG report includes CIDR prefixes rather than single IP network numbers. Merit sponsored and SDSC hosted a meeting of the Regional Techs group in San Diege on Jan 31/Feb 1, 1994. The group's original charter defined its membership as the NSF sponsored regionals (mid-levels). At the meeting in San Diego, the group revised its charter to include a broader base of network service providers. Merit will continue to facilitate the meetings of the group and it is debating a new name. The target date for the release of IDRP version 1.0 is the end of March. This version will support a minimal policy set and inter- operate with gated. The team of implementors led by Sue Hares is doing this work for the FAA. Elise Gerich MRNET ------ Mr. Paul Fakler has recently joined the MRnet engineering staff. The InforMNs Project (Internet for Minnesota Schools) is now underway with theinitial test users. This will eventually provide personal SLIP access for teachers and administrators throughout the state. Additional local dialup access is now available in Rochester and additional sites will be installed in the coming months. Recent new member attachments include: Database Network Services H. B. Fuller HealthSpan Internet Connections, Inc. LSC, Inc. MAPPCOR Methodist Hospital Minneapolis Telecommunications Network NetStor Seagate Skypoint Communications Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 StarNet Communications Minneapolis Star-Tribune Teltech Ware, Inc. bringing total attached membership to 78 organizations. Contact: info@MR.Net for any further information. Dennis Fazio, Executive Director Minnesota Regional Network Minneapolis, MN (612) 342-2570 by Dennis Fazio NEARNET ------- NEARNET'S MEMBERSHIP EXPANDS As of February 23, 1994, NEARNET has grown to a total of 298 member organizations. NEARNET would like to welcome the following new members who have joined NEARNET during the month of February: Baystate Health Care of Cambridge, MA; the Arnold Arboretum of Jamaica Plain, MA; Codem Systems, Inc. of Hollis, NH; The NetMarket Company of Nashua, NH; Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Burlington, VT; and SatelLife of Cambridge, MA. Correction: Please note that in last month's report, Merrimack College was inadvertently listed as a new NEARNET site. The site which should have been listed was the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC). MVLC joined NEARNET in December 1993. Merrimack College has been a member of NEARNET since January 1991. NEARNET NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED The February 1994 issue of the hardcopy "NEARNET Newsletter" has been published and distributed. Current or prospective NEARNET members may request to receive the newsletter by sending their name and surface mail address to: "NEARNET THIS MONTH" ONLINE BULLETIN PUBLISHED NEARNET has once again begun distribution of the "NEARNET This Month" online bulletin. Past issues are available via anonymous Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 FTP at ftp.near.net in the pathname: newsletter/nearnet-this-month. Past issues are also accessible viaGopher and WWW. We plan to distribute future issues of this bulletin to several NEARNET member-specific e-mail lists. Upcoming issues will include information on future NEARNET seminars, training, resources and information services. NEARNET members who would like to receive future issues via e-mail should send a note to nearnet- us@nic.near.net. NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE NEARNET held the Winter set of two of its first three six-hour lecture and demo training courses on February 22 and 23. The third day of training on February24 was postponed due to inclement weather and is rescheduled for Friday, March25 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium. The three full-day set of courses includes: (Day 1) An Introduction to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New NEARNET Information and Technical Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet Technology. All three days of training are available free of charge to new Standard Installation sites. The Internet Resources and Internet Technology courses are available for existing sites and non-members for a $250.00 fee (per day/per attendee). The NEARNET Orientation is free to all NEARNET sites. The Spring set of NEARNET Training Courses is scheduled for May 11, 12 and 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium. For more information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-us@nic.near.net or call 617-873-8730, press option 6. NEARNET CO-SPONSORS INTERNET SEMINAR FOR EDUCATORS Together with Cisco Systems, Inc., NEARNET will sponsor a one-day seminar organized by Editorial Inc. and the Online BookStore (OBS). The seminar, entitled, "An Educator's Introduction and Guide to the Internet: Catching theInternet Wave" will be held on Thursday, April 7, 1994, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium. Seminar leaders will include Laura Fillmore, President of Editorial Inc. and the Online Bookstore in Rockport, Massachusetts. Tracy LaQuey Parker author of the bestselling book, "The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking". Tracy is the Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 Education Development Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. Daniel Fleming is a high school and middle school principal in Rockport, Massachusetts. Daniel is an avid proponent of the use of technology in schools and will introduce the speakers (some still to be announced as of this posting). The seminar fee is $95.00 per person and $85.00 for each additional person from a school district. The seminar registration will cover the costs of the seminar, including: materials, lunch, and a free copy of "The Internet Companion". For more information, please call Al Kaufman of Editorial Inc. at508-546-7346 or via FAX at 508-546-9807. INTERNET TOOLS AND VALUE-ADDED SERVICES MINI-SEMINAR A mini-seminar covering NEARNET-provided Internet tools and value- added services will be held on March 16th. This seminar is being held to satisfy the overwhelming interest in Internet applications expressed during the NEARNET Annual Seminar in December 1993. The seminar will cover NEARNET's new Gopher and World Wide Web (WWW) servers, the InterNavigator, the Global Network Navigator (GNN), and the Commerce Business Daily online service. The seminar will be held from 9:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium, 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA. The seminar is open to all NEARNET members free of charge, however, advanced registration is required. There are only a limited amount of seats available, further registrations willbe handled on a first-come first-served basis. To register, NEARNET members should send email to nearnet- seminars@nic.near.net, or call 617-873-8730, press option 6. Additional information on future mini-seminars for 1994 will be announced shortly. NEARNET USER SERVICES STEERING COMMITTEE UPDATE The NEARNET User Services Steering Committee (USSC) has been established to provide guidance to NEARNET's User Services staff. The USSC will also advise the NEARNET Steering Committee on user- service related areas, including: policy, information services, packages, training and seminars. The USSC is made up of people from NEARNET member organizations. The third USSC meeting was held on February 28. Future meetings will be held every six weeks. Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 NETWORKS EXPO'94 BOSTON Several NEARNET representatives participated in the Networks Expo'94, February15-17, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. It was at this conference, that NEARNET unveiled its new exhibitor's booth for the very firsttime. The booth included a live Internet connection and demonstrations of NEARNET online tools and value-added services. On the final day of the conference, John Curran, NEARNET Product Manager, delivered a very well received presentation on "Connecting Your LAN to the Internet". by NEARNET Client Services NORTHWESTNET ------------ NorthWestNet and the University of Washington are pleased to co- sponsor the 29th IETF in Seattle, Washington from March 28-April 1. NorthWestNet has made available a Seattle IETF Gopher at gopher.nwnet.net 3333. You'll find a broad range of local information including weather, transportation, restaurants, lodgings, and local attractions. (For questions about the IETF, contact CNRI at ietf-rsvp@cnri.reston.va.us or gopher to cnri.reston.va.us.) The topic at this month's NorthWestNet User Services Committee teleconference was Internet training. Dave Tindall, Executive Director of Computer and Information Systems at Seattle Pacific University, moderated the meeting. The discussions covered everything from electronic and paper materials to the proper sequence to use when introducing Internet applications and tools. Twelve hours of on-site training were provided to 26 K-12 teachers and administrators at the Catlin Gable school in Portland, Oregon. Participants were affiliated with Catlin Gable (a private school) and with Oregon state school districts that are part of the statewide Oregon Public Education Network (OPEN) program of the Oregon State Department of Education. (Catlin Gable is also a participant in the NSF-funded grant, "Enabling K-12 Education in the Pacific Northwest through Internetworking.") Both OPEN and Catlin Gable are NorthWestNet member organizations. And last but not least, a group of students and teachers from The Bush School in Seattle, Washington spent part of an afternoon at the NorthWestNet offices exploring World Wide Web and HTML servers from around the world as part of a special class project. Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 ----------------- NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000 Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822 Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington. RARE SECRETARIAT ---------------- A RARE UPDATE no. 11, February 1994 The 28th meeting of the RARE Council of Administration took place on February 3 and 4 1994. Progress and results on major issues are summarized below. CEENet A new international networking association has recently been established: CEENet, of which the members are at the moment: ACONET (Austria), UNICOM (Bulgaria), CARNet (Croatia), CESNET (Czech republic), NASK (Poland), SANET (Slovakia) and UARNet (Ukraine). More CEEC members are expected to join shortly. The members are networking organizations that represent their country with authorization from their government. CEENet's role is to coordinate international aspects of academic and research networking in the CEEC region. CEENet applied to join RARE in recognition of RARE's role as the umbrella body for networking for research in Europe and was admitted as International Member during the Brussels meeting. A planning group has been set up to discuss how best to coordinate infrastructure planning and to function as a point of reference. RARE/EARN merger With the overall target of strengthening user representation in Europe the Executives of EARN and RARE are progressing a merger between the two Associations. Several documents are being drafted, such as a Constitution, Mission and Objectives statement, Technical programme and Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 structure, Secretariat structure and three year budget. These documents will be presented to both the CoA and the EARN Board of Directors for comment and approval during the May meetings in Darmstadt. The Executives will propose to establish the new organization in the Netherlands, with the current RARE Secretariat as the main secretariat. Current thinking has it that International Treaty Organizations will have voting rights and that voting will be according to a key related to level of subscription. RARE Signatory of ICT MoU RARE has signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Partnership in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), an EC initiative targeting enhancing user involvement in ICT. Elections Executive Committee Kees Neggers from SURFnet, the Netherlands, was re-elected President. Paul Van Binst, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, was elected Vice-President and Peter Bakonyi, from Hungary, Treasurer. Sven Tafvelin (Sweden) and Christian Michau (France) are the new members of the Executive Committee. The new RARE Executive Committee takes office on 1 May 1994. RARE Technical Programme RARE will establish a project involving evolution of the concept and protocols and maintenance of the reference implementation of World Wide Web and seeks funding for this project. The RARE Technical Committee is planning a Europe wide effort to coordinate the INIX and D-GIX activities and will raise the funding for this coordination effort. The RARE Technical Committee's management structure will change. The new RTC will consist of all WG Conveners and will be assisted by three senior general experts, who will form the RTC Budget Committee. This way the RTC will have closer contact with the Working Groups. Thanks to the arrival of a new Project Development Officer, John Martin, working from the RARE Secretariat, the support for the RARE Technical Programme has increased considerably. The support for the RTP now consists of 2.6 full time equivalent PDOs and one Technical Programme Assistant. RTR7 (RFC1502) has appeared: X.400 use of Extended Character Sets, by Harald Alvestrand from UNINETT, Norway. Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 Conferences and seminars The final report on the NATO Advanced Networking Workshop on Research Networking in Central and Eastern Europe that took place in Budapest last Autumn will be available from the fileserver, soon. The Workshop was very well attended and regarded to be very useful. A further activity of RARE supported by NATO funding is a technical workshop covering management and user support (to which the ISUS Working Group will contribute) just prior to the INET '94 / JENC 5 Conference in Prague. The preliminary programme with the registration information for the INET '94 / JENC 5 Conference in Prague, June 15 - 17, will be released shortly. The Conference will start on 14 June at 18:30 with an Welcome and Opening reception. The actual programme starts on 15 June and runs until noon on the 17th. The conference consists of 35 sessions (in five parallel streams) and 4 plenaries. Paper copies of all papers will be available at registration. To be added to the email distribution list for more information on the Conference send a message to Internet: inet-jenc-request@rare.nl X.400: C=nl;ADMD=400net;PRMD=surf;O=rare;S=inet-jenc-request EARN is organizing a Network Services Conference in London, from 28 to 30 November, subsequent to which a large RARE Working Group meeting will take place. The 3rd Symposium on High Speed Networking for Research in Europe, jointly organized by EC's DG XIII/C and RARE, was held on 2 February 1994. It was very successful, with 148 participants from 24 countries, including two people from Japan. It is planned to organize a fourth Symposium on High Speed networking for Research in Europe, focussing on 155 Mbps and higher, in two or three years' time. The proceedings will be published in CNRE. For more information contact: Internet: raresec@rare.nl or kiers@rare.nl X.400: C=nl;ADMD=400net;PRMD=surf;O=rare;S=kiers X.400: C=nl;ADMD=400net;PRMD=surf;O=rare;S=raresec fileserver: gopher.rare.nl or ftp.rare.nl Judith Kiers RARE Publicity Officer Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 UCL ---- The MICE project has developed quad-multiplexing sofrtware for H.261 video. We have also placed a sample of our notes for a Masters course in Data Communicaitons in our Web server as an experiment. We will add digital video of seminars (often the same as the MICE seminars) as they happen. J. Crowcroft attended the IAB watershed retreat on Internet Security at ISI. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 CALENDAR -------- 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: 1994 ------------ Mar. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Vancouver, BC Mar. 14-16 5th Wkshp on VHSN Baltimore, MD Mar. 14-18 OIW Mar. 15-18 ARPA HPCC Symposium Alexandria, VA Mar. 16-23 CeBIT '94 Hannover, Germany Mar. 22-26 Seybold Boston, MA Mar. 23-26 Comp, Freedom & Priv Chicago, IL Mar. 24-27 2nd Intl Conf on Telecom Sys. modelling & anaysis Nashville, TN Mar. 28-Apr. 1 29th IETF Seattle, WA Mar. 29 Rare Exec./EARN Exec. Comm. Amsterdam, NL Apr 6-8 National Net '94 Washington, DC Apr. 11-15 High Performance Computing La Jolla, CA Apr. 18-20 European Exhb. HP Comp/Ntwk Munich, Germany Apr. 18-22 IEEE POSIX Apr. 18-22 '94 TCP/IP Windows Sockets and PPP Bake-Off May 2-6 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV May 4-6 IFIP '94 Hamburg, Germany May 9-12 IEEE P802.11 Interim Oshawa, Ontario May 9-13 X3T5-OSI Upper Layers Rockville, MD May 10-13 ATM Forum Munich, Germany May 16-18 RIPE Amsterdam, NL May 19-20 RARE Council of Admn. Darmstadt Jun. 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 Barcelona, Spain Jun. 6-8 Digital World Los Angeles, CA Jun. 8-10 Seybold Paris Jun. 6-10 USENIX Hynes CC, Boston, MA Jun. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Berlin Jun. 12 RARE Technical Committee Prague Jun. 13-17 INET94/JENC Prague Jun. 13-17 OIW Jun. 20-Jul. 1 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Helsinki Jun. 27-Jul. 1 HPN '94 Grenoble, France Jun. 27-Jul. 1 Home-oriented informatics Copenhagen, Denmark Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 Jul. 11-15 8th ACM Intntl Supercomputing Manchester, England Jul. 11-15 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Orlando, FL Jul. 13-14 W/S on Community Networking Millbrae, CA Jul. 25-29 30th IETF Toronto, Canada Jul. 25-29 Sigraph 94 Orlando, FL Jul. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, JP Aug. (mid) SNOWMASS Aug. 1-2 USENIX Berkeley, CA Aug. 7-12 SHARE (IBM) Boston, MA Aug. 10-12 IFIP Protocols Vancouver, BC Aug. 22-26 6th Joint EPS-APS Phyicics Lugano, Switzerland Aug. 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Congress Hamburg, Germany Aug. 29-Sep 2 SIGCOMM 94 London, England Sep. IEEE P802.11 Interim TBD Sep. 7-9 Windows Solutions San Francisco, CA. Sep. 12-16 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 12-16 OIW Sep. 13-16 Seybold San Francisco, CA Sep. 14-16 4th Int'l CCHP Vienna, Austria Sep. 26-28 2nd IWACA Heidelberg, Germany Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN Oct. 6-8 Parallel & Dist. Compt. Sys Las Vegas, NV Oct. 15-20 ACM Conference on Multimedia San Francisco, CA Oct. 16-20 ACM SIGUCCS Oct. 24-28 NetWorld+Interop '94 Paris, France October/November Windows Solutions Germany Oct. 31-Nov. 3 EDUCOM Nov. 2-4 Gigabit testbed jamboree Reston, VA Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA Nov. 14-18 31st IETF (TENTATIVE) SFO Bay Area Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (TENTATIVE) SFO Bay Area Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 5-9 10th Annual Comp. Sec. Appl. Orlando, Florida Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico Dec. 12-16 OIW Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 1995 --------- Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA Feb. 16-17 PSRG - ISOC Symposium Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) Mar. 13-17 OIW Mar. 13-17 Email World (Probable) Santa Clara, CA Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 20-24 32nd IETF (Tentative) Mar. 27-31 Email World Chicago, IL (likely to be replaced by Mar 13-17 dates) Mar. 28-30 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel Jun. ISOC Wkshop for Tech. Emerging Countries Jun. 12-16 INET '95 (tentative) Singapore Jun. 12-16 OIW Jun. 19-22 USENIX San Francisco, CA Jun. INET95 Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden Jul. 31 - Aug. 4 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden Sep. 11-15 OIW Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 9-13 Email World San Jose, CA (likely to be replaced by Nov. 27-Dec. 1 dates) Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) Nov. 13-17 34th IETF (Tentative) Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Probable) Boston, MA Dec. 4-8 OIW Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Tentative) Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Possible) 1996 ----------- Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 18-22 OIW Jun. 10-14 OIW Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW Dec. 9-13 OIW Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA ---- Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories Via gopher: "Internet Society / IETF / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us ********************************************************************** RARE LIST OF MEETINGS march 94 edition --------------------- Ref. RSec(94)001-ac 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 RARE Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet (e.mail address: cozanet@rare.nl). MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== RARE Executive Committee ------------------------ 5 April Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 6 April (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) RARE Council of Administration ------------------------------ 19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt 27/28 October 1994 Bled 1/2 December 1994 CoA invited to attend EARN Bod (London) 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv RARE Technical Committee ------------------------ 3/4 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 12 June Prague RARE Working Groups ------------------- WG-IMM (MMEP) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) Multi Media European Proposal Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 2 March ATM-TF Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 16 March ATM (closed group) 13 June Prague WG-ISUS 13/14 June Prague WG-LLT Prague 14 June WG-NAP Prague 13 June WORKING GROUPS (various) 1-2 December London (at NSC'94) RIPE ---- 16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF) September (tbc) Lisboa VARIOUS ------- EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 23 June Amsterdam EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 28 February-1 March KTH Stockholm EARN Board of Directors 18-19 May Darmstadt 30 November - 2 December London DANTE Shareholders 25 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) Euro-CCIRN CCIRN 20/21 June TBD (in Europe) Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 13/14 June Prague IETF 29 March - 1 April Seattle 25-29 July Toronto Autumn San Francisco EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 1-2 March Brussels 17-18 May Brussels 13-14 September Brussels 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 15 March Brussels 7 June Brussels 27 September Brussels 6 December Brussels Workshops 11-15 April Brussels 27 June - 1 July Brussels 10-14 October Brussels ETSI ---- General Assembly 24/25 March Nice, France 22/23 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 21-23 March Nice, France 21/22 June Nice, France 18-20 October Nice, France INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee 21 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) ******************************************************************* INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5) 13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 The annual conference of the Internet Society held in conjunction with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference. To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to . ******************************************************************* OTHER CONFERENCES (nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available from the RARE Document Store under the directory calendar, in which case the file name is specified under the information presented below. The files may be retrieved via: anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl Email : server@rare.nl Gopher : gopher.rare.nl) NETWORKSHOP 22 -------------- from 29 till 31 March 1994 at the University of Plymouth, Devon, England organised by the Joint Network Team and the University of Plymouth Email NATIONAL NET '94 ---------------- from 6 till 8 April at the Loews L'enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington DC sponsored by IEEE - USA/CCIP, Internet Society, NSF, etc... for information and registration, email EUROPEAN CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING --------------------------------------------------------------- 18 till 20 April 1994 in Munich, Germnay Email INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION NETWORKS ------------------------------------------------ AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS ----------------------- from 18 to 21 April 1994 in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** For information, please email Prof. Pedro Veiga Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 IFIP WG10.3 - WORKING CONFERENCE ON PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR MASSIVELY PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ---------------------------------------------------------------- from 25 till 30 April 1994 in Ascona, Switzerland Email FIRST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY ----------------------------------------------------- from 25 till 30 April 1994 in Nancy, France Email MediaActive 94 - "Harnessing Multimedia for Higher Education" ------------------------------------------------------------- from 4 till 6 May 1994 in Liverpool, England Email 15TH INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATICS AND PSYCHOLOGY ------------------------------------------------------------- organised by the Computer Science Department of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, in cooperation with the European Association for Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) from 24 till 26 May 1994 in Schaerding, Austria For further information, contact Michel Tauber . FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB --------------------------------------------------- The conference will include tutorials, topical workshops, panels, presentation of formal papers on WWW technology and theory, user and provider experiences plus a series of special sessions for delegates from business and non- academic organisations. from 25 till 27 May 1994 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland For information, email NORDUnet 94 ----------- from 31 May to 2 June 1994 in Umea, Sweden for information, email INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY ----------------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 June 1994 at the Czech Technical University in Prague *** apply for admission before 1 March 1994 *** Email Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - ECT 94 -------------------------------------------- 4th International Russian Forum organised by the Academy of National Economy of Moscow, Russia; the International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information; and the Russian-American JV "Ecotrends". from 27 June till 2 July For further information, contact Juri Gornostaev or Juri Andrianov Email SECOND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADVANCED BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS --------------------------------- from 11 till 15 July 1994 as part of the RACE project BRAIN. the school will be distributed to at least four different sites in Spain. for further information, please email 8th ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUPERCOMPUTING -------------------------------------------------- from 11 till 15 July 1994 in Manchester, England Email 13TH WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS - IFIP CONGRESS 94 ----------------------------------------------- from 28 August till 2 September 1994, in Hamburg, Germany Tel. +49 40 3569 2242 - Fax. +49 40 3569 2343 ACM SIGCOMM'94 -------------- Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications organised by University College London from 31 August till 2 September (Tutorials and Workshops on 30 August) For further information, contact THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (ICCCN'94) from 11-14 September 1994, San Fransisco, U.S.A. *CALL FOR PAPERS* deadline 4 March 1994 Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 Conference Chairman: Prof. T. Suda OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.) --------------------------------------------------------- from 8-11 November in Munich For further information contact the DIGI board via email: vorstand@digi.de NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 ------------------------------ from 28 to 30 November 1994 in London (UK) For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via email: A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet EEMA CONFERENCES ---------------- Pre-conference Tutorial & EEMA subcommittees 2 March Vienna Spring Conference 3/4 March Vienna Pre-conference Tutorial & EEMA subcommittees 14 June Stockholm 8th Annual General Assembly 14 June Stockholm 7th Annual EEMA Conference Global Messaging '94 15-17 June Stockholm Autumn Conference September (tbc) Madrid Winter Conference November (tbc) Luxembourg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report February 1994 Cooper [Page 45]