~ April 1995 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 Cooper (IMR@ISI.EDU) Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu". Details on obtaining the current IMR, or back issues, via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by sending an EMAIL message to "rfc-info@ISI.EDU" with the message body "help: ways_to_get_imrs". For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 6 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7 CHICAGO NAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 DANTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 Rare List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. At the plenary session of the Danvers IETF meeting, new IESG and IAB members were announced. The current IESG members are: Harald T. Alvestrand Scott Bradner Joel Halpern Frank Kastenholz John Klensin Deirdre Kostick Allison Mankin Paul Mockapetris Mike O'Dell Joyce K. Reynolds Jeff Schiller Susan Thomson The current IAB members are: J Allard Brian Carpenter Steve Crocker Robert Elz Elise Gerich Phill Gross Christian Huitema Erik Huizer Bob Moskowitz Yakov Rekhter Chris Weider Lixia Zhang 2. The next IETF meeting will be held in Stockholm, Sweden the week of July 17-21, 1995. Due to the meeting costs, the IETF attendance fee for the Stockholm meeting will be US$300. Hotel information has already been sent to the Announcement list, and attendees are encouraged to make their plane and hotel reservations. Following Stockholm, the IETF will be meeting in Dallas, Texas on December 4-8, 1995. Our local host for this meeting is MCI. Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg- sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us 3. During the opening session of the IETF Meeting in Danvers, the IETF Chair asked for volunteers to host future IETF meetings. Anyone interested in hosting a meeting or obtaining information on what is expected of hosts should contact the IETF Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 Secretariat. 4. One Working Group was concluded during this period: Integration of Internet Information Resources (iiir) 7. A total of 49 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of April, 1995: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (wnils) o Whois and Network Information Lookup Service Whois++ (pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) (osids) o Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (ipatm) o IP over ATM: A Framework Document (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extensions (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies (notary) o The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages (none) o Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header (mailext) o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (mailext) o SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast -- Architectural Overview and Specification -- (asid) o Schema Publishing in X.500 Directory (aft) o SOCKS Protocol Version 5 (idmr) o Scalable Multicast Key Distribution (html) o Form-based File Upload in HTML (cat) o Integrating One-time Passwords with Kerberos Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 (rreq) o Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers (notary) o Enhanced Mail System Status Codes (ipsec) o The ESP DES-CBC Transform (ipsec) o IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 (none) + SNMP MIB Extension for Narrow-Band ISDN Interfaces (none) o The Photuris Session Key Management Protocol (none) o How to be a Bad EMail Citizen (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (ipsec) o IP Authentication Header (aft) o GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5 (ipsec) o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (ipsec) o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (none) + IBM ISDN MIB Extensions (rip) o RIPng for IPv6 (pppext) + PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) (pppext) + PPP Public Key Encryption Based Authentication (http) + Mediated Digest Authentication (none) + Digital Sigatures for Authentication of Financial Transactions (none) + Requirements for HyperText Transfer Protocol Security (none) + Limited Autonomous System Confederations for BGP (none) + BGP communities attribute (rsvp) + RSVP Cryptographic Authentication (mailext) + Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type (smtpext) + SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration (822ext) + Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 Two: Media Types (none) + IMAP4 Annotate Extension (822ext) + Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples (edi) + EDI Meets the Internet Frequently Asked Questions about Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) on the Internet (none) + The SSL Protocol (none) + Issues surrounding a new encapsulation for IP over ATM. (none) + IP Broadcast over ATM Networks. (html) + HyperText Markup Language Specification Version 3.0 8. There were 12 RFC's published during the month of April, 1995: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1776 I (none) The Address is the Message RFC1787 I (iab) Routing in a Multi-provider Internet RFC1788 E (none) ICMP Domain Name Messages RFC1789 I (none) INETPhone: Telephone Services and Servers on Internet RFC1790 I (none) An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols RFC1791 E (none) TCP And UDP Over IPX Networks With Fixed Path MTU RFC1792 E (none) TCP/IPX Connection Mib Specification RFC1793 PS (ospf) Extending OSPF to Support Demand Circuits RFC1794 I (dns) DNS Support for Load Balancing RFC1795 I (none) Data Link Switching: Switch-to-Switch Protocol AIW DLSw RIG: DLSw Closed Pages, DLSw Standard Version 1.0 RFC1796 I (none) Not All RFCs are Standards RFC1797 E (none) Class A Subnet Experiment St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== ANSnet total packet traffic decreased by about 34% in April '95. A decrease in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 1.58% was observed during the month of April. The NSFNET Backbone Service was terminated on April 30th, 1995. April Backbone Traffic Statistics ================================= The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 36,604,621,473 on T3 ENSS interfaces, down 43.11% from March. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 53,760,254,287 down 33.96% from March. Jordon Becker (becker@ans.net) BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- NIMROD - NEXT GENERATION ROUTING AND ADDRESSING FOR THE INTERNET The goal of the Nimrod project is to design, specify, implement and test a flexible new routing and addressing architecture suitable for very large scale internets. The basic architecture for computation of routes will be based on distribution of network topology maps, with source-specified route selection, and local (i.e. not hop by hop) computation of routes. The architecture provides a single homogeneous framework for all routing, including both inter-domain and intra-domain. Highlights: - The Nimrod IETF-BOF is now a working group. - The following IDs have been released: draft-ietf-nimrod-mobility-01.ps draft-ietf-nimrod-mobility-01.txt Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 draft-ietf-nimrod-multicast-01.ps draft-ietf-nimrod-multicast-01.txt draft-ietf-nimrod-routing-arch-00.txt There is also a document on functionality that can be obtained from Martha Steenstrup (msteenst@bbn.com). We are now defining the software architecture for our implementation. PI = Martha Steenstrup (msteenst@bbn.com) Co-chair of Nimrod WG = Isidro Castineyra (isidro@bbn.com) REAL-TIME INFORMATION TRANSFER AND NETWORKING (RITN) RITN is the successor program of what used to be called "Scalability." Its goal is to provide networking support to very large scale distributed interactive simulations (DIS). BBN is presently working cooperatively with NRL, NRaD, Lincoln Lab and Loral Advanced Distributed Simulation (LADS) to implement a prototype system for reducing the wide-area traffic load of DIS exercises by aggressive application of IP multicasting. In order to meet the traffic reduction goals of this program, simulation application hosts must be provided with multicasting service that can accommodate 10's of thousands of concurrently subscribed groups with highly dynamic membership (100s of joins per second and less- than-.5-sec. join time). On top of this, simulation traffic must be afforded quality-of-service guarantees. Unfortunately, currently available wide-area networking technology doesn't provide this degree of multicast service on a large scale. ARPA/ASTO has settled on an interim approach to this problem in order to meet impending operational requirements of the Synthetic Theater of War (STOW) program. The interim approach involves a gateway that sits at each site between the site LAN and the WAN access point. Among other traffic reduction functions like host throttling and selective packet dropping, this gateway provides a set of services called "bilevel multicast routing and QoS." BBN is handling the design and implementation of the bilevel services. The essential idea is that a large number of highly dynamic multicast groups defined by the application hosts get "mapped into" a smaller number of relatively static multicast groups defined in the intersite WAN. The gateway appears to the application hosts as a multicast-capable router, accepting IGMP messages from them and forwarding their multicast-addressed packets from site to site(s). To the WAN, the gateway appears as a host belonging to some Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 relatively stable number of multicast groups defined in the WAN. For QoS, the situation is similar. The application hosts will be equipped with RSVP daemons. The HPAG will include a QoS module that accepts RSVP messages from the hosts at a site. It will then combine the host bandwidth requirements with the mapping of LAN- defined multicast groups to WAN groups to determine an aggregate bandwidth requirement for each WAN group. This information will be provided to both the WAN (when and if it is RSVP-capable) and the HPAG load-leveling functions, so that they can police the locally generated traffic to protect it from arbitrary packet dropping in the WAN. The ultimate goal is to be able to remove the interposed gateway as soon as there are wide-area routers capable of providing the large-number-of-groups, highly dynamic multicast service required for large-scale DIS. By implementing the interim solution described here, the hosts get an "early lesson" in how to use the services to maintain high-fidelity, large-scale simulations while sending information only to where it is needed. Furthermore, ARPA gets an early empirical assessment of what kind of service is needed from IP multicast routing and RSVP, so they can better influence future enhancements of these services. At the end of April, BBN had completed detailed designs for the modules and interfaces of the bilevel routing and QoS schemes. Prototype implementations will be completed over the next few months and integrated with code being written by other RITN participants. BBN has also written a traffic generator for testing the resulting system with traffic that authentically represents real DIS multicast traffic flows. This generator is currently undergoing performance tuning. A corresponding instrumented traffic sink will be designed and built in the next few weeks. Joshua Seeger (jseeger@bbn.com) CHICAGO NAP ----------- General Status: The "Contingency Plan" FDDI configuration at the Chicago NAP is operational now. At the downtown Chicago site, AADS has purchased and installed routers for ANS, MCI and Sprint to support the NSFNET transition. MCI and ANS are peering and exchanging production traffic across the local FDDI. The Routing Arbiter's route server is also attached to this FDDI. The Sprint circuit order is still in progress. These FDDI-attached routers are also all attached to the Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 ATM switch at DS-3. (The routers are cisco 7010 and the ATM switch is AT&T GCNS-2000.) The Kentrox ATM DSU buffer overflow bugs have been fixed with a new revision of the hardware. All ADSUs have been upgraded. NAP Customer Status: AGIS (circuit being installed - DS3 ATM) Alpha Net (connected - DS3 ATM to Milwaukee site) ANS (connected - DS3 ATM + FDDI) Argonne National Laboratory (connected - DS3 ATM, upgrading to OC3c) B3 (letter of intent received - DS3 ATM) Databank (circuit being installed - DS3 ATM) Fermi National Laboratory (connected - DS3 ATM) ISI/Merit Routing Arbiter (connected - DS3 ATM + FDDI) MCI Internet(connected - DS3 ATM + FDDI) MCI vBNS (circuit being installed - DS3 ATM) NETCOM On-line (circuit being installed - DS3 ATM) Network 99 (circuit being installed - DS3 ATM) Sprint (stated intent - DS3 ATM + FDDI) University of Chicago (connected - DS3 ATM) University of Illinois at Chicago (order in process - OC3c ATM) Inquiries: AT&T Bell Northern Research Compuserve Computer Masters International Concentric Research Hyperspace Computers IBM Global Network Iowa Network Services MC**2 RustNet Sprint ATM Backbone Wiltel Monitoring: Via AADS Network Operations Center, Southfield MI. Peering and Transit Agreements: Chicago NAP customers have begun meeting monthly, and are working on a multi-lateral peering agreement. This will allow mutual exchange of routes to customer networks. Also, many regional (ie. Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 single NAP-connected) providers are working on establishing transit agreements with national (ie. multi-connected) providers. Recent Events: Argonne, Fermi and University of Chicago have upgraded from their DS3 SMDS trial to ATM NAP connections. Fermi and UOC will remain at DS3, while Argonne will upgrade to OC3c. In addition, University of Illinois at Chicago is connecting at OC3c. The AT&T switch has been upgraded with new port cards, for greater buffering capability and a new software revision. Next Steps: Many circuit installations are in progress and new orders are being taken. Peering agreements should allow many new ATM PVCs to be established. Ongoing testing of router, DSU and switch performance is occuring at the AADS lab in Hoffman Estates, IL. Bellcore is testing the cisco DS3 AIP card. It is expected that the DS3 AIP will be the next upgrade step for NAP customers, as it supports rate shaping and eliminates the ADSU. The contingency plan routers and FDDI will remain in place for at least 6 months, or until the ATM performance is proved to be satisfactory. For More Information: Please contact nap-info@aads.net for inquiries or to place orders. Mark Knopper (mak@aads.net) Ameritech Advanced Data Services Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 DANTE ----- ___________________________________________________________________ * * * * * * D A N T E P R E S S R E L E A S E 16 May 1995 ___________________________________________________________________ TEN-34 CONSORTIUM: TOWARDS A REAL SUPERHIGHWAY FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH A Consortium of eighteen European research and university networking organisations[1], has submitted a proposal with the name TEN-34 in response to the joint call for proposals issued by DG III and DG XIII of the European Commission under the Fourth Framework Programme; a compatible proposal was also submitted under the ACTS programme. The Commission had invited organisations to collaborate in the preparation of bids to establish the interconnection of European research and university networks at 34-155 Mbps supported in part by EU funding. DANTE acts as the co-ordinating body in the Consortium, providing the main technical and financial management as well as assistance to the TEN-34 Steering Committee with the preparation of plans and proposals. A number of public network operators have agreed to be Associated Partners in the TEN-34 proposal. The main technical goal of the TEN-34 Consortium is to establish and maintain a leading-edge backbone designed to interconnect the National Networks. This will create early opportunities for the research and university community to establish new pan-European networking applications based on new technology. The initial aim is the provision of a 34 Mbps IP infrastructure, and the establishment on a pan-European scale of an ATM-based test network with a clear production service specification in mind. The network will expand to include 155 Mbps technology and higher bandwidths to maintain a leading-edge capability when required and feasible. In order to establish advanced facilities, special arrangements are being sought with the suppliers of international communication links. This involves the negotiation of special rates as part of a collaborative R&D activity which in turn may require constraints to be placed on usage, and other special measures. Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 The network is being developed in a pragmatic fashion, meaning that links, nodes and interconnection points are created not only to satisfy, as well as possible, national network requirements, but also as practically and financially feasible. The requirement for intercontinental, specifically transatlantic, connections employing similar technology is also being addressed. The proposal presents a phased plan to include initially those national research networks which already have high speed networking requirements, for which international links are available and which have sufficient co-funding; other National Networks will join as and when they meet these criteria. The TEN-34 proposal to the DG III and DG XIII Programme has received a favourable evaluation report and the Consortium is now working to define a detailed implementation plan with those PNOs which have declared their intention to cooperate. _____________________________________________________________________ For further information please contact: Josefien Bersee DANTE Lockton House Telephone: +44 1223 302992 Clarenden Road Fax: +44 1223 303005 Cambridge CB2 2BH E-mail: J.Bersee@dante.org.uk United Kingdom _____________________________________________________________________ [1] The National Networks which are Full Members of the Consortium that submitted the TEN-34 proposal to the European Commission are: ACOnet (AT), ARIADNE (GR), BELNET (BE), DFN (DE), FCCN (PT), GARR (IT), HEAnet (IE), NORDUnet (DK, FI, IS, NO, SE), RedIRIS (ES), Renater (FR), SURFnet (NL), SWITCH (CH), UKERNA (UK). Since then CESNET of the Czech Republic has been accepted as a member. INTERNIC -------- INTERNIC REGISTRATION SERVICES I. Significant Events InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 12,147 network addresses and registered over 9,911 domains. Five top-level country domains were registered during April for: Vanuatu (VU), Micronesia (FM), Kiribati (KI), and Uzbekistan (UZ). Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 The suit that Knowledgenet has filed against Network Solutions and David L. Boone over the knowledgement.com domain is still pending. This case could establish precedence that refutes InterNIC Registration Service's current policy of first-come first served by binding trademarked names with a domain name. During the month of April, the increase of domain requests increased from an average of 400+ to 500+ new submissions per day. We have made adjustments in domain processing and staffing, as well as the implementation of additional equipment to aid in reducing the backlog. At the close of April 1995, the processing time decreased from a high of 15 days to 10 days. II. Current Status During the month of April 1995, InterNIC Registration Services received communications as shown below. The majority of the correspondence concerned the assignment and re-assignment of network numbers and the registration or change of domain names. E-mail 17,867 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 304 (primarily IP number requests) Phone 5,462 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of April. Connections Retrievals Gopher 56,515 53,675 WAIS 93,159 66,809 FTP 26,671 87,318 Mailserv 4,544 Telnet 76,532 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 358,373 1,517.424 Debbie Fuller (debbief@intenic.net) INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The net-happenings mailing list is maintained by Gleason Sackman and is hosted on dsmail.internic.net. After soliciting comments from the users of the list, Gleason has decided to modify the list to make it easier for users to get the information they want while cutting down on the overall amount of traffic received. Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 The main net-happenings list will continue to exist, but a number of sub-lists will be set up to address different topics within the list. Users who are interested in a subset of the total list can subscribe to one or more of the sub-lists and reduce the amount of mail to be read. There are now sub-lists for information on new information sites on the Internet (net-sites); newsletters and other publications on the net (net-zines); conferences, seminars, training, and other events (net-events); and other topics (net-misc). The net-happenings list is the sum of net-sites, net-zines, net-events, and net-misc. Thus there is no point in subscribing to any of the sub-lists if you subscribe to the main list; you will just get duplicate messages. To subscribe to any of the sub-lists send email to majordomo@dsmail.internic.net with the subject line blank and with the line: subscribe in the body of the message. Since all the sub-lists are included in the net-happenings list, only the full net-happenings list will be archived. 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. Rick Huber ISI --- Joyce Reynolds attended the IETF in Danvers, Mass, (first week of April) and attend an IESG meeting in Washington, D.C. (April 27-28). Joyce Reynolds and Jon Postel to participate in the Internet Society Summit April 11-12, 1995. Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 THE US DOMAIN ============= US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 767 PHONE 150 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 917 DELEGATIONS 54 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 6 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 857 --------------------------- Total 917 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. The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct registrations in the US Domain. To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp. THIRD LEVEL US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS ================================= CODETALK.FED.US FEDERAL AGENCY LOCALITIES ========== BIRMINGHAM.AL.US FORKS.WA.US JEFFERSON.AL.US GIG-HARBOR.WA.US REDDING.CA.US HOQUIAM.WA.US BROWARD.FL.US KEYPORT.WA.US EAST-LANSING.MI.US KINGSTON.WA.US OWATONNA.MN.US OLYMPIA.WA.US WINSTON-SALEM.NC.US PORT-ANGELES.WA.US Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 HIGHPOINT.NC.US PORT-LUDLOW.WA.US BOARDMAN.OH.US PORT-ORCHARD.WA.US WASHINGTON.OR.US PORT-TOWNSEND.WA.US AMARILLO.TX.US POULSBO.WA.US LUBBOCK.TX.US SEQUIM.WA.US ABERDEEN.WA.US SHELTON.WA.US BAINBRIDGE-ISL.WA.US SILVERDALE.WA.US BREMERTON.WA.US OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS =========================== FTI.COM.SANTA-ARBARA.CA.US ELSEWHERE.ROANOKE.VA.US SGVALLEY.MARIN.CA.US WEBB.PVT.K12.TN.US CO.WAKE.NC.US CI.OAKRIDGE.TN.US BDONNELLY.MANCHESTER.NM.US NHPS.K12.CT.US DTP.GEN.DE.US HACC.CC.PA.US CO.WASHINGTON.MN.US CI.SEASIDE.CA.US CYBERIA.SLC.UT.US DBE.MCLEAN.VA.US PALSPUS.CLIFTON.NJ.US WWW.CRANBERRY.K12.CT.US CO.WINONA.MN.US LOOMIS.K12.CT.US SOL.SARASOTA.FL.US SMA.METAIRIE.LA.US MILBURN.LIB.NJ.US JAPAN.VIENNA.VA.US ONRAMP.NOVATO.CA.US CRIMENET.ST-PETE.FL.US CO.SLC.UT.US CI.RICHMOND.CA.US SOVERNET.BELLOWS-FALLS.VT.US CO.WASHINGTON.PA.US CO.TILLAMOOK.OR.US NRHM.CC.PA.US APS.WASHINGTON.DC.US TIGGER.CARLSBAD.CA.US EMPOWER.LA.CA.US SMERDON.LIVONIA.MI.US TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 47 33 31 45 33 22 21 7 1 =================================================================== 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 Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering and Network Management groups on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) Project and the NSFNET Backbone Service Project. Farewell NSFNET! The last of the NSFNET ENSSs was shut down at midnight on April 30 in each respective U.S. time zone. The final shutdown went without a hitch, as did most of the events leading up to the final dismantling of the NSFNET Backbone Service. The smooth transition was due in large part to independent and proactive actions taken by many regional networks, several of whom began to terminate their NSFNET connections in March. Merit scheduled an initial test of the NSFNET shutdown to uncover any potential reachability problems. The test was postponed for several days, but eventually ran successfully on Tuesday, April 25. Overall, the retirement of the Backbone Service was quite uneventful, with few networks experiencing connectivity problems. Many thanks to the regionals for their cooperation since 1988 and during the transition to the new frontier! Merit's venerable Policy Routing Database (PRDB) will be turned off at 09:00 EST on Monday, May 8. The PRDB has been used to configure the NSFNET Backbone Service and ANSNET (AS690) since 1989. After May 8, configurations for the ANSNET backbone will be generated from the Routing Arbiter Database (RADB). The PRDB and the RADB have been running with parallel data for over a year. As of May 8, the last data from the PRDB will be transferred to the RADB, and the PRDB will be permanently retired. NACRs will no longer be accepted for AS690 configurations; the way to submit additions or changes of route announcements for AS690 will be to submit Route objects by e-mail to auto-dbm@ra.net. For more information, see: http://www.ra.net (select Routing Arbiter from the Projects menu) ftp://ftp.ra.net/routing.arbiter/radb/OVERVIEW Jessica Yu has helped Ameritech Advanced Data Services develop a Multi- Lateral Peering Agreement (MLPA) for peers at the AADS NAP. She also proposed a mechanism that facilitates implementation of the MLPA using the Route Server and the RADB. Craig Labovitz has been working with several Network Service Providers to develop routing monitoring and analysis tools to facilitate the transition to the new NSF architecture. The new Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 tools have been incorporated into Labovitz' Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT), which provides a powerful collection of tools for developing and debugging inter-domain routing protocols and policies. More information about MRT is available at: http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RT/mrt.html Merit is using the bilingual SNMPv1/v2 agent to monitor the Route Servers at the three contingency NAPs and the MAE-East facility. As far as is known to the network management staff, Merit is the first to deploy the SNMPv2 technology in an operational environment. Bill Norton outlined Merit's network management strategy in an "SNMP in Your Network" panel at the April COMDEX/Spring '95 exposition in Atlanta. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- Tony Ballardie and Mark Handley attended the March IETF. and paid particular attention in the mmusic, int-serv, rsvp, idmr, http and colip sessions. Work on LAW (a Langauge for Agents in the Web) has commenced - early ideas are in http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/law Crowcroft gave a 2 day seminar on Distributed Multimedia at St Andrew University which was multicast on the mbone. The notes are available at http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/dummy and the talk was recorded and can be retrieved from LUT's Runnymede Media on Demand server courtesy of Ben Anderson and Jon Knight, at http://pipkin.lut.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mede/mede John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 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: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. FYI - New Dates for U.S. APPC/APPN (AATC) Technical Conf. moved from July to May 1995. - New Dates for ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, 1995 NOW Dec. 11-15, 1995 - The 6th MD Wkshp on Very High Speed Networks will be rescheduled for sometime in June (date TBD), original date had been: March 20-21, 1995 A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) cd ietf ls *0mtg* Gopher ------- Available on the Gopher Server running on IETF.CNRI.RESTON.VA.US (132.151.1.35) under "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar". WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 ************************************************************************ 1995 --------- May 1-5 Fourth IFIP/IEEE Intl Symp. on Integrated Ntwk Mgt ISINM95 Santa Barbara, CA May 5 CPI-C Implementers Wkshp (CIW) San Jose, CA May 8-10 IEEE Symp. on Sec. & Privacy Oakland, CA May 10-12 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Oakland, CA May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel May 22-25 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Chicago, IL May 28-Jun. 2 NetWorld+Interop '95 Frankfurt, Germany JUNE 6th MD Wkshp on Very High Speed Networks Baltimore, MD Jun 4-9 ATM Forum Orlando, FL Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 6-8 Tcl/Tk Workshop Toronto, CA Jul. 10-13 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Maui, HI Jul. 11-14 USENIX Wkshp on Electronic Commerce New York City, NY JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 13-14 1st Intntl Wkshp on Intellig. & Multimodality in Multimedia Interface Edinburgh, Scotland Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF Stockholm, Sweden Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan Jul. 17-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 Ottawa, Ontario Aug. 1-4 4th IEEE Symp. on High Perform. Distributed Computing (HPDC-4) Pentagon City, VA Aug. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 19-21 14th Intntl Conf. on AI (IJCAI-95) Montreal, CA Aug. 21-24 APPN Implementers Wkshp (AIW) RTP, NC Aug. 23-25 IEEE Wkshp on Arch. & Implement of HPC Subsystems HPCS'95 Mystic, CT Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA Aug. 30-Sep. 1 ACM SIGCOMM '95 Cambridge, MA SEPTEMBER Windows Solutions Paris Paris, France Sep. 12-14 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Atlanta, GA Sep. 18-22 Ninth Systems Admin Conf (LISA) Monterey, CA Sep. 25-29 7th SDL Forum Oslo, Sweden FALL 1995 Seybold Europe Sep. 4-6 8th IFIP WG6.1 Intntl Wkshp on Protocol Test Systems Every, France Sep. 4-7 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) London, England Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 Sep. 11-15 6th IFIP High Performance Networking, HPN'95 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Sep. 11-15 OIW (Firm) Sep. 18-22 7th Annual Comp. Security Incident Handling Workshop Karlsruhe, Germany Sep. 20-23 4th Intntl Conf. Computer Commun. & Networks (IC3N'95) Las Vegas, NV Sep. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 26-29 Seybold San Francisco San Francisco, CA Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 10-11 ANSI X3T11 Oct. 11-13 Intntl Symp. on Multimedia Comm. & Video Coding New York City, NY Oct. 15-18 20th Conf. on Local Computer Netwks (sponsored by IEEE) Minneapolis, MN Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, AU Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec Oct. 31-Nov. 2 APPN Implementers Wkshp (AIW) RTP, NC Nov. 3 CPI-C Implementers Wkshp (CIW) RTP, NC Nov. 5-9 ACM Multimedia '95 San Francisco, CA Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Nov. 7-10 ICNP '95 Tokyo, Japan Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM '95 Singapore Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm) Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Firm) Dallas, TX Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Firm) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Windows Solutions Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Dec. 4-8 X/Open Security Dec. 10-15 ATM Forum London, UK Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU 1996 ----------- Jan. 22-26 USENIX 1996 Tech. Conference San Diego, CA Jan. 23-25 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Salt Lake City, UT Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Feb. 5-9 ATM Forum Los Angeles, CA Feb. 27-Mar. 1 ICDP '96-IFIP/IEEE Intntl Conf. on Distributed Platforms Dresden, Germany Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 Mar. 4-8 25th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Apr. 8-13 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 14-19 ATM Forum (Tentative) May. 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO Jun. 9-14 ATM Forum (Tentative) Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Jun. 24-27 ICC '96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-28 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Aug. 18-23 ATM Forum (Tentative) Aug. 26-30 SIGCOMM '96 (Tentative) Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Oct. 6-11 ATM Forum (Tentative) Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 1-6 ATM Forum (Tentative) Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) 1998 ----------- Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 ********************************************************************** Subject: TERENA Calendar - May'95 Ref. TSec(95)001 May 1995 This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail . ********************************************************************** MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA3 18/19 May Tel Aviv TERENA Technical Committee -------------------------- tbd Tel Aviv TERENA Working Groups --------------------- WG-NOI (Network Operational Issues) 10-11 May Tel Aviv WG-QMN (Quality Management for Networking) 12 May Tel Aviv WG-NMA (Network Multimedia Applications) 14 and 17 May Tel Aviv WG-SEC (Securit 15 May Tel Aviv Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 RIPE ---- 8-10 May Rome April/May 1996 Berlin VARIOUS ======= ECCO (Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations) 12 September Paris EMC (Ebone Management Committee) 8 June Amsterdam CCIRN ----- 14-25 June Honolulu, USA IETF ---- 17-21 July Stockholm, Sweden 4-8 December Dallas Texas, USA EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 16/17 May Brussels 19/20 September " 12/13 December " Workshops 26-29 June Brussels 23-26 October " 15-19 January 1996 " 25-29 March 1996 " 24-28 June 1996 " 21-25 October 1996 " ETSI ---- GA22 5-6 December Nice, France GA23 25-26 April, 1996 " GA24 10-11 December, 1996 " Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 TA22 19-20 June Nice, France TA23 7-9 November " TA24 22-24 April, 1996 " TA25 23-25 October, 1996 " TCC20 30 May-01 June Nice, France TCC21 29-31 August " CONFERENCES ******************************************************************* JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference 15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to . For information, email . JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference 13-16 May 1996 in Budapest, Hungary NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 1996 Autumn 1996, (tbc) Bled, Slovenia ******************************************************************* OTHER CONFERENCES nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available from the TERENA 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.terena.nl Email: server@terena.nl Gopher: gopher.terena.nl World Wide Web: http://www.terena.nl/terena/information/calendar/ Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 IDA "Electronic Directories for European Administrations" ----------------------------------------------------- - an initiative of the European Commission - DG III 3-4 May Sheraton Hotel, Brussels, Belgium. Registrations and information to: EEMA Executive Office in the U.K. tel: +44 1386 793 028. fax: +44 1386 793 268 THIRD ANNUAL RURAL DATAFICATION CONFERENCE ------------------------------------------ 22-24 May Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation) For information contact or fax no: +1 313 998 6105 EEMA 8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE -------------------------- 6-9 June RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Focussing on in-depth discussions of bringing together users, vendors, service providers and telecom operators For registration and information: or tel. no: +1 612 625 1300 INET Workshop on Network Technology for Developing Countries ------------------------------------------------------------ Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 18-24 June Manoa Campus,University of Hawaii - Honolulu, Hawaii For information contact: INET 95 - Annual Meeting of the Internet Society ------------------------------------------------ 27-30 June. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA The 5th Annual Conference of the Internet Society, focusing on worldwide issues of Internet networking. Registration (incl. hotel reservations) via www at: http://www.isoc.org/inet95.html or email registration at: and email hotel bookings: For further information contact: URLs: http://www.isoc.org/inet95.html gopher: //gopher.isoc.org/11isoc/inet95 ftp: //ftp.isoc.org/isoc/inet95 Email: or fax no: +49 721 32 550 JOINT WORKING CONFERENCE IFIP TC-6 TC-11 and AUSTRIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY -------------------------------------------- 20-21 September Graz, Austria on professional communication and multimedia application in relation to security aspects. Deadline paper submission 28 February to For further information contact Dr. Peter Lipp at: tel: +43 316 82 65 88 13. fax:+43 316 85 0144 IC3N'95 - FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS ----------------------------------------- 20-23 September Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Call for Papers information: or URL: http://www.nscee.edu/~eugene/ic3n/. Paper submission deadline is 17 March. For conference information: or WWW home page. URL is http://www.nscee.edu/~eugene/ic3n/. 1995 IFIP International Working Conference on User Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications (ULPAA) --------------------------------------------------------------- 11-15 December Sydney, Australia Deadline for submission of papers by 15 May For further info-> http:/www.ee.uts.edu.au/ifip/ULPAA95.html INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- Broadband Communiations: Networks, Services, Applications, Future Directions 19-23 February 1996 Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report April 1995 Deadline for submission of papers is 15 May 1995 For further information, email Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner , fax.+41 1 632 1035 Call for Papers on TERENA Document Server under rare/information/calendar. The file is called izs96-cfp.txt. ================== updated 03.05.1995 ================== ========================== Madeleine Oberholzer TERENA Secretary Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association TERENA - Established by merger of RARE and EARN TERENA Secretariat Singel 466 - 468 NL - 1017 AW AMSTERDAM Voice : + 31 20 639 11 31 Fax : + 31 20 639 32 89 Email : secretariat@terena.nl - for general matters bookkeeping@terena.nl - for financial matters Cooper [Page 30]