~ September 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 "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 September 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects APRICOT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 MERIT/INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 USER SERVICES REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 INET 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 21st RIPE Meeting and JENC6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. Let me remind everyone that the next IETF meeting will be in Dallas, Texas from December 4-8, 1995, with the Newcomers' Orientation and Registration Reception being held on Sunday, December 3. The Dallas IETF meeting is being hosted by MCI. Logistic information has been posted to the IETF Announcement list, and is available on the IETF Web Page. The IETF meeting fee for the Dallas meeting will be $200. Following Dallas, the IETF will be meeting in Los Angeles, California from March 4-8, 1996. There will not be a local host for this meeting, but the terminal room facilities will be provided by Interop. Following Los Angeles, the IETF will be meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. If this date looks familiar, that's because it is the same date as INET '96! Both groups will be meeting separately in the Montreal Convention Center. 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 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 The following IESG minutes have been added: August 31, 1995 (iesg.95-08-31) September 14, 1995 (iesg.95-09-14) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following nine Protocol Actions during the month of September, 1995: o Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification be published as a Proposed Standard. o A BGP/IDRP Route Server alternative to a full mesh routing be published as an Experimental Protocol. o DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 be published as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture be published as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) be published as a Proposed Standard. o Netiquette Guidelines be published as an Informational RFC. o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining be published as a Proposed Standard. o An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation be published as an Informational RFC. o Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 be published as a Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG issued three Last Calls to the IETF during the month of September, 1995: o RIP-II Cryptographic Authentication for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o finger URL Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Mailserver URL Specification for consideration as a Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Proposed Standard. 5. One Working Group was created during this period: Entity MIB (entmib) 6. A total of 67 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of September, 1995: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Node in Fibre Channel Standard using SMIv2 (notary) o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status notifications (ipatm) o IP over ATM: A Framework Document (cat) o The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support (notary) o The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages (none) o IP over HIPPI (none) o ARP over HIPPI (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the HIPPI Interface Type (ipatm) o Support for Multicast over UNI 3.1 based ATM Networks. (snmpv2) o Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Introduction to Version 2 of the Internet-standard Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Network Management Framework (snmpv2) o Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol (snmpv2) o Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework (snmpv2) o SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (snmpv2) o SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol (snmpv2) o Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (ripv2) o RIP-II Cryptographic Authentication (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (none) + IMAP4 Internationalized Mailboxes (none) o The Wide-Reply-To: header (ipsec) o The Photuris Session Key Management Protocol (none) o Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 (iab) + IPv6 Address Allocation Management (asid) o An LDAP URL Format (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management (dhc) o DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions (html) o Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 (vgmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Interfaces (mixer) o Equivalences between X.400 and RFC-822 Message Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Bodies (cidrd) o Address Allocation for Private Internets (asid) o Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and a Object Class to Hold public PGP keys. (html) o Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language (iab) o Renumbering considered unavoidable (none) o Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (none) o Proposed HTTP State-Info Mechanism (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 (ipatm) + Classical IP and ARP over ATM Update (Part Deux) (none) + Simple Authentication and Session Layer (ipngwg) + A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks (idmr) + Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (poised95) + The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3 (poised95) + IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees (none) + Administrative Model for Version 1.5 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv1.5) (none) + Administrative MIB for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (none) + Administrative Model for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (none) + User-Based Symmetric Security Protocols for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (none) + Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (grip) + Framework for Security Incident Response Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 (mimesgml) + Using Catalogs and MIME to Exchange SGML Documents (rolc) + Address Prefix Region and its application to Switched Data Link Subnetworks (none) + UNINETT PCA Policy Statements (none) + MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) (ipsec) + Photuris Extended Attributes (pppext) + PPP Deflate Protocol (ids) + Building a Directory Service in the US (ipsec) o Simple Key-Management For Internet Protocols (SKIP) (none) + Variable Length Subnet Table For IPv4 (none) + Security Considerations for IP Fragment Filtering (none) + Simple Network Paging Protocol - Version 3 - Two-Way Enhanced 7. There was one RFC published during the month of September, 1995: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1841 I (none) PPP Network Control Protocol for LAN Extension St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- APRICOT ======= CALL FOR PARTICPATION In The First - - - - - - - A P R I C O T - - - - - - - ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL INTERNET CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY http://www.apricot.net/apricot/ Jan 17-22 '96, Singapore Sponsored In Part By: * The Commercial Internet Exchange ( http://www.cix.org/ ) * & Others T.B.A. shortly SUMMARY: APRICOT is a forum for the exchange of technical know-how for In- ternet Service Providers and Network Operators OVERVIEW: The rapid growth of the Internet has brought many newcomers into positions of critical operational responsibility. They are ex- pected to be experts in the design, configuration, operation and maintenance of routers, terminal servers, WWW & UNIX servers, and a myriad of specific hardware/software systems. They must operate network management centers, customer support lines, and handle security incidents. They must liase with network registries, com- munications carriers, and their colleague operators. They must perform these duties efficiently even as their networks grow in- creasingly large and complex. Yet, the resources for learning the skills necessary to perform these tasks successfully are sparse and rarely provide specific information and examples. To address this critical need, the ASIA PACIFIC NETWORK INFORMA- TION (APNIC) has initiated the ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL INTERNET CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY (APRICOT). Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 APRICOT consists of seminars, conference sessions, and forums all with the goal of spreading and sharing the specific technical in- formation required to operate the increasingly complex Asia Pa- cific Internet topologies. APRICOT will be held immediately preceding the APNIC general meeting and the Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) meetings which includes the commercial sub-group and the internationaliza- tion and localization subgroup meetings. VENUE: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre (RELC), Singapore SCHEDULE: * Jan 17 Tutorials from invited speakers. * Jan 18 Conference * Jan 19 Morning: Conference Afternoon: Forum * Jan 20 APNG-commercial * Jan 21 APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Center meeting * Jan 22 APNG Asia Pacific Networking Group general meeting (being organized separately) APRICOT TOPICS: * IP and ASN Addressing issues & techniques * Exterior and Interior Gateway Protocols and Interexchanges * Telco DDN Systems * Domain Name Server * Usenet News * WWW, FTP, Shell, & Email Servers * Server and Network Security * Billing & Accounting Systems INVITED SPEAKERS FOR TUTORIALS The APRICOT organizing committee is inviting world-recognized ex- perts to lecture on the above topics. CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Presentations on the above or related topics are solicited from from the Internet operations community. Presentations should present your experiences with the above is- sues and share solutions to them. VENDOR EXHIBITS Space for up to 10 Vendor booths will be available. Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 ATTENDEE REGISTRATION: USD175 CLOSE DATES FOR PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS: To Be Announced ORGANIZERS, CONTRIBUTORS * APNIC * Cogwheel Internet Technolgy Consulting * Singapore Computer Society * Internet R&D Unit, ComCen, National University of Singapore * SingNet * Internet Association of Japan * National Computer Board, Singapore SPONSORS * Commercial Internet Exchange ( http://www.cix.org/ ) * Others T.B.A. shortly. INFORMATION / PRE-REGISTRATION Browse the following WWW URL to join the apricot information email list. We will send you more detail shortly. http://www.apricot.net/apricot/register.html/ SUBMISSIONS / SPONSORSHIPS Send email to: apricot-oc@apricot.net Bob Coggeshall INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES I. Significant Events InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 5,648 network addresses and registered over 22,676 domains. There was one top- level country domains registered during September: Vatican City State. As of September 14, 1995 the InterNIC Registry has initiated charging for domains within the categories of COM, NET, ORG, GOV, and EDU. Policies and Procedures have been implemented and are currently available via anonymous FTP to rs.internic.net, and our Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 webb site which is http://rs.internic.net. During the month of September, domain requests continue to average between 1,000 - 1,500+ for new submissions per day. Adjustments continue to be made in domain programs/processing. Additional, staffing is being acquired to accommodate the growth in registration requests. At the close of September 1995, the domain processing queue had decreased from 7,000+ to 5,000+ new domain registrations. II. Current Status During the month of September 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 41,935 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 225 (primarily IP number requests) Phone 10,568 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of September. Connections Retrievals Gopher 45,383 33,907 WAIS 91,811 64,158 FTP 52,365 146,628 Mailserv 3,330 Telnet 78,500 Http 512,328 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 472,855 3,537,058 Debbie Fuller INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The transition of the net-happenings and Scout Report mailing lists to Registration Services was completed in early September. All current subscribers of the lists should have been moved automatically. We have completed a review of the X.500 entries that we maintain for other organizations. In some cases, our contacts at those Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 organizations have disappeared or become inaccessible. If we cannot find a contact, we will have to remove the organizations from our directory. In September, information about the InterNIC home pages was included in material given to members of Congress by the Library of Congress. The InterNIC was also listed as a prominent site in Eye Magic Media's "Home Page Builder (TM)" and was highlighted the Business Broadcast on network radio. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html Rick Huber US DOMAIN REGISTRY ================== The US Domain is only registering domain names providing two nameservers. We will longer register direct registrations in the form of non-IP hosts, (i.e, UUCP connections requiring MX records), or IP hosts requiring A records). The only A record we will add to our zone file is a glue record for a delegation. Please contact a local service provider to provide your primary and or secondary name service. For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/usdnr US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 920 PHONE 545 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 1465 Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 DELEGATIONS 81 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS: 69 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 20 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1295 --------------------------- Total 1465 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains not administered by the US Domain Registrar, get the file "us-domain-delegated.txt" below. URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/usdnr/ MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 49 34 32 47 34 22 21 8 1 =================================================================== ----------------------- THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ----------------------- STATE.WA.US State, Washington CC.MT.US Community College, Montana K12.MT.US K12 Schools, Montana TEC.MT.US Technical Schools, Montana LOCALITIES ========== FLAGSTAFF.AZ.US ROSWELL.GA.US ALPHARETTA.GA.US CARLISLE.IA.US NORWALK.IA.US JACKSON.MN.US CARMEL.CA.US LEMON-VALLEY.NV.US GREENVILLE.MI.US INDIANAPOLIS.IN.US VAIL.CO.US CHAMPLAIN.NY.US PLATTSBURGH.NY.US KEESEVILLE.NY.US Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 FRUIT-HEIGHTS.UT.US FENTON.MO.US ST-GEORGE.UT.US WORCESTER.MA.US CHILTON.AL.US CLANTON.AL.US GREAT-FALLS.MT.US CRIPPLE-CREEK.CO.US TACOMA.WA.US NAPERVILLE.IL.US WESTMONT.IL.US PUYALLUP.WA.US MARIOSA.CA.US HAINES.AK.US OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- KO.PVT.K12.CT.US HEALTH.CO.SCHENECTADY.NY.US PD.CI.IRVINE.CA.US CI.KIRKLAND.WA.US DOVER.LIB.NH.US CI.GREENWOOD.IN.US CPS.ALTADENA.CA.US CI.DOVER.NH.US PMC.GRAND-RAPIDS.MI.US SOUTHERN.TEC.OK.US PTC.TEC.AR.US PALOS-VERDES.LIB.CA.US CI.LIVERMORE.CA.US NCMC.CO.NASSAU.NY.US KNOXNET.KNOX.OH.US CI.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US FLANDERS.EAST-LYME.K12.CA.US KENT.K12.CT.US ALA.NE.DC.US CROWHURST.BANKS.OR.US HD.CO.MACOMB.MI.US NPL.LIB.VA.US CHERRY-HILL.LIB.NJ.US CENTRAL.RUTHERFORD.K12.TN.US CHEATHAM-HS.CHEATHAM.K12.TN.US DICKSON-HS.DICKSON.K12.TN.US EAKIN.DAVIDSON.K12.TN.US ENTECH.PENSACOLA.FL.US GALLATIN-HS.SUMNER.K12.TN.US CI.BELMONT.NC.US FREEDOM-MS.WILLIAMSON.K12.TN.US CI.WARRENTON.VA.US FAUQUIER-CC.WARRENTON.VA.US OTI.PHOENIX.AZ.US CO.CAMDEN.NJ.US CO.LEWIS-CLARK.MT.US TSLA.LIB.TN.US CI.BOCA-RATON.FL.US CI.ARLINGTON.TX.US HEALTH.CO.CHAUTAUQUA.NY.US LAM.MUS.CA.US CI.CHERRY-HILL.NJ.US CO.LINN.OR.US RTM.CAMBRIDGE.MA.US DUPONT-HADLEY.DAVIDSON.K12.TN.US SPRINGFIELD-HS.ROBERTSON.K12.TN.US Ann Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) MERIT/INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Routing Arbiter services are now fully in production at the Ameritech Advanced Data Services (AADS), Washington, D.C. (MAE- Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 East), and Sprint NAPs. At each of these interconnection points, the RA's Route Servers-- Sun SPARC 20 workstations running a customized version of the GateD routing software--provide scalable, optimized routing services for the Internet community. The RA also provides the Routing Arbiter Database, in which networks and providers enter data directly in order to publish: --The set of routes originated by an Autonomous System (AS) --The routing policies the AS implements towards other ASs, i.e., the routes it announces to and accepts from its neighbor ASs Routing policy in the Routing Arbiter Database is used to configure the Route Servers at the interconnection points, and can be used by an AS to configure its routers. For more information about these services, see: http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA The RA service is now peering with the vBNS at all four NAPs: AADS, Washington, D.C., Sprint, and PacBell. As two components of the new NSFNET architecture, the RA and vBNS project teams are working together to define how the RA service can support the vBNS. Other new peering sessions with the Route Servers were also established in September by WIS.COM at the Washington, D.C. and Sprint NAPs. A complete list of BGP peering sessions is available from: http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/.bgp.peers.html Several useful new tools are now available from the Routing Arbiter Project. They are: IRRWeb A graphical interface into the Internet Routing Registry, IRRWeb makes it possible to use the Web to query the IRR and update RADB AS objects, Route objects, and Maintainer objects. Users can enter any value that can be submitted through a whois query, such as an AS number, network IP address, or maintainer. IRRWeb then displays the corresponding AS objects, Route objects, or Maintainer objects from the various registries in the IRR. Authorized maintainers can edit the objects directly; IRRWeb performs a cursory pre-check and mails the revised object to auto-dbm@ra.net, the automated RADB e- mail interface. The user then receives e-mail from auto-dbm displaying the revised object, or explaining why the object was rejected. To use IRRWeb, see: http://www.ra.net/cgi-bin/ra/query-radb.pl Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 ROUTE FLAP REPORTING MECHANISM This new tool set generates daily reports of route flaps (link failures at regular and short intervals) throughout the Internet. Modeled after the reports originally produced by Curtis Villamizar of ANS, the new mechanism generates reports using tools provided in Merit's Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit. The data is obtained from peering sessions with Route Servers at the interconnection points. The reports note the last state of the route (up or down), the length of time that a route existed (or did not exist) for that prefix, and the number of times a route for the prefix transitioned from down to up, up to down, or was replaced by a new route with changed attribute information. AS-path-specific information is also provided for every path announced for the prefix. To view today's route flap reports, see: http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/RADB.tools.docs/flap.html PGP-BASED RADB AUTHENTICATION Follow these steps to take advantage of the new RADB support for PGP-based digital signatures: 1. Register your public key with the Routing Arbiter Service. 2. Modify your Maintainer object to reflect your use of digital signatures. 3. Use PGP to sign your RADB transactions. For detailed instructions, see: http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/RADB.tools.docs/pgp.html Finally, the RA project has defined a "Routing Arbiter Database Service Agreement" that outlines the general operational policy followed by the Routing Arbiter in providing the RADB service, and provides guidelines for users of the RADB. It is available from: http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RA/radbserv.html Cornell University and Merit are pleased to announce that the GateDaemon Project and GateD Consortium have moved to Merit. The GateD routing software, which is used worldwide, supports multiple IP and ISO network routing protocols. GateD also provides a platform for prototyping and distributing new routing protocols and features, such as policy-based route filtering. Membership in the GateD Consortium is open to all organizations. Members participate in discussions of new GateD features, receive briefings about new capabilities, and have opportunities to work closely with the GateD developers. Sue Hares is leading Merit's GateD effort. For more information, see: Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 http://www.merit.edu/~gated The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center hosted the fifth North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Pittsburgh on September 11- 12. Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the meeting. They are available through Merit's Web site, http://www.merit.edu/NANOG/NANOG.html. Bill Norton of Merit moderated the meeting, which featured the following presentations: --RA Project Update (Elise Gerich, Merit) --New Routing Tools for the Internet (Craig Labovitz, Merit) --Updates from the Interconnection Points --AADS NAP (Mark Knopper, AADS) --PacBell NAP (Kent England, Six Sigma Networks) --Washington, D.C. NAP (Steve Feldman, MFS Datanet) --MAE-West (Steve Feldman) --Top-Level Domains: the InterNIC Solution (Mark Kosters, InterNIC; Dave Graves, Network Solutions/SAIC) --Top-Level Domains: Community Views and Discussion (Milo Medin, @Home, Moderator) --Nimrod Routing:How Can We Meet Your Needs? (Michael Patton, BBN) --Experience With Route-Flap Dampening (Sean Doran, Sprint) --IP Address Ownership Discussion (Milo Medin, Moderator) --Proxy Aggregation: Community Views and Discussion (Stan Barber, Academ Computing Services, Moderator; Curtis Villamizer, ANS; Sean Doran, Sprint) --CA*net ATM Backbone Transition (Guy Middleton, UUNET Canada) --RADIUS: Distributed Authentication for MichNet (John Vollbrecht, Merit) --GateD Consortium Announcement (Martyne Hallgren, Cornell University; Sue Hares, Merit) --MBone-Appropriate Technology (MBAT) (Matt Matthis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center) Laurent Joncheray's paper, titled "A Simple Active Attack Against TCP," originally presented at the 5th USENIX UNIX Security Symposium in Salt Lake City, was selected for the "Highlights from the 5th USENIX UNIX Security Symposium" session at the LISA'95 Systems Administration Conference. LISA'95 was sponsored by USENIX and SAGE, the System Administrators Guild. Elise Gerich attended a meeting of the Telecommunications Task Force/Ministry of Science and Technology Policy of the Russian Federation in Moscow, as well as a NATO Advanced Networking Workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 UCL ---- Observed performance on the UK-US link is severely degraded. Speculation is that this is due to a) large numbers of very short lived TCP connections (e.g. HTTP usage of TCP from WWW accesses). b) so many simultaneous connections at any time, that the average bottleneck capacity available to each would at best be less than one MTU (MSS) per RTT. Desperate measures have been dreamt up, but it may prove less expesive to upgrade the US-UK link sooner, than to field new versions of TCP, new router congestion control schemes, and RSVP for WWW and Email. A succesful demonstration was carried out from Telecom95 with IP Mbone access over international ATM again being used to provide conferencing, including a link up to a demonstration that coincidently was being carried out at BT Labs. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 USER SERVICES REPORT -------------------- Trip Report INET95 - Honolulu, Hawaii June 1995 Joyce K. Reynolds USC/Information Sciences Institute The Internet Society's INET 95 was held in June 1995, in Honolulu, Hawaii, with approximately 2000 attendees. Joyce K. Reynolds was the User co-track leader of INET95, along with Shigeki Goto, NTT Software Laboratory, Japan. Joyce and Goto-san worked with Kilnam Chon, Dan Lynch and the rest of the invited program committee members to produce the agenda and proceedings for the conference. The INET95 User Track had six sessions: - Innovative Designs for Users - Museum - Public Health and Medicine - Enterprise Networking - Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (panel) - Community Networking For further information on the User Track presentations, invited papers, presenters and panelists, please see: http://info.isoc.org/HMP/proc1.html For additional information on the INET95 conference proceedings in general, please see: http://info.isoc.org/in95prc Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Trip Report 21st RIPE Meeting - Rome, Italy and JENC6 - Tel Aviv, Israel May 1995 Joyce K. Reynolds USC/Information Sciences Institute The 21st RIPE Meeting The 21st RIPE Meeting was held in May 1995 in Rome, Italy Approximately 150 people attended. Rob Blokzijl opended the meetings and requested input on additions/changes to the meeting agenda. Minutes of the last meeting were approvaed. RIPE NCC Report - Daniel Karrenberg Daniel noted that the slides provided at this meeting are very similar to the last meeting three months ago. He provided updates to them, which included the DNS hostcount, and the number of local registries. The are 192 local registries as of May 4th. This number is not quite doubling every nine months. The registry function is recording 52 submissions per working day (32 at the last meeting in January). He mentioned that the RIPE NCC staff does not have enough time to support the local Internet Registries (IRs). The NCC mailbox is receiving 66 messages per working day (41 msgs at the last meeting). Most are routine messages. More than 50% of the NCC's tasks are routine duties. A billing mechanism for the registry database is continuing. A structure billing procedure/routing operation is in place. Staff burnout continues. Roderik Muit is a full FTE. Halice Kuey has been hired as a Junior Hostmaster, and will start in June. Daniel stated that 6 FTEs are not enough. The Routing Registry and PRIDE tools maintenance should consume on additional FTE. The NCC is still catching up. The situation is improving, but very slowly. Goals for the RIPE NCC in the next few months include: - Streamline registry activities - ticketing started, automation. - Prepare to resume reporting - automatic statistics gathering, simplify report formatting. - Registry Training Project - An outline course has been produced. A course being developed. Routing registry maintenance and an activity plan has been completed, but little is happening, so far. Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 - Charging model for 1996 - Worldwide Registry coordination and improvements. RFC1466bis is more difficult than expected. - Plan for the coming period for training and support for new registries. - Routing Registry Maintenance - start to execute plan Additional goals: - Restart Quarterly Report - IPv6 working group start up with RIPE - Hire new staff - Train new staff - Use temporary external help as much as possible - The NCC is still in catch up mode - Load still increasing - No new projects! - Still under the umbrella of TERENA, investigations are continuing on the possibilities ofmoving out as a separate functioning entity IPv6 -BOF - Daniel Karrenberg The IETF is working on IPv6 and RIPE may be interested in forming a working group to liase. This BOF is being held to investigate RIPE participants' interest in this topic. Geert-Jan reported on what IPv6 implementations he found that are running in Europe. Francis Dupuy has been testing in France. The first plan is to have routers, but there are also many concerns about routing. Also, the problem is more serious than people imagine. Daniel stated that there are two platforms the RIPE community could test via the RIPE NCC. PCs or Sparc1s. Suns were chosen first. The RIPE NCC will start address assignments. They have asked the IANA and IAB in informal talks if this is a good idea. The answer was yes. The RIPE NCC will start doing this, and putting the information into the database. Daniel then asked if there was any other business or remarks? Do we need to form a working group? Who will chair? One comment was that it is very important for the RIPE community to provide feedback of the European view to the IETF community. Geert-Jan mentioned that there are major flaws in IPv6, but there is a need to start implementing it and share experiences. It was decided to establish a working group. The chair named to head up this working group is Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Klaus Landefeld. To subscribe to IPv6 working group email list, send a message to majordomo@ripe.net. "help" tells you how to subscribe. Internet World's Fair Exposition - Carl Malamud Carl Malamud presented a talk on the Internet World's Fair Exposition. Intent of the World's Fair: 1) Educate/Entertain 2) Challenge Engineers 3) Validate Industry Duration - All of 1996, with 100 countries participating. There will be four aspects to the fair: pavilions, geographic, corporate sponsors, and institutions. 1) Pavilions - global schoolhouse, future of media, small business, Internet Town Hall, Toasternet. Anyone can open a pavilion. 2) Geographic - US, Japan, Thailand, Netherlands, UK. Organizing committees include Hearst, Nissan, Sony. 3) Corporate Sponsors - NBC, Quantum, MCI, SSDS, etc. 4) Institutions - Smithsonian, National Press Club, Kennedy Center, and Peter Gabriel/WOMAD. An Internet Railroad will be set up with a "T3 Around the World", G7 summit applications, and government support. The technical alliance for this includes WIDE, MIT, NASA-Ames, Imperial College, etc. For further information: http://town.hall.org NSFnet: Post Mortem and the New World - Elise Gerich Elise provided a brief report on the shutdown of the NSFnet backbone. IETF and User Services Area Report - Joyce K. Reynolds Danvers IETF Stats - 880 Total Attendees - From the Multicast side - not yet posted - 70 Groups met (This includes WGs, BOFs, Directorates, and the IAB) [Some in multiple sessions.] Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 IPNG Area Update IPng Co-Area Directors: Scott Bradner Allison Mankin IPng Area - Suggested Reading: RFC 1752, "The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol", URL: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/rfc1752.txt, and RFC 1636, "Report of IAB Workshop on Security in the Internet Architecture February 8-10, 1994", URL: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/rfc1636.txt IPNG Area Update (since the Danvers IETF) - 15 core documents in the queue - Current IPNG working groups: IPNGWG NGTRANS ADDRCONF ENCAPSULATION PATH MTU DISCOVERY IPNG MOBILITY IPNG SECURITY IPNG RTG (Routing) DHCP WG DNSAUTOREG * Base Specification *Addressing Architecture *Unicast Format *Unicast Architecture *DNS *ICMP **Neighbor Discovery *Tranisiton Mechanisms Stateless Auto Address Conf *Overview *API for BSD (informational) *4 Security Documents (IPSEC WG) (* = minor edits, ** = heavy edits) Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 IETF User Services Area Update - not end-user specific area - second level service - HTMLing FYI RFC series - USV-WEB - Bringing in other disciplines - New WGs/WGs coming to closure - Liase with TERENA ISUS and other international groups IIA - IAB Retreat Internet Information Architecture (IIA) Plan and the IAB - Report to be published. Internet Architecture Board New Members Yakov Rekhter * Elise Gerich * Chris Weider Erik Huizer Robert Moskowitz Jay Allard * re-selected Internet Engineering Steering Group New Members Scott Bradner (2 yr. term) * Allison Mankin (2 yr. term) * Deirdre Kostick (2 yr. term) John Klensin (1 yr. term) * Harald Alvestrand (2 yr. term) Sue Thomson (1 yr. term) Frank Kastenholz (2 yr. term) * re-selected Acknowledgements: Scott Bradner, Steve Coya, and Jon Postel RIPE Working Group Summaries RIPE Working Group summaries were presented. Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 The Joint European Networking Conference (JENC6) The Trans European Research and Education Network Association's (TERENA) Joint European Networking Conference (JENC6) was held in May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel, with approximately 350 attendees. Words of Welcome to JENC6 Frode Greisen, President of TERENA opened this conference, and stated that there is a shared workstation environment focus. He hopes the attendees find inspiration to create new applications for the future. Steve Druck (on behalf of the JENC program committee) provided a brief overview of how the conference's network is set up at the Dan Panorama Hotel. There is a Fiberoptic net to Israel's Metropolitan Network via Telecom Switzerland with a 2MB line to Geneva. Yitzak Kaul from the Israel Telecom Corporation stated that this is the first JENC to take place outside of Europe. Israel is honored TERENA picked it for its first public event since the convergence of RARE and EARN. Best wishes for a good conference. Walter DeBaker - Keynote Speaker, "Europe's Way to the Information Society and a Global Information Infrastructure" Society has been interested in this topic before these terms became popular. Policy Development = Politicians. For example, the Treaty of Maastricht 1992, the Clinton-Gore NII/GII White Paper, and the eight G7 Principles: - dynamic competition - private investments - an adaptable regulator framework - open access to networks with universal provisions - access to services - equality of opportunity to the citizen - diversity of content: cultural and linguistic, - world-wide cooperation: less developed countries information = application + content Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Operators supply: 1) services, transport data (network of networks) 2) layer of applications, 3) specific application - medical, etc., There should be support for this diversity. Support of this is of European interest. New Market Structure Open systems and convergence of multiple technologies. Think about a new head division of a market structure. Building the components must be included in a world wide market with many options. Re-engineering Human Activity Local and world wide communication for citizens and businesses with instant access to access to information, when and where it is needed. One should not try to reinvent the wheel. New types need to be developed. For example: tele-banking, conferencing, working, shopping, marketing, infotainment, etc. We all must work together. Who are the actors and what are their new roles? Potential new roles include: information users, operators, information producers, component and system producers. Information Society Forum Creation of this forum for users, social groups, network operators, content and services providers, equipment manufacturers, and institutions. This forum will have 100-150 members, who willn start in July. They will elect a steering group. What are the problems? There are three converging universes - switching (telephone), broadcasting (radio and TV), routing (computing). All three types are changing and they will eventually converge. An information infrastructure is already there, but it is not a single entity. There are three. Also, there are barriers in the development, besides three different universes. For example, monopolies (employment), market fragmentation, vertical integration, critical mass, slow standardization, past investments, and lack of awareness and urgency in these matters. Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Action Plan (July 1994 - Bangerman Report) - Regulatory and legal framework networks, basic services, etc. Annexes - possible partnerships pending measure, new measures to consider. G7 summit - lots of things to ponder. Search for new ideas - awareness (problems and opportunities) partnership (cooperation with competition) new business practices (services) research (applications) regulation (public service obligation) a new standardization process There is also a new wave in research on the applications side. What about regulation? Public service obligations will come from private companies in competition (interconnection and interoperability), open access to networks and services (no discrimination, etc.). The major problems are not technical, economical or managerial, but how can we safeguard public interest in a free information market? JENC participants must take on this challenge and be pioneers in this endeavor. Ruiz Pinar - Portability via Satellite the PICO - Terminal Network How a satellite network can be a portable network. Architecture, Equipment, Protocol Architecture, and Communication Services. The PICO architecture: terminus MAX antenna size of one meter. USAT satellite net, portable terminals, data/voice communication, Star/Mesh topology, outbound TDM, inbound Mesh, integration with CODE, and Internet access. The equipment: a suitcase with a 55cm antenna, front end RF, modem equipment, notebook PC, power supply, and GPS. Hub structure: VSAT 1.5m antenna, RF, modems, PC w/transputer processor. Protocol architecture: physical layer, DAMA (Demand Assignment Multiple Access) Aces, Point to Point Data Voice Channels, signaling channels. Communication services: duplex point to point communications. StarMesh communication/vocoded voice 48bps data communication. Unidirectional communications, star communication, data collection, and broadcast point. Preliminarly performance testing in the field has provided good results, so far. Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Peter Jung - SURFNET Internet via ISDN The ISDN network: 1) Basic Rate access (2-64K synchronous connection and primary rate access (30*64K) synchronous connection. 2) For data and voice. 3) Cost comparable to PSTN (in the Netherlands). 4) Additional services: calling line identification, presentation, multisubscriber numbering, etc. 5) Problems: equipment (especially for Internet over ISDN). Surfnet ISDN Access (SURF-it) 1) ISDN dial-in services for individual users. 2) ISDN dial-in services for small LANs. 3) ISDN for overload and backup for leased lines. Conditions: -based on STDs as much as possible -no async communication over ISDN -large scale solutions -no calls from the Internet to the users Preliminary Pilots BRA (Basic Rate Access) dial-in services for LAN access/BRA dial- in services for PC acccess. There were some problems. Test results: 1) no ISDN access from internet to LAN; consequently, nameserver off-site/PCP mailservers offsite 2) call set up time - 10 seconds 3) costs - three hours user on working days = leased lines, hence less than 10 users 4) security: of costs: timers, of access: CHAP Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 LAN access further developments: 1) name and mail server onsite 2) bonding on PPP link for 128K access 3) add CLIP for security 4) PRA (Primary Rate Access) dial-in facility PC access side (access results - no service, yet) -MS windows work -Unix workstations work -Macintosh only one board with PPP driver - still problems (one PPP driver = 1000 ECU - expensive!) -Security - use timers and CHAP again -PKG - for MS windows (and other?) users Current Status - PC access. See if they can get PRA points. PRA access router used. Spider multiple BRA access router used. CLIP can be used. pkg for windows being developed. Access for LANS -multiple BRA router -CLIP can be tested -on site mail and name server to be tested Backup and overload: some test have been completed, but not yet satisfactory results. Future: Uniform, large scale peering based access points, higher bandwidth - multiple 64K channels, ISDN service for backup and overload. Value added services - (expertise, user support, training materials, packaging For further information: http://www.nic.sufnet.nl/sufnet/projects/surfit Hans-Peter Axmann - European Commission and Policies on Research Networking DG13-C Recommendation to the EC - prepare Europeans for the information society by fostering an entrepreneurial mentality. Develop a common regularity approach. Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Launch a European Society, with teleworking, distance learning, 4th Framework Policy. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Telematics for Knowledge Program (1994-1998) - Validation of European research interconnection - Validation of telematics for life long learning - Remote access to library sources - Following a user driven approach for research and development - "Telematics for Research" Actions involved: 1) national funding and policy bodies 2) National network for research 3) users 4) telematics industry as provide 5) public and private network operators Priorities - improve trans European networking infrastructure to support 34/mgbits. Planning to upgrade to 156 mbits, with full European coverage (phased roll out, intercontinental links). The telematics for research as a program looks interesting, but it is still too early to comment. Alan Emtage - Publishing in the Internet Environment Flawed Premise: Electronic materials possess the same inherent characteristics as paper counterparts Publisher's Concerns = Bandwidth & Storage Implementing specific payment methods Providing working directory services The Internet Culture: Cultural Transmission Interactivity Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Intellectual Property GATT Berne Conventions "Fair Use" provisions "Perceived Value" Intellectual Property What are the implications for intellectual property on the Internet? Distribution: ramifications of a technology like the Internet in distribution of publications where, "our packets cross borders freely and our sense of community should be equally open." Internet = global in scope, with no physical boundaries The Internet possesses the ability to make everyone a publisher. Tariffs and Borders, Pricing, Marketing & Sales How do we price for the global environment? Solutions, Selling Your Product and Protecting Your Rights Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 CALENDAR -------- Last update 10/6/95 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 ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, 1995 NOW Dec. 11-15, 1995 - The 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Systems, Modelling and Analysis originally scheduled for March 14-17, 1996 has been moved to March 21-24, 1996. Nashville, TN. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.8) 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 33] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 ************************************************************************ 1995 --------- Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ont, Canada Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 9-12 PROMS '95 Salzburg, Austria 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. 30-31 6th MD Workshp on Very High Speed Networks Baltimore, MD Oct. 30-Nov. 2 Internet World Boston, MA 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. 7-9 OPENNET '95 Goettingen, Germany Nov. 7-10 ICNP '95 Tokyo, Japan Nov. 8 Membermtg/GIGI e.V. German Internet User Group Goettingen, Germany Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM '95 Singapore Nov. 14-16 NORDUnet'95 Conf. Copenhagen, Denmark Nov. 27-29 European IT Conf. (IETC'95) Brussels, Belgium Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany Nov. 29-Dec. 1 Virtual Reality World Boston, MA Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm) Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Firm) Dallas, TX Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Firm) 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. 11-12 2nd Intntl. Wkshp on High Perf. Protocol Arch. HIPPARCH'95 Sydney, AU Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO Dec. 11-15 1995 IFIP Intntl. Working Conf. Sydney, AU Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 1996 ----------- Jan. 9-12 Internet World Canada Toronto, Ont, Canada Jan. 22-26 USENIX 1996 Tech. Conference San Diego, CA Jan. 23-25 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Salt Lake City, UT Jan. 29-31 Multimedia Computing & Netwkg San Jose, CA Feb. 2-4 Internet World Home Expo New York Feb. 5-7 Wkshp on Network Security, Firewalls & Internet Svs. San Jose, CA Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 San Diego, CA Feb. 5-9 ATM Forum Los Angeles, CA Feb. 13-15 Virtual Reality World Europe Stuttgart, Germany Feb. 14-15 Web Seminars Chicago, IL Feb. 19-21 EMail World & Internet Expo San Jose, CA Feb. 19-23 Intntl Zurich Sem. on Digital Communications Zurich, Switzerland Feb. 22-23 Internet Society Symp on Ntwk & Distributed System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 27-Mar. 1 ICDP '96-IFIP/IEEE Intntl Conf. on Distributed Platforms Dresden, Germany Mar. 4-8 35th IETF - CONFIRMED Los Angeles, CA Mar. 7-9 Internet World Asia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mar. 11-13 Wkshp on Network Security Firewalls & Internet Svs. New York, NY Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Mar. 21-24 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Syst. Modeling & Analysis Nashville, TN Apr. 1-4 Internet World Brazil Rio de Janiero, Brazil Apr. 3-4 Interop & NetWorld Las Vegas, NV Apr. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (Firm) Palm Springs, CA Apr. 11-12 2nd ACM/SIGRAPH Conf. on Assistive Tech. ASSETS'96 Vancouver, Canada Apr. 14-19 ATM Forum (Tentative) Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 29-May 2 Internet World '96 San Jose, CA May 13-16 7th Joint European Ntwk Conf. Budapest, Hungary May 13-17 5th UNIX Sys. Admn, Ntwkng Security Symp. Washington, DC May 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO May 21-23 Internet World Intntl London, England Jun. 4-6 Internet World Mexico Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 9-14 ATM Forum (Tentative) Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Santa Fe, NM Jun. 11-13 EMail World & Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jun. 11-14 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 San Jose, CA Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Jun. 17-21 2nd Conf. Object-Oriented Technologies & Sys. (COOTS) Toronto, Ont, Canada Jun. 23-27 1st Intntl IEEE Wkshp on Enterprise Ntwkg - w/ICC SUPERCOM'96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-27 ICC '96/SUPERCOMM'96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-28 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 10-13 4th TCL/TK Workshop (TCL/TK 96) Monterey, CA Jul. 22-25 6th USENIX Security Symposium San Jose, CA Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 26-28 Internet World Home Expo '96 San Jose, CA Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Aug. 5-8 Internet World Brazil Sao Paulo, Brazil Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Boulder, CO area Aug. 14-15 Web Seminars '96 Dallas, TX Aug. 18-23 ATM Forum (Tentative) Aug. 19-21 Int. World Australia Pacific Sydney, Australia FALL NSC'96 - Network Services Conf. Bled, Slovenia Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 13-17 10th USENIX Syst. Admin Conference (LISA '96) Chicago, IL Sep. 10-12 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ont, Canada Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Oct. 6-11 ATM Forum (Tentative) Oct. 29-Nov. 1 2nd USENIX Symp. Operating Sys. Design & Implement. (OSIDI II) Seattle, WA Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Nov. 27-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, AU Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 TBD Dec. 4-6 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 Boston, MA Dec. 1-6 ATM Forum (Tentative) Dec. 9-12 Internet World '96 Baltimore, MD Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Apr. 6-11 38th IETF (Under Consideration) 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 ********************************************************************** TERENA SECRETARIAT Ref. TSec(95)001 October 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 -------------------------- 13 December Amsterdam TERENA Technical Committee -------------------------- Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA4 19-20 October Rome GA5 16-17 May 1996 Budapest TERENA Conference Committee --------------------------- 6 October Zurich TERENA Working Groups --------------------- WG-MSG (with DANTE MAILFlow and EEMA ICE) 23-24 October Utrecht ================================================================= EBONE ----- ECCO (Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations) 16 April 1996 Paris EMC (Ebone Management Committee) 28 November Amsterdam RIPE ---- 11-13 October Amsterdam April/May 1996 Berlin NATO/INSIGHT ------------ 16-18 November Budapest IETF ---- 4-8 December Dallas, Texas, USA Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 12/13 December Brussels Workshops 23-26 October Brussels 15-19 January 1996 " 25-29 March 1996 " 24-28 June 1996 " 21-25 October 1996 " ETSI ---- GA22 5-6 December Nice, France GA23 18-19 April, 1996 " GA24 10-11 December, 1996 " TA23 7-9 November " TA24 15-17 April, 1996 " TA25 23-25 October, 1996 " EEMA ---- Regional Conference 29 November - 1 December Malta +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES ------------------ JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference ------------------------------------------------ 13-16 May 1996 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary THE ROLE OF RESEARCH NETWORKING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY Subject areas are: -User Support and Education -Policy, Economic and Societal Issues -Network Engineering -Network Technology Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 -Application Technology -Infrastructure Developments Deadline paper submissions 19 November 1995 For information, email WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/jenc7 NSC'96 - Network Services Conference 1996 ----------------------------------------- Autumn 1996, Convention Centre, Bled, Slovenia For information, email WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/nsc96/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OTHER CONFERENCES ----------------- nb. For some of the following events, full text information may be 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/ Metaforum II/NO BORDERS/HATAROK NELKUL/ Conference -------------------------------------------------- 6-8 October Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary Organized by the Media Research Foundation and the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy. This conference will provide an opportunity to examine the nature of networking, as well as place networking within a historical context, Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 and discuss its future potential. For information: WWW address: http://szocio.tgi.bme.hu/metaform email address: PROMS '95 --------- 9-12 October Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria Second workshop on Protocols for Multimedia Systems "Mozart on Multimedia Highways" Call for Papers to be submitted by 20 August. To: email ftp ftp.cosy.sbg.ac.at /pub/proms For further information also contact: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/proms IEE/BMVA COLLOQUIUM ------------------- DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING FOR MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT 4 November IEE Savoy Place, London, U.K. Papers to be submitted by 4 August to: Dr. R.B. Johnson, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Bristol email or Dr. t. Tan, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Reading - email or OPENNET'95 ---------- 7-9 November Goettingen, Germany For information email or NORDUnet'95 Conference ---------------------- 14-16 November Sheraton Copenhagen Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark Organized by UNI-C, this 15th annual conference will provide a forum for universities, industry and public organizations. For information email or tel: +45 35 82 83 55 fax: +45 31 83 79 49 Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 European IT Conference (IETC'95) -------------------------------- 27-29 November Palais des Congres, Brussels, Belgium Organized by the European Commission, DGIII, the theme of this conference is "Managing Change" and will focus on the challenges to individuals, enterprises and the public secton in contributing and adapting to the Information Society. For information contact EITC'95 on Internet: http://www.cordis.lu or fax: +32 2 296 99 30 Fourth International World Wide Web Conference ---------------------------------------------- "The Web Revolution" 11-14 December Cambridge, Boston. Massachusetts, USA Organized by MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science and OSF-Research Institute. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and users working with the World Wide Web. For further information: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/conferences/WWW/ email tel: +1 617 253 4087 fax: +1 617 258 5090 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 MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING 1996 ---------------------------------------- 29-31 January 1996 San Jose, California This conference is part of the IS&T/SPIE 1996 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging to be held 28 Jan. - 2 Feb.1996 Deadline of paper submission 10 July - electronic versions to: For up-to-date information about MMCN96 access web page at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mmcn96 Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 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 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. The 1996 Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security ---------------------------------------------- 22-23 February 1996 San Diego Princess Resort, San Diego, CA, USA Advance program and registration information will be made available on URL: http://nii.isi.edu/info/sndss ASSETS'96 - The 2nd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies -------------------------------------------------------------------- (sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped) 11-12 April 1996 Vancouver Renaissance Hotel, Vancouver, Canada The conference scope spans disability and special needs of all kinds, including but not limited to: sensory; motor; cognitive; and emotional. Submission of papers (17 October) and further info. contact: David L. Jaffe, Program Chair or Ephraim P. Glinert, General Chair EEMA '96 Conference ------------------- (European Electronic Messaging Association) 11-14 June 1996 Les Pyramides/Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Brussels, Belgium. Working to shape the future of global messaging, this will be a user-driven conference, created for the business user. For information contact: or tel: +44 1386 793 028 fax: +44 1386 793 268 Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 INET'96 The Internet: Transforming our Society Now ------------------------------------------ 25-28 June 1996 Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Futher information will be available in the near future. See WWW page: http://www.crim.ca/inet96/mtl.html International Congress and Technical Exhibition "Water: Ecology and Technology" ----------------------------------------------- 17-21 September 1996 Moscow, Russia Organized by: Russian Federal Committee for Water Management, Russian Federal Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection, Municipal Enterprise "Mosvodokanal", State Enterprise "Vodokanal St. Petersburg",Stock Company "SIBICO International". For all further information, contact: telephone/telefax: +7 095 207 63 60 ================== updated 03.10.1995 ================== -------------------- Madeleine Oberholzer TERENA Secretary Address: 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 all general matters) Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report September 1995 Cooper [Page 45]