September 1996 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ IMR Editor [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD --------------------------- The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for September, 1996 1. The IETF returns to San Jose, California on December 9-13, 1996. Our local host will be cisco Systems. The Secretariat will begin accepting registrations the first part of October. The IETF opens 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 1997. Following Memphis, the IETF is we returning to Europe and will met in Munich, Germany August 11-15, 1997, hosted by Digi/ISOC.DE. The Secretariat is still working on the final meeting of 1997. 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.org 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. The following IESG minutes have been added: August 22, 1996 (iesg.96-08-22) September 5, 1996 (iesg.96-09-05) IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 15 Protocol Actions during the month of September, 1996: o RIPng for IPv6 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RIPng Protocol Applicability Statement be published as an Informational RFC. o RIP-II MD5 Authentication for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Common Internet Message Headers be published as an Informational RFC. o Requirements for Web Transaction Security be published as an Informational RFC. o Multicast Support for Nimrod: Requirements and Solution Approaches be published as an Informational RFC. o Mobility Support for Nimrod: Requirements and Solution Approaches be published as an Informational RFC. o Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Network Renumbering Overview: Why would I want it and what is it anyway? be published as an Informational RFC. o How new BGP Attribute Types are defined be published as an Informational RFC. o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IRTF Research Group Guidelines and Procedures for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 4. The IESG issued 9 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of September, 1996: o Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Security Extensions For HTML for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Clarifications to the DNS Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (Draft Standard) o VEMMI URL Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A File Format for the Exchange of Images in the Internet be republished as an Informational RFC. o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) & The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Three Working Groups were created during this period: Extensions to FTP (ftpext) Uniform Resource Names (urn) IP over Cable Data Network (ipcdn) and one working groups concluded: HyperText Markup Language (html) IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 6. A total of 76 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of September, 1996: (Revised draft (o), New Draft(+) ) (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 (iplpdn) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast -- Protocol Specification (asid) o Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) (ripv2) o RIP-II MD5 Authentication (http) o An Extension to HTTP: Digest Access Authentication (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management (none) o The auto-submitted e-mail header field (isdnmib) o ISDN Management Information Base (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (isdnmib) o Dial Control Management Information Base (none) o The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types (none) o ISO Transport Service on top of TCP (ITOT) (mixer) o X.400 image body parts (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices (ids) o The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture (none) o Bi-directional Tunneling for Mobile IP (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (ids) o X.500 Implementations Catalog-96 (ids) o Managing the X.500 Root Naming Context (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Applications (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0 Bundle Interface Type (none) + Dynamic Reassignment of IP Addresses for TCP and UDP (idmr) o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 (ipsec) o Combined DES-CBC, HMAC and Replay Prevention Security Transform (dnssec) o Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update (none) o IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response (http) o Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP (fddimib) o FDDI Management Information Base (none) o The ESP Stream Transform (pier) o Network Renumbering Overview: Why would I want it and what is it anyway? (none) o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (issll) o IP Integrated Services with RSVP over ATM (issll) + Interoperation of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed-Service with ATM (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Extensions for Dynamic Directory Services (none) o SBM (Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Proposal for Admission Control over Ethernet (none) o Issues affecting MARS Cluster Size (mboned) o Multicast pruning a necessity IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 (fddimib) o FDDI Management Information Base in the SNMPv2 SMI (mhtml) o Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators (none) o TFTP Multicast Option (none) + Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval (none) + Review of Roaming Implementations (none) + Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol for SOCKS V5 (none) + IPv4 Address Behaviour Today (ripv2) + RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information (none) + IP Echo Host Service (none) + V2ToV1 Mapping SNMPv2 onto SNMPv1 within a bi-lingual SNMP agent (none) + Requirements on HTTP for Distributed Content Editing (none) + The Application Configuration Access Protocol in the Context of Other Internet Protocols (none) + On Experimental Top Level Domains Rev 0 (none) + Tag Distribution Protocol (none) + Firewall Support for Mobile IP IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 (none) + S/MIME Message Specification: PKCS Security Services for MIME (none) + Tag Switching Architecture Overview (none) + Extensions to the MARS model for Integrated Services (pppext) + Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP" (dnsind) + Simple Transaction Signature for DNS (none) + ATM Virtual Circuit Identification Support for an RSVP-based Service (none) + ST2+ over ATM Protocol Specification - UNI 3.1 Version (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Instance Reservation (pppext) + Proposal for LCP Authentication Option (pppext) + Proposal for LCP Authentication Option (none) + QOSPPP Framing Extensions to PPP (issll) + The Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP (none) + A Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over Shared and Switched LAN Technologies (none) + The IPv6 communication model (otp) + OTP Extended Responses IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 (none) + Limitations of Internet Protocol Suite for Distributed Simulation in the Large Multicast Environment (none) + A MODEL FOR SECURE CALL-LIKE SESSIONS WITHIN THE INTERNET (ids) + Internet Nomenclator Project (none) + Electronic Data Interchange MIB (EDIMIB) Version 1 (pier) + Subnet Lists 7. One RFC was published during the month of September, 1996: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1982 PS (dnsind) Serial Number Arithmetic St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES --------------------- The Following report covers the months of July, August, and September: I. Significant Events * HostReg and CReg templates are now being processed automatically; previously they had to be processed manually; now about 50% are being processed automatically. * The auto-registration software now sorts requests into six groups: (1) COM, (2) ORG, (3) NET, (4) GOV, (5) EDU and (6) TLD; this eliminates a manual step in the process and allows the ability to put an increased priority on GOV, EDU and TLD requests. * Plans to initiate a night shift are under development to assist in reducing the manual processing backlog. * Informal training was provided for Billing CSRs regarding how to register as a contact. * Selection and training of a second shift for processing support was completed; a full day training class was held on Saturday, September 10th; final staffing arrangements were completed for a night shift with a start date of September 30th. * A "SWAT Team" of existing staff was used to reduce the backlog. * Fax processing has become an overwhelming problem, requiring over four full-time equivalent employees. * Duane Stone and Carley Johnson represented the InterNIC DomReg Section at Network World Interop. * Testing of a share-ware Fax Server solution is going very well; it would make faxes available as e-mail; the fax viewer works very well on Sparc 5s and also supports sending faxes out; the MTS and Ack/Nak interfaces still need to be completed. IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 * DomReg software enhancements have reduced the number of requests that need to be processed manually from about 1,000 to 700 (30% improvement). * A method for gathering performance measurements was finalized and documented. II. Current Status Sept: Email: 210,283 Postal/Fax: 2,026 Phone: 24,806 Gopher connections: 14,275 retrievals: 34,676 WAIS connections: 54,926 retrievals: 29,985 FTP connections: 73,925 retrievals: 155,385 Mailserv: n/a Telnet: 73,992 Http: 4,673,017 Whois client: 423,835 Whois server: 10,764,238 Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES ---------------------------------------- In September, our Harvest gatherer went into production operation. It currently gathers from our directory of directories pages, and offers search capabilities beyond those available using WAIS. It also gives us the ability to index web pages. We expect to index additional resources from inside and outside the InterNIC over time. To try out this system, look at: http://ds.internic.net/Harvest/brokers/dod/query.html To track new features on our servers, visit our "New Stuff" page: http://ds.internic.net/new/newstuff.html This page is updated regularly. IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 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 by Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ---------------------- The US Domain now has an online line registration form. Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator for that locality. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). A new policy has been added to the criteria for delegating domain names under the US Domain: It is the intention that the delegation of third level (for example, locality) domain names be wide spread to many registries. It is undesirable for one person or organization to manage a large part of the third level names in any particular geographic or logical area. No individual or organization shall have more than 500 delegations total in the US Domain as a whole, or more than 50 delegation in any particuilar second level (for example, a state). About the special domains under the state codes. The K12, CC, TEC, LIB, STATE, DST, COG and GEN domain under each state are established for special purposes (see RFC 1480). IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 In addition to the constaint to use them only for the defined purpose, each of these special domains is also to delegated only to a manager within the state, and the operation of the delegated registry should be non-profit. The LIB domain should be managed by a govermental or educational library organization. Further, it is most appropriate for the K12, CC, and TEC, domains to be managed by an educational organization (for example, a university or a department of education). The STATE domain is most appropriately managed by an agency of the state government. DST and COG should be managed by a goverment agency. The GEN domain may be delegated to any organization that will provide the registration service for free (and remember the purpose of the GEN domain is to register statewide non-profit organizations). 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". URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 3101 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3601 DELEGATIONS 137 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS: 972 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 2492 --------------------------- Total 3601 IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 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. In addition, and not listed below, another 398 localities have been delegated in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Michigan , Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Vermont, this month. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 37 34 47 39 23 24 9 4 =================================================================== ----------------------- THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ----------------------- CC.AL.US Community Colleges, Alabama. LIB.AR.US Libraries, Arkansas. TEC.AR.US Technical Schools, Arkansas. GEN.AR.US General, Arkansas. CC.AR.US Community Colleges, Arkansas. LOCALITIES ========== CHEYENNE-ARAPAHO.NSN.US. WESTFIELD.IN.US. BEANBLOSSOM.IN.US. ATLANTA.GA.US. COLORADO-SPRINGS.CO.US. LEES-SUMMIT.MO.US MIDFIELD.AL.US. CITY-OF-COMMERCE.CA.US. OAK-BLUFFS.MA.US. ALBEMARLE.NC.US. LAYTONSVILLE.MD.US. BRUNSWICK.OH.US. GILPIN.CO.US. SULLIVAN.TN.US. DIAMONDHEAD.MS.US. GREENE.OH.US. NEW-HANOVER.NC.US. ASHEVILLE.NC.US. COBURG.OR.US. WAVELAND.MS.US. WASHTENAW.MI.US. EATON.MI.US. COLTS-NECK.NJ.US. SUFFOLK.VA.US. FREMONT.CA.US. PLEASANTON.CA.US. COLTS-NECK.NJ.US. SUFFOLK.VA.US. IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 FREMONT.CA.US. PLEASANTON.CA.US. ROCHESTER.NH.US. HAYWARD.CA.US. MANCHESTER.VT.US. BAY-ST-LOUIS.MS.US. LITTLEROCK.CA.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- TOWN.HIGHLAND.NY.US. TWP.SCIO.MI.US. HEALTH.CO.HERKIMER.NY.US. BARTLESVILLE.LIB.OK.US. GOODMAN.SUNBURY.PA.US. LAKEMED.CUMBERLAND.ME.US. MSAS.GEN.MI.US. CALVARY.GEN.MI.US. CI.BIG-BEAR-LAKE.CA.US. HAMPTON.LIB.NH.US. CO.NEVADA.CA.US. SRVFPD.DST.CA.US. INFO.WASHINGTON.DC.US. NSCC.CC.MA.US. CI.MADISON.NH.US. MADISON.LIB.NH.US. HILLSML.LIB.NH.US. FRIEDMAN.MOUNTAIN-VIEW.CA.US. CI.WOODSTOCK.IL.US. MILIND-MARTHE.LARAMIE.WY.US. PARADOX.WESTCHESSTER.CA.US. ONEWORD.READING-CENTER.NY.US. FORD.DEARBORN.MI.US. CI.CRESTLINE.OH.US. CI.EVERETT.WA.US. TOM.AGOURA.CA.US. YV.COG.WA.US. WWW.WASHINGTON.DC.US. PORTERCO.CO.PORTER.IN.US. MAGISTRATE.COG.GA.US. TOWNSHIP.MONROE.NJ.US. GCIT.TEC.NJ.US. CI.NEWMAN-GROVE.NE.US. CI.LEWISTON.NE.US. SCVWD.DST.CA.US. WWW.CO.GWINNETT.GA.US. PICHER.K12.OK.US. CI.FAIRFIELD.OH.US. CPI.NEW-YORK.NY.US. CI.SCHUYLER.NE.US. ECDEV.COVINA.CA.US. CI.MUKILTEO.WA.US. ASPENTREE.LARAMIE.WY.US. METRO.WASHINGTON.DC.US. ABNAMRO.CHICAGO.IL.US. ECPUBL.LIB.CA.US. WMRLS.LIB.MA.US. TOWN.CHEVERLY.MD.US. SPIDERNET.CHAUTAUQUA.NY.US. SHERIFF.FRANKLIN.OH.US. KONAWA.K12.OK.US. CI.OAKLAND.NE.US. PETERSON.HAYWARD.CA.US. CI.HUMBOLDT.NE.US. CI.WAYNE.NE.US. CI.EUSTIS.NE.US. CI.SHELBY.NE.US. CI.OSCEOLA.NE.US. HEALTH.CO.MONROE.NY.US. CO.MADISON.NY.US. SOPHIA2.SOMERVILLE.MA.US. CI.BARRINGTON-HILLS.IL.US. CI.NEWARK.OH.US. AMB.CARMEL-VALLEY.CA.US. CMASS.GEN.MA.US. CO.BUTTE.CA.US. CO.ALLEN.IN.US. CI.HESPERIA.CA.US. CHAMBER.DEMOPOLIS.AL.US. CI.FLAT-ROCK.MI.US. CO.ALLEN.IN.US. CI.HESPERIA.CA.US. CHAMBER.DEMOPOLIS.AL.US. CI.FLAT-ROCK.MI.US. SVAHA.YELLOW-SPRINGS.OH.US. WMC.WRIGHTSVILLE.AR.US. STPAT.GEN.MI.US. JAYCEES.GEN.MI.US. IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 CI.LAGUNA-HILLS.CA.US. LSCS.LAKE-STATION.IN.US. CI.MANCHESTER.NH.US. VAMPIRES.IRVING.TX.US. BOSCOTECH.TEC.CA.US. FLINT.HARTLAND.MI.US. COLEMAN.HADLYME.CT.US. CI.CREIGHTON.NE.US. CI.WASHINGTON.DC.US. EIGHTCAP.GEN.MI.US. CI.RUSHVILLE.NE.US. MIKESUN.HOLMDEL.NJ.US. CI.SAN-PABLO.CA.US. TOWN.ANDOVER.MA.US. FIRSTCITY.LIB.AK.US. HEALTH.CO.ORLEANS.NY.US. RAPTOR.BENTON.KS.US. STANG.MOUNDRIDGE.KS.US. HATHBURN.NIOTA.TN.US. GREGNET.ROYERSFORD.PA.US. CI.TARBORO.NC.US. BAYPATH.TEC.MA.US. ANTIOCH.YELLOW-SPRINGS.OH.US. LOOPEXPERT.BRIDGEWATER.NJ.US. TOMLINSON.LPS.K12.OK.US. SCHOLASTICA.CHICAGO.IL.US. QAR.OAK-PARK.CA.US. CO.JOHNSTON.NC.US. CI.WALNUT.CA.US. CI.BAYTOWN.TX.US. AGRANENTERPRISES.ATLANTA.GA.US. CRAIGSWORLD.FT-LAUDERDALE.FL.US. LAKESREGIONOFMAINE.GEN.ME.US. DHS.CO.FAIRFIELD.OH.US. TWP.CARNEYS-POINT.NJ.US. BREEDERS-REGISTRY.GEN.CA.US. MCS.GEN.ME.US. SKIPATROL.MT-HOOD.OR.US. CO.CULPEPER.VA.US. CI.PLEASANTON.CA.US. ----------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes September 1996 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. The National Science Foundation has announced a new direction for the Routing Arbiter project, which was charged by NSF in 1994 with the task of providing routing coordination in the post-NSFNET environment. The announcement, which followed the 24-month review of the Routing Arbiter and the four Network Access Point projects, noted that all these projects had completed their basic missions ahead of schedule. The RA project is a partnership between Merit and the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. George Strawn, networking division director at the NSF, commended the Routing Arbiter for its performance during the past two years, and noted that the Routing Arbiter and the NAPs "have IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 now proven that multiple network providers can work together in a competitive marketplace, and so can be scheduled for transition to commercial operations themselves." NSFNET program director Mark Luker said that researchers from the RA and the NAPs will now focus on connections and routing for advanced networking, and noted that "both actions help NSF to move to the next stage, a stronger focus on the high-performance Internet of the future needed to support today's advanced research." Merit is working with NSF to define its refocused activities for the RA project. Elise Gerich, Associate Director of Merit for National Networking, resigned her position to take a job in private industry. Elise joined Merit in 1987 in support of the NSFNET Backbone Service project, and focused on technical interfaces and policy interactions between the regional networks, sister Federal agencies, and international network research organizations. She was named Manager of the Internet Engineering group in 1994, was promoted to Associate Director in July 1995, and was also a Co- Principal Investigator for the Routing Arbiter project. Elise was instrumental in providing a smooth transition for the regional networks to the new NSFNET architecture. We wish her continued success in her new position! Merit invites applications for both the Associate Director and Manager of Internet Engineering positions; for further information, contact Merit President Eric Aupperle (313/764-9430, ema@merit.edu). Last month's report described a new incremental update client implemented for the Routing Arbiter Database by Jerry Winters. At that writing, the client was polling the RIPE registry's mirroring site every 30 minutes for database updates; previously, updates had only been provided once each day. The new client is now polling the RIPE site every 15 minutes; eventually, Merit expects that polls will occur every five minutes. A new tool known as IPN, Inter-Provider Notification, is now available on the RA Web pages: http://compute.merit.edu/ipn.html IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 IPN is a public bulletin board that Internet Service Providers and NAP operators can use to announce scheduled maintenance and ongoing network outages. IPN participants include major Internet Service Providers who BGP-peer at one or more of the primary exchange points. We encourage providers to participate in testing and developing the new tool; improved coordination and cooperation among providers will lead to a better-managed and more stable Internet. To join the IPN, send e-mail to: outage@ra.net Brian Renaud attended the 25th RIPE meeting in Amsterdam, where he participated in sessions of the Routing and Database Working Groups. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- Finally, the effort on the Merci project has paid off, with help from HP and LBL, and the audio, text and (LBNL) video tools rat, nte and vic all work on the various Microsoft Windows platforms. Availability soon. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 CALENDAR -------- Last update 10/9/96 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 - The EMail World & Internet World originally scheduled for Sept. 10-12, 1996 has been moved to Oct. 15-17, 1996. Boston, MA. 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 (196.4.160.12) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1996 ----------- Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Oct. 7-11 ATM Forum Montreux, Switzerland IMR Editor [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 Oct. 7-11 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Oct. 7-11 Performance 96 Conference Lausanne, Switzerland Oct. 9-11 Object World Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 13-16 IEEE Local Computer Ntwrks (LCN) Minneapolis, MN Oct. 14-17 MEDNET '96 European Congress of the Internet in Medicine Brighton, UK Oct. 15 Commercenet New Orleans, LA Oct. 15-17 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Oct. 15-18 3rd Int'l on Protocols for Multimedia Systems Madrid, Spain Oct. 16-18 Internet World Monterrey '96 Monterrey, Mexico Oct. 16-19 5th Int'l Conference on Computer Communications & Ntwrks Rockville, MD Oct. 17-20 IEEE Symposium on Planning & Design of Broadband Networks Quebec, Canada Oct. 21-22 FNC Advisory Committee Arlington, VA Oct. 21-23 Integrated Office Conf '96 San Diego, CA Oct. 21-25 ICECCS'96 (held jointly with 6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW) Montreal, Canada Oct. 24-25 2nd IEEE Wrkshop on Wireless LANs Worcester, MA Oct. 28-31 2nd USENIX Seattle, WA Oct. 28-Nov. 1 NetWorld+Interop London, England Oct. 29-31 Internet Professional '96 Paris, France Oct. 29-Nov. 1 ICNP-96 Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols Columbus, Ohio Oct. 29-Nov. 1 2nd USENIX Symp. Operating Sys. Design & Implement. (OSIDI II) Seattle, WA Nov. 1996 OMG TC (Groupe Bull) Nice, France Nov. 4-6 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Nov. 4-8 ANSI X3T10 '96 Western Digital Palm Springs, CA Nov. 5-6 7th Maryland Workshop on Very High Speed Networks Balitmore, MD Nov. 6-8 Web Developer Mexico '96 Mexico Ciy, Mexico Nov. 10-12 2nd annual of ACM's MobiCom '96 Rye, New York Nov. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hotel Vancouver Vancouver, BC Canada Nov. 12-15 3rd Int'l Conf. on Multimedia Modeling Toulouse, France Nov. 13 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Nov. 18-20 2nd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce Oakland, CA Nov. 18-22 ACM Multimedia '96 Boston, MA Nov. 18-22 IEEE Globecom 96 London, England Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Nov. 20-21 IEEE Global Internet '96 London, UK Nov. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia Dec. 2-4 Web World San Diego, CA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 (host by IBM) Minneapolis, MN Dec. 2-6 ATM Forum Vancover, BC IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 Dec. 4-6 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 Boston, MA Dec. 9-12 Internet World '96 Baltimore, MD Dec. 9-13 37th IETF (host by cisco) San Jose, CA Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Dec. 10-13 Fall Internet World '96 New York, NY Dec. 12 Internet Security for System & Network Administrators Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 13 Commercenet Albuquerque, NM 1997 ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 6-10 USENIX '97 Annual Technical Conf. Anaheim, CA Jan. 6-10 USELINUX: Linux Appl. Dev. Anaheim, CA Jan. 7-10 13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf on Systems Sciences Maui, Hawaii Jan. 7-10 Internet World Canada '97 Toronto, Canada Jan. 21-23 Internet World Shanghai-China Shanghai, China Jan. 21-25 Internet World Singapore Intl Singapore Jan. 28-30 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Orlando, FL Feb. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 (host by Sun) San Jose, CA Feb. 9-15 ATM Forum San Diego, CA Feb. 10-11 ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 17-19 Internet Expo & EMail World San Jose, CA Mar. 1-5 ACM '97: The Next 50 yrs. of Computing San Jose, CA Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 '97 Irvine?/Albuguerque Mar. 11-14 Spring Internet World '97 Los Angeles, CA Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Mar. 17-19 1st Euromicro Working Conf. on Software Maintenance & Reengineering Berlin, Germany Mar. 19-21 Internet World Asia '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mar. 24-27 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Apr. 7-11 38th IETF (host by Fed. Exp) Memphis, TN Apr. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Brocade) Palm Springs, CA Apr. 7-11 IEEE Infocom '97 Kobe, Japan Apr. 9-11 ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on Autonmous Decentralized Sys. Berlin, Germany Apr. 22-24 Internet Expo & EMail World Chicago, IL Apr. 27-May 3 ATM Forum Chicago, IL May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 May 12-15 8th JENC8 Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-16 IFIP/IEEE San Diego, CA IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 May 19-21 7th Int'l Workshop on Ntwk & Oper for Digital Audio & Video St. Louis, MO May 28-30 Web Developer '97 Chicago, IL Jun. 3-5 Internet World Mexico '97 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 (joint with ENM) Montreal, CANADA Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jun. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (host by Boeing) Seattle, WA Jun. 24-27 INET '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jul. 14-17 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Jul. 20-26 ATM Forum Montreal, CANADA Aug. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (host by Hitachi) Honolulu, HI Aug. 11-15 39th IETF (host by German ISOC) Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 (tenative) Internet Expo & EMail World Boston, MA Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 (host by FSI) Tucson, AZ Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Nov. 30-Dec 6 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (tentative) Univ. of Hawaii Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) 1998 ----------- SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary 1999 ----- Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland IMR Editor [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 TERENA List of Meetings ======================= 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 General Assembly ----------------------- GA6 24-25 October Bled GA7 15-16 May 1997 Edinburgh TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 17 December Amsterdam TERENA Technical Committee -------------------------- 13 November Brussels 22 January 1997 Amsterdam TERENA Office Meeting --------------------- 16 October Amsterdam JENC8 ----- Conference Committee 8 November (provisional) Edinburgh Programme Committee 4 December Amsterdam IMR Editor [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 INSIGHT Training Workshop ------- 28-29 October Bled CEEnet ------ 26 October Bled PHARE Research Networking ------ 25 October Bled ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= EEMA ---- Electronic Commerce '96 Wembley, London 15-17 October Regional Conference 29 November - 1 December Malta Electronic Communications Olympia, London 10-12 December EWOS ---- TA35, 3-4 December Brussels TA36, 25-26 February 1997 " TA37, 13-14 May 1997 " TA38, 16-17 September 1997 " TA39, 2-3 December 1997 " SC - 24 September " SC - 17 December " Workshops 35: 21-25 October Brussels 36: 20-24 January 1997 " 37: 7-11 April 1997 " 38: 16-20 June 1997 " 39: 27-31 October 1997 " IMR Editor [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 ETSI ---- Seminar/Workshop 1-3 October Nice, France GA24 10-11 December Nice, France TA25 23-25 October " IETF ---- 9-13 December San Jose, CA 7-11 April 1997 Memphis, Tenn. 11-15 August 1997 Munich, Germany RIPE ---- RIPE26 20-22 January 1997 Amsterdam RIPE27 May 1997 Dublin NATO Workshop ------------- 5-9 May 1997 Edinburgh +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES ------------------ Call for Papers JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference ------------------------------------------------ "Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape" 12-15 May 1997 Edinburgh, Scotland This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele- communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications, and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is currently being developed IMR Editor [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 Subject Areas: * Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering * User Support, Training and Education * Security and Management Issues * Information Systems and Distributed Applications * Economic and Political Issues Deadline for paper submission 10 November 1996 to: For information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 email: http://www.terena.nl/jenc8 or JENC8 Local Organization c/o Concorde Services Ltd Unit 5, SECC Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland email: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OTHER CONFERENCES: ----------------- Performance '96 --------------- International Conference on Performance Theory, Measurement and Evaluation of Computer and Communications Systems Organized by IFIPWG7.3 7-11 October Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Deadline paper submission 15 March 1996 Further information on WWW Page: http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/perf96/ IMR Editor [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 PROMS'96 Third International Workshop on Protocols for Multimedia Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------- 15-18 October Madrid, Spain This workshop is intended to contribute to scientific, strategical and practical cooperation between research institutes and industrial companies in the area of distributed multimedia applications, protocols, and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their usage on broadband networks. Papers to be submitted by 7 June. For information contact Arturo Azcorra at 6th CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conference 1996 -------------------------------- 5-6 November Sheraton Brussels Hotel, Brussels, Belgium Theme of this conference is "Standards on Trial: Case Studies in European Standardization" Deadline for abstracts is 13 Sept. For further information: c/o CENELAC, Tel: +32 2 519 6871 Fax: +32 2 519 6919 IDATE96 18th International Conference of IDATE -------------------------------------- 6-8 November Montpellier, France An opportunity for professional contacts with major industrial group leaders, users and clients, researchers and academics, administrators and politians. Full details of the conference available on the Web: http://www.idate.fr CEN/TC304 - Character Set Technology Workshop --------------------------------------------- 11-12 November Bled, Slovenia Providing multilingual support in middleware: Implementing the Universal Character Set ISO 10646 in the European Information Society For information look up URL: http://www.e5.ijs.si/i18n/ws-bled.html IMR Editor [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 "The Telematics Revolution, Consequences for Individuals and Organisations" ---------------------------------------------- 13 November University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Theme of the conference is that progress of information and telecommunication technologies do create a huge number of questions, be it social, jurisdictional, economic or technical. Parallel sessions will deal with: interactive scientific visual- isation, tele-learning, user aspects of multimedia, distant consultation and using of laboratories. For all information and to receive brochure, contact Mr. Marc Fleskens at email address IEEE Global Internet 1996 ------------------------- 20-21 November Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London This mini-conference will provide an open forum for the communications and computer networking communities to review the state-of-the-art technologies and applications of the evolving Global Internet. Deadline paper submissions 15 May to: http://gaia.cs.umass.edu:80/tccc/internet96/ or email Jon Crowcroft WEB INTERNATIONALIZATION & MULTILINGUISM SYMPOSIUM -------------------------------------------------- 20-22 November Sevilla, Spain Organized by Sadiel and the WWW Consortium, with the support of the European Commission. The object of this symposium is the advancement of the internationalization and multilingualism of the Web, as well as to seek agreement on the relevant standards. Registration from 15 September. For further information see: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/International/Sevilla-96 IMR Editor [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 EITC'96 - European IT Conference -------------------------------- 25-27 November Congress Centre, Brussels, Belgium "Doing Business in the Information Society" Electronic commerce, provides the focus for sessions on IT applications, enabling technologies and international initiatives. Post-Conference Workshops to be held on 28 November. For information contact European Commission, DGIII or WWW: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/eitc96.htm ASIAN'96 - Asian Computing Science Conference --------------------------------------------- 2-5 December Singapore Themes of this conference is: - Programming (sematics, languages, systems, ...) - Concurrency & Parallelism (algorithms, formalisms, systems ...) - Networking & Security (algorithms, protocols, formalisms, ...) Additional information available from: http://www.escs.nus.sg/~asian96 Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997 ---------------------------------------- 10-12 February 1997 San Jose, CA, USA The object of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia computing and networking. Paper submission by 16 July 1996. For further information email COREC -"Interregional Cooperation in RTD - Challenges and Opportunities for Regions in Economic Conversion" --------------------------------------------------------- 16-17 December Bremen, Germany Background is the experience of the community initiative STRIDE and other programmes of the European Commission.The conference will deal questions of RTD-programmes and policies, their European Dimension and impact on regional development. For information contact Mr. Wolfgang Petzold at: email IMR Editor [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 IEEE INFOCOM '97 16th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer & Communications Societies ---------------------------------------- 7-11 April 1997 Kobe, Japan Paper submissions by 14 June 1997. For further information contact http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom/ http:// arpeggio.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/infocom.html ISADS 97 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems --------------------------------------------------------------- 9-11 April 1997 Berlin, Germany Supported by Hitachi, DeTeBerkom, NEC, Digital, GMD-FOCUS, Hewlett Packard, IBM. The focus will be on advancements and innovations in ADS platforms and applications. Integration of telecommunication and computing aspects into a uniform concept for providing an open distributed processing environment. For information see WWW: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ws/isads97/ EEMA'97 10th Annual Conference of European Electronic Messaging Association ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-19 June 1997 Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands Issues of the conference will be: Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services; Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European Initiatives; Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology & Management Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots. For information contact WWW: http://www.eema.org/ IMR Editor [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report September 1996 INET'97 The Internet: The Global Frontiers ---------------------------------- 24-27 June 1997 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education, commerce and societies throughout the world. Abstracts of papers to be submitted by 10 October. -for details of submission procedure email -for program information email ==================================================== This meeting list is also available on our WWW page: http://www.terena.nl/news/ ==================================================== IMR Editor [Page 33]