October 1997 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR-ED@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ Ramos [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- Internet Monthly Report for October, 1997 1. The final meeting of the year will be held in Washington, DC from December 8-12, 1997. Our local host is Newbridge Networks. The IETF will meet in Los Angeles from March 30 - April, 3, 1998 and then in Chicago August 24-28. Our local host in Chicago is Motorola. We're still looking into the final meeting of 1998. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meetng sites can always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL is: http://www.ietf.org/ 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF shadow directories in the iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: September 25, 1997 (iesg-97-09-25) October 9, 1997 (iesg.97-10-09) October 23, 1997 (iesg.97-10-23) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 8 Protocol Actions during the month of October, 1997: o Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o NFS URL Scheme for publication as an Informational RFC. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 o FTP Security Extensions for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IP Broadcast over ATM Networks for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Classical IP and ARP over ATM for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 Login Referrals for publication as a Proposed Standard. 4. 21 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of October, 1997: o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o IANA Charset Registration Procedures for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o TFTP Blocksize Option for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for DLUR for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for HPR for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 o Mobile-IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP IPCP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Mail Monitoring MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Network Services Monitoring MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Protocols for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAPv2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information (Standard) Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 o RIP Version 2 MIB Extension (Standard) 5. Three new working groups were created: IP Performance Metrics (ippm) LDAP Extensions (ldapext) Usenet Article Standard Update (usefor) and one working group was concluded: Ipv6 MIB (ipv6mib) 6. There were 185 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of October, 1997: (ion) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (cat) o FTP Security Extensions (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard (oncrpc) o Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC (cat) o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (IDUP-GSS-API) (intserv) o Network Element Service Specification Template (intserv) o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service (ion) o IP Broadcast over ATM Networks (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (none) o Guidelines for IETF Meeting Sites (asid) o A Simple Caching Scheme for LDAP and X.500 Directories (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 (ion) o Classical IP and ARP over ATM Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (none) o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) (receipt) o An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications (intserv) o General Characterization Parameters for Integrated Service Network Elements (rsvp) o RSVP Management Information Base (intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base (intserv) o Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service (pktway) o The End-to-End (EEP) PacketWay Protocol for High-Performance Interconnection of Computer Clusters (rsvp) o RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows (ifmib) o The Interfaces Group MIB (none) + Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) 'L2F' (idmr) o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (ion) o Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure X.509 Certificate and CRL Profile (ion) o ATM Signalling Support for IP over ATM - UNI Signalling 4.0 Update (drums) o Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) (idmr) + Core Based Tree (CBT) Multicast Border Router Specification (ion) + IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks (svrloc) o Finding Stuff (How to discover services) Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (ipsec) o IP Authentication Header (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Protocols (intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base Guaranteed Service Extensions (intserv) o The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' (none) o ST2+ over ATM Protocol Specification - UNI 3.1 Version (none) o Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch Networks Version 1.0 (http) o Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP (rsvp) + Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Message Processing Rules (tip) o Transaction Internet Protocol Version 2.0 (none) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL): Generic Syntax and Semantics (none) o DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services (none) o POP3 AUTHentication command (ipsec) o The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP (ssh) o Users' Security Handbook (ipp) o Requirements for an Internet Printing Protocol (svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes (none) o Architecture of the Resource Reservation Service for the Commercial Internet (asid) o WHOIS++ templates (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers (Version 2) Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (vrrp) o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) (printmib) o Printer MIB (tls) o The TLS Protocol Version 1.0 (none) o Telnet Com Port Control Option (mboned) o Introduction to IP Multicast Routing (none) o The mailto URL scheme (dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) (calsch) o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) (svrloc) o Advertising Services (Providing information to support service discovery) (svrloc) o The 'wp:' and 'yp:' Abstract Service Types (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (http) o HTTP State Management Mechanism (Rev1) (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAPv2 (none) o S/MIME Message Specification (none) o S/MIME Certificate Handling (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Framework (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Protocol (secsh) o SSH Authentication Protocol (secsh) o SSH Connection Protocol (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics (asid) o The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on Deployment (asid) o A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3 (mmusic) o Specification of Security in SAP Using Public Key Algorithms (ion) o A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP (intserv) o A Measurement Based Admission Control Algorithm for Controlled-Load Service with a Reference Implementation Framework (none) o Sieve -- a Mail Filtering Language (snmpv3) o An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks (none) o THE TRANSMISSION OF IP OVER THE VERTICAL BLANKING INTERVAL OF A TELEVISION SIGNAL (none) o IMAP4 Namespace (calsch) o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) (none) o PKCS 1: RSA Encryption Version 1.5 (none) o PKCS 7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Version 1.5 (none) o PKCS 10: Certification Request Syntax Version 1.5 (snmpv3) o Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (http) o HTTP Trust Mechanism for State Management (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (none) o IMAP4 Login Referrals (none) o Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' Security Extensions for Non-IP networks (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (snmpv3) o View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (none) o IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages (mhtml) o MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (calsch) o Internet Calendar Model Specification (none) o Transaction Internet Protocol - Requirements and Supplemental Information (none) o Cache Array Routing Protocol v1.1 (dnsind) o Test and Example Top Level Domain Names (snmpv3) o User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Protocol Specification (ippcp) o IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (webdav) o Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web -- WEBDAV (snmpv3) o SNMPv3 Applications (ipsec) o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (calsch) o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries (dhc) o Netware/IP Domain Name and Information (none) o Directory Schema Listing Requirements (ip1394) o Ipv4 over IEEE 1394 (asid) o Schema for Replication Information (ipngwg) + Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) (tn3270e) o Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2 (none) o Security issues for ION protocols Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Representation of Key Exchange Algorithm (KEA) Keys in Internet Public Key Infrastructure Certificates (dnsind) o Local DNS Names (none) o PPP for Asynchronous PAD to Synchronous X.25 access (none) o Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (fax) + SMTP Service Extension for Immediate Delivery (none) o URLs for Telephony (none) o Hobbes' Internet Timeline (none) o IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations (none) o Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 (fax) o PSTN and fax address format in e-mail services v3.4 (none) o VCID: Virtual Connection Identifier (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP (ipsec) + The ISAKMP Configuration Mode (ipsec) + The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms (ipsec) o The ISAKMP Configuration Mode (none) o Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) (tcpsat) + Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms (none) + Use of the IPv4 TOS Octet to Support Differential Services (ipsec) o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (none) + Two Modes of MPLS Explicit Label Distribution Protocol Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (iesg) + Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs (none) + VC Pool (none) + ATM SVC Support for ATM-LSRs (none) + Registration of a Ukrainian Cyrillic Character Set KOI8-RU (as extention to Russian KOI8-R and ISO-IR-111) (webdav) + WebDAV Tree Operations (pppext) + Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' Management Information Base (none) + The Boot Selection Menu Option for BOOTP/DHCP (none) + A MIME Directory Profile for LDAP Schema (nntpext) + Common NNTP Extensions (ion) + IPv6 over ATM Networks (none) + Security issues for the ATMARP protocol (intserv) + Integrated Services Management Information Base (rsvp) + RSVP Management Information Base (pppext) o PPP EAP TLS Authentication Protocol (secsh) + SSH Protocol Architecture (none) + HTTP Traffic over Satellite (none) + Identification of messages delivered via both mail and news (none) + Ukrainian Code Page KOI8-U (none) + LDAP Schema for Role Based Access Control (rip) + RIPv2 Domain Of Interpretation (DOI) for ISAKMP (ospf) + OSPFv2 Domain Of Interpretation (DOI) for ISAKMP (none) + Directory Schema Listing File Name Syntax (http) + Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (pppext) + PPP over SONET/SDH (none) + Access Control Requirements for LDAP (roamops) + Secure Radius Server Operation Guidelines for Dial Roaming (none) + Requirements for Distinguished Names in Autonomous to Loosely-coupled LDAP-based Directory Services (grip) + Security Expectations for Internet Service Providers (none) + URLs for GSM Short Message Service (none) + PPP Over SONET Mapping (pkix) + Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP (pktway) + Part-1 of The Router-to-Router (RRP) PacketWay Protocol for High-Performance Interconnection of Computer Clusters (radius) + RADIUS Attributes for MS-CHAP Support (none) + One Planet, One Net: Principles for the Internet Era (none) + Self-Describing Data Representation (SDR) (cat) + User to User Kerberos Authentication using GSS-API Preliminary Draft (iesg) + MIB Interoperability Testing (ipngwg) + Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (urlreg) + Guidelines for new URL Schemes (none) + ''shared-mtrace'': A Multicast 'traceroute' facility for Shared Trees (fax) + PROCEDURES FOR THE TRANSFER OF FACSIMILE DATA VIA INTERNET MAIL (iab) + Improved Working Group Coordination (cat) + Kerberos over IPv6 (none) + HARP - ''Home Agent Redundancy Protocol'' Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 (drums) + Use of Reply-To in Internet E-Mail messages (ospf) + SPF over ATM and Proxy PAR 7. 25 RFCs were published during this period RFC2150 I (harts) Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet RFC2205 PS (rsvp) Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification RFC2206 PS (rsvp) RSVP Management Information Base using SMIv2 RFC2207 PS (rsvp) RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows RFC2208 I (rsvp) Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on Deployment RFC2209 PS (rsvp) Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Message Processing Rules RFC2210 PS (intserv) The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services RFC2211 PS (intserv) Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service RFC2212 PS (intserv) Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service RFC2213 PS (intserv) Integrated Services Management Information Base using SMIv2 RFC2214 PS (intserv) Integrated Services Management Information Base Guaranteed Service Extensions using SMIv2 RFC2215 PS (intserv) General Characterization Parameters for Integrated Service Network Elements RFC2216 I (intserv) Network Element Service Specification Template RFC2217 E (none) Telnet Com Port Control Option RFC2218 PS (ids) A Common Schema for the Internet White Pages Service RFC2219 B (ids) Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services RFC2220 I (none) The Application/MARC Content-type RFC2221 PS (none) IMAP4 Login Referrals RFC2222 PS (none) Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) RFC2223 I () Instructions to RFC Authors RFC2224 I (none) NFS URL Scheme RFC2226 PS (ion) IP Broadcast over ATM Networks RFC2227 PS (http) Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 RFC2228 PS (cat) FTP Security Extensions RFC2229 I (none) A Dictionary Server Protocol INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES October InterNIC Stats Gopher Sessions: 25227 Retrievals: 7502 WAIS Sessions: 12806 Retrievals: 10173 FTP Sessions: 101184 Retrievals: 161725 Telnet Sessions: 72950 HTTP: 12990110 Whois Client Queries: 5195788 Whois Server Queries: 17480807 Updates: 211588 email: 519504 by Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The Netfind seed database for October contained 2.1 million entries. In October we also updated some of our software, including an upgrade of Harvest to version 1.5. This new version supports HTTP v1.1 and allows us to index additional sites. The Academic Guide has also been updated. 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 Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY THE US DOMAIN ============= The US Domain registration form is now available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. The US Domain has the maps of all the delegated special domains online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. 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 of that locality. Recent announcements: 1. A new policy has been added to avoid several cases of misleading, erroneous, and outright false information provided on registration applications. One situation that occurs is that one individual represents himself as several distinct companies in order to bypass some limitations on the number of delegations allowed (e.g., the 50/500 rule). Another situation is that with the requirement to provide a government employee as the administrative contact for a locality delegation. Some applications have been received with a government employee's contact information but that person has no idea that such an application has been submitted. Some applications provide contact information for an individual that knows what is going on but is not an employee of the locality government. Still other applications have been received where the administrative contact information is fictional. The US Domain Administration may choose to verify any or all of the information on registration applications (including the administrative contact) and if it is determined that the an application contains false of substantially misleading information that application may be denied, or if already acted on the delegation may be revoked, and in either case all other delegations made to the party submitting the false or misleading application may also be revoked. Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 2. For delegations made after 1-Jul-97, it is assumed by the US Domain Administrator that every applicant for the delegation (or redelegation) of a locality name has the written agreement of the legitimate government for that locality for the applicant to manage the domain name of that locality. Evidience of such an agreement does not need to be presented at the time of delegation (except that the administrative contact on the application template must be the government representative). However, if the delegation is later challenged or contested, the manager of the locality domain must produce the agreement. Failure to do so will most likely result in the transfer of the management of the locality domain to another manager that does have such an agreement. If there is a dispute as to what is the legitimate government for a locality is and who may act for it, the league of cities or association of municipalities that each state (as recognized by the National League of Cities) may be asked to assist in resolving such disputes. In some places there are overlapping jurisdictions with the same name (for example, the city of Los Angeles and the county of Los Angeles). In such cases, the higher level government should have priority. A new policy has been added regarding the charges for the domain name passed on during delegation. The administrator of the locality has to notify one year in advance before charging for those domains. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 3200 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3700 DELEGATIONS: 82 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1580 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:2038 --------------------------- Total 3700 Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES include referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 52 39 36 47 41 27 30 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== GEN.MA.US. General Independent Entities, MA. LOCALITIES ========== NEW-PALTZ.NY.US. HADDONFIELD.NJ.US. CITRUS.FL.US. PORTAGE.OH.US. TOWNSEND.MA.US. JACKSON.MI.US. CAMAS.WA.US. COBB.GA.US. DAWSON.NM.US. NEW-CARROLLTON.MD.US. CHATHAM.IL.US. MAHOMET.IL.US. OAKHURST.CA.US. OSAGE.KS.US. COFFEY.KS.US. SPRINGFIELD.MN.US. COLLEGE-PARK.GA.US. BROOKFIELD.WI.US. SAN-MIGUEL.CO.US. FOXFIRE-VILLAGE.NC.US. JUPITER.FL.US. MURPHYSBORO.IL.US. PACE.FL.US. GULF-BREEZE.FL.US. We delegated 1 InterState Authority: IMCC.ISA.US. Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== SENADO.GVMT.PR.US. SANCTUARY.ARBUTUS.MD.US. BELLI.FITCHBURG.MA.US. CI.LAN-O-LAKES.WI.US. PROPAPPR.MARION.FL.US. CI.WAUWATOSA.WI.US. CI.RED-BLUFF.CA.US. RUSSELL.LIB.VA.US. VILLAGE.HARTLAND.WI.US. COMMUNITY.OSSEO.MN.US. CI.CEDAR-RAPIDS.NE.US. CI.HUMPHREY.NE.US. TOURISM.ANDERSON.TN.US. DA.FULTON.GA.US. OSU-EXT.VINITA.OK.US. HART.BROOKLINE.MA.US. ICHM.CC.CT.US. CI.ENCINITAS.CA.US. CI.THOMSON.GA.US. PROSECUTOR.CO.CLARK.IN.US. VILLAGE-INN.MAYVILLE.NY.US. FRANKLINJOURNAL.FARMINGTON.ME.US. CI.WAKEFIELD.KS.US. CI.SWEETWATER.TX.US. CO.BOUNDARY.ID.US. DEMOCRACY.WASHINGTON.DC.US. RULLO.SAN-ANTONIO.TX.US. DHS-ALUMNI.DUNEDIN.FL.US. CO.MADISON.AL.US. GUIDE.ORLANDO.FL.US. BIGROCK.SAN-BRUNO.CA.US. TOWNSHIP.UPPER-DUBLIN.PA.US. LUKERS.CLUTE.TX.US. WHITNER.WASHINGTON.DC.US. KBBNOKS.NOKESVILLE.VA.US. USTRADE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. USEXPORTS.WASHINGTON.DC.US. USIMPORTS.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CI.AVON-BY-THE-SEA.NJ.US. RSO.FORT-WHITE.FL.US. CI.MADISON.MS.US. CI.VENICE.FL.US. TOONTOWN.ERIAL.NJ.US. MARTIN.TOWANDA.PA.US. CI.LEAVENWORTH.KS.US. SOUTH.PARK.CO.US. CI.VALLEJO.CA.US. CO.PAGE.VA.US. SHENANDOAH.CO.LIB.VA.US. CI.CLARKSVILLE.TN.US. SKYWARD.PINELLAS.FL.US. TWP.CONCORD.PA.US. POLICE.OAKLAND.CA.US. FRANKLIN.JOURNAL.FARMINGTON.ME.US. FRANKLIN-JOURNAL.FARMINGTON.ME.US. We delegated 1 Native Soverign Nations: EUFAULA.MUSCOGEE.NSN.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes October 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. We are pleased to announce that Merit has received a $1.6 million award from the National Science Foundation in support of the Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis project, or IPMA. The project is a joint effort between Merit and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigans College of Engineering. IPMA focuses on two primary areas of Internet statistics: routing stability, topology, and visualization; and provider performance measurements. The IPMA tools will be easily configurable, so that users can quickly generate exactly the kinds of network performance data they need. The overall goal of the project is to develop tools and perform statistical research that promotes the stability and rational growth of the Internet. The IPMA project works closely with the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) to create a shared measurement infrastructure for the U.S. Internet. The directors of the project are Craig Labovitz of Merit and Associate Professor Farnam Jahanian of the U-M Department of EECS. The IPMA home page can be found at http://www.merit.edu/ipma. New data from the PAIR (Policy Analysis of Internet Routing) project greatly improves capabilities for network analysis and troubleshooting by organizations peering with the Route Servers (RS). For each peer, the data shows: - What routes the peer is importing and exporting via the RSs from each of its peers - Whether each of those routes is RED (registered in the Internet Routing Registry but not currently announced by the Route Servers), GREEN (registered in the IRR and announced by the Route Servers), or GREY (announced to the Route Servers but not redistributed by the RSs. GREY routes do not match prescribed policy in the IRR.) The data is available on the Route Server Next Generation projects Web pages: Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 http://www.rsng.net/rs-views/ Genuity hosted the 11th North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Phoenix on October 27-28. Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the meeting; they will soon be available through the NANOG Web site (http://www.nanog.org). Bill Norton of Merit moderated the meeting and Susan R. Harris planned the agenda. Presentations included: - Router Scalability Issues: Overview and Panel (Curtis Villamizar, ANS, moderator; Dave O'Leary, Cisco, Ross Callon, Ascend, Dave Katz, Juniper, and Jeff Wabik, Ascend) - Dynamic Selection of Geographically Distributed Servers (Alec Peterson, Erols, and Avi Freedman, Net Access) - Introduction to BIND-8 (Paul Vixie, Vixie Enterprises) - Fighting Spam: Lessons, Legality, and Solutions (Paul Vixie and Scott Mueller, Whole Earth Networks, moderators; John Levine, abuse.net, and Justin Newton, Priori Networks) - Routing Analysis and Tools from the Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis Project (Rob Malan, University of Michigan) - Update from the Internet Protocol Performance Metrics (IPPM) Working Group (Vern Paxson, Lawrence Berkely Lab) - An Architecture for Global Internet Statistics Collection (Scott Huddle, MCI) - Update from IOPS.ORG (Ira Richer, CNRI) - ARIN Update (Kim Hubbard, InterNIC) - InterNIC Update (Mark Kosters, InterNIC) - ISP/Telco Forum: Issues and Answers (Mark Knopper, Internet Engineering Group, moderator) - Plans for the Internet Routing Registry Transition to Routing Policy Specification Language (Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI) - Internet Routing Registry Cleanup Efforts (Curtis Villamizar, ANS) - Gateway Congestion Control: A Warning, a Plea, and an Offer of Help (Van Jacobson, Lawrence Berkely Lab) The meeting also featured tool demos by CAIDA and the IPMA project, as well as two tutorials: "Raise your Routing IQ -- Design and Debugging Techniques for Intermediate Users," presented by Avi Freedman of Net Access, and "Using BGP Communities and MEDs With GateD," presented by Sue Hares of Merit. BOFs included: - Interprovider Operations (Jake Khuon, Merit, Abha Ahuja, Merit, and Craig Huegen, Cisco) Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 - GIGAswitch/FDDI to Gigabit Ethernet: Interoperability and Migration Strategies (Gary Helton, Celeritas, and Peter Hernan, Digital) Craig Labovitz gave a presentation titled "Internet Routing Stability and Network Performance" at the 8th Maryland Workshop on Very High Speed Networks, sponsored by the Maryland Center for Telecommunications Research and the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The workshop brought together technical experts to discuss progress and research issues in the design and implementation of very high speed communication networks. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- The CAIRN network has operated well, and discussions are underway with BT on connecting our LEARNET network to the CAIRN - see http://www.cs.uclac.uk/staff/jon/pearl/ for some information on this UK network. We have written a paper on pricing for differential services using a modified TCP - this was submitted to a journal, but was given as an Mbone semnar to Berkeley and at BT labs recently - see: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.oechslin/multcp_draft.ps We have had a paper accepted to INFOCOM 98 on our reliable multicast congestion control work. This was made available to the IRTF's RM community at their last meeting, and pointers were sent on that groups maillist. The scheme is undergoing tests on the CAIRN with layered video between UCL and SAIC. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) IANA REPORT ----------- Cable Address Blocks 4 INT Domains 1 Language Tags 2 MIME Media Types 5 Multicast Addresses: Individual 1 Multicast Addresses: Blocks 2 Novell SAP Numbers 4 Private Enterprise Numbers 63 Port Numbers 48 Ramos [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 Protocol Assignments 1 SMI Numbers 4 by Josh Elliott RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of October, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 8 0 17 | 25 month | | New 15 0 0 0 | 15 | | Processed 8 7 0 4 | 19 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 7 1 0 13 | 21 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month Processed documents include those that are "Do Not Publish" as well as published RFCs. This month RFC(s) were published that had previously been "Do Not Publish". For this reason the "Beginning of Month" numbers, for RFCs that have been in the queue for 30, 60 and 90 days, may not be the same numbers as the "End of Month" numbers from last month. Documents added back to the queue include: 90 Days draft-rfced-info-faith-02.txt The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. Ramos [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Alegre Ramos (rfc-ed@isi.edu) CALENDAR -------- Last update 11/12/97 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. 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Ramos [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 ************************************************************************ 1997 ----------- Nov. 12-13 8th Maryland Workshop on Very High Speed Networks Baltimore, MD Nov. 12-13 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Brussels Nov. 18-21 ICCC'97 13th Int'l Conference for Computer Communciation Hotel Noga Hilton Cannes, France Nov. 24-26 PROMSMmNet '97 Multimedia Networking Santiago, Chile Nov. 24-26 Europen IT Conference and Exhibition (EITC97) Belgium Nov. 27-28 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-3 30th IEEE/ACM Int'l Symposium on Microarchitecture RTC, NCA Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 2-3 EWOS Assembly Brussels Dec. 4-5 First Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems Zurich, Switzerland Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (Host: Newbridge) Washington, DC Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 8-11 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technology and Systems) Monterey, CA Dec. 8-11 GigNet San Jose, CA Dec. 15-19 4th COST237 Workshop Lisbon, Portugal Dec. 17-19 97 Int'l Sym. on Communications Hsinchu, Taiwan TBA TELECOM '97 Asia TBA 1998 ----------- Jan 6-8 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jan. RIPE29 Amsterdam (tbd) Jan. 18 TERENA Technical Committee Amsterdam Jan 26-29 7th USENIX Security Symposium San Antonio, TX Feb. 4-7 Europen Telematics: Advancing the Information Society Barcelona, Spain Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum Anaheim, CA Feb 7-9 DCI'S Internet Expo San Jose, CA Mar. 2-3 USENIX New Network Technologies Symposium Salt Lake City, UT Mar. 2-3 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) San Francisco, CA Mar. 9-11 2nd Euromicro Working Conf. on Soft. Maint. & Reeng. Florence, Italy Ramos [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA Mar. 11-13 Internet Society NDSS '98: Symposium on Network & Distributed Sys. Security Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, CA Mar. 16-18 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Mar. 29-Apr 2 IEEE INFOCOM '98 - Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Mar. 30-Apr. 3 41st IETF (No Host) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 30-Apr. 3 NetWorld+Interop Singapore Mar. 30-Apr. 3 First Merged Symposium IPPS/SPDP 1998, 1sth Intl Parallel Processing Symposium & 9th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Orlando, FLA Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA Apr. 6-10 wmATM'98 1st Int'l Workshop on Wireless Mobile ATM Implementation Hangzhou, China Apr. 12-17 WWW7 Brisbane, Australia Apr. 18-23 CHI '98 (ACM SIGCHI) Los Angeles, CA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum Berlin, Germany Apr 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA May RIPE30 Stockholm (tbd) May 5-8 Networld+Interop '98 Las Vegas, NV May 17-20 9th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Alberta, Canada May 25-28 Interactive Multimedia Service and Equipment Zurich, Switzerland SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jun. 7-11 ENCOM '98 in conjunction with ICC/SuperComm '98 Atlanta, GA Jun 13-17 USENIX '98 Technical Conf. New Orleans, LA Jun 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 21-24 INET '98 The Internet Society's 8th Annual Networking Conference Geneva, Switzerland Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum Portland, OR Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Aug. 24-28 42nd IETF Chicago, IL Aug. 29-Sep 4 SIGCOMM '98 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 31-Sep 4 SEC '98 14th Int'l Information Security Conference Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Ramos [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 Sep. 17-18 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) Tentative (TBD) Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum Gold Coast, Australia Oct. 5-8 TERENA (host by DFN) Dresden, Germany Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov 25 TERENA Executive Committe Amsterdam Nov. 29-Dec 4 ATM Forum Nashville, TN Dec. 6-11 12th Systems Administration Conf. (LISA '98) Boston, MA Dec. 7-11 43rd IETF (Tentative) TBD 1999 ----- Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 31-Jun 4 WWW8 Toronto, CANADA Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) TBA Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA 2000 May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative) Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, GA Ramos [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report October 1997 The TERENA Calendar for November 1997 may be found on URL: http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam the Netherlands email tel: +31 20 639 1131 fax: +31 20 639 3289 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ramos [Page 29]