March 1998 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 March 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 ARIN Status Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 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 March, 1998 1. As I write this, the IETF is meeting in Los Angeles (March 30 - April, 3, 1998). The IETF's next meeting will be in Chicago, Illinois from August 24-28. Motorola has offered to be the local host. We're still making arrangements for the final meeting of 1998 in Orlando, Florida. This meeting will be hosted by Microsoft. 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: February 26, 1998 (iesg.98-02-26) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 20 Protocol Actions during the month of March, 1998: o Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM using Sparse Mode PIM for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o The Safe Response Header Field for publication as an Experimental Protocol. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 o Classical IP to NHRP Transition for publication as an Informational RFC. o OSPF Standardization Report for publication as an Informational RFC. o Framework for IP Performance Metrics for publication as an Informational RFC. o WAVE and AVI Codec Registries for publication as an Informational RFC. o The text/css Media Type for publication as an Informational RFC. o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (IPOA-MIB) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o NHRP Protocol Applicability Statement for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o OSPF Version 2 for publication as a Standard. o S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification for publication as an Informational RFC. o S/MIME Version 2 Certificate Handling for publication as an Informational RFC. o PKCS 1: RSA Encryption Version 1.5 for publication as an Informational RFC. o PKCS 7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Version 1.5 for publication as an Informational RFC. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 o PKCS 10: Certification Request Syntax Version 1.5 for publication as an Informational RFC. o Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 2.0 for publication as an Informational RFC. 4. 24 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of March, 1998: o IP Security Document Roadmap for consideration as an Informational RFC. o The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol for consideration as an Informational RFC. o The OSPF Opaque LSA Option for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Auto-Submitted, Supersedes and Expires Headers in E-mail and Netnews for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o UUIDs and GUIDs for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o vCard MIME Directory Profile for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 o Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Content Duration MIME Header Definition for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Authentication Header for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Use of HMAC-MD5-96 within ESP and AH for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IV for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Internet Key Exchange (IKE) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 o The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Three new working groups were created Network Address Translators (nat) IP Telephony (iptel) IP over VBI (ipvbi) and four working groups were concluded IS-IS for IP Internets (isis) MIME - X.400 Gateway (mixer) New Internet Routing and Addressing Architecture (nimrod) Source Demand Routing (sdr) 6. There were 324 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of March, 1998: (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol MIB (cat) o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (IDUP-GSS-API) (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) (cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (ipsec) o Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management (cat) o The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (none) o Guidelines for IETF Meeting Sites (asid) o A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information (none) o Some Thoughts on the Importance of Modesty and Decorum and the Need for an IETF Code of Conduct (mobileip) o Mobility Support in IPv6 Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (dhc) o Interaction between DHCP and DNS (dhc) o Extensions for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (asid) o WHOIS++ URL Specification (idmr) o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (dnssec) o Detached Domain Name System (DNS) Information (idmr) o Core Based Tree (CBT) Multicast Border Router Specification (none) o Photuris: Extended Schemes and Attributes (ion) o IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks (none) o Distributed Component Object Model Protocol -- DCOM/1.0 (asid) o vCard MIME Directory Profile (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types (ipsec) o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (ipsec) o IP Authentication Header (none) o SMTP Message Submission (none) o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (issll) o Providing integrated services over low-bitrate links (ipsec) o The Internet Key Exchange (IKE) (issll) o Interoperation of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed-Service with ATM (roamops) o Roaming Requirements (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (issll) o SBM (Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Proposal for Admission Control over IEEE 802-style networks (ion) o Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (none) o Making Postscript and PDF International (none) o S/Ident: Security Extensions for the Ident Protocol (stdguide) o Guide for Internet Standards Writers (dhc) o DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol (dnsind) o Secret Key Transaction Signatures for DNS (TSIG) (issll) o The Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP (issll) o A Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over Shared and Switched IEEE 802 LAN Technologies (ftpext) o FTP Extensions for IPv6 (conneg) + Content Feature Tag Registration Procedure (none) o Interoperability Rules for Multicast Routing Protocols (ftpext) o Extended Directory Listing, TVFS, and Restart Mechanism for FTP (ipsec) o The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP (ion) o Inverse Address Resolution Protocol (svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Delegation of Management Scripts (ids) o Naming Plan for Internet Directory-Enabled Applications (vrrp) o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (rtfm) o RTFM Working Group - New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement (svrloc) o An API for Service Location (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services (drums) o Internet Message Format Standard (none) o RMFP: A Reliable Multicast Framing Protocol Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (asid) o WHOIS++ templates (cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm Authentication in Kerberos (applmib) o Application Management MIB (asid) + Definition of the inetOrgPerson Object Class (none) + The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification (asid) o Architecture of the WHOIS++ service (ospf) o OSPF Standardization Report (none) + Definition of an Object Class to Hold LDAP Change Records (bmwg) o Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking (ftpext) o FTP Security Considerations (dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) (none) o Camera Recorder Control Protocol (radius) o Extensible Authentication Protocol Support in RADIUS (calsch) o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) (idr) o A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation (frnetmib) o Frame Relay Switched PVC MIB (cat) o Public Key Utilizing Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP) (roamops) o The Accounting Data Interchange Format (ADIF) (cat) o Kerberos Change Password Protocol (spki) o Simple Public Key Certificate (spki) o SPKI Requirements (run) o DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*) (none) o Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAPv2 (none) o DIAMETER Base Protocol (none) o DIAMETER Extensible Authentication Protocol Extensions (none) o DIAMETER User Authentication Extensions (poisson) o IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures (qosr) o A Framework for QoS-based Routing in the Internet (none) o QoS Routing Mechanisms and OSPF Extensions (tcpimpl) o Known TCP Implementation Problems (issll) o PPP in a real-time oriented HDLC-like framing (aft) o SOCKS Protocol Version 5 (mmusic) o SAP Security Using Public Key Algorithms (urn) o URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms (ipngwg) o Separating Identifiers and Locators in Addresses: An Analysis of the GSE Proposal for IPv6 (ipngwg) o Router Renumbering for IPv6 (urn) o URI Resolution Services Necessary for URN Resolution (acap) o ACAP TYPE Extension (disman) o Event MIB (disman) o Expression MIB (disman) o Notification MIB (none) o Calendar attributes for vCard and LDAP (none) o A Protocol for the Transmission of Net News Articles over IP multicast (none) o Using UTF8 for non-ASCII Characters in Extended URIs Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (calsch) o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) (urn) o A URN Namespace for IETF Documents (http) o HTTP Trust Mechanism for State Management (ipngwg) o An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format (mpls) + Use of Label Switching With RSVP (dnssec) o Storage of Diffie-Hellman Keys in the Domain Name System (DNS) (ldapext) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security (none) o The IP Network Address Translator (NAT) (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' Security Extensions for Non-IP networks (mhtml) o MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (none) o Advise on the implementation of In-Reply-To, References and Supersedes e-mail and netnews headers (ipcdn) o Cable Device Management Information Base for MCNS compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems (dnsind) o Example, Test, and Fictitious Top Level DNS Names (pppext) o The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis) (tcpimpl) o Some Testing Tools for TCP Implementors (webdav) o Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web -- WEBDAV (cat) o FTP Authentication Using DSA (calsch) o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries (ipsec) o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (acap) o ACAP Authorization Identifier Datasets Classes Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions (ipngwg) o IPv6 Name Lookups Through ICMP (acap) o ACAP Personal Addressbook Dataset Class (none) o RTP Payload Format for BT.656 Video Encoding (idr) o Route Aggregation Tutorial (acap) o ACAP Application Options Dataset Class (bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for Firewall Performance (ipcdn) o Logical IP Subnetworks over IEEE 802.14 Services (idmr) o Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification (ptopomib) o Physical Topology MIB (ptopomib) o Physical Topology Discovery Protocol and MIB (none) o Increasing TCP's Initial Window (2000) o The Internet and the Millenium Problem (Year 2000) (ospf) o The OSPF Address Resolution Advertisement Option (none) o IP Tunnel MIB (avt) o An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error Correction (avt) o Options for Repair of Streaming Media (dnsind) o Local Domain (DNS) Names (none) o Using TLS with IMAP4, POP3 and ACAP (none) o Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) (none) o The 'news' URL scheme (dnssec) o Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS) (none) o ISO 7812 Card Numbers and the Domain Name System (ipsec) o The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (iesg) o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs (nntpext) o Common NNTP Extensions (ion) o IPv6 over ATM Networks (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (grip) o Security Expectations for Internet Service Providers (ospf) o OSPF over ATM and Proxy PAR (smime) o Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol (none) o On-Demand Mail Relay (none) o To Be Multihomed: Requirements & Definitions (none) o Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (none) o Simple Differential Services: IP TOS and Precedence, Delay Indication, and Drop Preference (none) o Time Stamp Protocols (svrloc) o Definition of printer: URLs for use with Service Location (none) o Load Sharing using IP Network Address Translation (LSNAT) (openpgp) o OP Formats - OpenPGP Message Format (none) o The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol (none) o Requirements for DAV Searching and Locating (ipngwg) o Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 (none) o BGP-4 over ATM and Proxy PAR (conneg) + Media Features for Display, Print, and Fax Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification (smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling (ldapext) o The Java LDAP Application Program Interface (none) o Java LDAP Controls (dhc) o DHCP Failover Protocol (none) o Using the UTF-8 Character Set in the Domain Name System (avt) o RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video (none) o RVP: A Presence Notification Protocol (roamops) o An LDAP Schema for Phone Books (none) o GSS Algorithm for TSIG (GSS-TSIG) (http) o HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication (spki) o SPKI Certificate Theory (mobileip) o Tunnel Establishment Protocol (tcpsat) o Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites (iab) o The Case for IPv6 (ldapext) + Persistent Search: A Simple LDAP Change Notification Mechanism (ldapext) o LDAP Extensions for Scrolling View Browsing of Search Results (pppext) o Securing L2TP using IPSEC (spki) o SPKI Examples (fax) o Terminology and Goals for Internet Fax (vrrp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol using SNMPv2 (ngtrans) o Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT] Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (none) o VPN support for MPLS (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Scheduling Management Operations (svrloc) o The Systems Management Abstract Service Type (none) o Simple General Awareness Protocol (SGAP) Revision 1 (rap) o The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol (none) o DSS Secured Password Authentication Mechanism (tls) o HTTP Over TLS (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol ''L2TP'' IP Differential Services Extension (none) o POP URL Scheme (none) o Telnet Authentication Using DSA (none) o POP3 Extension Mechanism (dnsind) o A New Scheme for the Compression of Domain Names (ipp) o Requirements for IPP Notifications (printmib) o Printer Finishing MIB (dnsind) o Binary Labels in the Domain Name System (dnssec) o DNS Operational Security Considerations (fax) o Using Message Disposition Notifications to Indicate Supported Features (tls) + TLS extensions for AttributeCertificate based authorization (ngtrans) + Assignment of IPv4 Global Addresses to IPv6 Hosts (AIIH) (none) + Mobile IP extension for Private Internets Support (MVPN) (none) + Distributed Robots: a Technology for Fast Web Indexing (none) + Hyper Text Caching Protocol (HTCP/0.0) (none) + Domain names for part-time Internet hosts Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (none) o Use of Anycast Clusters for Inter-Domain Multicast Routing (none) + LDAPv3 Security Parameters (idmr) + PIM Version 2 DR Election Priority Option (none) + IP Multicast and Firewalls (acap) + ACAP Media Type Dataset Class (none) + WhoDP: Widely Hosted Object Data Protocol (none) + DIAMETER IP Security Policy Extensions (none) + DIAMETER Resource Management Extensions (rps) + Routing Policy System Security (aft) + EAP Authentication for SOCKS Version 5 (pint) + Toward the PSTN/Internet Inter-Networking --Pre-PINT Implementations (none) + MAPPING OF AIRLINE TRAFFIC OVER IP (none) + The Java SASL Application Program Interface (dnsind) + Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection (ipngwg) + Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6 (none) + Security Analysis to Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (dnsind) o Extensions to DNS (EDNS) (mobileip) o Support for Mobile IP in Roaming (none) + Credential Management for SPKM (pppext) + Layer Two Tunneling Protocol ''L2TP'' Multi-Protocol Label Switching Extension (run) + $$$$$ MAKE ENEMIES FAST $$$$$ or How to Advertise Responsibly Using the Internet (ipp) + DHCP Option for Internet Printing Protocol Services Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (none) + Differentiated Services over Symmetric NHRP Shortcuts (none) + Host Resources MIB V2 (none) + A One-bit Feedback Enhanced Differentiated Services Architecture (rtfm) + SRL: A Simple Ruleset Language (none) + Telnet Authentication Using KEA and SKIPJACK (none) + An agreement between the Internet Society, the IETF and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the matter of NFS V.4 protocols (ldapext) + LDAP Control Extension for Server Side Sorting of Search Results (pppext) + Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions (none) + Receiver control in Differentiated services (conneg) + An algebra for describing media feature sets (none) + Best Current Practice for Modem Outsourcing (none) + Guide lines for Key words use to indicate requirement levels in RFCs (pppext) + Microsoft Point-To-Point Encryption (MPPE) Protocol (avt) + RTP Payload Format for X Protocol Media Streams (ippm) + Instantaneous Packet Delay Variation Metric for IPPM (webdav) + Requirements for Advanced Collection Functionality in WebDAV (none) + DAV Searching and Locating (none) + SRP essentials (none) + MPLS Routing Dynamics (tcpimpl) + TCP Implementation Problems That Need To Be Documented (idmr) + IGMP Multicast Router Discovery (pkix) + Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Message Formats Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (none) + ACAP Bookmarks Dataset Class (none) + ACAP Email Account Dataset Class (none) + Techniques in OSPF-based Network Deployment (entmib) + Entity MIB Extensions (none) + Network News Distribution Protocol: Architecture and Design Guidelines (none) + Using IPv6 Addresses in URLs (none) + ACAP Email Personality Dataset Class (idmr) + Core Based Trees (CBT version 3) Multicast Routing -- Protocol Specification (none) + Access-restricted, HTTP/1.1 Cache Control Extension (urlreg) + Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names (none) + Encoding of SRP packet types in the DS byte (acap) + ACAP personal dictionary dataset class (dhc) + DHCP Safe Failover Protocol (none) + Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS) Overview (pkix) + Certificate Management Messages over CMS (idr) o Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option (avt) + The Role of DMIF in Support of RTP MPEG-4 Payloads (idmr) + IGMP Extension for Authentication (none) + Internet Public Key Infrastructure Real Time Certificate Status Protocol - RCSP (none) + An Abstract API for Multicast Address Allocation (none) + MPLS Loop Prevention Mechanism Using LSP-id and Hop Count (none) + Static Multicast Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (ldapext) + Referrals and Knowledge References in LDAP Directories (none) + Distributing control of the Domain Name System (none) + The Content-MD5-Origin: header (iab) + Architectural Implications of NAT (http) + Mandatory Extensions in HTTP (none) + MARS Proxy (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the ADSL Lines (none) + Delivering Media Generically over RTP (rap) + RSVP Extensions for Policy Control (aft) + Multi-Authentication Framework Method for SOCKS V5 (fax) + Extended Facsimile Using Internet Mail (avt) + RTP payload format for MPEG-4 Elementary Streams (none) + Support for RTP in a stored QuickTime Movie File (none) + Elevating RTP to Protocol Status (ldapext) + LDAP C API Extensions for Scrolling View Browsing of Search Results (dhc) + Security Requirements for the DHCP protocol (ipsec) + The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec (ldapext) + LDAP C API Extensions for Persistent Search (pkix) + Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure LDAPv2 Schema (none) + The Common Intrusion Detection Framework - Data Formats (pppext) + PPP LCP Language and Character Set Configuration Options (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering and Virtual LAN Extensions (none) + Addressing and Location for RVP Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 (none) + VPN Multipoint to Multipoint Tunnel Protocol (VMMT) (none) + RVP Schemas (schema) + A MIME Directory Profile for RWhois 1.5 Schema (none) + Providing Differentiated Services through Cooperative Dropping and Delay Indication (rap) + User Identity Representation for RSVP (none) + A Framework for End-to-End QoS Combining RSVP/Intserv and Differentiated Services (none) + WIRE - W3 Identifier Resolution Extensions (none) + URN Resolution Using WIRE (manet) + The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (none) + The application/whoispp-response Content-type (none) + The application/whoispp-query Content-Type (none) + Requirements for Presence and Instant Messaging (none) + The KeyNote Trust Management System (none) + RealMedia File Format (none) + ''HTTP Envy'' and Presence Information Protocols (mmusic) + SIP Call Control Services (ospf) + OSPF Optimized Multipath (OSPF-OMP) (ipngwg) + DNS Lookups Keyed on IPv6 Addresses (ldapext) + The C LDAP Application Program Interface (none) + Integrated Services Over Differentiated Services (none) + RADIUS Extension for Multicast Router Authentication (mmusic) + SIP Security Using Public Key Algorithms (none) + ARP and IP Broadcast over HIPPI-800 (none) + Framework for Traffic Management in MPLS Networks Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 7. 24 RFCs were published during this period: RFC2268 I (none) A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm RFC2281 I (none) Cisco Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) RFC2284 PS (pppext) PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) RFC2293 PS (mixer) Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory RFC2294 PS (mixer) Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree RFC2295 E (http) Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP RFC2296 E (http) HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0 RFC2297 I (none) Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 2.0 RFC2298 PS (receipt) An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications RFC2301 PS (fax) File Format for Internet Fax RFC2302 PS (fax) Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration RFC2303 PS (fax) Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail RFC2304 PS (fax) Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail RFC2305 PS (fax) A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail RFC2306 I (fax) Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile RFC2307 E (none) An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service RFC2308 PS (dnsind) Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) RFC2311 I (none) S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification RFC2312 I (none) S/MIME Version 2 Certificate Handling RFC2313 I (none) PKCS 1: RSA Encryption Version 1.5 RFC2314 I (none) PKCS 10: Certification Request Syntax Version 1.5 RFC2315 I (none) PKCS 7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Version 1.5 RFC2317 B (dnsind) Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation RFC2318 I (none) The text/css Media Type Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES ****************************************************** * gopher sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 76224 Retrievals: 3796 ****************************************************** * wais sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 8071 Retrievals: 10349 ****************************************************** * whois sessions * ****************************************************** Client Queries: 13671230 Server Queries: 26493912 ****************************************************** * ftp sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 115548 Retrievals: 176989 ****************************************************** * telnet sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 95421 ****************************************************** * mailserver sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 0 ****************************************************** * http sessions * ****************************************************** Retrievals: 16290395 Phones: 49,193 Emails: 605,165 Updates: 282,315 by Ricardo A. Gonzalez Ramos [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES InterNIC Directory and Database Services ended operation on April 1, 1998 at the completion of our five year cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. Our final version of the Netfind seed database is available and contains 3.25 million entries. To ease transition for our users, we have set up a page of pointers to alternative sources for some of the information we provided. This page will be available at http://ds.internic.net for at least a month after our official shutdown. In addition, we also have notices and pointers on some of our internal pages that users may have bookmarked. Our mail servers are also returning messages about the conclusion of our service, as do our telnet logins. A partial list of pointers to alternative sources follows: InterNIC Academic Guide to the Internet: http://www.aldea.com/guides/ag/attframes2.html InterNIC Guide to U.S. Universities: http://www.aldea.com/guides/gu/attframes3.html Request for Comments (RFCs): http://www.isi.edu/rfc-editor/ Internet Drafts (IDs): http://www.ietf.org/ID.html Whois for domain information: http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois Whois for MILNET-related information: http://nic.ddn.mil/cgi-bin/whois Ramos [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 Whois for network information: http://www.arin.net/whois/arinwhois.html X.500 White Pages Pilot: http://www.dante.net/nameflow.html by Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY US Domain Status Report - March 1998 ======================================= 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. Much 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. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2082 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 2582 DELEGATIONS: 72 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 937 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1573 --------------------------- Total 2582 Ramos [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 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 38 48 42 27 30 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== TEC.MA.US. Technical Schools, Massachesuets LIB.NH.US. Libraries, New Hampshire LOCALITIES ========== SPRINGVILLE.CA.US. SEALY.TX.US. BROOME.NY.US. MADISON-HEIGHTS.MI.US. BOAZ.AL.US. RED-LION.PA.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== CI.SAN-ANSELMO.CA.US. CI.CHARLEVOIX.MI.US. CI.STEPHENVILLE.TX.US. CO.BARRON.WI.US. LEVINDUSTRIES.LONGWOOD.FL.US. BORN.WASHINGTON.DC.US. INFO.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US. FISKE.LIB.NH.US. HOOKSETT.LIB.NH.US. NICHOLS.LIB.NH.US. HAMPSTEAD.LIB.NH.US. HOLLIS.LIB.NH.US. WALPOLE.LIB.NH.US. SOPHMAN.JOPLIN.MO.US. CI.GRANTSVILLE.UT.US. SCWD.DST.CA.US. CI.HILLSBOROUGH.CA.US. TRC.MIAMI.FL.US. MODELS.BELLTOWN.CA.US. CO.ALLEN.KS.US. SUPERTREK.ORLANDO.FL.US. EURODANCE.MARLBORO.NJ.US. CI.KANE.PA.US. CI.PLYMOUTH.NH.US. HPDPS.CI.HIGHLAND-PARK.TX.US. CI.LARKSPUR.CA.US. CI.MILPITAS.CA.US. MCPA.MONROE.FL.US. CI.DENVER.IA.US. MOLLOYHS.BRIARWOOD.NY.US. Ramos [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 WOBC.OBERLIN.OH.US. CO.GWINNETT.GA.US. BURLINGTON.DST.IA.US. DSS.CO.JACKSON.NC.US. AUDITOR.CO.KERN.CA.US. ACEX.OAKLAND.CA.US. CI.BUTTE.MT.US. CO.SILVERBOW.MT.US. CI.DUNCAN.NE.US. ECODEV.NEW-MADRID.MO.US. CI.NORTH-UTICA.IL.US. CO.ADAMS.CO.US. CI.KENAI.AK.US. CO.JEROME.ID.US. CI.BOERNE.TX.US. BD.CLAYTON.NC.US. CHARACTERCOUNTS.CHAVES.NM.US. YVCC.CC.WA.US. FREEBIE.BELLTOWN.CA.US. NS1.CI.BOSSIER-CITY.LA.US. DIRECTORY.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US. IN.MARLBORO.NJ.US. FREE.WASHINGTON.DC.US. RYE.LIB.NH.US. GOFFSTOWN.LIB.NH.US. GATEOFHEAVEN.DALLAS.PA.US. CI.VALLEY.AL.US. CATCH-22.PITTSBURGH.PA.US. HENRICO.LIB.VA.US. CO.LOGAN.WV.US. CI.FARMINGTON-HILLS.MI.US. CO.BAY.FL.US. CO.CUMBERLAND.NJ.US. WATER-DEPT.CI.NORTH-TONAWANDA.NY.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Sungita Patel (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes March 1998 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group. Merit has successfully completed work on the Routing Arbiter project, funded by the National Science Foundation from July 1994 through March 1998. A collaboration between Merit and the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, the project supported leading-edge routing, tool development, and research for the U.S. Internet. ISI continues to carry out advanced RA research in routing systems, protocols, and policies. Three services that originated as part of the RA project are now supported as independent activities. In January 1997, following NSF's recommendation that Route Server services be shifted to the commercial marketplace, Merit launched the new Route Server Next Generation project (www.rsng.net), which makes it possible for exchange point operators to purchase Route Server services from Merit in support of customer peering. Following NSF's recommendation that statistical research and tool development be pursued separately from the Routing Arbiter activity, a proposal was submitted to NSF for support for a new Ramos [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis project (www.merit.edu/ipma/). In fall 1997, Merit received a $1.6 million award from the National Science Foundation in support of the project, a joint effort between Merit and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering. NANOG, the North American Network Operators Group, was supported by NSF during both the NSFNET project and the early years of the Routing Arbiter project. NANOG is now funded independently through attendee registration fees (see www.nanog.org). Merit continues to support the RADB (www.merit.edu/radb/), a part of the Internet Routing Registry, until deployment of the distributed database system under development at ISI. We are in the final stages of processing Routing Arbiter Database funding arrangements with five ISPs who have pledged financial support for the project. We wish to thank our new commercial sponsors for generously supporting this important activity! Merit was well represented at the 41st IETF in Los Angeles, with members of the Internet Engineering group attending a variety of working group meetings. Sue Hares led an informational GateD meeting during IETF that comprised technical briefings, status reports, and administrative updates. Hares is Director of the GateD Consortium, which is based at Merit. Abha Ahuja continued advanced Cisco training at a course titled "Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting," sponsored by the American Research Group. Sue Hares attended the Internet Architecture Board Routing Workshop, which was led by Radia Perlman and Steve Deering. The workshop brought together members of the IAB and the Internet community with special expertise in routing protocols and design. Topics discussed included unicast/multicast scaling, routing security, NAT, and ToS/QoS routing. Hares chairs the Internet Research Task Force Routing Research group, which explores routing problems that are important to the development of the Internet, but are not yet mature enough for engineering work within the IETF. Susan R. Harris UCL ---- We attended IEEE INFOCOM and the IETF, and presented work on reliable multicast and on secure sessions for the mbone. John Crowcroft Ramos [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 IANA REPORT ----------- DHCP Options 1 IPv4 Address Space (Blocks) 2 MIME Media Types 1 Multicast Addresses: Individual 4 PPP Numbers 3 Private Enterprise Numbers 76 Port Numbers 33 Protocol/Type Field Assignments 1 by Josh Elliott RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of March, 1998: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 17 5 11 | 33 month | | New 38 0 0 0 | 38 | | Processed 12 13 3 7 | 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 26 4 2 4 | 36 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month 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 29] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 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 ARIN Status Report ------------------ January February March /24's Issued 2176 3265 5547 ASNs Issued 26 60 85 ARIN became operational 12/22/97 49.0.0.0/8 and 50.0.0.0/8 were returned in exchange for 214.0.0.0/7 on March 27,1998 As of February 10th, 1998 the Initial Internet Protocol (IP) Address Space Requests From Internet Service Providers (ISPs) policy was revised. This revision allowed for multi-homed ISPs who have utilized at least a /21 and agree to the policy can request a /20 from a reserved /19. As of March 31st ten (10) ISPs have been allocated a /20 using this new policy. ARIN first members' meeting was held on March 20, 1998. Following the meeting, members were welcomed to an open house at the ARIN office. ARIN's response to the Department of Commerce Green Paper on Internet Governance was submitted on March 23, 1998. Kim Hubbard Ramos [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 CALENDAR -------- Last update 4/24/98 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. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Northern Europe Address: ftp.nordu.net (192.36.148.198) Southern Europe Address: ftp.nis.garr.it (193.205.245.10) 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". ************************************************************************ 1998 ----------- Apr. 27-30 USENIX 4th Conf, COOTS Santa Fe, Mexico 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 18-20 6th IEEE/IFIP Int'l Wkshp on Quality of Service IWQos '98 Napa, CA Ramos [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 May 25-28 Interactive Multimedia Service and Equipment Zurich, Switzerland SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jun. 7-9 NANOG 13 Dearborn, MI Jun. 7-11 ENCOM '98 in conjunction with ICC/SuperComm '98 Atlanta, GA Jun. 8-11 pulver.com's Voice on the Net(TM): Europe '98 Oslo, Norway Jun. 15-17 3rd Intl WWW Caching Wkshp Manchester, En Jun. 15-19 USENIX '98 Technical Conf. New Orleans, LA Jun. 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jul. 2-3 pulver.com's Voice on the Net(TM) Tokyo, Japan 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. 3-5 USENIX 2nd Windows NT Seattle, Washington Aug. 5-7 USENIX 2nd Large Instal. Sys. Admin of Windows NT(LISA NT) Seattle, Washington 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 3 USENIX 2nd Workshop on Electronic Commerce Boston, MA Aug. 31-Sep 4 SEC '98 14th Int'l Information Vienna, Austria and Security Conference Budapest, Hungary Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 14-18 USENIX - 6th TCL/TK Conf. San Diego, CA Sep. 14-18 pulver.com's Fall '98 Voice on the Net(TM) Boston, MA 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. 13-16 Intl Conf on Netw Protocols Austin, TX Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA Oct 25-30 MobiCom'98 4th Annual ACM/IEEE Dallas, TX 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 Ramos [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 Dec. 7-11 43rd IETF Orlando, FL 1999 ----- Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Feb. 22-25 USENIX - 3rd Sym. on Oper. Sys Design and Implementation (OSDI '99) New Orleans, LA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Mar/April 44th IETF (tentative) TBA Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Apr. 26-27 Ninth Int'l Packet Video Wrkshp New York, NY May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 10-May 14 8th IW3C Toronto, CANADA Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jul 12-16 45th IETF (tentative) Oslo, Norway Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Boston, tentative 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. 8-12 46th IETF (tentative) Wash DC (tentative) Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA 2000 ---- MAR 27-31 47th IETF Adelaide, Australia 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 33] Internet Monthly Report March 1998 The TERENA Calendar for May 1998 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 20 530 4488 fax: +31 20 530 4499 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ramos [Page 34]