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August 1994


INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD

     INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page   3

  Internet Projects

     ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING  . . . . . . . . . . . page   9
     DANTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  12
     INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  15
     ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  21
     NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  23
     NORTHWESTNET  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  34
     NYSERNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  35
     PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  38
     UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  39
     USER SERVICES REPORT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  40

  CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  51
    Rare List of Meetings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  54






























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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
-------------------------

INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------

                   IETF Monthly Report for August, 1994

     1. The 30th meeting of the IETF was held in Toronto, Ontario,
        Canada from July 25 through July 29, 1994. The meeting was
        hosted by The University of Toronto. There were just over 700
        attendees, and over 70 Working Groups, BOFs, and directorate
        meetings were held during the week.

        The next IETF meeting will be in San Jose, California from
        December 5-9, and is being hosted by Sun. Following that, the
        IETF will be meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts (a suburb of
        Boston) from April 3-7, 1995. This meeting is being co-hosted
        by FTP Software and NEARNet.

     2. We are in the final stages of arranging the summer IETF meeting
        which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from July 17-21, 1995.
        Our hosts for the second European IETF meeting is NORDUnet. When
        all the arrangements have been made, a notice will be sent to
        the IETF Announcement list.

        Remember that information on future IETF meetings (both
        tentative and confirmed), can be always be found in the file
        0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories.
        This and other IETF information can also be viewed via the
        World-Wide Web. The URL for the IETF Home page is

           http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.us/home.html

     3. The IESG approved or approved the following two Protocol Actions
        during the month of August, 1994:

        o  The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) be published as a Proposed
           Standard.

        o  Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux) be published as a
           Proposed Standard.


     4. The IESG issued ten Last Calls to the IETF during the month of
        August, 1994:




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        o   INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
           <draft-ietf-imap-imap4-05> for consideration as a Proposed
           Standard.

        o  IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms <draft-ietf-imap-auth-01>
           for consideration as a Proposed Standard.

        o  IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2 AND IMAP2BIS
           <draft-ietf-imap-compat-00> for consideration as an
           Informational Document.

        o  DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4
           <draft-ietf-imap-model-00> for consideration as an
           Informational Document.

        o  RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information
           <draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-01> for consideration as a Draft
           Standard.

        o  RIP Version 2 MIB Extension <draft-ietf-ripv2-mibext2-02>
           for consideration as a Draft Standard.

        o  RIP Version 2 Protocol Analysis
           <draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-analysis-01> for consideration as
           an Informational Document.

        o  RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement
           <draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-applic-01> for consideration as
           a Draft Standard.

        o  Requirements for Internet gateways <RFC 1009> for comments
           to reclassifying as Historic.

        o  Exterior Gateway Protocol formal specification <RFC 0904> for
           comments to reclassifying as Historic.


     5. Two Working Groups were created during this period:

           New Internet Routing and Addressing Architecture (nimrod)
           Inter-Domain Routing (idr)

        Additionally, seven Working Groups were concluded:


           Border Gateway Protocol (bgp)
           User Documents Revisions (userdoc2)
           OSI IDRP for IP Over IP (ipidrp)



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           Networked Information Retrieval (nir)
           Modem Management (modemmgt)
           ATM MIB (atommib)
           Relational Database Management Systems MIB (rdbmsmib)


        Note that the Inter-Domain Routing (idr) Working Group is
        actually the merging of the bgp and ipidrp working groups.


     6. A total of 51 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
        of August, 1994:

                 (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )

      (idr)      o  BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction
                    <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4ospf-interact-07.txt>
      (wnils)    o  Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service
                    <draft-ietf-wnils-whois-03.txt>
      (avt)      o  Packetization of H.261 video streams
                    <draft-ietf-avt-video-packet-02.txt>
      (iiir)     o  Resource Transponders
                    <draft-ietf-iiir-transponders-02.txt>
      (rolc)     o  NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
                    <draft-ietf-rolc-nhrp-02.txt>
      (iiir)     o  A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information
                    Service <draft-ietf-iiir-vision-02.txt>
      (uri)      o  Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
                    <draft-ietf-uri-url-06.txt>
      (uri)      o  Uniform Resource Names
                    <draft-ietf-uri-resource-names-02.txt>
      (mhsds)    o  Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project
                    for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information
                    in Support of X.400 Routing
                    <draft-ietf-mhsds-long-bud-intro-02.txt>
      (none)     o  Definitions of Managed Objects for the Node in Fibre
                    Channel Standard using SMIv2
                    <draft-chu-fibre-channel-mib-02.txt>
      (none)     o  Mapping between X.400 P772 and RFC-822
                    <draft-onions-x400p772-822-mapping-02.txt>
      (mailext)  o  SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large
                    and Binary MIME Messages
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-smtp-binary-05.txt>
      (ripv2)    o  RIP Version 2 MIB Extension
                    <draft-ietf-ripv2-mibext2-02.txt>
      (none)     +  Simple Object Look-up protocol (SOLO)
                    <draft-huitema-solo-00.txt>
      (sipp)     o  IPv6 Authentication Header



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                    <draft-ietf-sipp-ap-04.txt>
      (none)     o  Instructions to RFC Translators
                    <draft-ohta-translation-instr-01.txt>
      (imap)     o  INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
                    <draft-ietf-imap-imap4-05.txt>
      (none)     o  Requirements for Uniform Resource Names
                    <draft-sollins-urn-02.txt>
      (none)     o  Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving, and
                    Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory Schema
                    <draft-howes-x500-schema-02.txt>
      (iab)      o  Proposed Cooperative Agreement Between the Internet
                    Society and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6
                    <draft-iab-mou2jtc1-03.txt>
      (wnils)    o  Architecture of the WHOIS++ service
                    <draft-ietf-wnils-whois-arch-01.txt>
      (printmib) o  Printer MIB <draft-ietf-printmib-printer-mib-03.txt>
      (uri)      o  Functional Requirements for Internet Resource
                    Locators <draft-ietf-uri-irl-fun-req-01.txt>
      (none)     o  POP3 AUTHentication command
                    <draft-myers-pop3-auth-01.txt>
      (mailext)  o  SMTP 521 reply code
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-smtp-521-01.txt>
      (none)     +  Representing Service Quality In a Multi-Service
                    Internet <draft-davin-qosrep-00.txt>
      (ospf)     +  OSPF MD5 Authentication <draft-ietf-ospf-md5-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Service Management For a Next-Generation Internet
                    Protocol <draft-davin-rsvfms-00.txt>
      (wnils)    +  How to interact with a Whois++ mesh
                    <draft-ietf-wnils-whois-mesh-00.txt>
      (notary)   +  Multipart/Report
                    <draft-ietf-notary-mime-report-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Communicating Presentation Information in Internet
                    Messages: The Content-Disposition Header
                    <draft-dorner-content-header-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Simple Secure DNS <draft-ohta-simple-dns-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital
                    Document Library
                    <draft-lagoze-dienst-protocol-00.txt>
      (imap)     +  DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4
                    <draft-ietf-imap-model-00.txt>
      (mailext)  +  Tags for the identification of languages
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-lang-tag-00.txt>
      (none)     +  An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation
                    <draft-rekhter-ipng-arch-IPv6-addr-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Summary of Mail and Messaging Standards
                    <draft-robinson-mail-summary-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet
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                    <draft-robinson-newtelex-00.txt>
      (pem)      +  Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
                    Part V: ANSI X9.17-Based Key Management
                    <draft-ietf-pem-ansix9.17-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Bitmap, Cursor and Icon Image Formats
                    <draft-robinson-bitmap-00.txt>
      (bgp)      +  Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration
                    of an Autonomous System (AS)
                    <draft-ietf-bgp-autosys-guide-00.txt>
      (none)     +  A Convention for Human-Readable 128-bit Keys
                    <draft-mcdonald-readable-keys-00.txt>
      (mailext)  +  SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-pipeline-00.txt>
      (mailext)  +  SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart
                    <draft-ietf-mailext-checkp-00.txt>
      (none)     +  ARP over HIPPI <draft-renwick-hippiarp-00.txt>
      (none)     +  IP over HIPPI <draft-renwick-hippiip-00.txt>

      (iiir)     +  Using the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol in
                    the Internet Environment
                    <draft-ietf-iiir-z3950-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Definitions of Managed Objects for the HIPPI
                    Interface Type <draft-renwick-hippimib-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Telnet Authentication: Simple-Strong Authentication
                    <draft-schoch-telnet-ssa-00.txt>
      (uri)      +  Relative Uniform Resource Locators
                    <draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-00.txt>
      (none)     +  Recommendations for OSI NSAP usage in IP6
                    <draft-carpenter-ip6-nsap-map-00.txt>


     7. There were 33 RFC's published during the month of August, 1994:

        RFC     St   WG        Title
        ------- --  --------   -------------------------------------
        RFC1650 PS  (ifmib)    Definitions of Managed Objects for the
                               Ethernet-like Interface Types using SMIv2
        RFC1664 E   (x400ops)  Using the Internet DNS to Distribute
                               RFC1327 Mail Address Mapping Tables
        RFC1666 PS  (snanau)   Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA
                               NAUs using SMIv2
        RFC1667 I   (none)     Modeling and Simulation Requirements for
                               IPng
        RFC1668 I   (none)     Unified Routing Requirements for IPng
        RFC1669 I   (none)     Market Viability as a IPng Criteria
        RFC1670 I   (none)     Input to IPng Engineering Considerations
        RFC1671 I   (none)     IPng White Paper on Transition and Other
                               Considerations



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        RFC1672 I   (none)     Accounting Requirements for IPng
        RFC1673 I   (none)     Electric Power Research Institute
                               Comments on IPng
        RFC1674 I   (none)     A Cellular Industry View of IPng
        RFC1675 I   (none)     Security Concerns for IPng
        RFC1676 I   (none)     INFN Requirements for an IPng
        RFC1677 I   (none)     Tactical Radio Frequency Communication
                               Requirments for IPng
        RFC1678 I   (none)     IPng Requirements of Large Corporate
                               Networks
        RFC1679 I   (none)     HPN Working Group Input to the IPng
                               Requirements Solicitation
        RFC1680 I   (none)     IPng Support for ATM Services
        RFC1681 I   (none)     On Many Addresses per Host
        RFC1682 I   (none)     IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis
        RFC1683 I   (none)     Multiprotocol Interoperability In IPng
        RFC1684 I   (none)     Introduction to White Pages services
                               based on X.500
        RFC1685 I   (none)     Writing X.400 O/R Names
        RFC1686 I   (none)     IPng Requirements: A Cable Television
                               Industry Viewpoint
        RFC1687 I   (none)     A Large Corporate User's View of IPng
        RFC1688 I   (none)     IPng Mobility Considerations
        RFC1689 I   (nir)      A Status Report on Networked Information
                               Retrieval: Tools and Groups
        RFC1690 I   (none)     Introducing the Internet Engineering and
                               Planning Group (IEPG)
        RFC1691 I   (none)     The Document Architecture for the Cornell
                               Digital Library
        RFC1692 PS  (none)     Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux)
        RFC1694 DS  (ifmib)    Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS
                               Interfaces using SMIv2
        RFC1695 PS  (atommib)  Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM
                               Management Version 8.0 using SMIv2
        RFC1696 PS  (modemmgt) Modem Management Information Base (MIB)
                               using SMIv2
        RFC1697 PS  (rdbmsmib) Relational Database Management System
                               (RDBMS) Management Information Base (MIB)
                               using SMIv2

     St(atus):  ( S) Internet Standard
                (PS) Proposed Standard
                (DS) Draft Standard
                ( E) Experimental
                ( I) Informational

     Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us)




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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------

ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING
----------------------------------

     NETWORK STATUS SUMMARY
     ----------------------

     ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 13% in August'94.
     An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 5.5% was
     observed during the month of August.

     AUGUST BACKBONE TRAFFIC STATISTICS
     ----------------------------------

     The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using
     SNMP interface counters) was 70,954,833,675 on T3 ENSS
     interfaces, up 13.5% from July.  The total packet count into the
     network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 71,692,393,856 up
     13.0% from July.

     ROUTER FORWARDING TABLE STATISTICS
     ----------------------------------

     The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet
     during August was 18,846 up 5.56% from July.

     The number of network destinations configured for
     announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets)
     during August was 17,153.

     BGP-4/CIDR DEPLOYMENT STATUS
     ----------------------------

     As of September 7th '94, we have observed the withdrawal of
     7,714 class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding
     tables that are now represented by 1,518 configured aggregates.
     Among these configured aggregates:

        1,319 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another
        aggregate).

        1,081 of these are actively announced to ANSnet.

        885 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other
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        762 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one
        configured more specific route.

        742 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their
        configured more specific routes.

        717 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+)
        of their more specific routes.

     For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu:
     pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr-savings.

     For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see
     merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings.

     ROUTING STABILITY MEASURED ON THE T3 NETWORK
     --------------------------------------------

     Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring
     short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration
     or less).  This is intended as a measure of overall system
     stability rather than complete connectivity.

     The month of August resulted in greater backbone stability than any
     other month during the year.  Some instability was experienced due
     to planned maintenance required to install new router operating
     system software, along with unexpected problems with a gated bug
     during reconfiguration.

         MONTH               overall              excluding configs
         ------              -------              -----------------
      1993
         January            99.1%                     99.5%
         February           99.0%                     99.5%
         March              97.5%                     99.1%
         April              96.1%                     97.2%
         May                97.4%                     98.0%
         June               95.5%                     96.6%
         July               97.3%                     97.7%
         August             97.5%                     97.9%
         September          98.1%                     98.5%
         October            98.0%                     98.3%
         November           97.2%                     N/A
         December           96.6%                     N/A
      1994
         January            98.7%                     N/A
         February           96.6%                     N/A
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         June               99.5%                     N/A
         July               98.7%                     N/A
         August             99.7%                     N/A

     Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability
     follows.  August was the fist month in 1994 where all AS690 nodes
     experienced less than 15 minutes of accumulated instability.  Note
     that about 1/3 of the nodes experienced no instability at all and
     are not included in the count.

      MONTH    >5 hr   >2 hr   > 1hr  >30 min   >15 min  <= 15min

              <98.7%  <99.7%  <99.87% <99.93%   <99.97%  >=99.97%

      ------------------------------------------------------------
      January      0       0       1       8        19        55
      February     0       0       1      24        19        41
      March        0       4      18      23        23        22
      April        2       2       3      13        12        57
      May          0       4      33      32        15         5
      June         3      21      35      18        12         3
      July         0      12      28      44         6         1
      August       1       5      28      21        17        15
      September    1      38      25      10         4        13
      October      0       3       3      10        25        50
      November     1       2      15      25        24        26
      December     0       8      24      46         9         3
      January      0       0       4       9        15        54
      February     0       4       6      23        40        20
         ...
      June         0       0       0       5         5        67
      July         0       7      55      11        10         7
      Aug          0       0       0       0         0        67


     NOTABLE OUTAGES FOR AUGUST '94
     ------------------------------

     E146 (ARPA) suffered an extended power outage on 08/14.  E179
     (Sandia) suffered an extended power outage on 08/19.

     Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>









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DANTE
-----

     __________________________________________________________________
                       * *      A bi-monthly electronic news bulletin
                      *   *     reporting on the activities of DANTE,
                     *          the company that provides international
                    *           network services for the European
     THE WORKS OF D A N T E     community.

     No.5, August 1994          Editor: Josefien Bersee
     __________________________________________________________________

     2 MBPS EUROPANET CONNECTION FOR NORDUNET

     Since 1 July 1994 NORDUnet, the network of the Nordic countries,
     has had a 2 Mbps connection to EuropaNET. Belgium, Germany, Italy,
     The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom already had 2 Mbps
     connections.

     NEW EBONE GATEWAY ARRANGEMENT

     DANTE has organised a new interconnect arrangement between Ebone
     and EuropaNET, which has been in place since 1 July 1994. The
     arrangement enables France to communicate with the rest of Europe
     and vice versa; the interconnection has a capacity of 512 kbps.
     CERN (Geneva), as one of the locations where EuropaNET and Ebone
     are both present, is used as the actual point of interconnection
     but traffic flows in and out of EMPB through DANTE's PoP in
     Amsterdam.

     CONNECTIVITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

     The contract between the European Commission and PTT Telecom to
     provide EMPB (EuropaNET) connections to the Czech Republic,
     Hungary, and Romania under the EC PHARE Programme was extended from
     31 December 1993 to 30 June 1994. Since 1 July PTT Telecom has been
     continuing the service which is being funded from the remaining
     PHARE budget. However, this funding runs out very shortly.

     DANTE has been lobbying both PTT Telecom and the EC to the effect
     that termination of the services (at least without a replacement
     being put in place) would be very bad. PTT Telecom has now received
     a letter from the EC which gives them enough reassurance that
     payment will eventually be made from the PHARE 1994 Programme to
     keep the present services going.

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     continuation of these services will be taken up again once the
     management contract for the PHARE 1994 Programme of support for
     research networking has been awarded by the EC.

     US CONNECTIVITY ISSUES

     DANTE will locate the US end of its new 8 Mbps link from Amsterdam
     to the US at the Network Access Point (NAP) in New York which is
     set up as a result of the new arrangements which have been put in
     place by NSF. Another consequence of NSF's changes is that the
     trans-(US-)continental broadband network is not available for
     general use. As a consequence, DANTE and other non-US organisations
     will have to make new arrangements with US service providers for
     distribution of their traffic with the US and for transit between
     Europe and Asia/Pacific (see also 'Some impressions from the 30th
     IETF').

     The actual form of the NAP connection still has to be decided on:
     the choice will be either to obtain a direct connection or via a US
     service provider.

     CONNECTION TO KOREA IN PLACE

     A 64 kbps line between Europe and Korea has become operational on
     23 August 1994. The line provides a direct link between KREONet
     (Korea Research Environment Open Network), the Korean national R&D
     network and EuropaNET. DANTE was awarded the contract to organise
     the connection under the EC EKORN project.

     KREONet, one of five government networks in Korea, was launched in
     1988 and connects all the major university, government and
     commercial research institutes. It provides the Korean research
     community with the 'usual' services such as e-mail, file transfer,
     remote login etc. DANTE's partner in setting up the connection has
     been SERI (Systems Engineering Research Institute), the
     organisation that operates, manages and develops KREONet.

     EUROCAIRN ACTVITY TAKES OFF

     Work on the EuroCAIRN Study Report has started. A contract for this
     Project, to specify requirements and options for the setting up of
     a Superhighway for the European research community, was awarded to
     DANTE in May 1994. The Project team consists of DANTE employees
     complemented with a group of external specialists: Robert Cooper
     (UKERNA/SuperJANET), Bernhard Stockman (KTH, Stockholm), Maria
     Pallares and Chris Broomfield. Istvan Tetenyi, from HUNGARNET
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     DANTE is organising a meeting with representatives of the national
     networks in November 1994 to present the findings of the
     preliminary report. The final version of the report will be
     delivered in March 1995.

     SOME IMPRESSIONS FROM THE 30TH IETF, TORONTO - MICHAEL BEHRINGER

     As the title of this article suggests, this is not meant to be a
     precise report on the IETF, but rather an informal gathering of a
     few personal impressions.

     The most interesting decision that was to be made at this summer
     IETF 1994 was concerning the next generation of the Internet
     Protocol. Due to the current growth rate of routing tables, and the
     problems of running out of IP address space, the current version of
     the Internet Protocol has to be either updated or completely re-
     designed. Three proposals have been discussed as IP next
     generation, TUBA, CATNIP and SIPP (I won't explain the details
     here). Although it was not clearly stated during the Plenary
     Session, it was obvious that the choice for IPng went to SIPP. The
     "Simple Internet Protocol Plus" is supposed to tackle a whole range
     of problems experienced with the current version 4 of the IP, for
     example security aspects.

     Another important issue that the Internet has to face during the
     coming months is the change in the US infrastructure. The NSFnet
     backbone as it is today will disappear and be replaced by a
     completely new structure, based on Network Access Points (NAPs).
     Four of those neutral interconnection points will be provided and
     are currently being set up. The basic idea behind it is that
     network providers connect to one or more NAPs and peer there with
     other providers. Providers who need transit capacity to remote
     spots of the Internet will have to buy it from other providers.
     Unfortunately this model only looks at US requirements, without
     taking European or other non-US countries' concerns or problems
     into consideration. As there are a lot of unknowns in this new
     model, it was a heavily discussed item during the IETF, in sessions
     as well as off-line.

     Apart from those two major topics there were a lot of issues
     discussed in the numerous working groups. To list all the work that
     was done there would require a lot of paper or storage space. But
     the fact that quite a few people present at the IETF did not get
     out of the hotel more than once or twice during this week probably
     tells enough about the loads of work being done there.

     For more information, like proceedings, information on the Internet
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     http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html

     WWW SERVER IN PLACE

     DANTE has set up its 'thread' in the World Wide Web
     <http://www.dante.net/>. The server contains information on all
     DANTE services and activities. A picture of EuropaNET and
     statistics on EuropaNET backbone traffic will be updated on a
     monthly basis. DANTE is also maintaining a picture which gives an
     overview of Intercontinental connectivity of the European research
     community - via EuropaNET as well as other networks and
     arrangements.

     ____________________________________________________________________

     DANTE - Lockton House - Clarendon Road - Cambridge - CB2 2BH - UK

     tel +44 223 302992
     fax +44 223 303005

     E-mail                dante@dante.org.uk
                           S=dante; O=dante; P=dante; A=mailnet; C=fi
     WWW server            http://www.dante.net/
     Gopher server         gopher://gopher.dante.net/
     ____________________________________________________________________

     J.Bersee@dante.org.uk (Josefien Bersee)

INTERNIC
--------

     INFORMATION SERVICES

     Contact Information:

     Reference Desk Information
          Phone                 +1 619 455-4600
          email                 info@internic.net
          Fax                   +1 619 455-4640

     InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints
          Suggestions     suggestions@internic.net
          Complaints      complaints@internic.net

     NSF Network News
          newsletter subscriptions  newsletter-request@internic.net
          newsletter comments       newsletter-comments@internic.net




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     NICLink
          General Information         info@internic.net
          Problems/bugs               niclink-bugs@is.internic.net

     InterNIC Seminar Series
          General Information         seminars@internic.net

     Listserv lists
          net-happenings   majordomo@is.internic.net
          net-resources    majordomo@is.internic.net
          scout-report     majordomo@is.internic.net

     InfoGuide
          Host Name        is.internic.net
          Host Address     192.153.156.15
          URL:             http://www.internic.net/

     Postal address
          InterNIC Information Services
          General Atomics
          P.O. BOX 85608
          San Diego, CA 92186-9784

     THE InterNIC INFOGUIDE

     The InterNIC InfoGuide is a comprehensive online information
     service which provides information about the Internet and online
     Internet resources. Accessible through gopher and the WorldWideWeb,
     the InterNIC InfoGuide replaces the older InterNIC information
     server, the InfoSource. The InfoGuide includes new services such as
     the Scout Report and an online hypertext version of the _NSF
     Network News_.

     To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client
     to:

     http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html

     or your gopher client to:

     is.internic.net


     NET-HAPPENINGS

     The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information
     Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's
     SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the



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     community announcements of interest to network staffers and end
     users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers,
     publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network
     resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only
     mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources
     and concentrates them onto one list.  To provide better
     distribution to a wider audience, net-happenings was turned into a
     USENET newsgroup.  The group passed its call for votes by a wide
     margin and (CFV) was named comp.internet.net-happenings.

     To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to:

     is.internic.net

     and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings.

     THE SCOUT REPORT:

     A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights

     Presently the Scout Report has over 7500 subscribers and the HTML
     versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of accesses each
     week.  A new mailing list was created for easier distribution of
     the HTML Scout Report, which is located at scout-report-html.
     Since its formation the new list has accumulated nearly 100
     subscribers.

     The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet
     community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network
     activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights
     of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the
     Internet during the previous week.

     The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats --
     electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb.  WorldWideWeb versions
     of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing
     instantaneous browsing of items of interest.  Comments and
     contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to
     scout@internic.net.

     How to Get the Scout Report

     To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each
     Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will
     be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail
     to:

     majordomo@is.internic.net



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     In the body of the message, type:

     subscribe scout-report youremailaddress

     To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW
     client to:

     http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html

     Gopher users can tunnel to:  is.internic.net/Information Services


     THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES

     InterNIC Information Service's first in-house course, "Learning the
     Whole Internet" is now available. This course, based on Ed Krol's
     "The Whole Internet" is a one-day seminar that covers the Internet
     basics as outlined in "The Whole Internet".  Instruction includes
     the history and technology behind the Internet, Telnet, FTP, email,
     USENET, archie, Gopher, WAIS, and WWW.  The audience for this
     course will be new and limited exposure (email only) Internet
     users.

     Past seminars presented by the InterNIC have been lecture
     presentations with the instructor providing brief demonstrations of
     Internet applications for the attendees.  However, presentation of
     this course will encompass hands-on training and will be introduced
     in universities, colleges, corporations, and other locations with
     computer laboratory facilities.

     NSF NETWORK NEWS

     The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 3 (July/August 1994) is now
     online. This issue features an interview with Laura Breeden, who is
     currently the director of the Telecommunications and Information
     Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP).  Also highlighted are
     articles profiling the National Center for Supercomputing
     Applications and its connection and history with NCSA Mosaic; a map
     designed by Matrix Information and Directory  Services (MIDS)
     especially for NSF News readers that graphs the number of  Internet
     Hosts per capita in the United States; a useful Registration
     Services  FAQ; an informative"how-to" article on Internet
     publishing by Daniel Dern; and  the regular features of the _NSF
     Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar  and updates from
     InterNIC partners.  To subscribe, send email to  newsletter-
     request@internic.net.





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     The July/August issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the
     WorldWideWeb at

     http://www.internic.net/newsletter/jul-aug94/index.html

     The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC
     InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to
     mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the
     message:

     get /about-internic/newsletter/nsfnews-aug94.txt

     REFERENCE DESK

     The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for
     August:

               Method      Contacts      % of Total
               -------     --------      ---------
               Email           162            5
               Phone          2421           80
               Fax             432           14
               US Mail          14           <1
               Referral          1           <1
               -------     --------      ---------
               Total          3030        100.0

     by Anna Knittle <aknittle@is.internic.net>


     DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES

     In August, we made a number of changes to our services to improve
     usability.

     For our general telnet interface (the interface you see when you
     log in to our machines as "guest"), we added variable scrolling
     (the user can indicate how many lines are in one "screen" on his or
     her terminal) and improved both the help information and the
     tutorial.  These changes were made in response to customer
     requests.

     We have installed a new version of WAIS (FreeWAIS from CNIDR) and a
     new WAIS client on all our machines.  This system is currently in
     test mode, and can be tried by logging in as "nwais" to our
     servers.  If you have your own WAIS client and would like to try
     our new server, you can connect to our hosts on port 8210 rather
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     We have also installed Bunyip's latest version of Archie on one of
     our servers.  This version includes a number of improvements.  The
     most significant addition is that Archie can now search for Gopher
     menu items as well as anonymous FTP file names.  Since it now
     stores information on Gopher menus as well as anonymous FTP
     archives, the new Archie database is substantially larger than the
     old.  For this reason, the new Archie is currently available on
     only one of our servers (ds1.internic.net); additional storage has
     been ordered for the other servers but will not arrive for a while.

     To search Archie for Gopher menu items, Gopher to ds1.internic.net,
     and select "InterNIC Directory and Database Services" (item 4),
     "Search Anonymous FTP Site and Gopher Menu Indices using Archie"
     (item 8), and then "Gopher Index" (item 3). At that point, you
     might want to start with item 8 "Things you should know" and
     continue through item 13 to get an idea of how to use the system.
     If you do not have a Gopher client of your own, you can telnet to
     ds1.internic.net, log in as gopher, and follow the same steps.

     We welcome comments on any of these changes or additions.  Users of
     the general telnet interface are given an opportunity to enter
     comments when they log out.  Electronic mail comments can also be
     sent to our administrators at admin@ds.internic.net.

     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.

     by Rick Huber <rvh@ds.internic.net>


     REGISTRATION SERVICES

     I.  Significant Events

     InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 6,000 network
     addresses and registered over 2,400 domains.  Blocks of 256 Class C
     addresses were assigned to Globalcom, CAnet/Manitoba, UTAH
     Education, Sun.Belt, Sprint, Los Alamos, DEC, ADP, AT&T, Lawrence
     Livermore, Colorado Supernet, Galaxy, CA-NET Ontario.  A top-level
     country domain for the Republic of Armenia was registered.









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     I. Registration Statistics For August

     Hostmaster Email              6,160
     Postal/Fax Applications         266
     Telephone Calls               1,492
     Domain Registered             2,426
     Inverse Addresses               667
     Class C's Assigned            6,044
     Class B's Assigned               27
     ASN Assigned                     59

     The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume
     of information retrieval requests during the month of August.

                   Connections   Retrievals
        Gopher       50,265        30,277
        WAIS         32,055        44,065
        FTP          10,005        41,453
        Mailserv      2,535

     In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were:

                     Client        Server
                    231,999       654,313

     Duane Stone <domreg@internic.net>

ISI
---

     NETSTATION
     ==========

     Work this month continued to focus on protocol software
     investigation and development.

     The basic focus of the Netstation project is to determine the
     practicality of substituting a network/protocol interface for
     devices in place of the system bus and memory-mapped control
     registers.  Whereas today's devices are typically memory mapped,
     the devices developed here would be network mapped.

     Ths new class of device would communicate with the outside world
     entirely via packets.  A natural model is to communicate withe the
     device via remote procedure calls (RPCs).  The resulting computing
     system with its devices becomes similar to a cluster computer or
     heterogeneous multicomputer.  By implication, netstation devices
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     as a slave only, hung off a bus.

     LANai 1.1 Software Development
     ------------------------------

     One of the unanswered questions regarding Netstation development is
     just what type of performance is it realistic to expect from a
     LANai network interface and the end-point application processess
     that produce and consume packets.

     To define the outlines of a practical engineering envelope, the
     LANai code was rewritten to reflect what is thought to be the
     configuration that will be used by applications to achieve high
     performance in both hosts and netstation devices.  The resulting
     LANai/host interface supports multiple simultaneous protocol
     stacks.  This allows a small number of applications to have direct
     access to the network interface via software packages and is
     loosely similar to the application direct channels (ADCs) developed
     by the X-Kernel project at Arizona.

     Typical performance figures for high-speed networks stress maximum
     attained bandwidth.  This is achieved by using large packets, in
     some cases as large as 64K byte/pkt.  Such a maximum bandwidth
     figure is of little use in determining what the engineering
     limitations are for general device control.  A typical RPC packet
     is short, perhaps only 120 bytes long.

     Two important pieces of engineering information are:

     (1) How many RPCs can an application program running in a
         workstation realistically be expected to generate?

     (2) How many RPCs can an interface program running in a
         device realistically be expected to consume?

     To answer those questions sender and receiver application programs
     were written and installed into separate Sun workstations,
     interfaced to the LANai ADCs, and tested.  These figures below were
     measured by the application programs themselves, with three
     protocol stacks in place, so as to fairly represent achievable
     end-to-end application performance.

     Configuration:

        Two Sun SPARCstation-2 workstations, each with a LANai 1.1
        network interface running at 20 MHz, with the LAN
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     Sending application:    70.0K pkt/sec  @ 120 byte/IP pkt
     Receiving application:  63.5K pkt/sec  @ 120 byte/IP pkt

     Sending application:    29.7K pkt/sec  @ 1500 byte/IP pkt
     Receiving application:  26.5K pkt/sec  @ 1500 byte/IP pkt

     Sending application:    17.6K pkt/sec  @ 3000 byte/IP pkt
     Receiving application:  15.8K pkt/sec  @ 3000 byte/IP pkt

     A LANai running at 20 MHz, using 640 Mb/s channels, can provide a
     host application with a sustained end-to-end performance of 63.5K
     RPC/sec or bandwidth of 360 Mb/s while using an MTU compatible with
     the Ethernet.  These figures can be improved significantly by
     raising the clock rate of the LANai.  The 20 MHz SBus clock rate of
     the SPARCstation-2 platforms used here made that impractical.  We
     expect that when these tests are run in a SPARCstation-20, the
     performance will be substantially higher.

     Higher figures can also be obtained either via use of larger
     packets or by specially crafting the application/network interface.

     Notes

     The LANai chips were clocked at 20 MHz to match the SBus clock.
     Cable transmission latency across the network between SPARstation-2
     hosts was insignificant for the tests reported here.

     Much of the overhead per packet for short packets is LANai program
     execution at the source and destination, which introduces a forced
     latency between packets.  It is of some interest to sketch the
     typical execution costs within the LANai for both transmission and
     reception.

      -----------------------------------------------------------------
     |                                                                 |
     |                                                                 |
      --->  11 + 3                 4                             4 ----
                     8 + <12> + 9     19 + <10> + 11 + <5> + 10
                         SEND                   RECEIVE

     The typical case LANai interrupt and status condition loop consumes
     22 machine instructions.  This includes checks for clock and
     channel status, send ready, receive complete, and packet overrun
     conditions.

     A send operation consists of a check for at least one pending
     output packet.  If that is true, a check is made to determine if
     the send DMA is available.  If it is, a loop determines which of



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     several sources (protocol stacks) has a packet to send if any.
     This loop consumes 12 instructions per stack that is checked.
     Enabling DMA transmission of the packet consumes 9 instructions.

     A receive operation consumes 19 instructions to perform packet
     length and CRC condition checks.  Subsequently, the free buffer
     pool is scanned to determine the next available packet buffer.
     This consumes 10 instructions per buffer check.  Enabling DMA
     packet reception into that buffer requires 11 instructions.  The
     received packet is then demux'ed.  The demux loop requires
     approximately 5 instructions per packet field check to determine
     into which stack the packet should be placed.  Notifying the
     awaiting application consumes the final 10 instructions.

     These counts are complete.  They include the handshaking between
     the host-system and LANai shared data structures.

     Greg Finn <finn@isi.edu>,  Bruce Parham <parham@isi.edu>, and S.K.
     Monnangi <munnangi@isi.edu>

     RSVP PROJECT
     ------------

     Following the Toronto IETF meeting, ISI concentrated on putting
     together a preliminary source release of RSVP.  This release is
     expected to include the rsvpd daemon and the API.  It will also
     include the RSVP modifications to sd, vat, and nv that were
     produced by MIT, LBL, and PARC, and modifications to the LBL
     tcpdump program to display RSVP messages.  An initial RSVP release
     should be ready early in September.  The traffic control kernels
     from MIT and from Sun are expected to be released separately.

     Prior to the release, ISI did RSVP development work to bring the
     package into line with the specification.  Path and reservation
     teardown messages are now included.  A logical problem with routing
     reservation error messages was found and fixed; the specification
     will require updating in this area.

     Bobby Minnear at MIT supplied a package "tcl-rsvp", which is a set
     of Tcl and C programs to provide an RSVP interface to sd and vat.
     These components were tested with RSVP across DARTnet as well as
     locally within ISI.  He also updated the nv/RSVP interface that Ron
     Frederick at PARC had produced last year.

     John Wroclawsi at MIT produced and started testing a DARTnet kernel
     realizing the CSZ service model.  Some anomalies which were
     observed with this kernel in service have not been tracked down
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     Ajit Thyagarajan at Xerox PARC included the RSVP kernel changes in
     his new (3.3) release of IP multicasting code.  This will greatly
     aid the introduction of RSVP.  This new code also requires that
     rsvpd obtain multicast routes from mrouted, rather than from the
     kernel, by a process-process query mechanism.  This mechanism must
     be developed and tested next month; it will not be included in the
     initial RSVP release, which will support only pre-3.3 versions of
     IP multicast.

     Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu>, Steve Berson <berson@isi.ecu>

     INFRASTRUCTURE

     Joe Touch attended the Protocol for High Speed Networks meeting in
     Vancouver, Canada, August 9-12, 1994.

     33 RFCs were published this month.

        RFC 1650:  Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for
                   the Ethernet-like Interface Types using SMIv2", FTP
                   Software, Inc., August 1994.

        RFC 1664:  Allocchio, C., A. Bonito (GARR-Italy), B. Cole
                   (Cisco Systems Inc.), S. Giordano (Centro Svizzero
                   Calcolo Scientifico), R. Hagens (Advanced Network
                   & Services), August 1994.

        RFC 1666:  Kielczewski, Z., (Eicon Technology Corporation),
                   D. Kostick (Bell Communications Research), K. Shih
                   (Novell), "Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA
                   NAUs Using SMIv2", August 1994.

        RFC 1667:  Syminton, S., D. Wood (MITRE), M. Pullen, (George
                   Mason University), "Modeling and Simulation
                   Requirements for IPng", August 1994.

        RFC 1668:  Estrin, D., (USC), T. Li (Cisco Systems), Y. Rekhter,
                   T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp. "Unified
                   Routing Requirements for IPng, August 1994.

        RFC 1669:  Curran, J., "Market Viability as a IPng Criteria"
                   BBN, August 1994.

        RFC 1670:  Heagerty, D., "Input to IPng Engineering
                   Considerations", CERN, August 1994.

        RFC 1671:  Carpenter, B., "IPng White Paper on Transition and
                   Other Considerations", CERN, August 1994.



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        RFC 1672:  Brownlee, N., "Accounting Requirements for IPng"
                   The University of Auckland, August, 1994.

        RFC 1673:  Skelton, R., "Electric Power Research Institute
                   Comments on IPng", EPRI, August 1994.

        RFC 1674:  Taylor, M., "A Cellular Industry View of IPng",
                   CDPD Consortium, August 1994.

        RFC 1675:  Bellovin, S., "Security Concerns for IPng",
                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, August 1994.

        RFC 1676:  Ghiselli, A., D. Salomoni, C. Vistoli, "INFN/CNAF
                   Requirements for an IPng", August 1994

        RFC 1677:  Adamson, B., "Tactical Radio Frequency Communication
                   Requirments for IPng", Naval Research Laboratory
                   August 1994.

        RFC 1678:  Britton, E., J. Tavs, "IPng Requirements of Large
                   Corporate Networks", IBM, August 1994.

        RFC 1679:  Green, D., P. Irey, D. Marlow, and K. O'Donoghue
                   (NSWC-DD), "HPN Working Group Input to the IPng
                   Requirements Solicitation", August 1994.

        RFC 1680:  Brazdziunas, C., "IPng Support for ATM Services",
                   Bellcore, August 1994.

        RFC 1681:  Bellovin, S., "On Many Addresses Per Host", AT&T
                   Bell Laboratories, August 1994.

        RFC 1682:  Bound, J., "IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis"
                   Digital Equipment Corp., August 1994.

        RFC 1683:  Clark, R., M. Ammar, K. Calvert, "Multiprotocol
                   Interoperability in IPng", August 1994.

        RFC 1684:  Jurg, P., "Introduction to White Pages Services
                   Based on X.500", SURFnet bv, August, 1994.

        RFC 1685:  Alvestrand, H., "Writing X.400 O/R Names", UNINETT
                   August 1994.

        RFC 1686:  Vecchi, M., "IPng Requirements: A Cable Television
                   Industry Viewpoint", Time Warner Cable, August 1994.





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        RFC 1687:  Fleischman, E., "A Large Corporate User's View of
                   IPng", Boeing Computer Services, August 1994.

        RFC 1688:  Simpson, W., "IPng Mobility Considerations",
                   Daydreamer, August 1994.

        RFC 1689:  Foster, J., Editor "A Status Report on Networked
                   Information Retrieval:  Tools and Groups", University
                   of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Augus 1994.

        RFC 1690:  Huston, G., "Introducing the Internet Engineering and
                   Planning Group (IEPG)", AARNet, August 1994.

        RFC 1691:  Turner, W., "The Document Architecture for the
                   Cornell Digital Library", LTD, August 1994.

        RFC 1692:  Cameron, P., (Xylogics, International Ltd.),
                   D. Crocker (Silicon Graphics, Inc.), D. Cohen
                   (Myricom), J. Postel (ISI), " Transport Multiplexing
                   Protocol (TMux)", August 1994.

        RFC 1694:  Brown, T., and K. Tesink, Editors, "Definitions of
                   Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces using SMIv2",
                   Bell Communications Research", August 1994.

        RFC 1695:  Ahmed, M., K. Tesink, Editors, "Definitions of
                   Managed Objects for ATM Management Version 8.0 Using
                   SMIv2", Bell Communications Research, August 1994.

        RFC 1696:  Barnes, J., (Xylogics, Inc.), L. Brown, (Motorola)
                   R. Royston (US Robotics, Inc.), S. Waldbusser
                   (Carnegie Mellon University), "Modem Management
                   Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2", August 1994.

        RFC 1697:  Brower, D., Editor, (The ASK Group, INGRES DBMS
                   Development), B. Purvy, RDBMSMIB Working Group Chair
                   (Oracle Corporation), A. Daniel (Informix Software
                   Inc), M. Sinykin, J. Smith (Oracle Corporation),
                   "Relational Relational Database Management System
                   (RDBMS) Management Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2",
                   August 1994.










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     THE US DOMAIN
     =============

     US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
     ------------------------------------

     EMAIL/FAX               535
     PHONE                    66
     ----------------------------
     Total Contacts          601


     DELEGATIONS              59
     DIRECT REGISTRATIONS:    15
     OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:   527
     ---------------------------
     Total                   601

     OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: modifications, application
     requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
     about names, referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic,
     resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and
     whois listings.

     The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of
     registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain.  Many
     subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those
     subdomains register applicants in their domains.  Below are direct
     registrations in the US Domain.

     To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and
     subdomains you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt
     from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp.

     Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
     --------------------------------------------

     CAMERON-PARK.CA.US      Cameron-Park, California, locality
     CRYSTAL-BAY.CA.US       Crystal-Bay, California, locality
     EMERALD-BAY.CA.US       Emerald-Bay, California, locality
     EL-DORADO-HILLS.CA.US   El-Dorado-Hills, California, locality
     FOLSOM.CA.US            Folsom, California, locality
     GRAEAGLE.CA.US          Graeagle, California, locality
     GRASS-VALLEY.CA.US      Grass-Valley, California, locality
     KINGS-BEACH.CA.US       Kings-Beach, California, locality
     LOOMIS.CA.US            Loomis, California, locality
     MARYSVILLE.CA.US        Marysville, California, locality
     NEVADA-CITY.CA.US       Nevada-City, California, locality



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     NORTH-TAHOE.CA.US       North-Tahoe, California, locality
     OROVILLE.CA.US          Oroville, California, locality
     POLLOCK-PINES.CA.US     Pollock-Pines, California, locality
     PLACERVILLE.CA.US       Placerville, California, locality
     QUINCY.CA.US            Quicy, California, locality
     ROCKLIN.CA.US           Rocklin, California, locality
     ROSEVILLE.CA.US         Roseville, California, locality
     SOUTH-TAHOE.CA.US       South-Tahoe, California, locality
     TAHOE-CITY.CA.US        Tahoe-City, California, locality

     CHAMPAIGN.IL.US         Champaign, Illinois, locality

     MUS.MO.US               Missouri, Museums

     GEN.MS.US               Mississippi General
     JACKSON.MS.US           Jackson, Mississippi, locality
     LIB.MS.US               Mississippi Libraries

     AUBURN.NV.US            Auburn, Nevada, locality
     DAYTON.NV.US            Dayton, Nevada, locality
     ELY.NV.US               Ely, Nevada, locality
     STEAD.NV.US             Stead, Nevada, locality
     VERDI.NV.US             Verdi, Nevada, locality
     YERINGTON.NV.US         Yerington, Nevada, locality

     EUCLID.OH.US            Euclid, Ohio, locality
     LANCASTER.OH.US         Lancaster, Ohio, locality
     MINERVA.OH.US           Minerva, Ohio, localty
     PATASKALA.OH.US         Pataskala, Ohio, locality

     K12.WY.US               Wyoming, K12 Schools

     Other US Domain Delegations this month
     --------------------------------------

     ASD.K12.AK.US           Anchorage School District
     CO.LA.CA.US             Los Angeles County, agencies
     LACUSC.CO.LA.CA.US      Los Angeles, USC Medical Center
     DHS.CO.LA.CA.US         Los Angeles, County Dept. of Health
     CO.PALM-BEACH.FL.US     County of Los Angeles
     MEC.K12.MA.US           Merrimack Education Center
     PIONEER.LIB.OK.US       Pioneer Library System, Norman, Ok
     TEN.K12.TN.US           Tennessee Board of Regents
     SPOKNET.LIB.WA.US       Spokane Public Library
     KCLS.LIB.WA.US          King County Library System, Seattle
     SBVMWD.DST.CA.US        San Bernadino Valley Municipal Water Dist.
     ESP.TULSA.OK.US         Educational Systems Products, Inc., Tulsa
     NOLS.LIB.WA.US          North Olympic Library System, Port Angeles



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     MCL.LIB.WA.US           Mid-Columbia Library System, Kennewick
     NCPL.LIB.CA.US          National City Public Library
     SPOKPL.LIB.WA.US        Spokane Public Library
     SLACK.THOROFARE.NJ.US   Slack Inc., Thorofare, NJ
     TENNPREP.PVT.K12.TN.US     Tennessee Preparatory School, Nashville
     PLEASANT.CAMBRIDGE.MA.US   Private Individual
     HANSCON.LINCOLN.K12.MA.US  Hanscom k12 School, Hanscom AFB, MA
     MARIN-ACADEMY.MARIN.CA.US  Marin Academy High School, San Rafael
     VIRTUALCAFE.WASHINGTON.DC.US  Virtual Cafe Systems, Wash. D.C.
     COMMONWEALTH.PVT.K12.MA.US    The Commonwealth School, Cambridge


                    TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE

             K12     CC      TEC     STATE   LIB     MUS     GEN
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     AK                              X
     AL       X
     AR       X
     AZ       X      X       X       X       X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     CA       X      X       X       X
     CO       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     CT
     DC       X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     DE                              X
     FL       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     GA       X              X       X       X
     HI
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     IA       X      X       X               X
     ID       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     IL       X      X       X       X       X
     IN       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     KS                              X
     KY       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     LA       X      X       X       X       X
     MA                              X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     MD       X      X       X               X
     ME       X                      X
     MI       X      X       X       X       X
     MN       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     -----------------------------------------------------------





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             K12     CC      TEC     STATE   LIB     MUS     GEN
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     MO       X      X               X       X       X       X
     MS       X                      X       X               X
     MT                      X
     NC       X      X       X       X       X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     ND       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     NE       X      X               X       X
     NH       X              X
     NJ       X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     NM       X                      X               X
     NV
     NY       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     OH       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     OK
     OR       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     PA       X
     RI       X      X               X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     SC       X      X       X       X       X               X
     SD       X                      X
     TN                              X
     TX       X      X               X       X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     UT       X                      X       X               X
     VA       X      X       X       X
     VI
     VT       X                      X
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     WA
     WI       X              X       X
     WV       X      X       X       X       X       X       X
     WY       X                      X
     ===========================================================

     For more information about the US Domain please request an
     application via the RFC-INFO service.  Send a message to
     RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application".
     For example:
                       To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU
                       Subject: US Domain Application

                       help: us_domain_application

     Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)



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NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK)
---------------------------------------------------

     NEARnet Membership Update
     -------------------------

     BARRNET ACQUISITION IS COMPLETE

     On August 24, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN) announced the
     completion of an agreement to acquire the Bay Area Regional
     Research Network (BARRNet(SM)) from Stanford University in Palo
     Alto, California.  This marks the consolidation of two of the
     country's premier Internet service providers:  BBN's NEARNET(SM)
     operation in the Northeast, and BARRNet, the leading provider of
     such services in the San Francisco Bay Area.  BBN and Stanford had
     previously announced their intention for BBN to acquire BARRNet on
     June 22.

     NEARNET MINI-SEMINAR UPDATE

     The fourth NEARNET Mini-Seminar for 1994, "Publishing and the
     Internet" will be held on Friday, September 23 from 9:00-12:30 at
     the BBN Newman Auditorium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

     The seminar is free of charge to all NEARNET members, however,
     seating is limited and registration will be handled on a first-come
     first-served basis.  The seminar will be videotaped and copies will
     be made available for NEARNET members to borrow.

     This seminar will focus on how and why the publishing industry is
     increasingly using the Internet as a tool for delivering online
     publishing services.  This seminar is being held to satisfy the
     continued demand for information on the way organizations are
     increasingly using the Internet to conduct a wide-range of business
     services.

     Presentors will include:

     Laura Fillmore, President of Editorial Inc. and the Online
     Bookstore.

     DC Denison, Lead Feature Writer for O'Reilly and Associates Global
     Network Navigator (GNN) Service and freelance write for the Boston
     Globe.

     Robert Fleischman, Systems Engineer, BBN Systems and Technologies
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     Additional information regarding the remaining Mini-Seminars and
     Annual Seminar for 1994 will be announced shortly.  For more
     information, contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-
     us@near.net or call 617-873-8730 or 1-800-NEARNET.

     THE BBN INTERNET TRAINING GROUP

     In response to the overwhelming requests from the Internet
     community for more Internet-specific training, BBN has created an
     Internet Training Group.  Since July of this year, and in
     conjunction with the NEARNET staff, the Internet Training Group has
     offered training courses to the general public.

     Upcoming courses for September include:

     9/7     Business on the Internet:  Strategic Approaches (with Mary
     Cronin,
             author of "Doing Business on the Internet")

     9/13    Publishing on the Internet (with Laura Fillmore, president
     of the
             Online Bookstore and Editorial Inc.)

     9/14    Hands-on Publishing on the Internet - Building your own WWW

     9/19    Intro. to Internet Resources

     9/20    Hands-on Internet Tools for PC/Windows

     9/27    Hands-on Internet Tools for PC/Windows

     Training courses are offered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York
     City, New York; and, upon request, on-site at the customer's
     organization. In the near future, training courses will also be
     offered in Palo Alto, California.  NEARNET members and educational
     users are eligible for a 25 percent introductory discount.  To find
     out more about BBN's Internet Training Courses, please send email
     to: net-train@bbn.com or call 617-873-3282.

     NEARNET NEW SITE TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE

     The Summer set of NEARNET new site training courses was held on
     August 10-12 in BBN's Newman Auditorium.  The Fall set of NEARNET
     new site training courses will be held on November 16-18.  For more
     information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at
     nearnet-us@near.net or call 617-873-8730 or 1-800-NEARNET.

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     to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New
     NEARNET Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet
     Technology.

     All three days of training are available free of charge to all new
     sites.  The Internet Resources and Internet Technology courses are
     available for existing sites and non-members for a fee.  The
     NEARNET Orientation is free to all NEARNET sites.

     by NEARNET Client Services <nearnet-us@near.net>

NORTHWESTNET
------------

     Dr. Eric Hood, president of the Federation of American Research
     Networks (FARNET), attended the FARNET meeting in Snowmass,
     Colorado on August 10-12. The meeting theme was "The National
     Information Infrastructure and the 50 States: Practical
     Implementation Issues of the NII."

     During the week of August 22, nearly 60 participants attended
     Internet training classes contracted from NorthWestNet and provided
     through the Washington State University Conferences and Institutes
     Continuing Education Programs in Richland, Washington. Participants
     were comprised primarily of staff from several high-technology
     firms in the area, including Boeing, Westinghouse, ICF Kaiser, and
     Batelle Pacific Northwest Labs.

     NorthWestNet's Internet Training Series added a new three-hour
     course to its program. "Internet Discussion Groups" covers
     LISTSERVs, mailing-lists, and Usenet. This new course along with
     our regular offerings were each held at the training facility in
     Bellevue, Washington. These for-fee classes are open to the public.
     For information about upcoming scheduled classes, retrieve the
     following via anonymous FTP:

             FTP Host:       ftp.nwnet.net
             directory:      /training
             filename:       course-descriptions.txt

     -----------------
     NorthWestNet                             E-mail: info@nwnet.net
     15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202           Phone: (206) 562-3000
     Bellevue, WA 98007                       Fax: (206) 562-4822

     NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
     North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.




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NYSERNET
--------

     NYSERNET CONTRACTS WITH NYNEX AND SPRINT TO PROVIDE MOST ADVANCED
     STATE DATA NETWORK IN THE COUNTRY

     Liverpool, NY, September 1 - The New York State Education and
     Research Network - NYSERNet, Inc. - announces agreements with NYNEX
     and Sprint to significantly upgrade NYSERNet's network and
     internetworking services for New York State.  This unique
     arrangement is the first step in NYSERNet's Five-Year Network
     deployment Plan to provide more than a 100-fold increase in the
     information carrying capabilities of the New York Network, At the
     completion of Phase I of the Plan, at the end of 1995, NYSERNet and
     New York State will have the most technologically advanced state
     data network in the country.

     The NYNEX and Sprint agreements will provide a 45 million bit per
     second (T-3) statewide network for NYSERNet affiliates by November
     of 1994.  This will vastly improve routing and service to NYSERNet
     affiliates and deliver T-3 speeds for prices that are less than
     half the current national average.  NYSERNet now operates a 1.5
     million bit per second T-1 network.

     "By working with NYNEX and Sprint, access to the network and
     Internet will eventually be provided throughout the State through a
     local dial-up phone call anywhere," said James Luckett, Executive
     Director and Vice President of NYSERNet.  "This will guarantee that
     there is no have assured and equal access to information resources
     and the other benefits which will accrue from the National
     Information Infrastructure."

     Sprint, a premier provider of advanced technology data services,
     will initially provide a 45 mb high speed state wide area network,
     which will include 45 mb connectivity to the Internet,
     comprehensive management of the new NYSERNet network, and
     management of the NYSERNet affiliates TCP/IP based services onto
     that network and onto the Internet. Sprint will also provide
     communications and routing equipment. This network is expected to
     grow to gigabit speeds quickly in the next few years.

     "NYNEX is proud to be a part of this important partnership," said
     NYNEX State Group Vice President, Duane Albro. "NYSERNet is as
     critical to New York State as Internet is to the country," he
     added.  "In providing the backbone network, NYNEX continues to
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     The NYSERNet Plan will deliver in New York State the first
     production gigabit communication network in the U.S. It will be
     capable of providing high speed access at all the State's
     institutions of higher education, all of its 6,000 K-12 schools,
     its 7,000 libraries and museums, 500 health care institutions,
     1,500 municipal, county, state and federal agencies, and some
     15,000 commercial users who interact with these sectors.

     NYSERNet's new network will support all traditional Internet
     services as well as such new services as interactive 2-way video
     and teleconferencing and electronic commerce applications. It will
     enable a new generation of inexpensive distance learning,
     telemedicine and community network applications.

     "We anticipate a vast increase in Internet connections in New York
     State by the end of the century, bringing the number of New Yorkers
     with Internet access up to 10 million from the half million today,"
     said Dr.  Richard Mandelbaum, President of NYSERNet. "Our goal is
     to ensure access to the network and high quality service for all
     school children and their families, college students and faculty,
     health care practitioners and patients, and small and minority-
     owned businesses -- cheaply, easily and quickly."

     NYSERNet is the leading regional high-speed data network in the
     U.S.  NYSERNet connects New York State to the global community of
     computing resources known as the Internet.  it serves an affiliate
     base of over 400 organizations such as large research centers,
     hospitals, universities, colleges, public libraries, K-12 schools,
     museums, large corporations and small Business.

     NYSERNET FALL TRAINING CATALOG AVAILABLE

     NYSERNet, Inc. announces the availability of the NYSERNet Internet
     Training and Education Center -- NITEC -- Fall Training Catalog.
     Designed to operate year-round, NITEC offers a full schedule of
     seminars and workshops for beginning, intermediate, and advanced
     Internet users.  The Fall Catalog is now available.

     FALL SEMINAR SAMPLER

             For New Internet Users:
             -- Locating and Using Internet Information Resources
             -- Tourist UNIX
             -- We the People: Accessing Government Information
             -- Integrating the Internet into Your Curriculum






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             For More Advanced Users:
             -- Building an Internet Information Server: Gopher
             -- Building an Internet Information Server: WWW
             -- Conquering Client/Server Computing
             -- Understanding LANs and WANs

     FACILITIES IN SYRACUSE, NEW YORK The NITEC classroom is a state-of
     the-art facility that seats 24 students for lectures or smaller
     groups for hands-on training.  NITEC supports both Macintosh and
     DOS/Windows computers.  NITEC students work with the latest
     Internet client software and resources in an environment conducive
     to learning and retention. The center also provides technical
     training for systems administrators, primarily in UNIX.  NITEC has
     assembled a knowledgeable team of instructors and curriculum-
     specific consultants and educators.

     FOR A NITEC CATALOG

          U.S. MAIL
          Send your name, address and zip code to:
          NYSERNet/NITEC
          Suite 103, 200 Elwood Davis Road
          Liverpool, NY 13088-6147
          or request via E-Mail to training@nysernet.org.

          GOPHER (nysernet.org 70)
          /NYSERNet Internet Training & Education Center
            (NITEC)/Fall 1994

          Course Abstracts - NEW

          WORLD WIDE WEB
          http://nysernet.org/nitec.info/fall.94.html

     PROJECT GAIN REPORT

     NYSERNet is pleased to announce the availability of a new videotape
     about Project GAIN, which extended Internet access to five rural
     New York State public libraries and one Indian Nation school.

     Project GAIN (Global Access Information Network) asked what would
     happen if rural librarians were given access to the Internet, its
     tools, and training. Could they learn to use networked information
     resources effectively? Was there anything of value on the Net to
     improve the quality of service offered to rural patrons? And what
     resources did the rural areas have to offer back to the larger
     Internet community?




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     The video documents the project from the first training meetings to
     site visits at all the libraries. The style is perfect for
     workshops introducing the Internet to librarians, or for anyone
     wondering how rural areas might benefit from a community Internet
     connection.

     The printed Project GAIN Report, bundled with the video, outlines
     the lessons learned from connecting; details critical success
     factors contributing to the overall accomplishments of the project;
     and offers a number of recommendations for public librarians,
     network service providers, policy makers, and researchers.
     Appendices include evaluation instruments, contracts, success
     stories, and more.

     Phone orders will be accepted with credit card purchase.  More
     info: Call 315/453-2912, x221, or send email to info@nysernet.org.

     NEW AFFILIATES

     NYSERNet welcomes the following new leased-line affiliates for the
     month of August:

          - Pratt Institute
          - Western Suffolk BOCES
          - Monroe I BOCES.

     Terri Damon (tmdamon@nysernet.ORG)  NYERNET Inc,  315-453-2912 x225

PREPNET
-------

     PREPnet New Members
     ------------------

     - Office of Personnel Management, Boyer, PA - Fisher Scientific,
     Pittsburgh, PA

     With these additions, PREPnet now totals 190 members.

     PREPnet News
     ------------

     PREPnet' Network Engineer, Jon "Iain" Boone got married on August
     6.  Congratulations Jon!







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     Meetings & Conferences
     ----------------------

     PREPnet's Executive Director, Tom Bajzek, attended FARNET on August
     10-12.

     PREPnet's Annual Member Meeting will be on September, 21, 1994 in
     Pittsburgh.  The theme of this year's meeting is "The Internet in
     Transition."  Plenary speakers are scheduled for the morning and
     breakout and tutorials for the afternoon.  Topics to be covered
     include: Structural Changes in the NSFNET, Challenges in High-
     speed, Wide-area Networking, Business Applications, Libraries,
     Network Security, WWW and Mosaic Servers, Routing, and Managing
     Your Internet Connection.  For more information, please send e-mail
     to nic@prep.net or call 412-268-7870.

     For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth
     of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC:

     305 S. Craig St.            E-Mail:     nic@prep.net
     2nd Floor                   Telephone:  (412) 268-7870
     Pittsburgh, PA  15213

     PREPnet NIC (nic@prep.net)

UCL
----

     UCL CS hosts the ACM SIGCOMM Conference this month. Many ad hoc
     meetings about networking research happened around this.

     John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)



















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USER SERVICES REPORT
--------------------


                             Prague Trip Report
                           RARE ISUS Meetings and
                           INET94/JENC5 Conference
                             June 13 - 17, 1994
                              Joyce K. Reynolds
                     USC/Information Sciences Institute

RARE ISUS Meetings

   The RARE ISUS (Information Services and User Support) Working Group
   met before the INET94/JENC5 Conference in Prague, The Czech Republic.

1) Introductions

   Jill Foster introduced to the attendees the new ISUS WG Chair, David
   Hartland (University of Newcastle upon Tyne).  There was quite a
   large attendance at this meeting, with many new participants.  Jill
   had invited the attendees from ISOC's "Developing Networking
   Countries" Workshop the week before to attend ISUS.  There was
   discussion regarding the ISUS "Introductions" file.  ISUS meeting
   participants were requested to fill in the template about themselves
   and turn it in.

2) Minutes, Workplan, and Task Forces

   Minutes from the last ISUS meeting were reviewed.  Jill asked the
   attendees if anyone had any problems with the minutes of the
   Telematics group.  There were no objections.

   There is on-going work on setting up National ISUS WGs in parallel
   with the European group.  RTR1 (RARE Technical Report 1) is out of
   date and the ISUS needs to take a look at the document and provide
   new ideas and input for the revision.  This includes updating the
   document to include details about coordination of national entry
   points via the Eurogopher effort.

   The RARE ISUS workplan needs to be revised, as it is out of date.  It
   was decided to drop the ISO-SR (Search and Retrieval) program, due to
   no progress or interest.

3) Review of Liaison Groups

   Brief reviews were given by various representatives.  Jill lead the
   reviews with ISUS.  She reported that she had to step down as Chair



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   of the ISUS Group as she is now employed two days a week with RARE.
   There is a new policy within RARE that if you are paid by RARE, you
   cannot be a RARE WG Chair, as this would pose a conflict of interest.
   Hence, David Hartland has become the new ISUS WG Chair.

   Joyce Reynolds reported on the User Services Area (USV) efforts in
   the IETF.  Before traveling to Prague, she circulated her area report
   to the ISUS WG email list.  Due to time constraints, she gave a brief
   overview of the area.  The User Services Working Group (USWG) is the
   "umbrella" WG for the USV.  This group is the spawning ground for
   most of the working groups which are created within the area.  There
   are currently 11 working groups in the USV area.  Particular groups
   of interest to this audience include: Network Information Services
   Infrastructure (NISI), which is currently producing a NIC Guidelines
   Document, Network Training Materials (a joint RARE and IETF
   endeavor), Internet School Networking (ISN), User Documentation
   (UserDoc2), which is producing a short introductory bibliography of
   books about the Internet, Network Information Retrieval (NIR), a
   joint RARE and IETF endeavor, and Integrated Directory Services
   (IDS), which is a combined effort of the USV and Applications Area of
   the IETF.

   Joyce continued her report by describing the RFC (Request for
   Comments) series of notes of the Internet, and in particular, the FYI
   (For Your Information) subseries of RFCs.  FYIs are introductory and
   overview documents for network users.  Their purpose is to make
   available general information, rather than the protocol
   specifications or standards that is typical of other RFCs.  If there
   were any questions or if anyone wanted further information in more
   detail, Joyce mentioned that she would be happy to answer queries via
   email.

   Daniele Bovio was asked by Jill to report on EARN and EARNINFO, since
   David Sitman had not yet arrived to the meeting.  Daniele briefly
   discussed EARN's Network Services Conference (NSC) which is to be
   held this coming November in London.  Daniele punted the EARNINFO
   report to David to talk about later, when he arrives.

   Geza Turchanyi provided a brief report on RIPE and its Network
   Information Discovery for Users Support Working Group (NIDUS),
   chaired by Nandor Hovarth.  Unfortunately, the NIDUS group has not
   been very active.  The RIPE NCC currently has available Gopher, WWW,
   FTP, and WAIS services.  The WWW server locator is:
   http://www.ripe.net/

   Bert Stals gave a report on the Gopher Conference (Gophercon).  He
   opened his report by providing some Gopher history.  When it first
   started, there was a need for alternative information.  In 1993,



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   about one third of all Gophers were Gopher+ servers, globally.  A
   Z39.50 gateway is available.  The problems with Veronica are
   increasing.  Most complaints are about the bandwidth.  To date,
   Veronica has 6,900 Gopher servers, with 31 simultaneous sessions of
   Veronica available, with a two second response time.  Veronica is not
   scaling well.  Chris Weider mentioned that indexing of Gopher menu
   items will be in a future release of archie (gopher-
   index@bunyip.com).

   George Munroe reported on the WWW Conference.  Tim Berners-Lee is
   concerned about where WWW is going from where he originally intended
   it to be.  There is a need for better integration on desktop access.
   Tim mentioned that there is a need for a "Bill of Rights for the
   Network."  There needs to be a close relationship prevailing
   everywhere in industry and research.  There should be a consideration
   for social impacts and the need for on-going standardization.

   The RARE Document Store was reported by Tim Dixon.  RARE
   publications, WG documents and other miscellaneous pointers to RARE
   documents can be found on ftp.rare.nl, gopher.rare.nl, and
   www.rare.nl.  Tim suggested that David, Jill, and the ISUS group look
   at the RARE document server to see how to get more information out
   via this service.

Information Services

   Jill provided an introduction to the European Information Services
   which included Dante, the RARE server, the RIPE NCC, Eurogopher, and
   EARN.  There is a Dante proposal out, soliciting a new entry point
   for a Euroserver.  Josefien Bersee put out the proposal one week ago.
   Jill encouraged the ISUS attendees to read it, then introduced
   Josefien who presented a talk on the Dante proposal.

   The proposal reflected ideas on a provision of a Central Information
   Service for the European Research Community.  Dante is a not-for-
   profit entity via twelve countries with national networks.  This
   project used to be CONCISE.  They are investing in another service as
   funding will end this year.  The key requirements to this proposal
   include a collection of distributed information that is up-to-date,
   accurate, and complete as possible.  This will also include round the
   clock availability and support for information management.  The
   proposed information flow model intends to provide links to local
   information.  The use of WWW, Gopher and FTP is included.  The most
   important issue is the management of the information by building a
   management information base.

   Josefien expressed that the Dante proposal is not intending to take
   over other services, but to link with them (e.g., RARE, RIPE,



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   EARNINFO, etc.).  The promotion of the service is to attract new
   groups to contribute.

   The technical requirements include stable guidance services and
   making accessibility to end users as easy as possible.  There will be
   a Help Desk, and its function will be to perform support and
   information services to end user, new information providers, and
   documentation.  Staff running the Help Desk should speak more than
   one language.  In regards to Dante funding efforts, it should be
   self-supporting.  Funding should come from the customers, national
   networks, the CEC, and commercial providers.  Issues of Quality of
   Information and Quality of Service are big points.

   A lively discussion was held on Dante after Josefien's presentation.
   Comments included that "Quality Assurance" is becoming a very hot
   topic.  Eurogopher was brought up as a project that has already
   completed the efforts that are spelled out in the Dante proposal, and
   all done via volunteer work.  There was a concern with some ISUS
   members that Dante may be taken as opposition to the Eurogopher work,
   though this remains to be seen.  Anders Gillner commented that he
   does not see Dante as a threat.  The Eurogopher acts as one link, so
   there is no problem with other links.  The world will never be just
   one link.  There needs to be a spirit of cooperation and
   coordination.

Networked Information Retrieval (NIR)

   Jill provided a status report on NIR Tools and Groups.  She provided
   a history of this group as it was noted that two thirds of the
   attendees to ISUS at this session were new.  The NIR document has
   been assigned "RTR 13", and is on its way to the RFC Editor.  Note:
   since this meeting, this document has been published as an RFC:

      RFC 1689, RTR 13, FYI 25, "A Status Report on Networked
      Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups", August 1994.

   A discussion focussed on RTR 1.  This document is out of date and is
   over one year old.  Jill's intention in the next two to three months
   is to work on an update to this document.  There is a question about
   the use of Gopher and WWW, as some people don't have access.

   David Sitman arrived at the meeting and Jill asked if he had anything
   new to report about EARNINFO.  David replied he did not.

User Network Interface to Everything (UNITE)

   George Munroe gave a report on the UNITE group.  UNITE's concept is
   one of an interface to everything out on the network.  In October



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   1992, this effort was started and driven by Jill.  There is a UNITE
   overview, charter, and summary of activities.  One of the IETF
   groups, Integration of Internet Information Resources (IIIR), has a
   vision paper in development which includes UNITE.  How can UNITE be
   more effective?  Perhaps setting up a web would help.  There is a
   prototype that has been set up, and George would like input on it.
   Jill will put a pointer to the source in the ISUS minutes.  [From the
   26 July minutes filed to the ISUS WG list: (url:
   file://www.qub.ac.uk/UNITE/unite.html).]

   UNITE working with the IETF and other ISUS groups will continue.
   This work is of relevance to each person's own institution, and
   George feels that everyone should convince their employers of this.
   There are three key factors:

      1) Coordination
      2) Cooperation
      3) Consolidation

   George talked about the 4th Framework Initiative and envisioned a
   diagram or map a UNITE interface of how he perceives it today, as an
   "ideal" picture under the 4th Framework.  A system is being designed,
   not just a white pages service.  The UNITE interface needs much more
   definition.  There has been some discussion on the mailing list
   regarding opportunities for funding projects which would help develop
   and progress UNITE's endeavors and other ISUS task forces.  There has
   also been some commercial interest.


NSC Conference Program Committee Meeting, Monday, 6:30 pm

   Joyce Reynolds, as a member of the NSC94 (Network Services
   Conference) Program Committee, met with other committee members
   Monday evening, June 13.  The meeting included discussion on a
   potential keynote speaker, schedules, dates and deadlines for paper
   submissions, demos, and sessions to the conference.  Organization of
   tutorials, tracks and plenary sessions were also discussed.


INET94/JENC5 Conference

   INET'94, the Annual Conference of the Internet Society was held in
   conjunction with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5)
   Prague, Czech Republic, June 13-17, 1994.  It was jointly organized
   by The Internet Society (ISOC) and Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche
   Europeenne (RARE).

   Jill Foster, RARE, The Netherlands and Joyce Reynolds, ISI, USA, were



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   the User Support and Training Track Leaders.  There were six sessions
   developed for this particular track:

   1) Training for the Network Citizen - Chair: Peter Kemp,
      University of Glasgow, Scotland

      - EDUCATE - End-user Courses in Information Access through
        Communication Technology - Nancy Fjaellbrant, Sweden
      - Approaches to Network Training with Particular Reference
        to a Perceived Need for Self-Help Materials -
        Margaret Isaacs, UK
      - Network Training: Anywhere, Anytime, Anyplace? -
        Jodi-Ann Chu, USA

   2) Network Information: Tools and Access - Chair: David Sitman,
      EARN, France

      - Mosaic, WWW and Networked Multimedia as a Learning Tool -
        Michael Greenhalgh, Australia
      - Becoming an Information Provider on the WWW -
        Brian Kelly, UK
      - Wild Beasts and Unapproachable Bogs - Chris Weider, USA

   3) Electronic Documents - Chair: Maria Heijne,
      SURFnet BV, Netherlands

      - From Babel to Edil: The Evolution of a Standard -
        Andrew Braid, UK
      - Work in Progress:
            - ELDORADOC  - "The Promised Land of Gold?" -
              Robert Janz, The Netherlands
            - RED SAge - Czeslaw Jan Grycz, USA
            - Discussion

   4) Building and Supporting Electronic Communities -
      Chair: David Conrad, Asia Pacific Network Information Center,
      Japan

      - Rural Datafication: A Multiple-Network Collaboration to
        Extend the Internet to Underserved Communities -
        E. Michael Staman, John Hankins, Paul Holbrook and
        Rhana Jacot, USA
      - Building Electronic Communities: Implementing Electronic
        Communication within the European Law Students' Association
        (ELSA) - Christian B. Fulda, Switzerland
      - The Internet and Schools: A Survey of Networking Activities -
        Tracy LaQuey Parker, USA




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   5) Panel: Power to the User!  Enabling Users to Help Themselves
      Chair: Rolf Nordhagen, University of Oslo Information
      Technology Services, Norway

   To provide support for the increasing numbers of users on the network
   is a formidable task.  This session will be run as a panel discussion
   with expert panelists from around the world sharing their knowledge
   and experience.  Audience participation is highly encouraged.

   Panelists: Robert F. Janz, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
              David Hartland, NISP/Mailbase, Newcastle University, UK
              Anders Gillner, NORDUnet, The Royal Institute of
                              Technology, Sweden
              Joyce K. Reynolds, Information Sciences Institute, USA

   6) Issues in building the Virtual Library - Chair: Michael Breaks,
      Heriot-Watt University Library, UK

      - Internet Resource Guides: Stories for the Net -
        Louis B. Rosenfeld, USA
      - Commercial Services on the Infobahn - George Brett, USA
      - Electronic Journals: Transforming the Information Cycle? -
        Hans Roes, The Netherlands

User Help Thyself Panel - Rolf Nordhagen, Chair

Panelists:

Joyce K. Reynolds, Information Sciences Institute, USA

   Joyce was asked by Rolf to open the panel session in describing and
   updating the work that is going on in the IETF User Services Area and
   how this entity and the RARE ISUS WG assist in helping users.

   When the IETF was first established, it did not immediately create a
   distinct User Services Area.  As of 1991, this area has grown to take
   its place with other Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) areas
   as the importance of a user services forum has increased globally.

   1) ALL levels of "user" - novice, intermediate, advanced.

   2) People attend the INET/JENC conference to learn.  For example,
      teachers, trainers, and consultants, not only their students must
      learn about networking tools, documentation, and current protocol
      standards.

   3) This last Monday and Tuesday RARE's Information Services
      and User Support (ISUS) Group convened.  Their activities include:



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      Documentation, Training Materials, User Network to Everything
      (UNITE), Network information Retrieval, etc., to help the user.

   Joyce continued to describe the details of what the User Services
   Area of the IETF entails, including the FYI RFC series of notes.

Robert F. Janz, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

   Robert Janz displayed six bullets on the overhead projector and
   described what he felt was needed for the users to help themselves.
   One should not react after a user is in trouble, but before trouble
   happens.  Yet, what can one do?

      1) Prevent "after sales repair"
      2) Abolish paper documentation
      3) Get into specification phases
      4) Use network technology extensively
      5) NO support of the state of the art technology
      6) Encourage "electronic" work groups

David Hartland, NISP/Mailbase, Newcastle University, UK

   David Hartland responded to Robert's six bullets listed above.  He
   explained that he does not necessarily agree with Richard on all
   points.  There is the project he has been working on at Newcastle,
   which is the Mailbase User Support Project.  It has a very high level
   of support, but it's a small team effort.  David disagreed with
   Robert about he abolishment of paper documentation.  He stated that
   there should still be paper documentation, and his group will
   continue to do so.  There are no plans in the future to get rid of
   it.  "Physiotheraphysics" - still growing by leaps and bounds - needs
   help from the audience.

Anders Gillner, NORDUnet, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

   Anders discussed the issue of tools and the availability of global
   network documentation.  There should be the availability to look at
   documentation from all uses, either via the network or by hardcopy.
   Users are all academics.  They can read well.  Anders agreed on the
   panel's current view, which is to get people to use the network.
   There should be continued motivation to get them to do so.  In order
   to do this there we need to produce better tools.  We use robots to
   extend our muscles, networks should be able to help user's with
   shortcomings.







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   The term, "selective perception scanning" was discussed by Anders.
   He felt that selective perception scanning cannot be done in the
   information network.  There needs to be some sensitizing.  There is a
   need for cyberspace and virtual worlds, but also habituation and
   selective perception.  Self clustering documents are needed as well
   as programs for analyzing reasoning.  First, one has to get rid of
   the litter and tag the information.  None of the network tools
   currently have this.

Rolf Nordhagen - Opened discussion to audience participation.

   One member of the audience had a disagreement with no paper copies or
   virtual copies of documents.  He said think about the values of
   paper.  There is even legislation in the UK on how long a person
   should be sitting in front of the PC.  Another participant felt that
   paper documentation is not searchable and indexing confusing.  There
   are efforts to provide one page descriptions as a starter, but no
   bigger, and short and to the point.

   There was also discussion regarding Anders' thoughts on habituation.
   Habituation may not necessarily be textual.  It should be built into
   the program.  A book was cited by Edward Tufte on "Envisioning
   Information".  He is a professor at MIT.  The book describes
   presenting information and visualizing information.  It was suggested
   that the panelist and audience read this work.

   Another audience participant agreed regarding the progression and
   dissemination of information.  SGML, HTML are not page layout.  Not
   scrolling paradimes.  Everyone needs help, put a lot back into it,
   but also one need to put a lot back into it, too.  There also needs
   to be a change of user support of the tools that are being developed.
   There are Internationalization issues.  In many cases, English and
   computers are not users "first" languages.  There are wonderful
   resources out there.  Perhaps putting out single sheet A4 cards would
   be a first start.  Then, get the URLs together to access information.
   The Interpedia project was mentioned, which will turn the Internet
   into a global "encyclopedia".

   User groups have magnificent tools available, yet how do you make
   sure that this information is spread to all the Universities and all
   over the world?  Some of these tools are totally illegible to the end
   user.  Electronic mailing lists and mailing list groups are valuable.
   There needs to be a separation of the context and community which
   goes beyond the technical development.

   In the last part of the session, the audience discussed how to access
   training material, and what material is available.  Margaret Issacs
   is a person to talk to about training materials.  It was pointed out



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   that her materials are "just" in English, and not in other languages.
   There is a need to find out what other training materials are
   available in one's native language.

Network Information: Tools and Access - Chair: David Sitman, EARN,
France

Wild Beasts and Unapproachable Bogs - Chris Weider, USA

   In many aspects, the Internet is still in the Bronze Age.  We know
   it's here, somewhere.  Surveying tools:

   1)  Send it everywhere tools (email, usenet news).
       Send it everywhere tools have a hidden assumptions of immediate
       consumption.

   2)  Come and get it tools (used by most of the tools).
       Allows the information provider the video communications
       and is the closest to sent it everywhere.

   What are the implications?  The "send it everywhere tools" provide
   human to human communication.  The "come and get it tools" allow
   extensive logging, but means extra space and resources on the host
   machine.

   Balance and Symmetry

      There is no way to access data across a small pipe, because of
      bandwidth problems.  Chris encouraged the session attendees to
      think about cooperative local cache.  The technology to do this is
      probably a year off.  Is accessible to a big resource a right or a
      privilege?

   Building the Maps - Signposts and Markers

      There is a lot of building going on in the Internet Engineering
      Task Force (IETF) in working groups that are defining and
      specifying, URLs (Universal Resource Locators), URNs (Universal
      Resource Names), a set of coordinates, and URCs (Universal
      Resource Characters) a consistent set of descriptions.

   Supporting Diversity - Tying it all Together

      Chris feels that there are unapproachable bogs out there in which
      new tools are required.  All tools are all essentially the same as
      are the visual tools for navigation.  Revolution is needed.  Each
      user needs her own maps, not just following the information
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      URNs and URLs should support this, but this is not the whole
      solution.

   Navigation - What's That?

      There is a need for richer metainformation.  Many users can't
      play, as they don't' have bandwidth to do that.  Active Agents
      (Chris akined them to Armstrong or Cortez?).  There is a need for
      them, but we must be careful.

   Conclusions

      We are starting to map the net.  It will be a long process.  We
      need to make sure that everyone can organize the resources of the
      net to their liking.  Looking forward to: 2001 - The Internet
      Odyssey.



































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CALENDAR
--------

Last update 8/31/94

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:

               <meeting-planning@cnri.reston.va.us>

Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information
for the events listed below.

************************************************************************

1994
------------

Sep. 7-9          Windows Solutions               San Francisco, CA.
Sep. 12-14        19th RIPE Meeting               Lisbon, Portugal
Sep. 12-16        NetWorld+Interop                Atlanta, GA
Sep. 12-16        OIW
Sep. 13-16        Seybold                         San Francisco, CA
Sep. 14-16        4th Int'l CCHP                  Vienna, Austria
Sep. 26-28        2nd IWACA                       Heidelberg, Germany
Sep. 28           Intnt'l Computer Comm. & Ntwks  Bangkik, Thailand
Sep. 29-Oct. 1    NYSERNet Conference '94         Albany, NY
Sep. 29-Oct. 1    NATO Adv. Wkshp on Ntwking
                   in the NIS                     Moscow
Oct. 2-5          IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg    Minneapolis, MN
Oct. 4-6          IFIP TC6 SEACOMM'94, Conf on
                   South East Asia Communication  Kuala Lumpur, Malasia
Oct. 6-8          Parallel & Dist. Compt. Sys     Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 15-20        ACM Conference on Multimedia    San Francisco, CA
Oct. 16-20        ACM SIGUCCS
Oct. 24-28        NetWorld+Interop '94            Paris, France
October/November  Windows Solutions               Germany
Oct. 31-Nov. 1    1st Intntl ACM/SIGCAPH Conf.
                   Assistive Technolgies (ASSETS) Marina del Rey, CA
Oct. 31-Nov. 3    EDUCOM
Nov. 2-4          Gigabit Testbed Jamboree        Reston, VA
Nov. 2-4          ACM Conf. of Computer and Comm  Fairfax, VA
                        Security
Nov. 7-11         IEEE P802.11 Plenary            Incline Village, NV
Nov. 8-11         German Soc. of Internet Users   Munich
Nov. 11-14        ICCCN '94                       San Francisco, CA



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Nov. 14-15        CEC Cist 237 M-media            Vienna, Austria
Nov. 14-18        Supercomputing '94              Washington, DC
Nov. 14-18        USENIX/ACM SIGOPS               Monterey, CA
Nov. 15-16        CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conf.          Brussels
Nov. 18-29        Nerdathon '94 - Windows into
                   the Internet                   Lake Tahoe
Nov. 28-30        Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94)       London, UK
Nov. 28-Dec. 2    Email World                     Boston, MA
Nov. 29-Dec. 2    ATM Forum                       Kyoto, Japan
Nov. 29-Dec. 2    Cause
Dec. 1-2          RARE Working Groups             London, UK
Dec. 5-7          Australian Telecom Networks and
                   Applications Conf. ATNAC 94    Melbourne, AU
Dec. 5-9          31st IETF (Definite)            San Jose, CA
Dec. 5-9          ANSI X3T11
Dec. 5-9          10th Comp. Sec. Applications    Orlando, FL
Dec. 7-9          Windows Solutions               Tokyo, JP
Dec. 7-9          IEEE R/T Systems Symposium      San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dec. 12-16        OIW
Dec. 30-Jan. 2    IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks '94   Madras, India

1995
---------
Jan. 16-20        USENIX                          New Orleans, LA
Feb. 16-17        ISOC Symposium on Ntwk &
                   Distribruted System Security   San Diego, CA
Feb. 20-24        UniForum                        Dallas CC, Dallas, TX
Feb. 26-Mar. 3    SHARE (IBM)                     Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 6-10         IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
Mar. 13-17        OIW
Mar. 13-17        Email World (confirmed)         Santa Clara, CA
Mar. 13-24        ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6                Tokyo, JP
Mar. 16-19        3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems
                   Modelling & Analysis           Nashville, TN
Mar. 27-31        NetWorld+Interop                Las Vegas, NV
Apr. 3-7          IEEE Infocom                    Boston, MA
Apr. 3-7          32nd IETF (Definite)
Apr. 19-21        5th Network & Operating System
                   Support (NOSSADV) Workshop     Boston, MA
Apr. 24-25        IFIP Workshop on Personal
                   Wireless Communications        Prague, Czech Republic
May 15-19         Joint European Ntwkg Conf.      Tel Aviv, Israel
May 18-19         RARE Council of Admin.          Tel Aviv, Israel
Jun.              ISO/IEC JTC 1SC 21
                    WGs and Plenary (tentative)   Turkey
Jun.              ISOC Wkshop for Tech.
                   Emerging Countries
Jun. 12-16        INET '95 (tentative)            Singapore



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Jun. 12-16        OIW
Jun.              INET95
Jul. 4            Independence Day
Jul. 10-14        IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
JULY 14           BASTILLE DAY
Jul. 17-21        33rd IETF (Tentative)             Sweden
Jul. 17-21        NetWorld+Interop                  Tokyo, JP
Sep. 11-15        OIW
Oct. 3-11         Telecom '95                     Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 9-13         Email World                     San Jose, CA
                  (likely to be replaced by Nov. 27-Dec. 1 dates)
Nov. 6-10         IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative)
Nov. 13-17        34th IETF (Tentative)
Nov. 27-Dec. 1    Email World (Probable)          Boston, MA
Dec. 4-8          OIW
Dec. 4-8          34th IETF (Tentative)
Dec. 4-8          ANSI X3T11 (Possible)           San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8          Supercomputing '95 (Possible)   San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8          10th Comp. Sec. Applications (Tentative)


1996
-----------
Mar. 11-14        UniForum                        San Francisco, CA
Mar. 18-22        OIW
May               ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21
                   WGs and Plenary (tentative)    Kansas City, US
Jun. 10-14        OIW
Sep. 2-6          14th IFIP Conf.                 Canberra, AU
Sep. 9-13         OIW
Dec. 9-13         OIW

1997
-----------
Mar. 10-13        UniForum                        San Francisco, CA

1998
-----------
Aug. 23-29        15th IFIP World Comp. Conf.     Vienna, Austria and
                                                  Budapest, Hungary

---------
Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories
Via gopher: "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings /
            Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us

=================================================================




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RARE LIST OF MEETINGS

Ref. RSec(94)001-ac                              September 1994

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 RARE Secretariat. If you have
additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet (e.mail
address: cozanet@rare.nl).

**********************************************************************

MEETING/DATE                   LOCATION
============                   ========

RARE Executive Committee
------------------------

RARE Council of Administration
------------------------------
20/21 October 1994             Amsterdam

NewOrg General Assembly
-----------------------
GA1
20/21 October 1994             Amsterdam
GA2
18/19 May 1995                 Tel Aviv

UPTURN BoF
----------
27 October                     Interop, Paris
(from 18.30 till 20.30 hrs)

4th Framework & Telematics for Research
---------------------------------------
30 November (afternoon)        London

RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors
---------------------------------------

RARE Working Groups
-------------------

MHS Managers
20-21 October                  Zurich





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WG-ISUS
1/2 December                   London
WG-LLT
1 December (morning)           London
WG-NOP
1 December (morning)           London


RIPE
----
12-14 September                Lisboa


RIPE NCC Contributors Committee
-------------------------------
21 September                   RARE/Amsterdam


VARIOUS
-------

EuroCAIRN
3/4 October                    Vienna

EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM
12 September                   Lisboa

EBONE
Consortium of Contributing Organisations
02 November                    Munich

EBONE Management Committee
06 September                   Copenhagen

EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
10 October                     Paris

EARN
Board of Directors
30 November - 1 December       London

DANTE Board of Directors
19 September                   Utrecht

DANTE Shareholders
20 September                   Utrecht





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Euro-CCIRN

CCIRN
16/17 June 1995                Singapore

INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
15/16 December                 Washington DC

IETF
5-9 December                   San Jose, California
3-7 April 1995                 Danvers, Massachusetts
Summer 1995                    Stockholm, Sweden

EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
13-14 September                Brussels
22-23 November                 Brussels

Steering Committee
27 September                   Brussels
6 December                     Brussels

Workshops
10-14 October                  Brussels


ETSI
----
General Assembly
22/23 November                 Nice, France

Technical Assembly
18-20 October                  Nice, France

*******************************************************************
JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference
15-18 May 1995     in Tel Aviv, Israel

To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message
to <jenc6-request@rare.nl>.

For information, email <jenc6-sec@rare.nl>.
To submit a paper, email <jenc6-submit@rare.nl>

*******************************************************************





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OTHER CONFERENCES

(nb. For some of the following events, full text information is
available from the RARE Document Store under the directory calendar,
in which case the file name is specified under the information
presented below. The files may be retrieved via:

anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl
Email:         server@rare.nl
Gopher:        gopher.rare.nl)

SIXTH UNICODE IMPLEMENTERS' WORKSHOP
------------------------------------
8/9 September 1994
at Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, California
information from: <workshop@unicode.org>

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
(ICCCN'94)
from 11-14 September 1994, San Fransisco, U.S.A.
Conference Chairman: Prof. T. Suda <suda@ics.uci.edu>

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY & APPLICATIONS
--------------------------------------------------------------
28 September 1994
at Asia Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
(limited budget to pay for local expenses of all international
speakers, ie. local transportation, hotel, meals...)  information from
Srisakdi Charmonman, email <charm@abac.au.ac.th>

NATO ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON NETWORKING IN THE NIS
-----------------------------------------------
"Establishing a cooperative framework for networking in
Russia and her neighbourhing states"
29 September until 1 October 1994
In Moscow, Russian Federation
CLOSED - BY INVITATION ONLY

OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.)
---------------------------------------------------------
from 8-11 November in Goettingen (Park Hotel Ropeter)
For further information contact the DIGI board via email:
<vorstand@digi.de>







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CEN/CENELEC/ETSI CONFERENCE 1994
--------------------------------
on 15 and 16 November 1994
in the European Parliament, Brussels.
Information from Kristien Van Ingelgem, fax.+32 2 519 6819

ICT STANDARDIZATION POLICY WORKSHOP 1994
----------------------------------------
28, 29 and 30 November 1994
Chateau du Lac, Genval, Belgium
organised by the European Commission with logistic
support from EWOS.
For information, email <ewos@spl.y-net.be>

NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94
------------------------------
from 28 to 30 November 1994
in London (UK)
For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via
email: <A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet>;
Paper submissions to: <NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET>

EMAIL WORLD
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The Mail Enabled Technologies Conference
from 29 November to 1 December 1994
Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA, USA
For further information, email <expo@dic-inc.com>
Tel. +1 508 470 3880; Fax. +1 508 470 0526

WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR
INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY
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on 1 and 2 December 1994
in Luxembourg.
Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII,
EFTA and STRI.
Registrations before 30 September 1994
For information, email <tobbi@iti.is>

IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING
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from 5 till 11 February 1995
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA
-> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video
Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995
Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445




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INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEM SECURITY
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16-17 February 1995
Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California USA
Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 1995.
For further information, email David Balenson
<balenson@tis.com>

EEMA MEETINGS
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Autumn Conference
14-16 September         Madrid

Winter Conference
15-17 November          Luxembourg


































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