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February 1994
INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
------------------------
The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research
Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by
the participating organizations.
This report is for Internet information purposes only, and is not
to be quoted in other publications without permission from the
submitter.
Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first
business day of the month describing the previous month's activities.
These reports should be submitted via network mail to:
Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU)
NSF Regional reports - To obtain the procedure describing how to
submit information for the Internet Monthly Report, send an email
message to mailserv@is.internic.net and put "send imr-procedure" in
the body of the message (add only that one line; do not put a
signature).
Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list
should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu".
Details on obtaining the current IMR, or back issues, via FTP or
EMAIL may be obtained by sending an EMAIL message to "rfc-
info@ISI.EDU" with the message body "help: ways_to_get_imrs". For
example:
To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU
Subject: getting imrs
help: ways_to_get_imrs
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 8
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
CSUNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
JVNCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24
MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26
MRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26
NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
RARE SECRETARIAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34
CALENDAR OF EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
IETF Monthly Report for February, 1994
1. Let me remind everyone that the next IETF meeting will be held
in Seattle, Washington from March 29 through April 1, 1994. This
meeting is being hosted by NorthWestNet.
Following the March 1994 meeting, the IETF will be meeting in
Toronto July 25-29. The third meeting of the year will be in the
San Francisco Bay Area. Arrangements are still underway, but it
looks like the meeting will be the first week of December. Once
the final arrangements have been made, notifications will be
sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information
on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg-
sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories.
2. The IESG approved or recommended the following two Protocol
Actions during the month of February, 1994:
o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface
Type as a Proposed Standard.
o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service as a
Proposed Standard.
3. The IESG issued seven Last Calls to the IETF during the month
of February, 1994:
o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs
<draft-ietf-snanau-snamib-03> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet
<draft-ietf-osinsap-allocation-01> for consideration as a
Draft Standard.
o TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-luname-print-02> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o DNS Support for IDPR <draft-ietf-dns-idpr-02> for
consideration as a Proposed Standard.
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o MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME
<draft-faltstrom-macmime1-01> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o MIME Content Type for BinHex encoded files
<draft-faltstrom-macmime2-00> for consideration as an
Informational document.
o UPS Management Information Base <draft-ietf-upsmib-05> for
consideration as a Proposed Standard.
4. Three Working Groups were created during this period:
Notifications and Acknowledgements Requirements (notary)
Simple Internet Protocol Plus (sipp)
Common Architecture for Next-Generation IP (catnip)
Note that sipp is actually the consolidation of SIP and PIP, and
that CATNIP is a revamp of TPIX (with a new charter and
milestones).
Additionally, one Working Groups was concluded:
Network Printing Protocol (npp)
5. A total of 49 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month
of February, 1994:
(Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) )
(bgp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth
Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4)
<draft-ietf-bgp-mibv4-05.txt>
(ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-ospf-mib-02.txt>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): Translation of Internet MIBs to ISO/CCITT
GDMO MIBs (IIMCIMIBTRANS)
<draft-labarre-internetmib-iso-04.txt, .ps>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): Translation of ISO/CCITT GDMO MIBs to
Internet MIBs (IIMCOMIBTRANS)
<draft-newnan-isomib-internet-03.txt, .ps>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): ISO/CCITT to Internet Management Security
(IIMCSEC) <draft-labarre-iimc-party-04.txt, .ps>
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(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): Translation of Internet MIB-II (RFC1213) to
ISO/CCITT GDMO MIB (IIMCMIB-II)
<draft-labarre-iimc-mibii-04.txt, .ps>
(none) o ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence
(IIMC): ISO/CCITT to Internet Management Proxy
(IIMCPROXY) <draft-chang-iimc-proxy-04.txt, .ps>
(appleip) o AppleTalk Management Information Base II
<draft-ietf-appleip-mib2-02.txt>
(atm) o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5
<draft-ietf-atm-mtu-07.txt>
(iafa) o How to Use Anonymous FTP
<draft-ietf-iafa-howftp-01.txt>
(frnetmib) o Service Management Architecture for Virtual
Connection Services
<draft-ietf-frnetmib-virtual-sma-02.txt>
(none) o Characters and character sets for various languages
<draft-alvestrand-lang-char-01.txt>
(pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-for-bridging-03.txt>
(tn3270e) o TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-luname-print-02.txt>
(upsmib) o UPS Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-upsmib-05.txt>
(snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs
<draft-ietf-snanau-snamib-03.txt>
(pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP)
<draft-ietf-pppext-netbios-fcp-04.txt>
(ids) o A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
<draft-ietf-ids-catalog-01.txt>
(none) o MIME Content-types for SGML Documents
<draft-levinson-sgml-01.txt>
(ifmib) o Management Information Base for Management of
Network Connections
<draft-ietf-ifmib-conntable-01.txt>
(none) o MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME
<draft-faltstrom-macmime1-01.txt, .ps>
(none) o Introduction to White Pages services based on X.500
<draft-rare-nap-x500intro-01.txt>
(sipp) o Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP): Routing and
Addressing <draft-ietf-sip-routing-addr-01.txt>
(none) + Internet Multilingual Text Encoding: ISO-2022-INT-*
<draft-ohta-text-encoding-00.txt>
(none) + Instructions to RFC Translators
<draft-ohta-translation-instr-00.txt>
(rmonmib) + Remote Network Monitoring Management Information
Base <draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonmib-00.txt>
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(iab) + Coordinated Response to Draft FIRP Report
<draft-iab-firp-letter-00.txt>
(none) + MIME charset names for ISO 10646
<draft-ohta-mime-charset-names-00.txt>
(ifmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces
<draft-ietf-ifmib-sipmib-00.txt>
(imap) + INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4
<draft-ietf-imap-imap4-00.txt>
(sip) + SIPP Extensions to BOOTP/DHCP
<draft-ietf-sip-dhcpext-00.txt>
(pppext) + PPP Option for Data Encapsulation Selection
<draft-ietf-pppext-dataencap-00.txt>
(rdbmsmib) + RDBMS-MIB <draft-ietf-rdbmsmib-mib-00.txt>
(none) + Using Unicode with MIME
<draft-goldsmith-mime-unicode-00.txt, .ps>
(ifmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like
Interface Types <draft-ietf-ifmib-types-00.txt>
(none) + A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode
<draft-goldsmith-mime-utf7-00.txt, .ps>
(none) + The Internet Mobile Host Protocol (IMHP)
<draft-johnson-imhp-00.txt>
(uswg) + FYI on Questions and Answer Answers to Commonly
asked "New Internet User" Questions
<draft-ietf-uswg-fyi4-00.txt>
(ospf) o IP Forwarding Table MIB
<draft-ietf-ospf-cidr-route-mib-01.txt>
(sip) + OSPF for SIPP <draft-ietf-sip-ospf-00.txt>
(none) + Loose Source Routing for Mobile Hosts
<draft-rekhter-lsr-mobile-hosts-00.txt>
(none) + Support for Mobility with Connectionless Network
Layer Protocols (Transport Layer Transparency)
<draft-perkins-cnlp-support-00.txt>
(none) + Intra-AS Route Server
<draft-haskin-intra-route-server-00.txt>
(sipp) + Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) Specification
<draft-ietf-sipp-spec-00.txt>
(dnssec) + Domain Name System Protocol Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-dnssec-secext-00.txt>
(charmib) + Character MIB <draft-ietf-charmib-mib-00.txt>
(charmib) + RS-232-like MIB
<draft-ietf-charmib-rs232-mib-00.txt>
(charmib) + Parallel-printer-like MIB
<draft-ietf-charmib-ppl-mib-00.txt>
(isn) + K-12 Internetworking Guidelines
<draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide-00.txt>
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6. There were 7 RFC's published during the month of February, 1994:
RFC St WG Title
------- -- -------- -------------------------------------
RFC1574 I (noop) Essential Tools for the OSI Internet
RFC1575 DS (noop) An Echo Function for CLNP (ISO 8473)
RFC1578 I (isn) FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to
Commonly Asked "Primary and Secondary
School Internet User" Questions
RFC1579 I (none) Firewall-Friendly FTP
RFC1581 I (none) Protocol Analysis for Extensions to RIP
to Support Demand Circuits
RFC1582 PS (none) Extensions to RIP to Support Demand
Circuits
RFC1588 I (none) WHITE PAGES MEETING REPORT
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
======================
All ANSnet unix-based routers were upgraded to support gated
software, which supports BGP4/CIDR. The older rcp_routed software
has been completely phased out of the ANSnet. Configurations that
support CIDR aggregation will be deployed in March.
February Backbone Traffic Statistics
====================================
The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP
interface counters) was 48,359,374,681 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up
5.6% from January. The total packet count into the network
including all ENSS serial interfaces was 56,238,624,890 up 4.46%
from January.
Router Forwarding Table Statistics
==================================
The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during
February was 17,713 up 8.8% from January. The number of network
destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but were
never announced (silent nets) during February was 6,419.
Gated/BGP4 Deployment Complete
==============================
On February 27th, we completed the deployment of gated software on
all ANSnet AS690 routers. The AS690 system is now CIDR capable.
All routers are running IBGP4 internally, and we are peering
externally via BGP (using version negotiation for versions 2,3,4)
and EGP. The peer providers that we are exchanging BGP4 routes
with include:
AlterNet (AS701)
BARRNet (AS200)
CERFNet (AS1740, AS1838)
COREN (AS2882)
Dante (AS1133, AS1674)
ESNet (AS293)
ICMNet (AS1240, AS1800)
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NASA (AS297, AS372)
NEARNet (AS560)
OARNet (AS600)
SESQUINet (AS114)
SURANet (AS86)
Because the AS690 configuration for all CIDR aggregates has not yet
been completed, we have left AS690 pointing default to AS1133. The
AS690 default route will be removed when all CIDR routes (for which
class-based routes are not being announced) have been configured.
We are working on a tool that would allow us to monitor which more
specific class-based routes (that are represented by announced
aggregates) are getting withdrawn on a weekly basis. We hope this
will allow us to debug any connectivity problems that are reported,
which may be correlated to CIDR transition.
There are a number of planned enhancements to gated that we will be
deploying over the next few weeks including (a) support for FDDI
broadcast media that interconnect CNSS routers, (b) reduction of
the IBGP4 internal mesh from 92->60 (approximately), (c) reduction
in gated memory utilization, (d) enhanced support for gated policy.
Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes
===================================
As of February 27th, Rcp_routed software has been replaced by
gated. Many thanks are owed to Curtis Villamizar, Steve Heimlich,
and Yakov Rekhter for their work on rcp_routed over the years.
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. February stability
was down from the prior month due to gated routing software
deployment:
MONTH overall excluding configs
------ ------- -----------------
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%
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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
January 98.7% N/A
February 96.56 N/A
This histogram of overall stability recorded by each node over the
last 12 months is as follows:
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
Stability figures for the 2nd half of February are incomplete due
the rcp_routed transition to gated software, and will be updated in
March to support gated logging information.
External route flap measured by ANSnet routers increased in
February. This is most likely secondary flapping resulting from
route flaps caused by the ANSnet gated deployment. The measurement
method is described in:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/ExternalRouteFlapReports
This report measures overall Internet stability associated with the
number of times networks are announced as unreachable. The
following represents the monthly totals in terms of number of
networks declared unreachable per hour during the last 12 months.
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January 844
February 876
March 1104
April 1038
May 1134
June 1560
July 1815
August 1874
September 2395
October 2272
November 2321
December 2008
January 2414
February 3605
Plots of the internal routing stability, external peer session
stability and external route flap are available as the files:
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/internal.ps
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/external.ps
ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/flap.ps
External Internet route flapping increased to a new monthly high in
February. Three destinations were announced as unreachable over
5,000 times (1 US). Another 8 destinations were announced as
unreachable over 1,000 times (4 US). Another 179 destinations were
announced as unreachable over 500 times (72 US). Another 1045
destinations were announced as unreachable 100 times or more (250
US). 1917 destinations were announced as unreachable 50 time (302
US) and 12,872 destinations were announced as unreachable 1 to 50
times (8,313 US). On average 2414 destinations were withdrawn per
hour over the course of the month.
Number of times each destination is declared unreachable
January:
>=5000 >=1000 >=500 >=100 >=50 <50
3 8 179 1,045 1,917 12,872 total
1 4 72 250 302 8,313 US
2 4 107 795 1,615 4,559 non-US
February:
>=5000 >=1000 >=500 >=100 >=50 <50
0 15 118 3,512 1,694 10,751 total
0 2 17 220 823 7,896 US
0 1 101 3,292 871 2,855 non-US
The external route flap reports will be temporarily unavailable
until the reports can be adapted to use gated log files.
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Notable Outages in February '94
===============================
E131 (Ann Arbor) suffered an extended outage due to a fiber cut on
02/02. The 02/02 fiber cut was caused by contractor digging and
affected 92 DS3's. The outage lasted from 10:05 to 21:13 EST for a
total of 11 hours and 8 minutes downtime. While the Network
Operations Center in Ann Arbor was isolated from the national
network, network monitoring continued from the ANS backup NOC in
Elmsford. The Ann Arbor NOC accessed these monitoring tools via
dialup connections. There was some blockage of calls to the 1-800
number due to reduced capacity into the area.
Jordan Becker, <becker@ans.net>
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
----------------------------
Defense Simulation Internet
===========================
DSI Network Upgrade
===================
In February, the DSI backbone bandwidth was increased to an
effective throughput rate of 2.6 Mbit/s.
New ST-II Protocol Software Deployed
====================================
All sites now have the new ST-II version 2.0 protocol software.
Among other capabilities, version 2.0 provides a new interface
(designated E3I) for connecting a secure gateway to the Network
Encryption System (NES). Version 2.0 also has a new commands
interface and a new file-compression utility.
Scalability
Under its Defense Simulation Internet (DSI) Engineering contract
from ARPA (ASTO), BBN is tasked to study the issue of "scalability"
from the perspective of network performance and functionality. The
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) user community has
ambitious goals for dramatically increasing the scale of simulated
war-fighting exercises. While the largest exercises to date have
involved less than 1000 "entities" (tanks, planes, ships, etc.),
planned future exercises may involve as many as 100,000. Moreover,
the average size of updates exchanged among simulated entities has
grown with the development of the DIS messaging standard. Cost
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constraints preclude solving this problem by order-of-magnitude
increases in network bandwidth. Instead, it is more likely that
changes to both the DIS applications and the technological basis of
supporting network(s) will be necessary to accommodate this growth.
During February, work continued on two subtasks. The first task
involves characterization of DIS network traffic and DSI
performance. Statistics collected during demonstrations at
November's Industry/Interservice Training, Simulation and Education
Conference (I/ITSEC) and during the first of several Synthetic
Theater of War (STOW) Engineering Demonstrations are being
analyzed. One component of the collected data consists of actual
packet traces collected using the utility 'tcpdump'. This month,
we completed a program that fully parses simulation updates of both
the Simnet protocol and the DIS protocol (an IEEE standard). This
program was then applied to the traces in order to correlate
traffic statistics, such as delay, throughput and packet size, with
simulation entities. This level of detail is of value in
predicting the traffic loads of future exercises. Since one host
can typically generate as many as 50-60 entities, and since update
frequencies vary with the virtual activity of an exercise, it is
not enough to observe traffic at the host level.
The second task consists of further development of the DSI network
simulator. This tool, part of the Scalability Toolset, is being
equipped with a graphical user interface for easy editing and
configuration of the topology of the modeled network. This month,
work focused on fixing bugs and enhancing the cosmetic features of
the display. We also provided support to Lincoln Laboratory in
their porting of the Network Simulator to the SGI workstation in
preparation for further distribution of the Scalability Toolset to
other members of the DIS research community. (BBN's version runs
on a Sun SPARC-2.)
Point of Contact: Josh Seeger (jseeger@bbn.com)
CSUNET
------
CSUnet was awarded a Pacific Bell CALREN grant to perform Masters
of Library Information Sciences courses over ATM at 2 and 8 Mb/sec
JPEG video between four sites (two in Northern and two in Southern
California).
Meanwhile in the K12 and CC connectivity arena, CSUnet continues to
show its support for the educators by rolling out a new Frame Relay
service initially in LATAs 1, 4, and 5 using GTE and Pacific Bell's
Frame Relay networks. CSUnet is GTE's first Frame Relay customer
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in California.
New K12 and CC subscribers this month include: Compton Community
College, State Center Community College District (Fresno), San Luis
Obispo County Office of Education, and Desert Sands Unified School
District (Palm Springs area).
Mike Marcinkevicz <mdm@CSU.net>
INTERNIC
--------
INFORMATION SERVICES
Contact Information:
Reference Desk Information
Toll-free hotline +1 800 444-4345
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@is.internic.net
InterNIC Seminar Series
seminars@internic.net or +1 800 444-4345
Listserv lists
net-happenings listserv@internic.net
net-resources listserv@is.internic.net
nics listserv@is.internic.net
InfoGuide
Host Name is.internic.net
Host Address 192.153.156.15
Postal address
InterNIC Information Services
General Atomics
P.O. BOX 85608
San Diego, CA 92186-9784
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TRAINING RESIDENTS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
The InterNIC Seminar Series
----------------------------------------
The InterNIC Seminar Series continued its run on February 18, 1994,
at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Featuring the seminar
"Using Network Tools Effectively," over 50 new and experienced
InterNauts learned the use of FTP, telnet, WorldWideWeb, gopher,
archie, X.500, Whois++, and NCSA Mosaic. Seminar highlights
included demonstrations of network tools and pointers to valuable
resources on the Internet.
InterNIC Information Services (InterNIC IS) is proud to offer
instructors who are true pioneers in Internet applications. Of
note: Paul Mockapetris, Information Science Institute, the original
architect of the Domain Name System; Peter Deutsch and Alan
Emtage, Bunyip Information Systems, Inc., creators of archie, the
Internet directory service; Chris Weider, Bunyip Information
Systems, Inc., one of the primary developers of the Whois++
directory services protocol; Yvonne Andres and Al Rogers, Global
Schoolnet Foundation, pioneers in exploring how the Internet can
change traditional education in our schools; and Susan Calcari,
InterNIC IS, the original Info Scout.
Future seminars are scheduled in various locations around the 'Net,
including Washington DC, Chicago, IL, Portland, OR, St. Louis, MO,
and Tempe, AZ. InterNIC IS would like to make these seminars
available to the widest possible audience throughout the country
and around the world. Therefore, we offer these seminars in
cooperation with network information centers (NICs) at campuses,
government agencies, corporations and network service providers.
Please contact us if you are interested in hosting a seminar at
your location.
Below is the Seminar Series Calendar for April and May:
Date: April 4, 1994
Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively
Instructor: Alan Emtage, Bunyip
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: April 6, 1994
Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively
Instructor: Alan Emtage, Bunyip
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Date: April 12, 1994, morning
Seminars: Hello Internet: Tools for the Classroom
Instructor: Yvonne Andres, Global SchoolNet Foundation
Location: San Diego, California
Date: April 12, 1994, afternoon
Seminar: Making and Managing Global Learning Projects
Instructor: Al Rogers, Global SchoolNet Foundation
Location: San Diego, California
Date: April 14, 1994
Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively
Instructor: Alan Emtage, Bunyip
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Host: ASPIN
Date: April 21-22, 1994
Seminar: Internet Naming and Directory Services
Instructor: Paul Mockapetris, ISI
Location: San Francisco, California
Date: April 29, 1994
Seminar: Using Network Tools Effectively
Instructor: Chris Weider, Bunyip
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Host: NetIllinois and CICNet
Date: May 22, 1994
Seminar: Building an Electronic Network Information Center
Instructor: Peter Deutsch, Bunyip
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Host: MIDNET
For more information or an electronic registration form, contact the
addresses below:
email: seminars@internic.net
gopher: is.internic.net
FTP: is.internic.net
phone: 619-455-4600 or 800-444-4345
NSF Network News
----------------
The _NSF Network News_, on hiatus since December, has resumed
preproduction with Vol. 1, No. 1 (March/April 1994). Articles in
this upcoming issue include a feature article on the Global
Schoolhouse Project, a news brief on the NSFNET architecture rebid
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results, an update on the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center,
a first peek at the creation of InterNIC Information Services' new
InfoGuide, and much, much more. To subscribe, send email to
newsletter-request@internic.net,and it will be delivered to you by
email. Be sure to include your postal address if you want
hardcopy.
Due to the rise in printing costs and other technical difficulties,
the 6-page fold-out map of U.S. Internet Connectivity sites in its
present form will no longer be part of the newsletter. In the past,
regional and midlevel networks contributed statistics on the number
and identity of their connections and customers, as well as the
number of dialup customers for inclusion in the Map. We appreciate
all of the NICs and service providers who contacted us with
statistics for inclusion in the Map and sincerely apologize for any
inconvenience it may have caused.
Beginning with the March/April 1994 issue, the _NSF Network News_
will feature a variety of maps from different sources which are
better able to chronicle the growth of the NSFNET and Internet
community.
Reference Desk
--------------
The number of open records (contacts awaiting attention) closed by
Reference Desk staff was almost double the number closed in January
due to new staff hirings. The backlog of open records was reduced
from 2,560 to 229 in the same period. The following table gives a
summary of the Reference Desk contacts for February:
Method Contacts % of Total
------- -------- ---------
Email 543 12.7
Phone 3231 75.4
Fax 471 11.0
US Mail 21 <1
Other 18 <1
------- -------- ---------
Total 4284 100
by Karen D. Frazer <kfrazer@is.internic.net>
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DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES
InterNIC Directory and Database Services operates a number of
servers that are available to anyone on the Internet with the
appropriate client software. One example is our WAIS server, which
supports a number of databases. Currently, the set of databases is
as follows:
conf.announce A database of conferences and seminars that are
announced on the Internet.
ddbs-info Information about InterNIC services.
dirofdirs InterNIC Directory of Directories - information
about resources on the Internet.
fyis RFCs that are informational in nature.
iesg IESG information, working group charters, and
meeting minutes.
ietf IETF information, meeting announcements, working
group charters and minutes.
internet-drafts IETF Internet Draft Documents.
isoc Internet Society Documents.
netpolicy Network Policies and Procedures documents from a
variety of networks and institutions.
nsf Documents from the NSF and from NSF-supported
events.
people Non-point-of-contact, non-military entries from
the old DDN NIC WHOIS database.
rfcs Request For Comments documents - INTERNET
standards and information.
stds The subset of all the RFCs that have been
designated standards by the IETF.
the-scientist THE SCIENTIST - A biweekly newspaper for research
scientists, and managers in industry, academia,
and government. Focuses on life sciences and
biotechology.
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tutorial Tutorial information for the InterNIC Directory
and Database Services WAIS client.
Our WAIS server is available on the standard WAIS port (port 210)
on our server, ds.internic.net. If you do not have a WAIS client,
you can telnet to our server, login as "wais" (no password
required), and use our client.
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
Significant Events
---------------------
InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 14,754 network
addresses and registered 826 new top- and second-level domains. A
top-level domain for Algeria, DZ, was registered and applications
from Bahrain, Belarus, and Iran were also received. A number of
service providers have begun implementing inverse addressing on
their existing CIDR blocks. Registration Services is working with
each of these providers in transistioning inverse addressing so no
customers are inconvenienced.
Registration Statistics for February
Hostmaster Email 3,246
Postal/Fax Applications 180
Telephone Calls 2,103
Domain Registered 826
Inverse Addresses 433
Class C's Assigned 14,641
Class B's Assigned 113
ASN Assigned 57
Connections Retrievals
Gopher Sessions 51,770 17,904
Wais Sessions 20,817 36,469
Ftp Sessions 6,580 29,315
Telnet 50,013
Mailserver 1,117
by John Zalubski <johnz@internic.net>
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ISI
---
GIGABIT NETWORKING
Infrastructure
The 1994 IAB workshop waas held at ISI Feb 8-10, 1994. Jon Postel
attended the ISOC meetings in Washington, DC, February 6-9 1994.
Eve Schooler and Bob Felderman went to Washington, DC to work at
NRL, February 22-23, 1994.
Seven RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1574: Hares, S., (Merit/NSFNET), C. Wittbrodt (Stanford
Univ/Barrnet), "Essential Tools for the OSI Internet"
February 1994.
RFC 1575: Hares, S., (Merit/NSFNET), C. Wittbrodt (Stanford
Univ/Barrnet), "An Echo Function for CLNP (ISO 8473)
February 1994.
RFC 1578: Sellers, J., "FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers
to Commonly Asked 'Primary and Secondary School
Internet User' Questions", NASA NREN/Sterling
Software, February 1994.
RFC 1579: Bellovin, S., "Firewall-Friendly FTP", AT&T Bell
Laboratories, February 1994.
RFC 1581: Meyer, G., "Protocol Analysis for Extensions to RIP
to Support Demand Circuits", Spider System,
February 1994.
RFC 1582: Meyer, G., "Extensions to RIP to Support Demand
Circuits", Spider System, February 1994.
RFC 1588: Postel, J., and C. Anderson, "White Pages Meeting
Report", ISI, February 1994.
RFC 1589: Mills, D., "A Kernel Model for Precision Timekeeping"
University of Delaware, March 1994.
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US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
------------------------------------
See "RFC 1591 - Domain Name System Structure and Delegation".
US DOMAIN NAMING STRUCTURE
==========================
<host>.<city/locality>.<state>.US = city/locality based names
<school>.<district>.K12.<state>.US = kindegarten thru 12th grade
<school>.PVT.K12.<state>.US = private K thru 12th grade
<school>.<locality>.<state>.US = locality opt: for PVT schools
<school>.CC.<state>.US = community colleges
<school>.TEC.<state>.US = technical or vocationalschools
<lib-name>.LIB.<state>.US = libraries
<org-name>.STATE.<state>.US = state government agencies
<org-name>.COG.<state>.US = councils of governments
<museum-name>.MUS.<state>.US = museums
<org>.GEN.<state>.US = statewide assoc,clubs,domainparks
<org-name>.FED.US = federal government agencies
<org-name>.DNI.US = distributed national institutes
IN-ADDR RECORDS
===============
1) The administrator of your network has to add to his nameserver
an IN-ADDR PTR record for your host. For example:
11.8.146.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA PTR DSCC.CC.TN.US (hostname)
2) The network number needs to be listed in the root servers
IN-ADDR zone file on the Internic with a NS delegation to
your name server. Send message to (netreg@internic.net).
In the root server the following type of record is added:
8.146.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA NS dsccvv.dscc.tn.us (nameserver)
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CONTACTS
========
EMAIL/FAX 479
PHONE 40
----------------------------
Total Contacts 519
DELEGATIONS 19
DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 18
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 482
---------------------------
Total 519
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.
Third Level US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------------
STATE.DE.US Delaware State Gov't Agencies
STATE VA.US Commonwealth of Virginia State Gov't Agencies
STATE.RI.US Rhode Island State Gov't Agencies
STATE.KS.US Kansas State Gov't Agencies
CC.RI.US Oregon Community Colleges
GEN.UT.US General branch of US Domain
TEC.NC.US North Carolina Technical/Voc Schools
MENTOR.OH.US Mentor, Ohio, locality
CANFIELD.OH.US Canfield, Ohio, locality
APEX.NC.US Apex, North Carolina, locality
DADE.FL.US Dade County, Florida, locality
Other US Domain Delegations this month
--------------------------------------
CI.NYC.NY.US New York City, NY, City Gov't Agencies
LALAW.LIB.CA.US Los Angeles County Law Library
WLS.LIB.NY.US. Westchester, NY, Library System
NACTC.CC.AR.US North Arkansas Community Technical College
TULSA.CC.OK.US. Tulsa Junior College, Tulsa, Ok
GONZAGA.PVT.K12.DC.US Gonzaga College High School
CBMS.KNOX.K12.TN.US Cedar Bluff Middle School, TN
BHS.PANAMA.DODDS.FED.US Balboa High School, Panama, DOD School
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TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN
-----------------------------------------------------------
AK
AL X
AR X
AS
-----------------------------------------------------------
AZ X X X X X
CA X X X X
CO X X X X
CT
-----------------------------------------------------------
DC X
DE X X X X X
FL 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
-----------------------------------------------------------
IN X X X X
KS X
KY X X X X X X X
LA X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
MA
ME X
MI X X X X X
MN X X X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
MO X X X X
MS X X
MT
NC X X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
ND X X
NE X X X X
NH X X
NJ X
-----------------------------------------------------------
NM X X X
NV
NY X X X X
OH X X X X X X X
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-----------------------------------------------------------
OK
OR X X X X X X X
PA X
RI X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
SC X X X X X
SD X X
TN
TX X X X X
-----------------------------------------------------------
UT X X X X
VA X X X X
VT X X
WA
-----------------------------------------------------------
WI X X X
WV X X X X X X X
WY 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)
JVNCNET
-------
Global Enterprise Services, Inc.
JvNCnet
3 Independence Way
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
voice: 800-35-TIGER
609-897-7300
fax: 609-897-7310
How to contact GES:
Member Services: 609-897-7318
609-897-7337
support@jvnc.net
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Seminar/Training
----------------
A) Cisco Router Technical Training (open to the public)
Title: Cisco Router Configuration Course
Five day, hands-on class, to learn and practice the commands to
configure routers on a multi-protocol network. Live network
connectivity enhances the experience.
Dates: March 7-11, 1994; March 21-25, 1994
For further details, please email to training@jvnc.net or call
609-897-7318.
B) GES Seminar Series
Introduction to Data Networking and TCP/IP, and Advanced TCP/IP.
GES will offer two one-day seminars on TCP/IP and data networking
on March 22nd and 23rd, 1994. The seminars may be taken
individually or as a group, and will be taught by Dr. Paul
Schragger. Dr. Schragger received a doctorate on future high
speed communications from the University of Delaware.
The conference location is the The Scanticon Princeton Hotel, 100
College Road East, Plainsboro, NJ.
Registration by March 1, 1994 (to attend both days) JvNCnet
members: $470 Non-members: $515
For more information or to register, call 609-897-7318 or 1-800-
35-TIGER or send email to: registration@jvnc.net. Classes are open
to anyone in the Internet community and the public.
Partial list of new on-line members
-----------------------------------
KPMG Peat Marwick
National Westminster Bank
Union Camp Corp.
SmithKline Beecham
T&T Software
System Documentation, Inc.
Bell Atlantic Mobile
by Teri Schuler, <schuler@jvnc.net>
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MERIT/NSFNET INTERNET ENGINEERING
---------------------------------
The CIDR/BGP-4 registration system was completed and installed in
parallel with the deployment of gated on the ANS/NSFNET backbone. The
Merit Policy Routing Data Base supports CIDR aggregation and the NACR
submission format has been changed to reflect this. For example the
NWG report includes CIDR prefixes rather than single IP network
numbers.
Merit sponsored and SDSC hosted a meeting of the Regional Techs group
in San Diege on Jan 31/Feb 1, 1994. The group's original charter
defined its membership as the NSF sponsored regionals (mid-levels).
At the meeting in San Diego, the group revised its charter to include
a broader base of network service providers. Merit will continue to
facilitate the meetings of the group and it is debating a new name.
The target date for the release of IDRP version 1.0 is the end of
March. This version will support a minimal policy set and inter-
operate with gated. The team of implementors led by Sue Hares is
doing this work for the FAA.
Elise Gerich <epg@merit.edu>
MRNET
------
Mr. Paul Fakler has recently joined the MRnet engineering staff.
The InforMNs Project (Internet for Minnesota Schools) is now
underway with theinitial test users. This will eventually provide
personal SLIP access for teachers and administrators throughout the
state. Additional local dialup access is now available in
Rochester and additional sites will be installed in the coming
months.
Recent new member attachments include:
Database Network Services
H. B. Fuller
HealthSpan
Internet Connections, Inc.
LSC, Inc.
MAPPCOR
Methodist Hospital
Minneapolis Telecommunications Network
NetStor
Seagate
Skypoint Communications
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StarNet Communications
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Teltech
Ware, Inc.
bringing total attached membership to 78 organizations.
Contact: info@MR.Net for any further information.
Dennis Fazio, Executive Director
Minnesota Regional Network
Minneapolis, MN
(612) 342-2570
by Dennis Fazio <dfazio@MR.net>
NEARNET
-------
NEARNET'S MEMBERSHIP EXPANDS
As of February 23, 1994, NEARNET has grown to a total of 298 member
organizations.
NEARNET would like to welcome the following new members who have
joined NEARNET during the month of February: Baystate Health Care
of Cambridge, MA; the Arnold Arboretum of Jamaica Plain, MA; Codem
Systems, Inc. of Hollis, NH; The NetMarket Company of Nashua, NH;
Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Burlington, VT; and SatelLife
of Cambridge, MA.
Correction: Please note that in last month's report, Merrimack
College was inadvertently listed as a new NEARNET site. The site
which should have been listed was the Merrimack Valley Library
Consortium (MVLC). MVLC joined NEARNET in December 1993.
Merrimack College has been a member of NEARNET since January 1991.
NEARNET NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED
The February 1994 issue of the hardcopy "NEARNET Newsletter" has
been published and distributed. Current or prospective NEARNET
members may request to receive the newsletter by sending their name
and surface mail address to:
"NEARNET THIS MONTH" ONLINE BULLETIN PUBLISHED
NEARNET has once again begun distribution of the "NEARNET This
Month" online bulletin. Past issues are available via anonymous
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FTP at ftp.near.net in the pathname: newsletter/nearnet-this-month.
Past issues are also accessible viaGopher and WWW.
We plan to distribute future issues of this bulletin to several
NEARNET member-specific e-mail lists. Upcoming issues will include
information on future NEARNET seminars, training, resources and
information services. NEARNET members who would like to receive
future issues via e-mail should send a note to nearnet-
us@nic.near.net.
NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE
NEARNET held the Winter set of two of its first three six-hour
lecture and demo training courses on February 22 and 23. The third
day of training on February24 was postponed due to inclement
weather and is rescheduled for Friday, March25 from 9:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium.
The three full-day set of courses includes: (Day 1) An Introduction
to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New
NEARNET Information and Technical Liaisons; and (Day 3) An
Introduction to Internet Technology.
All three days of training are available free of charge to new
Standard Installation sites. The Internet Resources and Internet
Technology courses are available for existing sites and non-members
for a $250.00 fee (per day/per attendee). The NEARNET Orientation
is free to all NEARNET sites.
The Spring set of NEARNET Training Courses is scheduled for May 11,
12 and 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the BBN Newman Auditorium.
For more information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services
Staff at nearnet-us@nic.near.net or call 617-873-8730, press option
6.
NEARNET CO-SPONSORS INTERNET SEMINAR FOR EDUCATORS
Together with Cisco Systems, Inc., NEARNET will sponsor a one-day
seminar organized by Editorial Inc. and the Online BookStore (OBS).
The seminar, entitled, "An Educator's Introduction and Guide to the
Internet: Catching theInternet Wave" will be held on Thursday,
April 7, 1994, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30p.m. at the BBN Newman
Auditorium.
Seminar leaders will include Laura Fillmore, President of Editorial
Inc. and the Online Bookstore in Rockport, Massachusetts. Tracy
LaQuey Parker author of the bestselling book, "The Internet
Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking". Tracy is the
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Education Development Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. Daniel
Fleming is a high school and middle school principal in Rockport,
Massachusetts. Daniel is an avid proponent of the use of
technology in schools and will introduce the speakers (some still
to be announced as of this posting).
The seminar fee is $95.00 per person and $85.00 for each additional
person from a school district. The seminar registration will cover
the costs of the seminar, including: materials, lunch, and a free
copy of "The Internet Companion". For more information, please
call Al Kaufman of Editorial Inc. at508-546-7346 or via FAX at
508-546-9807.
INTERNET TOOLS AND VALUE-ADDED SERVICES MINI-SEMINAR
A mini-seminar covering NEARNET-provided Internet tools and value-
added services will be held on March 16th. This seminar is being
held to satisfy the overwhelming interest in Internet applications
expressed during the NEARNET Annual Seminar in December 1993. The
seminar will cover NEARNET's new Gopher and World Wide Web (WWW)
servers, the InterNavigator, the Global Network Navigator (GNN),
and the Commerce Business Daily online service.
The seminar will be held from 9:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the BBN
Newman Auditorium, 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA. The seminar
is open to all NEARNET members free of charge, however, advanced
registration is required. There are only a limited amount of seats
available, further registrations willbe handled on a first-come
first-served basis.
To register, NEARNET members should send email to nearnet-
seminars@nic.near.net, or call 617-873-8730, press option 6.
Additional information on future mini-seminars for 1994 will be
announced shortly.
NEARNET USER SERVICES STEERING COMMITTEE UPDATE
The NEARNET User Services Steering Committee (USSC) has been
established to provide guidance to NEARNET's User Services staff.
The USSC will also advise the NEARNET Steering Committee on user-
service related areas, including: policy, information services,
packages, training and seminars. The USSC is made up of people
from NEARNET member organizations. The third USSC meeting was held
on February 28. Future meetings will be held every six weeks.
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NETWORKS EXPO'94 BOSTON
Several NEARNET representatives participated in the Networks
Expo'94, February15-17, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston,
MA. It was at this conference, that NEARNET unveiled its new
exhibitor's booth for the very firsttime. The booth included a
live Internet connection and demonstrations of NEARNET online tools
and value-added services. On the final day of the conference, John
Curran, NEARNET Product Manager, delivered a very well received
presentation on "Connecting Your LAN to the Internet".
by NEARNET Client Services <nearnet-us@nic.near.net>
NORTHWESTNET
------------
NorthWestNet and the University of Washington are pleased to co-
sponsor the 29th IETF in Seattle, Washington from March 28-April 1.
NorthWestNet has made available a Seattle IETF Gopher at
gopher.nwnet.net 3333. You'll find a broad range of local
information including weather, transportation, restaurants,
lodgings, and local attractions. (For questions about the IETF,
contact CNRI at ietf-rsvp@cnri.reston.va.us or gopher to
cnri.reston.va.us.)
The topic at this month's NorthWestNet User Services Committee
teleconference was Internet training. Dave Tindall, Executive
Director of Computer and Information Systems at Seattle Pacific
University, moderated the meeting. The discussions covered
everything from electronic and paper materials to the proper
sequence to use when introducing Internet applications and tools.
Twelve hours of on-site training were provided to 26 K-12 teachers
and administrators at the Catlin Gable school in Portland, Oregon.
Participants were affiliated with Catlin Gable (a private school)
and with Oregon state school districts that are part of the
statewide Oregon Public Education Network (OPEN) program of the
Oregon State Department of Education. (Catlin Gable is also a
participant in the NSF-funded grant, "Enabling K-12 Education in
the Pacific Northwest through Internetworking.") Both OPEN and
Catlin Gable are NorthWestNet member organizations.
And last but not least, a group of students and teachers from The
Bush School in Seattle, Washington spent part of an afternoon at
the NorthWestNet offices exploring World Wide Web and HTML servers
from around the world as part of a special class project.
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-----------------
NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net
15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000
Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822
Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director
Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services
Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services
Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations
NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
RARE SECRETARIAT
----------------
A RARE UPDATE no. 11, February 1994
The 28th meeting of the RARE Council of Administration took place
on February 3 and 4 1994. Progress and results on major issues are
summarized below.
CEENet
A new international networking association has recently been
established: CEENet, of which the members are at the moment: ACONET
(Austria), UNICOM (Bulgaria), CARNet (Croatia), CESNET (Czech
republic), NASK (Poland), SANET (Slovakia) and UARNet (Ukraine).
More CEEC members are expected to join shortly. The members are
networking organizations that represent their country with
authorization from their government. CEENet's role is to
coordinate international aspects of academic and research
networking in the CEEC region.
CEENet applied to join RARE in recognition of RARE's role as the
umbrella body for networking for research in Europe and was
admitted as International Member during the Brussels meeting. A
planning group has been set up to discuss how best to coordinate
infrastructure planning and to function as a point of reference.
RARE/EARN merger
With the overall target of strengthening user representation in
Europe the Executives of EARN and RARE are progressing a merger
between the two Associations.
Several documents are being drafted, such as a Constitution,
Mission and Objectives statement, Technical programme and
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structure, Secretariat structure and three year budget. These
documents will be presented to both the CoA and the EARN Board of
Directors for comment and approval during the May meetings in
Darmstadt. The Executives will propose to establish the new
organization in the Netherlands, with the current RARE Secretariat
as the main secretariat. Current thinking has it that
International Treaty Organizations will have voting rights and that
voting will be according to a key related to level of subscription.
RARE Signatory of ICT MoU
RARE has signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Partnership in
Information and Communication Technology (ICT), an EC initiative
targeting enhancing user involvement in ICT.
Elections Executive Committee
Kees Neggers from SURFnet, the Netherlands, was re-elected
President. Paul Van Binst, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, was
elected Vice-President and Peter Bakonyi, from Hungary, Treasurer.
Sven Tafvelin (Sweden) and Christian Michau (France) are the new
members of the Executive Committee. The new RARE Executive
Committee takes office on 1 May 1994.
RARE Technical Programme
RARE will establish a project involving evolution of the concept
and protocols and maintenance of the reference implementation of
World Wide Web and seeks funding for this project.
The RARE Technical Committee is planning a Europe wide effort to
coordinate the INIX and D-GIX activities and will raise the funding
for this coordination effort.
The RARE Technical Committee's management structure will change.
The new RTC will consist of all WG Conveners and will be assisted
by three senior general experts, who will form the RTC Budget
Committee. This way the RTC will have closer contact with the
Working Groups.
Thanks to the arrival of a new Project Development Officer, John
Martin, working from the RARE Secretariat, the support for the RARE
Technical Programme has increased considerably. The support for the
RTP now consists of 2.6 full time equivalent PDOs and one Technical
Programme Assistant.
RTR7 (RFC1502) has appeared: X.400 use of Extended Character Sets,
by Harald Alvestrand from UNINETT, Norway.
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Conferences and seminars
The final report on the NATO Advanced Networking Workshop on
Research Networking in Central and Eastern Europe that took place
in Budapest last Autumn will be available from the fileserver,
soon. The Workshop was very well attended and regarded to be very
useful.
A further activity of RARE supported by NATO funding is a technical
workshop covering management and user support (to which the ISUS
Working Group will contribute) just prior to the INET '94 / JENC 5
Conference in Prague.
The preliminary programme with the registration information for the
INET '94 / JENC 5 Conference in Prague, June 15 - 17, will be
released shortly.
The Conference will start on 14 June at 18:30 with an Welcome and
Opening reception. The actual programme starts on 15 June and runs
until noon on the 17th. The conference consists of 35 sessions (in
five parallel streams) and 4 plenaries. Paper copies of all papers
will be available at registration. To be added to the email
distribution list for more information on the Conference send a
message to Internet: inet-jenc-request@rare.nl X.400:
C=nl;ADMD=400net;PRMD=surf;O=rare;S=inet-jenc-request
EARN is organizing a Network Services Conference in London, from 28
to 30 November, subsequent to which a large RARE Working Group
meeting will take place.
The 3rd Symposium on High Speed Networking for Research in Europe,
jointly organized by EC's DG XIII/C and RARE, was held on 2
February 1994. It was very successful, with 148 participants from
24 countries, including two people from Japan. It is planned to
organize a fourth Symposium on High Speed networking for Research
in Europe, focussing on 155 Mbps and higher, in two or three years'
time. The proceedings will be published in CNRE.
For more information contact:
Internet: raresec@rare.nl or kiers@rare.nl
X.400: C=nl;ADMD=400net;PRMD=surf;O=rare;S=kiers
X.400: C=nl;ADMD=400net;PRMD=surf;O=rare;S=raresec
fileserver: gopher.rare.nl or ftp.rare.nl
Judith Kiers
RARE Publicity Officer
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UCL
----
The MICE project has developed quad-multiplexing sofrtware for
H.261 video. We have also placed a sample of our notes for a
Masters course in Data Communicaitons in our Web server as an
experiment. We will add digital video of seminars (often the same
as the MICE seminars) as they happen.
J. Crowcroft attended the IAB watershed retreat on Internet
Security at ISI.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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CALENDAR
--------
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>
1994
------------
Mar. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Vancouver, BC
Mar. 14-16 5th Wkshp on VHSN Baltimore, MD
Mar. 14-18 OIW
Mar. 15-18 ARPA HPCC Symposium Alexandria, VA
Mar. 16-23 CeBIT '94 Hannover, Germany
Mar. 22-26 Seybold Boston, MA
Mar. 23-26 Comp, Freedom & Priv Chicago, IL
Mar. 24-27 2nd Intl Conf on Telecom Sys.
modelling & anaysis Nashville, TN
Mar. 28-Apr. 1 29th IETF Seattle, WA
Mar. 29 Rare Exec./EARN Exec. Comm. Amsterdam, NL
Apr 6-8 National Net '94 Washington, DC
Apr. 11-15 High Performance Computing La Jolla, CA
Apr. 18-20 European Exhb. HP Comp/Ntwk Munich, Germany
Apr. 18-22 IEEE POSIX
Apr. 18-22 '94 TCP/IP Windows Sockets
and PPP Bake-Off
May 2-6 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV
May 4-6 IFIP '94 Hamburg, Germany
May 9-12 IEEE P802.11 Interim Oshawa, Ontario
May 9-13 X3T5-OSI Upper Layers Rockville, MD
May 10-13 ATM Forum Munich, Germany
May 16-18 RIPE Amsterdam, NL
May 19-20 RARE Council of Admn. Darmstadt
Jun. 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 Barcelona, Spain
Jun. 6-8 Digital World Los Angeles, CA
Jun. 8-10 Seybold Paris
Jun. 6-10 USENIX Hynes CC, Boston, MA
Jun. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Berlin
Jun. 12 RARE Technical Committee Prague
Jun. 13-17 INET94/JENC Prague
Jun. 13-17 OIW
Jun. 20-Jul. 1 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Helsinki
Jun. 27-Jul. 1 HPN '94 Grenoble, France
Jun. 27-Jul. 1 Home-oriented informatics Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jul. 11-15 8th ACM Intntl Supercomputing Manchester, England
Jul. 11-15 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Orlando, FL
Jul. 13-14 W/S on Community Networking Millbrae, CA
Jul. 25-29 30th IETF Toronto, Canada
Jul. 25-29 Sigraph 94 Orlando, FL
Jul. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, JP
Aug. (mid) SNOWMASS
Aug. 1-2 USENIX Berkeley, CA
Aug. 7-12 SHARE (IBM) Boston, MA
Aug. 10-12 IFIP Protocols Vancouver, BC
Aug. 22-26 6th Joint EPS-APS Phyicics Lugano, Switzerland
Aug. 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Congress Hamburg, Germany
Aug. 29-Sep 2 SIGCOMM 94 London, England
Sep. IEEE P802.11 Interim TBD
Sep. 7-9 Windows Solutions San Francisco, CA.
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
Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN
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. 3 EDUCOM
Nov. 2-4 Gigabit testbed jamboree Reston, VA
Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV
Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA
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. 14-18 31st IETF (TENTATIVE) SFO Bay Area
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. 5-9 31st IETF (TENTATIVE) SFO Bay Area
Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11
Dec. 5-9 10th Annual Comp. Sec. Appl. Orlando, Florida
Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP
Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dec. 12-16 OIW
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Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA
Feb. 16-17 PSRG - ISOC Symposium
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 (Probable) Santa Clara, CA
Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP
Mar. 20-24 32nd IETF (Tentative)
Mar. 27-31 Email World Chicago, IL
(likely to be replaced by Mar 13-17 dates)
Mar. 28-30 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV
May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel
May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel
Jun. ISOC Wkshop for Tech.
Emerging Countries
Jun. 12-16 INET '95 (tentative) Singapore
Jun. 12-16 OIW
Jun. 19-22 USENIX San Francisco, CA
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. 31 - Aug. 4 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden
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)
Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Possible)
1996
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Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA
Mar. 18-22 OIW
Jun. 10-14 OIW
Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU
Sep. 9-13 OIW
Dec. 9-13 OIW
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1997
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Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA
----
Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories
Via gopher: "Internet Society / IETF / IETF Meetings /
Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
**********************************************************************
RARE LIST OF MEETINGS
march 94 edition
---------------------
Ref. RSec(94)001-ac
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
------------------------
5 April Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
6 April
(Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
RARE Council of Administration
------------------------------
19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt
27/28 October 1994 Bled
1/2 December 1994 CoA invited to attend EARN Bod (London)
18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv
RARE Technical Committee
------------------------
3/4 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
12 June Prague
RARE Working Groups
-------------------
WG-IMM (MMEP) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
Multi Media European Proposal
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2 March
ATM-TF Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
16 March
ATM (closed group)
13 June Prague
WG-ISUS
13/14 June Prague
WG-LLT Prague
14 June
WG-NAP Prague
13 June
WORKING GROUPS (various)
1-2 December London (at NSC'94)
RIPE
----
16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF)
September (tbc) Lisboa
VARIOUS
-------
EBONE
Consortium of Contributing Organisations
23 June Amsterdam
EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team)
28 February-1 March KTH Stockholm
EARN
Board of Directors
18-19 May Darmstadt
30 November - 2 December London
DANTE Shareholders
25 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
Euro-CCIRN
CCIRN
20/21 June TBD (in Europe)
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INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees
13/14 June Prague
IETF
29 March - 1 April Seattle
25-29 July Toronto
Autumn San Francisco
EWOS
----
Technical Assembly
1-2 March Brussels
17-18 May Brussels
13-14 September Brussels
22-23 November Brussels
Steering Committee
15 March Brussels
7 June Brussels
27 September Brussels
6 December Brussels
Workshops
11-15 April Brussels
27 June - 1 July Brussels
10-14 October Brussels
ETSI
----
General Assembly
24/25 March Nice, France
22/23 November Nice, France
Technical Assembly
21-23 March Nice, France
21/22 June Nice, France
18-20 October Nice, France
INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders
INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee
21 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat)
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INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5)
13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic
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The annual conference of the Internet Society held in conjunction
with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference.
To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a
message to <inet-jenc-request@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)
NETWORKSHOP 22
--------------
from 29 till 31 March 1994
at the University of Plymouth, Devon, England
organised by the Joint Network Team and
the University of Plymouth
Email <networkshop@plymouth.ac.uk>
NATIONAL NET '94
----------------
from 6 till 8 April
at the Loews L'enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington DC
sponsored by IEEE - USA/CCIP, Internet Society, NSF, etc...
for information and registration, email <net94@educom.edu>
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
AND NETWORKING
---------------------------------------------------------------
18 till 20 April 1994 in Munich, Germnay
Email <hpcn@genias.de>
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION NETWORKS
------------------------------------------------
AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS
-----------------------
from 18 to 21 April 1994 in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
For information, please email Prof. Pedro Veiga <pmv@inesc.pt>
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IFIP WG10.3 - WORKING CONFERENCE ON PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR
MASSIVELY PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
----------------------------------------------------------------
from 25 till 30 April 1994 in Ascona, Switzerland
Email <ifip94@cscs.ch>
FIRST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
-----------------------------------------------------
from 25 till 30 April 1994 in Nancy, France
Email <ecccl@lctn.u-nancy.fr>
MediaActive 94 - "Harnessing Multimedia for Higher Education"
-------------------------------------------------------------
from 4 till 6 May 1994 in Liverpool, England
Email <MedAct94@uk.ac.livjm>
15TH INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATICS AND PSYCHOLOGY
-------------------------------------------------------------
organised by the Computer Science Department of the Johannes
Kepler University Linz, Austria, in cooperation with the
European Association for Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE)
from 24 till 26 May 1994 in Schaerding, Austria
For further information, contact Michel Tauber
<tauber@uni-paderborn.de>.
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB
---------------------------------------------------
The conference will include tutorials, topical workshops,
panels, presentation of formal papers on WWW technology
and theory, user and provider experiences plus a series
of special sessions for delegates from business and non-
academic organisations.
from 25 till 27 May 1994 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
For information, email <cailliau@www1.cern.ch>
NORDUnet 94
-----------
from 31 May to 2 June 1994
in Umea, Sweden
for information, email <nordunet94@umdac.umu.se>
INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY
-----------------------------------------------
from 5 till 11 June 1994
at the Czech Technical University in Prague
*** apply for admission before 1 March 1994 ***
Email <workshop-apply@nyu.edu>
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--------------------------------------------
4th International Russian Forum
organised by the Academy of National Economy of Moscow,
Russia; the International Centre for Scientific and
Technical Information; and the Russian-American JV
"Ecotrends".
from 27 June till 2 July
For further information, contact Juri Gornostaev or Juri Andrianov
Email <enir@ccic.icsti.msk.su>
SECOND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON
ADVANCED BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS
---------------------------------
from 11 till 15 July 1994
as part of the RACE project BRAIN.
the school will be distributed to at least four different
sites in Spain.
for further information, please email <ss94@dit.upm.es>
8th ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUPERCOMPUTING
--------------------------------------------------
from 11 till 15 July 1994 in Manchester, England
Email <jalby@irisa.fr)
6th JOINT EPS-APS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS COMPUTING
---------------------------------------------------------------
from 22 till 26 August 1994 in Lugano, Switzerland
Email <pc94@cscs.ch>
13TH WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS - IFIP CONGRESS 94
-----------------------------------------------
from 28 August till 2 September 1994, in Hamburg, Germany
Tel. +49 40 3569 2242 - Fax. +49 40 3569 2343
ACM SIGCOMM'94
--------------
Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications
organised by University College London
from 31 August till 2 September
(Tutorials and Workshops on 30 August)
For further information, contact <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
(ICCCN'94)
from 11-14 September 1994, San Fransisco, U.S.A.
*CALL FOR PAPERS* deadline 4 March 1994
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Conference Chairman: Prof. T. Suda <suda@ics.uci.edu>
OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.)
---------------------------------------------------------
from 8-11 November in Munich
For further information contact the DIGI board
via email: vorstand@digi.de
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
EEMA CONFERENCES
----------------
Pre-conference Tutorial
& EEMA subcommittees
2 March Vienna
Spring Conference
3/4 March Vienna
Pre-conference Tutorial
& EEMA subcommittees
14 June Stockholm
8th Annual General Assembly
14 June Stockholm
7th Annual EEMA Conference
Global Messaging '94
15-17 June Stockholm
Autumn Conference
September (tbc) Madrid
Winter Conference
November (tbc) Luxembourg
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