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NIC.MERIT.EDU> /internet/newsletters/internet.monthly.report/imr94-05.txt May 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). 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 DANTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32 PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 RIPEnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38 Rare List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 41 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for May, 1994 1. Let me remind everyone that the next meeting of the IETF will be held in Toronto, Canada from July 25 through July 29, 1994. This meeting is being hosted by The University of Toronto. The Newcomers' Orientation and Registration Reception will be on Sunday, July 24. Logistic messages and registration forms have already been sent to the IETF Announcement list. Following the July meeting, the IETF will be in San Jose from December 5-9. We currently working on the IETF meetings in 1995, looking at the Boston area in April of 1995, and on to Stockholm Sweden in July. Once the primary 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. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dan Jordt, Terry Gray, and all the folks at NorthWestNet and the University of Washington for hosting the 29th IETF meeting in Seattle. They did a marvelous job. At the Thursday evening plenary session in Seattle, the new members of the IESG were announced. The current IESG members are: Paul Mockapetris IETF Chair Scott Bradner Operational Requirements A. Lyman Chapin Standards & Procedures Joel Halpern Routinghalpern Erik Huizer Applications John Klensin Applications Stev Knowles Internet Allison Mankin Transport Services Mike O'Dell Operational Requirements Joyce K. Reynolds User Services Marshall T. Rose Network Management Jeff Schiller Security Claudio Topolcic Internet 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol Actions during the month of May, 1994: Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 o A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations be publised as an Informational document. o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5 was approved as a Proposed Standard. o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP) was approved as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types was approved as an Internet Standard. o How to Use Anonymous FTP be publised as an Informational document. o A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups be publised as an Informational document. o WAIS over Z39.50 - 1988 be publised as an Informational document. 4. The IESG issued nine Last Calls to the IETF during the month of May, 1994: o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types <draft-ietf-ifmib-ethmib-smiv2-00> for consideration as an Internet Standard. o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4-10> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-bgp-mibv4-06> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs <draft-ietf-snanau-snamib-04> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection <draft-ietf-tn3270e-luname-print-02> (Informational) o PPP in HDLC-like Framing <draft-ietf-pppext-hdlc-fs-02> for consideration as an Internet Standard. o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) <draft-ietf-pppext-lcp-fs-02> for consideration as an Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 Internet Standard. o TN3270 Enhancements <draft-ietf-tn3270e-enhancements-04> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet <draft-ietf-bgp-application-04> for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Two Working Groups were created during this period: Integrated Services (intserv) Electronic Data Interchange (edi) Additionally, one Working Group was concluded: Uninterruptible Power Supply (upsmib) 6. A total of 44 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of May, 1994: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (tnfs) o A Specification of Trusted NFS (TNFS) Protocol Extensions <draft-ietf-tnfs-spec-04.txt> (bgp) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4-10.txt> (bgp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) <draft-ietf-bgp-mibv4-06.txt> (x400ops) o Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations <draft-ietf-x400ops-postmaster-05.txt> (none) o DNS NSAP Resource Records <draft-manning-dns-nsap-05.txt> (cat) o FTP Security Extensions <draft-ietf-cat-ftpsec-05.txt> (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs <draft-ietf-snanau-snamib-04.txt> (iiir) o Publishing Information on the Internet with Anonymous FTP <draft-ietf-iiir-publishing-01.txt> (pppext) o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) <draft-ietf-pppext-multilink-09.txt> (none) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages <draft-vaudreuil-smtp-binary-03.txt> (snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: SDLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-sdlc-mib-03.txt> Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining <draft-ietf-smtpext-pipeline-02.txt> (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification <draft-ietf-rsvp-spec-02.txt, .ps> (none) o MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects <draft-crocker-edi-01.txt, .ps> (pppext) o PPP BSD Compression Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-bsd-compress-01.txt> (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base <draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonmib-01.txt> (charmib) o Character MIB <draft-ietf-charmib-mib-02.txt> (charmib) o RS-232-like MIB <draft-ietf-charmib-rs232-mib-03.txt> (charmib) o Parallel-printer-like MIB <draft-ietf-charmib-ppl-mib-02.txt> (oncrpc) o RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 <draft-ietf-oncrpc-rpcv2-01.txt> (tuba) o Host Group Extensions for CLNP Multicasting <draft-ietf-tuba-host-clnp-multicas-01.txt> (none) o Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update <draft-anil-incremental-checksum-02.txt> (pppext) o PPP in HDLC-like Framing <draft-ietf-pppext-hdlc-fs-02.txt> (pppext) o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) <draft-ietf-pppext-lcp-fs-02.txt> (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support <draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-03.txt> (pppext) o PPP Magnalink Variable Resource Compression <draft-ietf-pppext-magnalink-01.txt> (iab) o Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between the Internet Society and ISO/IEC JTC-1/SC6 <draft-iab-mou2jtc1-02.txt> (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extensions <draft-ietf-smtpext-extensions-01.txt> (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration <draft-ietf-smtpext-size-01.txt> (smtpext) o SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport <draft-ietf-smtpext-8bitmime-01.txt> (ospf) + Extending OSPF to support demand circuits <draft-ietf-ospf-demand-00.txt> (none) + MIME/ESMTP Profile for Voice Messaging <draft-umig-mime-voice-00.txt> (tuba) + CLNP Path MTU Discovery <draft-ietf-tuba-mtu-00.txt> (none) + Unified Routing Requirements for IPng <draft-estrin-ipng-unified-routing-00.txt> (tuba) + Integrated Network Layer Security Protocol For TUBA <draft-ietf-tuba-inlsp-00.txt> Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 (none) + The Shape of the Bits <draft-bellovin-ipng-shape-of-bits-00.txt> (tuba) + TUBA Mobility Support <draft-ietf-tuba-mobility-00.txt> (none) + Administrative Allocation of the 64-bit Number Space <draft-simpson-sipp-64-bit-plan-00.txt> (none) + The application/pgp MIME Content-type <draft-borenstein-pgp-mime-00.txt, .ps> (none) + MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies <draft-ietf-822-mime-00.txt, .ps> (none) + A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information <draft-borenstein-mailcap-00.txt, .ps> (none) + Using DNS to Support Multiprotocol Interoperability <draft-clark-dns-support-00.txt> (rolc) + NBMA Address Resolution Protocol (NARP) <draft-ietf-rolc-nbma-arp-00.txt> (oncrpc) + Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC <draft-ietf-oncrpc-auth-00.txt> 7. There were 21 RFC's published during the month of May, 1994: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1611 PS (dns) DNS Server MIB Extensions RFC1612 PS (dns) DNS Resolver MIB Extensions RFC1613 I (none) cisco Systems X.25 over TCP (XOT) RFC1614 I (imm) Network Access to Multimedia Information RFC1615 I (none) Migrating from X.400(84) to X.400(88) RFC1616 I (wg-msg) X.400(1988) for the Academic and Research Community in Europe RFC1617 I (none) Naming and Structuring Guidelines for X.500 Directory Pilots RFC1618 PS (pppext) PPP over ISDN RFC1619 PS (pppext) PPP over SONET/SDH RFC1620 I (none) Internet Architecture Extensions for Shared Media RFC1621 I (pip) Pip Near-term Architecture RFC1622 I (pip) Pip Header Processing RFC1623 S (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types RFC1624 I (none) Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update RFC1626 PS (ipatm) Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5 RFC1628 PS (upsmib) UPS Management Information Base Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 RFC1629 DS (osinsap) Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet RFC1631 I (none) The IP Network Address Translator (Nat) RFC1632 I (ids) A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations RFC1634 I (none) Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN) RFC1635 I (iafa) How to Use Anonymous FTP St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== ANSnet total packet traffic grew by about 4.3% in April '94. The process of CIDR aggregation continued in April. A decrease in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 6.3% was observed during the month of April due to the withdrawal of 4,841 class based destinations. April Backbone Traffic Statistics ================================= The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 60,204,842,812 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 3.77% from April. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 71,037,687,355 up 4.26% from April. Router Forwarding Table Statistics ================================== The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during May was 18,484 down 6.27% from April. This continued decrease in the monthly forwarding table size is attributed to CIDR aggregation. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during April was 12,084. BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status =========================== The following autonomous systems are now exchanging routing information with ANSnet via the BGP-4 protocol for the first time during April. 174 NYSERNet/PSI 209 WestNet 210 WestNet 555 MSCNet Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 As of May 31 '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 4,841 class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables that are now represented by 545 configured aggregates. Among these configured aggregates: 475 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another aggregate). 386 of these are actively announced to ANSnet. 331 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other 22 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements). 280 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one configured more specific route. 275 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their configured more specific routes. 269 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. Other gated software changes will be deployed over the next couple of months to improve policy processing (required to support some advanced forms of proxy aggregation). Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ The three different routing stability measurements that have been reported on over the past year were based on rcp_routed log file entries. Gated software was deployed at the end of February to replace rcp_routed. These routing stability reports have been converted to use gated logging as of early June. The next report based upon this data will be published in early July. Notable Outages for May '94 =========================== UNAM suffered an extended circuit outage on 05/05. CANET was unreachable from the ANSNet due to software problems on Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 05/10. E158 (Maui) suffered an extended outage due to site maintenance on 05/27. Jordan Becker, <becker@ans.net> DANTE ----- __________________________________________________________________ * * A bi-monthly electronic news bulletin * * reporting on the activities of DANTE, * the company that provides international * telecommunications services for the THE WORKS OF D A N T E European research community. No.4, June 1994 Editor: Josefien Bersee __________________________________________________________________ DANTE TO DEFINE 'SUPER HIGHWAY' FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH DANTE has been awarded a contract in the framework of the Eureka EuroCAIRN (European Cooperation for Academic and Industrial Research Networking) Project to specify requirements and outline a plan for the delivery of a 34-155 Mbps network infrastructure for the European research community. Dai Davies, General Manager of DANTE, commented: "The timing for this could not have been better: now we have a major opportunity to streamline pan-European networking to complement the national high-speed initiatives in for instance the UK, Netherlands, Germany and the Nordic countries. This is the only way to create a truly complementary pan-European infrastructure." In January 1994 DANTE submitted a detailed proposal to produce such a specification this year. The EuroCAIRN Committee had already accepted the proposal in principle in April and details have now been finalised. DANTE will start the work immediately. Three main issues will be addressed in the specification: technology, organisation, and commercial management of the High Speed Service. Technical issues relate to the availability of circuits and advanced services from PNOs, topology planning, and connectivity requirements to other continents, as well as an assessment of relevant applications. No less challenging are organisational and commercial issues such as management, Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 operational and financial aspects of delivering the service. Basically the technology is available and major issues relate to regulatory constraints and obtaining sensible prices and timely availability of service. The work will be carried out by DANTE in close cooperation with leading specialists in Europe. A small group of key persons have already committed themselves to joining the project team. MAJOR INCREASE IN EUROPANET CONNECTIVITY TO THE US DANTE will expand its existing connectivity to the US from 3,5 to 10 Mbps. The capacity increase will be used to support traffic growth as a result of the deployment of high speed networks in some European countries, in particular The Netherlands. The increase involves implementing a 8 Mbps line between Amsterdam and Washington. This line will constitute the largest link between the US and the European part of the Internet research backbone. SURFnet, the Dutch national research network, will be the first customer to benefit from the 8 Mbps intercontinental connectivity. Boudewijn Nederkoorn, Managing Director of SURFnet, said: "We need this capacity increase to meet our short term bandwidth requirements. We are in the process of setting up an ATM backbone in the Netherlands of nine 34 Mbps connections, and the traffic growth to the US simply demands more capacity than 2 Mbps." SURFnet will be by far the biggest single customer for intercontinental connectivity, but the benefits from the capacity increase will serve researchers on both sides of the Atlantic. DANTE has already started negotiations with possible line suppliers and expects to have the line in place by October 1994. UPGRADE AMSTERDAM-PRAGUE LINE FOR INETU94/JENC5 On the occasion of the Workshop for Technically Emerging Countries and the INETU94/JENC5 conference DANTE has organised an upgrade from 64 kbps to 512 kbps of the existing EuropaNET connection in Prague. Funding for the upgrade is provided through the CEC PHARE program; the Czech Republic was connected to the EuropaNET backbone in 1993 under the same program. DANTE has organised the upgrade to meet the networking requirements of the hundreds of Workshop and Conference attendees. The DANTE line will be used to support the increase in general IP traffic, such as e-mail, between Prague and continental Europe; DANTE is Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 seeking funds to keep the 512 kbps connection in place after the event. For the occasion a new trunk line is provided by DANTE. The final link in the connection is established via two local loops, from the EuropaNET node in the PTT building in Prague: one to the Technical University, where the Workshop takes place, and the second to the Palace of Culture, the venue of the Conference. DANTE has put a lot of effort in setting up the line and has liaised with all involved parties, including Unisource, the Czech PTT, and CEC-PHARE. MORE EUROPANET ENHANCEMENTS DANTE has arranged with SURFnet to continue to make use of the T1 (1.5 Mbps) line between Amsterdam and CERN during the second half of 1994. The line, that used to be part of Ebone, will connect DANTE's Points of Presence (PoPs) in Amsterdam and CERN. The arrangement enables DANTE to implement several enhancements to the EuropaNET Service. The line will provide a direct back-up route between the European ends of DANTE's two transatlantic lines; in case of a failure of one of the transatlantic lines, traffic can be diverted automatically to the other one without imposing any extra load on EMPB. It will also be used as part of the Ebone/EuropaNET interconnection which DANTE has proposed to Ebone for the second half of 1994. CERN, as one of the locations where EuropaNET and Ebone are both present, will be used as the actual point of interconnection but traffic will flow in and out of EMPB through DANTE's PoP in Amsterdam. Similar arrangements are being made for a EUnet interconnection. The principle of establishing a 64 kbps interconnection with EuropaNET in Amsterdam has already been agreed; the ways in which any additional capacity that is required will be funded is still being discussed. Since no new lines are required to set up these services, DANTE is confident that they will be operational by 1 July 1994. THE KOREAN CONNECTION A contract for the provision of a 64 kbps line between EuropaNET and KREONET, the Korean research network, was signed between DANTE and the CEC in February 1994. The circuit has now been ordered and should be operational within a few months. It will be the first Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 direct link between the European research community and an R&D network in the Pacific Rim. So far cooperation between European and Korean researchers has been relatively weak. NAMEFLOW: ANOTHER DANTE FLOWSERVICE NameFLOW is the successor to the PARADISE Project, which was part of the EUREKA COSINE Project, and had the remit to pilot a coordinated international directory service for the European Research Community. DANTE will take on the challenge of transforming the pilot into an operational service. In parallel with the provision of the service DANTE will - in cooperation with its customers - define a strategy for the future development of international directory services. Opinions on this issue vary considerably within the European research community. CALL FOR TENDER MailFLOW - REMINDER An open Call for Tender for the provision MHS-Coordination, MailFLOW, has been issued by DANTE. Tender requirements are available from the DANTE gopher server, in the MailFLOW directory (dir /FLOWservices or URL: gopher://gopher.dante.net:70/00/pub/flowservices/mail/call-for- tender-95). The deadline for submitting proposals is 30 June 1994. _________________________________________________________________ DANTE - Lockton House - Clarendon Road - Cambridge - CB2 2BH - UK tel +44 223 302992 fax +44 223 303005 e-mail <dante@dante.org.uk> Gopher information server <gopher.dante.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 Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 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 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 NEW InterNIC INFOGUIDE InterNIC Information Services announces the availability of the InterNIC InfoGuide, a new 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_. Greater in size and scope than the InfoSource, the InterNIC InfoGuide offers an extensive list of pointers to online resources, Internet organizations, Internet access providers around the world, and current National Information Infrastructure information. It allows users to select indexes based on subject, title, or author Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 and follow hypertext links from those indexes to documents, images, sounds, video, or other gophers and WorldWideWeb sites. Future versions of the InterNIC InfoGuide will offer enhancements to the indexing function and a section for more advanced, technically oriented users, such as system administrators and network programmers. To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html or your gopher client to: is.internic.net THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights 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 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 Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 NICLINK The introductory issue of NICLink has been shipped. NICLink is InterNIC Information Services' multiplatform CD-ROM periodical which contains information about the Internet, its resources and tools, and how to use it. NICLink runs on Macintosh, MS DOS and Windows, and a variety of different UNIX platforms. It also features full-text search-and-retrieval capability for powerful searches on the information contained on the disk. An annual subscription offers 4 disks, each with up-to-date information from our online information server. The introductory issue is being offered free to qualified US research and education institutions. For more information about the free offer and NICLink, including ordering information, send email to info@internic.net or gopher to is.internic.net under /InterNIC Information Services (General Atomics)/About InterNIC Information Services. THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS... "The Internet As A Strategic Business Tool" Presented by Joel Maloff InterNIC Information Services is proud to introduce its latest seminar, "The Internet as a Strategic Business Tool", presented by Joel Maloff. Joel has been involved in leading-edge telecommunications for the past twenty years and with the Internet for the past eight years. As Executive Director of CICNet (the Big Ten universities research network) and later as Vice President of Client Services for Advanced Network & Services (ANS), Joel has been a leader in helping people to understand the benefits derived from the Internet. In his seminar for the InterNIC, Joel will use actual case studies to demonstrate many ways in which the Internet can enhance an institution's long-range strategic plan, as long as the goals, costs and benefits are well considered. The seminar will be offered in various locations throughout the summer. For more information, including cost, dates and times, send email to seminars@internic.net. NSF NETWORK NEWS The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 2 (May/June 1994) has gone to press. It features an interview with the new Executive Director of the Internet Society, Tony Rutkowski. This issue also includes a full-length article about the new NSFNET architecture, with a topology map; a Regional NIC Report from NorthWestNet about health care providers and the Internet; a news brief on current and Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 pending National Information Infrastructure (NII) legislation; and regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and updates from all InterNIC partners. To subscribe, send email to newsletter-request@internic.net. Please include your postal address if you want hardcopy. The _NSF Network News_ is now available on the WorldWideWeb at http://www.internic.net/newsletter/ The Web version employs full text, graphics, and animation to provide news and information in an attractive, easy-to-use hypertext format. Be sure to check it out! 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/archives/nsfnews-mar-94.txt or get /about-internic/newsletter/archives/nsfnews-sep-93.txt As InterNIC Information Services' bimonthly publication for the Internet community, the _NSF Network News_ is being distributed to over 5,000 subscribers in 44 different countries and the United States. Total distribution includes members of Internet organizations such as FARNET and the Internet Society, national, regional and midlevel service providers, network information centers, and national supercomputer centers as well as a wide variety of individual subscribers from the Internet community. The goal of the _NSF Network News_ is to educate Internet users about network issues, resources, and tools; announce new and innovative uses of the Internet; and inform the Internet community about the activities of the InterNIC. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 REFERENCE DESK The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for May: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 101 2.7 Phone 3351 89.8 Fax 82 2.2 US Mail 26 <1 Referral 170 4.5 ------- -------- --------- Total 3730 100.0 by Karen D. Frazer <kfrazer@is.internic.net> DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES InterNIC Directory and Database Services makes a number of databases accessible to the Internet community on our servers. These databases can be found in the pub directory under FTP, and are also accessible via Gopher (through your own Gopher client or through the "gopher" or "guest" logins on our servers), World Wide Web, and our mail server. Some are also searchable using WAIS. Some of the more recent additions include: - Information on the National Performance Review (in pub/npr.email.lab). The National Performance Review (NPR) is conducted under the office of the Vice President in an effort to improve the efficiency and productivity of the Federal Government. Vice President Gore's report of the National Performance Review stated "...government-wide E-Mail will make the government work better and cost less". The Electronic Support Services Environment (ESSE, pronounced "easy") E-Mail Laboratory, a component of the NPR, was established to enact recommendations from Vice President Gore's report. ESSE maintains this library which contains documents related to the NPR. - The Draft Report of the Federal Electronic Commerce Acquisition Team (in pub/ecat.library). The Report is in ASCII text, PostScript, and Adobe Acrobat PDF formats. The ASCII version does not include figures; both the PostScript and PDF versions do. Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 - Profiles of Network Information Centers (in directory pub/nicprofiles). The NIC Profiles database was created for the Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI) working group of the IETF. Each file in this subdirectory contains information for a Network Information Center (NIC) attached to the Internet. Some other databases available include an online version of the journal "The Scientist" (in pub/the-scientist), a DOS/PC-based trainer for Knight-Ridder's Dialog Information Services (in pub/trainer-dialog), and information on databases accessible using the 1992 version of the Z39.50 protocol (in pub/z39.50). 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 12000 network addresses and registered over 1300 domains, including top-level domains for Russsian Federation (RU), Belarus (BY) and Saudi Arabia (SU). Blocks of 256 Class C addresses were assigned to the DDN NIC, Sesquinet, PSI, BARRNet, State of Michigan, NETCOM, Michnet, CA*Net, EPA, John Deere, and Brazil. I. Registration Statistics For May Hostmaster Email 5,009 Postal/Fax Applications 251 Telephone Calls 2,047 Domain Registered 1,316 Inverse Addresses 565 Class C's Assigned 12,645 Class B's Assigned 20 ASN Assigned 57 Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of May. Connections Retrievals Gopher 48,859 24,748 WAIS 24,748 40,611 FTP 8,779 38,638 Mailserv 1,387 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 211257 785015 Scott Williamson <scottw@internic.net> ISI --- NETSTATION ---------- LANai 1.1 Chips Arrive ---------------------- During May the first of the Mosaic successor chips, LANai 1.1, arrived from Myricom. These chips are designed specifically for LAN rather than multicomputer application. They are installed and running in the SPARCstation-2s that we use for development. The ATOMIC group here at USC/ISI and Chuck Seitz's group at Caltech built upon the experiences that we had with the Mosaic chips in creating the ATOMIC LAN. It was clear that there were some changes needed if a transition was to be made from research testbed to a commercial network. Although well-suited for use as pieces of a multicomputer, the Mosaic chips really were not designed for the less-controlled communication environment of a pysically distributed LAN. There were also some performance improvements that could be made and enhancements that better suited LAN application. The key differences from the Memoryless Mosaic chips that were used in the ATOMIC prototype LAN are: 1) A 40 meter cable interface with flow control, link CRC, blocked path draining, and remote reset capability. Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 2) A memory architecture that supports 2*channel performance. This allows a 500 Mb/s channel transfer and DMA transfer to/from host memory in parallel. 3) Interrupt timer with four microsecond resolution for rate control and event timing. Event Queue Implementation and Performance ------------------------------------------ One of the new features of the LANai is its interrupt timer. The LANai supports an extremely fast context switch due to its separate system and user register sets. This allows us to effectively manage events, such as a timeout, that are very short. An example of how this can be used is to implement reliable RPC messages within the LAN via UDP, without requiring TCP. The LANai channel CRC allows a receiver to immediately determine whether or not an incoming packet has been damaged. The source LANai can maintain a queue of pending RPCs and round-trip timers associated with them, retransmitting when a timer expires. The technique of application-layer framing in conjunction with RPC stenciling was already shown to provide a 900% improvement over the traditional UNIX-stack mechanisms. But to ensure that an RPC once sent actually arrives undamaged requires both error detection and retransmission capabilities. The objective here is to allow cooperative parallel computing via RPC messages, where the responsibility for reliable delivery of a UDP/RPC message is taken off the hands of the host system and placed into the LAN. This allows the application software to treat the LAN as if it were as reliable as a DMA transfer across a system bus. The LAN also needs reliable transmission for its internal management and control messages. It is hoped that this facility will allow us to enforce within the LAN a very short retransmission round-trip timeout, and so achieve a substantial performance improvement. To that end an event queue has been implemented for the LANai chip. This is similar to the callout queue used in UNIX. A list of events is maintained, sorted by ascending event time. The interrupt timer fires when the nearest event times out. As a result the procedure associated with that event is executed in system context. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 Performance testing has demonstrated that the LANai event queue has an overhead of approximately 30 microseconds per event. This includes all overhead to maintain the event queue, service the interrupt and call the associated event procedure. With 30 microseconds as the lower limit, rule of thumb suggests that retransmission timeouts can remain effective if they are as short as 50 microseconds. Greg Finn <finn@isi.edu) INFRASTRUCTURE Jon Postel, Greg Finn, Walt Prue, and Joe Touch attended Interop on Atomic and chair a Telecommuting BOF at Interop '94 in Las Vegas. 21 RFCs were published this month. RFC 1611: Austein, R., (Epilogue Technology Corporation), Saperia, J., (Digital Equipment Corp.), "DNS Server MIB Extensions", May 1994. RFC 1612: Austein, R., (Epilogue Technology Corporation), Saperia, J., (Digital Equipment Corp.), "DNS Resolver MIB Extensions", May 1994. RFC 1613: Forster, J., G. Satz, G. Glick, "Cisco Systems X.25 R. Day, (JANET), Over TCP (XOT)", May 1994. RFC 1614: Adie, C., "Network Access to Multimedia Information" Edinburgh Univ. Computing Serv., May 1994. RFC 1615: Houttuin, J., (RARE Secretariat), J. Craigie, (Joint Network Team), "Migrating from X.400(84) to X.400(88). May 1994. RFC 1616: RARE WG-MSG Task Force 88, "X.400(1988) for the Academic and Research Community in Europe", May 1994. RFC 1617: Barker, P., (UCL), S. Kille, (ISODE Consortium), T. Lenggenhager (SWITCH), "Naming and Structuring Guidelines for X.500 Directory Pilots", May 1994. RFC 1618: Simpson, W., "PPP Over ISDN", Daydreamer, May 1994. RFC 1619: Simpson, W., "PPP Over SONET/SDH", Daydreamer, May 1994. Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 RFC 1620: Braden, B. (ISI), J. Postel (ISI), Y. Rekhter (IBM Research), "Internet Architecture Extensions for Shared Media", May 1994. RFC 1621: Francis, P., "Pip Near-Term Architecture", May 1994. RFC 1622: Francis, P., "Pip Header Processing", May 1994. RFC 1623: Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types", FTP Software, Inc., May 1994. RFC 1624: Rijsinghani, A., Editor, "Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update", Digital Equipment Corporation, May 1994. RFC 1626: Atkinson, R., "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5", Naval Research Laboratory, May 1994. RFC 1628: Case, J., Editor, "UPS Management Information Base", SNMP Research, Incorporated, May 1994. RFC 1629: Colella, R., (NIST), R. Callon (Wellfleet), E. Gardner (Mitre), Y. Rekhter, (T.J. Watson Researcg Center, IBM Corp.), "Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet", May 1994. RFC 1631: Egevang, K., (Cray Communications), P. Francis, (NTT), "The IP Network Address Translator (NAT)", May 1994. RFC 1632: "Getchell, A., (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), S. Sataluri, (AT&T Bell Laboratories), Editors, "A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations", May 1994. RFC 1634: Allen, M., "Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN)", Novelll, Inc., May 1994. RFC 1635: Deutsch, P., A. Emtage (BUNYIP), A. Marine (NASA NAIC, "How to Use Anonymous FTP", May 1994. Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 378 PHONE 62 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 440 DELEGATIONS 49 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 26 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 365 --------------------------- Total 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.AK.US Alaska, State gov't agencies GEN.FL.US Florida general branch MUS.FL.US Florida museum branch STATE.MA.US Massachusetts, State Gov agencies TEC.NY.US Technical Schools of New York LIB.NY.US New York libraries MUS.NY.US New York museums GEN.NY.US New York general branch COG.NY.US New York councils of gov't STATE.TN.US Tennessee, State gov't agencies Localities: MT-KISCO.NY.US Mt-Kisco, New York, locality NYC.NY.US New York City, locality ROCHESTER.NY.US Rochester, New York, locality ROSLYN.NY.US Roslyn, New York, locality WESTCHESTER.NY.US Westchester, New York, locality VANWERT.OH.US Vanwert, Ohio, locality ALLENTOWN.PA.US Allentown, PA, locality ALLEGHENY.PA.US Allegheny, PA, locality BLOOMSBURG.PA.US Bloomsburg, PA, locality CHESTER.PA.US Chester, PA, locality EPHRATA.PA.US Ephrata, PA, locality Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 ERIE.PA.US Erie, PA, locality HARRISBURG.PA.US Harrisburg, PA, locality HAZELTON.PA.US Hazelton, PA, localty LANCASTER.PA.US Lancaster, PA, locality MONROE.PA.US Monroe, PA, locality PENN-VALLEY.PA.US Penn-Valley, PA, locality PHILADELPHIA.PA.US Philadelphia, PA, locality POTTSVILLE.PA.US Pottsville, PA, locality SCRANTON.PA.US Scranton, PA, locality STROUDSBURG.PA.US Stroudsburg, PA, locality WILKES-BARRE.PA.US Wilkes-Barre, PA, locality YORK.PA.US York, PA, PA, locality SEATTLE.WA.US Seattle, Washington, locality Other US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------- SYNERGY.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US Synergy Microsystems, Inc FRISCO-BAY.SOMERSET.NJ.US Frisco Bay Industries Limited HIGHWAY.SLC.UT.US Utah Information Highway Co. PMH.EL-PASO.TX.US Providence Memorial Hospital DCN.DAVIS.CA.US UC-Davis Community Network Health-Dept.CO.LA.CA.US Los Angeles, County Health Serv. SHASTA-CO-LIB.CA.US Shasta County Library BCH.CI.BOSTON.MA.US Boston City Hospital SIPI.TEC.NM.US Southwestern Indian Polytech Inst GESTALT.HERNDON.VA.US Gestalt Systems, Inc. CHRONICLE.WASHINGTON.DC.US Chronicle of Higher Ed. Newspaper ODOWD.PVT.K12.CA.US Bishop O'Dowd High School CSSD.K12.VT.US Chittenden South School District LSRHS.LINSUD.K12.MA.US Lincoln-Sudbury Regional HS DCS.STATE.AR.US Dept. Computer Serv., State of AR 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- ME X X MI X X X X X MN X X X X X X X MO X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MS 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 =========================================================== 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) MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's NSFNET Project Internet Engineering and Network Management groups. Merit held the first meeting of the NANOG (North American Network Operators Group) in Ann Arbor on June 2nd and 3rd. Susan Hares introduced preliminary transition plans and timelines for migration to the new NSFNET program. Merit anticipates that the NAPs and Route Servers will be in place by the end of July. Trials with Network Service Providers (NSPs) and Midlevel networks will begin during August. September and October should see the dual-connection of Regional Service Providers and subsequent detachment of networks from the current ANS/NSFNET backbone with a goal of November 1st for detaching 90% of the networks from the backbone. It is anticipated that only the Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 NSF Supercomputer sites may remain attached to the NSFnet backbone after November 1st. The first day also included discussion of the technical specifications for attaching to NAPs, the service offerings of NAP awardees and NAP network operations. The second day included a review of ATM testbed routing experiments, the Route Server Network Management Architecture and strategies, recent changes to the Policy Routing Data Base and Routing Regestries, and plans for future meetings. Testing of the PacBell ATM-NAP continues under Jessica Yu's leadership. The testbed is configured as: Router Servers | cisco/ADSU | testnet1<-->cisco/ADSU<-->ATM switch<-->cisco/ADSU<-->testnet2 The tests have verified the feasibility of integrating the Route Server approach into an ATM-based NAP using currently available technologies and software implementations. Enke Chen attended an ATM Tutorial and explored ATM product offerings at Spring InterOP'94. Modifications to the Policy Routing Data Base (PRDB) continue in order to support the features of gated and CIDR. Recent changes include the removal of Fake ASs, support for Proxy Aggregation and acceptance of classless CIDR routes. FakeASs were removed for Alternet, CA*net, DSI, BARRnet and ESnet. The following table shows which AS numbers have been replaced. Old New DSI 60 2699 274 2699 ESnet 291 293 293 293 CA*net 601 577 602 577 603 577 Alternet 701 701 702 701 Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 BARRnet: 200 200 201 200 Merit also provides proxy aggregation for DSI which currently must use EGP. Proxy aggregation for DSI reduces the number of unique DSI net numbers that must be carried in routing tables. Merit continues its work with NSF/ANSnet attached networks to support CIDR. While only a relatively small number of ASs remain to switch to BGP4, the benefits of CIDR aggregation continue to accrue. During May approximately 2,083 specific routes were removed from the backbone routers in favor of CIDR aggregates. This decrease from 19,688 routes at the end of April to 17,605 at the end of May represents the second month of negative growth in the routing table size since the internet-wide deployment of CIDR. Elise Gerich and Laurent Joncheray attended the RIPE meeting in Amsterdam May 16th through 18th. Merit had proposed extensions to RIPE-81 which were discussed in the Routing WG meeting. General agreement on new attributes was reached and a revised RIPE document will be published. Merit Routing Registry tools are available for anonymous ftp from rrdb.merit.edu in the directory /pub/meritrr. You may address your comments and questions to rradmin@rrdb.merit.edu. Andy Adams will attend a NSF-sponsored workshop to address the instrumentation needs and design considerations for cross-platform interoperability in a federation of networked botanical specimen databases. The workshop will be at the University of California- Berkeley June 9th through the 12th. Kenneth T. Latta, II (klatta@merit.edu) Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK) --------------------------------------------------- NEARnet Membership Update ------------------------- NEARNET would like to welcome the following new members who have joined NEARNET during the month of May: Holstein Association of Brattleboro, VT Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), the operating division for the New York and American Stock Exchanges. Northeast Consulting Resources (NECR) of Boston, MA ENSR Consulting Engineering of Acton, MA Applied Science and Technology, Inc (ASTEX) of Woburn, MA Granada Hospital Group, Inc. of Burlington, MA NEARNET 1994 MINI-SEMINARS UPDATE "Business and the Internet on May 25" The third NEARNET Mini-Seminar for 1994, entitled "Business and the Internet" was held on May 25, 1994 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM at BBN's Newman Auditorium, 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA. The seminar addressed how and why organizations are increasingly using the Internet to offer business services. It was presented in panel format and included the following presenters: John Curran, NEARNET product manager; Daniel Dern, Internet analyst and author of The Internet Guide for New Users; Laura Fillmore, president of Editorial Inc. and the Online Bookstore; Joel Maloff, an Internet consultant for the Maloff Company; Michael Strangelove, editor of the Internet Business Journal, and author of the soon-to-be published book, How to Advertise on the Internet. NEARNET members who wish to attend any of the NEARNET Mini-Seminars should send mail to: nearnet-seminars@near.net. Additional information on future mini-seminars for 1994 will be announced shortly. NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE The Spring set of NEARNET Training Courses was held on May 11, 12 and 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. also in BBN's Newman Auditorium. The three full-day set of courses include: (Day 1) An Introduction to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New NEARNET Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 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 Summer training session is scheduled for August 10-12. For more information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-us@near.net or call 617-873-8730. NEARNET USER SERVICES STEERING COMMITTEE (USSC) UPDATE The next meeting of the NEARNET USSC will be held on June 27 at BBN. The focus of the upcoming meeting will be to continue improving the NEARNET Gopher. Richard Harrison, President of Harrison & Troxell Inc., will meet with the committee to discuss improvements to the InterNavigator portion of the NEARNET Gopher. The InterNavigator is a Gopher menu tree of Internet Resources which is updated daily and available to NEARNET members through the NEARNET Gopher. "NEARNET THIS MONTH" ONLINE BULLETIN PUBLISHED NEARNET has published and distributed the April/May issue of its online bulletin, "NEARNET This Month". Past issues are available via anonymous FTP at ftp.near.net in the pathname: newsletter/nearnet-this-month. Past issues are also accessible via Gopher and WWW. Future issues will include information on upcoming 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@near.net. by NEARNET Client Services <nearnet-us@nic.near.net> NORTHWESTNET ------------ On May 17th, NorthWestNet cosponsored with Cisco Systems and the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory a one-day seminar, "K-12 and the Internet: Opportunities and Solutions." This seminar was held at the Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education in Beaverton, Oregon. A capacity crowd of 70 participants heard the following presentations: Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 An Overview of the Internet David Robison, Education Documentation Specialist NorthWestNet Planning for the Internet Don Holznagel, Technology Program Director Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory K-12 and the Internet Tracy LaQuey Parker, Manager of Education Market Development Cisco Systems, Inc. Internetworking K-12: Electronically Shrinking the World George Ward, K-12 Consulting Services Engineer Cisco Systems, Inc. Internet Connectivity and Membership with NorthWestNet Brian Bursch, Member Relations Account Executive NorthWestNet Presenters focused on the needs and concerns of the K-12 audience and wrapped the day with an extensive question and answer session. The User Services committee convened by teleconference on May 17 for its monthly topical discussion. This month, the group focused on the implementation of Gopher. Eve Ruff of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center led the discussion. Eve moderated a similar session earlier this year, but offered to do this much requested follow-up and include information she gathered at the Gopher conference held at the University of Minnesota in late April. ----------------- 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. Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 PREPnet ------- PREPnet New Members: -------------------- Galt Technologies, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA Bell Atlantic SNCC, Harrisburg, PA Internet Cafe, Scranton, PA With these additions, PREPnet now totals 179 members. PREPnet News: ------------- Training On May 24, Felicia Ferlin, conducted PREPnet's Introduction to the Internet training session with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU) computer staff and curriculum staff members. With the help of AIU's Bill Beldham, live demos and informal hands-on training were done using site software and hardware. Meetings & Conferences Date Attendee(s) Meeting(s) May 12 Tom Bajzek FARnet May 23 Tom Bajzek Rural Datafication Meeting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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) Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 RIPEnet ------- RIPE NCC Annual Report 1993 Daniel Karrenberg RIPE NCC Manager The RIPE Network Coordination Centre supports all Internet service providers in Europe. The NCC is funded by the European Internet service providers. RARE provides the formal framework for the NCC. The main activities center around European Internet coordination. The following graph shows the number of individual European Internet hosts registered in the domain name system for 1992 and 1993. The European Internet roughly doubles in size every year. RIPE NCC Hostcount 1992-1993 600000++---------------------------------------------------+ | | 550000++ oA | | oA | 500000++ oA | | oA | 450000++ oA | | oA | 400000++ oAo | | oA | 350000++ AoA | | o | | oAoA | 300000++ oA | | oA | 250000++ oAoA | | oAoA | 200000++ oAo | | oAoAoAoA | 150000++ A | | | 100000++-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+ J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D The most visible activity of the NCC is the regional Internet registry whose task is the assignment of Internet network layer address space to European enterprises. For this purpose a distributed system has been set up. 83 local registries operated by Internet service providers assign address space locally. The NCC as regional registry delegates address space to the local registries, supports them and ensures that address space assignment Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 occurs in a fair and regular manner. The NCC also deals with requests for large amounts of address space and requests from enterprises for which no appropriate local registry exists. The European Internet registries have assigned 16871 network numbers during 1993. The RIPE NCC maintains the RIPE network management database containing information about IP networks, DNS domains, Routing Policies and the appropriate contact persons. The number of entries in this database is shown in the graph below. It has been increasing faster since the European Internet registry system has become fully operational in September 1992. Entries in the RIPE Database 1992-1993 50000++--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | 45000++ A | | oo | | oo | 40000++ oo | | oA | 35000++ oo | | oo | 30000++ oAo | | oo | | oo | 25000++ oAo | | oo | 20000++ oo | Ao | 15000++ oo | | oo | | oo | 10000++ oooA | | oooAooooooAooo | 5000++---Aooo---+------+------+------+------+------+------+-----+---+ Jan-92 Apr-92 Jun-92 Sep-92 Dec-92 Mar-93 Jun-93 Sep-93 Dec-93 During 1993 the NCC has totally re-designed and re-implemented the update process for the database. This is now fully automatic for almost all updates. During 1993 a total of 157004 updates has been processed. The NCC also maintains the RIPE document store which stores all RIPE documents and a host of related information. It is accessible by the classical Internet services, common resource discovery tools and from the public X.25 networks. Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 During 1993 the NCC has been operating well within its budget. The unexpectedly low expenditure on travel is due to major meetings being held in Amsterdam (IETF, RIPE meetings). 1993 NCC Expenditure (in kECU) Budget Actual Staff 140 133 Computing Equipment 20 15 Travel 25 9 Rent, Services 29 22 Recruitment 2 2 ________________ Total 216 181 ________________ The NCC staffing level has been constant since the start of operations in April 1992. Due to the increased workload caused by the growth of the European Internet more staff will be needed in 1994. During 1993 the three special projects have been carried out at the NCC under the RARE technical program. The "European Route Server" and "Generic Internet Service Description" projects have been concluded successfully resulting in among other things a European route server deployed at the GIX. The PRIDE (Policy-Based Routing Implementation and Deployment in Europe) project has started and resulted in a well populated European routing registry as well as a first set of tools to use the information in that registry. PRIDE continues in 1994. All special projects are funded by interested parties separately from the NCC core services. For a detailed description of NCC activities see the NCC activity plan produced by RIPE and the Quarterly Reports published by the NCC. These and other related documents are available from the RIPE document store or directly from the NCC at <ncc@ripe.net> or +31 20 592 5065. UCL ---- John Crowcroft gave a seminar on security mechanisms for inter- domain routing protocols at the Computer Lab, Cambridge, England. A Prototype of the CCCP (Conference Control Channel Protocol) library is in alpha testing. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 CALENDAR -------- Last update: 6/9/94 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> 1994 ------------ 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. 27-28 SUPERCOMPUTER '94 Germany Jun. 27-Jul. 1 High Performance Ntwg-HPN '94 Grenoble, France Jun. 27-Jul. 1 Home-oriented informatics Copenhagen, Denmark Jun. 27-Jul. 2 4th Intntl Russian Forum Moscow Jul. 6-7 X3T5 Gaithersburg, MD Jul. 11-15 8th ACM Intntl Supercomputing Manchester, England Jul. 11-15 2nd Intntl Summer School on Advanced Broadband Commun. Madrid, Spain Jul. 11-15 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Orlando, FL Jul. 13-14 Intntl W/S Community Networking Integrated Multimedia Svs. Santa Clara, CA Jul. 18-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary Southampton, UK 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. 2-5 HPDC-3 San Francisco, 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 Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 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. 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. 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. 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. 5-7 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 1995 --------- 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 (confirmed) Santa Clara, CA Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 20-24 32nd IETF (Tentative) Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV April 19-21 5th Network & Operating System Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA April 3-7 32nd IETF (Tentative) 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 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 ----------- 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 --------- Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 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 june 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 ------------------------ 17 June afternoon (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Prague 30 June Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 1 September Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 2 September (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 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 Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors --------------------------------------- 12 June afternoon Prague RARE'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE IVth FRAMEWORK - Open Plenary ------------------------------------------------------- 14 June afternoon Prague RARE Working Groups ------------------- ATM (closed group) 13 June afternoon Prague WG-CHAR 14 June morning Prague WG-IMM 14 June morning Prague WG-ISUS 13/14 June Prague WG-LLT 14 June morning Prague WG-MSG 13 June afternoon Prague WG-NAP 13 June Prague WG-NOP 14 June morning Prague WG-SEC 13 June morning Prague JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING 1-2 December London (after NSC'94) RIPE ---- 12-14 September Lisboa VARIOUS ------- Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM 22 June Cambridge, UK EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 23 June Amsterdam EBONE Management Committee June (tbc) Prague EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team) EARN Board of Directors 30 November - 2 December London DANTE Shareholders 20 September TBC Euro-CCIRN CCIRN 20/21 June Amsterdam INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 13/14 June Prague IETF 25-29 July Toronto 5-9 December San Jose, California Summer 1995 Stockholm, Sweden EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 13-14 September Brussels 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 7 June Brussels 27 September Brussels 6 December Brussels Workshops 27 June - 1 July Brussels 10-14 October Brussels Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 ETSI ---- General Assembly 22/23 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 18-20 October Nice, France INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee 12 June (lunch) telephone meeting ******************************************************************* INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5) 13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic 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>. For information, email <inet-jenc-sec@rare.nl>. ******************************************************************* 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) INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY ----------------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 June 1994 at the Czech Technical University in Prague Email <workshop-apply@nyu.edu> SUPERCOMPUTER '94 Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 ----------------- High Performance Computing und Networking fuer Multimedia on 27/28 June 1994 at Mannheim University in Germany *** this tutorial will be in GERMAN language *** information from Hans-Werner Meuer <meuer@rz.uni-mannheim.de> ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - ECT 94 -------------------------------------------- 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> First INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTANCE EDUCATION in Russia -------------------------------------------------------------- Distance Learning and New Technologies in Education, and the exhibition BUILDING AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT organised by the State Committee for Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Informationa Systems Research Institute of Russia, Russian Academy of Administration and VIRTUS Institute, USA. from 5 till 8 July 1994 in Moscow *CALL FOR PAPERS* For further information, email <DE_RUSSIA_1994@AIE.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> Cooper [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 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> 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> 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 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 NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 ------------------------------ from 28 to 30 November 1994 Cooper [Page 46] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 in London (UK) *CALL FOR PAPERS* deadline 1 July 1994. For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via email: A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet Paper submissions to: NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING ----------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA *CALL FOR PAPERS* -> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995 deadline 11 July 1994 Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445 EEMA MEETINGS ------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 47] Internet Monthly Report May 1994 Cooper [Page 48]