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NIC.MERIT.EDU> /internet/newsletters/internet.monthly.report/imr94-07.txt July 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 Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 NYSERNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32 RARE SECRETARIAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 42 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. The 30th meeting of the IETF was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from July 25 through July 29, 1994. The meeting was hosted by The University of Toronto. Though not yet final, there were over 700 attendees. The next IETF meeting will be in San Jose, California from December 5-9, 1994. Following that, the IETF will be meeting in Danvers (a suburb of Boston) from April 3-7, 1995. We currently working on the summer IETF meeting to be held in Stockholm, Sweden. Once all the 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 IETF Secretariat has joined the Web! The URL for the IETF Home Page is "http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html" and contains information on IETF Working Groups, Internet-Drafts, RFCs, etc. The proceedings from the Seattle IETF meeting (March, 1994) are on the Web as well. 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following four Protocol Actions during the month of July, 1994: o Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interface is a Draft Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management Version 8.0 is a Proposed Standard. o RDBMS-MIB is a Proposed Standard. o Modem MIB is a Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG issued one Last Call to the IETF during the month of July, 1994: o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 <draft-rose-pop3-again-03> for consideration as a Draft Standard. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 5. One Working Group was created during this period: Mail Extensions (mailext) Additionally, one Working Groups was concluded: Character MIB (charmib) 6. A total of 75 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of July, 1994: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) WG I-D Title <Filename> ------ ----------------------------------------------------- (isis) o Integrated IS-IS Management Information Base <draft-ietf-isis-mib-04.txt> (mhsds) o Representing Tables and Subtrees in the Directory <draft-ietf-mhsds-subtrees-05.txt, .ps> (mhsds) o Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the Directory Information Tree <draft-ietf-mhsds-infotree-05.txt, .ps> (mhsds) o Use of the Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822 Addresses <draft-ietf-mhsds-supmapping-05.txt, .ps> (mhsds) o MHS use of Directory to support MHS Routing <draft-ietf-mhsds-routdirectory-05.txt, .ps> (bgp) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction <draft-ietf-bgp-bgp4ospf-interact-04.txt> (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base <draft-ietf-ospf-mib-04.txt> (pem) o PEM Security Services and MIME <draft-ietf-pem-mime-06.txt> (avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-05.txt, .ps> (isis) o Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Multi-Protocol Environments <draft-ietf-isis-tcpip-01.txt> (rolc) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) <draft-ietf-rolc-nhrp-01.txt> (uri) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL) <draft-ietf-uri-url-04.txt> (mhsds) o Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information in Support of X.400 Routing <draft-ietf-mhsds-long-bud-intro-01.txt> Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 (wnils) o Whois and Network Information Lookup Service Whois++ <draft-ietf-wnils-whois-lookup-01.txt> (none) o Internet Authentication Guidelines <draft-haller-auth-requirements-05.txt> (notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications <draft-ietf-notary-mime-delivery-02.txt> (ripv2) o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information <draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-01.txt> (ifmib) o Management Information Base for Management of Network Connections <draft-ietf-ifmib-conntable-02.txt> (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol <draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-04.txt> (pppext) o PPP Stacker LZS Compression Protocol <draft-ietf-pppext-stacker-01.txt> (ripv2) o RIP Version 2 MIB Extension <draft-ietf-ripv2-mibext2-01.txt> (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification <draft-ietf-rsvp-spec-03.txt, .ps> (osids) o Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol <draft-ietf-osids-cldap-01.txt> (none) o Post Office Protocol - Version 3 <draft-rose-pop3-again-03.txt> (sipp) o Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP): Addressing Architecture <draft-ietf-sipp-routing-addr-02.txt> (imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 <draft-ietf-imap-imap4-04.txt> (ospf) o IP Forwarding Table MIB <draft-ietf-ospf-cidr-route-mib-03.txt> (sipp) o Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) Specification (128-bit address version) <draft-ietf-sipp-spec-01.txt> (isn) o K-12 Internetworking Guidelines <draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide-01.txt, .ps> (none) o Conventional IP over ATM <draft-ohta-ip-over-atm-01.txt> (cat) o The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism <draft-ietf-cat-kerb5gss-01.txt> (tuba) o Transition Plan for TUBA/CLNP <draft-ietf-tuba-transition-01.txt> (isis) o Integrated ISIS Protocol Analysis <draft-ietf-isis-prot-anal-01.txt> (isis) o Experience with the Integrated ISIS Protocol <draft-ietf-isis-opexp-01.txt> (none) o Requirements for Uniform Resource Names <draft-sollins-urn-01.txt> Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support <draft-ietf-mobileip-protocol-05.txt> (none) o Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving, and Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory Schema <draft-howes-x500-schema-01.txt> (ipatm) o ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM <draft-ietf-ipatm-sig-01.txt> (pppext) o Proposal for Callback Control Protocol (CBCP). <draft-ietf-pppext-callback-cp-02.txt> (pem) o Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted <draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-01.txt> (printmib) o Printer MIB <draft-ietf-printmib-printer-mib-02.txt> (none) o Shared Media Architecture for the Internet <draft-ohta-shared-media-01.txt> (none) o Socks Protocol Version 4 <draft-leech-socks-protocol-v4-01.txt> (none) + Accounting Meter Services MIB <draft-brownlee-acct-meter-mib-00.txt> (none) + BigTen (BT) Packet Format <draft-ford-bigten-bt-format-00.txt> (sdr) + SDRP Route Construction <draft-ietf-sdr-route-construction-00.txt, .ps> (cat) + The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM) <draft-ietf-cat-spkmgss-00.txt> (none) + A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools (DRAFT) <draft-ietf-uswg-primer-00.txt> (uri) + Encoding and Use of Uniform Resource Characteristics <draft-ietf-uri-urc-spec-00.txt> (ifmib) + IEEE 802.5 MIB <draft-ietf-ifmib-tokenringmib-00.txt> (ripv2) o RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement <draft-ietf-ripv2-protocol-applic-01.txt> (none) + PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP) <draft-schneider-ppp-sdtp-00.txt> (dnsind) + Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS): Architecture and Mechanism <draft-ietf-dnsind-dynDNS-arch-00.txt> (none) + The Nimrod Routing Architecture <draft-castineyra-routing-arch-00.txt> (dnsind) + Implementation of Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Updates <draft-ietf-dnsind-dynDNS-impl-00.txt> (none) + SC6 Hots up the Pace at its June 20th to 30th Meeting in Tuusula, Finland <draft-houldsworth-sc6-hot-finland-00.txt> (none) + SMTP 521 reply code <draft-durand-smtp-521-reply-code-00.txt> (whip) + A Specification for the Simple Internet White Pages Service. <draft-ietf-whip-iwps-requirements-00.txt> Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 (none) + IPng Mobility Considerations <draft-simpson-ipng-mobility-00.txt> (sipp) + Simple SIPP Transition (SST) Overview <draft-ietf-sipp-sst-overview-00.txt> (idmr) + Internet Group Management Protocol MIB <draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-mib-00.txt> (pppext) + The PPP AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP) <draft-ietf-pppext-atcp2-00.txt> (idmr) + IP Multicast Routing MIB <draft-ietf-idmr-multicast-routmib-00.txt> (idmr) + Protocol Independent Multicast MIB <draft-ietf-idmr-pim-mib-00.txt> (snanau) + Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC <draft-ietf-snanau-appcmib-00.txt> (none) + Dynamic DNS <draft-ohta-dynamic-dns-00.txt> (none) + Mobility Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches <draft-ramanathan-mobility-00.txt, .ps> (none) + Multicast Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches <draft-ramanathan-multicast-00.txt, .ps> (none) + An Architecture for SIPP-16 Address Allocation <draft-rekhter-arch-sipp16-addr-00.txt> (none) + IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod Routing and Addressing Architecture <draft-chiappa-ipng-nimrod-arch-00.txt> (none) + SDRP Routing Header Format for SIPP-16 <draft-ford-sdrp-sipp16-format-00.txt> (snadlc) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: LLC <draft-ietf-snadlc-llc-mib-00.txt> (pppext) + The PPP Banyan Vines Control Protocol (BVCP) <draft-ietf-pppext-vines-00.txt> (pppext) + PPP Kerberos version 4 Authentication Protocol (KAPv4) <draft-ietf-pppext-kapv4-auth-00.txt> (tuba) + Extensions to MIB-II for TUBA/CLNP systems <draft-ietf-tuba-mib-00.txt> 7. There were 25 RFC's published during the month of July, 1994: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1610 S (iab) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC1627 I (none) Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices Shouldn't be Codified) RFC1641 E (none) Using Unicode with MIME RFC1642 E (none) UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 RFC1643 S (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types RFC1644 E (none) T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functional Specification RFC1645 I (none) Simple Network Paging Protocol - Version 2 RFC1646 I (tn3270e) TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection RFC1647 PS (tn3270e) TN3270 Enhancements RFC1648 PS (x400ops) Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations RFC1649 I (x400ops) Operational Requirements for X.400 Management Domains in the GO-MHS Community RFC1651 DS (smtpext) SMTP Service Extensions RFC1652 DS (smtpext) SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport RFC1653 DS (smtpext) SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration RFC1654 PS (bgp) A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) RFC1655 PS (bgp) Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet RFC1656 I (bgp) BGP-4 Protocol Document Roadmap and Implementation Experience RFC1657 PS (bgp) Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) using SMIv2 RFC1658 DS (charmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for Character Stream Devices using SMIv2 RFC1659 DS (charmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for RS-232-like Hardware Devices using SMIv2 RFC1660 DS (charmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for Parallel-printer-like Hardware Devices using SMIv2 RFC1661 S (pppext) The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) RFC1662 S (pppext) PPP in HDLC-like Framing RFC1663 PS (pppext) PPP Reliable Transmission RFC1665 PS (snanau) Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs using SMIv2 St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 INTERNET PROJECTS ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ======================= ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 1.75% in July'94. An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of .35% was observed during the month of July. April Backbone Traffic Statistics ============================== The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 62,709,811,154 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 1.5% from June. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 71,692,393,856 up 1.74% from June. Router Forwarding Table Statistics ================================ The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during July was 17,853 up .35% from June. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during July was 15,894. BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status ============================ No new autonomous systems began exchanging routing information with ANSnet via the BGP-4 protocol during June. As of August 9th '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 6,732 class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables that are now represented by 1,157 configured aggregates. Among these configured aggregates: 1,026 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another aggregate). 818 of these are actively announced to ANSnet. 683 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other 135 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements). Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 596 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one configured more specific route. 583 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their configured more specific routes. 570 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+) of their more specific routes. For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu: pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr-savings. For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings. Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration or less). This is intended as a measure of overall system stability rather than complete connectivity. Some instability was experienced in July mostly due to router restarts required to accomplish installation of a new AIX build and problems with gated during reconfiguration. There were also some equipment problems that caused instability for E222 and E163. 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% 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 96.6% N/A ... June 99.5% N/A July 98.7% N/A Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability follows. During July, most of the nodes fell in the 1-2 hour range due to the AIX deployment and gated reconfiguration problems. This instability was during the maintenance window. MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min <98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97% ------------------------------------------------------------ January 0 0 1 8 19 55 February 0 0 1 24 19 41 March 0 4 18 23 23 22 April 2 2 3 13 12 57 May 0 4 33 32 15 5 June 3 21 35 18 12 3 July 0 12 28 44 6 1 August 1 5 28 21 17 15 September 1 38 25 10 4 13 October 0 3 3 10 25 50 November 1 2 15 25 24 26 December 0 8 24 46 9 3 January 0 0 4 9 15 54 February 0 4 6 23 40 20 ... June 0 0 0 5 5 67 July 0 7 55 11 10 7 External route flap reports have been rewritten to accomodate differences in the wayroutes are withdrawn in BGP-4 (there is never an AS path included) and the support of CIDR. The new reports are described in: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/daily-reports/README Notable Outages for June '94 ========================== UNAM suffered extended circuit outages on 06/06 and 06/18. E222 (InterNIC) suffered an extended circuit outage on 06/17. E158 (MHPCC) suffered an extended outage due to site maintenance on 06/18. E138 (Atlanta) lost T3 connectivity due to hardware problems on 06/25. Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 UNAM suffered an extended outage due to site maintenance on 06/29. Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net> BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- Current BBN projects include: "Nimrod," an architecture for next-generation internet routing and addressing. This month, work continued on defining the functions and protocols needed to enable interaction among the various Nimrod components, including entity representatives, association agents, root agents and forwarding agents. Results of this work were presented at the Toronto IETF meeting. Point of contact: Martha Steenstrup, msteenstrup@bbn.com Enhancements to Inter-Domain Policy Routing. During July, work progressed on implementation of a parser for handling the new syntax and grammar for the IDPR configuration file. Various improvements have been designed to make IDPR configuration easier to understand and less painful. For example, definition of an adjacent policy gateway and its connections used to involve multiple configuration statements that have now been consolidated into one. Specification of source policies used to require per- flow definitions, and now, one can state a policy and then list all the flows to which it applies. There are several similar improvements that should lead to greater flexibility and reduced verbosity. Point of contact: Martha Steenstrup, msteenstrup@bbn.com Determination of token bucket parameters necessary to meet service requirements of some observed TCP flows. Results could be used, for example, to guide the future configuration of traffic-shaping network interfaces. Point of contact: Craig Partridge, craig@bbn.com Enhancing the Flow Synchronization Protocol. Under Arpa funding, BBN developed a protocol for synchronization of multiple flows across an internetwork. A common application for this protocol is lip-sync: synchronization of voice and video flows in a videoconferencing application over wide area networks. The protocol does not require the flows' sources or their destinations to share common hardware. It relies on network clock synchronization protocols (e.g. NTP) to provide time Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 synchronization, and it adaptively equalizes the flows' delays through the networks to a common end-to-end delay. The adaptation employed allows interactive applications to reach the most desirable compromise between degree of synchronization and resultant end-to-end delay. Experiments to date have demonstrated lip-synchronization and synchronization of a widely dispersed musical ensemble. A description of the protocol and these experiments can be found in the February 1994 issue of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (Flow Synchronization Protocol, by Escobar, Partridge, and Deutsch). This month, work continued on testing the new GUI-based configuration tool in preparation for a demonstration to be presented at ACM MultiMedia '94. In addition, a library of Sync. Protocol code and documentation for implementors was made available via anonymous ftp. Point of contact: Julio Escobar, jescobar@bbn.com Joshua P. Seeger <jseeger@bbn.com> INTERNIC -------- INFORMATION SERVICES -------------------- Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Phone +1 619 455-4600 email info@internic.net Fax +1 619 455-4640 InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints Suggestions suggestions@internic.net Complaints complaints@internic.net NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net newsletter comments newsletter-comments@internic.net NICLink General Information info@internic.net Problems/bugs niclink-bugs@is.internic.net InterNIC Seminar Series General Information seminars@internic.net Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 Listserv lists net-happenings majordomo@is.internic.net net-resources majordomo@is.internic.net scout-report majordomo@is.internic.net InfoGuide Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 URL: http://www.internic.net/ Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 THE InterNIC INFOGUIDE Usage of the InterNIC InfoGuide has been growing weekly since its debut. It is now consistently getting over 20,000 accesses per week. The net- happings index (which is updated daily) and the Scout Report are among its most popular items. A new area was added to the IETF User Services Working Group. The InterNIC InfoGuide is a comprehensive online information service which provides information about the Internet and online Internet resources. Accessible through gopher and the WorldWideWeb, the InterNIC InfoGuide replaces the older InterNIC information server, the InfoSource. The InfoGuide includes new services such as the Scout Report and an online hypertext version of the _NSF Network News_. To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html or your gopher client to: is.internic.net NET-HAPPENINGS The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the community announcements of interest to network staffers and end users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers, publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources and concentrates them onto one list. To provide better distribution to a wider audience, net-happenings is being turned into a USENET newsgroup. The group, if approved, will be named comp.internet.net-happenings. A call for votes (CFV) is currently being conducted. Information about the CFV is available in the net-happenings archive number 4435. To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to: is.internic.net and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings. THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights Presently the Scout Report has over 7500 subscribers and the HTML versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of accesses each week. A new mailing list was created for easier distribution of the HTML Scout Report, which is located at scout-report-html. Since its formation the new list has accumulated nearly 100 subscribers. The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the Internet during the previous week. The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats -- electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb. WorldWideWeb versions of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing instantaneous browsing of items of interest. Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout@internic.net. How to Get the Scout Report To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail to: majordomo@is.internic.net In the body of the message, type: subscribe scout-report youremailaddress Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html Gopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES For current seminar information, including cost, dates and times, send email to: seminars@internic.net. NSF NETWORK NEWS The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 3 (July/August 1994) is scheduled for publication at the end of August. The upcoming issue will feature an interview with Laura Breeden, who is currently the director of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP). Also highlighted are articles profiling the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and its connection and history with NCSA Mosaic; a map designed by Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS) especially for NSF News readers that graphs the number of Internet Hosts per capita in the United States; a useful Registration Services FAQ; an informativeRhow-toS article on Internet publishing by Daniel Dern; and the regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and updates from InterNIC partners. To subscribe, send email to newsletter-request@internic.net. The July/August issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the WorldWideWeb at http://www.internic.net/newsletter/july-august94/index.html The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the message: get /about-internic/newsletter/archives/nsfnews-mar-94.txt or get /about-internic/newsletter/archives/nsfnews-sep-93.txt Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 REFERENCE DESK The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for July: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 148 4 Phone 2964 78 Fax 632 17 US Mail 12 <1 Referral 35 <1 ------- -------- --------- Total 3793 100.0 Anna Knittle <aknittle@is.internic.net> REGISTRATION SERVICES --------------------- I. Significant Events InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 35,000 network addresses (30,000 to Space and Naval Warfare Command) and registered over 1800 domains. Blocks of 256 Class C addresses were assigned to Digital Express, UUNET of Canada, Connected Inc., Sprintlink, Westnet, County of Riverside, Worldlink Canada, CSUnet, GM, EDS, and EDSlink. I. Registration Statistics For July Hostmaster Email 4,823 Postal/Fax Applications 240 Telephone Calls 2,220 Domain Registered 1,895 Inverse Addresses 517 Class C's Assigned 35,331 Class B's Assigned 24 ASN Assigned 49 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of June. Connections Retrievals Gopher 46,006 25,118 WAIS 26,564 34,984 FTP 8,656 36,633 Mailserv 2,441 Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 189,888 580,303 Scott Williamson <scottw@internic.net> InterNIC Registration Service ISI --- NETSTATION ---------- Work this month continued to focus on protocol software investigation and development. Display Server Investigation ---------------------------- A graduate student, S. K. Munnangi, has split the X-display server into two parts. The "lower" server portion will reside on the network display peripheral being constructed. Packets will be sent between the "higher" portion of the server to the display peripheral to determine how practical it may be to replace the system bus with a gigabit LAN. The higher and lower portions will be prototyped and debugged on two Sun workstations prior to porting the lower portion to the display peripheral. A TMS 320C40 emulator and simulator is being used for porting and testing prior to actual display hardware arrival. LANai 1.1 Software Development ------------------------------ The focus of LANai development during the past month has been on debugging and testing of a sequenced reliable-packet protocol implemented "inside" the ATOMIC LAN. This allows an application to treat the LAN as a reliable medium, much as it would now treat a DMA transmission between the CPU and a device across a system bus. The work done by the LANai networking chips to achieve this is straightforward. SEND,RECV: connection maintenance SEND,RECV: transmission and reception interrupt service SEND: sequence number generation and insertion in packets Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 SEND: retransmission event creation SEND,RECV: bad packet, duplicate and out-of-sequence detection RECV: ACK generation and transmission SEND: ACK reception and processing RECV: retranmission event removal Currently, only one outstanding packet per connection is allowed. The performance figure per packet is 125.5 microseconds. This includes all "normal" work performed listed above. It is measured from the time that the sending LANai notices that a packet should be sent, until it has sent it, spawned a retransmission event, processed the returned ACK, removed the retransmission event, and marked the sending application's buffer as sent. Testing Notes ------------- The LANai chips were clocked at 20 MHz to match the SBus clock. Short IP/UDP/RPC packets of approximately 120 octets were used during these tests. Cable transmission time across the ATOMIC network between SPARstation-2 hosts was insignificant. The LANai channel transmission clock was 60 MB/s. Total one-way transmission latency should therefore be under three microseconds. The bulk of the 125 microseconds of overhead per packet for short packets is LANai program execution at the source and destination, which introduces a forced latency between packets. For example, call-out queue event insertion and event removal for the retransmission time-out consumes 30 microseconds. The current prototype LANai 1.1 chips can be clocked 50% faster, to 30MHz, but that was not be done due to the difficulties of interfacing to a 20 MHz SBus. More testing and development will occur during August. The one- outstanding-packet restriction will be relaxed to see what improvement, if any, will be realized. Presentations The Los Angeles area NPR station KPCC did a one hour program on the Internet during their Friday Airtalk program July 22nd. The local guest speaker was Gregory Finn from USC/ISI. Gregory G. Finn (finn@isi.edu) Bruce Parham (Parham@isi.edu), Munnangi (Munnangi@isi.edu) Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 INFRASTRUCTURE Joyce Reynolds, Bob Braden, Jon Postel attended the IETF in Toronto, 25 RFCs were published this month. RFC 1610: Internet Architecture Board (IAB), J. Postel, Editor, "Internet Official Protocol Standards", July 1994. RFC 1627: Lear, E., (Silicon Graphics, Inc.), E. Fair (Apple Computer, Inc.), D. Crocker (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) T. Kessler (Sun Microsystems, Inc.), "Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices Shouldn't be Codified)", July 1994. RFC 1641: Goldsmith, D., "Using Unicode with MIMI", Taligent, Inc., July 1994. RFC 1642: Goldsmith, D., "UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode, Taligent Inc., July 1994. RFC 1643: Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types", FTP Software, Inc., July 1994. RFC 1644: Braden, R., "T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functional Specification", July 1994. RFC 1645: Gwinn, A., "Simple Network Paging Protocol -- Version 2" Southern Methodist University, July 1994. RFC 1646: Graves, C., Butts, T., Angel, M., " TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection", Open Connect Systems, July 1994. RFC 1647: Kelly, B., "TN3270 Enhancements", Auburn University, July 1994. RFC 1648: Cargille, A., "Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations Operations University of Wisconsin, July 1994. RFC 1649: Hagens, R (Advanced Network & Services, Inc.), and A. Hansen (UNINETT), "Operational Requirements for X.400 Management Domains in the GO-MHS Community, July 1994. Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 RFC 1651: Klensin, J. (WG Chair-MCI), N. Freed (Ed. Innosoft), M. Rose (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.), E. Stefferud (Network Management Associates, Inc.), D. Crocker (Silicon Graphics, Inc), "SMTP Service Extensions" July 1994. RFC 1652: Klensin, J. (WG Chair-MCI), N. Freed (Ed. Innosoft), M. Rose (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.), E. Stefferud (Network Management Associates, Inc.), D. Crocker (Silicon Graphics, Inc), "SMTP Service Extensions for 8bit-MIMEtransport", July 1994. RFC 1653: Klensin, J. (WG Chair-MCI), N. Freed (Ed. Innosoft), K. Moore, "SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration", July 1994. RFC 1654: Rekhter, Y., (T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.), T. Li, (CISCO Systems), "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", July 1994. RFC 1655: Rekhter, Y., (T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.), P. Gross (MCI), "Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet", July 1994. RFC 1656: Traina, P., "BGP-4 Protocol Document Roadmap and Implementation Experience", Cisco Systems, July 1994. RFC 1657: Willis, S., and S. Burrus, (Wellfleet Communications Inc.), J. Chu, Editor, (IBM Corp), "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) using SMIv2", July 1994. RFC 1658: Stewart, B., "Definitions of Managed Objects for Character Stream Devices Using SMIv2", Xplex, Inc. July 1994. RFC 1859: Stewart, B., "Definitions of Managed Objects for RS-232-like Hardware Devices using SMIv2", Xyplex, Inc., July 1994. RFC 1660: Stewart, B., "Definitions of Managed Objects for Parallel-printer-like Hardware Devices using SMIv2", Xyplex, Inc., July 1994. RFC 1661: Simpson, W., Editor, "The Point-to-Point (PPP)", Daydreamer, July 1994. Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 RFC 1662: Simpson, W., Editor, "PPP in HDLC-like Framing", Daydreamer, July 1994. RFC 1663: Rand, D., "PPP reliable Transmission", Novell, July 1994. RFC 1664: Kielczewski, Z., (Eicon Technology Corporation), D. Kostick (Bell Communications Research), K. Shih, (Novell), "Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs using SMIv2", July 1994. THE US DOMAIN ============= Under the current ruling, only 4 year universities are allowed to register in EDU, all other US schools must register in the US Domain, including K12, community colleges, and technical schools. Other related school entities may also register in the US Domain. The US Domain has a framework established for registering K12 schools. It is in the form: <school-name>.<district>.K12.<state-code>.US For example: Clinton-HS.ACSD.K12.TN.US School related Entities that go under K12: ------------------------------------------ - school districts - school boards - special educational service units - state departments of education - city and county departments of education - consortiums connecting school districts - state agencies connecting K12 schools - School networks providing connectivity to schools and school districts - private schools under PVT pseudo district School related Entities Registered in Other US Domain Branches: --------------------------------------------------------------- - US Military Schools ....................> FED - State Departments fo Education .........> STATE - City or County Departments of Education.> LOCALITY - Private K12 schools ....................> LOCALITY Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 425 PHONE Inquiries 153 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 578 DELEGATIONS 20 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 17 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 540 --------------------------- Total 578 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 by Email and phone. The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct registrations in the US Domain. Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- NEH.FED.US Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities LIB.MD.US Maryland Libraries NCSC.DNI.US National Center for State Courts NEWAYGO.MI.US Newaygo County, Michigan, locality KENT.OH.US Kent, Ohio locality Other US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------- CI.PASADENA.CA.US City of Pasadena, California CO.ST-LOUIS.MO.US St. Louis, Missouri, county government CO.ARLINGTON.VA.US Arlington, Virgnina, county government CI.LINCOLN.ME.US City of Lincoln, Nebraska DIT.CO.FAIRFAX.VA.US Fairfax County Dept of Information Tech. SCOE.CO.SAC.CA.US Sacramento County Office of Education JUD.STATE.CA.US Judicial Council of California VCE.GEN.VA.US Virginia Cooperative Extension Service PWSSC.GEN.AK.US Prince William Sound Science Center Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 JSD.K12.AK.US Juneau, Alaska School District NMH.NORTHFIELD.MA.US Northfield Mount Hermon School SNS.OKC.OK.US Stardust Network Services OKLAOSF.STATE.OK.US Oklahoma State Office of Finance ALCATRAZ.SF.CA.US InterNex Information Services/BofA ELECTRONIC-PRESS.CAMBRIDGE.MA.US Electronic Publ. & Data Prep. Co. TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK X AL X AR X AZ X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X X X CO X X X X X X X CT DC X ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X FL X X X X X X X GA X X X X HI ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X ID X X X X X X X IL X X X X X IN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- KS X KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA X ----------------------------------------------------------- MD X X X X ME X X MI X X X X X MN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MO X X X X X MS X X MT X NC X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------- K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- ND X X X X X X X NE X X X X NH X X NJ X ----------------------------------------------------------- NM X X X NV NY X X X X X X X OH X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- OK OR X X X X X X X PA X RI X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- SC X X X X X X SD X X TN X TX X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- UT X X X X VA X X X X VI VT X X ----------------------------------------------------------- WA WI X X X WV X X X X X X X WY X =========================================================== 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) Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING At the IETF meeting held in Toronto this month, there were several sessions relevant to multimedia teleconferencing, in particular those of the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control (MMUSIC) Working Group and the Audio/Video Transport (AVT) Working Group. The MMUSIC session focused on reports from implementors of a range of multimedia conferencing applications with the goal of identifying common ground for interoperability of both session managers and media agents. As a result, there was commitment by several implementors to document their protocol choices, and to prototype experiments on interoperation in the near term. In the first AVT session, rough consensus was given to submit the revised Real-time Transport Protocol specification for Area Directorate review and IESG Last Call as a Proposed Standard. This revision, denoted RTP version 2, incorporates changes requested by the first AD review in November 1993. It is the refinement by Steve Casner, Ron Frederick, Van Jacobson and Henning Schulzrinne of the rough protocol changes presented and discussed at the March 1994 IETF meeting in Seattle. This version of the spec was posted before the meeting as Internet Draft draft-ietf-avt-rtp-05.txt. An overview of the revised RTP was presented in the first AVT session, and the group concurred with the choices made on all of the previously open issues. It was agreed that the extension hooks provided were adequate for planned experiments with mechanisms not included in the current protocol. A few explanatory sections of the draft need to be completed, then it will be submitted. In the second AVT session, video encoding specifications for H.261, JPEG and MPEG were presented. These specifications will also be completed as Internet Drafts and then submitted as Proposed Standards. Steve Casner (casner@isi.edu) MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's NSFNET Project Internet Engineering and Network Management groups. Merit's work with midlevel networks has resulted in the increasing use of CIDR route aggregation. During July the NSF/ANSNET routing tables increased by 62 while 784 specific routes were withdrawn in favor of their CIDR aggregate announcement. Joint development work continues with RIPE on the RIPE-81++ syntax Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 and documentation. The current draft is available as: ftp.ripe.net:ripe/drafts/ripe-81++.ps Merit initially ported the RIPE code and has implemented some of the extensions of RIPE-81++. We are in the process of designing a transition from the PRDB to the RRDB which will include generation of the NSFNET Backbone Router configurations from the RRDB. Prototype gateD configuration file generators have been written for the RRDB database. This work is seen as a predecessor for the generation of configuration files for the Route Server. Merit staff collaborated in the University of Michigan project to re-establish a UM Network Operations Center. David Morse, davmorse@noc.ns.itd.umich.edu, is the NOC manager. The University of Michigan NOC will provide first level operational support for the Routing Arbiter project. Work continues in anticipation of the startup of the first Network Access Points (NAPs) and the transition from the current backbone service to the new architecture. On line information about the transition plan and NAPS is available via a world wide web server as: http://rrdb.merit.edu/home.html and via anonymous ftp in the /pub/transition directory on the same host. Several staff led sessions at the 30th IETF, July 25-29 in Toronto. Jessica Yu (with Vince Fuller of BARRNET) led the session of the CIDR Deployment Working Group (cidrd). Sue Hares hosted a workshop for new working group Chairpersons and presented in the SDRP and NetStat working group meetings. Elise Gerich participated in the IAB open meeting. Several staff participated in the ATM-NAP Workshop for the NSF new architecture awardees which also included several Network Service Providers. Kenneth T. Latta, II (klatta@merit.edu) NEARNET ------- NEARNET EXPRESS56(sm) COMPRESSION SERVICE NEARNET's new Express56 Service increases the throughput of a 56Kbps leased line connection to as high as 256Kbps, without raising your telephone line costs. For more information, send email to: nearnet-join@near.net or call the NEARNET sales staff at 617-873-8730. Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 THE BBN INTERNET TRAINING GROUP In response to the overwhelming requests from the Internet community for more Internet-specific training, BBN has created an Internet Training Group. In conjunction with the NEARNET staff, the Training Group has recently begun offering training courses to the general public. Training courses are offered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, and, upon request, on-site at the customer's organization. NEARNET members and educational users are eligible for a 25 percent introductory discount. To find out more about BBN's Internet Training Courses, please send email to: net-train@bbn.com or call 617-873-DATA (3282). NEARNET TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE The Summer set of NEARNET member training courses is scheduled for August 10-12 in BBN's Newman Auditorium. For more information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet- us@near.net or call 617-873-8730. 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 Technology. All three days of training are available free of charge to all new sites. The Internet Resources and Internet Technology courses are available for existing sites and non-members for a fee. The NEARNET Orientation is free to all NEARNET sites. NEARNET USER SERVICES STEERING COMMITTEE (USSC) UPDATE The latest meeting of the NEARNET USSC was held on August 1 at BBN. Members of the Boston Computer Society (BCS) participated in the committee meeting and presented an interesting update on the past, present, and future activities of the BCS. The next USSC committee meeting will be held on September 26. by NEARNET Client Services <nearnet-us@near.net> Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 NORTHWESTNET ------------ Dr. Eric Hood (Executive Director of NorthWestNet) chaired the July 6-8 FARNET Workshop "Transition to the New NSFNET" held in Washington, D.C. Also attending from NorthWestNet was Dan Jordt, Director of Technical Services. In a continuation of NorthWestNet's regularly scheduled Internet Training Series, three three-hour classes were held at the NorthWestNet training facility in Bellevue, Washington. These for- fee classes are open to the public. Topics covered included an introduction to the Internet, Electronic Mail (PINE), File Transfer Protocol, Telnet, and Gopher and Veronica. For information about upcoming scheduled classes, retrieve the following via anonymous FTP: FTP Host: ftp.nwnet.net directory: /training filename: course-descriptions.txt The upcoming series to be offered in late August adds a new course titled "Internet Discussion Groups." This new class introduces Usenet and its newsgroups, as well as Internet mailing lists and LISTSERV lists. ----------------- 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. NYSERNET -------- NYSERNet EDUCATION PROGRAM UPDATE The NYSERNet Internet Training and Education Center (NITEC) recently contributed to training for participants in Project C.A.R.E. (Sponsored by State Senator Charles D. Cook, Project C.A.R.E is delivering Internet connectivity to eight rural schools Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 in New York's 40th district.) This first in a series of training events for C.A.R.E. participants focused on integrating connectivity products into each school's network environment, and on installing and configuring Internet client software tools. In subsequent events C.A.R.E. participants will receive training in the use of these Internet client tools for resource discovery and educational projects. The NITEC Fall schedule of courses will be published this August. To receive a copy of the schedule and be added to the NITEC mailing list, please contact NYSERNet at training@nysernet.org or call 315-453-2912 ext. 222. NYSERNET SPONSORED PROJECTS UPDATE The NYSERNet Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse welcomes the National Breast Cancer Coalition/Breast Cancer Support Hotline Adelphi School and Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization as partners in the BCIC project. Partner organizations participate in the development and maintenance of the Clearinghouse. To access the Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse: With a WWW- client (e.g. Mosaic), use: http://nysernet.org/bcic/ With a gopher client (e.g. gopher) use: gopher nysernet.org and select item number eight from the main menu. Project C.A.R.E.: NYSERNet is currently in the process of getting the sites' Internet connections up and running prior to the first two weeks of August, when participants from the schools will receive their second round of training. (See the NYSERNET EDUCATION UPDATE above) INTERNET DEMONSTRATION PROJECT With funding from the National Center for Educational Statistics, NYSERNet will coordinate the development of a client/server application set designed to support the needs of education related to the collection and dissemination of information. NYSERNet will coordinate the efforts of six (6) project participants comprised of representative from State Education Agencies (SEA) and federal agencies. This application development project will include three phases: 1) requirements and analysis, 2) coding, and, 3) testing and implementation. The process of development includes structured opportunities for participation of other states, NCES and other federal agencies during both the requirements and testing and implementation phases. Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 NEW YORK STATE CONTRACTS The New York State Office of General Services (OGS) has selected NYSERNet to provide network and application support to make the New York State Contracts available on the Internet. State Contracts will be available via Gopher menuing, with both Jughead and WAIS indexing. The service will be Internet accessible in August, 1994. NYSERNet has recently partnered with 11 Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) Regional Information and Computer Centers to establish Internet connections to K-12 schools in New York State. Connections established at BOCES will be used as models for delivering services to the K-12 community. Connections will be established in August and a training program conducted by NYSERNet in the fall. Teen Health Issues Network The Teen Health Issues Network of Greater Rochester NY has completed its first pilot year. This network seeks to electronically connect the health care givers, school nurses and counselors, and health teachers who deal with teens in areas of physical, mental and social health. The Rochester area has a fiber optics telecommunications network that carries simultaneous audio and video transmission among 8 sites (2 higher education institutions and 6 high schools). Live interactive programs geared for the adults were given for professional development in areas such as Cults and Their Relationship to Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Media Literacy and Conflict Resolution. The topics of AIDS and Teen Pregnancy were addressed in 3 sessions for students which provided an opportunity to discuss these timely issues openly with HIV+ patients and pregnant/parenting teens, respectively. Electronic discussion groups using Internet connections were formed after each live event to allow ongoing interaction with other participants, and the panelists, in an anonymous fashion. The next school year will kick-off the Teen Health Issues Network programming with a professional development discussion of the Center for Disease Control's Survey of Youth Risks done in Monroe County. The first student event will be on Athletic Induced Asthma for athletes and their coaches. The continuing effort to electronically connect, equip, and train new users on the Internet from all sorts of professional teen healthcare settings will be a primary focus in the second pilot year of this network. NEW AFFILIATES NYSERNet welcomes the following new leased-line affiliates: Monroe Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 County Library System, Brooklyn Law School, Hitachi America, Ltd., and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. NYSERNet CONFERENCE NYSERNet's Conference '94 will be held at the Desmond Americana Hotel in Albany, New York from Thursday, September 29 through Saturday, October 1, 1994. The theme for this year's statewide conference is "Connecting the NEW New York". Thursday afternoon's agenda will include an Open Board Meeting of NYSERNet's Board of Directors, and a meeting of NYSERTech, NYSERNet's technical user's group. The NYSERNet community is welcome to attend each of these events at no charge, although NYSERTech is only open to those individuals who are members of NYSERTech. A wine and cheese reception follows, to which all conference attendees are welcome. Friday's Conference program will feature a keynote speaker, then a full day of parallel sessions along four program tracks: Government and Technology, Education, Libraries, and Network Technologies. Tutorials will be held Saturday, October 1, utilizing the computing facilities of SUNY Albany and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Half day Tutorials scheduled will include two hands-on sessions: "Internet Everyday (Beginners)" and "We the People (Advanced)." Full day technical tutorials scheduled include "Linking your LAN to Internet," "How To Cook Your UNIX Gopher Server," and "Contributing to The World Wide Web: Selecting and Installing an HTTP Server." Other sessions are to be announced. NEW STAFF MEMBERS Jeff Renk and Mary Fran Yafchak joined NYSERNet this month as Network Information Specialists. Jeff and Mary Fran will design, develop, deliver, and evaluate training and educational materials on Internet tools. They will also provide help desk support for NYSERNet affiliates. Terri Damon (tmdamon@nysernet.ORG) PREPNET ------- Note that this report covers June and July. PREPnet New Members - City of Meadville-GREMLAN, Meadville, PA - Bucks County IU, Doylestown, PA - Oasis Telecommunications, Allentown, PA - Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 - Grove City College, Grove City, PA - Composidie, Inc., Apollo, PA - Compudata, Philadelphia, PA - Reality Technologies, King of Prussia, PA - The School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA - Icon Technologies, Inc., Mayfield, PA With these additions, PREPnet now totals 188 members. PREPnet News ============ Training -------- Felicia Ferlin conducted PREPnet's Introduction to the Internet training session at the following sites. With the help of staff on site, live demos and hands-on training were done using site software and hardware. June 3 Beaver College July 11 Central & Northern Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Center July 12 Juniata College Meetings & Conferences ---------------------- Date Attendee(s) Event 5/23-6/3 Tom Bajzek Internet World 6/2 Felicia Ferlin CAUSE-CNI 6/3 Sean Sasso C-CUE 6/2-3 Iain Boone North American National Operations Group (NANOG), formerly Regional Techs 6/27-28 Felicia Ferlin Pennsylvania Rural Education Conference 7/7-8 Tom Bajzek FARNET Iain Boone 7/25-29 Marsha Perrott IETF 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 33] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 RARE SECRETARIAT ---------------- A RARE UPDATE no. 12, July 1994 (Double Summer issue) COA Information RARE members gathered in Darmstadt, courtesy of ESOC, on 19 and 20 May 1994. Meetings included a joint meeting with the EARN Board of Directors dedicated to the proposed merger between RARE and EARN and subsequently the 29th CoA meeting. The joint meeting was perceived as very constructive. The Executive Committees of both organizations had provided the members with draft Statutes, Rules and Regulations, a Charter, a Technical Structure and a budget, encompassing proposals for membership fees and voting rights. The conclusion of the meeting was that the merger was feasible and should take place still during 1994 and this event is scheduled to take place at the event of the next (and last) RARE Council of Administration meeting on 20 October 1994, in Amsterdam. A call for a new name for the merged organization has been issued and several proposals are under investigation. During the CoA meeting, the RARE accounts were - as is traditional in May - presented and 1993 financial year was closed with the approval of the Council of Administration of the accounts 1993. Two networking organizations were unanimously accepted as RARE Full National Members: UNICOM-B from Bulgaria and UNIBEL from the Republic Belarus. The CoA has asked the Executive Committee to reorganize the RIPE NCC's management structure by the creation of a management body that is representative of the whole customer base in order to enhance cooperation with the RIPE NCC's commercial customers. This management body will be involved in the fund raising for the RIPE NCC. RARE Technical Programme The most recent main event for the RARE Technical Programme was the INET'94/JENC5 conference, organized by RARE and the Internet Society (ISOC), which took place in Prague in mid-June. All the RARE Working Groups took the opportunity to meet at the conference and were able to present their work to visitors from across the whole world. Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 The Working Group on network operations (WG-NOP) was relaunched under its new convenor, Manfred Bogen. The new convenors of the Working Group on Information Services and User Support (WG-ISUS), Dave Hartland, and the Working Group on Network Security (WG-SEC), R=FCdiger Grimm, were able to introduce themselves in person. Also at the conference, the final stages of two RARE projects were reported. The task force on Computer Emergency Response Teams has presented plans for a European coordination centre for liaison between the front-line support organizations dealing with network security incidents. This is now being developed into a business plan (which will be the subject of a call for tender) for approval by the CoA on 20 October 1994. The project of the Working Group on Character Sets, which is developing software for conversion between a wide variety of coded character sets, was presented at the conference in the form of a live demonstration of the conversion program. Two new RARE Technical Reports are in the course of production. RTR12 on Writing O/R Names is a revision of the guidelines of the Working Group on Mail and Messaging (WG-MSG) which takes into account recent international standards in this area. RTR13 is a Status Report on Network Information Retrieval, a regularly-updated report which gives an overview of the "state of the art" in this field. RTR8, 9, 10 and 11 are currently available in printed form and can be ordered from the RARE Secretariat. RARE has recently entered into contracts with INRIA to work on the integration of directory-service access with the World Wide Web. RARE is also contributing to the support and development of the World Wibe Web project which is seen as a key element in the development of information services for researchers. Looking to the future, RARE has launched its UPTURN (Umbrella Proposal for Telematics for Users and Research Networks) initiative to encourage participation in the European Union's fourth Framework Programme. The Fourth Framework offers the possibility of European funding to assist in collaborative projects between commerce and researchers which will result in the delivery of telematic services which add to the productivity of industrial and academic researchers. RARE is providing information on the programme and is assisting in the information exchange between potential participants via its UPTURN mailing list. To join this list, send electronic mail to Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 mailserver@rare.nl containing the text: SUBSCRIBE UPTURN your-first-name your-last-name replacing your-first-name and your-last-name as appropriate. Once you have joined the list, you can send mail to the other subscribers at the address upturn@rare.nl. A large, common RARE Working Groups Meeting is planned for December 1st and 2nd, in London, subsequent to EARN's NSC conference, November 28-30, 1994. Information about the UPTURN initiative, and about RARE and its technical programme, can be obtained from: - ftp.rare.nl (by anonymous FTP) - gopher.rare.nl (by gopher) - http://www.rare.nl/ (by World Wide Web) Conferences and Seminars INET'94/JENC5 RARE's annual Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5) was held this year in Prague (Czech Republic), in conjunction with the Internet Society's (ISOC) annual INET conference. In every respect it was considered a great success. The participants numbered around 1200 and came from over a 100 different countries. The Czech Technical University and the Czech Educational and Scientific NETwork (CESNET) were responsible for the local arrangements. They furnished the terminal room with over 70 workstations, terminals and desktop computers with worldwide Internet connectivity. The technical staff also supported the connectivity in the demonstration area, where up to 12 highly advanced networking applications were presented to the public at large. With the support of various sponsors leased lines with a total capacity of 2.5 Mbit/s connected the conference centre to the rest of the world. This connectivity allowed interactive Mbone broadcasts of the plenary sessions of the conference to hundreds of sites in many countries. That the conference was a truly global event also became apparent in the more than 100 presentations and panel discussions in six different topical areas: user support and training, distributed applications, policy issues, regional issues, network engineering and Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 network technology. The programme presented the developments in technology on ATM, Multimedia, IPng, Routing and Addressing, Network Information Tools, Broadband Technology, Performance Analysis, Electronic Documentation, Networked Simulation and Virtual Reality and Future Generations of Internet Technology, to mention only a few of the subjects covered. These new technological developments, and the exponential growth of networking in the last few years are bringing past side issues to the foreground. Policy issues are becoming more and more important with the increasing number of active Internet users and its broader scale. Also new user communities are emerging every day, and each of them has their own specific demands with regard to service, support and training. The conference proved a good discussion platform for all of these important issues. A full set of proceedings was distributed at the conference and a number of selected papers of high quality are being prepared for publication in a special issue of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. Preceding the conference there was a one day tutorial on ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), organized and sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The week prior to the conference the workshop for Technologically Emerging Countries took place at the Czech Technical University. A selected number of participants (approx. 170) from around 80 countries had the unique opportunity to learn how to access and use worldwide Internet resources, as well as build and manage national networks in their own countries. The Soros Foundations funded participation of many Eastern European and CIS attendees. RARE, with the financial support of NATO, took direct responsibility for the Network Navigation and Services Track. JENC6 With the Prague event still fresh in memory, preparations have already been made for next year's conference that will take place in the new Dan Panorama Convention Center in Tel Aviv, Israel from 15-18 May. The Programme Committee, under the leadership of Jose Barabera (FUNDESCO, Spain), has already prepared a Call for Papers that is available from jenc6-sec@rare.nl. The conference theme, "Bringing the World to the Desktop", may be looked upon as a metaphor for two major changes under way: - the increasing penetration of daily research/educational work and practices by networks and networking technology; - the new set of requirements that desktop networking implies for the Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 underlying technology and the structures of service provision. The goal of this conference is to survey the current situation in networking, to illuminate major unresolved issues and technologies, but most of all to stimulate discussion on possible future directions. The local arrangements are taken care of by ILAN. For more information about RARE contact: Internet: raresec@rare.nl or kiers@rare.nl X.400: C=3Dnl; ADMD=3D400net; PRMD=3Dsurf; O=3Drare; S=3Dkiers X.400: C=3Dnl; ADMD=3D400net; PRMD=3Dsurf; O=3Drare; S=3Draresec fileserver: gohper.rare.nl, ftp.rare.nl or http://www.rare.nl/ Judith Kiers <kiers@erasmus.rare.nl> UCL ---- Tony Ballardie, Peter Kirstein, and Ian Wakeman attended the Toronto IETF. Ballardie ran the WG on Multicast, Kirstein attended many meetings and Wakeman gave presentations on the UCL work on Class Based Queueing and on the Conference Control Channel Protocol. En route to Toronto, Wakeman had stopped off at SURA, where with much help from ARPA, and from Erik Sherk and Jennifer Blake-Hedges, we were able to get the Class Based Queueing code (& Solaris, and an FDDI card and 2nd Ether card and gated) installed one day. We will be coordinating with BBN and ULCC to get the routes changed to load this up with the UK-US traffic to test the resource allocation and link share code over the next month. Meanwhile, the CCCP implementation has passed alpha stage, and is being used to develop a simple floor control protocol, by Crowcroft. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 CALENDAR -------- Last update 8/3/94 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 ------------ Jul. 18-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary Southampton, UK Aug. (mid) SNOWMASS Aug. 2-5 HPDC-3 San Francisco, CA Aug. 4 Special Interest Group on Netwkd Info., Disc. Retrieval McLean, VA 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 Sep. 28 Intnt'l Computer Comm. & Ntwks Bangkik, Thailand Sep. 29-Oct. 1 NYSERNet Conference '94 Albany, NY Sep. 29-Oct. 1 NATO Adv. Wkshp on Ntwking in the NIS Moscow Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN Oct. 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 Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 Nov. 2-4 Gigabit testbed jamboree Reston, VA Nov. 2-4 ACM Conf. of Computer and Comm Fairfax, VA Security Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV Nov. 8-11 German Soc. of Internet Users Munich Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA Nov. 15-16 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conf. Brussels Nov. 18-20 Nerdathon '94 - Windows into the Internet Lake Tahoe Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause Dec. 1-2 RARE Working Groups London, UK Dec. 5-7 Australian Telecom Networks and Applications Conf. ATNAC 94 Melbourne, AU Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 5-9 10th Comp. Sec. Applications Orlando, FL Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico Dec. 12-16 OIW 1995 --------- Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk & Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) Mar. 13-17 OIW Mar. 13-17 Email World (confirmed) Santa Clara, CA Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 16-19 3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV April 3-7 32nd IETF (confirmed) Danvers, MA April 19-21 5th Network & Operating System Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA 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. Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 Emerging Countries Jun. 12-16 INET '95 (tentative) Singapore Jun. 12-16 OIW Jun. INET95 Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden Jul. 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 --------- 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 ===================================================================== Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 Ref. RSec(94)001-ac August 1994 This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the RARE Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet (e.mail address: cozanet@rare.nl). ********************************************************************** MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== RARE Executive Committee ------------------------ 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 UPTURN BoF ---------- 27 October Interop, Paris (from 18.30 till 20.30 hrs) RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors --------------------------------------- RARE Working Groups ------------------- JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING 1-2 December London (after NSC'94) Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 RIPE ---- 12-14 September Lisboa VARIOUS ------- EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM 12 September Lisboa EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 02 November Munich EBONE Management Committee 06 September Copenhagen EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 10 October Paris EARN Board of Directors 30 November - 1 December London DANTE Shareholders 20 September TBC Euro-CCIRN CCIRN 16/17 June 1995 Singapore INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 15/16 December Washington DC IETF 5-9 December San Jose, California 3-7 April 1995 Danvers, Massachusetts Summer 1995 Stockholm, Sweden EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 13-14 September Brussels 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 27 September Brussels Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 6 December Brussels Workshops 10-14 October Brussels ETSI ---- General Assembly 22/23 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 18-20 October Nice, France ******************************************************************* JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference 15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to <jenc6-request@rare.nl>. For information, email <jenc6-sec@rare.nl>. To submit a paper, email <jenc6-submit@rare.nl> ******************************************************************* 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) 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 Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 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> NATO ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON NETWORKING IN THE NIS ----------------------------------------------- "Establishing a cooperative framework for networking in Russia and her neighbourhing states" 29 September until 1 October 1994 In Moscow, Russian Federation CLOSED - BY INVITATION ONLY OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.) --------------------------------------------------------- from 8-11 November in Goettingen (Park Hotel Ropeter) For further information contact the DIGI board via email: <vorstand@digi.de> 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 Cooper [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report July 1994 ICT STANDARDIZATION POLICY WORKSHOP 1994 ---------------------------------------- 28, 29 and 30 November 1994 Chateau du Lac, Genval, Belgium organised by the European Commission with logistic support from EWOS. For information, email <ewos@spl.y-net.be> NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 ------------------------------ from 28 to 30 November 1994 in London (UK) For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via email: <A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet>; Paper submissions to: <NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET> WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY ------------------------------------------------------- on 1 and 2 December 1994 in Luxembourg. Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII, EFTA and STRI. Registrations before 30 September 1994 For information, email <tobbi@iti.is> IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING ----------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA -> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995 Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445 EEMA MEETINGS ------------- Autumn Conference 14-16 September Madrid Winter Conference November (tbc) Luxembourg Cooper [Page 46]