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- DDN MGT Bulletin 27 DCA DDN Program Mgt Office
- 12 Feb 85 Published by: Network Info Center
- (NIC@SRI-NIC.ARPA) (415) 859-3695
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- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
-
- MANAGEMENT BULLETIN
-
- The DDN MANAGEMENT BULLETIN is distributed by the Network Information
- Center under DCA contract as a means of communicating official policy,
- procedures and other information of concern to management personnel at
- DDN facilities. Back issues may be obtained by FTP from the directory
- <DDN-NEWS> at SRI-NIC [26.0.0.73 and 10.0.0.51] using the filename
- DDN-NEWS:DDN-MGT-BULLETIN-xx.TXT (where xx is the bulletin number.)
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- NEW POLICY: ROLLOVER EXPIRATION OF INDIVIDUAL
- MILNET TAC ACCESS CARDS
-
- The Defense Data Network Program Management Office (DDN PMO) has
- authorized the Network Information Center (NIC) to do a periodic
- update of MILNET and ARPANET users currently registered in the NIC
- WHOIS/NICNAM Identification Database; to invalidate currently issued
- individual MILNET TAC ACCESS cards; to issue new individual MILNET TAC
- ACCESS cards with new access codes to re-registered, authorized MILNET
- TAC users.
-
- NOTE: This procedure applies only to MILNET TAC Access. ARPANET TAC
- Access is a separate procedure administered by the Defense Advanced
- Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
-
- The NIC will begin the user registration update in February, 1985.
- This procedure will be repeated annually. The re-registration of
- users and reissuance of MILNET TAC ACCESS cards to authorized users
- will ensure that only currently authorized users have MILNET TAC
- access.
-
- RE-REGISTRATION OVERVIEW
-
- The Host Administrator of each host is responsible for registering
- all users of his or her host and who have network access, and who
- have been authorized for MILNET TAC Access via MILNET TACs. Those
- users must be registered in the WHOIS/NICNAM database.
-
- - With the cooperation and assistance of the Host Administrators, the
- NIC will update the information of currently registered users, delete
- users who no longer have accounts on either MILNET or ARPANET hosts
- and register new users. The NIC will issue new individual MILNET access
- codes to authorized re-registered and newly registered MILNET users;
- send the new cards directly to the user via U.S. postal mail;
- invalidate current individual MILNET TAC Access codes by host; and
- re-register authorized MILNET and ARPANET users who do not require
- MILNET TAC Access.
-
- - The update will proceed on a "rolling" basis. The schedule of
- re-registration of each host is determined on the basis of the first
- letter of the official hostname: Hosts with an official hostname
- beginning with the letter "A" will be re-registered in February 1985;
- hosts with a hostname beginning with the letter "B" will be
- re-registered in March 1985, etc. The distribution of the letters
- per month as given by the chart below should result in the
- re-registration of roughly the same number of users per month.
-
- If the Host Administrator expects that the month in which his/her
- host is scheduled for re-registration will present a difficulty, then
- that host may be rescheduled for re-registration in another month.
- Please notify REGISTRAR@SRI-NIC.ARPA .
-
- YEARLY RE-REGISTRATION SCHEDULE (by first letter of official hostname):
-
- FIRST LETTER OF HOSTNAME RE-REGISTRATION MONTH
-
- A ..................... February 1985
- B ..................... March
- C ..................... April
- D ..................... May
- E, F, G, H, I, J, K ... June
- L, M .................. July
- N ..................... August
- O, P .................. September
- Q, R .................. October
- S, T .................. November
- U ..................... December
- V, W, X, Y, Z ......... January 1986
-
-
- RE-REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
-
- - The Host Administrator will receive from REGISTRAR@SRI-NIC.ARPA a
- complete listing, in template form, of all currently registered users
- of the host scheduled for re-registration at the beginning of the
- month listed in the above schedule.
-
- - The Host Administrator will update the templates of currently
- registered users following the guidelines stated in the USER
- REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS. A copy may be obtained via FTP from
- SRI-NIC, host address [26.0.0.73] or [10.0.0.51] using pathname:
-
- <USER-DRIVE>INSTRUCTIONS.TXT
-
- - The Host Administrator will update the templates by:
-
- Correcting any outdated information contained in the user
- templates
-
- Marking the "DELETE" field with "Y" for users who no longer have
- current accounts on the host
-
- Filling out templates for new users not included in the list of
- templates
-
- - The Host Administrator will send the updated template file via
- electronic mail to REGISTRAR@SRI-NIC.ARPA prior to the end of the
- month in which updates are received.
-
- - The NIC Registrar will process the template file and update
- the WHOIS/NICNAM Identification Database.
-
- - The NIC Registrar will issue new individual MILNET TAC Access cards
- containing the old login password and new access code to all
- re-registered authorized users, and new passwords and access codes to
- new authorized users.
-
- - At this time, the Registrar will send a message to all registered
- users of the host informing them of the re-issuance of individual
- cards and the invalidation of old cards.
-
- - The Registrar will invalidate (hotlist) the access codes of all
- individual cards issued to the users of that host prior to the
- re-registration. The invalidation of old cards will occur 30 days
- following the end of the month the re-registration was due. This
- delay should allow sufficient time for users to receive their new
- cards, and for them to inform us or the Host Administrator of any
- problems with the new cards prior to the invalidation of the old
- cards.
-
- PROBLEMS WHICH MAY ARISE
-
- Official hostname changes which involve a change of the first
- character of the hostname:
-
- If the host has been re-registered during 1985 prior to the
- hostname change, we will not re-register the users of that host
- until the following year.
-
- New hosts:
-
- Users of new hosts will be registered at the time the
- host becomes an official ARPANET or MILNET host. We will
- re-register those users the following year.
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