~ November 1993 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". 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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 November 1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 7 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 CICNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 INTERNIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 MERIT/MICHNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 MRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30 USER SERVICES REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 45 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 46 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF MONTHLY REPORT for November, 1993 1. The 28th meeting of the IETF was held in Houston, Texas the first week of November, and was very well attended by over 635 registered attendees. The final numbers are not in yet, but it appears that the Houston meeting will be in the top three based on attendance. This meeting was hosted by the folks at SESQUINET and Rice University. At the open plenary on Thursday, there was a consensus that beginning with the Seattle IETF meeting, the IETF Secretariat will be publishing the proceedings electronically. Details on this will be provided, but are still being worked out by the Secretariat. 2. The next meeting of the IETF will be held in Seattle, Washington from March 29 (registration reception on the 28th) through April 1, 1994. This meeting is being hosted by NorthWestNet. Following the March 1994 meeting, the IETF will be in Toronto Canada from July 25-29 with the registration reception being held on Sunday, July 24. It looks like the IETF will be in the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall... no dates have been set, but the meeting will probably be in the first two weeks of November. Once the final arrangements have been made, the normal 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. 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol Actions during the month of November, 1993: o Guidelines for Running OSPF Over Frame Relay Networks be published as an Informational RFC. o Use of ISO CLNP in TUBA Environments be published as an Experimental Protocol. Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 o Telnet Environment Option as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Environment Option Interoperability Issues be published as an Informational RFC. o Representing IP Information in the X.500 Directory be published as an Experimental protocol. o DSA Metrics be published as an Informational RFC. o Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory be published as an Experimental protocol. 4. The IESG issued three Last Calls to the IETF during the month of November, 1993: o The OSPF NSSA Option being considered as a Proposed Standard o DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions being considered as a Draft Standard o TN3270 Current Practices being considered as an Informational Document 5. A total of 27 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of November, 1993: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (telnet) o Telnet Authentication: Kerberos Version 5 (tuba) o Use of ISO CLNP in TUBA Environments (bgp) o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (x400ops) o Using the Internet DNS to maintain RFC1327 Address Mapping Tables Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 (ipidrp) o IDRP for SIP (iplpdn) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (cat) o FTP Security Extensions (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service (ifmib) o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II (atm) o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5 (madman) o Directory Monitoring MIB (pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP) (thinosi) o Octet sequences for upper-layer OSI to support basic communications applications (tn3270e) o TN3270 Current Practices (pppext) o The PPP Multilink Control Protocol (MCP) (none) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications (pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) (none) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages (none) o Text/Signature (none) + HTML+ (Hypertext markup format) (none) + SNMP Mid-Level-Manager MIB (none) + SNMP Script Language (bgp) + BGP-4 protocol document roadmap and implementation experience (iiir) + Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) A Stateless Search, Retrieve and Manipulation Protocol (sip) + IPAE: The SIPP Interoperability and Transition Mechanism (thinosi) + Use of upper-layer OSI protocols to support basic communications applications Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 6. There were 3 RFC's published during the month of November, 1993: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1544 PS (822ext) The Content-MD5 Header Field RFC1545 E (none) FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR) RFC1546 I (none) Host Anycasting Service St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== Four out of six steps comprising the T3 network upgrade (Phase-5) have been completed. The remaining two steps required to finish the T3 hardware upgrade to the ANSnet will be completed in December. New Rcp_routed software was released on the T3 network to address performance improvements. Gated software including support for BGP4 was released to Cornell for a future public release. ANSnet test routers are peering with other networks on the BGP4 public test network. October Backbone Traffic and Routing Statistics =============================================== The total inbound packet count for the T3 network (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 44,687,182,575 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 2.3% from October. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 52,859,569,704 up 3.5% from October. The maximum number of destinations announced to the T3 network during November was 13,886. T3 Network Upgrade Progress/Status ================================== During November (and the first week in December) we successfully completed four of the six steps that comprise a major upgrade to the T3 network (called "Phase-5 upgrade"). The major changes that will result from this upgrade are: o Upgrade of all DS3/HSSI router serial interface adapters (T3 CNSS and ENSS) to support full DS3 bandwidth. The router adapter bus interface cards will also be upgraded to double the packet switching rates per interface. o The architecture for interconnection among CNSS routers at each MCI POP location will be upgraded from point-to-point links to a common FDDI ring. Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 o The T3 DSUs on each DS3 interface will be replaced with a T3 bandwidth manager (T3Plus BMX45) to accommodate each T3 CNSS-CNSS circuit, and a Larscom Access-T45 DSU on each end of a T3 ENSS-CNSS circuit. o New system software and microcode has been installed to support the increased adapter performance. Routing software has already been deployed to support the new CNSS architecture. With the completion of 4 of the 6 deployment steps so far, we now have 10 backbone T3 links and 13 customer attachments running at full T3: Seattle - Denver Backbone Link Seattle - San Francisco Backbone Link San Francisco - Chicago Backbone Link San Francisco - Los Angeles Backbone Link Los-Angeles - Albuquerque Backbone Link Albuquerque - Houston Backbone Link Houston - Atlanta Backbone Link Atlanta - Greensboro Backbone Link Houston - St. Louis Backbone Link St. Louis - Chicago Backbone Link ENSS128 at Palo Alto (BARRnet, Stanford University) ENSS129 at Champaign (UIUC, CICnet) ENSS130 at Argonne (Argonne National Lab, CICNet) ENSS135 at San Diego (CERFnet, SDSC, etc.) ENSS138 at Atlanta (Georgia Tech, SURAnet) ENSS139 at Houston (Sesquinet, Rice University) ENSS140 at Lincoln (MIDnet, Westnet, etc.) ENSS141 at Boulder (Westnet, NCAR, U of Colorado, etc.) ENSS142 at Salt Lake City (WestNet, U of Utah, etc.) ENSS143 at Seattle (NorthWestNet, U of Washington, etc.) ENSS144 at Moffett Field (FIX-West) ENSS172 at Albuquerque (Phillips Laboratory) ENSS179 at Albuquerque (Sandia National Labs) Additionally, ENSS200 provided full T3 connectivity to the Supercomputing '93 conference in Portland and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago during November. The remaining steps are scheduled for December 11th and 18th, at which point the Phase 5 upgrade will have been completed: Step Date Node Location Facility to be Upgraded ------------------------------------------------------- 5 12/11/93 E131 Cleveland Ann Arbor ENSS and Cleveland POP E132 Cleveland Pittsburgh ENSS and Cleveland POP Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 E137 New York Princeton ENSS and New York POP ---- Chicago 3rd visit for Chicago-Cleveland link upgrade ---- Denver 2nd visit for Denver-St. Louis link upgrade ---- St. Louis 2nd visit for Denver-St. Louis link upgrade 6 12/18/93 E133 Hartford Ithaca ENSS and Hartford POP E134 Hartford Boston ENSS and Hartford POP E136 Wash D.C. College Park ENSS and Wash D.C.POP E145 Wash D.C. FIX-East ENSS and Wash D.C. POP E146 Wash D.C. DARPA ENSS and Wash D.C. POP ---- Cleveland 2nd visit for Cleveland-Hartford link upgrade ---- Greensboro 2nd visit for Greensboro-D.C. link upgrade ---- New York 2nd visit for NY-Hartford link upgrade and for NY-D.C. link upgrade Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes =================================== Rcp_routed maintenance releases were deployed in November. Early in November, the "Improved Efficiency" version was released. A few subsequent performance enhancements have been deployed on ENSS144, ENSS145, and ENSS136 to address specific problems. A memory leak has recently been identified and a fix will be deployed in early December. Release notes are available for anonymous ftp at: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/t3-rcp_routed/Release-Notes. Recent changes have been made to address the effects of high levels of external route flap, both the effects on ANSnet and the effects on ANSnet peer networks. 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 stability rather than complete connectivity. November stability dropped to levels observed in July and August due to problems with rcp_routed. Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 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% xx.x% The primary causes of instability during November were problems with rcp_routed, and equipment problems associated with new equipment deployed as part of the phase5 deployment. ENSS136 saw almost 7 hours of instability mostly due to paging on the router as a result of a memory leak. ENSS144 saw 2-1/2 hours of instability due to inefficiency associated with building EGP packets of over 30KB for numerous EGP peer routers. E143 experienced just over 2 hour of instability due to equipment problems associated with the phase5 hardware deployment. Other nodes experienced 30-90 minutes of instability due to phase5 deployment. A few nodes continued to have local power problems. The number of nodes experiencing more than 30 minutes accumulated has been significantly reduced. The vast majority of nodes had less than 15 minutes of accumulated instability over the course of the month. The breakdown by sites is as follows (these figures include instabilities recorded during configuration runs): 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 Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 There has been steady increase in the external route flap over the course of the year. The measurement method is described in: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/ExternalRouteFlapReports The number of times networks are announced as unreachable is collected. The following represents the monthly totals in terms of number of networks declared unreachable per hour. January 844 February 876 March 1104 April 1038 May 1134 June 1560 July 1815 August 1874 September 2395 October 2272 November 2321 Plots of the internal routing stability, external peer session stability and external route flap are available as the files: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/internal.ps ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/external.ps ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/flap.ps Recent changes to rcp_routed have been designed to dampen route flap by deferring sending BGP updates slightly. This also more effectively packs routes into BGP updates. This work will be transferred to into Gated. A document, soon to be submitted as an internet draft, describing this work is available as: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/route-dampen.{txt,ps} Gated BGP4/CIDR Deployment Update ================================= During November, ANS connected to the public BGP4 testnet and established external long-distance (non-tunneled) peer sessions with Cisco peers in Sweden and Alternet. We also are peering with unix/Gated routers at Cornell and on the ANS internal testnet. We are importing full routes, and exporting all AS690 routes to the public testnet in addition to our own internal testing. Our current plan is to deploy Gated BGP4 code on AS1133 routers (Ebone link between GIX and Geneva) by 15-December or sooner, and Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 AS690 (ANSnet/NSFnet) routers by 15-January. We have released the current snapshot of the BGP4 Gated code to Cornell and expect there will eventually be a public alpha release of BGP4/Gated code from them. We are working with Merit to gather information, and develop CIDR-era routing plans for NSFnet peer networks. Notable Outages in November '93 =============================== E138 (Atlanta) lost T3 connectivity due to circuit problems on 11/15 E136 (College Park) and E145 (Fix-East) suffered extended outages due to power failure on 11/16 E135 (San Diego) suffered an extended outage due to site power maintenance on 11/21 E141 (Boulder), E142 (Salt Lake) and E143 (Washington) underwent Phase V upgrade on 11/06 E128 (Palo Alto), E130 (Argonne) and E144 (Fix West) underwent Phase V upgrade on 11/13 E135 (San Diego) and E139 (Rice) underwent Phase V upgrade on 11/20 E129 (Champaign), E138 (Atlanta) and E140 (Lincoln) underwent Phase V upgrade on 12/4 Jordan Becker BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- Scalability (September to November 1993) ---------------------------------------- In September, BBN began a new Scalability effort that employs the toolset built during previous months. Under its Defense Simulation Internet (DSI) Engineering contract from ARPA (ASTO), BBN is tasked to study the issue of "scalability" from the perspective of network performance and functionality. The Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) user community has ambitious goals for dramatically increasing the scale of simulated war-fighting exercises. While the largest exercises to date have involved less than 1000 "entities" (tanks, planes, ships, etc.), planned future exercises may involve as many as 100,000. Changes Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 to both the DIS applications and the supporting network(s) will be necessary to accommodate this growth. Furthermore, application changes under consideration depend for their effectiveness on network functionality not yet generally available. In particular, one traffic reduction scheme, called the "bi-grid" algorithm, uses geographic filtering to ensure that simulation hosts receive updates only from entities within the range of view of their own entities. Implementation of this algorithm, however, depends on a wide-area network with advanced multicast routing functionality involving thousands of groups, very dynamic membership, and resource reservation. Another application-level algorithm depends on the ability to send entity state updates to different hosts at different frequencies, a functionality that could be provided by "multi-level flows," one of the network algorithms developed under BBN's Real-Time Multicast Communications (RTMC) project, described previously in this report. BBN's objectives under the Scalability Task are to study the network requirements inherent in the goals of the DIS user community and recommend approaches and component technology for a scalable DSI. Since the start of this task in September, the first phase of the work has been focused on two approaches to requirements definition. The first is based on observation of actual DIS traffic on the current DSI. The second is based on analysis of model scenarios being generated by Loral Advanced Distributed Simulation (LADS) to represent the network traffic expected from future DIS exercises. Previous DSI performance monitoring has been done primarily from a network perspective, i.e. at layer three or lower, involving only approximate correlation with specific user activities. Measurements were limited to packet throughput at network interfaces. During October and November, a plan and procedures were developed to expand both the kinds of measurements to be done and the correlation of these measurements with events of the DIS exercise in progress. First trials of a subset of the techniques took place during DIS demonstrations at the Interservice/Industry Training Systems and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). A more extensive application is being planned for a Synthetic Theater of War (STOW) Engineering Demo in mid-December. The basic approach is to combine SNMP-based monitoring of network interfaces, collection of actual traffic samples on site LANs, and end-to-end delay measurement using probe packets to get a rich characterization of both the DIS traffic and the performance of the DSI specific to this traffic. Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 LADS' model scenarios provide as accurate a view as is available of future large-scale DIS exercises. Among the characteristics of these models being derived are: Total required wide-area backbone bandwidth, Numbers of multicast groups required, Maximum number of groups subscribed to by each host, Frequency of group membership changes, and Group membership duration statistics. So far, only one model scenario has been thus analyzed. Additional scenarios are expected from LADS in December. Another type of analysis planned for these scenarios involves use of the DSI network simulator that BBN built as part of LADS "Scalability Toolset." The traffic models derived from LADS' model scenarios will be used as input for this simulator to help determine effective architectures for the next generation DSI. During November, auxiliary tools were built to facilitate analysis of simulator output. Inter-Domain Policy Routing --------------------------- During the month of November, we began laboratory testing of the new software for IDPR multicast and multipath routing. We expect to continue laboratory testing during the month of December and to move our experiments out onto DARTNET in January. We will release, in early 1994, an updated version of the IDPR protocol specification that includes the changes necessary to support multicast and multipath routing. Karen Seo CICNET ------- In November, CICNet installed 56kb connections at Aurora University, Knox College, College View, Rockford University, Monmouth College, and Illinois Central College; added a T1 connection to Loyola University's existing 56kb connection; installed 56kb Frame Relay connections at Lewis University, North Central, Rosary College, Chicago Medical School, the College of St. Francis, Moraine Valley Community College, Roosevelt University, and Saint Xavier; installed T1 connections at William Rainey Harper Community College; installed a T1 POP at Urbana- Champaign; and sold 10 SLIP dial-up connections. Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 CICNet also announced $1.3 million in NSF funding for its Rural Datafication initiative. by Rhana Jacot (rjacot@cic.net> INTERNIC --------- INFORMATION SERVICES Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Toll-free hotline +1 800 444-4345 email info@internic.net Fax +1 619 455-4640 InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints Suggestions suggestions@internic.net Complaints complaints@internic.net NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net Listserv lists net-happenings listserv@internic.net net-resources listserv@is.internic.net nics listserv@is.internic.net InfoSource Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 NICLink ------- InterNIC Information Services will release a special introductory issue of NICLink, a CD-ROM subscription product to be issued quarterly. The NICLink CD will contain the InfoSource, the Information Services online information database that highlights the information resources of the Internet. Additional information, images, electronic books, and software from the Internet will be Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 included in future issues. The CD-ROM will be compatible with Macintosh, PC Windows, and some UNIX configurations. The software used to present the data is Interleaf's WorldView, which incorporates full database search functions as well as hypertext linking capabilities to provide a powerful, easy-to-use interface. Contact the Information Services Reference Desk or the InterNIC Store on the InfoSource for details. NSF Network News ---------------- The PostScript version of the _NSF Network News_ is now available on the InfoSource at is.internic.net under/InterNIC Information Services/ About InterNIC Information Services/"NSF Network News". The file is large (approximately 10 MB), including graphics and other sections unavailable in the ASCII version of the newsletter. An integral and popular part of the newsletter is the 6-page fold- out map of U.S. Internet Connectivity sites. In the past, networks contributed statistics on the number and identity of its regional connections and customers, as well as the number of dialup customers for inclusion in the Map. In order to update the Map for future issues of the _NSF Network News_, updated statistics are needed from all network NICs. Networks which have contributed to past versions of the Map are: BARRNet CERFnet CICNET CONCERT JcNCnet Los Nettos MIDNET Merit/MichNet MRNet MCSAnet NEARnet NorthWestNet NSFNET Backbone Sites NYSERNet OARnet PREPnet PSCNET PSInet SDSCNET SESQUINET SURAnet Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 THEnet UIUC/net VERnet WESTNET WiscNet Please contact the Publications Department of Information Services at +1 619 455-3941, +1 619 455-3934 or newsletter- comments@internic.net for more information on updating or adding your listing to the Internet Connectivity Map. Reference Desk -------------- The following table gives a summary of the Reference Desk contacts for November. Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 274 5.6 Phone 4313 88.4 Fax 279 5.7 US Mail 12 <1 Other 2 <1 ------- -------- --------- Total 4880 100 by Karen D. Frazer DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES InterNIC Directory and Database Services supports a database that can help you find conferences and seminars that might be of interest to you or your collegues. The list is accessible via Gopher (look for "InterNIC Directory and Database Services", then "InterNIC Database Services", and then "Conference and Seminar Announcements" on any of the InterNIC Gopher servers) or anonymous FTP (in the directory "/pub/conf.announce"). The list of conference announcements can also be searched using WAIS (the database name is "conference.announce" and the server is ds.internic.net) from your own WAIS client or by logging in as "wais" on our server, ds.internic.net. We scan a number of Internet mailing lists looking for conference announcements, and insert the announcements we find in the database (they are deleted after the conference is over). If you are Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 organizing a conference and would like to make sure that it is included in our list, you can email a copy of the conference announcement (in plain ASCII text) to conf@ds.internic.net. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. by Rick Huber REGISTRATION SERVICES Significant Events During the month of November, the InterNIC received a significant amount of publicity from several sources this month. In the early portion of November, an article was written in the Wall Street Journal and a television show called Computer Chronciles discussed the Internet. Later on in the month, an article was published in the December 7, 1993 issue of PC Magazine. All of these sources mentioned the InterNIC phone number and discusssed the value of using the Internet. Theses advertisements caused a significant amount of referrals to Information Services since most callers wanted information on how to connect to the Internet. Registration Statistics November Hostmaster Email 3,011 Postal/Fax Applications 219 Telephone Calls 1,990 Domain Registered 723 Inverse Addresses 834 Class C's Assigned 6,470 Class B's Assigned 101 ASN Assigned 74 Connections Retrievals Gopher Sessions 46,503 16,272 Wais Sessions 19,089 35,685 Ftp Sessions 6,500 27,497 Telnet Sessions 46,182 Mail Server 856 by John Zalubski (johnz@rs.internic.net> Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 ISI --- GIGABIT NETWORKING ----------------- Infrastructure Joyce Reynolds to attend the Australian Academy Research Net Workshop Conference in Melbourne, Australia, and participate as keynote speaker, November 20 - December 03 1993. 3 RFCs were published this month. RFC 1544: Rose, M., "The Content-MD5 Header Field", Dover Beach Consulting, Inc., November 1993. RFC 1545: Piscitello, D., "FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR)", Bellcore, November 1993. RFC 1546: Partridge, C., T. Mendez, W. Milliken, "Host Anycasting Service", BBN, November 1993. THE US DOMAIN ------------- Misdirected Requests: Many requests are sent to Internic for registration in EDU, ORG, or GOV, for organizations that should "obviously" be in the US domain. Part of the problem is that not everyone is aware of the US domain (see RFC 1480), and that what is obvious to some can't be seen at all by others. The Internic forwards any requests for schools (K12, CC, TEC), non-federal government agencies, and other organizations that "obviously" fit in the US domain (such as Libraries, Museums). A great deal of effort and delay results when discussion, explanation, and even argument, when a request for a name in EDU, ORG, or GOV, has to be converted into a registration in the US domain. WHOIS Database: One current problem area is getting domain names listed in the "whois" database. The Internic has decided that it can't keep everything in its one central database. The plan is to have distributed databases, and distributed whois servers. However, there is currently no easily configured software package to distribute. This is also an area of active work in the IETF. Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX/PHONE 673 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 673 DELEGATIONS 20 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 17 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 636 --------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------- LIB.LA.US Louisiana Libraries TEC.LA.US Louisiana Technical Schools CC.LA.US Louisiana Community Colleges STARKSVILLE.MN.US Starksville, Mississippi OKTIBBEHA.MS.US Oktibbeha, Mississippi GREENSBORO.NC.US Greensboro, North Carolina GEN.MN.US Minnesota "general" subdomain Other US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------- TCCL.LIB.OK.US Tulsa City-County Library System BILLINGS.LIB.MT.US Parmly-Billings Public Library ED.CO.TULARE.CA.US Tulare County Office of Education CCC.STATE.NJ.US Casino Control Commission/Atlantic City WIPP.CARLSBAD.NM.US Westinghouse, WIPP Site, Carlsbad, NM CO.WESTCHESTER.NY.US Westchester County, NY, Gov't agencies CI.LONG-BEACH.CA.US Long Beach, CA, City Gov't agencies CI.BRYAN.TX.US Bryan, TX, City Gov't agencies EASTHS.MCSD.K12.TN.US East High School, Tennessee CLINTONHS.ACSD.K12.TN.US Clinton High School, Tennessee GRUNDYCHHS.GCSD.K12.TN.US Grundy County High School, TN SUMMERTOWNHS.LCSD.K12.TN.US Summertown High School, Tennessee JACKSONCHSHS.JMSD.K12.TN.US Jackson-Central Merry High School,TN Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK AL AR X AS AZ X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X CO X X X X CT DC ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X X X X X FL X X X X X GA X X X X HI ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X ID IL X X X X IN X X X X KS ----------------------------------------------------------- KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA ME X MI X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MN X X X X X X X MO X X X X MS X X MT NC X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- ND X X NE X X X NH X X NJ X NM X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- NV NY X X OH X X X X X X X OK OR X X ----------------------------------------------------------- PA X X RI X SC X X X X X SD X X ----------------------------------------------------------- TN TX X X X X UT X X X VA ----------------------------------------------------------- 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) MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING At the Houston IETF meeting, ISI (co-)chaired two working groups related to teleconferencing. The Audio/Video Transport Working Group met for only one session this time since the draft specification for the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) has been submitted for the first RFC stage. The emphasis of this session was on implementation experience, with the focus shifting to companion specifications for profiles and encodings. The MMusic working group met for two sessions at the Houston IETF meeting. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 The first day was dedicated to a short overview of the goals and context for the working group and then to a presentation of an algorithm and framework for managing shared session state. The second meeting focused on preliminary ideas on what might comprise shared session state for a couple of different session types, and then three short presentations on related work. The Houston IETF marked the sixth live multicast of audio and video. The number of remote hosts participanting was 629, which for the second time was approximately equal to the number of people who attended locally. Last month, we released mmcc, the multimedia conference control program, but only in binary form for Sun SPARCs. This month we have been working on ports to other platforms, and expect to release binary versions for DEC 5000 and Alpha, HP 700, and SGI in December. A source release is also planned soon. Eve Schooler gave a presentation "Multimedia Session Control for Internet Telecollaboration" over the MBone from ISI to the NASA Science Centers' ICNN/S Conference in Monterey, CA, Nov 17, 1993. Eve Schooler, Steve Casner, Joe Touch (Schooler@ISI.EDU, Casner@ISI.EDU, Touch@ISI.EDU) MERIT/MICHNET ------------- New MichNet affiliates during the month of November include Kellogg, Inc. of Battle Creek and the Metro Net Library Consortium, representing seven libraries in the suburban Detroit area. Over the coming months, Metro Net will connect eight sites. The first three 56Kbps links have been installed: direct links to Bloomfield Hills and Rochester Hills, and a frame relay link to Farmington Hills. Merit has also assisted the Metro Net Consortium in installing and configuring a Unix host, providing additional data networking support for the consortium. The Ford Motor Company will be upgrading their current 56Kbps link to Ford Research to a T1 Internet connection. This link will potentially provide all of Ford with Internet access for the first time. The State of Michigan Department of Natural Resources will also be upgrading their MichNet link to 56Kbps and a pair of cisco routers, replacing the older PDP-11 system. MichNet is one of eight state networks joining CICNet in the Rural Datafication Project funded by a $1.3 million National Science Foundation grant. The project's purpose of extending Internet access and services to underserved constituencies parallels the Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Rural Electrification Act of 1936, which brought electrical power to millions of rural residents. Project funding will be used to establish standards and information servers for the Rural Datafication Project and extend the network infrastructure to an additional 19 rural locations throughout the region. Three new points of presence (POPs) will be located in Michigan, where efforts will be focused on the Upper Peninsula. "Building a Communication Network Linking Knowledge Providers, Small Business Users, and Industrial Extension Agents in Michigan" has been funded by the ARPA defense conversion activity known as the Technology Reinvestment Project, TRP. Michigan State University led the proposal effort, with Merit as the network provider in this project. The effect of efforts through this proposal will be to expand dial-in access to MichNet. At Michigan State University, equipment for several microcomputer laboratories is being upgraded and new labs established. A new Mac lab of 22 Centris 610s was added to Erickson Hall, and a new language lab will have 16 Centris 660AVs plus laser disk players. With dial-up use almost doubling over the past year, new high-speed and low-speed lines were added to the modem pool. A total of 63 high-speed (9600-38.4bps) and 76 low-speed (1200/2400bps) are now available at MSU. Galactica, a dictionary-like database of computing terms, may now be found at gopher.msu.edu . Saginaw Valley State University has converted its campus network from Pronet-10 token-ring to Ethernet. Faculty and staff with network connections have direct access from their workstations to the Internet via 10Base-T Ethernet LANs connected to Novell Netware servers/routers, which are in turn connected to the campus fiber backbone. The Valley Library Consortium, based at SVSU, has installed fiber to connect its computer to the SVSU MichNet router, which is being upgraded to support such a connection. Eastern Michigan University and Merit Network, Inc. will jointly host the 1994 ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference XXII. "Meet the Shadowy Future," will focus on planning for change when the future remains uncertain. Scheduled for October 16-20, 1994, at the Radisson-on-the-Lake in Ypsilanti, MI, inquiries may be sent to the conference mailing list SIGUCCS94@emuvax.emich.edu . Michigan Technological University has completed its 5-year plan for fiber installation and is proceeding to network the campus dorms. The Xylogic Annex III terminal servers were chosen for this initiative; asynchronous access will be implemented first, with ppp soon to follow. A new trunk of 16 high-speed modems is in production, bringing the number of modems available to 32. Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Wayne State University is participating with Michigan State and the University of Michigan in a project to use PACLink. This project will allow the NOTIS systems at the three sites to query each other. The underlying mechanism is an RS/6000 at each site which will act as a gateway between the Internet and the local SNA system. The Gopher Pilot Project is underway at Wayne State. Pilot members are Computing and Information Technology, Student Affairs, University Libraries and University Relations. The main Gopher server for WSU is gopher.wayne.edu . This machine also has a public client available by logging in as gopher. Teacher Education at Central Michigan University is installing a freenet server called Education Central. This will be accessible through the Internet and MichNet to teachers around the state. This educational bulletin board and information server has received grant support. Laura Kelleher, of Merit Network Information Services, spoke on data networking to 200 members of the Washtenaw-Livingston Area Education Technology Network. Dana Sitzler, coordinator of MichNet's K-12 Outreach projects, participated in the 1993 Michigan Educational Technology Conference and Exposition in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sheri Repucci, coordinator of MichNet recruiting activities, spoke to graduate students in public library service at the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies on public access to MichNet, its resources, and beyond to the global Internet. Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu) Merit Network, Inc. Information Service MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES --------------------------------- Merit/NSFNET Information Services During November, new international sites with announcement to the NSFNET backbone included Kenya, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands Antilles, Equatorial Guinea and Peru. Foreign networks now number 8,106, of a total 19,664 networks announced to the NSFNET backbone. Growth as the number of domestic and foreign networks having announcement to the NSFNET infrastructures, as well as network distribution by country over the term of the NSFNET project, are available as /nsfnet/statistics/history.netcount Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 and /nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.country respectively on nic.merit.edu. The resources of nic.merit.edu are available through Anonymous FTP, electronic mail query and a Gopher client connecting to the Merit Network Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70. New information available on nic.merit.edu includes an update of Peter Kaminski's Public Dialup Internet Access List (PDIAL), a list of organizations providing dialup Internet access. Available as /internet/providers/pdial Merit Network, Inc. was well represented at the IETF fall meeting in Houston, TX: attending were Pat Smith, NISI co-chair; Ellen Hoffman, USERDOC2 co-chair; Chris Weider co-chair of IDS and IIIR; Mark Knopper, TUBA co-chair; Jessica Yu, BGPDEPL chair; Sue Hares IPIDRP chair and NOOP co-chair; Allan Rubens NASREQ co-chair; John Vollbrecht NASREQ co-chair; Dale Johnson, Andrew L. Adams, Larry Blunk, Bill Norton, Laurent Joncheray, Enke Chen and Rick Schmalgemeier. Weider also spoke at the DCI sponsored "E-Mail World" in California. Ellen Hoffman and Laura Kelleher represented Merit at the fall meeting of CNI in Chantilly, Virginia. NICFEST, hosted by the InterNIC in San Diego, was attended by Pat Smith, Susan R. Harris and Ellen Hoffman. Smith, Harris and Hoffman also participated in the ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference, "Toward New Horizons." Smith and Hoffman attended the "Future of NICs" BOF, hosted by Martyne Halgren of the SIGUCCS Networking Task Force. Hoffman is the program chair for 1994 ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference XXII. "Meet the Shadowy Future," will focus on planning for change when the future remains uncertain. Sponsored by ACM SIGUCCS and jointly hosted by Eastern Michigan University and Merit Network, Inc., SIGUCCS XXII will be held at Radisson-on-the-Lake in Ypsilanti, MI, October 16-20, 1994. A conference mailing list has been established for getting answers to any questions you may have. Send to SIGUCCS94@emuvax.emich.edu . Merit will present another in its series of Networking Seminars January 27-28, 1994, in Orlando, Florida. "Making Your Internet Connection Count: Technology, Tools and Resources" will be held at the Walt Disney World Yacht Club Resort. Co-sponsored by Florida State University and the University of Florida, this seminar includes an overview of Internet resources, popular tools for network access, and the national policies that affect its growth. Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Nationally known experts talk to attendees about network resources, getting connected and how the network is effectively being used today by universities, research organizations, libraries, and public schools. Interactive breakout sessions each day make it possible to get your questions answered by experts. Scheduled topics and speakers include "Moving Toward the Information Superhighway," the keynote address by Robert Heterick, President, EDUCOM; "Navigating the Internet: Network Tools," Alan Emtage, VP Bunyip; "Information Delivery on the Internet: What's Next for Gopher," Mark McCahill, Gopher Developer at the University of Minnesota; "University of Michigan Weather Underground," Perry Samson, Professor Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan; "Electronic Democracy," Jean Armour Polly, Manager of Network Development and User Training NYSERNet, Inc.; "NSFNET and the NII," Priscilla Huston, NSFNET Project Director, NSF; "The New Networking Infrastructure for Education Program," Art St. George, Program Director, Applications of Advanced Technologies, NSF; "Disney's Applications of Advanced Technology," Lou Kompare, Director of Telecommunications and Technology, Walt Disney World Attractions; and the closing address by Donna Cox, Director of Numerical Lab Programs, NCSA. Internet connectivity will be available in a hands-on demonstration room, where seminar attendees can access the many resources on the Internet using the latest information delivery tools. The registration fee is $495 until December 23, 1993. After December 23, the cost is $595. This fee includes the two-day seminar, all seminar materials, receptions on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, lunches on Thursday and Friday, refreshments and access to Internet-connected computers. Limited scholarships will be available. The deadline for scholarship applications is December 23, 1993. For more information, send an e-mail message to: nic-info@nic.merit.edu with the text send next.seminar This information is also available as the document /nsfnet/next.seminar on nic.merit.edu for retrieval using Anonymous FTP or in the Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70, as Next Merit/NSFNET Seminar--Jan. '94. Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu) Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 MRNET ------- We are pleased to announce the following staff additions to the Minnesota Regional network for the expansion of client services and engineering operations: Ms. Margo Berg, Director of Client Services for Education Ms. Marti Palmer, Director of Client Services for Business & Government Mr. Chris Elmquist, Network Engineer Mr. Gregg Brekke, Network Engineer New hub sites have been established in Moorhead, MN Mankato, MN St. Cloud, MN Recent new member attachments include: The Northern Lights Library Network Lamb, Inc. Minnesota Center for Arts Education Medtronic HealthPartners William Mitchell College of Law Exchange Data & Decision Systems This brings total attached membership to a total of 63 organizations. Contact: info@MR.Net for any further information. Dennis Fazio, Executive Director Minnesota Regional Network Minneapolis, MN (612) 342-2570 by Dennis Fazio (dfazio@MR.net> Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 NORTHWESTNET ------------- We welcome several new NorthWestNet members this month: Lane OnLine Eugene, OR Lewis-Clark State College Lewiston, ID Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA Whitworth College Spokane, WA OGI Telecomm Ltd. Beaverton, OR Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education (OCATE) Beaverton, OR We also want to welcome a new NorthWestNet staff member. The next edition of "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online" is now in the capable hands of David Robison, educational documentation specialist. David has assumed the role of primary author and editorial coordinator of NorthWestNet's premier Internet resource guide. Before starting at NorthWestNet, David worked at the University of California at Berkeley Library and was the founding editor of the electronic newsletter "Current Cites." David has an MLIS from the University of California at Berkeley. Several staff members gave invited presentations during the past four weeks, including the following: Dr. Eric Hood, Executive Director of NorthWestNet ------------------------------------------------- Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute (SIRTI) Conference: "On Ramps to the Information Highway" Spokane, Washington -- November 5 "The Internet: Here, Now, and the Future" and "Building an Information Highway for the Northwest." Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services -------------------------------------- SIGUCCS '93 San Diego, California -- November 8 Panel presentation: "NorthWestNet Network Info. Center" and Association for Computer Professionals in Education (ACPE) Portland, Oregon -- November 18 "K-12 and the Internet: An Online Demo of Selected Resources" Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Mike Showalter, Information Services Specialist ----------------------------------------------- King County Library System (presentation for staff members) Seattle, Washington -- November 18 "Copyright in Cyberspace: An Overview of Internet-Related Copyright Issues" NorthWestNet member organizations can now request to have a network (Usenet) newsfeed provided from a NorthWestNet-managed news server host to the member's news server host via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). (Inclusion and exclusion filtering is available.) In the past, members have obtained this service on an ad hoc basis. Requests for newsfeeds must be initiated by the member's Institutional Representative. Member sites should contact NorthWestNet for more information. Twenty-five K-12 teachers participated in four Internet training sessions which were delivered in support of two grant programs: "Changing How We Organize: Inclusion Through Collaboration and Educational Support (CHOICES)" and "Enabling K-12 Education in the Pacific Northwest through Internetworking." ----------------- 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. by Jan Eveleth UCL ---- Zheng Wang gave a paper at the Lancast NOSDAV workshop on Unified Multicast Forwarding. Jon Crowcroft gave a paper at the UK Adivosrry Group on Graphics workshop on Multimedia in Higher Education, on Network Support for Multimedia. And another paper at the British Computer Society's one day seminar on "Internet: Boom or Bust" on Scalable Solutions to IPng. Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 UCL participated in the first UK Academic Mbone Pilot Project meeting, to make sure that MICE, ARPA and other internetaional multicast connectivity were on the agenda. MICE organised several more mbone seminars, which are now being made available in the Web through mosaic by Anders Klemets at SICS at the URL: http://www.it.kth.se/~klemets/vatplay.html As are the UK (JIPS) Mbone documents (and mrinfo etc) by Piete Brooks at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/mbone This technology surely is the biggest step in Internet usability for several years. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 USER SERVICES REPORT -------------------- Trip Report 16th RIPE Meeting - Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 15-17, 1993 Joyce K. Reynolds USC/Information Sciences Institute The 16th RIPE Meeting The 16th RIPE Meeting was held in September 1993 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Approval of the agenda was first, with parallel sessions starting after general plenaries. This meeting was being audiocast to the world. RIPE NCC Report by Daniel Karrenberg There are currently 450,000 Internet hosts at the end of August 1993 and the numbers are still increasing. Daniel presented an overview of the registry, document store, new database, and new software development. The RIPE NCC Internet Registry (IR) According to Daniel, at the the RIPE NCC IR, it is "business as usual". The 193.x.y delegation is a success. The registry has started using 194.x.y allocation, because there are no large blocks left in 192.x.y. (Note: There are no blocks of "8" anymore.) There was a need to use 194.x.y using CIDR very aggressively. With the 194.x.y allocation, the RIPE NCC will be more conservative in using the 194.x.y address space. There are still 193.x.y numbers left (about 50%). The Internet registry template is updated every six months. Daniel stressed to please us the common registry template on file. There is a new leaflet available (green leaflet) containing information about the RIPE NCC IR. Document Store World Wide Web (WWW) is now operational. Daniel suggested to the group to try out xmosaic, if you are running x-windows. The Gopher structure is being revised. There will be a more detailed report on this at the next RIPE meeting in January 1994. A general revision of the document store has been initiated. Send comments to Anne Lord. Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 New RIPE Database Software by Marten Tempstra Marten presented the newly upgraded RIPE database software. The question arose of why was it necessary to rewrite the software? Marten responded by stating that the old style took two hours a day (manually). It also required many modifications to keep it running. The object checking was too loose, and almost always in a "don't touch" state. A design decision was made, which included a decrease in manpower for updates, lower turnaround times, making the database easily extendible, and a guarded attributes provision. The new software is written in Perl, which is highly portable, nice DMB features, and easy to make changes. This new software enables the staff to make "on the fly" updates, the updates are immediately available in WHOIS, and the turn around time is immediate. There is no human intervention. It also provides for a guarded attributes provision, improved syntax checking, a faster WHOIS server, and it can also manage multiple databases (same syntax). Current status is that there are 30 Perl modules, 3500 lines of code. So far, Marten and Daniel are happy with the design. Distribution will be in November. Odds and Ends by Daniel Karrenberg Daniel described the current RIPE NCC outlook: PRIDE project started (see notes below) One more staff being hired for it. Position for six month projects available. Populating the routing registry is next. What is very important to mention is that the RIPE NCC funding for 1994 for core activities is not complete. The budget is 260,000 ECU, which is about 100,000 ECU short. Progress on Joint Projects by Tony Bates GISS Project Summary Tony mentioned that Daniel covered alot in his RIPE NCC report about the GISS Project summary. It is a joint RARE/RIPE project. The project is finished. It was an interesting endeavor, but at the same time, it wasn't an easy task. A lot more work is needed. Draft 3 documentation is available via ftp.ripe.net: ripe/docs/ripe-drafts/giss.txt. There is a draft charter in to the IETF to make a "GISS" working group. Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Route Server Project This project is officially over. The RIPE NCC will continue to operate the route server. The route server itself is fully operational. The routing software is working well, and the policy based derivation is working in "kludge" mode (needs the RR populated). These are all working automatically. Collaboration with other projects continues. Work on monitoring of European routing is reported on a daily and weekly basis. This project is continuing to look at the new networks and routing domains appearing in Europe. The consensus is to use the route servers by the proto-GIX partners as soon as possible. A report has been filed about this project, and is available via ftp.ripe.net. This was a SURFnet funded project, which provided the stimulus. PRIDE Project "Policy-based Routing Implementation and Deployment in Europe" (PRIDE). This project was recently started, because the routing situation is becoming "even more" complex. The Route Server project and the RIPE 81 charters highlight the clear need for tools, operational based tools (i.e., configuration) and routing registry tools. There needs to be policies now, they need to be up-to-date. The Routing Registry is the key and needs maximum population for: 1) implementation, and 2) deployment (information and help). This idea is very much overdue. The implementation would include a "prcheck (consistency checker), "prpath" (path extraction), "prconn" (display connection according to policy), "prtractroute" (traceroute), and "prconfig" (configuration). Others will be added as needed or proposed. Deployment means registry population and widespread use of tools. A PRIDE guide, and PRIDE course development documents will be written. The PRIDE Project Plan includes: 1 Year plan (startup 1st Sept 93) 8 Milestones Staged Phases (tools release, courses, guides) Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 The initial tools release will include "prtractroute". The current project status includes its very own logo and t-shirts! Seriously, the initial release is out. The project will be carried out at the RIPE NCC. There will be two FTEs for one year, plus NCC support. The funders are the JNT, UNNETT, UUNET, EUnet B.V.. All tools and material will be made publically available. There's funding to "come to you", if regionals cannot participate. They are open to all comments, as the intention is to become a RIPE NCC core activity. RIPE NCC Review by Rob Blokzijl The RIPE NCC activity document is out and needs to be discussed. This new activity plan identifies the areas they have been doing, but not funded. For example, the Internet Registry. The 1991 RIPE NCC activity plan did not include the IR. Rob asked for continued discussion and input on the revised plan, which will start on the 1st January 1994. RARE and RIPE Relationships RIPE came into being as the IP coordination in Europe. The RARE emphasis is still the same. These two groups want to avoid duplication of activities. They have joint projects that are defined, run, and funded. GARR's Network Resource Discovery by Giuseppe Romano Giuseppe Romano of GARR (Italian Research and Academic Network Network Information Service) gave a presentation on GARR's on-line network resource guide. This guide was produced to support end users to find information, and to help end users to access selected resources. This topic will also be discussed in the NIDUS Working Group meeting (see notes below). The GARR resource guide is an experimental on-line service. A. Blasco Bonito suggested that this service should be placed at the RIPE NCC. Some RIPE meeting participants suggested that this service should be brought into Jill Foster's RARE ISUS (Information Services and User Support) group. EARN's Network Resource Guide by Daniele Bovio There was a joint RARE/EARN meeting regarding each group's efforts and focus. A pact between them has been settled that EARN will specifically focus on user support. Their resource guide is a combined effort of EARN staff members. Drafts for each chapter were submitted and compiled. Then, everything was given to David Sitman Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 (as EARN project coordinator). The guide was produced in time for the JENC (Joint European Networking Conference) Trondheim conference. A 1 July 93 revised draft was presented and discussed at the Amsterdam IETF in Joyce Reynolds' USWG (User Services Working Group) session. A second editon of this guide will be available by the Warsaw NSC (Network Services Conference) meeting. Bert Stals of the RARE ISUS working group assisted with input and comments. The first edition of the guide was distributed at the JENC, IETF, and INET93. The guide is directed to all end users. Local Internet Registry Group by Daniel Karrenberg The Local Internet Registry Group held a workshop at the beginning of the week before the RIPE meetings. A question was brought up whether their workshops should be held at the same time as the RIPE meetings. A decision was made that they will continue to be informal, with no keeping of minutes, and to keep holding them in conjunction with the RIPE meetings, to cut down on travel. There was a discussion about publishing local registries, as the current policy is to not publish them. All local registries are running smoothly. Some service providers say that they don't want this. Customers will be revealed. They don't want to publish their own lists. The argument was that it doesn't make any sense to hide this information. Daniel made mention that this is not in the spirit of the Internet. Analogy would be once you start hiding the IP contacts, the next will be the Domains. Service provides need to accept responsibility. They must assume formal responsibility, essentially because there are more service providers every year. This issue must be resolved, eventhough the Internet is subtly becoming commercial. Look at the different exchange service infrastructures that are included. Daniel will take all comments, summarize and provide a proposal. The biggest issue is the operational contact points. Daniel would like to propose that the RIPE NCC publish ALL registries, provider and non-provider by country. The group agreed that there should be a complete list of local IRs. A. Blasco Bonito requested further discussion off-line about the functions of the non-provider registry. The results of this proposal will be in put the RIPE NCC activity plan. The group discussed future needed documents. One document would be an FAQ on CIDR and subnetting, and another document would be appropriate on why is it good Internet citizenship to give back IP address space. Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Administration of top level domains was discussed. The group felt the Lebanon top level domain request took too long. If this happens in Europe, it might be good to have the RIPE NCC handle the proces. There was no objection from this group. The idea is to have the RIPE NCC jump in when there isn't any consensus in a country and have the NCC handle it. Daniel said the RIPE NCC is willing to provide this service, and he will communicate this to the IANA. BOF session on European Architecture Development by Bernhard Stockman The intent is to maintain and improve routing between Europe and the U.S. This is an operational engineering issue that Bernhard is trying to deal with here, not routing issues. First, he would like to identify the level of ambition, and whether it is on a complex or intermediate level. The issues include: -What is routing stability? -Look at the progress of CIDR development in Europe -What is the level of complexity? a) multiple Internet Services providers b) see a need for some kind of interchange c) address ideas on where - possible locations d) who can connect? who is acceptable as a peer? e) what does this group want to say about this? f) regulator issues - who is in charge? g) is there a need for a management framework? -Technical needs a) technical requirements specification b) time estimations to operate c) source based policy routing (SDRP) pilot - this is happening in the IETF, but what can the RIPE group do? Report on the EBONE Consortium Meeting There is already a plan in place with the continuation of the EBONE effort (EBONE2) of a distributed GIX (D-GIX). D-GIX was overwhelmingly approved, as there is an urgent need for a full fledge solution. The interim solution of interconnectivity ("Interim D- GIX") was discussed. The group needs to agree if this is a good idea. There would be an initial separation of routing and payload traffic, but is there a need to do this? The issues include: -separation of routing and payload -a D-GIX specification is needed -need for some kind of informal/formal body to be responsible for operational issues -need for some kind of pilot phase that would: Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 a) specify what b) specify time schedules c) goals -a SDRP/multifacet router might happen other groups (RARE, etc.) may look into this -simplify route server implementation of a D-GIX -need for improvements -flexibility versus connectivity in D-GIX Other issues to consider: -routing registry population - "pushing"? -secret routing information - consider this? -liaisons with the IEPG - need to liase with more operations related forums that exist within the various continents. Bernhard opened the floor for comments. Is there a need for a working group in RIPE to work on this issue? The group stated a resounding yes. The maintenance and improvement of routing between Europe and the U.S. is the main issue. This is much more focussed and defined on an operations level. This item needs to stay within the RIPE framework. This new working group would be on neutral ground and open (like an operations forum). What about "beyond D-GIX"? This working group would be an evolving group, which would concentrate on D-GIX right now, but would keep their eyes and ears open. The major item the attendees see as missing is a requirement document. Network Information Discovery for Users Support (NIDUS WG) The NIDUS WG, chaired by Nandor Hovarth, held a session at this RIPE meeting. Joyce Reynolds presented a report on the IETF User Services Area activities and meetings held during the Amsterdam IETF in July (see Appendix). Nandor lead a continued discussion regarding GARR's Resource Guide (see above). The group felt that this resource guide could have two paths to follow. -continue building on the guide as is and keep enhancing it -find out if a pilot project group needs to be started to help in the development of the specialization of each item within the guide -would RIPE be the forum for this pilot or RARE? Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Appendix IETF User Services Area Report Amsterdam, The Netherlands Joyce K. Reynolds (USAD) 10 working groups in the User Services Area of the IETF met in Amsterdam. Integrated Directory Services (IDS), chaired by Chris Weider and Tim Howes. (Summary reported by Chris Weider.) The IDS Working Group is chartered to facilitate the integration and interoperability of current and future directory services into a unified directory service. This work will unite directory services based on a heterogeneous set of directory services protocols (X.500, WHOIS++, etc.). In addition to specifying technical requirements for the integration, the IDS Group will also contribute to the administrative and maintenance issues of directory service offerings by publishing guidelines on directory data integrity, maintenance, security, and privacy and legal issues for users and administrators of directories. The "Advanced Usages of X.500" document from the DISI WG has been sent to the RFC Editor for publication. The "Pilot Project" catalog is out as an Internet-Draft (I-D). The Revision of FYI 11 has been released as an I-D and will be submitted to the RFC Editor for publication by the end of August 1993. A draft on, "Legal & Privacy Issues in Directory Services" was submitted and will be published as an I-D. A draft on, "A Guide to Available Directory Services" was circulated and will be advanced as an I-D for eventual publication as an Informational RFC. The Directory Services Policy Handbook will be split into pieces and will be released as a series of documents. Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR), chaired by Chris Weider. (Summary reported by Chris Weider.) IIIR is chartered to facilitate interoperability between Internet Information Services, and to develop, specify, and align protocols designed to integrate the plethora of Internet information services (WAIS, archie, Prospero, etc.) into a single "virtually unified information service". Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 IIIR met twice at this IETF. At the first session, the HTML I-D from Tim Berners-Lee was discussed, and will be submitted as an Informational RFC. The HTTP protocol will also be released as an I-D before the next IETF. HTML+ may be brought in as a potential standard. At the second session, the "Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Architecture" document is still an ID, as comments have come in that need to be incorporated. The "Resource Transponders" document was discussed. The potential overlap with the Service Location group's work has still not resolved. The "Taxomomy of Information Services" document has been shelved as other papers have recently been published on this work. There are some minor problems with the Gopher RFC which will be addressed in an addendum. The Prospero protocol was suggested as a means of Integrating Information Services. Discussion on this item will be taken to the IIIR WG email list. The Gopher/IIIR datatype specifications will be registered as MIME types. A document will be written on failure tracking and resolution between information services. "Z39.50 over TCP/IP" will be released as an I-D, to eventually become an Informational RFC. A paper on integrating data elements between the IAFA WG's paper and the library community will be released as an I-D. Internet School Networking (ISN) session led by Jennifer Sellers (NASA). (Summary reported by Jennifer Sellers.) The Internet School Networking Working Group is chartered to facilitate the connection of the United States' K-12 (Kindergarten-12th Grade) schools, public and private, to the Internet, and school networking in general. After some background on the history of ISN, the group shared experiences in school networking and their own companies and projects. There were 30 or 35 people in attendance and almost all had more than a passing interest in school networking. Next, the group gave a lot of good feedback on the document currently under construction, the I-D on FAQs for the Primary and Secondary School Community. Also discussed was a document on Connectivity Models for schools. It was decided that this document will be combined with the UserDoc2's document on how to connect, and will be put out as an I-D. The final agenda item was a review and revision of the group's charter. After some discussion, three volunteers from three different countries agreed to craft the text for a new charter and post it to the list. From there, the group will determine new deliverables and milestones. Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Networked Information Retrieval (NIR), chaired by Jill Foster and George Brett. (Summary reported by Kevin Gamiel.) NIR is chartered to increase the useful base of information about networked information retrieval tools, their developers, interested organizations, and other activities that relate to the production, dissemination, and support of NIR tools. NIR is a cooperative effort of the IETF, RARE, and CNI. Jim Fullton gave an overview of CNIDR. Jill Foster gave a brief overview of the RARE ISUS work in the NIR area. Anders Gillner discussed his work on the Eurogopher project. This project involves establishing a subject-based as well as geographic-based Gopher infrastructure in Europe. The group then spent most of the meeting editing the NIR report. Major changes included the merging of the WAIS and freeWAIS sections, NCSA's Mosaic was moved under the WWW section, and the NLM sections were removed. Various methods of publishing and maintaining this information online were discussed. Several suggestions for evaluating NIR tools was discussed. It was decided to put together a simple checklist as the basis of the evaluation. There will be further discussion on the mailing list. The charter was updated to remove the reference to documentation and training materials. The Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (NISI), chaired by April Marine and Pat Smith. (Summary reported by April Marine.) NISI is exploring the requirements for common, shared Internet-wide network information services. The goal is to develop an understanding for what is required to implement an information services "infrastructure" for the Internet. The NISI Working Group discussed two main topics. First, comments on the current I-D were solicited and a discussion of the relationships between network information centers (NICs) ensued, resulting in suggested revisions to the document's diagram. Secondly, the scope of recommendations for interactions between NICs when more than one are involved in helping a user were clarified. The group benefitted greatly from the international input available in this forum and both documents currently in progress should be much improved. Network Training Materials (TRAINMAT), chaired by Ellen Hoffman and Jill Foster. (Summary reported by Ellen Hoffman.) The Network Training Materials Working Group is chartered to enable Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 the research community to make better use of the networked services. Towards this end, the Working Group will work to provide a comprehensive package of "mix and match" training materials for the broad academic community which will: 1) enable user support staff to train users to use the networked services and 2) provide users with self-paced learning material. In the first instance, it will not deal with operational training. This Working Group is the IETF component of a joint RARE/IETF group working on Network Training Materials. The meeting opened with introductions and descriptions of training activities in which each person is involved. Jill Foster discussed the RARE ISUS Network Training Materials TF as well as the NISP/ITTI project at the University of Newcastle, UK. The group reviewed data elements for the training materials catalog, and agreed on the general categories which Foster presented with a few suggested changes. A small group will finalize the template and send it out to the list. Volunteers were recruited to work on the catalog. Another project the group will pursue is a subject resource guide. Issues in using the network to deliver interactive and multi-media training were discussed, with the possibility for developing multi-media pilots reviewed. A demo of the materials developed at Newcastle was given by Jill Foster. User-Doc2, chaired by Ellen Hoffman and Lenore Jackson (not present). (Summary reported by Ellen Hoffman.) The User-Doc2 Working Group is preparing a revised bibliography of on-line and hard copy documents, reference materials, and training tools addressing general networking information and how to use the Internet. The target audience includes those individuals who provide services to end users and end users themselves. The User Doc Working Group reviewed recent activities, including the release of FYI RFCs 19 and 20 since the last IETF meeting. The archive, Introducing the Internet, has been updated, adding two additional documents and revising the Access Guide. Four sites currently house copies of the archive, and others are encouraged to maintain it. A discussion on documentation needs was held, staring with a talk by Bert Stals on activities by the ISUS Documentation group. Issues relating to documentation in languages other than English and covering a more world-wide perspective in RFCs was covered. The final topic was new activities, with two future FYI RFCs in the works. These are a revision of FYI 3 which is to be finalized at the next meeting, and a new document on how to get connected which is just being started. Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), chaired by Alan Emtage and Jim Fullton. (Summary reported by Jim Fullton.) URI is chartered to define a set of standards for the encoding of system independent Resource Location and Identification information for the use of Internet information services. The URI Working Group met in three sessions to discuss various issues related to URLs, URNs and URCs. The current URL proposal along with an amendment to expand the allowable character set was approved by a vote of 29 to 1. A report on the Info Mesh was made by Karen Sollins. URNs were discussed in great detail. Agreement was reached on the basic format of URNs as well as their content. Sub elements of the URN remain undefined and will be discussed at the next IETF. A paper describing a proposed URM was discussed, as were proposals for the format of URCs. A call for papers describing URMs and URCs was made, with discussion to be carried out on the list. Next time: 1) Discuss URN sub fields, and 2) Discuss URC/URM formats. User Services Working Group (USWG) chaired by Joyce K. Reynolds. (Summary reported by JKRey.) The USWG provides a regular forum for people interested in all user services to identify and initiate projects designed to improve the quality of information available to end-users of the Internet. Joyce Reynolds reported on the IETF User Services Area activities including: Working Groups coming to closure and new Working groups starting up, new publications, and current user services related Internet-Drafts postings. April Marine led a discussion on an FYI RFC update; FYI 4 "FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions", (Also RFC 1325), May 1992. Bill Manning brought up a discussion on how to "empower" users to utilize and document tools. There also seems to be missing from the FYI RFC publications a series of notes that tries to address the manners and morals of the collective body. Another topic that may need to be worked on in this forum is how to deal with the basics (e.g., How do "I" get attached?). Jill Foster presented an update on RARE activities, including a report on the RARE Information Services/User Services (ISUS) activities. Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 David Sitman EARN (European Academic and Research Network) representative presented a discussion and review of EARN's "Guide to Network Resource Tools" in preparation for submission to the RFC Editor for FYI RFC publication. Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS), chaired by Joan Gargano. (Summary reported by Joan Gargano.) The purpose of WNILS is to expand and define the standard for WHOIS services, to resolve issues associated with the variations in access, and to promote a consistent and predictable service across the network. Many attendees were new to the WNILS working group and requested an introduction to the Whois++ architecture. Peter Deutsch presented an overview of the Whois++ architecture and design philosophy. A lengthy discussion followed and the following additions to the protocol were requested. Peter will incorporate the additional specifications and submit an I-D by July 30, 1993. Chris Weider also began his presentation with an overview of centroids. Two problem areas were identified: a) Centroids don't scale for databases containing large quantities of unique data, and b) The potential exists for cycles or looping in queries because the directory is in a mesh configuration. Chris agreed further work is needed on indexing but this first implementation should provide a functional system for existing datasets and a testbed for the limitations of this model. The recommended modifications to the Whois Protocol have been submitted as an I-D. The host record section will be updated. The goals and milestones will be updated to reflect the following: All draft papers will be submitted as I-Ds by the end of July. Two working implementations of clients, servers and centroids will be available by September 30, 1993. Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 CALENDAR -------- Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send your submissions to (cooper@isi.edu). 1993 CALENDAR Nov 1-5 IETF Houston, TX. Nov 2-4 ANSI X3S3.3, TBD Nov 2-4 EMAIL World Contact: Einar Steffurd Nov 9-13 IEEE802 Plenary, Crown Sterling Suites, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Nov 15-19 Supercomputing 93, Portland, OR Dec 6-10 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 1994 CALENDAR Feb 3-4 ISOC Symposium on network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, (nessett@llnl.gov) Mar 29-Apr 1 IETF, Seattle, Washington Apr 6-8 National Net '94 in D.C. May 2-6 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Las Vegas, Nevada Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Jun 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 ULPAA, Barcelona, Spain Einar Stefferud (stef@nma.com) Jun 6-10 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Berlin, Germany Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Jul 25-29 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Tokyo, Japan Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Jul IETF Toronto, Canada Aug 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Computer Congress Hamburg, Germany; Contact: IFIP Aug 29-Sep 2 ACM SIGCOMM 94, UCL, London, England Contact J. Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk. or ACM Sep 12-16 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Fall IETF San Francisco, California Oct 24-28 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) 1995 CALENDAR Sep 18-22 INTEROP95, San Francisco, CA Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Cooper [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 1996 CALENDAR Sep 2-6 14th IFIP World Computer Congress Canberra, Australia Contact: IFIP ======================================================================= RARE LIST OF MEETINGS december 93 edition --------------------- Ref. RSec(93)381-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 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 27 January (Joint meeting with EARN-EXEC) Geneva 28 January Geneva 29 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) RARE Council of Administration ------------------------------ 3/4 February 1994 Brussels 19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv RARE Technical Committee ------------------------ 17 January Telephone Meeting 3/4 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) RARE Working Groups ------------------- RIPE ---- 24-26 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF) 16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF) Cooper [Page 46] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 VARIOUS ------- Euro-CAIRN DANTE Steering Committee 16 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) DANTE Shareholders 4 February Brussels EBONE Management Committee 21 December (TBC) Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) or 10 January (TBC) Copenhagen EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations January (TBD) EAT (Ebone Action Team) + EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 28 February/1 March KTH Stockholm Euro-CCIRN TBD CCIRN 20/21 June TBD (in Europe) INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 13/14 June Prague IETF 29 March - 1 April Seattle July Toronto Autumn San Francisco EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 1-2 March Brussels 17-18 May Brussels 13-14 September Brussels 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 14 December Brussels 15 March Brussels 7 June Brussels 27 September Brussels 6 December Brussels Cooper [Page 47] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 Workshops 17-21 January Brussels 11-15 April Brussels 27 June - 1 July Brussels 10-14 October Brussels ECTUA ----- ETSI ---- General Assembly 24/25 March Nice, France 22/23 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 21-23 March Nice, France 21/22 June Nice, France 18-20 October Nice, France EARN Board of Directors 18-19 May Darmstadt INET'94/JENC5 Track Leaders 17 February Zuerich INET'94/JENC5 Conference Committee 21 March Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) ******************************************************************* 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 . Deadline for submission of contributions and proposals for demonstrations is 15 December 1993 - email . ******************************************************************* OTHER CONFERENCES For some of the following events, full text information is available Cooper [Page 48] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 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) 3rd SYMPOSIUM on HIGH SPEED NETWORKING FOR RESEARCH IN EUROPE ------------------------------------------------------------- organised by RARE with support from the CEC on 2 February 1994 in Brussels *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** to be sent to the High Speed Symposium Secretariat before 21 November 1993. Participation is free of charge; registration forms can be obtained from . To be added to the symposium email distribution list, send a message to . INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY --------------------------------------------------------------------- on 3 and 4 February 1994 at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego, California more information from Mr. Robert Shirey of the MITRE Corporation, email (also on RARE Document Store, file name ) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION NETWORKS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ from 18 to 21 April 1994 in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 46or information, please email Prof. Pedro Veiga MediaActive 94 - "Harnessing Multimedia for Higher Education" ------------------------------------------------------------- from 4 till 6 May 1994 *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 10 January 1994 Email 15TH INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATICS AND PSYCHOLOGY ------------------------------------------------------------- organised by the Computer Science Department of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, in cooperation with the European Association for Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) from 24 till 26 May 1994 in Schaerding, Austria *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 15 January 1994 Cooper [Page 49] Internet Monthly Report November 1993 46or further information, contact Michel Tauber . NORDUnet 94 ----------- from 31 May to 2 June 1994 in Umea, Sweden for information, email 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 *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 15 January 1994 46or further information, contact Juri Gornostaev or Juri Andrianov Email 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) ***CALL FOR PAPERS*** deadline 1 February 1994 46or further information, contact NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 (provisional) ------------------------------ from 18 to 20 October 1994 in Bournemouth (UK) ********************************************************************** EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ASSOCIATION (EEMA) ********************************************************************** Cooper [Page 50]