~ November 1994 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. This report is for Internet information purposes only, and is not to be quoted in other publications without permission from the submitter. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to: Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) NSF Regional reports - To obtain the procedure describing how to submit information for the Internet Monthly Report, send an email message to mailserv@is.internic.net and put "send imr-procedure" in the body of the message (add only that one line; do not put a signature). Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu". 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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 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects AMERITECH ADVANCED DATA SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 ANSNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37 PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 41 Rare List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 45 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for November, 1994 1. As I write this report, we are getting ready for the 31st meeting of the IETF to be held in San Jose, California from December 5-9, 1994, and by the time the Internet Monthly Report is distributed, the word will be out that this was the largest meeting ever. Over 900 people have pre-registered for this meeting, and I anticipate breaking the 1000 attendee mark. The IETF meetings for 1995 have firmed up. The IETF will be meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) from April 3-7, 1995. The summer IETF meeting will be held in Stockholm, Sweden the week of July 17-21, 1995. Due to the costs to be incurred, the IETF attendance fee for the Stockholm meeting will be US$300. The final meeting for 1995 will be held in Dallas, Texas. While contracts have not yet been signed, it looks like the meeting will be December 4-8, 1995. Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: October 20, 1994 (iesg.94-10-20) November 3, 1994 (iesg.94-11-03) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 15 Protocol Actions during the month of November, 1994: Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 o Uniform Resource Locators (URL) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Ways to Define User Expectations be published as an Informational RFC. o Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names be published as an Informational RFC. o Functional Requirements for Internet Resource Locators be published as an Informational RFC. o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2 AND IMAP2BIS be published as an Informational RFC. o DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4 be published as an Informational RFC. o POP3 AUTHentication command for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory be published as an Experimental Protocol. o Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree be published as an Experimental Protocol. o Use of the X.500 Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822 Addresses be published as an Experimental Protocol. o The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving, and Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory Schema be published as an Informational RFC. o NBMA Address Resolution Protocol (NARP) be published as an Experimental Protocol. Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 4. The IESG issued one Last Call to the IETF during the month of November, 1994: o IEEE 802.5 Station Source Routing MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Five Working Groups were created during this period: Site Security Handbook (ssh) IPNG (ipngwg) Quality Information Services (quis) HyperText Markup Language (html) Address Autoconfiguration (addrconf) Additionally, three Working Groups were concluded: TELNET (telnet) OSI Directory Services (osids) Simple Internet Protocol Plus (sipp) 6. A total of 108 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of November, 1994: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (pem) o PEM Security Services and MIME (avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications (uri) o Uniform Resource Names (iiir) o Publishing Information on the Internet with Anonymous FTP (notary) o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (notary) o An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications (none) o MIME Content-types for SGML Documents (snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: SDLC (rreq) o Requirements for IP Routers (none) + IPv6 Security Architecture Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 (none) + IPv6 Authentication Header (none) + IPv6 Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 (dnssec) o Domain Name System Protocol Security Extensions (none) o RTP Encapsulation of MPEG1/MPEG2 (avt) o RTP Encapsulation of CellB Video Encoding (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support (none) o Conventions for Simplified Usage of SNMPv2 Security (none) o Implementation Hints for the SNMPv2 Simplified Security Conventions (none) o Overview of SNMPv2 Simplified Security Conventions (none) o INTER-DOMAIN ROUTING PROTOCOL (IDRP) (wg-msg) o BoMBS series: Behaviour of Mail Based Servers Part 1: C-BoMBS Classification of Breeds of Mail Based Servers (ipatm) o ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM (wg-msg) o BoMBS series: Behaviour of Mail Based Servers Part 2: A-BoMBS Answering servers (ospf) o Extending OSPF to support demand circuits (none) o MIME/ESMTP Profile for Voice Messaging (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies (pem) o Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted (imap) o IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms (imap) o SYNCHRONIZATION OPERATIONS FOR DISCONNECTED IMAP4 CLIENTS (none) o Accounting Meter Services MIB (pppext) + PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP) Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 (whip) o A Specification for the Simple Internet White Pages Service (pppext) o The PPP Banyan Vines Control Protocol (BVCP) (snadlc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: LLC (none) o Simple Secure DNS (uri) o Relative Uniform Resource Locators (none) o IP Multicast over UNI 3.0 based ATM Networks. (none) o IPv6 Neighbor Discovery -- ICMP Message Formats (none) o IPv6 Neighbor Discovery -- Processing (none) o Simple Internet Transition Overview (st2) o Internet Stream Protocol Version 2 (ST2) Protocol Specification - Version ST2+ (opstat) o The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics Retrieval (trainmat) o Catalogue of Network Training Materials (none) + SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION from the SECURITY ARCHITECTURE FOR INTERNET PROTOCOLS A Guide for Protocol Designs and Standards (sdr) + The Concept of Packs (aft) + Key-seeded MD5 authentication for SOCKS (snmpv2) + Introduction to Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework (none) + Multicast Servers in an RFC 1577 Environment. (snmpv2) + Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + Party MIB for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + Structure of Management Information for Version 2 Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + Administrative Model for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + Security Protocols for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + Manager-to-Manager Management Information Base (snmpv2) + Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework (snmpv2) + SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (snmpv2) + Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol (snmpv2) + Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) + SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol (pppext) + The PPP XNS IDP Control Protocol (XNSCP) (asid) + Definition of an X.500 Attribute Type and Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) (asid) + Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming (asid) + A String Representation of Distinguished Names (ripv2) + RIP-II Cryptographic Authentication (html) + File Transfer from World-Wide Web Browsers to Servers (asid) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (none) + Service Location Protocol (asid) + The String Representation of Standard Attribute Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Syntaxes (bmwg) + Benchmarking Methodologies for Overall Network Performance (bmwg) + Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices (dhc) + Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (cat) + Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 (none) + Accounting: Usage Reporting Architecture (none) + ARP Extension - UNARP (pppext) + The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP) (ripv2) + RIP for IPv6 (none) + Registration of IP6 Addresses via ISO/ITU. (none) + Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (dnssec) + Mapping Autonomous Systems Number into the Domain Name System (none) + Routing Aspects Of IPv6 Transition (uri) + URC Scenarios and Requirements (none) + A Means for Expressing Location Information in the Domain Name System (idr) + IDRP for IPv6 (none) + IPv6 Preferred Unicast Address Format (none) + Multi-homed TCP (pppext) + PPP LZS-DCP Compression Protocol (LZS-DCP) (pppext) + PPP for Data Compression in Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DCE) (ids) + Recommendations for an X.500 Production Directory Service (dnsind) + Incremental Transfer in DNS (uri) + Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50 (none) + IPv6 Mobility Support (idr) + Experience with the BGP-4 protocol (idr) + BGP-4 Protocol Analysis Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 (ospf) + OSPF IPv6 Extensions (cat) + Independent Object Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (IOP-GSS-API) (html) + HyperText Markup Language Specification - 2.0 (avt) + RTP Encapsulation of JPEG-compressed video. (ospf) + OSPF Database Overflow (none) + Modular Key Management Protocol (MKMP) (imap) + IMAP4 STATUS EXTENSION (rreq) + Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers (cat) + Integrating One-time Passwords with Kerberos (none) + Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 (mobileip) + Route Optimization in Mobile IP 7. There were 16 RFC's published during the month of November, 1994: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1693 E (none) An Extension to TCP : Partial Order Service RFC1707 I (none) CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet RFC1709 I (isn) K-12 Internetworking Guidelines RFC1712 E (none) DNS Encoding of Geographical Location RFC1713 I (none) Tools for DNS debugging RFC1714 I (none) Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois) RFC1715 I (none) The H Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency RFC1716 I (none) Towards Requirements for IP Routers RFC1717 PS (pppext) The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) RFC1718 I (none) The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC1720 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC1721 I (ripv2) RIP Version 2 Protocol Analysis RFC1722 DS (ripv2) RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Statement RFC1723 DS (ripv2) RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information RFC1724 DS (ripv2) RIP Version 2 MIB Extension RFC1725 DS (none) Post Office Protocol - Version 3 St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- AMERITECH ADVANCED DATA SERVICES -------------------------------- Chicago NAP Status Report RA/Route Server: The server was delivered, installed and connected to the ATM switch, by Bill Manning/ISI and AADS operations, on 11/17. MCI: ADSU and circuit installation complete, loop testing is in progress. Switch connection is expected on 12/5. ANS: Circuit installation complete. Connectivity was provided through this connection to the Radiological Society of North America conference in Chicago 11/27-12/2, through a separate router. ATM switch connection was completed on 12/2. Ping testing and IP/ATM error monitoring is in progress. The MCI/ANS/RS PVCs will be configured early this week. Sprint: The order is being worked on. Alpha.NET: DS-3 circuit using Norlight IXC to Milwaukee is being installed, with service expected 1/2/95. Databank: Letter of intent received, order being worked on. Additional discussions are ongoing with a number of other providers. Mark Knopper (mak@aads.net) Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 ANSNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING REPORT ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ======================= ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 5.28% in November '94. An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 3.29% was observed during the month of November. August Backbone Traffic Statistics ================================== The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 90,014,646,313 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 5.28% from October. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 100,925,726,278 up 4.83% from October. Router Forwarding Table Statistics ================================== The maximum number of destinations announced to ANSnet during November was 19,507 up 3.29% from October. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during November was 20,294. BGP-4/CIDR Deployment Status ============================ As of December 1st '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 9,671 class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables that are now represented by 2,246 configured aggregates. Among these configured aggregates: 1,643 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another aggregate). 1,309 of these are actively announced to ANSnet. 898 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other 411 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements). Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 771 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one configured more specific route. 759 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their configured more specific routes. 701 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+) of their more specific routes. For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu: pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr_savings. For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings. Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration or less). This is intended as a measure of overall system stability rather than complete connectivity. The greatest instability in November was contributed by a single T1 ENSS node on November 1st due to a faulty circuit. The problem circuit was an Ameritech leg of a T1 tail circuit provisioned through MCI which turned out to be a bad smartjack at the customer premise. This caused a very high level of packet loss. There were other problems, most notably an FDDI problem at the Hayward POP. 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% 97.9% December 96.6% 96.8% January 98.7% 99.0% February 96.6% 97.6% ... Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 June 99.5% 99.7% July 98.7% 99.5% August 99.7% 99.7% September 99.4% 99.5% October 99.5%** 99.6%** November 99.5%*** 99.5%*** ** = excluding one T1 ENSS *** = excluding one T1 ENSS on Nov 1 Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability follows. A lengthy T1 ENSS212 outage contributed about 5 hours of instability to the November data (which was excluded below). If this node is excluded from the data, very little instability in the other nodes is evident. ENSS136 experienced about 45 minutes of instability due to gated problem. CNSS32 experienced 36 minutes of instability due to high routing load on a machine with 32 MB of memory (memory upgrade still pending). ENSS213 and ENSS142 had just over 15 minutes of instability. All others had under 15 minutes of instability over the course of the month (>99.97% stable). MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min <98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97% -------------------------------------------------------------- January 0 0 1 8 19 55 February 0 0 1 24 19 41 March 0 4 18 23 23 22 April 2 2 3 13 12 57 May 0 4 33 32 15 5 June 3 21 35 18 12 3 July 0 12 28 44 6 1 August 1 5 28 21 17 15 September 1 38 25 10 4 13 October 0 3 3 10 25 50 November 1 2 15 25 24 26 December 0 8 24 46 9 3 January 0 0 4 9 15 54 February 0 4 6 23 40 20 ... June 0 0 0 5 5 67 July 0 7 55 11 10 7 August 0 0 0 0 0 67 September 0 0 0 1 14 57 October 0 0 0 1 3 61 ** November 0 0 0 2 2 67 *** ** = excluding one T1 ENSS *** = excluding one T1 ENSS on Nov 1 Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 External route flap reports are described in: ftp.ans.net:/pub/info/routing-stats/daily-reports/README Notable Outages in November '94 =============================== E133 (Cornell) was unreachable for an extended period due to a fiber cut on 11/07. Jordan Becker INTERNIC -------- INFORMATION SERVICES Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Phone +1 619 455-4600 email info@internic.net Fax +1 619 455-4640 InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints Suggestions suggestions@internic.net Complaints complaints@internic.net NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net newsletter comments newsletter-comments@internic.net NICLink General Information info@internic.net Problems/bugs niclink-bugs@is.internic.net InterNIC Seminar Series General Information seminars@internic.net Listserv lists net-happenings majordomo@is.internic.net net-resources majordomo@is.internic.net scout-report majordomo@is.internic.net Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 InfoGuide Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 URL: http://www.internic.net/ Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 THE InterNIC INFOGUIDE The InterNIC InfoGuide is a comprehensive online information service which provides information about the Internet and online Internet resources. Accessible through gopher and the WorldWideWeb, the InterNIC InfoGuide replaces the older InterNIC information server, the InfoSource. The InfoGuide includes new services such as the Scout Report and an online hypertext version of the _NSF Network News_. To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html or your gopher client to: is.internic.net NET-HAPPENINGS The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the community announcements of interest to network staffers and end users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers, publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources and concentrates them onto one list. To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to: is.internic.net and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings. Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights Presently the Scout Report is now reaching over 16,000 subscribers and the HTML versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of accesses each week. The Scout Report will be off line between December 19 to January 3. The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the Internet during the previous week. The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats -- electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb. WorldWideWeb versions of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing instantaneous browsing of items of interest. Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout@internic.net. How to Get the Scout Report To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail to: majordomo@is.internic.net In the body of the message, type: subscribe scout-report youremailaddress To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html Gopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES "Learning the Whole Internet" is now available for users needing Internet training. The InterNIC has already presented a beta version of the course which includeded a copy of _The Whole Internet_ as well as class handouts of the PowerPoint presentation. Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 NSF NETWORK NEWS The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 4 (September/October 1994) is now available on- line. The newsletter spotlights K-12 resources on the Internet. Highlights include: how to evaluate Internet resources; cyber-field trips; lesson plans goldmines; an international connectivity map; a seminar spotlight; and the regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and news briefs. To subscribe, send email to newsletter-request@internic.net. The September/October issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the WorldWideWeb at http://www.internic.net/newsletter/sep-oct94/index.html The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the message: get /about-internic/newsletter/nsfnews-aug94.txt REFERENCE DESK The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for November: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 451 47 Phone 214 23 Fax 249 26 US Mail 16 2 Referral 22 <1 ------- -------- --------- Total 952 100.0 by Anna Knittle INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES We recently added additional disk capacity to our primary server, and will soon install more disk on the two backup machines. This storage will permit us to support a local copy of the AIDS Patent Database we described in the October IMR. It also provides the storage we need to support the latest version of Archie on our primary server (ds0.internic.net), and it has now been installed. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 As noted in the August IMR when we put the new Archie up on one of our backup servers, the new version supports searches for Gopher menu items as well as anonymous FTP file names. To search Archie for Gopher menu items, Gopher to ds0.internic.net or ds1.internic.net, and select "InterNIC Directory and Database Services" (item 4), "Search Anonymous FTP Site and Gopher Menu Indices using Archie" (item 8), and then "Gopher Index" (item 3). At that point, you might want to start with item 8 "Things you should know" and continue through item 13 to get an idea of how to use the system. If you do not have a Gopher client of your own, you can telnet to ds0.internic.net or ds1.internic.net, log in as gopher, and follow the same steps. We will install the new Archie on our third server once additional disk storage has been installed. 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 INTERNIC REGISTRATION SERVICES Progress Report for period November 1, 1994 through November 30, 1994 I. Significant Events InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 4,480 network addresses and registered over 3,356 domains. Two top-level country domains were registered during the month; Jordan, and El Salvador. II. Current Status During the month of November 1994, InterNIC Registration Services received communications as shown below. The majority of the correspondence concerned the assignment and re-assignment of network numbers and the registration or change of domain names. E-mail 7,988 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 240 (primarily IP number requests) Phone 1,964 Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of November. Connections Retrievals Gopher 84559 45455 WAIS 74730 59812 FTP 11334 501992 Mailserv 4444 Telnet 69462 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 298993 1307706 Domain Registrations During November, 3,356 domains were added to the database. The totals by major domain category for the month are: MONTH COM EDU ORG NET GOV US CNTY TOTAL NOV94 2817 37 277 215 8 0 2 3356 As of 30-Nov-94, there were 33,884 domains in the InterNIC database, including 923 marked for removal and 354 on hold due to name server problems. The monthly cumulative totals by major domain category for the past year are: MONTH COM EDU ORG NET GOV US CNTY TOTAL ====================================================== AUG93 8185 1291 740 239 195 168 110 10928 SEP 8718 1306 807 253 202 171 112 11569 OCT 9204 1319 856 265 206 182 113 12145 NOV 9791 1339 908 285 209 224 114 12870 DEC 10608 1389 1019 367 248 231 115 13977 JAN94 11239 1412 1086 454 257 239 115 14802 FEB 12097 1435 1190 553 260 251 116 15902 MAR 13240 1473 1305 608 266 267 119 17278 APR 14154 1489 1391 660 272 268 123 18357 MAY 15235 1515 1512 738 280 268 126 19674 JUN 16937 1554 1692 869 284 273 127 21736 JUL 18537 1584 1853 969 287 274 127 23631 AUG 20550 1621 2055 1119 294 280 128 26047 SEP 21980 1646 2212 1232 302 280 131 27783 OCT 24271 1680 2474 1383 310 280 130 30528 NOV 27088 1717 2751 1598 318 280 132 33884 Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 ISI --- NETSTATION ========== Both Steve Hotz and Vivek Goyal joined the project this month. Focus this month has been centered primarily upon the model desired for ownership and access of a Network Virtual Device (NVD). Since this project is interfacing devices directly to the Internet, questions of booting, ownership and access control arise in a new context. Device ownership is straightforward when a device is controlled via the system bus. The bus master, usually the CPU, owns the device and controls it exclusively, by means of a memory-mapped commands issued by device driver. But if a device is instead interfaced and controlled via a gigabit network, its commands must come across the network as packets, with any host able to send it packets. A de-facto emulation of the bus control methodology used today is possible. That is, an NVD could restrict its acceptable commands to only those sent from a specific Owner host, which corresponds to the CPU as bus master, with the Owner's address stored in the NVD as non-volatile memory. The Owner could send memory read/write commands as packets to the device. That model of access and control would be a nearly direct substitution of a network for the system bus, and as long as latency was sufficiently low, it would work. However, it incorporates constraints that are no longer necessary nor desirable in a network-based architecture. In a bus-based architecture, a device and its Owner are physically connected. Ownership is explicit. For an NVD, the Owner is not necessarily physically connected. Ownership can be both dynamic and freely determined. The Owner of an NVD does not control it directly via memory read/write, but indirectly, by means of packet exchange. The device driver must be split between the Owner and the NVD, with a protocol for access and control well-understood between them. After evaluating a number of alternative ownership-association strategies, we have tentatively adopted the following model for ownership. When an NVD is operating and accessible it will have one "Owner". That owner may be either the NVD itself, a general Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 NVD Manager (NVDM) process, or some owning process at another Internet host. An Owner is responsible for controlling access to any NVD that it owns. The Owner is responsible for processing and filtering NVD access-request messages and either granting or denying access to the NVD. An NVD is inaccessible for use until its ownership has been established. When an NVD is inaccessible, it immediately discards all incoming messages except those required to maintain link-layer connectivity. When an NVD boots, it determines its default ownership and passes ownership to its Default Owner. The Default Owner will be either itself or its NVDM. If its NVDM is inaccessible, the NVD remains inaccessible until it can establish contact and pass ownership to its NVDM. Each NVD must have memory that stores it ownership status and the Internet address of its Owner. Filtering Access Requests Assume that the location of an NVD has already been determined by an external process that wishes access to that NVD. Obtaining access to an NVD is a four-stage procedure. (1) An access-request message is sent directly to the target NVD by the process that wishes to access that NVD. (2) The NVD forwards that message to its Owner. (3) The Owner then filters the access-request and either decides to grant it or deny access. It builds a reply and sends that reply back to the target NVD. (4) The target NVD creates from that reply a message that it sends back to the source of the original access-request message. If the Owner is not the NVD itself, the Internet address or name of the Owner is not sent in the reply. In the case that the target NVD owns itself, steps (2) and (3) are performed by the target NVD itself. The access-requesting process must implement a reasonable time-out in the event that no reply is received before it may re-request access to the same target NVD. That time-out MUST NOT be shorter than 5 seconds. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 No restriction is placed upon the filtering function execution other than that a reply message be sent back to the requesting process in a timely manner. An upper limit of 1 second to complete this procedure is suggested. Owner Failure If an NVD's Owner fails (halts, crashes, or reboots), that Owner loses ownership of that NVD. Discovery of this by the owned NVDs will occur in one of two ways: (1) The NVD expects a response from its owner and receives none within a mutually-agreed time limit. The NVD will reassert its default ownership. (2) An access-request message arrives at a target NVD. This message must be forwarded to the NVD's Owner. An access-request message must be replied to in a timely manner. Failure to reply in a timely manner results in the target NVD reasserting its default ownership. In the event that an Owner fails, the first subsequent access- request message will provoke a default ownership reponse from the target NVD. Successive access-request messages that arrive at the target NVD will then be forwarded to the target's new Owner, which will normally result in a response message. The intent is that the assertion of default ownership implies that the NVD also "reset" itself, so that particular internal hardware resources that are dedicated to a previous owner are made available to the new owner. This will often be equivalent to the state that an NVD was in just after it successfully booted. NVD Failure When an NVD itself fails, no response to repeated access-request messages will be received. This is distinct from failure to be granted access by an Owner, which results in the generation of explicit access-failure return messages. Greg Finn , S.K. Reddy Monnangi, , Vivek Goyal Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 PC-ATOMIC --------- We have completed the PC-ATOMIC prototype card, a i486 VL-Bus (VESA) interface for the MyriCom LANai processor and network interface. The card was developed to provide an interface to the MyriNet network for low-cost i486-based hosts. The board has been tested as compatible with the link-level of the SBus Myricom interfaces. Overview (full text available on ftp://ftp.isi.edu/pub/hpcc-papers/touch/pca_overview.txt) PC-ATOMIC is a i486 VL-bus (VESA, Video-Local) interface to the links of Myricom's implementation of the ATOMIC LAN. It requires one full-length slot in a 33-Mhz 1-waitstate motherboard. It provides a bidirectional 640-Mbps (80 Mbytes/sec, byte-wide) channel over Myricom links, and is link-compatible with Myricom's Sun SPARC SBus interface. Small quantities of the board are available from ISI as GFE for research purposes. The specifications and design of the board are also available. The PC-ATOMIC interface uses a 16-bit LANai 1.2 host interface processor, and provides 128 Kbytes of dual-access RAM (emulates dual-ported RAM). The PC-ATOMIC board is memory-mapped, providing access to the RAM and memory-mapped registers. The registers provide: Internet checksum accumulates all PIO reads, writes can be reset to 0 via a register bit Disable/enable Internet checksum Board reset LANai reset-and-hold/release (for programming) LANai hardware interrupt signal to host The board also will support DMA in a future firmware release. This document refers to information from Myricom regarding their Sun SPARC 2.x host interface cards, LANai 1.2 programming information, and cable information. Contact Myricom for information on these items. Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 The VL-side of the board runs at 33 Mhz (from the VL-Bus). The LANai has two sides - one runs off the on-board link clock, the other runs at a rate compatible with the host. Because the current LANai 1.2 is limited to host-side clocks of 25 Mhz or less, its host-side is clocked at 1/2 the VL-Bus clock. The board can be reprogrammed if a 33 Mhz LANai 1.2 becomes available. The board also contains a LANai 1.2 subsystem, nearly identical to that of the Myricom 1.2 Sun SPARC SBus prototype cards. The PC- ATOMIC board is link-level compatible with the Myricom LANai 2.0 SBus interfaces. The LANai uses a separate on-board crystal for the link clocking, independent of the LANai host-side clocking. This crystal is set to 40 Mhz for compatibility with current Myricom host interfaces and switches. Other crystals can be used, so long as BOTH ENDS OF EACH LINK use the same crystal frequency, as per the Myricom literature. Ted Faber , Annette DeSchon , Hong Xu , Joe Touch Mike Gorman , Jeff LaCoss ATOMIC-2 -------- The ATOMIC-2 project extends the results of the ATOMIC project, which developed a LAN from supercomputer chips. ATOMIC-2 is implementing an ATOMIC-ATM IP-level gateway to extend ATOMIC beyond LAN boundaries. We are also implementing an ATOMIC disk server. We are continuing efforts to deliver a significant portion of ATOMIC's 640 Mbps network bandwidth to the user application, subject to host backplane limitations. ATOMIC-ATM Gateway We are currently investigating the use of both the Naval Research Laboratory's PTAI2 ATM interface, and Fore Systems' SBA-200 interface for building Atomic - ATM gateways. We plan to implement IP level gateways using both interface systems (boards and device drivers). We installed Myricom's S-Bus 2.0 host interfaces and Fore SBA-200 ATM cards on a Sun SPARC 20/51, and ran a simple IP gateway test. We found that the performance was dependent on packet size for UDP, but not as much for TCP. TCP performance was around 40 megabits/second, and dropped only slightly for the gateway vs. unicast ATM or ATOMIC traffic. We believe this indicates that host processing is the bottleneck, and we are looking into alternate TCP implementations (TCP Vegas, X-kernel TCP, etc.). Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 UDP performance was limited to near 75 Mbps for ATOMIC, and 100 Mbps for even a 140 Mbps-capable ATM card. We are looking into modifying the host interfaces to transfer packets directly between each other, rather than involving host routing software. Gateway Performance Throughput Mbps 120 ++-----+-------+-----------+-------+--------+-------+-----++ | + + + + + + | | | 100 ++ %%%% ++ | % % | | % % | 80 ++ % % ++ | % % @@@@ &&&& | | %%%% % @ @ & & | 60 ++ % % @ @ &&&& & ++ | % % @@@@ @ & & | | % % @ @ & & | 40 ++ *******% % #######@ @ & & ++ | * *% % # #@ @ $$$$$$$& & | | * *% % # #@ @ $ $& & | 20 ++ * *% % # #@ @ $ $& & ++ | * *% % # #@ @ $ $& & | | * + *% + % # + #@ +@ $ + $& + & | 0 ++-----+-------+-----------+-------+--------+-------+-----++ TCP UDP TCP UDP TCP UDP 4K 8K 4K 8K 4K 8K 4K 8K 4K 8K 4K 8K ------------ ------------ ------------ ATM ATOMIC GATEWAY Protocol We were also able to measure the performance of the Myricom host interface for native ATOMIC packets. We found that the bandwidth depended on an interaction between packet size and page size for pages over 4K bytes. This was probably due to multi-page packet effects, due possibly to page swapping, TLB effects, or other page boundary effects. The 290 Mbps upper bound is related to the 320 Mbps peak bandwidth of the SPARC SBus, combined with per-burst overhead of bus arbitration. Using DMA for data transfer increased bandwidth remarkably from the programmed I/O case. DMA achieves 290 Mbps as packet size increases, and PIO was limited to 78 Mbps. Because the ATOMIC interface is capable of higher packet bandwidth Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 than ATM, we would expect ATOMIC UDP to be higher bandwidth than ATM, which is not the case. ATOMIC Myrinet SBus Performance Host to Host Packet Bandwidth Bandwdith Mbps +--+---+------+-----+------+------+------+-----+------+------+---+ 300 ++ + + + + *** + + + **********+ ++ | ** * ***** * | 250 ++ ** * *** ***++ | ** * ***** | | ** * ***** | 200 ++ *** **** + | ** | | ** | 150 ++ * ++ | * | | ** | 100 ++ ** ++ | **@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | | *@ | 50 ++*@ ++ | * | +*@+ + + + + + + + + + | 0 A+-+---+-----+-----+------+------+------+-----+------+------+---++ 4 .5k 1k 2k 3k 4k 5k 6k 7k 8k 9k Packetsize (bytes) (95% confidence is within the discretization of the plot) * = DMA data transfer @ = programmed I/O data transfer Providing Integrated Services in ATOMIC We are studying how to provide integrated services in ATOMIC. Integrated services are used to support real-time protocols (e.g., RTP) and QoS reservation mechanisms (e.g., RSVP). We are implementing a subset of the core services proposed in the CSZ model, a service model for Integrated Services Packet Networks proposed by Clark, Shenker, and Zhang. Our aim is to design and implement packet scheduling algorithms on the source-routed cut- through networks (e.g., ATOMIC) to provide seamless integrates services over ATOMIC that are emerging on other LAN technologies. The CSZ model proposes a scheduling architecture to support their service model. Packet network systems that support configurable queuing at intermediate switches can implement this architecture by Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 using multi-level queues. ATOMIC uses source-routed cut-through packet switching, with hard- wired "fair" switching at each stage and hardware backpressure, i.e., no queuing, and no programmable switching algorithm. ATOMIC will have to adjust source routing and the timing of packet emissions to emulate the multilevel queuing mechanism proposed by CSZ. We are currently considering schemes based on an emulation of switch reservation at the centralized arbiter (i.e., the route server), combined with frame-based leaky bucket mechanisms at the hosts (e.g., SNR). Using X-Kernel to support the ATOMIC-ATM gateway We are currently evaluating the x-Kernel (Peterson, Arizona) as a possible vehicle for protocol experiments that bypass the current BSD implementations of TCP/IP. We are seeking ways to provide higher bandwidth to the application, as well as a mechanism to support more efficient gatewaying using multiple host interfaces. We plan to use the x-Kernel to investigate experimental protocol implementations, e.g. TCP Vegas, and direct coupling of the lowest level of the x-Kernel and the drivers for various high-speed networks including ATOMIC and ATM. High performance authentication - Report on MD5 Performance (full text available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/pub/hpcc- papers/touch/md5.txt) MD5 is an authentication algorithm, and has been proposed as one authentication option in IPv6. When enabled, the MD5 algorithm operates over the entire data packet, including header (with dummy values for volatile fields). We are concerned with how fast MD5 can be implemented in software and hardware, and whether it supports the network bandwidth we're installing here at ISI. RFC 1321 describes the MD5 algorithm and gives a reference implementation [1]. The Internet Draft draft-ietf-sipp-ap-04.txt describes the IPv6 authentication option, and MD5's role in it [2]. We have found that MD5 cannot be implemented in existing technology at rates in excess of 267 Mbps, and cannot be implemented feasibly at rates in excess of 70 Mbps. These rates cannot support ISI's ATOMIC LAN (640 Mbps raw, 36 Mbps TCP, 75 Mbps UDP currently). We believe that if MD5 cannot support existing network bandwidth using existing technology, that situation will not change in the future. Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 We ran a reference implementation of MD5 written in C posted by Jim Ellis at CERT. Here are the data rates we got from the performance test "md5 -t", which tests 1000 1000-byte blocks through the code: 13 Mbps SPARC-2 SunOS 4.1.3 20 Mbps 486/33 NetBSD 23 Mbps HP 9000/720 36 Mbps SPARC-10/51, SPARC-20/50 SunOS 4.1.3 52 Mbps SGI/IP-20 IRIX 5.2 These rates do not keep up with the bandwidth we support for TCP or UDP at ISI. Our analysis indicates that the best software implementation can run in Mbps at 1.6x the MIPS rate of the computer, i.e., a 100 MIPS machine can support a 160 Mbps stream. These bounds are supported by our measurements, above. In hardware, our analysis indicates that the following rates are possible: CMOS 70 Mbps ECL 157 Mbps GaAs 267 Mbps These are also less than required for the ATOMIC LAN at ISI. We propose an alternative to MD5, that is 8- or 16-way block chained, rather than 1-way. We believe that the resulting algorithm achieves the goals of MD5 over MD4, but without the serialization penalty that prohibits high speed implementation. It would require further analysis to ensure that it provides an adequate level of security. References [1] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm," Network Working Group RFC-1321, MIT LCS & RSA Data Security, Inc., April 1992. [2] Atkinson, R., "IPv6 Authentication Header," Network Working Group Internet Draft draft-inet-sipp-ap-04.txt, Naval Research Lab, August 1994. Joe Touch , Ted Faber , Annette DeSchon Hong Xu Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 INFRASTRUCTURE Steve Casner was the luncheon speaker at the ITCA Forum on Desktop Video and Collaboration in San Francisco, CA, November 11th. The title of the talk was "Internet Video Today". Bill Manning visited Oakland, Chicago, Houston, Washington, New Jersey, to install Route Servers at NAPS, November 16-23rd. Jon Postel attended the NSF review of the InterNIC in Washington, D.C. November 14-17. Bob Braden chaired the ETOE-IG meeting at MIT, in Boston, MA, November 12-16th. Joyce Reynolds participated in the EARN NSC Conference, RARE meeting, and EARO INFO meetings as Program Committee member, November 25-Dec 4th. 15 RFCs were published this month. 1693 An Extension to TCP : Partial Order Service. T. Connolly, P. Amer & P. Conrad. November 1994. 1709 K-12 Internetworking Guidelines. J. Gargano, D. Wasley. November 1994. (Also FYI0026) 1712 DNS Encoding of Geographical Location. C. Farrell, M. Schulze, S. Pleitner & D. Baldoni. November 1994. 1713 Tools for DNS debugging. A. Romao. November 1994. (Also FYI0027) 1714 Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois). S. Williamson & M. Kosters. November 1994. 1715 The H Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency. C. Huitema, November 1994. 1716 Towards Requirements for IP Routers. P. Almquist, F. Kastenholz. November 1994. 1717 The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP). K. Sklower, B. Lloyd, G. McGregor & D. Carr. November 1994. 1718 The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force. The IETF Secretariat & G. Malkin. November 1994. 1720 Internet Official Protocol Standards. J. Postel. November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1610) (Also STD0001) 1721 RIP Version 2 Protocol Analysis. G. Malkin. November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1387) Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 1722 RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement. G. Malkin. November 1994. 1723 RIP Version 2 - Carrying Additional Information. G. Malkin. November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1388) (Updates RFC1058) 1724 RIP Version 2 MIB Extension. G. Malkin & F. Baker. November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1389) 1725 Post Office Protocol - Version 3. J. Myers & M. Rose. November 1994. (Obsoletes RFC1460) THE US DOMAIN ============= US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 673 PHONE ---------------------------- 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. The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct registrations in the US Domain. To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp. Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- AJB.DNI.US American Job Bank IMS.FED.US Institute of Museum Services K12.KS.US Kansas, K12 schools CC.KS.US Kansas, Community Colleges TEC.KS.US Kansas, Technical Schools FT-DEVENS.MA.US Ft. Devens, MA MORRIS.MN.US Minnesota Regional Network BEACHWOOD.OH.US Beachwood, OH, locality BEAVERCREEK.OH.US BEAVERCREEK, OH, locality CAMBRIDGE.OH.US Cambridge, OH, locality CUYAHOGA-FALLS.OH.US Cuyahoga Falls, OH, locality DEFIANCE.OH.US Defiance, OH, locality HOLLAND.OH.US Holland, OH, locality LIMA.OH.US Lima, OH, locality MEDINA.OH.US Medina, OH, locality MIDDLETOWN.OH.US Middletown, OH, locality PARMA-HEIGHTS.OH.US Parma Heights, OH, locality REYNOLDS.OH.US Reynolds, Ohio, locality TIFFIN.OH.US Tiffin, OH, locality TROY.OH.US Troy, OH, locality VERMILLION.OH.US Vermillion, OH, locality WAVERLY.OH.US Waverly, OH, locality HILLSBORO.OR.US Hillsboro, OR, locality K12.WA.US Washington, K12 Schools EL-DORADO.CA.US El Dorado, CA, locality LITTLETON.CO.US Littleton, CO, locality CASPER.WY.US Casper, Wyoming, locality JUNEAU.AK.US Juneau, AK, locality PIERCE.WA.US Pierce, Washington, locality NEWAYGO.MI.US. Newaygo County Career Tech Center NMCOURT.FED.US US District Court of New Mexico PIQUA.OH.US Piqua, OH, locality Other US Domain Delegations this Month -------------------------------------- PTI-NW.DC.US Public Technology Incorporated BOSTON.K12.MA.US Boston Public Schools CONNSTEP.STATE.CT.US Connecticut's State Tech. Ext. Program CI.VABEACH.VA.US City of Virginia Beach, VA CI.SCOTTSDALE.AZ.US City of Scottsdale, Arizona CI.SALINAS.CA.US City of Salinas, CA CO.SARASOTA.FL.US County of Sarasota, FL CI.VABEACH.VA.US City of Virginia Beach, VA CO.CENTRE.PA.US County of Centre, Pennsylvania Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 CI.MONTEREY.CA.US City of Monterey, CA CO.NORTHAMPTON.PA.US County of Northampton, Pennsylvania CO.ORANGE.CA.US County of Orange, California CO.WAUKESHA.WI.US County of Waukesha, Wisconsin VCPL.VIGO.LIB.IN.US Vigo County, Public Library, Terra Haute LVCCLD.LIB.NV.US Las Vegas-Clark County Library District PORTLAND.LIB.ME.US Portland Public Library, Portland, ME ALLEN.CC.KS.US Allen County Community College GCCC.CC.KS.US Garden City Community College ABQTVI.CC.NM.US Alburquerque T-VI Community College SHERIFF.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US San Diego County Sheriff's Dept. NSURG.ST-LOUIS.MO.US St. John's Mercy Neuroscience MEDIA.MONTCLAIR.NJ.US Private Individual RDR.DANVILLE.CA.US Private Individual KLI.ARLINGTON.VA.US Private Individual TBS.DETROIT.MI.US Private Individual DEADEND.CICERO.IL.US Private Individual SALVA.CHANTILLY.VA.US Private Individual GODZILLA.GEN.AR.US Private individual EQUITIES.LITTLE-SILVER.NJ.US Private Individual WCDR.CO.WASHINGTON.PA.US Domestic Relations, Washington County PARADISE.FALLS-CHURCH.VA.US Private Individual HUMBOLTHS.HUMBOLT.K12.TN.US Humbolt High School FREAK.GEN.KS.US MUD Central - VR Gaming Domain Park ITIC.NW.DC.US Information Tech. Industries, Council IES.LAF.IN.US Integrated Electronic Solutions BDC.BETHEL.ME.US Bethel Data Corporation TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK X AL X AR X X AZ X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X X CO X X X X X X X CT DC X ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X FL X X X X X X X GA X X X X HI X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X ID X X X X X X X IL X X X X X IN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- KS X X X X X KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MD X X X X ME X X MI X X X X X MN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- MO X X X X X X MS X X X X MT X NC X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- ND X X X X X X X NE X X X X NH X X NJ X X ----------------------------------------------------------- NM X X X NV NY X X X X X X X OH X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- OK OR X X X X X X X PA X X RI X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- SC X X X X X X X SD X X X X X X X TN X TX X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- UT X X X X VA X X X X VI VT X Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- WA X WI X X X WV X X X X X X X WY X X =========================================================== For more information about the US Domain please request an application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to RFC- INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application". For example: To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU Subject: US Domain Application help: us_domain_application Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING ------------------------ This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering and Network Management groups on behalf of the Routing Arbiter Project and the NSFNET Backbone Service Project. ROUTING ARBITER PROJECT The production CNMS (Centralized Network Management System) is installed in the University of Michigan/Merit NOC, and installation of the centralized Rover code is almost complete. Bill Norton has developed an architecture for distribution of Rover code and updates to the Route Servers. A model for supporting a variety of data collectors on the Route Servers has been created, and the staff has designed a secure method for downloading collected NAP data to the CNMS. Joint tests conducted this month by Merit, IBM, and ISI verified that new Route Server software allows remote backup of the Route Servers, in the absence of dual Route Server connections at some NAPs. RIPE and Merit have completed the migration from the RIPE-81 syntax to the RIPE-181 syntax, and the Routing Arbiter Database (RADB) is up and running. Installation of a second RADB system, for development and hot backup, is also complete. The RADB is expected to replace the Policy Routing Database, used for the NSFNET Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Backbone Service, by the end of December. The RADB itself forms part of the new Internet Routing Registry, which will incorporate registries maintained by several national and international networking organizations. If you are a NSF sponsored regional network, a North American networking provider, or another provider and you need help in using or registering in the RADB, send a message to db-admin@merit.edu. John Scudder, Laurent Joncherey, and Craig Labovitz have been working to secure the Route Servers, Routing Arbiter Database systems, and Centralized Network Management System. They installed s/key one-time password authentication with local modifications, installed several security audit packages, and improved security on staff machines at Merit. NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICE PROJECT Peering sessions have been established between the ANS/NSFNET backbone and Network Service Providers at two NAPs. At the PacBell NAP, ANS/NSFNET is peering with MCInet; at the Sprint NAP, ANS/NSFNET is peering with SprintLink. Two regionals, MOREnet and THEnet, have completed their transition from the NSFNET backbone service, and are obtaining interregional Internet service from SprintLink. These cutovers did not result in any downsizing of the NSFNET backbone service; all of the ENSS's on the backbone are still in place. Due to numerous dependencies, some technical and some administrative, other regionals that had planned to move their primary Internet connection off the NSFNET backbone by the end of November have delayed their changeover, and now plan to make the transition in December. On behalf of the NSFNET Backbone Service Project, Elise Gerich gave presentations about the NSFNET transition at a MIDnet seminar titled "A Practical Guide to Secure Internet Connections" and at the NorthWestNet Eighth Annual Meeting. The NorthWestNet meeting also included a presentation by Gerich on the Policy Routing Database --> RADB transition. In addition, Jessica Yu attended the CoREN technical meetings this month on behalf of the RA Project. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 NORTHWESTNET ------------ Eighth Annual Meeting Nov. 8-10 =============================== Has it really been eight years?? Indeed it has. From 15 attendees in San Diego in 1986 to over 280 persons attending this year's NorthWestNet Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, the audience, the interest, and the topics (not to mention the Internet) have all grown. Participants took every opportunity to learn, share, debate, and speculate. The major themes addressed by the plenary speakers (see below) included the NSFNET transition; programs/projects that are leveraging the increased commercial presence on the Internet with its introduction to the public sector at large; and several views from different levels of government on how to move the National Information Infrastructure forward. Plenary presentations: --------------------- "Public-Private Partnerships to Build the NII" Laura Breeden, Director TIIAP, Dept. of Commerce "Connecting to the Community through the Internet" Mayor Liz Kniss, City of Palo Alto "Evolution of the Internet" Stephen Wolff Director DNCRI, National Science Foundation "Public Policy and Legislative Conflicts: The Network World" Robert Gillespie Principal, Robert Gillespie Associates "The NSFNET Project: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow" Elise Gerich Manager Internet Engineering Group, MERIT "Internet Evolution and NorthWestNet" Eric Hood Executive Director & CEO, NorthWestNet and President, FARNET Concurrent Sessions: ------------------- Over 25 presenters contributed to a series of excellent, concurrent sessions and workshops. A brief selection of the topics included: o commerce on the Internet and models for electronic cash transactions (Clifford Neuman, Scientist/Research Asst. Professor, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute). o a current perspective on Internet security (Tom Longstaff, Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Computer Security Researcher, Computer Emergency Response Team, Carnegie Mellon University); o the future of Gopher (Mark McCahill, Internet Project Gopher leader at the University of Minnesota); o an overview of successful commercial use of the Internet (Russ Jones, Internet Program Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation); o new product development with the Internet in mind (Mitchell London, President of ConnectSoft); o ATM networking and the NERO project (Dave Meyer, Senior Network Engineer at the University of Oregon); o strategies and tactics for getting information out via WWW (Don Retallack, Advanced Computing Technologist at Boeing Computer Services); o K-12 and the Internet (panel moderated by Kristin Boden-MacKay from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory); o electronic media's hidden liabilities from a legal viewpoint (Joan Feldman, President of Computer Forensics, Inc); Everyone got a chance to flex their Internet brain cells, when three randomly selected teams of four persons competed in the first annual NorthWestNet Internet Quiz Show. Questions that stumped all three teams were opened to the audience. All team members and audience participants received ample rewards of chocolate. The teams--NetEscapers, IFF, and NetNerds--were all excellent, earnest, and good-natured competitors. The Tuesday night social event offered refuge from the rain and escape from the hotel. The Oregon Historical Society and Cisco Systems Inc. sponsored food and drink in the engaging surroundings of the Oregon History Museum. Thanks to both our sponsors! ------------------------ NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000 Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822 Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services Anthony Naughtin, Director of Member Relations NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington. Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 PREPnet ------- New PREPnet Members ------------------- - Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA - Westmont Hilltop School District, Johnstown, PA - Bob Weaver, Pottsville, PA - Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, PA - Allentown Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Stargate Industries, Inc, Library, PA With this addition, PREPnet now totals 207 members. PREPnet News ------------ Meetings & Conferences Date Attendee(s) Event 11/1-11/4 Paul Heller EDUCOM 11/10-11/11 Tom Bajzek FARNET 11/17 Marsha Perrott TEC/PA Small Business Conference For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC: 305 S. Craig St. E-Mail: nic@prep.net 2nd Floor Telephone: (412) 268-7870 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 UCL ---- Peter Kirstein attended the ICB meeting at DRA Malvern, in the UK. ICB Infrastructure, DSI activities, possible use of ATM and the possibility of collaboration udner the European ACTS and Framework IV program in general were discussed. A UDP based secrure login protocol has been developed in line with ALF principles for the HIPPARCH project. This is the third in a line of new cut-through application/protocol systems, following a video decoder and a shared network text editor, to be designed and Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 implem,ented. Lessons from these will be presented at the HIPPARCH workshop at INRIA in December. IP Multicast over ATM is being tested between UCL, Edinburgh and Cambridge with a view to moving the UK mbone over to a colection of routers with point-multipoint PVCs between them to get higher bandwidth and more efficient transmssion capacity utilisation at the same time. Early testing is promising, but fraight with configuration complexity! There are high hopes to extends this testbed on into Europe in January. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 CALENDAR -------- Last update 12/1/94 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. FYI - New Dates for U.S. APPC/APPN (AATC) Technical Conf. moved from July to May. - New Dates for ULPAA in 1995, was Dec. 4-8, NOW Dec. 11-15 ************************************************************************ 1994 ------------ Nov. 28-Dec. 1 GLOBECOM '94 San Francisco, CA Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Windows Solutions Frankfurt, Germany Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause Dec. 1-2 RARE Working Groups London, UK Dec. 1-2 Wkshp on European Reqs for Internationalisation of IT and Charset Technology Luxembourg Dec. 5-7 Australian Telecom Networks and Applications Conf. ATNAC 94 Melbourne, AU Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 San Jose, CA Dec. 5-9 10th Comp. Sec. Applications Orlando, FL Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico Dec. 12-16 OIW (Firm) Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks Madras, India 1995 --------- Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks Madras, India Jan. 8-11 BROADBAND '95 Workshop Tucson, AZ Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Feb. 5-10 ATM Forum San Francisco, CA Feb. 5-11 IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging San Jose, CA Feb. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk & Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 20 Int'l Internet OGs Meetings San Diego Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb. 21-22 Int'l Internet Ops Conference San Diego Feb. 22-24 ICODP '95 Brisbane Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) West Palm Beach, FL Mar. 6-10 SNMP Test Summit III Mar. 13-17 OIW (Firm) Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 16-19 3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV Mar. 28-31 Seybold Seminars Boston, MA Apr. 2-6 IEEE Infocom '95 Boston, MA Apr. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 Monterey, CA Apr. 3-7 32nd IETF (Definite) Danvers, MA Apr. 4-5 Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee Arlington, VA Apr. 9-14 ATM Forum Denver, CO Apr. 17-21 Email World (Firm) Santa Clara, CA Apr. 19-21 5th Network & Operating System Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA Apr. 24-25 IFIP TC6 Wkshp Personal Wireless Commun. Prague, Czech Republic May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel May 22-25 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Chicago, IL May 28-Jun. 2 NetWorld+Interop '95 Frankfurt, Germany Jun. ATM Forum Europe Jun. 5-7 Digital World Los Angeles, CA Jun. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Rochester, MN Jun. 12-16 OIW (Firm) Jun. 13-16 IFIP WG6.1 PSTV-XV Warsaw Jun. 16-17 CCIRN Singapore Jun. 18-22 ICC '95 Seattle, WA Jun. 18-24 ISOC Developing Country Wkshp Hawaii Jun. 25-27 ISOC K-12 Workshop Hawaii Jun. 26-27 ISOC Trustees & Council Hawaii Jun. 28-30 INET '95 Hawaii Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 10-13 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Maui, HI JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF Stockholm, Sweden Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan Jul. 17-Aug. 3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 Ottawa, Ontario Aug. 6-11 ATM Forum Toronto, CA Aug. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 14-18 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Denver area Aug. 29-Sep. 1 Windows Solutions San Fran. San Francisco, CA SEPTEMBER Windows Solutions Paris Paris, France Sep. 25-29 7th SDL Forum Oslo, Sweden FALL 1995 Seybold Europe Sep. 4-6 8th IFIP WG6.1 Intntl Wkshp on Protocol Test Systems Every, France Sep. 4-7 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) London, England Sep. 11-15 6th IFIP High Performance Networking, HPN'95 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Sep. 11-15 OIW (Firm) Sep. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 26-29 Seybold San Francisco San Francisco, CA Oct. 1-6 ATM Forum Honolulu, HI Oct. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 10-11 ANSI X3T11 Oct. 16-19 APPC/APPN Tech. Conf. (AATC) Sydney, Australia Oct. 17-20 IFIP WG6.1 FORTE '95 Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-9 IEEE 802 Plenary (Firm) Montreal, Quebec Nov. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Nov. 7-10 ICNP '95 Tokyo, Japan Nov. 13-17 GLOBECOM '95 Singapore Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Definite) Boston, MA Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Windows Solutions Germany Frankfurt, Germany Dec. 3-6 ACM SIGOPS Dec. 4-8 OIW (Firm) Dec. 4-8 34th IETF Dallas, TX Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Firm) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Windows Solutions Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Dec. 10-15 ATM Forum Orlando, FL Dec. 11-15 11th Comp. Sec. Applications New Orleans, LO Dec. 11-15 ULPAA (upper layers) Sydney, AU 1996 ----------- Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 35th IETF (Under Consideration) Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Apr. 8-13 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA May. 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Jun. 24-27 ICC '96 Dallas, TX Jul. 8-12 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 22-26 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Jul. 29-Aug. 2 36th IETF (Under Consideration) Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Nov. 11-15 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 37th IETF (Under Consideration) Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) 1998 ----------- Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary --------- Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories Via gopher: "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us ********************************************************************** Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Ref. RSec(94)001-ac December 1994 This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail . =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 21 December Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat) TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA2 2 December London GA3 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv TERENA Working Groups --------------------- ATM TF 12 December (all day) Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat) STAMPEDE Meeting 13 December Amsterdam (TERENA Secretariat) RIPE ---- 25-27 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF, WCW) 12-14 April 1996 Berlin PRIDE COURSES ------------- VARIOUS ------- EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM Cooper [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 26 April 1995 TBD EBONE Management Committee 7 December Amsterdam or Brussels EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 19 December Munich EARN Board of Directors CCIRN 16/17 June 1995 tbc INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 15/16 December Washington DC IETF 5-9 December San Jose, California 3-7 April 1995 Danvers, Massachusetts 17-21 July 1995 Stockholm, Sweden 4-8 December 1995 Dallas (tbc) EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 28/2-1/3 1995 Brussels 16/17 May 1995 Brussels 19/20 September 1995 Brussels 12/13 December 1995 Brussels Steering Committee 13 December Brussels 14 March 1995 Brussels 6 June 1995 Brussels 26 September 1995 Brussels 19 December 1995 Brussels ETSI ---- General Assembly 30/31 March 1995 Nice, France 5/6 June 1995 Nice, France Cooper [Page 46] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Technical Assembly 27-29 March 1995 Nice, France 7-9 November 1995 Nice, France CONFERENCES ******************************************************************* JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference 15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to . For information, email . To submit a paper, email NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 95 Autumn 1995 (tbc) JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference 13-16 May 1996 in Budapest, Hungary ******************************************************************* OTHER CONFERENCES nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available from the TERENA 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.terena.nl Email: server@terena.nl Gopher: gopher.terena.nl WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY ------------------------------------------------------- on 1 and 2 December 1994 in Luxembourg. Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII, EFTA and STRI. Registrations before 30 September 1994 Cooper [Page 47] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 For information, email 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY SPECIALIST GROUP ON EXPERT SYSTEMS ------------------------------------------------------ from 12 till 14 December 1994 at St John's College, Cambridge, England Information from Mrs. Kit Stones email Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995 Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445 MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING & NETWORKING --------------------------------- from 6 till 8 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA for registration and info, email DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION: ALGORITHMS & TECHNOLOGIES ---------------------------------------------------- from 7 till 10 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA for registration and info, email TEDIS - EDITT / EDI TRUSTED THIRD PARTIES WORKSHOP -------------------------------------------------- from 8 till 10 February 1995 (tutorials on 7 February) University Polytechnics Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Cooper [Page 48] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 Subjects: certification and registration, legal and audit aspects of EDI. Sponsor: the Commission of the European Union (TEDIS Programme) Programme Committee Chairman: Manuel Medina email INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY ----------------------------------------------------- 16-17 February 1995 Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California USA Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 1995. For further information, email David Balenson JANET WORKSHOP 23 ----------------- from 28 till 30 March 1995 at the University of Leicester in England Deadline for proposals 13 January 1995 Deadline for abstracts + authors' biography 17 February. Email FIRST AUSTRALIAN WWW CONFERENCE / AusWeb95 ------------------------------------------ from 29 April till 2 May 1995 Ballina Beach Resort, Ballina, Far North Coast of New South Wales, Australia Abstracts for full papers due on 23 January 1995 Registration http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/ For further information, email THIRD ANNUAL RURAL DATAFICATION CONFERENCE ------------------------------------------ 22-24 May 1995 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation) Deadline for submission of papers is 15 January 1995. Submit to INET 95 Cooper [Page 49] Internet Monthly Report November 1994 ------- from 28 till 30 June 1995 in Honolulu, Hawaii Extended abstracts for papers to be submitted by 13 January 1995 to Programme Committee Internet Society Secretariat 1995 INTERNET SOCIETY WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ----------------------------------------- from 18 till 24 June 1995 Manoa Campus, University of Hawaii, Honolulu Apply before 15 January 1995 preferably. Further information from or contact George Sadowksy Tel.+1 212 998 3040, fax.+1 212 995 4120. INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- Broadband Communiations: Networks, Services, Applications, Future Directions 19-23 February 1996 Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland Deadline for submission of papers is 15 May 1995 For further information, email Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner , fax.+41 1 632 1035 Call for Papers on TERENA Document Server under rare/information/calendar. The file is called izs96-cfp.txt. Cooper [Page 50]