May 1996 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. 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 "IMR@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ IMR Editor [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD --------------------------- The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for May, 1996 1. Let me remind everyone that the next IETF meeting will be in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. Logistic information has already been sent to the IETF announcement list and is, of course, available from the IETF Web Page and the IETF Shadow directories. Note that this is the same date as INET '96! While not a "joint" meeting per se, both meetings will be held in the Montreal Convention Center, and the IETF and INET'96 will permit attendees to attend each others' sessions (assuming space is available). See the IETF or ISOC Web Pages for more information. Closing out the year, the IETF will be returning to San Jose, California on December 9-13, 1996. Our local host for the San Jose meeting is Cisco Systems. We begin 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 1997. We are currently working on returning to Europe in August, 1997. 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 or http://www.ietf.org 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. IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 The following IESG minutes have been added: April 25, 1996 (iesg.96-04-25) May 9, 1996 (iesg.96-05-09) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following eight Protocol Actions during the month of May, 1996: o Serial Number Arithmetic be published as a Proposed Standard. o Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 be published as a Proposed Standard. o An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format be published as a Proposed Standard. o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks be published as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Users' Glossary be published as an Informational RFC. o A Proposed Extension to HTML: Client-Side Image Maps be published as an Informational RFC. o Autonomous System Confederations for BGP be published as an Experimental Protocol. o BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP be published as an Experimental Protocol. 4. The IESG issued 17 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of May, 1996: o IP and ARP on HIPPI for consideration as a Draft Standard. o The Internet Standards Process (v3): a proposed revision of part of RFC 1602 for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o IETF-ISOC relationship for consideration as an Informational RFC. IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Triggered Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Protocol Analysis for Triggered RIP for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 over PPP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o ISDN Management Information Base for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Dial Control Management Information Base for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o BGP communities attribute for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 o Standard Electronic Mail Addresses For Internet Operations for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. 5. Four Working Groups were created during this period: Distributed Management (disman) Transport Layer Security (tls) Integrated Services over Specific Link Layers (issll) Internetworking Over NBMA (ion) and two working groups concluded (we actually combined to form the ion Working Group): IP Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ipatm) Routing over Large Clouds (rolc) 6. A total of XX Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of May, 1996: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (iplpdn) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (pppext) o PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification (trainmat) o Catalogue of Network Training Materials (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 (mailext) o Common Internet Message Headers (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management (cidrd) o Classless in-addr.arpa delegation (dhc) o DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base version 2 (entmib) o Entity MIB IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 (mixer) o MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME (mixer) o Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message Bodies (mobileip) o IP Encapsulation within IP (radius) o RADIUS Accounting (radius) o Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) (none) o Security Encapsulation of SNMP (html) o Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language (ipngwg) o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks (ipngwg) o OSI NSAPs and IPv6 (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (poised95) o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees (receipt) o An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications (idr) o Operational Experience with the BGP-4 protocol (idr) o BGP-4 Requirement Satisfaction Report (drums) o Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (ipngwg) o Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers (poised95) o The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process (none) + Some Thoughts on the Importance of Modesty and Decorum and the Need for an IETF Code of Conduct (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 (mobileip) o Applicability Statement for IP Mobility Support (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 over PPP (poised95) o IETF-ISOC relationship (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Applications (ipngwg) o Identifying IPv6 Interfaces in Link-Local Addresses (ipsec) o The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol (dnsind) o Clarifications to the DNS Specification (userglos) o Internet Users' Glossary (none) o MIME with the Message Security Protocol (find) o The Common Indexing Protocol (none) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for ATM Networks (none) o PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 0.97 (none) o ASCII Encoding for Domain Names (none) o Operational Criteria for Root Name Servers (none) + The ESP Triple DES Transform (none) + IP Authentication using Keyed SHA1 with Data Padding (mhtml) + Sending HTML in E-mail (none) + Distributed Component Object Model Protocol -- DCOM/1.0 (none) + New Registries and the Delegation of International Top Level Domains (none) o Standard Electronic Mail Addresses For Internet Operations (none) + Another ATM Signaling Protocol for IP (IP-SVC) (ids) + Best Current Practice for the Internet White Pages Service (none) + Public-Key Based Ticket Granting Service in Kerberos IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 (rtfm) + Traffic Flow Measurement: Experiences with NeTraMet (mhtml) + The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type (asid) + The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes (asid) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (pppext) + PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol (none) + WInter (Web Internationalization & Multilinguism) (none) + Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ETFTP) (none) + GPS-Based Addressing and Routing (none) + A Clarification of the STATUS Clause in SNMP MIB Modules (none) + Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol - ATMP (asid) + An Application/Directory MIME Content-Type Electronic Business Card Profile (none) + ST FlowSpec for the Controlled-Load Service (none) + IP Clustering for Load Balancing and Fault Resilience (none) + Rules for the IP4.INT domain (none) + Metrics for Internet settlements (none) + Reverse Name Lookups of Encapsulated IPv4 Addresses in IPv6 (dnsind) + Deferred Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS DEFUPD) (none) + Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific Hewlett-Packard Patents In Conjunction With the Internet Engineering Task Force's Internet-Standard Network Management Framework (none) + Using the MARS model in non-ATM NBMA networks. IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 7. There were 18 RFC's published during the month of May, 1996: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1937 I (rolc) "Local/Remote" Forwarding Decision in Switched Data Link Subnetworks RFC1938 PS (otp) A One-Time Password System RFC1939 S (none) Post Office Protocol - Version 3 RFC1940 I (sdr) Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and Forwarding Specification (Version 1). RFC1941 I (isn) Frequently Asked Questions for Schools RFC1942 E (html) HTML Tables RFC1943 I (ids) Building an X.500 Directory Service in the US RFC1944 I (bmwg) Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices RFC1945 I (http) Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 RFC1946 I (none) Native ATM Support for ST2+ RFC1947 I (none) Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages RFC1948 I (none) Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks RFC1949 E (idmr) Scalable Multicast Key Distribution RFC1950 I (none) ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3 RFC1951 I (none) DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 RFC1952 I (none) GZIP file format specification version 4.3 RFC1953 I (none) Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol Specification for IPv4 Version 1.0 RFC1954 I (none) Transmission of Flow Labelled IPv4 on ATM Data Links Ipsilon Version 1.0 St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES InterNic Registration Services Monthly Letter Progress Report Cooperative Agreement NCR-9218742 May 15, 1996 Progress Report for May 1, 1966 through May 31, 1996 I. Significant Events During May 1996, InterNIC Registration Services assigned the following network addresses, and registered domain names to include top-level country domains: Assigned Registered Country Domain(s) Network Addresses 4,126 Domain Names Registered 48,954 Top-level Country Domain(s) 2 LA - Vientiane DJ - Djibouti Tom Newell attended Internet World in Los Angeles to meet with various agencies. He collected information for an InterNIC trade show plan. Two CuSeeMe Focus Group meetings were conducted with members of the Research and Education (R&E) community. Completed the domain name Lame Delegation Policy issues. Completed the "NOTIFY" program to inform registrants that their domain name(s) were being deactivated. Updated Guardian/PGP on the internal/external World Wide Web (WWW) sites. In support of Guardian, the domain, host and contact registration template revisions were completed. IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 Debbie Fuller was installed as the Manager of our Customer Complaints Research and Reports Section. Doug Armentrout was installed as the Domain Registration Section Manager. Voice phone lines and telephones have been installed for support staff to handle the increased calls to the InterNIC Receivables Section. Increases are due to the distribution of the 15-day final domain name invoices. Completed and distributed the "15-Day Deactivation Notice" to over 25,000 domain name holders. Completed testing the InterNIC's Receivables Section program for generating domain name renewal invoices. II. Current Status E-mail 143,069 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 831 (primarily Domreg requests) Phone 36,036 Connections Retrievals Gopher 72,974 158,936 WAIS 275,315 120,461 FTP 226,671 497,827 Mailserv 2,512 Telnet 384,519 Http 10,759,438 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server _______ _________ 3,321,428 28,147,717 Debbie Fuller INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES As the number of information resources available on the Internet continues to increase, there has also been a substantial growth in the search tools available to help users find the particular information that interests them. In May, InterNIC Directory and Database Services set up an online listing of search tools organized by type of search. The listings include tools that help IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 users search NetNews, tools that search for particular software on the net, tools that search for people by name, and various other search categories. If you are looking for something on the Internet, and you don't have a good idea where to start, try our web page at: http://www.internic.net/tools/ We will continually update our list as we find new tools or as old entries become outdated. If you know of a tool you feel should be included, send us email at admin@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. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ====================== Some of the processing of requests to the US Domain administrator is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator for that locality. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). A new policy has been added to the criteria for delegating domain names under the US Domain: It is the intention that the delegation of third level (for example, locality) domain names be wide spread to many registries. It is undesirable for one person or organization to manage a large part of the third level names in any particular geographic or logical area. No individual or organization shall have more than 500 delegations total in the US Domain as a whole, or more than 50 delegation in any particuilar second level (for example, a state). IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains not administered by the US Domain Registrar, get the file "us-domain-delegated.txt". URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page: URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 2010 PHONE 575 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 2585 DELEGATIONS 96 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS: 614 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1875 --------------------------- Total 2585 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. In addition, and not listed below, another 163 localities have been delegated in Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Virginia and Vermont this month. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 35 33 47 38 23 23 9 3 =================================================================== IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 ----------------------- THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ----------------------- LOCALITIES ========== MERRIFIELD.VA.US JAFFREY.NH.US MARSHALL.MI.US MORAGA.CA.US REDMOND.WA.US HAVRE.MT.US CUT-BANK.MT.US SHELBY.MT.US CONRAD.MT.US CADILLAC.MI.US OCEANSIDE.CA.US KANSAS-CITY.MO.US OMAHA.NE.US ROME.GA.US DOVER.NH.US LAWRENCE.KS.US GROVEPORT.OH.US GRANVILLE.OH.US HENRY.TN.US PARIS.TN.US WEAKLEY.TN.US MARTIN.TN.US FISHERS.IN.US MADISONVILLE.KY.US ROCKFORD.IL.US MURPHY.TX.US OCEAN.NJ.US LAKE-FORREST.IL.US BRANSON.MO.US NATCHEZ.MS.US HIGHLAND-PARK.IL.US BENSENVILLE.IL.US YORK.NE.US BOGOTA.NJ.US G7.FED.US MANCHESTER.VT.US SAGAMORE.MA.US NORTH-TRURO.MA.US WYLIE.TX.US SACHSE.TX.US EAGLE.CO.US SHELBY.TN.US WATERTOWN.MI.US DYERSBURG.TN.US DYER.TN.US OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- CI.BELMONT.CA.US CI.MODESTO.CA.US SCFL.LIB.CA.US CI.CULVER-CITY.CA.US SEARKTC.TEC.AR.US CO.NEW-HANOVER.NC.US WWW.NIAGARA-FALLS.NY.US WWW.JAMESTOWN.NY.US PCTI.TEC.NJ.US CC.ARLINGTON.TX.US CI.BRISBANE.CA.US NASHUA.LIB.NH.US FRENCH.NORMAN.OK.US HRSD.DST.VA.US STUART-HALL.STAUNTON.VA.US CO.ROCK.NE.US CI.SANTA-ANA.CA.US CI.LINCOLNWOOD.IL.US CI.MILLBRAE.CA.US WWW.CHAUTAUQUA.NY.US CO.CAYUGA.NY.US CI.GARDENA.CA.US IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 CI.ALBANY.CA.US CI.OJAI.CA.US MAIL.STUTTGART.AR.US BARTHEL-MEMORIAL.LIB.MA.US CI.WAKEFIELD.NE.US CI.CONCORD.NH.US CI.TEXAS-CITY.TX.US PWPLS.LIB.VA.US NAVASGRP.DUBLIN.CA.US CI.WOODSIDE.CA.US RCI.BRENTWOOD.TN.US CHEXTOX.BRENTWOOD.TN.US WWW.AGENT99.RUMSON.NJ.US CI.DEARBORN-HEIGHTS.MI.US CI.CLAYTON.MO.US CO.OSWEGO.NY.US CHM.CC.CT.US CI.MTNVIEW.CA.US WORLDCOMM.ALEXANDER.NC.US BOOKS.ALEXANDER.NC.US VIRTUAL.MOAB.UT.US POLICE.CI.PITTSBURG.CA.US CHAMBER.RICE-LAKE.WI.US ALL.NIAGARA-FALLS.NY.US ALL.JAMESTOWN.NY.US ALL.KINGSTON.NY.US CI.SUMNER.WA.US ----------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING- May ------------------------------- This report summarizes May 1996 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Merit invites your participation in a new project--a continuation of the Internet data collection efforts initiated by Vern Paxson of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 1994-95, Paxson collected a large set of network endpoint measurements by running Network Probe Daemons (NPDs) at sites in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. Traceroutes initiated by the probes revealed pathologies such as fluttering, midstream changes, loops, duplicate hops, premature hops, erroneous routing, and infrastructure failures. Merit's effort, which is being led by Dun Liu, will repeat Paxson's methodology for 1996. The data will then be used to model Internet dynamics, identify portions of the network with high latency and IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 packet loss, and measure the characteristics of Internet paths. Sites participating in the project will be asked to run the NPD software, which runs on any standard Unix system. If you are interested in participating, please send e-mail to dunl@merit.edu. The NPD software is available from ftp://nic.merit.edu/routing.arbiter/tools/npd-1.0.tar.Z. Your help is greatly appreciated! As a result of April and May's efforts to identify, check, and delete duplicated Route objects from the Routing Arbiter Database (RADB), more than 9,000 records have now been removed from the registry. The deleted objects were either duplicated in another Internet Routing Registry database or covered by a shorter (less specific) aggregate object in the RADB. Approximately 31,000 Route objects remain in the database. The Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) hosted the seventh North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Washington, D.C. on May 30- 31. Stan Barber of Academ Consulting Services has kindly made available a complete set of notes and slides from the meeting; they will soon be available through Merit's Web site, http://www.merit.edu/~nanog/. Bill Norton of Merit moderated the meeting, which featured the following presentations: > STATE OF THE INTERNET: NAPs --PacBell NAP Warren Williams, PacBell --Sprint NAP Steve Schnell, Sprint --Ameritech NAP Mark Cnota, Ameritech --MAE-East Steve Feldman, MFS Datanet > STATE OF THE INTERNET: NSPs --Sprint Jim Steinhardt, Sprint --ANS Curtis Villamizer, ANS --MCI Jeff Young, MCI > Call for Participation: Simplified Peering at the Exchange Points (Robert Laughlin, DataXnge) > STATE OF THE INTERNET: Trends and Research --Standardized Format for Exchange Point Traffic Recording & Interchange (Dave Siegel, RTD Systems & Networking) --Routing Stability Analysis (Craig Labovitz, Merit) --InterNIC Update (Mark Kosters, InterNIC) --Internet Statistics: Fragmentation & Reassembly (Kim Claffy, SDSC) > Internet Service Measurements: Call for Participation (Steve Crocker, CyberCash) IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 > Status of the Internet Routing Registry --RAWhoisd Update (Brian Renaud, Merit) --Roe (Route Object Editor) (Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI) --Using the IRR to Generate Cisco Configurations (Randy Bush, RGnet) --Optimizing the Route Server Configuration Process (Jake Khuon, Merit) > Update from the PIER (Procedures for Internet/Enterprise Renumbering) Working Group (Will Leland, Bellcore) > MView: An Application for Visualizing & Managing the MBone (Dave Thaler, Merit) > Inter-Provider Outage Notifications (Alan Hannan, Global Internet) > ASExplorer and Other New RA Tools (Craig Labovitz, Merit) > "Web Efficiency and Robustness:" Meeting Summary (Larry Blunk, Merit) > InterNIC Guardian Object (Jasdip Singh, InterNIC) > Route Filter Economics & Other Limits (Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications) > Sprint Peering & Filtering Policies (Sean Doran & Mark Hidalgo, Sprint) A new article by Susan R. Harris and Elise Gerich looks back on the events leading up to the final dismantling of the NSFNET backbone. See "Retiring the NSFNET Backbone Service: Chronicling the End of an Era" in the April 1996 ConneXions (Vol. 10, No. 4). It is also available on the Merit Web pages: http://www.merit.edu/nsfnet/ Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 CALENDAR -------- Last update 07/9/96 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 - The EMail World & Internet World originally scheduled for Sept. 10-12, 1996 has been moved to Oct. 15-17, 1996. Boston, MA. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP - ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.8) cd ietf ls *0mtg* Gopher - ------- Available on the Gopher Server running on IETF.CNRI.RESTON.VA.US (132.151.1.35) under "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar". WWW - ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 1996 - ----------- Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ontario, CA Oct. 2-4 Object World Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Oct. 6-9 Asia Pacific Distributed Solutions Event Queensland, Australia Oct. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 St. Petersburg Bch, FL Oct. 7-11 ATM Forum Montreux, Switzerland Oct. 7-11 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Oct. 7-11 Performance 96 Conference Lausanne, Switzerland Oct. 9-11 Object World Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 13-16 IEEE Local Computer Ntwrks (LCN) Minneapolis, MN Oct. 14-17 MEDNET '96 European Congress of the Internet in Medicine Brighton, UK Oct. 15 Commercenet New Orleans, LA Oct. 15-17 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Oct. 15-18 3rd Int'l on Protocols for Multimedia Systems Madrid, Spain Oct. 16-18 Internet World Monterrey '96 Monterrey, Mexico Oct. 16-19 5th Int'l Conference on Computer Communications & Ntwrks Rockville, MD Oct. 17-20 IEEE Symposium on Planning & Design of Broadband Networks Quebec, Canada Oct. 21-25 ICECCS'96 (held jointly with 6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW) Montreal, Canada Oct. 28-31 2nd USENIX Seattle, WA Oct. 28-Nov. 1 NetWorld+Interop London, England Oct. 29-31 Internet Professional '96 Paris, France Oct. 29-Nov. 1 ICNP-96 Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols Columbus, Ohio Oct. 29-Nov. 1 2nd USENIX Symp. Operating Sys. Design & Implement. (OSIDI II) Seattle, WA Nov. 1996 OMG TC (Groupe Bull) Nice, France Nov. 4-7 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Nov. 4-8 ANSI X3T10 '96 Western Digital Palm Springs, CA Nov. 6-8 Web Developer Mexico '96 Mexico Ciy, Mexico Nov. 10-12 2nd annual of ACM's MobiCom '96 Rye, New York Nov. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hotel Vancouver Vancouver, BC Canada Nov. 12-15 3rd Int'l Conf. on Multimedia Modeling Toulouse, France Nov. 13 Commercenet Santa Clara, CA Nov. 18-20 2nd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce Oakland, CA Nov. 18-22 ACM Multimedia '96 Boston, MA Nov. 18-22 IEEE Globecom 96 London, England Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Nov. 20-21 IEEE Global Internet '96 London, UK Nov. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 Dec. 2-4 Web World San Diego, CA Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 Rochester, MN Dec. 2-6 ATM Forum Vancover, BC Dec. 4-6 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 Boston, MA Dec. 9-12 Internet World '96 Baltimore, MD Dec. 9-13 37th IETF San Jose, CA Dec. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Dec. 10-13 Fall Internet World '96 New York, NY Dec. 12 Internet Security for System & Network Administrators Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 13 Commercenet Albuquerque, NM 1997 - ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 6-10 USENIX '97 Annual Technical Conf. Anaheim, CA Jan. 6-10 USELINUX: Linux Appl. Dev. Anaheim, CA Jan. 7-10 13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf on Systems Sciences Maui, Hawaii Jan. 7-10 Internet World Canada '97 Toronto, Canada Jan. 21-23 Internet World Shanghai-China Shanghai, China Jan. 21-25 Internet World Singapore Intl Singapore Jan. 28-30 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Orlando, FL Feb. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 TBA Feb. 10-11 ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 17-19 Internet Expo & EMail World San Jose, CA Mar. 1-5 ACM '97: The Next 50 yrs. of Computing San Jose, CA Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 '97 Irvine?/Albuguerque Mar. 11-14 Spring Internet World '97 Los Angeles, CA Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Mar. 17-19 1st Euromicro Working Conf. on Software Maintenance & Reengineering Berlin, Germany Mar. 19-21 Internet World Asia '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Apr. 7-11 38th IETF Memphis, TN Apr. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 TBA Apr. 7-11 IEEE Infocom '97 Kobe, Japan Apr. 9-11 ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on Autonmous Decentralized Sys. Berlin, Germany Apr. 22-24 Internet Expo & EMail World Chicago, IL May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 May 12-16 IFIP/IEEE San Diego, CA May 28-30 Web Developer '97 Chicago, IL IMR Editor [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 Jun. 3-5 Internet World Mexico '97 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jun. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 TBA Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Aug. 11-15 ANSI X3T11 TBA Aug. 11-15 (tenative) 39th IETF Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 (tenative) Internet Expo & EMail World Boston, MA Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 TBA Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) 1998 - ----------- SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary 1999 - ----- Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 TERENA Calendar- May 1996 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 General Assembly ----------------------- GA6 24-25 October Bled GA7 15-16 May 1997 Edinburgh TERENA Executive Committee -------------------------- 17 December Amsterdam TERENA Technical Committee -------------------------- 13 November Brussels 22 January 1997 Amsterdam TERENA Office Meeting --------------------- 16 October Amsterdam JENC8 ----- Conference Committee 8 November (provisional) Edinburgh Programme Committee 4 December Amsterdam IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 INSIGHT Training Workshop ------- 28-29 October Bled CEEnet ------ 26 October Bled PHARE Research Networking ------ 25 October Bled ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= EEMA ---- Electronic Commerce '96 Wembley, London 15-17 October Regional Conference 29 November - 1 December Malta Electronic Communications Olympia, London 10-12 December EWOS ---- TA35, 3-4 December Brussels TA36, 25-26 February 1997 " TA37, 13-14 May 1997 " TA38, 16-17 September 1997 " TA39, 2-3 December 1997 " SC - 24 September " SC - 17 December " Workshops 35: 21-25 October Brussels 36: 20-24 January 1997 " 37: 7-11 April 1997 " 38: 16-20 June 1997 " 39: 27-31 October 1997 " IMR Editor [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 ETSI ---- Seminar/Workshop 1-3 October Nice, France GA24 10-11 December Nice, France TA25 23-25 October " IETF ---- 9-13 December San Jose, CA 7-11 April 1997 Memphis, Tenn. 11-15 August 1997 Munich, Germany RIPE ---- RIPE26 20-22 January 1997 Amsterdam RIPE27 May 1997 Dublin NATO Workshop ------------- 5-9 May 1997 Edinburgh +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES ------------------ Call for Papers JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference ------------------------------------------------ "Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape" 12-15 May 1997 Edinburgh, Scotland This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele- communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications, and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is currently being developed IMR Editor [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 Subject Areas: * Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering * User Support, Training and Education * Security and Management Issues * Information Systems and Distributed Applications * Economic and Political Issues Deadline for paper submission 10 November 1996 to: For information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 email: http://www.terena.nl/jenc8 or JENC8 Local Organization c/o Concorde Services Ltd Unit 5, SECC Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland email: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OTHER CONFERENCES: ----------------- Performance '96 --------------- International Conference on Performance Theory, Measurement and Evaluation of Computer and Communications Systems Organized by IFIPWG7.3 7-11 October Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Deadline paper submission 15 March 1996 Further information on WWW Page: http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/perf96/ IMR Editor [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 PROMS'96 Third International Workshop on Protocols for Multimedia Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------- 15-18 October Madrid, Spain This workshop is intended to contribute to scientific, strategical and practical cooperation between research institutes and industrial companies in the area of distributed multimedia applications, protocols, and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their usage on broadband networks. Papers to be submitted by 7 June. For information contact Arturo Azcorra at 6th CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conference 1996 -------------------------------- 5-6 November Sheraton Brussels Hotel, Brussels, Belgium Theme of this conference is "Standards on Trial: Case Studies in European Standardization" Deadline for abstracts is 13 Sept. For further information: c/o CENELAC, Tel: +32 2 519 6871 Fax: +32 2 519 6919 IDATE96 18th International Conference of IDATE -------------------------------------- 6-8 November Montpellier, France An opportunity for professional contacts with major industrial group leaders, users and clients, researchers and academics, administrators and politians. Full details of the conference available on the Web: http://www.idate.fr CEN/TC304 - Character Set Technology Workshop --------------------------------------------- 11-12 November Bled, Slovenia Providing multilingual support in middleware: Implementing the Universal Character Set ISO 10646 in the European Information Society For information look up URL: http://www.e5.ijs.si/i18n/ws-bled.html IMR Editor [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 "The Telematics Revolution, Consequences for Individuals and Organisations" ---------------------------------------------- 13 November University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Theme of the conference is that progress of information and telecommunication technologies do create a huge number of questions, be it social, jurisdictional, economic or technical. Parallel sessions will deal with: interactive scientific visual- isation, tele-learning, user aspects of multimedia, distant consultation and using of laboratories. For all information and to receive brochure, contact Mr. Marc Fleskens at email address IEEE Global Internet 1996 ------------------------- 20-21 November Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London This mini-conference will provide an open forum for the communications and computer networking communities to review the state-of-the-art technologies and applications of the evolving Global Internet. Deadline paper submissions 15 May to: http://gaia.cs.umass.edu:80/tccc/internet96/ or email Jon Crowcroft WEB INTERNATIONALIZATION & MULTILINGUISM SYMPOSIUM -------------------------------------------------- 20-22 November Sevilla, Spain Organized by Sadiel and the WWW Consortium, with the support of the European Commission. The object of this symposium is the advancement of the internationalization and multilingualism of the Web, as well as to seek agreement on the relevant standards. Registration from 15 September. For further information see: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/International/Sevilla-96 IMR Editor [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 EITC'96 - European IT Conference -------------------------------- 25-27 November Congress Centre, Brussels, Belgium "Doing Business in the Information Society" Electronic commerce, provides the focus for sessions on IT applications, enabling technologies and international initiatives. Post-Conference Workshops to be held on 28 November. For information contact European Commission, DGIII or WWW: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/eitc96.htm ASIAN'96 - Asian Computing Science Conference --------------------------------------------- 2-5 December Singapore Themes of this conference is: - Programming (sematics, languages, systems, ...) - Concurrency & Parallelism (algorithms, formalisms, systems ...) - Networking & Security (algorithms, protocols, formalisms, ...) Additional information available from: http://www.escs.nus.sg/~asian96 Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997 ---------------------------------------- 10-12 February 1997 San Jose, CA, USA The object of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia computing and networking. Paper submission by 16 July 1996. For further information email COREC -"Interregional Cooperation in RTD - Challenges and Opportunities for Regions in Economic Conversion" --------------------------------------------------------- 16-17 December Bremen, Germany Background is the experience of the community initiative STRIDE and other programmes of the European Commission.The conference will deal questions of RTD-programmes and policies, their European Dimension and impact on regional development. For information contact Mr. Wolfgang Petzold at: email IMR Editor [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 IEEE INFOCOM '97 16th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer & Communications Societies ------------------------------------------------- 7-11 April 1997 Kobe, Japan Paper submissions by 14 June 1997. For further information contact http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom/ http:// arpeggio.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/infocom.html ISADS 97 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems --------------------------------------------------------------- 9-11 April 1997 Berlin, Germany Supported by Hitachi, DeTeBerkom, NEC, Digital, GMD-FOCUS, Hewlett Packard, IBM. The focus will be on advancements and innovations in ADS platforms and applications. Integration of telecommunication and computing aspects into a uniform concept for providing an open distributed processing environment. For information see WWW: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ws/isads97/ EEMA'97 10th Annual Conference of European Electronic Messaging Association ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-19 June 1997 Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands Issues of the conference will be: Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services; Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European Initiatives; Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology & Management Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots. For information contact WWW: http://www.eema.org/ IMR Editor [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report May 1996 INET'97 The Internet: The Global Frontiers ---------------------------------- 24-27 June 1997 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education, commerce and societies throughout the world. Abstracts of papers to be submitted by 10 October. -for details of submission procedure email -for program information email ==================================================== This meeting list is also available on our WWW page: http://www.terena.nl/news/ ==================================================== IMR Editor [Page 31]