~ December 1995 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 "IMR@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report 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 the IMR list. 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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/ Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 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 ---------------------------- 1. The next IETF will be meeting in Los Angeles, California from March 4-8, 1996. There will not be a local host for this meeting, but the terminal room facilities will be provided by Interop. Following Los Angeles, the IETF will be meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 24-28, 1996. If this date looks familiar, it is the same date as INET '96! This is not a "joint" meeting, but both will be held in the Montreal Convention Center. Closing out the year, the IETF will be returning to San Jose, California on December 9-13, 1996. The first meeting of 1997 will be held in Memphis, Tennessee April 7-11, 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 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: November 9, 1995 (iesg.95-11-09) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 16 Protocol Actions during the month of December, 1995: o Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) for publication as a Draft Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 Standard. o Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2 be published as an Experimental Protocol. o Security Protocols for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) be reclassified as an Historic document. o Party MIB for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) be reclassified as an Historic document. o Administrative Model for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) be reclassified as an Historic document. o Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework for publication as a Draft Standard. o IPv6 Testing Address Allocation be published as an Experimental Protocol. o Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) for publication as a Draft Standard. o Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) for publication as a Draft Standard. o Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) for publication as a Draft Standard. o Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) for publication as a Draft Standard. o CyberCash Credit Card Protocol Version 0.8 be published as an Informational RFC. o Class A Subnet Experiment Results and Recommendations be published as an Informational RFC. o Manager to Manager Management Information Base be reclassified as an Historic document. Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 o IP over ATM: A Framework Document be published as an Informational RFC. o Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) for publication as a Draft Standard. 4. The IESG issued 8 Last Calls to the IETF during the month of December, 1995: o Variance Request for The PPP Connection Control Protocol and The PPP Encryption Control Protocol for consideration as a Best Current Practices document. o Introducing a Directory Service for consideration as a Best Current Practices document. o HTML Tables for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o RTP Payload Format of CellB Video Encoding for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A One-Time Password System for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o How to interact with a Whois++ mesh for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Two Working Groups were created during this period: Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (radius) Procedures for Internet/Enterprise Renumbering (pier) Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 6. A total of 86 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of December, 1995: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (rolc) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (none) o Virtual Internet Protocol version 2 (VIPv2) (pppext) o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies (cat) o The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM) (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC (idr) o Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS) (ipatm) o Support for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks. (snmpv2) o Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2 (snmpv2) o Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework (snmpv2) o Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (snmpv2) o Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 (ngtrans) o Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (dnssec) o Mapping Autonomous Systems Number into the Domain Name System (cat) o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (IDUP-GSS-API) (none) o A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image Maps (addrconf) o IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (http) o A Proposed Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication (asid) o An LDAP URL Format (none) o Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol MIB (intserv) o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples (ipatm) o IP Broadcast over ATM Networks. (822ext) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures (cidrd) o Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet Routing (none) o Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors (cidrd) o Observations on the use of Components of the Class A Address Space within the Internet (dhc) o DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions (none) o Tunneling SSL Through a WWW Proxy (none) o Common NNTP Extensions (none) o Byte Range Extension to HTTP (vgmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Interfaces (vgmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 Repeater Devices (ssh) o Site Security Handbook (none) o RADIUS Accounting (radius) o Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) (ipngwg) o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks (none) o Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (none) o Administrative Model for Version 2C of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2C) (none) o Administrative MIB for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (none) o Administrative Model for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (none) o User-Based Symmetric Security Protocols for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (none) o Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) (rolc) o "Local/Remote" Forwarding Decision in Switched Data Link Subnetworks (ids) o Building an X.500 Directory Service in the US (ipsec) o Simple Key-Management For Internet Protocols (SKIP) (none) o The META Tag of HTML (none) o Class A Subnet Experiment Results and Recommendations (none) o MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME (none) o The text/enriched MIME Content-type (madman) + X.500 Directory Monitoring MIB (none) + An extension to the MARS model (hubmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 (none) + Generic International and Domestic Institutional Considerations for DNS Naming and Number Administration (hubmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices (none) + The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (ids) + The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture (none) + Variance Request for The PPP Connection Control Protocol and The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (none) + PEM Compression Encryption Module (none) + OSPF Version 2 For IP Version 6 (none) o The SMTP MREP extension command (intserv) o Standard Data Encoding for Integrated Services Objects (none) + IMAP4 QUOTA extension (none) + IMAP4 ACL extension (none) + SSL Version 3.0 (mobileip) o Applicability Statement for IP Mobility Support (pier) + Enterprise Renumbering: Experience and Information Solicitation (mobileip) + The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Mobile Node function of IP Mobility Support (mobileip) + The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Foreign Agent function of IP Mobility Support (mobileip) + The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Security function of IP Mobility Support (mobileip) + The Definitions of Managed Objects for the Home Agent function of IP Mobililty Support (asid) + A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters (msgway) + Proposed Specification for the MessageWay Protocol (ipsec) + Encoding of an Unsigned Diffie-Hellman Public Value (ipsec) + X.509 Encoding of Diffie-Hellman Public Values Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 (ipsec) + Certificate Discovery Protocol (ipsec) + SKIP Extensions for IP Multicast (ipsec) + SKIP Algorithm Discovery Protocol (ipngwg) + IP Version 6 over PPP (none) + Issues on sending HTML documents via MIME e-mail 7. There were 8 RFC's published during the month of December, 1995: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1872 E (mimesgml) The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type RFC1873 E (mimesgml) Message/External-Body Content-ID Access Type RFC1874 E (mimesgml) SGML Media Types RFC1875 I (none) UNINETT PCA Policy Statements RFC1877 I (none) PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol Extensions for Name Server Addresses RFC1878 I (none) Variable Length Subnet Table For IPv4 RFC1881 I (none) IPv6 Address Allocation Management RFC1882 I (none) The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES I. Significant Events During December 1995, 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 6,015 Domain Names Registered 24,423 Top-level Country Domain(s) 2 GI - Gibraltar TO - Tonga The IP Allocation Internet Draft document is being reformatted. The billing backlog for new domain registrations has been eliminated. The addition of a new printer, an electronic folder and clearer definition of the process flow has significantly reduced the time required for mailing our invoices. What used to take 1 day now takes about 2 hours. For the Receivables Section four new computers were received. They will be set up and in use by Jan. 10, 1996. These machines will enable us to eliminate all backlog in the department and answer customer's inquiries more efficiently. The decision was made to hire an entry level administrative assistant for the Receivables Section. The interviewing process should occur within a month. Due to the continued internet growth and increased phone calls to the InterNIC Registration Services Help Desk, the current telephone system is being evaluated to ensure quality customer service. Kim Hubbard, Mark Kosters, and Jasdip Singh attended the IETF conference in Dallas. During December, new domain requests continued to range between Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 1,000 and 1,500 per day. Updates ranged from 300 to 500 a day. Both new and update requests dropped to about half these values during Christmas week. Applications that do not need human review are processed within a day. Approximately 50% are handled in this manner. The remaining applications and questions enter a queue for resolution by one of the processing staff. This queue is currently a week and a half long. II. Current Status During the month of December 1995, InterNIC Registration Services received communications as shown below. The majority of the correspondence concerned domain billing. Other correspondence includes the assignment and re-assignment of network numbers and the registration or change of domain names. E-mail 89,673 (hostmaster@internic.net) Postal/Fax 467 (primarily IP number requests) Phone 12,928 The Registration Services host computer supported the following information retrieval requests during the month of December: Connections Retrievals Gopher 32,268 64,671 WAIS 79,679 46,918 FTP 51,958 139,670 Mailserv 3,744 Telnet 75,999 Http 1,000,674 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server _______ _________ 520,436 4,049,152 Debbie Fuller Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY ====================== The US Domain is only registering domain names providing two nameservers. We will no longer register direct registrations in the form of non-IP hosts, (i.e, UUCP connections requiring MX records), or IP hosts requiring A records). The only A record we will add to our zone file is a glue record for a delegation. Please contact a local service provider to provide your primary and or secondary name service. For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our WEB page: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 965 PHONE 400 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 1365 DELEGATIONS 100 FORWARDED DELEGATIONS: 172 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1093 --------------------------- Total 1365 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. 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" below. URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 35 32 47 36 23 21 8 2 =================================================================== ----------------------- THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ----------------------- CC.WI.US Community Colleges, Wisconsin K12.CT.US K12 Schools, Connecticut COG.TX.US Council of Governments, Texas LOCALITIES ---------- SAINT-LOUIS.MN.US SAINT-PAUL.MN.US STCLOUD.MN.US RICHFIELD.MN.US CODINGTON.SD.US CLAY.SD.US BROOKINGS.SD.US WATERTOWN.SD.US VERMILLION.SD.US WINCHESTER-BAY.OR.US REEDSPORT.OR.US GARDINER.OR.US PORT-ORFORD.OR.US LANGLOIS.OR.US GOLD-BEACH.OR.US BROOKINGS.OR.US AGNESS.OR.US POWERS.OR.US NORTH-BEND.OR.US BANDON.OR.US LAKESIDE.OR.US MYRTLE-POINT.OR.US COQUILLE.OR.US OTTUMWA.IA.US FRONTENAC.MO.US MAPLEWOOD.MO.US KIRKWOOD.MO.US RICHMOND-HEIGHTS.MO.US LADUE.MO.US UNIVERSITY-CITY.MO.US INDEPENDENCE.MO.US CLAYTON.MO.US KANSAS-CITY.MO.US CREVE-COEUR.MO.US READING.MA.US MINNEHAHA.SD.US SIOUX-FALLS.SD.US GRAPEVINE.TX.US THE-WOODLANDS.TX.US OUTER-BANKS.NC.US LOUDOUN.VA.US COACHELLA.CA.US WELD.CO.US BATTLE-MOUNTAIN.NV.US HAWTHORNE.NV.US MCDERMITT.NV.US CHANDLER.AZ.US GRAND-HAVEN.MI.US SAUGATUK.MI.US DOUGLAS.MI.US FERRYSBURG.MI.US HOLLAND.MI.US SPRING-LAKE.MI.US ZEELAND.MI.US TUSCALOOSA.AL.US ABERDEEN.SD.US HUGHES.SD.US PENNINGTON.SD.US RAPID-CITY.SD.US BROWN.SD.US SPEARFISH.SD.US LAWRENCE.SD.US WINONA.MN.US WASHINGTON.MN.US Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 DAKOTA.MN.US COON-RAPIDS.MN.US OSAGE-BEACH.MO.US MEHLVILLE.MO.US FLORISSANT.MO.US ARNOLD.MO.US GRAVOI-MILLS.MO.US CAMDENTON.MO.US HAZELWOOD.MO.US BRANSON.MO.US JOPLIN.MO.US HANNIBAL.MO.US EUREKA.MO.US CAPE-GIRARDEAU.MO.US SEDALIA.MO.US LAKE-OZARK.MO.US NEW-MADRID.MO.US CRESTWOOD.MO.US WARRENTON.MO.US ROCK-HILL.MO.US AUGUSTA.MO.US OLIVETTE.MO.US BRENTWOOD.MO.US WEBSTER-GROVES.MO.US HERMANN.MO.US ST-JOSEPH.MO.US TRAVERSE-CITY.MI.US FRANKFORT.MI.US TOMBALL.TX.US FRIENDSWOOD.TX.US SPRING.TX.US JAMES-CITY.VA.US LAF.IN.US OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- COLTON.LIB.CA.US EMMANUEL.JOHNSON-CITY.TN.US CI.TIGARD.OR.US CI.MERRIMACK.NH.US CI.ALEXANDRIA.VA.US CI.MENLO-PARK.CA.US FREEINDEED.SHERWOOD.AR.US WWW.SHERWOOD.AR.US WWW.BENTON.AR.US WWW.JONESBORO.AR.US WWW.NEWPORT.AR.US WWW.CABOT.AR.US CI.NORTH-LAS-VEGAS.NV.US CI.TROY.NC.US WEINSTEIN.WABAN.MA.US WWW.ALLEN.TX.US WWW.LITTLE-ROCK.AR.US WWW.JACKSONVILLE.AR.US CO.ONTARIO.NY.US ADVANOR.FREEHOLD.NJ.US SWEDEN.NW.DC.US CO.NEW-CASTLE.DE.US COMPTROLLER.CO.ORANGE.FL.US WUPDHEALTH.DST.MI.US OKC.CC.OK.US CI.COCONUT-CREEK.FL.US SETRPC.CO.JEFFERSON.TX.US CI.ANGELS-CAMP.CA.US INDY.TRIANGLE.NC.US WEE.FTL.FL.US MCHEALTH.CO.MONROE.MI.US CO.LUCAS.OH.US CRITERIUMUSA.SOMERVILLE.NJ.US SOKOL.VENICE.CA.US SFER.MIAMI.FL.US OFFICE.NAPLES.FL.US ROAVAL.LIB.VA.US SOUTHERN-UNION.CC.AL.US CO.MAT-SU.AK.US PAVTS.TEC.OK.US CI.ALAMEDA.CA.US WWW.ASHEVILLE.NC.US DOT.CO.MONTGOMERY.MD.US TEA.NEWPORT-NEWS.VA.US CI.GAITHERSBURG.MD.US CI.GILBERT.AZ.US JEROG.SHELBURNE.VT.US CO.MONTGOMERY.NY.US AZTECH.PHOENIX.AZ.US Ann Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- Reports from November 1995 and December 1995. NOVEMBER 1995 This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Routing Arbiter services are now fully in production at the PacBell Network Access Point, as well as at the Sprint, AADS, and Washington, D.C. (MAE-East) NAPs. Two Route Servers are installed at each NAP to provide redundancy, and are reconfigured every four hours with data from the Internet Routing Registry (IRR). The Routing Arbiter will proceed with deployment of services at the MAE- West interconnection point, with support from the NASA Ames Research Center. Several new Internet Service Providers are depending on the Route Servers for routes received at the Washington, D.C. NAP. ESnet and Delphi now prefer the Route Server for each other's routes at the NAP, as do Delphi and PIPEX. Other new peering sessions with the Route Servers were established in November by IOS at the Washington, D.C. and Sprint NAPs, and by AlterNet at the Sprint NAP. A complete list of BGP peering sessions is available from: http://www.ra.net/~ra/statistics/bgp.peers Information about the size and content of the Internet routing table is now available on the Merit Web pages: http://www.ra.net/~ra/statistics/routes.html These interactive reports are calculated using data obtained via BGP peering sessions with the Route Servers at each Network Access Point. Three types of reports are available for the NAP you specify: > Maximum number of announced routes, by date and number of routes, in the Route Server's routing tables. > Complete listing of the Internet routing table by prefix and associated AS path, as seen by the NAP's Route Servers. > Number of routes, by Route Server peer and origin AS, as seen by the Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 Route Servers at each NAP. Note that the reports only include information from Internet Service Providers that peer with the NSF Route Servers. For example, one of the largest providers, internetMCI, maintains a peering session with the Routing Arbiter at the Washington, D.C. NAP (MAE-East) and exports only one route to the RA. You can now generate NAP route flap reports by RS peer as well as by AS origin, prefix, and specific AS: http://www.ra.net/~ra/statistics/flap.html Another new Web form provides critical information about route duplication and CIDR aggregation in the Internet Routing Registry. The report details, for each AS you specify: > Which, if any, duplicate routes exist in Internet Routing Registry databases > Which, if any, covering (less specific) routes exist in the RADB or other registries You can use the "Display" menu to select whether you want to see all routes, only routes which are duplicated or covered, or only routes which are not duplicated or covered. Use the "Formatted as" menu to determine whether the listing is rendered as an HTML3 table or as ordinary text. The new tool is available from: http://www.ra.net/~ra/RADB.tools.docs/reports.html Sue Hares, Steve Richardson, Jeff Jackson, and Craig Labovitz have completed work on a joint government/industry IDRP project funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and managed by the MITRE Corporation. The new software just released by Merit, Version 2.0 of IDRP in GateD, has been integrated with an Aeronautical Telecommunications Network router that will be used to control the flow of routing information between ground stations and airplanes. The new release supports advanced policy descriptions and implements a mobile Boundary Information System in IDRP. Elise Gerich attended an Internet naming and addressing workshop sponsored by NSF and hosted by Harvard University. Discussions focused on the administration and management of top-level domains such as .com, Group meeting this month to address the future of the FIXes. Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 DECEMBER 1995 This report summarizes recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. New ISPs continue to set up peering sessions with Route Servers at the U.S. interconnection points. Peers added recently include NAP.NET, Net Access, the Defense Research Engineering Network, and Aimnet. A complete list of BGP peering sessions is available from: http://www.ra.net/~ra/statistics/bgp.peers Based on feedback from ISPs who are using the RA services, the Routing Arbiter team is investigating ways in which global policy information can be maintained with the Route Servers implementing only a subset of the policy. Several new statistical reports for the NAP Route Servers are available on the RA Web pages. The BGP peering report now shows the number of times a particular BGP peering session went idle, as well as the number of BGP updates received from each peer. A new CPU usage report lists the daily average and minimum percentage of idle CPU for each Route Server. The reports are available from: http://www.ra.net/~ra/statistics/rs.html New tools under development at Merit include: > ASExplorer, which explores the real-time AS routing topology of the Internet > MPath, a multi-threaded, caching version of the RIPE prpath tool. MPath uses IRR data to calculate all possible routing domain paths between a source and destination AS. ASExplorer and MPath are available from: http://www.ra.net/~ra/tools Merit staff members Brian Renaud, Craig Labovitz, Sue Hares, Susan Harris, Jake Khuon, Laurent Joncheray, Dun Liu, and Elise Gerich attended the 34th IETF in Dallas during the week of December 4. Joncheray collaborated with ANS's Jessica Yu on an Internet Routing Registry presentation for the Routing Policy System (RPS) Working Group. Gerich participated in several meetings of the Internet Architecture Board. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 IETF was also the site of the first meeting of the Merit GateD Consortium, an industry/academic partnership that furthers development and deployment of the widely used internetworking software. The meeting was attended by major router vendors, research groups, and workstation vendors, including IBM, Hitachi, NetEdge, Ipsilon, and HP. Sue Hares, technical leader of the Consortium, announced that Merit's future plans for GateD focus on stability and commercial grade quality for the software. Merit has already developed a new, interactive interface to GateD that can be used to query internal variables such as memory usage and routing table contents. Merit also plans to provide many special benefits to Consortium members, including new test tools and early access to new code. GateD was originally developed at Cornell University. In September 1995, Cornell selected Merit to take over the Consortium based on Merit's expertise in routing and routing protocol development. Further information about the consortium is available from the GateD Web pages: http://www.merit.edu/~gated Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 CALENDAR -------- Last update 01/11/96 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 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Systems, Modelling and Analysis originally scheduled for March 14-17, 1996 has been moved to March 21-24, 1996. Nashville, TN. 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". Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 ************************************************************************ 1996 ----------- Jan. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '96 Quantum Dallas, TX Jan. 8-12 OMG TC San Diego, CA Jan. 9-12 Internet World Canada '96 Toronto, Ont, Canada Jan. 22-24 Asia Pacific Netwrking Singapore Jan. 22-26 USENIX 1996 Tech. Conference San Diego, CA Jan. 23-25 IEEE 802.10 Interim Meeting Salt Lake City, UT Jan. 24-25 EMA Forum, Hyatt Reg, Westshore Tampa, FL Jan. 29-31 Multimedia Computing & Netwkg San Jose, CA Feb. 2-4 Internet World Home & Office New York City, NY Feb. 2-5 FSF Conference Cambridge, MA Feb. 5-7 Wkshp on Network Security, Firewalls & Internet Svs. San Jose, CA Feb. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 San Diego, CA Feb. 5-9 ATM Forum Los Angeles, CA Feb. 12-14 Web Developer '96 Chicago, IL Feb. 13-15 Virtual Reality World Europe Stuttgart, Germany Feb. 19-21 EMail World & Internet Expo San Jose, CA Feb. 19-23 Intntl Zurich Sem. on Digital Communications Zurich, Switzerland Feb. 20-21 FNC San Diego, CA Feb. 20-Mar. 1 Connectathon '96 San Jose, CA Feb. 22-23 Internet Society Symp on Ntwk & Distributed System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 27-Mar. 1 ICDP '96-IFIP/IEEE Intntl Conf. on Distributed Platforms Dresden, Germany Mar. 4-8 35th IETF Los Angeles, CA Mar. 4-8 OMG TC Brisbane, Austalia Mar. 7-9 Internet World Asia '96 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mar. 11-13 Wkshp on Network Security Firewalls & Internet Svs. New York, NY Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '96 QLogic San Diego, CA Mar. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hyatt Regency La Jolla, CA Mar. 18-22 OIW (Firm) Mar. 21-24 4th Intntl Conf. on Telecom Syst. Modeling & Analysis Nashville, TN Mar. 25-28 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Apr. 1-4 Internet World Brazil '96 Rio de Janiero, Brazil Apr. 1-5 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV Apr. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (Firm) Palm Springs, CA Apr. 11-12 2nd ACM/SIGRAPH Conf. on Assistive Tech. ASSETS'96 Vancouver, Canada (http://www.cs.rpi.edu/assets) Apr. 11-14 IEEE SOUTHEASTCON '96 Tampa, FL Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 (http://www.eng.usf.edu/EE/secon96.html) Apr. 15-19 ATM Forum Anchorage, Alaska Apr. 15-19 ANSI X3T11 (Tentative) Irvine, CA Apr. 28-May 1 EMA Annual Conference Anaheim, CA Apr. 29-May 2 Spring Internet World '96 San Jose, CA May 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '96 Adaptec Ft. Lauderdale, FL May 6-10 5th Int'l WWW Conference Paris, France May 7-10 1st Annual Conf. Emerging Tech & Appl in Communications Portland, OR May 8-10 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Oakland, CA May 13-16 7th Joint European Ntwk Conf. Budapest, Hungary May 13-17 5th UNIX Sys. Admn, Ntwkng Security Symp. Washington, DC May 13-29 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (Firm) Kansas City, MO May 15-17 Internet World Japan '96 Makuhari Messe, Japan May 21-23 Internet World Intntl '96 London, England May 23-24 3rd Intntl Wkshp on Community Networking (Tentative) Antwerpen, Belgium (http://www.bip.be/cn3) Jun. 3-5 18th Biennial Symposium on Communications Kingston, Ont, Canada Jun. 4-6 Internet World Mexico '96 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 10-14 ATM Forum Orlando, FL Jun. 10-14 NetWorld+Interop Frankfurt, Germany Jun. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Jun. 10-14 ANSI X3T11 Santa Fe, NM Jun. 10-15 Americas TELECOM '96 Rio de Janeiro Jun. 11-13 EMail World & Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jun. 11-14 Vir. Reality & VRML World '96 San Jose, CA Jun. 17-21 2nd Conf. Object-Oriented Technologies & Sys. (COOTS) Toronto, Ont, Canada Jun. 23-27 1st Intntl IEEE Wkshp on Enterprise Ntwkg - w/ICC SUPERCOM'96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-27 ICC '96/SUPERCOMM'96 Dallas, TX Jun. 24-28 INET '96 Montreal, Canada Jun. 24-28 36th IETF Montreal, Canada Jun. 28-29 Asia Pacific Networking Montreal, Canada Jul. 8-12 IEEE 802 '96 Univ of Twente Enschede, Netherlands Jul. 10-13 4th TCL/TK Workshop (TCL/TK 96) Monterey, CA Jul. 11-14 Virtual Reality World & VRML World San Jose, CA Jul. 15-18 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Jul. 15-19 ANSI X3T10 '96 Symbios Logic Colorado Springs, CO Jul. 15-19 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, Japan Jul. 19-22 Internet World Korea '96 Seoul, Korea Jul. 22-25 6th USENIX Security Symposium San Jose, CA Jul. 26-28 Internet World Home Expo '96 San Jose, CA Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 Aug. 5-8 Internet World Brazil '96 Sao Paulo, Brazil Aug. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Boulder, CO area Aug. 12-16 12th Europ. Conf. on AI (ECAI) Budapest, Hungary (http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/ecai96/) Aug. 14-15 Web Developer '96 Dallas, TX Aug. 19-23 ATM Forum Baltimore, MD Aug. 20-22 Int. World Australia Pacific Sydney, Australia Aug. 26-30 SIGCOMM '96 Stanford, CA FALL NSC'96 - Network Services Conf. Bled, Slovenia Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 ANSI X3T10 '96 Digital Natick, MA Sep. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Sep. 13-17 10th USENIX Syst. Admin Conference (LISA '96) Chicago, IL Sep. 10-12 EMail World & Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 15-20 OMG TC Hyannis, MA Sep. 16-20 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 17-19 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Washington, DC Sep. 24-27 IFIP WG6.1 w/FORTE/PSTV (Under Consideration) Sep. 25-27 Internet World Philippines '96 Manila, Philippines Oct. 1-3 Email World & Internet Expo Toronto, Ontario, CA 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. 15-18 Fall Internet World '96 Boston, MA Oct. 28-Nov. 1 NetWorld+Interop London, England Oct. 29-Nov. 1 2nd USENIX Symp. Operating Sys. Design & Implement. (OSIDI II) Seattle, WA Nov. 4-7 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Nov. 4-8 ANSI X3T10 '96 Western Digital Palm Springs, CA Nov. 11-15 IEEE 802 '96 Hotel Vancouver Vancouver, BC Canada Nov. 14-15 ACM's MobiCom '96 Berkeley, CA Nov. 18-22 Supercomputing '96 (Firm) Pittsburgh, PA Nov. 25-29 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia Dec. 2-6 ANSI X3T11 TBD 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) 1997 ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 28-30 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Orlando, FL Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 '97 Irvine?/Albuguerque Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Apr. 7-11 38th IETF Memphis, TN May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 Montreal Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) 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 ********************************************************************** Subject: TERENA Calendar-Jan'96 Ref. TSec(95)001 January 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 Executive Committee -------------------------- 30 January Amsterdam Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 9 April " TERENA Technical Committee -------------------------- 24 January Amsterdam TERENA General Assembly ----------------------- GA5 16-17 May Budapest GA6 17-18 October Bled TERENA Working Groups --------------------- 12, 13 and 15 May Budapest 12-14 October Bled JENC7 Programme Committee ------------------------- 8 March Amsterdam ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= EBONE ----- ECCO (Ebone Consortium of Contributing Organisations) 16 April Paris EMC (Ebone Management Committee) 31 January Amsterdam RIPE ---- 29-31 January Amsterdam April/May Berlin CCIRN ----- Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 29 June Montreal, Canada CEENet/NATO Workshop -------------------- September tbd EC/DG XIII ---------- TEN-Telecom 29 January Brussels IETF ---- 4-8 March Los Angeles, CA, USA 24-28 June Montreal, Quebec, Canada November tbd 7-11 April 1997 Memphis, Tenn. USA EEMA ---- MIME WEEK - with WG-msg, Dante MAILflow and EEMA EIC 26-27 February Munich Annual Conference 11-14 June Brussels EWOS ---- Workshops 15-19 January Brussels 25-29 March " 24-28 June " 21-25 October " ETSI ---- GA23 18-19 April Nice, France GA24 10-11 December " TA24 15-17 April " TA25 23-25 October " Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES ------------------ JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference ------------------------------------------------ 13-16 May Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary THE ROLE OF NETWORKING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY Subject areas are: -User Support and Education -Policy, Economic and Societal Issues -Network Engineering -Network Technology -Application Technology -Infrastructure Developments -Networking Sersvices For information, email WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/jenc7 NSC'96 - Network Services Conference 1996 ----------------------------------------- 15-17 October Convention Centre, Bled, Slovenia For information, email WWW access address is: http://www.terena.nl/terena/nsc96/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OTHER CONFERENCES ----------------- nb. For some of the following events, full text information may be 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: Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 anonymous FTP: ftp.terena.nl Email: server@terena.nl Gopher: gopher.terena.nl World Wide Web: http://www.terena.nl/terena/information/calendar/ MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING 1996 ---------------------------------------- 29-31 January San Jose, California This conference is part of the IS&T/SPIE 1996 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging to be held 28 Jan. - 2 Feb.1996 Deadline of paper submission 10 July - electronic versions to: For up-to-date information about MMCN96 access web page at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mmcn96 INTERNATIONAL ZURICH SEMINAR ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- Broadband Communiations: Networks, Services, Applications, Future Directions 19-23 February 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. 1996 IZS - International Zurich Seminar on Digital Communications ----------------------------------------------------------------- 19-23 February ETH, Zurich, Switzerland The aim of the seminar is to present recent advances in theory and practical application in the field of digital communications. For information/registration contact: email: izs96@tik.ee.ethz.ch WWW: http://tik.ee.ethz.ch/~izs96-pc/IZSHome.html The 1996 Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security ---------------------------------------------- 22-23 February Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 San Diego Princess Resort, San Diego, CA, USA Concerning the practical aspects of network and distributed system security, Advance program and registration information will be made available on URL: http://nii.isi.edu/info/sndss European Electronic Messaging Association (EEMA) Regional Conference -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Internet and WWW Oportunities in the Corporate Equation" 27-29 February Penta Hotel, Munich, Germany For information contact: Catherina Birmingham or Web page: http://www.eema.org.eemahq/ IDMS'96 - European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Sersvices -------------------------------------------------------- 4-6 March Berlin, Germany Organized by GI, ITG, GMD FOKUS. The objective of this workshop is to cover the needs of business/residential customers in the information society with the goal of obtaining an integrated approach in extensibility, scalability and quality of service. For information contact: Eckhard Moeller/Herwart Pusch at GMD FOKUS. tel: +49 30 254 99 234/233 / fax: +49 30 254 99 202 email: idms@fokis.gmd.de Also see URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ws/idms ASSETS'96 - The 2nd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies -------------------------------------------------------------------- (sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped) 11-12 April Waterfront Center Hotel, Vancouver, Canada The conference scope spans disability and special needs of all kinds, including but not limited to: sensory; motor; cognitive; and emotional. For further information contact: Conference Program Chair Conference General Chair The Conference Web Page may be found at: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/assets Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 3rd International Conference on Electronic Library and Visual Information Research (ELVIRA 96) ------------------------------------------------------ The UK Digital Libraries Conference. 30 April - 2 May Hilton National Hotel, Milton Keynes, UK Covering both technical and socio-economic aspects of the electronic library, as well as providing a forum discussion of new areas of development. Submission of papers is 17 November 1995. For further information contact: Kathryn Arnold or WWW page: http://ford.mk.dmu.ac.uk/elvira/elvira3.html 3rd International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE'96) ----------------------------------------------------- 3-4 June Macau Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing. The international flavor of the workshop reflects the scope and diversity of worldwide internetworking. Deadline paper submissions 1 February 1996 For information contact: WWW page: http://www.citi.umich.edu/sdne.html email: or tel: +44 1386 793 028 fax: +44 1386 793 268 INET'96 - Developing Country Workshop ------------------------------------- June Montreal, Quebec, Canada A seven-day program of intensive instruction with a hands-on emphasis on Internet set up, operations, maintenance and management. Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 For information email For application to attend email INET'96 The Internet: Transforming our Society Now ------------------------------------------ 25-28 June Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada This 6th annual conference of the Internet Society will be focusing on worldwide issues of Internet networking. Papers to be submitted by 15 Jan.1996 to The Program Committee may be contacted at Information also available on: WWW page: http://www.isoc.org/conferences/inet96/ Gopher://gopher.isoc.org:70/11/isoc/conferences/inet96/ ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/onet96/ Forum of Incident Respone and Security Teams (FIRST) ---------------------------------------------------- 8th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Workshop 28-31 July Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, USA "After the Internet - then What?" - the changing nature of incidents and our ability to respond Abstracts/Proposals due 15 January 1996. For information see WWW page: http://www.first.org/first/ or email: TINA'96: ------- The Convergence of Telecommunications and Distributed Computing Technologies 3-5 September The Stadthall, Heidelberg, Germany The emphasis of the conference will be on experimental results and experience with real systems, although theoretical contributions of clear practical importance will also be considered. Deadline paper submission 1 March 1996 to International Congress and Technical Exhibition "Water: Ecology and Technology" ----------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 17-21 September Moscow, Russia Organized by: Russian Federal Committee for Water Management, Russian Federal Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection, Municipal Enterprise "Mosvodokanal", State Enterprise "Vodokanal St. Petersburg",Stock Company "SIBICO International". For all further information, contact: telephone/telefax: +7 095 207 63 60 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/ ================== updated 04.01.1996 ================== -------------------- Madeleine Oberholzer TERENA Secretary Address: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466 - 468 NL - 1017 AW AMSTERDAM Voice : + 31 20 639 11 31 Fax : + 31 20 639 32 89 Email : secretariat@terena.nl (for all general matters) Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report December 1995 Cooper [Page 33]