July 1997 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-ED@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 July 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 200z CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 SOFTBANK Forums. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 IMR Editor [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 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 ---------------------------- Internet Monthly Report for July, 1997 1. As I write this, we are about to leave for the IETF Meeting in Munich, Germany. Our hosts for this meeting Digi/ISOC.DE. The final meeting of the year will be held in Washington, DC from December 8-12, 1997. Our local host is Newbridge Networks. The IETF will meet in Los Angeles from March 30 - April, 3, 1998 and then in Chicago August 24-28. We're still looking into the final meeting of 1998. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meetng sites can always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL is: http://www.ietf.org/ 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF shadow directories in the iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: June 5, 1997 (iesg.97-06-05) July 10, 1997 (iesg-97-07-10) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 13 Protocol Actions during the month of July, 1997: o Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. IMR Editor [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining for publication as a Draft Standard. o Routing Aspects Of IPv6 Transition for publication as an Informational RFC. o VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service for publication as an Informational RFC. o Review of Roaming Implementations for publication as an Informational RFC. o Application of Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 for publication as an Informational RFC. o The "data" URL scheme for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Clarifications to the DNS Specification for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP URL Scheme for publication as a Proposed Standard. o MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 Mailbox Referrals for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice (None) 4. Four Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of July, 1997: o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. IMR Editor [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 o Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Six new working groups were created TCP Over Satellite (tcpsat) IP Payload Compression Protocol (ippcp) Transaction Internet Protocol (tip) IP Over IEEE 1394 (ip1394) PSTN and Internet Internetworking (pint) Uniform Resource Locator Registration Procedures (urlreg) 6. There were 284 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of July, 1997: (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol MIB (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT version 2) Multicast Routing -- Protocol Specification -- (none) o Photuris: Session Key Management Protocol (none) o The Auto-Submitted, Supersedes and Expires E-mail Headers (ion) o NHRP Protocol Applicability Statement (ipsec) o Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) (intserv) o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service (none) o Loop control for the Auto-Submitted e-mail header (rsvp) o RSVP Cryptographic Authentication (ion) o IP Broadcast over ATM Networks (cat) o The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (ssh) o Site Security Handbook IMR Editor [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (asid) o A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information (grip) o Expectations for Security Incident Response (receipt) o An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications (intserv) o General Characterization Parameters for Integrated Service Network Elements (rsvp) o RSVP Management Information Base (intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (http) o PEP - an Extension Mechanism for HTTP (dhc) o An Extension to the DHCP Option Codes (dhc) o An option for FQDNs in DHCP options (ipsec) o The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol (dnsind) o Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers (http) o Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP (pppext) o PPP LCP Extensions (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) (drums) o Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type (none) o Photuris: Extended Schemes and Attributes (none) o IANA Charset Registration Procedures (ion) o Transient Neighbors for IPv6 over ATM (none) o TFTP Blocksize Option IMR Editor [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (mhtml) o Sending HTML in E-mail, an informational supplement to RFC ???: MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML) (ipsec) + The ESP Triple DES Transform (none) o Using the MARS model in non-ATM NBMA networks. (ipsec) o IP Authentication Header (issll) o Providing integrated services over low-bitrate links (pppext) o Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol--PPTP (ipsec) o The resolution of ISAKMP with Oakley (ipngwg) o IPv6 Router Alert Option (roamops) o Dialup Roaming Requirements (none) o Redundant MARS architectures and SCSP (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (none) o SBM (Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Proposal for Admission Control over IEEE 802-style networks (none) o Internet Calendar Access Protocol (ICAP) (ediint) o Requirements for Inter-operable Internet EDI (intserv) o The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services (bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices (none) o Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval (issll) o The Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP (none) o The TACACS+ Protocol Version 1.77 (none) o Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating IP Source Address Spoofing Denial of Service Attacks (none) o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks. (none) o IMAP URL Scheme IMR Editor [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (ipngwg) o IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments (none) o Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 (ediint) o MIME-based Secure EDI (none) o NNTP LIST Additions (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch Networks Version 1.0 (none) o Wrapping MIME Objects: Application/MIME (http) o Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP (frnetmib) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay Data Compression (http) o Feature Tag Registration Procedures (none) o Universal Format for Logger Messages (tls) o Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) (roamops) o The Network Access Identifier (none) o DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services (none) o PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2 (radius) o Implementation of PPTP/L2TP Compulsory Tunneling via RADIUS (lsma) o Scenarios and Appropriate Protocols for Distributed Interactive Simulation (ssh) o Users' Security Handbook (dhc) o DHCP Option for IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Timezone Specifications (urn) o Guidelines and a Framework for URN Resolution Systems (none) o Representing the Dublin Core within X.500, LDAP and CLDAP (rtfm) o RTFM Working Group - New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers IMR Editor [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (vrrp) o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (asid) o The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification (printmib) o Printer MIB (find) o A Tagged Index Object for use in the Common Indexing Protocol (avt) o Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links (asid) o Definition of an Object Class to Hold LDAP Change Records (none) o Internationalization of Domain Names (none) o Flow Grouping For Reducing Reservation Requirements for Guaranteed Delay Service (none) o Telnet Com Port Control Option (harts) o Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 over PPP (none) o Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) (none) o Content Duration MIME Header Definition (none) o Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration (none) o VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration (none) o Survey of Defined Managed Objects for Applications Management (mixer) o Using the Internet DNS to Distribute MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping (MCGAM) (idr) o A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation (http) o HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0 (pppext) o Mobile-IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP IPCP (none) o Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field IMR Editor [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (mixer) o Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER address mapping (webdav) o Requirements for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB (none) o Scalable support for multi-homed multi-provider connectivity (spki) o Simple Public Key Certificate (run) o DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (Spam*) (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (http) + Problem with HTTP/1.1 Warning header, and proposed fix (radius) o RADIUS Server MIB (asid) o LDAP Multi-master Replication Protocol (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks (radius) o RADIUS Client MIB (none) o RSVP over ATM Implementation Guidelines (qosr) o A Framework for QoS-based Routing in the Internet (none) o S/MIME Message Specification (secsh) o Connect (roamops) o Guidelines for the Secure Operation of RADIUS Proxies in Roaming (tcpimpl) o Known TCP Implementation Problems (issll) o PPP in a real-time oriented HDLC-like framing (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part IV: Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Framework IMR Editor [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (pppext) o PPP over AAL5 and FUNI (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Protocol (secsh) o SSH Authentication Protocol (aft) o SOCKS Protocol Version 5 (none) o Directory Entries From Email Address (asid) o A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3 (avt) o RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control (pppext) o PPP LCP CallBack (ipngwg) o Router Renumbering for IPv6 (rsvp) o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on Deployment (asid) o An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service (find) o Hierarchical Extensions to the Common Indexing Protocol (none) o HTTP based Geo-temporal Searching (HGS). (ipsec) + The ESP RC5-CBC Algorithm (none) o Application of Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 (snmpv3) o An Architecture for Describing Internet Management Frameworks (ipsec) + The ESP CAST128-CBC Algorithm (urn) o A URN Namespace for IETF Documents (ipngwg) o An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format (none) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (ipsec) + The ESP DES-CBC Transform (ipngwg) o IPv6 Testing Address Allocation (none) o Plaintext Password SASL Mechanism and Transition Codes IMR Editor [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (none) o The IP Network Address Translator (NAT) (ftpext) o Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol (none) o Firewall Traversal authorization system (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP" Security Extensions for Non-IPSEC networks (http) o Scenarios for the Delivery of Negotiated Content using HTTP (snmpv3) o View-based Access Control Model for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (none) o Application Protocol Design Principles (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Security (none) + PPP/IPCP Extension for Word Alignment of IP Datagrams (radius) + RADIUS Accounting Interim Accounting Record Extension (ipsec) o IP Security Document Roadmap (ipsec) + The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH (ipsec) + The Use of HMAC-MD5-96 within ESP and AH (ipsec) + The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IV (ipsec) + ESP with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) (none) + Analysis of Services and Interfaces used when Interworking Between the Internet and the Intelligent Network (I.N.) (ipsec) + The ESP ARCFOUR Algorithm (asid) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: Dynamic Attributes (ipsec) + The ESP DES-XEX3-CBC Transform (mhtml) + MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (none) + Transaction Internet Protocol - Requirements IMR Editor [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (none) + Advise on the implementation of In-Reply-To, References and Supersedes e-mail and netnews headers (http) o Feature Tag Scenarios (none) + Telnet Remote Serial Port (RSP) Option (ipcdn) + Cable Modem Management Information Base for MCNS compliant Cable Modems (ipcdn) + Radio Frequency (RF) Interface Management Information Base for MCNS compliant RF interfaces (asid) + The vCard Schema For Use In LDAPv3 (none) + Cache Array Routing Protocol v1.0 (none) o Key Exchange Delegation Record for the DNS (none) + The Compressed Payload Header (none) + Internet Technology for Integration of Carrier Network Management (TMN) and Enterprise Network Management (none) + Key Management for Multicast: Issues and Architectures (issll) + RSVP over ATM Implementation Requirements (none) o ODETTE File Transfer Protocol (none) + IPSOFACTO: IP Switching Over Fast ATM Cell Transport (none) + The Site Installation Handbook (none) o A Dictionary Server Protocol (fax) + Capabilities Exchange and Immediate Delivery over ESMTP (cat) + The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5) (none) + HTTP/1.1 Message Digest Attribute Request (pppext) + The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis) (ipp) o Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols IMR Editor [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (none) + IP Multicast over ATM MLIS using ATM Multicast Routers (none) + IP Multicast Routing over ATM (snmpv3) o User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) (tcpimpl) + Some Testing Tools for TCP Implementors (none) + Open Software Distribution Methods (ipp) + Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Protocol Specification (none) + Path MTU discovery in the presence of security gateways (none) + Why traceroute can not work through IPsec gateways (ipngwg) + TLA and NLA Assignment Rules (none) + NNTP Generic Data Extensions (ippcp) + IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (ipsec) + The ESP Blowfish-CBC Algorithm Using an Explicit IV (none) + Capabilities Negotiation with BGP-4 (none) + LDAP Object Class for Application Users (pppext) + The PPP Triple-DES Encryption Protocol (3DESE) (ipsec) + The ESP 3DES-CBC Algorithm Using an Explicit IV (idmr) + Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Routing MIB (cat) + FTP Authentication Using DSA (cat) + Encryption using KEA and SKIPJACK (ipsec) + The ESP IDEA-CBC Algorithm Using Explicit IV (ipsec) + IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (none) + ILMI-Based Server Discovery for ATMARP (none) + ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS IMR Editor [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (calsch) + iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Part One: Scheduling Events and BusyTime (calsch) + iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Part Two: Scheduling To-Dos (calsch) + iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Part Three - Scheduling Journal Entries (none) + Dynamic Tunneling Path Configuration for Uni-directional Link Routing (none) + An IP tunneling approach for Uni-directional Link routing (none) + Guidelines for Next Hop Client (NHC) developers (avt) + RTP Payload Format for QuickTime Media Streams (aft) + Feature Discovery: A Generic Extension Mechanism for SOCKS Version 5 (dhc) + Netware/IP Domain Name and Information (none) + IMSS: IP Multicast Shortcut Service (issll) + A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM (acap) + ACAP Authorization Identifier Datasets (dnssec) + Domain Name System Security Extensions (none) + SOCKS V5 UDP and Multicast Extensions (none) + ESP with Cipher Block CheckSums (CBCS) (asid) + LDAP Replication Requirements (asid) + The Java LDAP Application Program Interface (ipngwg) o IPv6 Name Lookups Through ICMP (mhtml) + Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators (svrloc) + Wide Area Network Service Location (none) + Proposal for SPKI Certificate Formats and Semantics IMR Editor [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (none) + Synchronous IP Switching Protocol (ion) + A Distributed MARS Service Using SCSP (ion) + Intra-area IP unicast among routers over legacy ATM (none) + Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations (none) + Directory Schema Listing Requirements (asid) + Schema for Replication Information (none) + Information Exchange to Be Supported by the Service Support Transfer Protocol (SSTP) (ip1394) o IP over IEEE 1394 (High Performance Serial Bus) Revision 1a (pppext) o PPP Over FUNI (rsvp) + Protocol for Exchange of PoliCy Information (PEPCI) (none) + Internet Email Subaddressing (ipcdn) + IP Over Cable Data Networks - Terms of Reference (acap) + ACAP Personal Addressbook Dataset Class (pppext) + PPP LCP Self Describing Padding (ipngwg) o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) (ipngwg) + IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (ipngwg) + Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (lsma) + Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for Large-scale Multicast Applications (asid) + LDAP API Extensions for Sort and Simple Paged Results (idr) + Using a Dedicated AS for Sites Homed to a Single Provider (none) + End-to-End Traffic Management Issues in IP/ATM Internetworks (ipngwg) + Site prefixes in Neighbor Discovery (pkix) + Internet Public Key Infrastructure IMR Editor [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (pkix) + Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part V: Time Stamp Protocols (none) + RTP Payload Format for BT.656-3 Encoding (ngtrans) + Site prefixes in Neighbor Discovery (asid) + Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois) 2.0 (none) o A Stream Cipher Encryption Algorithm 'Arcfour' (none) + IPv6 Inverse Neighbor Discovery for IPv6 and IPv4 Tunnels (http) + An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication (none) + DHCP Server Verification by Client Via DNSSEC (none) + Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay (none) + Conversion of MIMEDIR content into XML (issll) + Integrated Service Mappings on IEEE 802 Networks (ippcp) + IP Payload Compression Protocol Architecture (none) + Error Record (ERR) for DNS (dhc) + Subnet Selection Option for DHCP (none) + Scalability Issues in Label Switching over ATM (idr) + Route Aggregation Tutorial (none) + ACK Spacing for High Delay-Bandwidth Paths with Insufficient Buffering (acap) o ACAP personal options dataset class (none) + HTTP X-Connfrom header (ipsec) + The ESP CAST5-128-CBC Transform (none) + Handling Internationalized Query Components in URLs (none) + Normalization of Internationalized Identifiers (dhc) + Securing DHCP IMR Editor [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 (tn3270e) + Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2 (asid) + The C LDAP Application Program Interface (none) + Universal Forms Description Language Specification Version 3.2 (none) + Universal Forms Description Language Specification Version 3.2 (avt) + RTP Payload for DTMF Digits (svrloc) + Definition of lpr: URLs for use with Service Location (none) + Uniform Resource Locators (URL): DNS URL Naming Scheme 7. Seven RFCs were published during this period RFC2093 E (none) Group Key Management Protocol (GKMP) Specification RFC2094 E (none) Group Key Management Protocol (GKMP) Architecture RFC2170 I (none) Application REQuested IP over ATM (AREQUIPA) RFC2177 PS (none) IMAP4 IDLE command RFC2178 DS (ospf) OSPF Version 2 RFC2179 I (none) Network Security For Trade Shows RFC2180 I (none) IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice IMR Editor [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES July InterNIC Stats Monthly Registrations: 138,814 Gopher Sessions: 64,418 Retrievals: 8164 WAIS Sessions: 20,017 Retrievals: 12,423 FTP Sessions: 119,307 Retrievals: 201,245 Telnet Sessions: 71,069 HTTP: 13,386,951 Whois Client Queries: 5,153,853 Whois Server Queries: 28,483,417 Updates: 172,397 email: 558,630 Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The InterNIC Guide to US Universities is now available at: http://ds.internic.net/aldeau/attframes3.html The Guide can be searched by name of the institution or geographically by state. It provides contact information for the institution including a link to the college's web site. The University Guide was developed by Aldea Communications. IMR Editor [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 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 by Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN ============= A total of about 2000 locality domains that were delegated to several domain name managers have been returned to the US Domain administrator. These localities will be made available for redelegation in the coming months. A new policy has been added regarding the locality delegation. For delegations (or redelegations) made after 1-Jul-97, it is assumed by the US Domain Administrator that every applicant for the delegation (or redelegation) of a locality name has the written agreement of the legitimate government for that locality for the applicant to manage the domain name of that locality. Evidience of such an agreement does not need to be presented at the time of delegation (except that the administrative contact on the application template must be the government representative). However, if the delegation is later challenged or contested, the manager of the locality domain must produce the agreement. Failure to do so will most likely result in the transfer of the management of the locality domain to another manager that does have such an agreement. If there is a dispute as to what is the legitimate government for a locality is and who may act for it, the league of cities or association of municipalities of that state (as recognized by the National League of Cities) may be asked to assist in resolving such disputes. In some places there are overlapping jurisdictions with the same name (for example, the city of Los Angeles and the county of Los Angeles). In such cases, the higher level government should have priority. IMR Editor [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 The US Domain registration form is now available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. The US Domain has the maps of all the delegated special domains online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. 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). Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. A new policy has been added regarding the charges for the domain name passed on during delegation. The administrator of the locality has to notify one year in advance before charging for those domains. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 4293 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 4793 DELEGATIONS: 271 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1847 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:2675 --------------------------- Total 4793 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. IMR Editor [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 52 39 36 47 41 26 28 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== GEN.OK.US. General Independent Entities, Oklahoma. LOCALITIES ========== GLOUCESTER.NJ.US. NEW-ORLEANS.LA.US. NAMPA.ID.US. MANHATTAN.KS.US. MERIDIAN.MI.US. BOLTON.VT.US. WESTLAKE-VILLAGE.CA.US. AGOURA-HILLS.CA.US. FRANKLIN.KS.US. WATERFORD.NY.US. BERKELEY-LAKE.GA.US. SWANZEY.NH.US. ALBANY.NH.US. BERKELEY.IL.US. BUTLER.IN.US. PITKIN.CO.US. PEPPERMALL.MA.US. PORT-CLINTON.OH.US. WEBBERVILLE.MI.US. PERRY.MI.US. POTTERVILLE.MI.US. MORRICE.MI.US. DURAND.MI.US. LAINGSBURG.MI.US. BATH.MI.US. FOWLERVILLE.MI.US. PLAQUEMINE.LA.US. FREDON.NJ.US. HAMPTON.NJ.US. OGDENSBURG.NJ.US. STANHOPE.NJ.US. STILLWATER.NJ.US. BEATTYVILLE.KY.US. MAGGIE-VALLEY.NC.US. CASHMERE.WA.US. ADIRONDACK.NY.US. BELLEVUE.OH.US. MILAN.OH.US. VERMILION.OH.US. KENSINGTON.NH.US. SANDWICH.NH.US. STRATFORD.NH.US. BREVARD.FL.US. IMR Editor [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== We delegated 228 4th level domain names this month. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes July 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Organizations that are peering with the Route Server Next Generation (RSng) project's Route Servers can use a new Web Interface to check the parameters of their peering session: http://www.rsng.net/peer_template/viewconf.html The new form displays public fields in RSng's extended 'inet-rtr' (Internet router) objects, which specify routes that the Route Server should import and export on behalf of each peer. The RSng inet-rtr object, which was developed by Jake Khuon, extends the definition found in the RIPE document, "Specifying an `Internet Router' in the Routing Registry" (RIPE-122). To use the Configuration Viewer to view an RSng inet-rtr object, simply enter the IP address or AS number of the peer you want to obtain information about. The Configuration Viewer only displays public information about routes exchanged with the Route Servers, rather than private network contact information. The Configuration Viewer was developed by Abha Ahuja. ------------------------------------------------------------ Merit is pleased to announce a new, distributed version of its Internet Rover package. Developed by Bill Norton to monitor network devices for the NSFNET project, the Rover code is now used to monitor networks worldwide, including the Italian National Network, the Pentagon Network, and the Princeton Network. IMR Editor [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 The previous, centralized Rover code was based on a simple model: if a device failed a test, an alert would be displayed at the Network Operations Center. NOC operators would then investigate the cause of the failed test and take any necessary action. When the test succeeded, the alert would be removed. Over the past ten years, Merit programming staff have worked with many network operators to evolve the software package to meet their needs. The latest release, Internet Rover 4.0, introduces the notion of distributed "Area Managers" into the model. The Area Managers, which perform tests and maintain a list of alerts on remote systems, use an SNMP agent to externalize the list of alerts to the Central Network Management Stations (CNMS). In this way, the Distributed Rovers can be deployed and connected across a wide-area network. Locating the Area Managers topologically closer to the devices being monitored decreases the likelihood of packet loss from intermediate network failures, and lowers network management bandwidth requirements. In addition, the Distributed Rovers can be split along administrative boundaries, such as AS's, making it possible for networks to share aggregated network management information. NOCs can then "view" one another's alert screens, making it much easier to operate backup NOCs and share NOC services. For more information about the new Rover code, see: http://www.merit.edu/internet.tools/rover/ A new mailing list provides a forum for user feedback to the Rover developers. To join, send e-mail to majordomo@merit.edu with 'subscribe your.email.address rover@merit.edu' (without the quotes) as the only text. ------------------------------------------------------------ Engineer Craig Labovitz and Merit President Eric Aupperle attended an Internet Service Quality Workshop sponsored by Bellcore, which featured presentations on future differentiated services for the Internet. Bill Norton, Jake Khuon, and Abha Ahuja of the RSng staff attended a PacBell NAP open house. Route Servers managed by the Route Server Next Generation project (www.rsng.net/) are up and running at the Digital Internet Exchange and the AADS, MAE-West, MAE-East interconnection points, in addition to the PacBell NAP. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) IMR Editor [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 UCL ---- Main work this month was with SAIC on testing a research reliable multicast protocol, over the CAIRN. Paper based on work has been submitted to INFOCOM 98. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) IANA REPORT ----------- IANA Monthly Report - July 1997 BOOTP-DHCP Extension Codes 8 Cable Address Blocks 2 Country Codes 2 DHCP Options 2 INT Domains 1 MIME Media Types 2 Multicast Addresses: Individual Ass. 2 Novell SAP Numbers 1 PPP Field Assignments 1 Private Enterprise Numbers 70 Port Assignments 48 Protocol Type/Field Assignments 2 SMI Numbers 5 SOCKS Methods 3 Telnet Options 3 Josh Elliott (elliott@isi.edu) IMR Editor [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of July, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 8 13 6 | 27 month | | New 22 0 0 0 | 22 | | Processed 6 4 5 3 | 18 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 16 4 8 3 | 31 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Mary Kennedy (rfc-ed@isi.edu) IMR Editor [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 CALENDAR -------- Last update 07/10/97 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. 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 (196.4.160.12) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1997 ----------- Jul. 14-17 5th TCL/TK Workshop Boston, MA Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jul. 14-17 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Jul. 17-19 VTIC-97 San Jose CA Jul. 20-25 ATM Forum Montreal, CANADA IMR Editor [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 Jul. 23-26 ACM DL '97 2nd ACM Int'l Conf. on Digital Libraries Philadelphia, PA Jul. 24-25 DMS '97 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (host by Hitachi) Honolulu, HI Aug. 11-15 39th IETF (host by German ISOC) Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Aug. 13-15 IEEE 25th Annual Int'l Computer Software and Application Conference Washington, DC Sep. RIPE28 TBD Sep 2-5 1997 Int'l Conference Intelligent Networks and Intelligence in Networks Paris, France Sep. 5 TERENA Technical Committee Amsterdam Sep. 5 TERENA Executive Committee Amsterdam Sep. 7-11 5th European Conf. on Computer Supported Coop. Work Lancaster University U.K. Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland Sep. 10-12 IDMS '97 w/ ACM SIGMM, GMD, IEEE Darmstadt, Germany Sep. 11-12 4th Int'l Workshop on Community Networking (IEEE) Atlanta, Georgia Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Sep. 16-17 EWOS Assembly Brussels Sep. 21-26 ATM Forum Paris, France Sep. 26-30 3rd ACM/IEEE on Mobile Computing & Networking 1997 (MobiCom'97) Budapest, Hungary Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 (host by FSI) Tucson, AZ Oct. 7-10 COMDEX Internet '97 and Object World '97 Internet Forum Europe (IFE) & Object World Frankfurt (OWF) Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 15-17 ACM SIGPLAN - Conf. on Domain-Specific Languages Santa Barbara, CA Oct. 23-24 TERENA General Assembly Madrid Oct. 24-26 1st Int'l Enterprise Distributed Objected Computing Wrkshop EDOC '97 Gold Coast, Australia Oct. 23-25 ETSI Nice, France Oct. 26-31 LISA '97 - 11th Systems Administration Conference San Diego, CA Oct. 27-31 EWOS Workshops Brussels Oct. 28-31 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols Atlanta, GA Nov. 3-5 Int'l Test Conference 1997 Sheraton Washington Hotel Washington, DC Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 IMR Editor [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 Nov. 3-7 SPIE Int'l Symposium Voice, Video & Data Communications Conf. on Performance & Control of Network System - Special Session on Switching & Traffic Mgmt in High Speed Networks Dallas, TX Nov. 3-7 2nd French/Brazilian Symposium on Distributed System Architectures: Telecommunication Multimedia Architectures Ceara, Brazil Nov. 8-14 ACM MULTIMEDIA '97 Seattle, WA Nov. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary Queen Elizabeth, Montreal Nov. 12-13 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Brussels Nov. 19-21 ICCC'97 Cannes, France Nov. 24-26 PROMSMmNet '97 Multimedia Networking Santiago, Chile Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-3 30th IEEE/ACM Int'l Symposium on Microarchitecture RTC, NCA Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 2-3 EWOS Assembly Brussels Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (Host: Newbridge) Washington, DC Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 8-12 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technology and Systems) Monterey, CA Dec. 17-19 97 Int'l Sym. on Communications Hsinchu, Taiwan TBA TELECOM '97 Asia TBA 1998 ----------- Jan 6-8 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jan. RIPE29 Amsterdam (tbd) Jan 26-29 7th Security Symposium San Antonio, TX Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum Anaheim, CA Feb 7-9 DCI'S Internet Expo San Jose, CA Mar. 9-11 2nd Euromicro Working Conf. on Soft. Maint. & Reeng. Florence, Italy Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA Mar. 29-Apr 2 IEEE INFOCOM '98 - Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Mar. 30-Apr. 3 41st IETF (Tentative) Los Angeles, CA Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA Apr. 12-17 WWW7 Brisbane, Australia Apr. 18-23 CHI '98 (ACM SIGCHI) Los Angeles, CA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum Berlin, Germany Apr 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA May RIPE30 Stockholm (tbd) May 5-8 Networld+Interop '98 Las Vegas, NV IMR Editor [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jun 13-17 USENIX '98 Technical Conf. New Orleans, LA Jun 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 20-24 INET '98 TBA Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum Portland, OR Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Aug. 23-28 42nd IETF (Tentative) Chicago, IL Aug. 29-Sep 4 SIGCOMM '98 Vancouver, CANADA Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum Gold Coast, Australia Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA Oct. 26-29 TERENA (host by DFN) Dresden, Germany Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov. 29-Dec 4 ATM Forum Nashville, TN Dec. 6-11 12th Systems Administration Conf. (LISA '98) Boston, MA Dec. 7-11 43rd IETF (Tentative) TBA 1999 ----- Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 31-Jun 4 WWW8 Toronto, CANADA Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) TBA Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA 2000 May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative) Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, GA IMR Editor [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 TERENA LIST OF MEETINGS ----------------------- The current TERENA Calendar may be found on URL: http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + TERENA Secretariat + + Singel 466-468 + + 1017 AW Amsterdam + + the Netherlands + + + + email + + + + tel: +31 20 639 1131 + + fax: +31 20 639 3289 + + + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SOFTBANK FORUMS --------------- Business Conferences & Expositions BrainShare 97 Sydney Sydney Convention Centre Sydney, Australia Information 011 (61) 2 9369 1242 Conference: July 7-11, 1997 Support Services Conference & Expo West San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA http://www.sbforums.com/ssce Registration (SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact) (800) 801-1354 (U.S. only) (719) 531-6522 (International) Housing (800) 754-8378 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 378-6643 (International) Conference: August 6-8, 1997 Exposition: August 5-7, 1997 IMR Editor [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report July 1997 Windows NT Intranet Solutions Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA http://www.wintis.com Customer Service (888) 800-8920 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7071 (Internatioanl) Conference: August 11-15, 1997 Exposition: August 13-15, 1997 Java Internet Business Expo Jacob K. 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PST http://www.sspa-online.com Customer Service (800) 801-1354 (U.S. only) (719) 531-6522 (International) Session: July 22, 1997 Session: August 26, 1997 Session: Sept 23, 1997 Session: Oct 28, 1997 Session: Nov 25, 1997 Session: Dec 23, 1997 SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact Seminars SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact offers SkillTech Professional Seminars periodically throughout the year in various locations throughout the United States. For a calendar of 1997 events and registration information, please call SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact at 800-34-TRAIN. SOFTBANK Forums 303 Vintage Park Drive Foster City, CA 94404 (650) 578-6900 Fax: (650) 525-0194 http://www.sbforums.com IMR Editor [Page 38]