February 1998 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/ Ramos [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 CALENDAR OF EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 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 February, 1998 1. The IETF will meet in Los Angeles from March 30 - April, 3, 1998 and then in Chicago August 24-28. The final meeting of 1998 will be in Orlando, Florida. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meeting 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: January 29, 1998 (iesg.98-01-29) February 12, 1998 (iesg.98-02-12) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 25 Protocol Actions during the month of February, 1998: o Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o A One-Time Password System for publication as a Draft Standard. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 o IPv6 Testing Address Allocation for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0 for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 for publication as an Informational RFC. o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile for publication as an Informational RFC. o Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names for publication as an Informational RFC. o Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web for publication as an Informational RFC. o PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of System-Level Managed Objects for Applications for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Mobile-IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP IPCP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o File Format for Internet Fax for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail for publication as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 o Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail for publication as a Proposed Standard. o A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Test Cases for HMAC-RIPEMD160 and HMAC-RIPEMD128 for publication as an Informational RFC. 4. 35 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of February, 1998: o Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Anti-Spam Requirements on an SMTP MTA for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o TN3270 Enhancements for consideration as a Draft Standard. o MIME-based Secure EDI for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o Requirements for Inter-operable Internet EDI for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 o A Tagged Index Object for use in the Common Indexing Protocol for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o CIP Index Object Format for SOIF Objects for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o Registration Procedures for SOIF Template Types for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o LDAPv2 client Vs the Index Mesh for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o Requirements for an Internet Printing Protocol for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Rationale for the Structure of the Model and Protocol for the Internet Printing Protocol for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Transaction Internet Protocol - Requirements and Supplemental Information for consideration as an Informational RFC. o OSPF Standardization Report for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0 Bundle Interface Type for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Protocol Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o PPP over AAL5 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o PPP Over FUNI for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP DES Encryption Protocol, Version 2 (DESE-bis) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The PPP Triple-DES Encryption Protocol (3DESE) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Transaction Internet Protocol Version 3.0 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Architecture of the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MIME Object Definitions for the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o CIP Transport Protocols for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o OSPF Version 2 for consideration as a Standard. 5. Two new working groups were formed this month: Content Negotiation (conneg) Differentiated Services (diffserv) and one working group was concluded: ISDN MIB (isdnmib) 6. There were 180 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of February, 1998: (ion) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (idr) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (none) o Photuris: Session Key Management Protocol (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (none) + Tunneling TCP based protocols through Web proxy servers (receipt) o An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (IPOA-MIB) (ipngwg) o Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification (ospf) o The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (dhc) o Interaction between DHCP and DNS (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0 Bundle Interface Type (ion) o Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) (mhtml) o Sending HTML in MIME, an informational supplement to the RFC: MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML) (hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types (ipsec) o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (ipsec) o IP Authentication Header (ipsec) o The Internet Key Exchange (IKE) (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Protocols (ion) o Classical IP to NHRP Transition (tip) o Transaction Internet Protocol Version 3.0 (tls) o Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) (roamops) o The Network Access Identifier (ipsec) o The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP (none) o PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2 (ftpext) o Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol (svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes (none) o The Weak Authentication and Tracing Option Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 (svrloc) o An API for Service Location (lsma) o Limitations of Internet Protocol Suite for Distributed Simulation in the Large Multicast Environment (vrrp) o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (ippm) o Framework for IP Performance Metrics (ospf) o OSPF Standardization Report (mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) (dhc) o DHCP Relay Agent Information Option (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 over PPP (radius) o Extensible Authentication Protocol Support in RADIUS (none) o Network Control Protocol for the Configuration of Mobile Wireless Beam-formed GPS-Based Networks (ipngwg) o Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile (pppext) o Mobile-IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP IPCP (none) o Dublin Core Metadata for Simple Resource Discovery (ion) o Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM using Sparse Mode PIM (asid) o LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results Manipulation (none) o UUIDs and GUIDs (http) o HTTP State Management Mechanism (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (none) o The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields (none) o Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 (ion) o A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP (none) o An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service (printmib) o Job Monitoring MIB - V1 (tn3270e) o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Using SMIv2 (none) o The IP Network Address Translator (NAT) (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol (ipsec) o The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH (ipsec) o The Use of HMAC-MD5-96 within ESP and AH (ipsec) o The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IV (mhtml) o MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration (ipcdn) o Radio Frequency (RF) Interface Management Information Base for MCNS compliant RF interfaces (none) o Cache Array Routing Protocol v1.1 (cat) o FTP Authentication Using DSA (poisson) o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees (ipsec) o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (issll) o A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM (none) + Requirements for the Initial Release of a Directory Schema Listing Service (ip1394) o IPv4 over IEEE 1394 (ipngwg) o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 (ipngwg) o IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (ippcp) o IP Payload Compression Using LZS (radius) o RADIUS Accounting Client MIB (radius) o RADIUS Accounting Server MIB (radius) o RADIUS Authentication Client MIB (radius) o RADIUS Authentication Server MIB (fax) o SMTP Service Extension for Immediate Delivery (none) o URLs for Telephony (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Extended Border Node (none) o The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System (none) o IPv6 over Point-to-Point ATM Link (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 (none) o SDP syntax for H.263 options (none) o Mapping ISO 7812 Card Numbers into the Domain Name System (ipsec) o The ISAKMP Configuration Method (tcpsat) o Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms (none) + Directory Schema Listing File Names (http) o Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (ldapext) + Access Control Requirements for LDAP (grip) o Security Expectations for Internet Service Providers (none) o URLs for GSM Short Message Service (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP (smime) o Cryptographic Message Syntax (smime) o Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol (idr) o BGP Route Flap Damping (none) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Schema for the Remote Access Dialin User Service (RADIUS) (idr) o Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing (none) o Notary Protocols (none) o Authentication Methods for LDAP (ipngwg) o DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 (none) o Anti-Spam Requirements on an SMTP MTA (none) o Load Sharing using IP Network Address Translation (LSNAT) (none) o LDAP Servers Finding Other LDAP Servers (mpls) o MPLS Label Stack Encoding (ipsec) o The Use of HMAC-RIPEMD-160-96 within ESP and AH (none) o The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol (none) o The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol (fax) o A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail (tip) o Using the Transaction Internet Protocol (TIP) with HTTP (tcpsat) o Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites (dnsind) o Bigger Domain Name System UDP Replies (none) o Persistent Search: A Simple LDAP Change Notification Mechanism (ipsec) o Extended Authentication Within ISAKMP/Oakley (ippcp) o IP Payload Compression Using DEFLATE (fax) o Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 (fax) o Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail (none) o Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Scheduling Management Operations (none) + Hierarchical Operational Bindings - a profile (none) o WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (svrloc) o The Systems Management Abstract Service Type (printmib) o Job Submission Protocol Mapping Recommendations for the Job Monitoring MIB (pppext) + Layer Two Tunneling Protocol ''L2TP'' IP Differential Services Extension (ngtrans) + Multihomed routing domain issues for IPv6 aggregatable scheme (none) + Cachebusting - cause and prevention (none) + Telnet Data Encryption Option (none) + Telnet Authentication Option (none) + Telnet Authentication: Kerberos Version 5 (none) + Telnet Encryption: DES 64 bit Cipher Feedback (none) + Telnet Encryption: DES 64 bit Output Feedback (none) + DNS-based NLRI origin AS verification in BGP (none) + Architecture of the Resource Reservation Service for the Commercial Internet (none) o POP URL Scheme (none) + VCID Notification over ATM link (radius) o RADIUS Attributes for Multilink PPP Banwidth Allocation Control (dhc) + The Autonomous System Option for DHCP (none) + The Keyword Protocol (KP) Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 (none) + Presence Information Protocol Requirements (none) + Modification in Datagram Too Big message (none) + Differentiated Services Operational Model and Definitions (none) + Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 2.0 (none) + Telnet Authentication Using DSA (none) + The Text/Paragraph Media Type (none) + Network Address Translation issues with IPsec (none) + Use of Block Ciphers for Message Authentication (none) o POP3 Extension Mechanism (none) o Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) Specification (none) + The WWW Common Gateway Interface: Version 1.2 (none) + Don't Go Postal - An argument against improperly overloading the HTTP POST Method (none) + Preferred Language Tag (none) + Language Tagging in Unicode Plain Text (none) + Carrying Label Information in BGP-4 (none) + High Performance Routing in IP Networks (dnsind) + A New Scheme for the Compression of Domain Names (radius) o RADIUS Attributes for Multilink PPP Banwidth Allocation Control (dnssec) + Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR) (ipp) + Requirements for IPP Notifications (none) + ROAMING-ELGAMAL SASL Authentication Mechanism (none) + Simple Roaming Authentication Protocol: SRAP Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 (none) + The Use of Post: A Response to draft-cohen-http-postal-00.txt (printmib) + Printer Finishing MIB (dnsind) + Binary Labels in the Domain Name System (none) + The text/css Media Type (pkix) + Certificate Request Message Format (none) + WASRV Architectural Principles (none) + Schema for Service Level Administration of Differentiated Services and Integrated Services in Networks (none) + IP and ARP over Fibre Channel (tn3270e) + 5250 Telnet Enhancements (dhc) + The Server Range Option for DHCP (tcpimpl) + Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window Size (ipsec) + IPSec Policy Data Model (tn3270e) + LU6.2 over TCP/IP (none) + INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT EXTENSION (dnssec) + DNS Operational Security Considerations (none) + NNTP Extensions for Dynamic Feed Adjustments (none) + Message Tracking Model (none) + Message Tracking MIB (snanau) + Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN 7. 10 RFCs were published during this period RFC2282 B (poisson) IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees RFC2283 PS (idr) Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 RFC2285 I (bmwg) Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 RFC2286 I (none) Test Cases for HMAC-RIPEMD160 and HMAC- RIPEMD128 RFC2287 PS (applmib) Definitions of System-Level Managed Objects for Applications RFC2288 I (urn) Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names RFC2289 DS (otp) A One-Time Password System RFC2290 PS (pppext) Mobile-IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP IPCP RFC2291 I (webdav) Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web RFC2292 I (ipngwg) Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES ****************************************************** * gopher sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 71744 Retrievals: 5378 ****************************************************** * wais sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 8023 Retrievals: 8692 ****************************************************** * whois sessions * ****************************************************** Client Queries: 14057030 Server Queries: 26387476 ****************************************************** * ftp sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 96678 Retrievals: 151078 ****************************************************** * telnet sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 132701 ****************************************************** * http sessions * ****************************************************** 17091774 Phones: 40,476 Emails: 543,664 Updates: 168,189 by Rich Landers Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The Netfind seed database for February contained over 2.95 million entries. InterNIC Directory and Database Services has been one of the main repositories for RFCs and Internet Drafts. We want to minimize the problems that will likely occur when we shut down. We are working with the IETF Secretariat and the RFC Editor to smooth the transition. Since the InterNIC Directory and Database Services project will end at the end of March, we have stopped taking new entries for our Directory of Directories. Only InterNIC Directory and Database Services will end at that time; InterNIC Registration Services will continue operation. by Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY The US Domain registration form is now available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. Much 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. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2424 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 2924 DELEGATIONS: 102 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1147 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1675 --------------------------- Total 2924 Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 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. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 52 39 37 48 41 27 30 10 6 =================================================================== TEC.WA.US. THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== TEC.WA.US. Technical Schools, Washington LOCALITIES ========== RUSSELL.KS.US. MONTGOMERY.MS.US. DACOMA.OK.US. ITAWAMBA.MS.US. HARRODSBURG.KY.US. WEST-COLUMBIA.TX.US. MERCER.KY.US. EAST-WINDSOR.NJ.US. GARY.IN.US. ORANGE-CITY.IA.US. LUDINGTON.MI.US. VICTOR.NY.US. MILAN.MI.US. DOWNERS-GROVE.IL.US. GRAND-TERRACE.CA.US. OAKHARBOR.OH.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== DELART.MUS.DE.US. YLPL.LIB.CA.US. RDF.SULLIVAN.IL.US. IMH.SULLIVAN.IL.US. TOWN.NEDERLAND.CO.US. Z.GERMANTOWN.MD.US. CO.JACKSON.WI.US. CI.SUPERIOR.NE.US. CO.YOLO.CA.US. AO.ORLANDO.FL.US. CI.RICHMOND.MI.US. HOOK-ON.UNION-CITY.PA.US. CI.JUNCTION-CITY.OR.US. STPATRICKSCHOOL.CARLISLE.PA.US. BIZSUITE.WOODSTOCK.GA.US. NICK.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US. CI.BIG-SANDY.TX.US. TOWN.TREDYFFRIN.PA.US. Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 CAP.TETERBORO.NJ.US. NOLS.SOMERSVILLE.CT.US. DAVIDSON.KEY-WEST.FL.US. CO.ESSEX.MA.US. JAMIE.MILFORD.NJ.US. POWER.VALDOSTA.GA.US. SHANG.QUITMAN.GA.US. CI.LIVONIA.MI.US. CI.TECUMSEH.OK.US. SOFTDEV.NORTH-PALM-BEACH.FL.US. MSTRAILER.DANE.WI.US. CYBERENET.CAMDEN.NJ.US. CI.WESTON.MO.US. PALLAS.LOGAN.UT.US. FOO.MARLBORO.NJ.US. CI.BOWLING-GREEN.KY.US. SIMDUDE.MATTHEWS.NC.US. CI.WINTER-PARK.FL.US. MTSTMARYACADEMY.KENMORE.NY.US. NCALE.STATE.NC.US. TOWN.FINDLAY.PA.US. SANDER.CUPERTINO.CA.US. SANJUAN.LIB.WA.US. CI.TUPELO.MS.US. URBAN.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CI.PORTOLA-VALLEY.CA.US. CI.ERIE.CO.US. INFO.DETROIT.MI.US. CO.NEZPERCE.ID.US. CO.GOODING.ID.US. NEDERMAN.WESTLAND.MI.US. CI.TREASURE-ISLAND.FL.US. CI.ABBOTSFORD.WI.US. CAPITALS.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CI.WEST-MEMPHIS.AR.US. ECODEV.CO.CARBON.PA.US. CO.MONTGOMERY.MS.US. CO.MECKLENBURG.NC.US. CI.SWOYERSVILLE.PA.US. LAKE.CI.BLOOMINGTON.IL.US. VU.GEN.CA.US. SPECTRUM.GEN.CA.US. CCHS.CHEROKEE.GA.US. PURCHASING.CI.FORT-PIERCE.FL.US. SOBA.GEN.DC.US. CI.EL-CAJON.CA.US. CAPNET.DAVISON.MI.US. CO.SAINT-CROIX.WI.US. CO.RANDOLPH.NC.US. CI.BLOOMER.WI.US. DATALINK.NEDERLAND.CO.US. TOWN.BERWYN-HEIGHTS.MD.US. PROMOTE.NAPOLEON.OH.US. NETRACORP.OLATHE.KS.US. DARKQUEST.MONMOUTH.NJ.US. BOC.CO.WHITE.GA.US. HARPER.FAYETTE.GA.US. MLM.BELLTOWN.CA.US. CO.BURKE.NC.US. REGGAE.MIAMI.FL.US. CO.SKAMANIA.WA.US. CO.CERRO-GORDO.IA.US. IT.CO.EL-PASO.TX.US. ROY-FAMILY.COTO-DE-CAZA.CA.US. CI.FORT-PIERCE.FL.US. THE-LEARNING-VILLAGE.GEN.CA.US. SURFCITY.HUNTINGTON-BEACH.CA.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Sungita Patel Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes February 1998 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. A new release of MRT (1.4.4A) provides significant improvements in stability and features over earlier releases. PostScript and PDF user/programmer documentation has also been added. Highlights of this release include: - MRTd: a BGP4+, RIPng, and BGP4 routing daemon. The MRT code is now stable and in "production" use as the 6bone routing software at a number of sites. MRT supports Cisco Systems- style configuration files with access-lists, route maps, and a telnet command/configuration interface. - BGPSim: a BGP4/BGP4+ traffic generation and simulation tool. - SBGP: a lightweight BGP4 tool for injecting packets and monitoring BGP4 traffic. - Route_BtoA/Route_AtoB: tools for building and decoding protocol (BGP4, BGP4+, RIPng, RIP2) packets. More information and documentation is available from: http://www.merit.edu/~mrt/mrt_docs The software is available at: ftp://ftp.merit.edu/net-research/mrt/mrt.tar.gz Binaries for most major Unix platforms are available at: ftp://ftp.merit.edu/net-research/mrt/mrt-1.4.3a-.tar.gz Primary MRT development work is carried out at Merit by Craig Labovitz and Masaki Hirabaru. We welcome questions, comments, and bug reports for the new version; please send e-mail to mrt- support@merit.edu. Many thanks to those of you who have contributed code, suggestions, and bug fixes to MRT! The Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis project has released a new Java query tool for the Internet Routing Registry: http://salamander.merit.edu/ipma/java/IRR.html Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 To use the tool, fill in the text box with a specified query and click 'submit'. The tool will return all matching objects. Many of the objects returned will include hyperlinks to related objects. For example, a Route object will include links to the corresponding Maintainer and Aut-num objects. The tool also provides editing and submission features. If you click on an object with the right mouse button, the tool will bring up a text editor. Craig Labovitz gave a presentation titled "Use of Multiprotocol IPv6 in MRT" at the Second TRAIL (Testbed Routers for Advanced Internet Labs) Workshop on IPng Research. TRAIL is an NSF Networking and Computing Research and Infrastructure (NCRI) program. The conference was sponsored by NSF and USC/ISI East. Masaki Hirabaru gave a presentation titled "Internet Routing Exchange" at the Internet Technology Research Committee, an industry-academia collaborative program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The talk detailed the background and current status of several Internet Engineering activities at Merit, including MRT, the Routing Arbiter project (www.merit.edu/radb/), Route Server Next Generation (www.rsng.net), and the Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis project (www.merit.edu/ipma/). iHighway hosted the 12th North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) meeting in Albuquerque on February 8-10. 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 the NANOG Web site (www.nanog.org). Bill Norton of Merit moderated the meeting and Susan Rebecca Harris planned the agenda. Presentations included: - A Route-Filtering Model for Improving Global Internet Routing: An IOPS Proposal (Jessica Yu, ANS) - Origin Authentication in BGP (Tony Li, Juniper, Yakov Rekhter, Cisco, Tony Bates, Cisco, Randy Bush, Verio) - Sprint's Internet Backbone and Use of Packet over SONET (Ted Studwell, Vab Goel, and Jian Li, Sprint) - Operational Multihomed NAT (Ed Kern, DIGEX, Danielle Deibler, DIGEX) - Massively Parallel Routing (Vadim Antonov and David Bernstein, Pluris) - NLANR Cache Hierarchy: Statistics, Visualization, and ROI (K Claffy, CAIDA) - Next-Generation NAS Architecture for Predictable and Reliable Network Access Services (Shuang Deng, Aptis) Ramos [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 - Monitoring your Network with Freely Available Statistics Reporting Tools: An Overview (Stan Barber, Academ Consulting Services) - Internet Routing Registry Update - Routing Arbiter Update (Bill Norton, Merit, and Ramesh Govindan, ISI) - Transition to RPSL (Routing Policy Specification Language) (Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI) - Distributed IRR Technology and Deployment (Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI) - IRR Security Issues ((Dave Meyer, Univ. of Oregon, Curtis Villamizar, ANS, Carol Orange, RIPE, Sandy Murphy, TIS) - State of the Internet (Bill Norton, Merit, moderator) - ISPs (Dennis Simpson, Barrie Connex, John Brown, iHighway.net, Bert Rossi, Merit) - Exchange Point Providers (Jay Adelson, Digital Internet Exchange (PAIX), Steve Feldman, WorldCom (MAE-East, MAE- West), Steve Ellis, PacBell) - ARIN Update (Kim Hubbard, ARIN) - Technical Considerations in Preventing Mail Abuse: Presentation and Open Discussion (Paul Vixie, Vixie Enterprises) - Multihoming: Problems and Solutions From the Customer Point of View (Howard Berkowitz, Chesapeake Computer Consultants) - Recent Events in Inter-Provider Multicast (Dave Meyer, Univ. of Oregon) - IPv6 Solutions/IPv4 Issues (Christian Huitema, Bellcore, and Yakov Rekhter, Cisco) The meeting also featured several tutorials: BGP 101: An Introduction to the Border Gateway Protocol, presented by Paul Ferguson, Cisco; BGP 102: A Mid-Sized Network Configuration Case Study, by Avi Freedman, Net Access, and Overview and Hands-on Tutorial: Using BGP Communities and MEDs With GateD," presented by Sue Hares, Merit. BOFs included: - Interprovider Operations (Jake Khuon and Abha Ahuja, Merit, Craig Huegen, Cisco, Mark Cnota, Ameritech) - GIGAswitch/FDDI to Gigabit Ethernet: Interoperability and Migration Strategies (Jim Mullin and Warren Sundet, Celeritas, and Jay Adelson, PAIX) - Establishing an Exchange Point in the Middle of Nowhere (John Brown, iHighway.net, Justin Newton, Priori Networks, and Jay Adelson, PAIX) - Technical aspects of using satellite data delivery to update caches (Doug Humphrey, SkyCache) Susan R. Harris Ramos [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 UCL ---- Main area of improvement is our windows proting work of the Mbone tools Through careful examination of the lower level middleware, we've realised a 23 fold improvement in the video tool performance by removing 1 line of code which caused all partial video window updates to actualyl do full update. This now means wqe can do 30 FPS at full VGA display on a 133MHz pentium and not use all bus and CPU, so that audio tools do not suffer interference. John Crowcroft IANA REPORT ----------- Cable Address Blocks 1 DHCP Options 1 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 5 Operating System Names 12 Private Enterprise Numbers 75 Port Numbers 40 SMI Numbers 1 by Josh Elliott Ramos [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of January, 1998: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 8 1 10 | 19 month | | New 27 0 0 0 | 27 | | Processed 10 3 0 0 | 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 17 5 1 10 | 33 * 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. Alegre Ramos Ramos [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 CALENDAR -------- Last update 3/24/98 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) Northern Europe Address: ftp.nordu.net (192.36.148.198) Southern Europe Address: ftp.nis.garr.it (193.205.245.10) 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". ************************************************************************ 1998 ----------- Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA Apr. 6-7 IBC UK Conference on TCP/IP & London, UK ATM: The Telco Strategy Summit Ramos [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 Apr. 6-10 wmATM'98 1st Int'l Workshop on Wireless Mobile ATM Implementation Hangzhou, China Apr. 14-18 7th IW3C 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 Apr. 22-24 Third IEEE Int'l Workshop on Systems Management Newport, Rhode Island Apr. 27-30 USENIX 4th Conf, COOTS Santa Fe, Mexico May RIPE30 Stockholm (tbd) May 5-8 Networld+Interop '98 Las Vegas, NV May 17-20 9th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Alberta, Canada May 18-20 6th IEEE/IFIP Int'l Wkshp on Quality of Service IWQos '98 Napa, CA May 25-28 Interactive Multimedia Service and Equipment Zurich, Switzerland SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jun. 7-11 ENCOM '98 in conjunction with ICC/SuperComm '98 Atlanta, GA Jun. 8-11 pulver.com's Voice on the Net(TM): Europe '98 Oslo, Norway Jun. 15-17 3rd Intl WWW Caching Wkshp Manchester, En Jun. 15-19 USENIX '98 Technical Conf. New Orleans, LA Jun. 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jul. 2-3 pulver.com's Voice on the Net(TM) Tokyo, Japan Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 21-24 INET '98 The Internet Society's 8th Annual Networking Conference Geneva, Switzerland Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum Portland, OR Aug. 3-5 USENIX 2nd Windows NT Seattle, Washington Aug. 5-7 USENIX 2nd Large Instal. Sys. Admin of Windows NT(LISA NT) Seattle, Washington Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Aug. 24-28 42nd IETF Chicago, IL Aug. 29-Sep 4 SIGCOMM '98 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 31-Sep 3 USENIX 2nd Workshop on Electronic Commerce Boston, MA Aug. 31-Sep 4 SEC '98 14th Int'l Information Vienna, Austria and Security Conference Budapest, Hungary Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 14-18 USENIX - 6th TCL/TK Conf. San Diego, CA Ramos [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 Sep. 14-18 pulver.com's Fall '98 Voice on the Net(TM) Boston, MA Sep. 17-18 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) Tentative (TBD) Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum Gold Coast, Australia Oct. 5-8 TERENA (host by DFN) Dresden, Germany Oct. 13-16 Intl Conf on Netw Protocols Austin, TX Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA Oct 25-30 MobiCom'98 4th Annual ACM/IEEE Dallas, TX Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov 25 TERENA Executive Committe Amsterdam 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) Orlando, FL 1999 ----- Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Feb. 22-25 USENIX - 3rd Sym. on Oper. Sys Design and Implementation (OSDI '99) New Orleans, LA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Mar/April 44th IETF (tentative) TBA Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 10-May 14 8th IW3C Toronto, CANADA Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jul 12-16 45th IETF (tentative) Oslo, Norway Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Boston, tentative 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. 8-12 46th IETF (tentative) Wash DC (tentative) Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Ramos [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report February 1998 2000 ---- MAR 26-31 47th IETF Adelaide, Australia May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative) Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, GA The TERENA Calendar for March 1998 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 20 530 4488 fax: +31 20 530 4499 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ramos [Page 30]