~ September 1993 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. The Internet Monthly Report (IMR) will be reprinted (in whole) and published in "NICLink" by InterNIC Information Services. The IMR is for Internet information purposes only, and is not to be quoted (in part) 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. 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs Cooper [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 PRIVACY AND SECURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 JVNCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 MERIT/MICHNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 MRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30 PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 SPRINTLINK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 36 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- PRIVACY AND SECURITY -------------------- The PSRG, in conjunction with the Internet Society, is sponsoring the Distributed System Security Symposium on February 3-4, (1994) in San Diego. The Symposium steering committee, which includes most of the PSRG plus additional members, completed review of submissions in mid-September and notified authors late this month. The PSRG members continue work on an Internet security architecture document and will be reviewing the current draft at the next meeting on October 5-7 at MIT. A draft of the docuemnt is expected to be available before the end of 1993. Steve Kent (kent@bbn.com) INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF MONTHLY REPORT 1. The next meeting of the IETF will be held in Houston, Texas from November 1-5, 1993, and the registration reception will be held on Sunday, October 31. This meeting is being co-hosted by SESQUINET and Rice University. Following that, arrangements for the first meeting of the IETF in 1994 have been made. That meeting will be held in Seattle, Washington from March 29 through April 1,1994. This meeting is being hosted by NorthWestNet. Note 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. 2. The IESG has established a temporary ad hoc area to deal specifically with IPng issues. The charter for this new IESG area is to develop a recommendation on which, if any, of the current proposals should be adopted as the next IP. This recommendation will be submitted to the IESG and to the Internet community for review. Following an adequate period of review to surface any community concerns, the IESG will issue a final IPng recommendation. All of the current IPng-related working groups Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 will be moved immediately into this new area. This new area will be headed by two co-Area Directors from within the IESG: Allison Mankin current Transport Services AD, and Scott Bradner, current Operational Requirements AD. 3. Responding to a number of requests, a new content requirement has been announced for all Internet-Drafts submissions. Internet-Drafts must now contain the full "ftp" filename in the text of the document. The filename information should, at a minimum, appear on the first page (possibly with the title). All formatting and content requirements for Internet-Drafts can be found in the file 1id-guidelines.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. 4. The IESG approved or recommended the following nine Protocol Actions during the month of September, 1993: o An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR as a Proposed Standard o Applicability Statement for the Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) as a Proposed Standard o Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy as a Proposed Standard o Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts as an Informational Document o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) as a Proposed Standard o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices as a Draft Standard o Host Resources MIB as a Proposed Standard o Definitions of Managed Objects for Source Routing Bridges as a Proposed Standard o Exchanging Routing Information Across Provider/Subscriber Boundaries in the CIDR Environment as an Informational Document 5. The IESG issued two Last Calls to the IETF during the month of September, 1993: o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) (Draft Standard) o PPP in HDLC Framing (Draft Standard) Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 6. Two Working Groups were created during this period: Remote LAN Monitoring (rmonmib) Generic Internet Service Description (gisd) Additionally, six Working Groups were concluded: FDDI MIB (fddimib) Bridge MIB (bridge) IEEE 802.3 Hub MIB (hubmib) Token Ring Remote Monitoring (trmon) Host Resources MIB (hostmib) MIME-MHS Interworking (mimemhs) 7. A total of 43 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of September, 1993: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (none) o A New IP Routing and Addressing Architecture (bgp) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction (none) o Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and Forwarding Specification (Version 1). (bgp) o Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet (none) o Recommendations for Mail Based Servers (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 (iab) o The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2 (avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications (avt) o Media Encodings (avt) o Sample Profile for the Use of RTP for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control (pppext) o PPP LCP Extensions (iplpdn) o Determination of Encapsulation of Multi-protocol Datagrams in Circuit-switched Environments (iplpdn) o Parameter Negotiation for the Multiprotocol Interconnect (pppext) o PPP over ISDN (pppext) o PPP over SONET/SDH Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 (dns) o DNS Support for IDPR (tuba) o Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts (madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB (ifmib) o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II (madman) o Mail Monitoring MIB (madman) o Directory Monitoring MIB (pppext) o PPP in HDLC Framing (dns) o Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes. (pppext) o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) (iplpdn) o A Multilink Protocol for Synchronizing the Transmission of Multi-protocol Datagrams. (none) o Internet Authentication Guidelines (dns) o Common DNS Data File Configuration Errors (tn3270e) o TN3270 Current Practices (osids) + Charting Networks in the Directory (osids) + Representing IP Information in the X.500 Directory (pppext) + A Multilink Protocol for Synchronizing the Transmission of Multi-protocol Datagrams. (none) + Mapping between X.400 P772 and RFC-822 (none) + Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) (none) + Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks (sdr) + BGP SDRP_SPEAKERS Attribute (pppext) + Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol (none) + SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Reports (none) + MIME Content-Types For Delivery Status Notifications (none) + Delivery Report Content-Type for use with MIME Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 (none) + Selecting an Indirect Provider (none) + MacMIME - How to send Macintosh files with MIME (none) + Integrated Network Layer Security Protocol (pppext) + The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) 8. There were 22 RFC's published during the month of September, 1993: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1506 I (none) A tutorial on gatewaying between X.400 and Internet mail RFC1507 E (cat) Distributed Authentication Security Service RFC1508 PS (cat) Generic Security Service Application Program Interface RFC1509 PS (cat) Generic Security Service API : C-bindings RFC1510 PS (cat) The Kerberos Network Authentication Service(V5) RFC1511 I (cat) Common Authentication Technology Overview RFC1512 PS (fddimib) FDDI Management Information Base RFC1513 PS (trmon) Token Ring Extensions to the Remote Network Monitoring MIB RFC1514 PS (hostmib) Host Resources MIB RFC1515 PS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units(MAUs) RFC1516 DS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices RFC1517 PS (iesg) Applicability Statement for the Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain Routing(CIDR) RFC1518 PS (none) An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR RFC1519 PS (none) Classless Inter-Domain Routing(CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy RFC1520 I (none) Exchanging Routing Information Across Provider Boundaries in the CIDR Environment RFC1521 DS (822ext) MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 RFC1522 DS (822ext) MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text RFC1523 I (822ext) The text/enriched MIME Content-type RFC1524 I (none) A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information RFC1525 PS (bridge) Definitions of Managed Objects for Source Routing Bridges RFC1526 I (tuba) Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts RFC1527 I (none) What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network? St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== New software was installed on ANSnet to increase the number of router forwarding table destinations to 25,000. ANSnet internal stability improved in September over the August measurements. New routing software was deployed in the ANSnet to reduce instability, and simplify the reconfiguration process. August Backbone Traffic and Routing Statistics ============================================== The total inbound packet count for the network (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 35,827,580,753 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 12.15% from August. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 41,727,682,966 up 10.82% from August. Router Table Growth =================== The number of networks actually announced to ANSNET grew by about 6.82% in September. There were 16,558 configured networks by the end of September. The maximum number of routes announced to the backbone was 11,621. A new system software version was released on the IBM routers in September that increases the capacity on each router interface to 25,000 forwarding table entries. Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes =================================== The "Better IBGP Aggregation" version of rcp_routed ran on the ANSnet during the month of September. Another rcp_routed release will be deployed in October. This is expected to be the last rcp_routed release prior to the release of Gated. This is the "Both IBGP and EBGP Aggregation" version. Deployment will be in early October. The "Better IBGP Aggregation" version of rcp_routed improved performance over previous versions. The "Both IBGP and EBGP Aggregation" version further improves performance, and also allows the CNSS nodes to be interconnected using a FDDI ring rather Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 than point-to-point interfaces within the carrier POPs. Routing Stability Measured on the T3 Network ============================================ Internal routing stability measurements are made by monitoring short term disconnect times (disconnects of five minutes duration or less). This is intended as a measure of stability rather than complete connectivity. Internal routing stability during September continued the steady improvement that has been observed since June. MONTH overall excluding configs ------ ------- ----------------- January 99.1% 99.5% February 99.0% 99.5% March 97.5% 99.1% April 96.1% 97.2% May 97.4% 98.0% June 95.5% 96.6% July 97.3% 97.7% August 97.5% 97.9% September 98.1% 98.5% The number of intermittent circuit problems was very low in September and the problems that did occur were quickly attended to. Problems on the C32-C40 link occurred a few times during the month. The E138 link has experienced had a low level of loss but has not caused routing instability. The C8-C24 link and C40-C48 links went hard down on Sep 16 and Sep 30, but resulted in little routing instability since it was not intermittent. The C32-C48 link went down on Sep 26 but caused little routing instability. Power and UPS problems at the Los Angeles area POP caused significant routing instability on Sep 5. UPS problems occurred at the San Francisco area POP as well. Numerous ENSS's experienced local site power problems, most notably ENSS230. ENSS230 also suffered some problems with the tail circuit and routing software problems. Router hardware problems were not a major contributor to instability although there were a number of problems. A large disruption (3 hours) was due to the installation of an AIX 3.2 build on Sep 17. The network has been very stable since Sep 17. The number of nodes experiencing a great deal of accumulated outage time improved over June and July, though ENSS230 shows up in the >5hr column. The breakdown by sites is as follows (these figures include instability seen during configuration runs): Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min ------------------------------------------------------------ January 0 0 1 8 19 55 February 0 0 1 24 19 41 March 0 4 18 23 23 22 April 2 2 3 13 12 57 May 0 4 33 32 15 5 June 3 21 35 18 12 3 July 0 12 28 44 6 1 August 1 5 28 21 17 15 September 1 38 25 10 4 13 Although overall stability was improved, several nodes show up in the >2 hr and >1 hr columns. This is because of the installation of the AIX build which took approximately 3 hours and credited each node with a significant amount of down time. Only the 13 CNSS backbone nodes show under 15 minutes of instability for the month. Generally the T3 concentrators were in the >15 minute and >30 minute range with the bulk of the histogram where the T1 concentrators and ENSS fell. This was due to the order of automated installation of the AIX build, proceeding from the outside in toward the core. Notable Outages in September '93 ================================ E173 (ITESM) suffered an extended outage on 09/07 due to flooding. E169 (InterAccess) suffered an extended outage on 09/09 due to hardware failure. E132 (Pittsburgh) lost T3 connectivity on 09/10 due to a fiber outage. E173 (ITESM) suffered an extended outage on 09/17 due to circuit problems. Jordan Becker (becker@ans.net) Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 ISI --- GIGABIT NETWORKING Infrastructure Trips Bob Braden and Steve Casner, attended the ARPA Networking '93 Meeting in Santa Rosa, CA August 27 to Sep 02 1993. Bob Felderman, attended the ARPA Fall PI meeting in San Diego, California September 27-29, 1993. Jon Postel and Walt Prue attended the CALREN meeting at Aerospace, in El Segundo, California, September 16, 1993. Jon Postel and Bob Braden attended the IAB meetings in San Franicisco, Ca, September 12-14, 1993. Joyce Reynolds attended the RIPE meetings in Amsterdam, Holland, September 11-17, 1993. Deborah Estrin attended ACM Siggraph 93 Conference San Francisco, CA, September 14-17, 1993. 22 RFCS were published this month RFC 1506: Houttuin, "A Tutorial on Gatewaying between X.400 and Internet Mail", RARE Secretariat, September 1993. RFC 1507: Kaufman, C., "DASS - Distributed Authentication Security Service", DEC, Septemer 1993. RFC 1508: Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program Interface" Geer Zolot Associates, Septemer 1993. RFC 1509: Wray, J., "Generic Security Service API : C-bindings", DEC, September, 1993. RFC 1510: Kohl, J., and C. Neuman, "The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)", DEC, September, 1993. RFC 1511: Linn, J., "Common Authentication Technology Overview", Geer Zolot Associates, "September 1993. RFC 1512: Case, J., and A. Rijsinghani, "FDDI Management Information Base", Univ. of Tennessee, SNMP Research, Inc., September 1993. Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 RFC 1513: Waldbusser, S., "Token Ring Extensions to the Remote Network Monitoring MIB", Carnegie Mellon University, September 1993. RFC 1514: Grillo, P., and S. Waldbusser, "Host Resources MIB" Carnegie Mellon Univ., September 1993. RFC 1515: McMaster, D. (SynOptics Communications) K. McCloghrie, (Hughes LAN Systems) and S. Roberts (Farallon Computing, Inc), "Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs), RFC 1516: McMaster D., (SynOptics Communications) K. McCloghrie, (Hughes LAN Systems), "802.3 Repeater MIB", September 1993. RFC 1517: Internet Engineering Steering Group, R. Hinden, (Sun Microsystems), "Applicability Statement for the Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)", September, 1993. RFC 1518: Rekhter, Y.(T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.) and T. Li, (Cisco Systems), "An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR", September 1993. RFC 1519: Fuller, V. (Barrnet), T. Li, (CISCO), J. Yu (Merit), K. Varadhan (OARnet), "Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy", September 1993. RFC 1520: Rekhter, Y., (T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.) C. Topolcic (CNRI), September 1993. RFC 1521: Borenstein, N., (Bellcore), N. Freed (Innosoft), "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies", September 1993. RFC 1522: Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text" University of Tennessee), September 1993. RFC 1523: Borenstein, N., (Bellcore), "The text/enriched MIME Content-type", September 1993. Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 RFC 1524: Borenstein, N., (Bellcore), "A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information", September 1993. RFC 1525: Decker, E. (cisco Systems, Inc.), . K. McCloghrie (Hughes LAN Systems,), P. Langille (DEC), A. Rijsinghani (DEC), September 1993. RFC 1526: Piscitello, D., (Bellcore), "Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts", September 1993. RFC 1527: Cook, G., (Cook Report), "What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network?", September 1993. Ann Cooper (Cooper@isi.edu) THE US DOMAIN ------------- ISI administers the US Domain (under a contract from the InterNIC Registration Service (Network Solutions)). In this issue of the IMR a summary of the status of the US Domain use is presented. In future issues, only the monthly changes will be listed. In the Domain Name System (DNS) naming of computers there is a hierarchy of names. The root of system is unnamed. There are a set of what are called "top-level domain names (TLDs). These are the generic TLDs (EDU, COM, GOV, NET, ORG, MIL, and INT), and the two letter country codes from ISO-3166. It is extremely unlikely that any other TLDs will be created. Under each TLD may be created a hierarchy of names. Generally, under the generic TLDs the structure is very flat. That is, many organizations are registered directly under the TLD, and any further structure is up to the individual organizations. In the country TLDs, there is a wide variation in the structure, in some countries the structure is very flat, in others there is substantial structural organization. The organization for the US country domain is described in RFC 1480. Each of the generic TLDs was created for a general category of organizations. The country code domains (for example, FR, NL, KR, US) are each organized by an administrator for that country. Descriptions of the generic domains and the US country domain follow. COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is companies. This domain has grown very large and there is concern about the administrative load and system performance if the current Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 growth pattern is continued. Consideration is being taken to subdivide the COM domain and only allow future commercial registrations in the subdomains. EDU - This domain was intended for all educational institutions. Many Universities, colleges, schools, educational service organizations, and educational consortium have registered here. More recently a decision has been taken to limit further registrations to 4 year colleges and universities. Schools will be registered in the country domains (see US Domain, below). GOV - This domain was intended for any kind of government office or agency. More recently a decision was taken to register only agencies of the US Federal government in this domain. State and local agencies are registered in the country domains (see US Domain, below). INT - This domain is for organizations established by international treaties. MIL - This domain is used by the US military. NET - This domain is intended to hold only the computers of network providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the administrative computers, and the network node computers. The customers of the network provider would have domain names of their own (generally not in the NET TLD). ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. US - The US domain provides for the registration of all kinds of entities in the United States on the basis of political geography, that is, a hierarchy of ...US. For example, "IBM.Armonk.NY.US". In addition, branches of the US domain are provided within each state for schools (K12), community colleges (CC), technical schools (TEC), state government agencies (STATE), councils of governments (COG),libraries (LIB), museums (MUS), and several other generic types of entities (see RFC 1480 for details). For a name in the US Domain please request an application via the RFC-INFO service. Send a message to RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU with the contents "Help: us_domain_application". For example: To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU Subject: US Domain Application help: us_domain_application Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ TOTAL EMAIL/FAX 556 PHONE 40 --------------------------- Total Contacts 596 DELEGATIONS 36 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS 17 MODIFICATIONS 40 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 503 --------------------------- Total 596 These other messages include: application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. SEPTEMBER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS ------------------------------- K12.AR.US Arkansas K12 Schools CI.PHOENIX.AZ.US Phoenix, Arizona, City Government IRONWOOD.PHX.K12.AZ.US Ironwood High School, Phoenix, Arizona CC.CO.US Colorado Community Colleges TEC.CO.US Colorado Technical/Vocational Colleges OIS.STATE.DE.US State Office of Information, Delaware MALABAR.MLB.FL.US Malabar Test Facility, Phillips Lab, Florida LINC.LIB.IL.US Library Integrated Network Consortium, Illinois GLENVIEW.LIB.IL.US Glenview Public Library, Illinois CC.IL.US Illinois Community Colleges TEC.IL.US Illinois Technical Vocational Schools LIB.IL.US Illinois Libraries STATE.IL.US Illinois State Government STATE.KY.US Kentucky State Government CI.LEXINGTON.MA.US Lexington, Massachusetts, City Government TEC.MI.US Michigan Technical Schools CC.MI.US Michigan Community Colleges ANN-ARBOR.MI.US Ann-Arbor, Michigan MANKATO.MN.US Manakato, Minnesota MUS.MN.US New Mexico Museums KCPL.LIB.MO.US Kansas City Public Library, Missouri CC.MO.US Missouri Community Colleges Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 STATE.MO.US Missouri State Government CC.NC.US North Carolina Community Colleges K12.OR.US Oregon K12 Schools CO.CHESTER.PA.US West Chester, Pennsylvania, County Gov't. IGS.ASD.K12.TN.US Ingleside Grammar School, Athens SD, Tennessee CVU.CSSD.K12.VT.US Champlain Valley Union HS, Hinesburg, Vermont DOL.STATE.VT.US Vermont State Dept. of Libraries KITSAP.LIB.WA.US Kitsap Regional Library, Washington CI.SEATTLE.WA.US Seattle, Washington, City Government DOIT.K12.WA.US Southeast Washington K12 Education Program DOIT K12.WI.US Wisconsin K12 schools TEC.WI.US Wisconsin Technical/Vocational Schools STATE.WI.US Wisconsin State Government SEPTEMBER DIRECT REGISTRATIONS ------------------------------ Motherbrain.ithaca.ny.us morrissy.bloomington.in.us ccdes.lns.pa.us pallio.sf.ca.us alturia.abq.nm.us dagobah.ithaca.ny.us cd.columbus.oh.us info.cnri.reston.va.us eotu.racine.wi.us patsy.seattle.wa.us foxden.bowlgreen.oh.us orb.nashua.nh.us peacefulstar.oakland.ca.us etc.nash.tn.us xensei.boston.ma.us harlan.oxford.oh.us harlan.south-bend.in.us CURRENT LIST OF THIRD LEVEL DELEGATED SUBDOMAINS ------------------------------------------------ If the host you are registering is in one of the following subdomains, please send your application directly to the contact listed below. If your host does not fall under one of these categories, that means we have not delegated that namespace yet. Send your request directly to the US Domain registrar for registration (us-domain@isi.edu). Domain applications sent to InterNIC, that are more suited for the US Domain will be forwarded to the US Domain administrator. Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 K12 Schools ----------- K12.AR.US bfriedma@uafhp.uark.edu K12.CA.US mdm@NIC.CSU.NET K12.CO.US trent@xor.com K12.DE.US bean@delaware.gov K12.FL.US STURSA@mail.firn.edu K12.GA.US Jerry@PeachNet.edu K12.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu K12.IL.US hostmaster@spruce.cic.net K12.LA.US msleger@usl.edu K12.MI.US dns-admin@merit.edu K12.MN.US dfazio@mr.net K12.MO.US ccwam@more.net K12.MS.US fwp@msstate.edu K12.NE.US rbanta@docsun.doc.state.ne.us K12.NH.US SALLIE@ed.state.nh.us K12.NJ.US becker@nisc.jvnc.net K12.NM.US cpw@noc-gw.lanl.gov K12.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net K12.OR.US scolla@4j.lane.edu K12.PA.US pscnet-admin@psc.edu K12.RI.US green@IDS.NET K12.SD.US cartera@cc.sdstate.edu K12.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu K12.UT.US cole@cc.utah.edu K12.UT.US cole@cc.utah.edu K12.WI.US ejnorman.macc.wisc.edu Community Colleges ------------------ CC.CA.US mdm@NIC.CSU.NET CC.CO.US trent@xor.com CC.DE.US bean@delaware.gov CC.FL.US STURSA@mail.firn.edu CC.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu CC.IL.US hostmaster@spruce.cic.net CC.MI.US rgs@merit.edu CC.MN.US dfazio@mr.net CC.MO.US ccwam@more.net CC.NC.US rlg@uncecs.edu CC.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Technical Vocational Schools ---------------------------- TEC.CO.US trent@xor.com TEC.DE.US bean@delaware.gov TEC.FL.US STURSA@mail.firn.edu TEC.GA.US Jerry@PeachNet.edu TEC.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu TEC.IL.US hostmaster@spruce.cic.net TEC.MI.US rgs@merit.edu TEC.MN.US dfazio@mr.net TEC.NH.US f_lance@pste.nhtech.edu TEC.WI.US ejnorman.macc.wisc.edu Libraries --------- LIB.CO.US trent@xor.com LIB.DE.US bean@delaware.gov LIB.FL.US pace@zeppo.cc.fsu.edu LIB.GA.US Jerry@PeachNet.edu LIB.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu LIB.IL.US hostmaster@spruce.cic.net LIB.MI.US rgs@merit.edu LIB.MN.US dfazio@mr.net LIB.MO.US ccwam@more.net LIB.NE.US rbanta@docsun.doc.state.ne.us LIB.OR.US randy@rain.psg.com LIB.TX.US bard@utexas.edu LIB.UT.US cole@cc.utah.edu Museums ------- MUS.NM.US reynolds@technet.org STATE Government Agencies ------------------------- STATE.DE.US bean@delaware.gov STATE.FL.US pace@zeppo.cc.fsu.edu STATE.GA.US Jerry@PeachNet.edu STATE.IN.US mhuffman@ideanet.doe.state.in.us STATE.KY.US sspisak@state.ky.us STATE.LA.US pcavell@pcavell.noc.la.net STATE.ME.US Kerry@Maine.Maine.edu STATE.MN.US dfazio@mr.net STATE.MO.US ccwam@more.net Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 STATE.NE.US rbanta@docsun.doc.state.ne.us STATE.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net STATE.SD.US haskettp@cc.sdstate.edu STATE.TX.US bard@utexas.edu STATE.UT.US cole@cc.utah.edu STATE.WI.US ejnorman.macc.wisc.edu Distributed National Institute ------------------------------ METACENTER.DNI.US rpg@sdsc.edu Federal Government Agencies --------------------------- MPLS.FRB.FED.US dfazio@mr.net JUD.FED.US hilliker@jud.fed.us Agency ------ AGENCY.TX.US bard@utexas.edu District -------- DISTRICT.TX.US bard@utexas.edu Locality (4th level city and county gov't agenciies are not listed) -------- TUCSON.AZ.US leonard@arizona.edu BERKELEY.CA.US cliff@NIC.Berkeley.EDU SANTA-CRUZ.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu APTOS.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu CAMPBELL.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu CAPITOLA.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu FELTON.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu SCVL.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu ZAYANTE.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu BOULDER-CREEK.CA.US postmaster@scruz.ucsc.edu CHICO.CA.US warlock@csuchico.edu BOULDER.CO.US trent@xor.com COLOSPGS.CO.US trent@xor.com DENVER.CO.US trent@xor.com DVR.CO.US trent@xor.com TELLURIDE.CO.US trent@xor.com FORT-COLLINS.CO.US trent@xor.com Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 LEON.FL.US pace@zeppo.cc.fsu.edu ATL.GA.US charvey@nextsupp.gatech.edu MT-PARK.GA.US charvey@nextsupp.gatech.edu CLARKSTON.GA.US charvey@nextsupp.gatech.edu IOWA-CITY.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu WATERLOO.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu WAUKEE.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu DSM.IA.US jay-ford@uiowa.edu CHI.IL.US crawdad@FNDCD.FNAL.GOV ALL MD.US "COUNTIES" butler@brl.mil ANN-ARBOR.MI.US rgs@merit.edu ANOKA.MN.US dfazio@mr.net DULUTH.MN.US dfazio@mr.net HENNEPIN.MN.US dfazio@mr.net MPLS.MN.US dfazio@mr.net RAMSEY.MN.US dfazio@mr.net ROCHESTER.MN.US dfazio@mr.net STLOUIS.MN.US dfazio@mr.net STPAUL.MN.US dfazio@mr.net MANKATO.MN.US Dale_Karsten.Mankato@MSUS.EDU RTP.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net CHARLOTTE.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net CARY.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net CHAPEL-HILL.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net DURHAM.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net RALEIGH.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net MORRISVILLE.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net FORSYTH.NC.US hostmaster@concert.net LOS-ALAMOS.NM.US. cpw@noc-gw.lanl.gov ALBANY.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net BINGHAMTON.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net BRIARCLIFF.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net BROADALBIN.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net BUFFALO.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net CORTLAND.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net CORNING.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net ELMSFORD.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net ISLP.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net ITHACA.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net JERICHO.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net ORCHARD-PARK.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net OWEGO.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net PENFIELD.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net POUGHKEEPSIE.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net SCHENECTADY.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net ROME.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net RYE.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net SIDNEY.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 SYRACUSE.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net TROY.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net UTICA.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net VSTM.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net VCTR.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net WHITEPLAINS.NY.US hostinfo@ns.psi.net EUGENE.OR.US meyer@oregon.uoregon.edu SPRINGFIELD.OR.US meyer@oregon.uoregon.edu PORTLAND.OR.US randy@rain.psg.com BEAVERTON.OR.US randy@rain.psg.com PHG.PA.US ecd@cert.org HOU.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu AUS.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu SAT.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu DALLAS.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu HARRIS.TX.US bmanning@is.rice.edu SPK.WA.US bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us MIL.WI.US jtk@spool.mu.edu MORGANTOWN.WV.US vijay@rbse.Mountain.Net BUCKHANNON.WV.US vijay@rbse.Mountain.Net Ann Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU), Jon Postel (Postel@ISI.EDU) US Domain Administrators MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING The user interface of mmcc, our session orchestration tool, was converted from direct implementation in XView to Tk/Tcl. The conversion allowed the user interface to be augmented in ways which would have been more cumbersome in XView, and decoupled mmcc from the user interface. This decoupling permits mmcc to interact with other Tcl-based tools directly, e.g., the nv video tool, and nevot audio tool. We are investigating the use of such interprocess communication between conferencing applications to permit negotiation of operating parameters and user preferences, as well as to coordinate the component user interfaces. Changes to the Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) specification collected in the "next-to-last call" within the IETF Audio/Video Transport working group were incorporated into the document, and the "last call" for comments within the working group was issued during September. Further comments on application-specific option number assignment and on port use were received. A request has been submitted for the official "IETF Last Call" to be given as soon as these recent comments are incorporated. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Eve Schooler gave a presentation, "Distributed Music: A Foray into Networked Performance", at the International Network Music Festival, Santa Monica, CA. Steve Casner, Joe Touch, Eve Schooler (Casner@ISI.EDU, Touch@ISI.EDU, Schooler@ISI.EDU) JVNCNET ------- JvNCnet-Global Enterprise Services, Inc. 3 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540 voice: 1-800-35-TIGER; 1-609-897-7300, fax 1-609-897-7310 I. New Information Network operations center (NOC) telephone numbers are: 609-897-7319 and 609-897-7320; noc@jvnc.net Customer Service: 609-897-7318 and 609-897-7337; support@jvnc.net II. JvNCnet Members Meeting Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1993 Location: Princeton Marriott Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, NJ Time: 8:30am to 2:30pm; reception follows. To register (by November 1): registration@jvnc.net; 1-800-35-TIGER III. Symposia Series (open to the public) A. OSI and X.400 and X.500: Planning and Implementation NEW DATE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 7, 1993 Location: Princeton Marriott Forrestal Village, College Rd. and U.S. Rt. 1, Plainsboro, NJ Time: 8:15 (cont. breakfast); first session 9:00am; conference adjourns approx. 4:15pm On-line seminar details: Complete program and instructors' biographies are located in the GES gopher server: telnet gopher.jvnc.net login: gopher; no password Go to item 3 JvNCnet, and the second level directory, item 3 Symposia and Training, then item 1 Current program and item 2 Directions The class is designed to provide overview of the Open Systems Interconnection Protocol (OSI) system and basic theory f the X.400 mail systems and X.500 directory services. How to plan for implementing each of these services will be presented. Future developments will also be described. Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Interoperability with TCP/IP in particular will be discussed. Who Should Attend: Network administrators, network infor- mation systems specialists, computer consultants, network technical staff including system managers of TCP/IP-based networks or anyone planning for the development or implementation of OSI, X.400, and X.500. Instructors: Sue Hares, Internet Engineer, Merit, Inc. and Kevin Jordan, Senior Software Engineer at Control Data Corp., Minneapolis. AGENDA - 12/07/93 8:15 Continental breakfast/registration 9:00 Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) - Sue Hares a. Overview b. Why OSI? c. OSI vs. TCP 10:00 Break 10:15 OSI continued: e. IP Next Generation - 20 min. (TUBA, PIP, SIP, IPAE) f. OSI implementation guidelines - 20 min. Routing issues; interoperability g. General status issues, e.g., current state of OSI on NFSNET, BSDI, GATE D support 11:30 Lunch 12:30 OSI applications - Kevin E. Jordan X.500 directory services a. Overview: What are the capabilities of X.500 and how it works b. Why the need for X.500? The benefits. c. Practical implementation: what does it take to set up X.500? d. Future directions 2:30 Break 2:45 X.400 mail systems a. Overview: What are the capabilities of X.400 and how it works. b. Why the need for X.400? The benefits. c. Practical implementation: what does it take to set up X.400? d. Future - existing in a multiple-mail environment 4:15 Adjourn Contact: hammer@jvnc.net Early bird registration by November 15, 1993 JvNCnet members $250; Non-members $275 Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Registration includes light breakfast, lunch, textbook and/or documentation. Check or money order payable to GES, Inc. and send to: 3 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540 Mastercard or Visa accepted; fax registration to 609-897-7310. B. Cisco Router Certified Technical Training (classes open to public) Title: Cisco router configuration course The five day class is held Monday to Thurs.: 9am to 5pm and Friday: 9am to 3:00pm Dates in 1993: October 11-15, November 1-5, and November 29-December 3 Outline and registration, send email to "training@jvnc.net". C. Partial list of new on-line members (fully operational July, August, September, and October): Kolacom, Hawthorne, NJ Dalcomp, Jersey City, NJ Republic Electronics, Hauppauge, NY Research for Better Schools, Phila., PA Synergy Software, Reading, PA Agfa Division Miles, Inc., Orangeberg, NY Chase Manhattan Bank, New York,NY Circuit Cellar, Vernon, CT CuraGen Corporation, Bradford, CT D. P. Davidson, Stanford, CT Digital Systems Corporation, Mt. Laurel, NJ Ebasco, Princeton, NJ FARSEF, Waldwick, NJ Free Lance Academy, Jersey City, NJ P. Fry, Aston, PA W. Hunter, Aurora, CO Logicworks, Princeton, NJ Matsushita Electric Works, Boston, MA J. Murphy, New York, NY National Association of Scholars, Princeton, NJ Northeastern Research and Develop. Society, Englewood, NJ Peterson's Guides, Inc., Princeton, NJ G. Sobotka, Bridgeport, CT Tag Systems, Little Falls, NJ Telenex Corp., Mt. Laurel, NJ J. Toland, New Canaan,CT E. Collins, Suffern, NY International Scientific Products, Mt. Kisco, NY Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Jenisys, Storrs, CT W. Lipsky, Berkeley, CA Mintaka Technologies, Stroudsburg, PA Softlock Services, Rochester, NY Tekmark Computer Services, Inc., Edison, NJ Trinity Data Systems, Huntington Beach, CA West Windsor-Plainsboro Schools, Plainsboro, NJ Compusoft, Wallingford, CT Windsoft, Denville, NJ Primavera Systems, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, PA Turner Broadcasting, North West, GA Turner Home Entertainment, North West, GA Chi Systems, Inc., Springhouse, PA Decision Data, Horsham, PA GH Besselaar Associates, Princeton, NJ Phillip Morris USA, Richmond, VA Salem County Vocational Technical, Woodstown, NJ Xybion Corporation, Cedar Knolls, NJ Absol-puter, Bronx, NY Atotech USA, Somerset, NJ Black Star, New York, NY Continental Data Center, Neptune, NJ Cplex Optimization, Princeton, NJ J. Ferron, West Haven, CT International School Services, Princeton, NJ Primetime, Wayne, PA J-P. Radley, New York, NY RTM Design Co., Scotch Plains, NJ Sorden Financial Services, Wilmington, DE 3D Technologies, Trumbull, CT Warner Insurance Services, Fairlawn, NJ Woodstown Pilesgrove Regional Schools, Woodstown, NJ Hamamatsu Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ MVP Communications, Princeton, NJ Oksana International Trade, Linden, NJ PccP S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina by Rochelle Hammer (hammer@jvnc.net) MERIT/MICHNET ------------- Among the most recent of the growing number of MichNet affiliates are Novi Schools, Detroit Country Day, and the internetworking services provider, Rabbit Network. Affiliate memberships for Adrian College, Aquinas College and University of Detroit-Mercy were possible with grant assistance from the National Science Foundation's Connections Program. Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Oakland Community College, an affiliate member, upgraded its connectivity to the MichNet backbone with a Cisco Token Ring router and 56Kbps circuit at the Oakland University node. Networks from OCC satellite campuses in the metro-Detroit area will soon be added to the OCC backbone link. And putting the resources of MichNet and its member and affiliate institutions within a local call to even more Michigan citizens, the Library of Michigan has committed to providing four new public dial-in sites: Alpena, Petoskey, Gaylord and Wayne. A planned deployment of Network Access Servers throughout the MichNet backbone will provide state-of-the-art network access to users around Michigan. Testing of the Livingston Portmaster at the University of Michigan MichNet site will conclude with the deployment of a 30-port production machine. The dial-in service offered through the UM/MichNet NAS is configured for maximum flexibility regarding modem speeds, error correction and data compression, but will be used for PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) access only. Currently, unrestricted access using MichNet public ports requires the use of PPP and authorization for a full service connection. MichNet encourages serial TCP/IP users to move to PPP, a true Internet standard offering better performance and authorization for access to some services. Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu) MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES --------------------------------- New information, including announcements of upcoming conferences, available on nic.merit.edu, the Merit Network Information Center Services host computer: "Universal Service: New Challenges and New Options in Tomorrow's Network of Networks." Announcement of this 15 October 1993 seminar for policymakers, public interest advocates and nonprofit leaders jointly sponsored by The Benton Foundation and The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University. Available as /nren/nii.1993/nii.universal.service.931015 Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee (FNCAC) meeting announcement, agenda and registration form for 21 October 1993. Available as /nren/nii.1993/nii.fncac.931021 Symposium to Explore Synergies of the National Performance Review and National Information Infrastructure. The Information Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Technology Association of America (ITTA), the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), and GOVERNMENT COMPUTER NEWS will jointly sponsor this major public policy discussion on 22 October 1993. Available as /nren/nii.1993/nii.npr.931022 The National Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Action. The Clinton Administration's vision paper and working agenda for the NII released by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on 15 September 1993. Available as /nren/nii.1993/nii.agenda Information Infrastructure Task Force Private Sector Meeting on the National Information Infrastructure held 24 September 1993. The meeting was summarized by Craig A. Summerhill of CNI. Available as /nren/nii.1993/nii.iitf.930924 Proposed revision of OMB Circular No. A-130. Entitled "Management of Federal Information Resources," OMB Circular A-130 establishes policies that Federal agencies follow when planning, acquiring, and using government information technology. The Circular was most recently revised in June to improve public access to government information. This second revision reflects the in-depth analyses conducted by OMB and the General Accounting Office of Federal agencies' policies and practices for managing information technology. Available as /omb/omb.a130.rev3 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy, RFC 1519. With Jessica Yu, Merit Internet Engineering, as a co-author, this Request for Comments discusses strategies for address assignment of the existing IP address space with a view to conserve the address space and stem the explosive growth of routing tables in default-route-free routers. Available as /internet/documents/rfc/rfc1519.txt Countries subject to route filtering policies restricting traffic between NSFNET-sponsored sites and networks in those countries are available as /nsfnet/restrict.nets The distribution of U.S. networks announced to the NSFNET backbone service by state is available as /nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.state Analysis of IP class has been added to the format of files describing the distribution of networks announced to the NSFNET backbone service by country and the number of networks configured for announcement. These files are available, respectively, as /nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.country /nsfnet/statistics/history.netcount Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 The resources of nic.merit.edu are available through Anonymous FTP, electronic mail query and a Gopher client connecting to the Merit Network Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70. Specific requests sent to Merit's mail query server will retrieve and send the requested information in an e-mail message. A number of requests may be included in a single message, but each request must occur on a separate line. The address of the Merit mail query server is nic-info@nic.merit.edu To receive a specific document, use the syntax get filename Laura Kelleher and Susan R. Harris from Merit Information Services were invited to conduct a hands-on tutorial of Internet tools and resources at the Minority University-Space Interdisciplinary Network workshop. NASA sponsored the mid-September MU-SPIN in Greenbelt, MD. Elise Gerich, Merit Internet Engineering, attended the IAB meeting in San Francisco, CA, and RIPE which convened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu) MRNET ----- The Minnesota Regional Network continues to grow, adding eight Twin Cities- area public library systems, two managed health care organizations, various businesses and the State Government of Minnesota including about a dozen different agencies. This brings total membership count to about 60 organizations at 70 different sites. Additional hub sites have recently been opened in Duluth and Rochester and will be made available soon in Mankato, St. Cloud and Moorhead. Within the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, all new connections are now implemented with US West's Frame Relay Service. There are currently about two dozen organizations on this net. The MRNet dialIP Service that was introduced in January has been well received in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and will soon be expanded to other locations around the state. This has been set up as a dialup SLIP service for individual accounts with pre- Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 configured standard software and documentation provided by MRNet for DOS, PC, and Macintosh systems. To accomodate these activities, additional staff has been added, including Mr. Dave Bergum, Director of Engineering and Technical Services and Ms. Sherry Hastings, Administrator of Operations. Additional positions for Network Engineer and Director of Client Services will be filled in October. Plans are now being finalized with the partnership of Technology and Instructional Educational Services (TIES) and the Minnesota Department of Education to provide dialup connections, a K-12 information server, and staff training for each school building in the state. Dennis Fazio, Executive Director Minnesota Regional Network Minneapolis, MN (612) 342-2570 Info@MR.Net by Dennis Fazio NORTHWESTNET ------------ NorthWestNet's Seventh Annual Meeting is scheduled from Oct. 12- 15, 1993 in Seattle, Washington. Our keynote speakers this year include Richard Mandelbaum, president of NYSERNet; Fred Dust, headmaster of the Bush School; Charles McClure, Syracuse University; and Jim Elias, Executive Director Technology Assessment, US West Communications, Inc. For more information about this meeting, please contact Jan Eveleth at eveleth@nwnet.net. There are three important pieces of information about "The Internet Passport" that NorthWestNet would like to pass along: -- The retail price has been lowered from $39.95 to $29.95. -- NorthWestNet is pleased to have Computer Literacy Bookshops as our primary distributor of "The Internet Passport". Computer Literacy Bookshops accepts major credit cards, purchase orders, and fills orders worldwide. They are committed to prompt order fulfillment. (They can be reached at info@clbooks.com). -- Not-for-profit, 501(c)3 groups that want to take advantage of the special research and education price of $19.95 should Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 place orders directly with NorthWestNet during September and October. This special pricing will no longer be available as of November 1, 1993. The User Services group is pleased to announce the addition of Stefan Kramer, information services specialist, to our staff. Stefan will be actively involved in developing NorthWestNet training and electronic information services. He has a masters degree in library and information science from the University of Washington. NorthWestNet info@nwnet.net 5400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000 Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822 Dr. Eric S. Hood, Executive Director Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services Dan L. Jordt, Director of Technical Services Anthony Naughtin, Manager of Member Relations NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington. by Jan Eveleth PREPnet ------- PREPnet New Members: -------------------- The Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences Research for Better Schools Pittsburgh Regional Library Center With these additions, PREPnet now has a total of 139 members. PREPnet News: ------------- PREPnet held its Fifth Annual Networking Conference on September 14, at the Penn Tower Hotel in Philadelphia. Over 300 people attended this event, which featured five technical seminars conducted by campus and industry specialists. The seminars covered security, wiring, e-mail, routing, and information servers. Plenary speakers for this event included Paul Peters of CNI, Bob Carlitz of Pitt, and Jonathan Smith of Penn. Breakout sessions were offered on library connections, K-12 connections, network Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 technology, fast packet services, ethernet via CATV, and the future of PREPnet. For information regarding connectivity options in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, contact the PREPnet NIC: 305 S. Craig St. E-Mail: nic@prep.net 2nd Floor Telephone: (412) 268-7870 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 by Daryl Dolan PREPnet NIC (prepnet+@andrew.cmu.edu) SPRINTLINK ---------- SprintLink and NSFNET International Connections Manager (ICM) September Status Report 1) Began assigning CIDR address space to new SprintLink customers 2) Discovered Cisco bug that resulted in excessive CPU utilization. The fix reduced CPU load down to approximately 50% during the busy hour. 3) Deployed FDDI wiring hub-embedded SGI Indigo workstations and terminal servers at both Washington, D.C. and Stockton, CA SprintLink/ICMnet nodes. The workstations will provide DNS, multicasting, network time and capture router crash dump images. The terminal servers connect to the consoles of all the node devices for the purpose of remote control (via Sprint voice network) in the event of network (IP) failure. Chicago and Fort Worth will be similarly upgraded in 1Q94. 4) Deployed 350 SLIP/PPP dial-up ports. Developed network-side auto configuration program. Planning the deployment of another 650 ports by end of 93. 5) Placed orders for seven fully configured Cisco 7000 routers. These routers will be the new core of the SprintLink/ICM backbone. They will be initially connected by either T1 or T3 circuits. In 1Q94 they will be interconnected via Sprint's T3 ATM network. 6) Placed orders for two HP 9000 G40 servers with mirrored disks, 8 X terminals and HP OpenView. Activation will take place the end of October. Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 7) Activated Vadim Antonov's SNMPSTATD to produce daily CPU, memory and link utilization reports, daily link errors and times of router unreachability, and router temperature. SNMP polling rate: every router every 30 seconds. 8) Connected Moscow node to GALSnet, FREEnet and SOVam. This node is in the process of expanding to include 16 new additional access lines. Utilizing Russian-made "Techno PC," which provides multiline SLIP with BGP, to interconnect with Russian networks. 9) Delivered T1 connection to Mexico CONACYT. In process of turning-up routing. 10) Delivered a 768 kbps connection to the Japanese Information Center for Science and Technology (JICST). In process of turning- up routing. 11) Deployed a router in the Sprint Stockton Technical Office Center (TOC) for the Japanese Internet Initiative (IIJ). Plans are for peering with SprintLink and Alternet. 12) Sprint deployed several "non connected" managed router networks utilizing CIDR addressing. 13) The 64 kbps link to Uninet-ZA (South Africa) experienced serious congestion as a result of extremely heavy usage. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Robert D. Collet | | Principal Investigator, | | NSFNET International Connections Manager | | Director, Internet Services and Systems | | Sprint Communications Company | | 13221 Woodland Park Road | | Herndon, Virginia, 22071 USA | | | | Mail Stop: VAHRNA0510 | | | | Tel: +1-703-904-2230 | | Fax: +1-703-904-2252 | | Pager: +1-800-SKY-PAGE PIN: 45469 +---------------------------------------------------------+ Robert D. Collet Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 UCL ---- J Crowcroft and Ballardie attended Sigcomm 93 in San Francisco, and gave two papers, on "An analysis of jitter and delay" and on "Core Based Trees". J Crowcroft also gave a seminar at ICSI, Berkeley, on "Combined Congestional and Admission Control for adaptive, variable bit rate video", or something like that. Many discussions in the corridors of the Westin St Francis hotels ensued on IPng. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 CALENDAR -------- Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send your submissions to (cooper@isi.edu). 1993 CALENDAR Sep 13-17 SIGCOMM 93, San Francisco Sep ?? 6th SDL Forum, Darmstadt Ove Faergemand (ove@tfl.dk) Sep 8-9 ANSI X3S3.3, Boulder, CO Sep 13-17 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD Sep 14 -? IFIP TC6. GMD-Fokus, 2nd Intl Conf. on Open Distributed Processing ICODP12, Berlin Sep 20-31 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6, Seoul, Korea. Sep 28-29 September RIPE Technical Days, TBC Oct INTEROP93, Paris, France Oct 5-6 IFIP WG 6.6 Intl Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management DSOM'93. Oct 12-14 Conference on Network Information Processing, Sofia, Bulgaria; Contact: IFIP-TC6 Oct 14-16 6th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, San Diego, Del Mar, CA Oct 18-20 International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks to Telecommunications Princeton, NJ Oct 18-22 TCOS WG, Atlanta, GA (tentative) Nov 1-5 IETF Houston, TX. Nov 2-4 ANSI X3S3.3, TBD Nov 2-4 EMAIL World Contact: Einar Steffurd Nov 9-13 IEEE802 Plenary, Crown Sterling Suites, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Nov 15-19 Supercomputing 93, Portland, OR Dec 6-10 OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 1994 CALENDAR Feb 3-4 ISOC Symposium on network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, (nessett@llnl.gov) May 2-6 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Las Vegas, Nevada Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Jun 1-3 IFIP WG 6.5 ULPAA, Barcelona, Spain Einar Stefferud (stef@nma.com) Aug 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Computer Congress Hamburg, Germany; Contact: IFIP Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Sep 12-14 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) 1995 CALENDAR Sep 18-22 INTEROP95, San Francisco, CA Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) 1996 CALENDAR Sep 2-6 14th IFIP World Computer Congress Canberra, Australia Contact: IFIP ======================================================================== RARE LIST OF MEETINGS --------------------- Ref. RSec(92)102-ac 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 RARE Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail Anne Cozanet (e.mail address: cozanet@rare.nl). MEETING/DATE LOCATION ============ ======== RARE Executive Committee ------------------------ 12 November Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) 17 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) RARE Council of Administration ------------------------------ 23/24 September Helsinki 3/4 February 1994 Brussels 19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv RARE Technical Committee ------------------------ 18 October (TBC) telephone meeting Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 RARE Working Groups ------------------- WG-LLT 9 November (TBC) Munich WG-ISUS 11 & 14 October Warsaw EARNINFO & WG-ISUS 11 October Warsaw MHS-Managers 13-14 September Tampere (Finland) WG-MSG 11 October Warsaw WG-NAP 11 October Warsaw RIPE ---- 24-26 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF) 16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF) VARIOUS ------- ECFRN HiLOG 26 October Brussels DANTE Steering Committee TBD Amsterdam DANTE Shareholders 7 October Amsterdam EBONE Management Committee 9 November Copenhagen EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 15 October (TBC) Warsaw EAT (Ebone Action Team) 29 November Bonn (GMD) EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 30 November Bonn (GMD) Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 Euro-CCIRN TBD CCIRN 20/21 June TBD (in Europe) INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 13/14 June Prague IETF 1-5 November Houston 28 March - 1 April Seattle EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 23-24 November Brussels 1-2 March Brussels 17-18 May Brussels 13-14 September Brussels 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 14 December Brussels Workshops 17-21 January Brussels 11-15 April Brussels 27 June - 1 July Brussels 10-14 October Brussels ECTUA ----- ETSI ---- General Assembly 9-10 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 4-6 October Nice, France 21-23 March Nice, France EARN Board of Directors 14-15 October Warsaw Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 INET'94/JENC5 Organising Committee 25 October Prague ******************************************************************* INET'94/ 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5) 13 -> 17 June 1994 Prague, Czech Republic The annual conference of the Internet Society held in conjunction with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference. ******************************************************************* OTHER CONFERENCES (nb. For some of the following events, full text information is available from the RARE Document Store under the directory calendar, in which case the file name is specified under the information presented below. The files may be retrieved via: anonymous FTP: ftp.rare.nl Email : server@rare.nl Gopher : gopher.rare.nl) USENIX UNIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM ------------------------------ 4-7 October Marriott Hotel, Santa Clara, California for information, please email NETWORKING SERVICES CONFERENCE 93 --------------------------------- from 12 to 14 October Warsaw, Poland organised by EARN, in cooperation with RARE, NORDUnet, EUnet/EurOpen and RIPE. (file name on the RARE Document Store ) 6TH IEEE WORKSHOP ON LOCAL AND METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS --------------------------------------------------------- from 13 to 16 October at Auberge Del Mar Resort and Spa, Del Mar, San Diego (California) (registration form and program available on RARE Document Store: ftp/rare/info/calendar/ieee-lan-man-networks.14.10.93) 8TH IEEE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS -------------------------------------------- from 17 to 20 October at Auberge Del Mar Resort and Spa, Del Mar, San Diego (California) Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 (registration form and program available on RARE Document Store: ftp/rare/info/calendar/ieee-computer-communications.17.10.93) RESEARCH NETWORKING IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE SEMINAR ------------------------------------------------------- 20 and 21 October Budapest, Hungary organised by Hungary, RARE and NATO - by invitation only. WORKSHOP ON THE APPLICATION OF OPEN NETWORK PROVISION TO METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS, FRAME RELAY AND ADVANCED TRANSMISSION NETWORKS --------------------------------------------------------------------- on 26 October in Brussels organised by CEC DG XIII for more information please fax +32 2 296 9132/+32 2 296 8391 before 8 October, mentioning "MANs/Frame Relay Workshop". OPENNET 93 ---------- The German-speaking countries conference on Internetworking from 8 to 11 November in Munich for information, please email 5TH ACOnet NETWORK SEMINAR FOR SCIENTISTS AND NETWORK MANAGERS FROM CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE ------------------------------------------------------------- 22-26 November in Vienna, Austria organised by Vienna University, supported by Digital Equipment Corp. and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. more information available from: Mrs Elisabeth Zoppoth tel.+43 1 4065822-351/fax.+43 1 4065822-170 and by anonymous FTP from ftp.univie.ac.at: /at.local/aconet/i-aconet-sem-5.ps (inviation and registration form) and /at.local/aconet/p-aconet-sem-5.ps (preliminary program) (From RARE Document Store, both in ASCII and postcript: ftp/rare/info/calendar/aconet-seminar.invitation.22.11.93 ftp/rare/info/calendar/aconet-seminar.prelim-prog.22.11.93) MULTIMEDIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PORTABILITY AND NETWORKING ---------------------------------------------------------- workshop organised by the Advisory Group on Computer Graphics from 29 November to 1 December in Abingdon, UK for more information please email Dr. Anne Mumford Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report September 1993 3rd HIGH SPEED SYMPOSIUM -------------------------- on 2 February 1994, in Brussels INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY --------------------------------------------------------------------- on 3 and 4 February 1994 at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego, California more information from Mr. Robert Shirey of the MITRE Corporation email (also on RARE Document Store, file name ) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION NETWORKS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ from 18 to 21 April 1994 in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** For information, please email Prof. Pedro Veiga NORDUnet 94 ----------- from 31 May to 2 June 1994 in Umea, Sweden for information, email NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 (provisional) ------------------------------ from 18 to 20 October 1994 in Bournemouth (UK) ********************************************************************** EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC MAIL ASSOCIATION (EEMA) 23/24 November Winter Conference Meeting Athens "Electronic Messaging - The Business Benefits, with illustrations from the Transport Industry" ********************************************************************** Cooper [Page 41]