~ October 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. This report is for Internet information purposes only, and is not to be quoted in other publications without permission from the submitter. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to: Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) NSF Regional reports - To obtain the procedure describing how to submit information for the Internet Monthly Report, send an email message to mailserv@is.internic.net and put "send imr-procedure" in the body of the message (add only that one line; do not put a signature). Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "imr-request@isi.edu". 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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 October 1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 10 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 CONCERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 INTERNIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 JVNCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 LOS NETTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 MERIT/MICHNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29 MERIT/NSFNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31 MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 36 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 37 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF MONTHLY REPORT for October, 1993 1. The 28th meeting of the IETF, co-hosted by SESQUINET and Rice University, was held in Houston, Texas from November 1-5, 1993. The first meeting of the IETF in 1994 will be held in Seattle, Washington from March 29 through April 1, 1994. This meeting is being hosted by NorthWestNet. Following the March 1994 meeting, it looks like the IETF will be in Toronto in July, and in the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall. Once the final arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. 2. The IESG has determined how documents from the IPng candidates will be treated when they are submitted to the IESG for publication as RFCs. a. All IPng-related documents will be submitted for publication as RFCs in normal fashion; that is, as soon as the working group and the area directorate recommends that the IESG review them for publication. All IPng-related RFCs will be published with Experimental status. All IPng-related RFCs will remain in Experimental status until a single IPng is selected. b. At some point, one IPng shall be selected, and it will be moved onto the standards track as defined in RFC1310 (or its successor). An Applicability Statement will be prepared to assign a status of "Recommended" as the Common IPng for Internet interoperability. c. Once a "Common IPng" protocol has been selected, the other (former) IPng candidates will be treated in normal fashion. That is, they may eventually be moved to Historic status, or, if recommended by the working group and area directorate, they may be moved onto the standards track. However, because there can be only one level three protocol with a status of "Recommended as the Common IPng for Internet interoperability", an Applicability Statement must be prepared that clearly distinguishes between the subject protocol and the "Recommended Common IPng". Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following nine Protocol Actions during the month of October, 1993: o MOSPF: Analysis and Experience as an Informational document o OSPF Version 2 as a Draft Standard o Multicast Extensions to OSPF as a Proposed Standard o The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) as a Draft Standard o PPP in HDLC Framing as a Draft Standard o Common DNS Data File Configuration Error as an Informational document o Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes. as an Informational document o FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR) as an Experimental Protocol o Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol as an Informational document 4. The IESG issued four Last Calls to the IETF during the month of October, 1993: o Classical IP and ARP over ATM being considered as a Proposed Standard o OSPF Version 2 being considered as a Draft Standard o Multicast Extensions to OSPF being considered as a Proposed Standard o Telnet Environment Option being considered as a Proposed Standard 5. Two Working Groups were created during this period: Internet Stream Protocol V2 (st2) Routing over Large Clouds (rolc) Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Additionally, two Working Groups were concluded: Internet Message Extensions (822ext) Network News Transport Protocol (nntp) 6. A total of 88 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of October, 1993: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (idpr) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Inter-Domain Policy Routing Protocol (Version 1) (x400ops) o Operational Requirements for X.400 Management Domains in the GO-MHS Community (none) o IDRP for IP (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type (ospf) o The OSPF NSSA Option (avt) o Issues in Designing a Transport Protocol for Audio and Video Conferences and other Multiparticipant Real-Time Applications (wnils) o Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service (x400ops) o Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations (pem) o MIME-PEM Interaction (x400ops) o C=US; A=IMX (avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications (avt) o Sample Profile for the Use of RTP for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control (pppext) o PPP in X.25 (pppext) o PPP in Frame Relay (pppext) o PPP over ISDN (dns) o DNS Support for IDPR (iiir) o Resource Transponders (rolc) + NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (nir) o A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 (none) o Randomness Requirements for Security (iiir) o A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service (telnet) o Telnet Environment Option (cat) o FTP Security Extensions (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service (uri) o Uniform Resource Names (ifmib) o Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II (atm) o Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5 (isn) o FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked "Primary and Secondary School Internet User" Questions (atm) o Classical IP and ARP over ATM (decnetiv) o DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions (pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP) (tn3270e) o TN3270 Enhancements (upsmib) o UPS Management Information Base (none) o Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux) (thinosi) o Octet sequences for upper-layer OSI to support basic communications applications (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management (imap) o INTERACTIVE MAIL ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 2bis (tn3270e) o TN3270 Current Practices (none) o Mapping between X.400 P772 and RFC-822 (pppext) o Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol (pppext) o The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) (none) + Simple Mobile IP (SMIP) Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 (ripv2) + RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information (none) o Naming and Structuring Guidelines for X.500 Directory Pilots (sip) + Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP): Overview of Routing and Addressing Extensions to SIP (none) + MIME Multipart/Header-Set (pppext) + PPP Reliable Transmission (saag) + ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT TODAY'S CRYPTOGRAPHY (ids) + A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations (none) + SGML-based Personal Contact Information (SPCI) (none) + SGML-based Hierarchical Attribute/Value Encoding (SHAVE) (dns) + Incremental Transfer and Fast Convergence in DNS (snadlc) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control (none) o MIME Content Type for BinHex encoded files (none) + MIME Content-types for SGML Documents (ifmib) + Management Information Base for Management of Network Connections (none) + MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files - MacMIME (none) + MIME Content Type for BinHex encoded files (bgp) + Application of the Border Gateway Protocol and IDRP for IP in the Internet (none) + Internet Architecture Extensions for Shared Media (none) o SMTP Service Extensions for Binary Transmission of Large MIME Messages (none) + Application/Signature (none) + Row creation with SNMPv1 (snadlc) + Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Control (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol (none) + SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (pppext) + PPP Stacker LZS Compression Protocol (none) + SMTP Service Extensions for Command Streaming (pppext) o The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP) (ripv2) + RIP Version 2 MIB Extension (none) + Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an Overview. (none) + A Service Model for an Integrated Services Internet (pem) + An Alternative PEM MIME Integration (none) + Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification (pppext) + PPP Gandalf FZA Compression Protocol (none) + Selecting a Direct Provider (modemmgt) + Modem MIB (none) + Multipart/References MIME Content-Type (iiir) + WAIS over Z39.50-1988 (none) + Introduction to White Pages services based on X.500 (iab) + The MultiProtocol Internet (osids) + Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (none) + SC6 Documents on Liaison with the IETF in the CIDR Environment (osinsap) + Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet (sip) + Extensions to DNS to support SIPP (idmr) + IGMP Router Extensions for Routing to Sparse Multicast-Groups Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 (idmr) + IGMP Router Extensions for Routing to Dense Multicast-Groups (pppext) + PPP Hewlett-Packard Packet-by-Packet Compression (HP PPC) Protocol 7. There were 16 RFC's published during the month of October, 1993: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1528 E (none) Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Remote Printing -- Technical Procedures RFC1529 I (none) Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Remote Printing -- Administrative Policies RFC1530 I (none) Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: General Principles and Policy RFC1531 PS (dhc) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol RFC1532 PS (dhc) Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol RFC1533 PS (dhc) DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions RFC1534 PS (dhc) Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP RFC1535 I (none) A Security Problem and Proposed Correction With Widely Deployed DNS Software RFC1536 I (dns) Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes. RFC1537 I (dns) Common DNS Data File Configuration Error RFC1538 I (none) Advanced SNA/IP : A Simple SNA Transport Protocol RFC1539 I (none) The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC1540 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC1541 PS (dhc) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol RFC1542 PS (dhc) Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol RFC1543 I (none) Instructions to RFC Authors St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@cnri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- Network Status Summary ====================== A major T3 network hardware & software upgrade is planned to begin deployment on November 6th. This upgrade will include several T3 router performance enhancements. New rcp_routed routing software was deployed in October. New GateD routing software is expected to begin deployment in November. A new CNSS node was installed in Albuquerque, New Mexico to support T3 services. October Backbone Traffic and Routing Statistics =============================================== The total inbound packet count for the network (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 43,689,832,748 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 21.9% from September. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 51,080,653,716 up 22.4% from September. Major T3 Network Upgrade Planned ================================ Starting on November 6th, a major upgrade to the T3 ANSnet/NSFnet Service will be deployed. We are calling this the "Phase-5 upgrade" since it represents the 5th major change to network infrastructure that we have made since 1991. The infrastructure upgrade to the T3 network will begin deployment on Friday 11/6 in Seattle and Denver, and will continue at each T3 ENSS site and CNSS POP location during pre-scheduled weekend maintenance windows through 12/18. The major changes included in this upgrade are: o Upgrade of all DS3/HSSI router serial interface adapters (T3 CNSS and ENSS) to support full DS3 bandwidth. The router adapter bus interface cards will also be upgraded to double the packet switching rates per interface. o The architecture for interconnection among CNSS routers at each MCI POP location will be upgraded from point-to-point links to a common FDDI ring. o The T3 DSUs on each DS3 interface will replaced with a T3 bandwidth manager (T3Plus BMX45) to accommodate T3 CNSS-CNSS Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 circuits and a Larscom Access-T45 DSU on each end of a T3 ENSS-CNSS circuit. o New system software and microcode will be installed (already in progress) prior to the hardware deployment to support the increased adapter performance. Routing software has already been deployed to support the new CNSS FDDI ring architecture. Deployment Schedule Summary --------------------------- The upgrade will be deployed in six steps, commencing on Friday evening November 6th, and ending on the weekend of December 18th. the upgrade will be suspended for the week of Thanksgiving. Some deployment details and the deployment schedule follow below: - The T3Plus BMX45N bandwidth managers will be installed on the first POP visit. CNSS sites will have multiple visits to upgrade the backbone links. - T3 ENSS sites are visited once and are upgraded concurrent with the adjacent DS3 linked CNSS. - The ANS NOC will create a planned maintenance trouble ticket with the ENSS site well in advance of maintenance and will confirm with the site a few days in advance. - All parts will be delivered to the ENSS site on the Thursday preceding the scheduled Friday evening upgrade. Deployment Schedule Detail -------------------------- Step Date ENSS CNSS ---- ------- ---- ---- 1 11/06/93 E143 Seattle Seattle ENSS and Seattle POP E142 Denver Salt Lake City ENSS and Denver POP E141 Denver Boulder ENSS and Denver POP 2 11/13/93 E128 San Fran Palo Alto ENSS and San Fran POP E144 San Fran FIX-W ENSS and San Fran POP E130 Chicago Argonne ENSS and Chicago POP ---- Seattle 2nd visit for Seattle-San Fran link upgrade 3 11/20/93 E135 L.A. San Diego ENSS and Los Angeles POP E179 N. Mex. Sandia Labs ENSS & Albuquerque POP E172 N. Mex. Phillips Labs ENSS & Albuquerque POP Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 E139 Houston Houston ENSS and Houston POP ---- San Fran 2nd visit for San Fran.- L.A. link upgrade 4 12/04/93 E129 St. Louis Champaign ENSS and St. Louis POP E140 St. Louis Lincoln ENSS and St. Louis POP E138 Atlanta Atlanta ENSS and Atlanta POP ---- Greensboro Greensboro POP ---- Denver 2nd visit for Denver-St. Louis link upgrade ---- Chicago 2nd visit for Chicago-St. Louis link upgrade ---- Houston 2nd visit for Houston-St. Louis link upgrade and for Houston-Atlanta link upgrade 5 12/11/93 E131 Cleveland Ann Arbor ENSS and Cleveland POP E132 Cleveland Pittsburgh ENSS and Cleveland POP E137 New York Princeton ENSS and New York POP ---- Chicago 3rd visit for Chicago-Cleveland link upgrade 6 12/18/93 E133 Hartford Ithaca ENSS and Hartford POP E134 Hartford Boston ENSS and Hartford POP E136 Wash D.C. College Park ENSS and Wash D.C. POP E145 Wash D.C. FIX-East ENSS and Wash D.C. POP E146 Wash D.C. DARPA ENSS and Wash D.C. POP ---- Cleveland 2nd visit for Cleveland-Hartford link upgrade ---- Greensboro 2nd visit for Greensboro-D.C. link upgrade ---- New York 2nd visit for NY-Hartford link upgrade and for NY-D.C. link upgrade Rcp_routed Routing Software Changes =================================== Rcp_routed maintenance continued in preparation for the upcoming T3 network upgrade and GateD deployment. The "Both IBGP and EBGP Aggregation" version or rcp_routed was deployed early in October. The "Both IBGP and EBGP Aggregation" version further improves performance, and also allows the CNSS nodes to be interconnected using a FDDI ring rather than point-to-point interfaces within the carrier POPs. A new version of rcp_routed will be installed in early November. This version more efficiently processes policy information (see Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 below). 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. 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% October 98.0% 98.3% The figures above exclude logs collected at the ENSS200 router which was used to provide temporary T3 connectivity for a trade show. While there was no stability problems with this node, it was never xntp time synchronized and its skewed timestamps tended to make any minor instabilities during that week appear longer than they were. Stability figures for ENSS200 are included by virtue of the logging information collected on it's IBGP neighbors. Severe route flap outside of ANSnet affected rcp_routed in October. A rogue application was discovered walking through the IP address space, starting with the class A numbers and transmitting UDP echo packets to these destinations. This affected routers outside ANSnet, which had difficulty processing the ICMP unreachable messages to be sent. The volume of route flaps affected ENSS nodes with a very large number of configured peer network announcements (5000-8000 networks). The efficiency of the run time search through configured policy information in rcp_routed was improved to prevent this in the future. ENSS136, ENSS144, and ENSS145 were affected. The source network responsible for the rogue application was isolated and the UDP echo packets have since ceased. ENSS160 (ANS Elmsford) experienced numerous crashes due a hardware failure which was subsequently fixed. Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 ENSS138 saw instability associated with the cutover of a new T3 circuit. Instabilities were recorded as part of the cutover. Other than the specific problems cited above, power problems on the customer premise was responsible for the greatest amount of measured instability. A new router system software build was installed at a few T3 ENSS sites, causing limited instability of on the order of 10 minutes. Two new versions of rcp_routed were installed during October. Route convergence has improved, limiting the disruption of a backbone wide routing daemon install to about 5 minutes. The number of nodes experiencing more than 30 minutes accumulated has been significantly reduced. The vast majority of nodes had less than 15 minutes of accumulated instability over the course of the month. The breakdown by sites is as follows (these figures include instabilities recorded during configuration runs): MONTH >5 hr >2 hr > 1hr >30 min >15 min <= 15min <98.7% <99.7% <99.87% <99.93% <99.97% >=99.97% ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 October 0 3 3 10 25 50 GateD Deployment Update ======================= During October we continued testing the initial GateD release for the T3 network that supports BGP4 and interoperability with rcp_routed. A recent change resulting from testing involves improved protocol processing during large route downloads from the AIX kernel to the packet forwarding adapters. We expect deployment of GateD to begin in November with support for external BGP version 4 peers available soon thereafter. Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Albuquerque POP Installation ============================ On November 5th a new CNSS node will be added to the T3 ANSnet in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This CNSS will initially support two new T3 ENSS sites in Albuquerque (Sandia National Laboratories and Phillips Laboratories). Within the next few months, additional CNSS equipment will be added to support the attachment of other networks in the Albuquerque region. Notable Outages in October '93 ============================== UNAM (Mexico) suffered an extended circuit outages on 10/01 and 10/21. E173 (ITESM) suffered an extended outage on 10/3 due to power problems. EBS2 (Cern) suffered extended circuit outages on 10/5, 10/6, and 10/10. E173 (ITESM) suffered an extended circuit outage on 10/11. E141 (Boulder) and E142 (Salt Lake) lost T3 connectivity on 10/12 due to hardware problems due to hardware problems on a core router. Jordan Becker BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- Real-Time Multicast (Communications) ------------------------------------ Work in September concentrated on testing and demonstrating the various network capabilities developed in the project. With the help of other DARTnet researchers, we performed several tests on the DARTnet testbed of multi-level flows, RCOs (Resource Coordination Objects), and shared streams. These tests used a modified version of the "nv" video-conferencing program that supports multi-level video data flows (described in last month's report), and the standard version of the VAT audio-conferencing tool, which was used for a shared-stream-based audio conference. The shared-stream experiment uses RCOs to propagate reservation information for each VAT audio source, which share common bandwidth where the flows overlap in the network. The Fair Share resource- Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 enforcement mechanism was used to enforce the bandwidth reservations for the multicast flows. Inter Domain Policy Routing --------------------------- During the months of September and October, we made considerable progress on our implementation of multicast and multipath routing for IDPR. This involved changes to the procedures for generating routes, setting up paths, and distributing routing information. Although only minor changes to the IDPR protocols are required to support both multicast and multipath routing, the software for route generation and path setup required extensive redesign to support these features. We expect to start testing in December. Karen Seo CONCERT ------- CONCERT has received two NSF Connections Grants allowing for the connection of 16 Universities / Colleges/ Community Colleges in the State of North Carolina. The communications research group's resource management experiment has been slowed down a bit due to switching to Solaris 2.2. However, the real time (RT) scheduling class in Solaris 2.2 seems to be useful for a number of networking and multimedia experiments. For example, we expect to use this support in implementing a leaky bucket mechanism and in implementing an audio echo cancellation algorithm. Work is underway to port the University of Virginia, Charlottesville implementation of XTP(version 3.6) for the IBM RISC 6000 platforms running AIX to the Cray-YMP-EL running UNICOS. This implementation of XTP is more efficient compared to the KRM version (KRM 1.6 and 1.7) that was ported to the Cray earlier this year. An updated version of the packet video catalog listing packet audio and video packages (based on the previous work of to Chris Adie) will be placed on the ftp site ftp.concert.net early this week. This is a live document and will be updated periodically as new packages are announced and existing ones evolve. by Tom Sandoski Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 INTERNIC --------- INFORMATION SERVICES Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Toll-free hotline +1 800 444-4345 email info@internic.net Fax +1 619 455-4640 InterNIC Suggestions or Complaints Suggestions suggestions@internic.net Complaints complaints@internic.net NSF Network News newsletter subscriptions newsletter-request@internic.net newsletter comments newsletter-comments@internic.net Listserv lists net-happenings listserv@internic.net net-resources listserv@is.internic.net nics listserv@is.internic.net InfoSource Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 NIC Fest '93 ------------ The first annual NIC Fest workshop was held November 6 in San Diego. The daylong workshop was held in conjunction with the ACM SIGUCCS '93 conference. NIC Fest was specifically designed for network information center (NIC) management, staff, and other personnel who provide support for Internet users. Approximately 130 NIC staffers from around the country, as well as Japan, Hong Kong, Germany and Canada attended the conference. The following midlevel networks were represented: Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 MIDnet, BARRnet, OARnet, CICnet, NYSERNet, PREPnet, Northwestnet, VERnet, MOREnet, Merit, and CERFnet. All participants listed some kind of NIC support functions, often help-desk, documentation, and/or training. Speakers included: Alan Emtage, Vice President of Research and Development, Bunyip Information Systems, and co-developer of Archie David R. Conrad, Technical Contact for the Asia Pacific Network Information Center in Tokyo, Japan Jane Smith, Assistant Director, Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) Joyce Reynolds, Technical Staff, ISI; Area Director, IETF User Services (Internet Engineering Task Force) The InterNIC Team: Susan Calcari, InterNIC Information Services Subu Subramanian, InterNIC Directory and Database Services Scott Williamson, InterNIC Registration Services NIC Fest Featured The Following: -------------------------------- InterNIC Services and Discussion A summary and discussion of InterNIC services presented by Susan Calcari of Information Services, Subu Subramanian of Directory and Database Services, and John Zalubski of Registration Services. Network Tools, Parts I and II An overview of the network tools currently available and how they work. Presented by Jane Smith of the Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) and Alan Emtage of Bunyip Information Systems, the discussion also included future developments of the tools. NIC Projects, Part I Joyce Reynolds of the Information Sciences Institute and Director of the User Services Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) presented a broad overview of the IETF Areas and working groups, and NIC projects being undertaken around Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 the US. NIC Projects, Part II In this part of the discussion, Joyce Reynolds presented an overview of NIC Projects from around the world. David Conrad of the Asia Pacific NIC presented a discussion on the ongoing development of his NIC. NICLink ------- InterNIC Information Services will release a special introductory issue of NICLink, a CD-ROM subscription product to be issued quarterly. The NICLink CD will contain the InfoSource, the Information Services online information database that highlights the information resources of the Internet. Additional information, images, electronic books, and software from the Internet will be included in future issues. The CD-ROM will be compatible with Macintosh, PC Windows, and some UNIX configurations. The software used to present the data is Interleaf's WorldView, which incorporates full database search functions as well as hypertext linking capabilities to provide a powerful, easy-to-use interface. Contact the Information Services Reference Desk or the InterNIC Store on the InfoSource for details. NSF Network News ---------------- The September issue of the _NSF Network News_ has been published and is arriving in mailboxes in all 50 states and 44 countries. The newsletter will be distributed in hard copy and electronic formats. There is no subscription fee, except for international suscribers who want to receive hard copy format. A $30 annual fee will be charged to defray the cost of overseas shipping and handling. The primary electronic format will be ascii which will be emailed to users. A PostScript version will also be available. In addition to subscription delivery, the newsletter will be placed online in the InfoSource. Each issue of the newsletter includes maps of US and international internet connectivity. The _NSF Network News_ is also available in ASCII format in the InfoSource. The ASCII version does not contain the connectivity information. Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 For more information, or to subscribe, email to newsletter-request@is.internic.net. Reference Desk -------------- The following table gives a summary of the Reference Desk contacts for October. Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 230 12 Phone 1694 84 Fax 67 3 US Mail 14 < 1 Other 0 n/a ------- -------- --------- Total 2005 100 by Paul Wilson DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES Since there are many potential users whose sole access to the Internet is through electronic mail, InterNIC Directory and Database Services supports a mail server that gives access to many of our services. Complete instructions for use of the mail server are available by sending mail to mailserv@ds.internic.net and putting the word "help" (without the quotes) in the BODY of the message. We have tried to make as many services as possible available through the mail server, including access to all files available via FTP and the ability to search our Directory of Directories. A few of our services (e.g. Netfind) require interaction between the user and the service, so they are not available through the mail server. The basic services available include: - access to all files on our server that can be reached by FTP - access to X.500 and WHOIS directory searches - directory of directories searches by topic Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 - keyword searches of our document collection We also support access to archie by mail. For compatability with the rest of the archie world, archie is accessed by sending mail to "archie" rather than sending mail to "mailserv". To help spread the load a bit, there are a few restrictions on use of the mail server: - each message is limited to 15 queries and file transfer requests - the information returned by file transfer is limited to 500K bytes - CPU time for message processing is limited to 15 seconds One frequent cause of errors with the mail server is that the command is put on the "Subject:" line rather than in the body of the message. Since our server accepts multiple commands per message, we accept commands from the body of the message rather than the "Subject:" line. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. by Rick Huber REGISTRATION SERVICES I. Significant Events During the month of October, the InterNIC changed the menu selections on the 1-800 number. Customers calling the numbers are now being referred to #1 Information Services, #2 Directory and Database Services, and #3 Registration Services. This change reduced confusion for callers and for InterNIC staff members. The Internet continues to grow every month. According to our statistics there are over 12,252 domains in the InterNIC database and we also registered a record 729 inverse addresses as well. The Internet is becoming more popular than it's ever been and the general public is reaping the benefits. Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 II. Registration Statistics October Hostmaster Email 3,127 Postal/Fax Applications 233 Telephone Calls 1,360 Domain Registered 577 Inverse Addresses 729 Class C's Assigned 6,676 Class B's Assigned 46 ASN Assigned 55 Connections Retrievals Gopher Sessions 47,358 15,267 Wais Sessions 17,952 31,974 Ftp Sessions 6,301 26,204 Telnet Sessions 43,318 Mail Server 754 by John Zalubski ISI --- GIGABIT NETWORKING Atomic Project Our principal research this month has focused on three topics: 1) Installation and testing of the 100' ATOMIC cables. 2) High-level design of the PC-ATOMIC interface for the Gateway 486 DX66V personal computer. 3) Release of ATOMIC Software. 4) Testing of a 64-processor Mosaic board. 1) We have installed two ATOMIC cables and have integrated them into normal operation of the LAN. One cable is 100' long and the other is 120' long. Each have been tested at about 300Mb/s and have been running for several weeks without significant problems. 2) We have been actively examining various design alternatives for this VL-Bus ATOMIC interface card. Recently we have decided to replace the Memoryless Mosaic chips in our design with the forthcoming Lanai chip that should be available in January. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Pinouts will be available in December, so our complete board layout will begin at that time. The Lanai chip is optimized for network interfacing and will include some features for real-time scheduling. 3) We have moved the Address Consultant code into the kernel This makes the code more portable to operating systems other than SUN OS and allows sites without a source license to install the ATOMIC device driver into their systems. The code has been made available to selected sites with ATOMIC hardware. 4) We recently installed a 64-processor Mosaic-C board as the main switch in our LAN. It provides 16 bidirectional ports for connecting hosts or other switches. We have verified its correct operation and are working on integrating it into the network. Annette DeSchon, Bob Felderman, Greg Finn ISI High Performance Computing and Communication Division Mike Gorman, Jeff LaCoss ISI Integrated Systems Laboratory Infrastructure Jon Postel, Joyce Reynolds, Bob Braden, Ann Cooper, Steve Casner, Deborah Estrin, and Paul Mockapetris attened the IETF meetings in Houston, TX, October 30-Nov 5. Joyce Reynolds, attended the EARN's Network Services Conference in Warsaw, Poland, October 9-17. Joyce Reynolds attended CERFnet NIC Fest as keynote speaker, November 5- 7th. 16 RFCs were published this month. RFC 1528: Malamud, C., (Internet Multicasting Service) and M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.), "Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Remote Printing -- Technical Procedures, October 1993 RFC 1529: Malamud, C., (Internet Multicasting Service) and M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.), "Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Remote Printing -- Administrative Procedures, October 1993. Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 RFC 1530: Malamud, C., (Internet Multicasting Service) and M. Rose, (Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.), "Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: General Principles and Policy, October 1993. RFC 1531: Droms, R., "Dymanic Host Configuration Protocol", Bucknell University, October 1993. RFC 1532: Wimer, W., "Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol", Carnegie Mellon University, October 1993. RFC 1533: Alexander, S., (Lachman Technology, Inc.) and R. Droms, (Bucknell University), "DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions", October 1993. RFC 1534: Droms, R., "Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP" Bucknell University, October 1993. RFC 1535: Gavron, E., "A Security Problem and Proposed Correction With Widely Deployed DNS Software", ACES Research Inc., October 1993. RFC 1536: Kumar, A., (ISI) J. Postel, (ISI) C. Neuman (ISI), P. Danzig, (ISI), and S. Miller (USC), "Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes", October 1993. RFC 1537: Beertema, P., " Common DNS Data File Configuration Errors", CWI, October 1993. RFC 1538: Behl, W., B. Sterling (McDATA Corp), W. Teskey, (I/O Concepts), "Advanced SNA/IP : A Simple SNA Transport Protocol, October 1993. RFC 1539: Malkin, G., "The Tao of IETF", Xylogics, Inc., October 1993. RFC 1540: Internet Architecture Board, J. Postel, Editor, "Internet Official Protocol Standards", October 1993. RFC 1541: Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol", Bucknell University, October 1993. Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 RFC 1542: Wimer, W., "Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol", Carnegie Mellon University, October 1993. RFC 1543: Postel, J., "Instructions to RFC Authors", ISI October 1993. THE US DOMAIN ------------- Ann Cooper gave a presentation about the US Domain, at the IETF USWG working group meeting in Houston, Texas, November 3rd. For more information about 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 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX/PHONE 517 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 517 DELEGATIONS 257 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 30 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 230 --------------------------- Total 517 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES INCLUDE: modifications, 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. Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 OCTOBER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS ----------------------------- K12.AZ.US Arizona K12 Schools K12.GA.US Georgia K12 Schools K12.IN.US Indiana K12 Schools K12.KY.US Kentucky K12 Schools K12.MS.US Mississippi K12 Schools K12.NC.US North Carolina K12 Schools K12.OH.US Ohio K12 Schools K12.WV.US West Virginia K12 Schools STATE.AZ.US Arizona State Government STATE.GA.US Georgia State Government STATE.IN.US Indiana State Government STATE.KY.US Kentucky State Government STATE.MS.US Mississippi State Government STATE.NC.US North Carolina State Government STATE.NM.US New Mexico State Government STATE.OH.US Ohion State Government STATE.VT.US Vermont State Government STATE.WV.US West Virginia State Government STATE.WY.US Wyoming State Government LIB.AZ.US Arizona Libraries LIB.GA.US Kentucky Libraries LIB.IN.US Indiana Libraries LIB.KY.US Kentucky Libraries LIB.NC.US North Carolina Libraries LIB.OH.US Ohio Libraries LIB.WV.US West Virginia Libraries TEC.GA.US GeorgiaTechnical Schools TEC.IN.US Indiana Technical Schools TEC.KY.US Kentucky Technical Schools TEC.OH.US Ohio Technical Schools TEC.WV.US West Virginia Technical Schools CC.IN.US Indiana Community Colleges CC.KY.US Kentucky Community Colleges CC.OH.US Ohio Community Colleges CC.WV.US West Virginia Community Colleges GEN.IN.US Indiana "general" subdomain GEN.KY.US Kentucky "general" subdomain GEN.OH.US Ohio "general" subdomain GEN.WV.US West Virginia "general" subdomain Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 MUS.IN.US Indiana Museums MUS.KY.US Kentucky Museums MUS.OH.US Ohio Museums MUS.WV.US West Virginia Museums 19 Localities in Georgia 14 Localities in Ohio 164 Localities in South Carolina OTHER DELEGATIONS ----------------- EXCEED K12.TN.US Exceed Inc. Consortium for K12 schools CI.DIAMOND-BAR.CA.US Diamond Bar, California city gov't agencies CI.JAX.FL.US Jacksonville Florida, City gov't agencies CI.PHOENIX.AZ.US Phoenix Arizona, City gov't agencies CI.SANTA-MONICA.CA.US Santa Monica City gov't agencies CO.LEE.FL.US Lee County, Florida, county agencies INTERACT.K12.NV.US Clark County Public Education Foundation OKLADOT.STATE.OK.US Oklahoma Department of Transportation TELECOMM.CO.ORANGE.FL.US Orange County, Fl. Telecommunications ELHS.LIMESTONE.K12.AL.US East Limestone High School BLACKSBURG.VA.US Blacksburg locality MONTGOMERY.K12.VA.US Montgonery Virginia school district BEV.PVT.K12.VA.US Private school in Blacksburg MONTGOMERY-FLOYD.LIB.VA.US Montgomery & Floyd County Regional Libr. MORGANTOWN.WV.US Morgantown West Virginia BUCKHANNON.WV.US Buckhannon West Virginia UEN.GEN.UT.US Utah Educational Network DE LONG-SJ.CA.US DeLong Family Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING This month, we publicly released mmcc, the multimedia conference control program. Mmcc is a session orchestration tool that allows a user to explicitly invite others to participate in a conference, and alerts them to accept or decline. Mmcc is an X-based tool that provides both point-to-point and multipoint teleconferences. It automatically spawns underlying audio, video and groupware programs among members of a session, then tears them down at session completion. Currently, mmcc brings up vat by default, and offers the option to start nv and wb, but in the future we'd like to support other MBone tools as well. Mmcc will distribute a session key for confidential sessions. In this preliminary version, the key is sent in the clear, so it is not secure, but eventually we expect to use other techniques for secure key distribution. Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Mmcc aims to supplement the large open-style sessions supported by the existing version of sd. It complements the hailing-channel approach of public sessions with a more private session style for smaller conferences. Thus, session advertisement is internal to the group of participating conferees. The mmcc release software is available via anonymous FTP from "ftp.isi.edu:confctrl/mmcc.tar.Z". The Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) specification from the IETF Audio/Video Transport working group has been augmented to provide for application-specific option number assignment and to clarify and explain a number of points. With these edits completed, the document has been submitted to the IESG for the "Last Call" before publication as an RFC. Joe Touch, Eve Schooler, Steve Casner (Touch@ISI.EDU, Schooler@ISI.EDU, Casner@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. How to contact GES: Network operations center (NOC): 609-897-7319 and 609-897-7320; noc@jvnc.net Customer Service: 609-897-7318 and 609-897-7337; support@jvnc.net II. Symposia Series (open to the public) A. OSI and X.400 and X.500: Planning and Implementation Date: December 7, 1993 Instructors: Sue Hares, Internet Engineer, Merit,Inc. and Kevin Jordan, Senior Software Engineer at Control Data Corp., Minneapolis. Contact: hammer@jvnc.net B. Cisco Router Technical Training (open to the public) Title: Cisco router configuration course Five day, hands-on class, to learn and practice the commands to configure routers on a multi-protocol network. Live network connectivity enhances the experience. Dates: November 29-December 3, 1993 December 13-17, 1993 January 10-January 14, 1994 For further details, send email to: training@jvnc.net Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 C. Partial list of new on-line members (fully operational September and October, 1993) American Association of Medical Colleges, Washington,D.C. Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA Advanced Projects Research, Hightstown, NJ Toto Software, Waterbury, CT Casino Control Commission, Atlantic City, NJ C. Buckley, Plainsboro, NJ InfoWorks, Inc., Landenberg, PA Muze, Inc., Brooklyn, NY National Medical Care Lifechem NJ D. Bischoff, Somerset, NJ LRP/Kodak, New Haven, CT D. Nevins, King of Prussia, PA New Technology Solutions, Inc., New York, NY NXT Interiors, New York, NY OKS Limited, Haverford, PA Periphonics Corporation, Bohemia, NY Pharmacopeia Inc., Princeton, NJ Scholastic, New York, NY Seth Godin Productions, Inc., Mt. Vernon, NY Smithco Engineering, Tulsa, OK G. Sobotka, Bridgeport, CT TDR, Morristown, NJ US Capital Insurance, White Plains, NY Western Connecticut Library Council, Inc, Middlebury,CT Michael W. Coon & Assoc., Inc., Bloomfield, NJ by Rochelle Hammer LOS NETTOS ---------- Walt Prue attended the regional techs meeting at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor October 4th and 5th. Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU) MERIT/MICHNET ------------- At the close of October, Merit has grown to ten member institutions and 60 affiliates. Northern Michigan University in Marquette is the newest Merit Member. NMU will initially have two 56Kbps attachments, one linking the university to the MichNet node at Michigan Technological University and the other to the backbone node in Grand Rapids. NMU will host the Marquette MichNet dial-in, Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 as well as Michigan State University facilities. The Rapid Response Manufacturing Center in Redford, Michigan will be connected at 56Kbps to the MichNet node at Wayne State University. The manufacturing technology and research organization, sponsored by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, will fund its MichNet connection through a grant from the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST). Jackson Community College recently upgraded to a 56Kbps link with the assistance of an NSF Connections grant. JCC also participated with Merit in upgrading the Jackson area MichNet dial-in service, bringing additional phone lines into the Jackson hunt group. The new modems will also be compatible with Merit's planned Network Access Servers (NAS) scheduled for deployment throughout the MichNet backbone in 1994. The Livingston PortMaster at the University of Michigan MichNet site is now in production. The dial-in access offered through the UM/MichNet NAS is currently limited to PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) access only and requires authentication. Access will be broadened to include dumb-terminal emulation in the future. NAS configuration is specified for flexibility in modem speeds, error correction and data compression. Sandra Waite represented Merit/MichNet interests at "Building Consensus/Building Models for K12 Networking Assistance," a project funded by the National Science Foundation and carried out by FARNET and CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking). This new initiative will work to bring together leaders in K12 education, networking and public policy to develop models for successful technical assistance to schools implementing school-based networks. Dana Sitzler, Merit K-12 Outreach Coordinator, participated in the National Information Infrastructure Education Forum in Washington, D.C. Sitzler also presented information on "how to get connected" to the Internet and Merit's "Cruise of the Internet" at the Michigan Association for Educational Data Systems (MAEDS) conference in Bellaire, Michigan and the October Tech Expo held in Petoskey, Michigan. Sitzler and Ellen Hoffman, Merit's Development Director, attended the Great Lakes Council of Governors Summit on Information and Technology, held in Indianapolis, IN. Laura Kelleher, Merit's Network Applications Coordinator, presented Merit's "Cruise of the Internet" at October meetings of MACUL and the Michigan Library Association. Pat Smith, Merit Customer Service Coordinator, provided information resources at the MLA gathering. A special edition of Merit's "Cruise of the Internet" and a hands-on demonstration of Internet tools and resources for 275 employees Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 from various State of Michigan departments was designed and presented by Smith, Steve Burdick, Betty Van Dam and Ellen Hoffman. The State of Michigan has adopted TCP/IP as the networking standard for the state's departmental initiatives. Jo Ann Ward (jaw@merit.edu) Merit Network, Inc. Information Services MERIT/NSFNET INTERNET ENGINEERING --------------------------------- This report contains a summary of recent activities of Merit's Internet Engineering Group. These include development of capabilities in the Policy Routing Database system to represent, generate NSFNET/ANS backbone configuration files, and test new software, for deployment of the CIDR and BGP-4 routing architecture. Additionally, Merit staff have made progress on implementation of a "CIDR Aggregate Registry", described in RFC 1482, for registration of aggregated routing information between providers. In early October, Merit hosted a meeting of the Regional-Techs group, which discussed a number of topics related to coordination among providers for CIDR deployment and registration of routing information. The Shared Whois Project (SWIP) is an ongoing joint project between InterNIC, RIPE NCC and Merit. Policy Routing Database Changes and CIDR Deployment In preparation for deployment of the GateD routing daemon on the ANS backbone, supporting the BGP-4 protocol for CIDR, changes were completed in the Merit/NSFNET PRDB in order to support inbound acceptance and outbound announcement of route aggregates. The PRDB can now generate GateD configuration files for the ANSNET backbone. These files can include configuration for the new BGP-4 features. Merit engineers are cooperating with the ANS backbone engineering staff in testing GateD operation on the T3 research network, and in the initial deployment of the new version of GateD on the Washington DC to Geneva, Switzerland circuit. The initial production deployment of the PRDB changes for CIDR will include a change in the notation of network numbers to the classless format ("x.x.x/len"). This change will be visible to all external users of whois or the PRDB reports. The whois server commands will start using the new notation, and ans_core.now, country.now, and net-comp.now will be replaced with their new versions (currently produced as ans_core.cidr, country.cidr, and net-comp.cidr). Prefix lengths of 8, 16, or 24 will be put into Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 the PRDB for all existing nets with classes A, B and C respectively. The Network Announcement Change Request (NACR) templates, both e- mail and interactive client interfaces, will be changed to accept aggregated announcements. Once GateD is deployed, BGP-4 will be supported initially without announcing or accepting aggregated routes, however. After BGP-4 appears to be stable, controlled experiments with aggregation will be done in cooperation with regional and midlevel networks. Still to be implemented in the database is the "proxy aggregation" as described in RFC 1482. In this case the backbone can be configured to aggregate on behalf of the regional network in response to the announcement of one or a set of network numbers comprising the total aggregate. This feature will be supported by the time NACR support for aggregation is made available. CIDR Aggregate Registry Changes to the Aggregate Registry function described in RFC 1482 were made at the October Regional-Techs meeting. The original proposed functionality was split into a Aggregate Registry (one entry per aggregate, with source AS) and a possible separate Routed Net registry giving AS topology with aggregate announcements. Initially these registries will list only network prefixes which are not class A/B/C nets, but the longer term goal is to allow all nets regardless of class to be returned by the same server. The Aggregate Registry project will be implemented first as it is a relatively straightforward project, with the Routed Net Registry project being implemented next. It is expected that these registries will be of assistance in the global BGP-4 tunnel testbed led by Andrew Partan and Peter Lothberg. Regional-Techs Meeting A meeting of the Regional-Techs group was held in Ann Arbor on October 4-5. The focus of the meeting was to discuss CIDR Deployment, routing registration, and NSFNET transition issues with respect to coordination among network providers. The group decided that it will be important to broaden its scope to include any interested network providers rather than restrict the discussion to NSFNET-attached regionals and midlevels. It was decided that for the foreseeable future, Merit will continue to host the group, but meetings may be held at different locations with other network provider sponsors. A suggestion for a new name for the group was Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 North American Network Operators Group, though a name was not finalized and is open to discussion. A summary of the meeting is available for anonymous ftp: merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/regional-techs/1093/rtechs.ps SWIP Project The Shared Whois Project is a joint project between Merit, RIPE NCC and InterNIC to synchronize data among the Internet numbering and routing registries, and implement various databases and implement automatic update procedures. It is a goal of the three organizations to synchronize data by April, 1994 and begin to use the update procedures at that time. A working document can be found in merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/swip/swip.ps Mark Knopper (mak@merit.edu) MERIT/NSFNET INFORMATION SERVICES --------------------------------- Merit/NSFNET Information Services Merit will present another in its series of Networking Seminars January 27-28, 1994, in Orlando, Florida. Making Your Internet Connection Count: Technology, Tools and Resources" will be held at the Walt Disney World Yacht Club Resort. Co-sponsored by Florida State University and the University of Florida, this seminar includes an overview of Internet resources, popular tools for network access, and the national policies that affect its growth. Nationally known experts talk to attendees about network resources, getting connected and how the network is effectively being used today by universities, research organizations, libraries, and public schools. Interactive breakout sessions each day make it possible to get your questions answered by experts. Scheduled topics and speakers include "The Telecommunications Future," the keynote address by Bob Hederick, President EDUCOM; "Information Delivery on the Internet--What's Next for Gopher?," Mark McCahill, Gopher Developer at the University of Minnesota; University of Michigan Weather Underground, Perry Samson, Professor Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan; Electronic Democracy, Jean Armour Polly, Manager of Network Development and User Training NYSERNet, Inc.; NSFNET and Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 the NII, Priscilla Huston, NSFNET Project Director, NSF; and the closing address by Donna Cox, Directory of Numerical Lab Programs, NCSA. Internet connectivity will be available in a hands-on demonstration room, where seminar attendees can access the many resources on the Internet using the latest information delivery tools. The registration fee is $495 until December 23, 1993. After December 23, the cost is $595. This fee includes the two-day seminar, all seminar materials, receptions on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, lunches on Thursday and Friday, refreshments and access to Internet-connected computers. Limited scholarships will be available. The deadline for scholarship applications is December 23, 1993. For more information, send an e-mail message to nic-info@nic.merit.edu with the text send next.seminar This information is also available as the document /nsfnet/next.seminar on nic.merit.edu for retrieval using Anonymous FTP or in the Gopher server on nic.merit.edu, port 70, as Next Merit/NSFNET Seminar--Jan. '94. New information available on nic.merit.edu, the Merit Network Information Center Services host computer includes A directory devoted to the Proceedings of the annual Internet Society conference, INET '93, held in San Francisco during August 1993. Available as /conference.proceedings/inet93 The description of EUnet Traveller, allowing Internet access via local dial-up within much of Europe. Available as /internet/providers/eunet-traveller.txt Lebanon and Guam are the newest international sites with announcement to the NSFNET backbone during October. Foreign networks now number 7,539 of the total 17,979 networks announced to the NSFNET backbone. Growth as reflected in the number of domestic and foreign networks having announcement to the NSFNET infrastructures, as well as network distribution by country over the term of the NSFNET project, are available as /nsfnet/statistics/history.netcount Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 and /nsfnet/statistics/nets.by.country respectively on nic.merit.edu. 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. Ellen Hoffman, Merit Development Director, attended the 1993 EDUCOM program, "Crafting New Communities." Steve Burdick, Coordinator of Merit Multimedia Applications, traveled to the MacroMedia conference in San Francisco, CA. Jim Williams, Associate Director for National Networking, represented Merit at meetings of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee and Western Cooperative Educational Telecommunications. Eric Aupperle, President of Merit Network, and Williams attended the October FARNET meeting held in Washington, D.C. Jo Ann Ward (jward@merit.edu) NORTHWESTNET ------------- NorthWestNet's Annual Meeting was held from October 12-15 at the Seattle Hilton with approximately 310 registered participants. In addition to 5 keynote presentations and 21 track sessions, a 7.5 hour, three part series on libraries and computing centers was held to examine the evolving relationships between these two groups. The series examined areas of overlap and conflict--from mission statements to solving users problems--and through dialogue began exploring the foundations of cooperative production and distribution of integrated, electronic information services. Keynote presentations included an inspired and fresh view of what the Internet and K-12 can bring to each other (Fred Dust, The Bush School); an overview of the current NSFNET backbone and NREN (Richard Mandelbaum, NYSERNet); a look at national NII policy under development (Charles McClure, Syracuse University); an examination of cooperative ventures and commercial interests in the development of the NII (Jim Elias, US West); and an overview of the current state of, and future opportunities for, NorthWestNet (Eric Hood, NorthWestNet). All NorthWestNet governance and representative committees-- executive committee, board of directors, institutional representatives, technical services representatives, and user services representatives--convened in conjunction with the Annual Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Meeting. Two major new services for NorthWestNet members were unveiled in October. First, a NorthWestNet Gopher, that includes an online, searchable version of "The Internet Passport," was announced and made available to our member communities. Second, the Willow graphical information retrieval tool, designed by the University of Washington, is also now available to the NorthWestNet member community for use in accessing online, text-based bibliographic databases. We welcome our newest NorthWestNet member, R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Institute. ----------------- NorthWestNet info@nwnet.net 15400 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, Director 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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Advanced Reactor Corp. Pittsburgh, PA Allentown College Center Valley, PA Sewickley Academy Sewickley, PA Microserve Information Systems Plymouth, PA Bentley Systems Exton, PA With these additions, PREPnet now totals 144 members. PREPnet News: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ PREPnet added a new staff member this month. Amy Hauber was hired as the PREPnet NIC's Secretary. Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 PREPnet's Executive Director Tom Bajzek attended the FARNET meeting October 6-8 in Washington,D.C. Tom is Secretary of FARNET. On October 12, Tom Bajzek and Daryl Dolan represented PREPnet at "Technology for Education," an exhibit presented by Computerware and Apple Computer at Fox Chapel Area High School, in Pittsburgh. Tom conducted a breakout session on Internet access. With the help of Fox Chapel Area High School, PREPnet was able to do live demonstrations during the exhibition. Several applications were shown, including e-mail, telnet, and gopher. PREPnet's NIC Manager Marsha Perrott met with representatives from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Bell of Pennsylvania regarding OSPF deployment. During a conference call, an implementation plan was discussed. The deployment on PREPnet's core should begin in mid-November. 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 PREPnet NIC (nic@prep.net) UCL ---- We demonstrated multiway Internet and ISDN conferencing at Interop in Paris all week. Mark Handley also presented two papers, on the MIE project and on a comparison of the various multicast schemes proposed by the members of the IDMR group. We had ISDN calls to a variety of places, and then used the MICE CMMC to mix them into an Internet multiway conference with audio, video and whiteboards. An effective demonstration tool has developed - the use of the game person a word, which they then attempt to draw in a wb, and the other particpants attempt to guess what the word was. Winner is frst correct guess, and chooses next word. While running this, we have been working on a tool for helping diagnose mbone problems based on background monitoring of the topology with a triggered traceroute -g on any suspect route, via the first hop mrouted, to the destination one. Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Two papers were accepted for the Journal of Distributed Systems Engineering, one on congestion control and another on dual window control in transport protocols - details available on request. [have to check the copyright on this journal] A paper on the Bilateral Policy Routing Protocol was sent to JHSN, and a paper on a Security Analysis of Intern-Dmain Routing Protocols was sent to ACM CCR. Details again avaialble on request [have to locate postscript]. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report October 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 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) Mar 29-Apr 1 IETF, Seattle, Washington 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) Jun 6-10 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Berlin, Germany Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Jul 25-29 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Tokyo, Japan Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Jul IETF Toronto, Canada Aug 28-Sep 2 IFIP World Computer Congress Hamburg, Germany; Contact: IFIP Aug 29-Sep 2 ACM SIGCOMM 94, UCL, London, England Contact J. Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk. or ACM Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Sep 12-16 NetWorld+INTEROP 94, Atlanta, Georgia Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com) Fall IETF San Francisco, California Oct 24-28 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 november 93 edition --------------------- 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 ------------------------------ 3/4 February 1994 Brussels 19/20 May 1994 Darmstadt 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv RARE Technical Committee ------------------------ 3 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 RARE Working Groups ------------------- CERT-TF 2 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) RIPE ---- 24-26 January Amsterdam (NIKHEF) 16-18 May Amsterdam (NIKHEF) VARIOUS ------- Euro-CAIRN 3 December Brussels DANTE Steering Committee 16 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) DANTE Shareholders 4 February Brussels EBONE Management Committee 9 November Copenhagen EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations EAT (Ebone Action Team) 29 November Bonn (GMD) EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 30 November Bonn (GMD) 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 Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 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 21-23 March Nice, France EARN Board of Directors 18-19 May Darmstadt INET'94/JENC5 Organising Committee 1 December Amsterdam (RARE Secretariat) *********************************************************************** 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. To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to . Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 Deadline for submission of contributions and proposals for demonstrations is 15 December 1993 - email . *********************************************************************** 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) OPENNET 93 ---------- The German-speaking countries conference on Internetworking from 8 to 11 November in Munich for information, please email 208z 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 (invitation and registration form) and /at.local/aconet/p-aconet-sem-5.ps (preliminary program) (From RARE Document Store, both in ASCII and postscript: ftp.rare.nl /rare/info/calendar/aconet-seminar.invitation.22.11.93 /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 43] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 3rd HIGH SPEED SYMPOSIUM ------------------------ organised by RARE with support from the CEC on 2 February 1994 in Brussels *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** to be sent to the High Speed Symposium Secretariat before 21 November 1993. Participation is free of charge; registration forms can be obtained from . To be added to the symposium email distribution list, send a message to . 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 15TH INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATICS AND PSYCHOLOGY ------------------------------------------------------------- organised by the Computer Science Department of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, in cooperation with the European Association for Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) from 24 till 26 May 1994 in Schaerding, Austria *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** deadline 15 January 1994 For further information, contact Michel Tauber . 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) Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report October 1993 ********************************************************************** EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ASSOCIATION (EEMA) 23/24 November Winter Conference Meeting Athens "Electronic Messaging - The Business Benefits, with illustrations from the Transport Industry" ********************************************************************** 1/11/93 Cooper [Page 45]