~ August 1994 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 August 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 DANTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 NORTHWESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34 NYSERNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35 PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 39 USER SERVICES REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 40 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 51 Rare List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 54 Cooper [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for August, 1994 1. The 30th meeting of the IETF was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from July 25 through July 29, 1994. The meeting was hosted by The University of Toronto. There were just over 700 attendees, and over 70 Working Groups, BOFs, and directorate meetings were held during the week. The next IETF meeting will be in San Jose, California from December 5-9, and is being hosted by Sun. Following that, the IETF will be meeting in Danvers, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) from April 3-7, 1995. This meeting is being co-hosted by FTP Software and NEARNet. 2. We are in the final stages of arranging the summer IETF meeting which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from July 17-21, 1995. Our hosts for the second European IETF meeting is NORDUnet. When all the arrangements have been made, a notice will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings (both tentative and confirmed), can be always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This and other IETF information can also be viewed via the World-Wide Web. The URL for the IETF Home page is http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.us/home.html 3. The IESG approved or approved the following two Protocol Actions during the month of August, 1994: o The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) be published as a Proposed Standard. o Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux) be published as a Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG issued ten Last Calls to the IETF during the month of August, 1994: Cooper [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2 AND IMAP2BIS for consideration as an Informational Document. o DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4 for consideration as an Informational Document. o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information for consideration as a Draft Standard. o RIP Version 2 MIB Extension for consideration as a Draft Standard. o RIP Version 2 Protocol Analysis for consideration as an Informational Document. o RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Requirements for Internet gateways for comments to reclassifying as Historic. o Exterior Gateway Protocol formal specification for comments to reclassifying as Historic. 5. Two Working Groups were created during this period: New Internet Routing and Addressing Architecture (nimrod) Inter-Domain Routing (idr) Additionally, seven Working Groups were concluded: Border Gateway Protocol (bgp) User Documents Revisions (userdoc2) OSI IDRP for IP Over IP (ipidrp) Cooper [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Networked Information Retrieval (nir) Modem Management (modemmgt) ATM MIB (atommib) Relational Database Management Systems MIB (rdbmsmib) Note that the Inter-Domain Routing (idr) Working Group is actually the merging of the bgp and ipidrp working groups. 6. A total of 51 Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of August, 1994: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (idr) o BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction (wnils) o Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service (avt) o Packetization of H.261 video streams (iiir) o Resource Transponders (rolc) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (iiir) o A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service (uri) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL) (uri) o Uniform Resource Names (mhsds) o Introducing Project Long Bud: Internet Pilot Project for the Deployment of X.500 Directory Information in Support of X.400 Routing (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Node in Fibre Channel Standard using SMIv2 (none) o Mapping between X.400 P772 and RFC-822 (mailext) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages (ripv2) o RIP Version 2 MIB Extension (none) + Simple Object Look-up protocol (SOLO) (sipp) o IPv6 Authentication Header Cooper [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 (none) o Instructions to RFC Translators (imap) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4 (none) o Requirements for Uniform Resource Names (none) o Procedures for Formalizing, Evolving, and Maintaining the Internet X.500 Directory Schema (iab) o Proposed Cooperative Agreement Between the Internet Society and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 (wnils) o Architecture of the WHOIS++ service (printmib) o Printer MIB (uri) o Functional Requirements for Internet Resource Locators (none) o POP3 AUTHentication command (mailext) o SMTP 521 reply code (none) + Representing Service Quality In a Multi-Service Internet (ospf) + OSPF MD5 Authentication (none) + Service Management For a Next-Generation Internet Protocol (wnils) + How to interact with a Whois++ mesh (notary) + Multipart/Report (none) + Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header (none) + Simple Secure DNS (none) + Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital Document Library (imap) + DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4 (mailext) + Tags for the identification of languages (none) + An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation (none) + Summary of Mail and Messaging Standards (none) + Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet Domains (2nd Revision) Cooper [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 (pem) + Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part V: ANSI X9.17-Based Key Management (none) + Bitmap, Cursor and Icon Image Formats (bgp) + Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS) (none) + A Convention for Human-Readable 128-bit Keys (mailext) + SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (mailext) + SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart (none) + ARP over HIPPI (none) + IP over HIPPI (iiir) + Using the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol in the Internet Environment (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the HIPPI Interface Type (none) + Telnet Authentication: Simple-Strong Authentication (uri) + Relative Uniform Resource Locators (none) + Recommendations for OSI NSAP usage in IP6 7. There were 33 RFC's published during the month of August, 1994: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC1650 PS (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types using SMIv2 RFC1664 E (x400ops) Using the Internet DNS to Distribute RFC1327 Mail Address Mapping Tables RFC1666 PS (snanau) Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs using SMIv2 RFC1667 I (none) Modeling and Simulation Requirements for IPng RFC1668 I (none) Unified Routing Requirements for IPng RFC1669 I (none) Market Viability as a IPng Criteria RFC1670 I (none) Input to IPng Engineering Considerations RFC1671 I (none) IPng White Paper on Transition and Other Considerations Cooper [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 RFC1672 I (none) Accounting Requirements for IPng RFC1673 I (none) Electric Power Research Institute Comments on IPng RFC1674 I (none) A Cellular Industry View of IPng RFC1675 I (none) Security Concerns for IPng RFC1676 I (none) INFN Requirements for an IPng RFC1677 I (none) Tactical Radio Frequency Communication Requirments for IPng RFC1678 I (none) IPng Requirements of Large Corporate Networks RFC1679 I (none) HPN Working Group Input to the IPng Requirements Solicitation RFC1680 I (none) IPng Support for ATM Services RFC1681 I (none) On Many Addresses per Host RFC1682 I (none) IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis RFC1683 I (none) Multiprotocol Interoperability In IPng RFC1684 I (none) Introduction to White Pages services based on X.500 RFC1685 I (none) Writing X.400 O/R Names RFC1686 I (none) IPng Requirements: A Cable Television Industry Viewpoint RFC1687 I (none) A Large Corporate User's View of IPng RFC1688 I (none) IPng Mobility Considerations RFC1689 I (nir) A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups RFC1690 I (none) Introducing the Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) RFC1691 I (none) The Document Architecture for the Cornell Digital Library RFC1692 PS (none) Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux) RFC1694 DS (ifmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces using SMIv2 RFC1695 PS (atommib) Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management Version 8.0 using SMIv2 RFC1696 PS (modemmgt) Modem Management Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2 RFC1697 PS (rdbmsmib) Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Management Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2 St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya (scoya@nri.reston.va.us) Cooper [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- ANSNET/NSFNET BACKBONE ENGINEERING ---------------------------------- NETWORK STATUS SUMMARY ---------------------- ANSnet total packet traffic increased by about 13% in August'94. An increase in the ANSnet forwarding table size of 5.5% was observed during the month of August. AUGUST BACKBONE TRAFFIC STATISTICS ---------------------------------- The total inbound packet count for the ANSnet (measured using SNMP interface counters) was 70,954,833,675 on T3 ENSS interfaces, up 13.5% from July. The total packet count into the network including all ENSS serial interfaces was 71,692,393,856 up 13.0% from July. ROUTER FORWARDING TABLE STATISTICS ---------------------------------- The maximum number of destinations announced to the ANSnet during August was 18,846 up 5.56% from July. The number of network destinations configured for announcement to the ANSnet but never announced (silent nets) during August was 17,153. BGP-4/CIDR DEPLOYMENT STATUS ---------------------------- As of September 7th '94, we have observed the withdrawal of 7,714 class based destinations from the ANSnet router forwarding tables that are now represented by 1,518 configured aggregates. Among these configured aggregates: 1,319 of these are top-level aggregates (not nested in another aggregate). 1,081 of these are actively announced to ANSnet. 885 of these have at least one subnet configured (the other 196 may be saving the Internet future subnet announcements). Cooper [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 762 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of at least one configured more specific route. 742 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of 50% of their configured more specific routes. 717 of these have resulted in the withdrawal of most (80%+) of their more specific routes. For up-to-date information is available from merit.edu: pub/nsfnet/cidr/cidr-savings. For further details on these CIDR aggregates, see merit.edu:pub/nsfnet/cidr/nestings.announced for full listings. 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 overall system stability rather than complete connectivity. The month of August resulted in greater backbone stability than any other month during the year. Some instability was experienced due to planned maintenance required to install new router operating system software, along with unexpected problems with a gated bug during reconfiguration. MONTH overall excluding configs ------ ------- ----------------- 1993 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% November 97.2% N/A December 96.6% N/A 1994 January 98.7% N/A February 96.6% N/A ... data collection had to be rewritten for gated ... Cooper [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 June 99.5% N/A July 98.7% N/A August 99.7% N/A Monthly histograms of the number of nodes experiencing instability follows. August was the fist month in 1994 where all AS690 nodes experienced less than 15 minutes of accumulated instability. Note that about 1/3 of the nodes experienced no instability at all and are not included in the count. 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 November 1 2 15 25 24 26 December 0 8 24 46 9 3 January 0 0 4 9 15 54 February 0 4 6 23 40 20 ... June 0 0 0 5 5 67 July 0 7 55 11 10 7 Aug 0 0 0 0 0 67 NOTABLE OUTAGES FOR AUGUST '94 ------------------------------ E146 (ARPA) suffered an extended power outage on 08/14. E179 (Sandia) suffered an extended power outage on 08/19. Jordan Becker Cooper [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 DANTE ----- __________________________________________________________________ * * A bi-monthly electronic news bulletin * * reporting on the activities of DANTE, * the company that provides international * network services for the European THE WORKS OF D A N T E community. No.5, August 1994 Editor: Josefien Bersee __________________________________________________________________ 2 MBPS EUROPANET CONNECTION FOR NORDUNET Since 1 July 1994 NORDUnet, the network of the Nordic countries, has had a 2 Mbps connection to EuropaNET. Belgium, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom already had 2 Mbps connections. NEW EBONE GATEWAY ARRANGEMENT DANTE has organised a new interconnect arrangement between Ebone and EuropaNET, which has been in place since 1 July 1994. The arrangement enables France to communicate with the rest of Europe and vice versa; the interconnection has a capacity of 512 kbps. CERN (Geneva), as one of the locations where EuropaNET and Ebone are both present, is used as the actual point of interconnection but traffic flows in and out of EMPB through DANTE's PoP in Amsterdam. CONNECTIVITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The contract between the European Commission and PTT Telecom to provide EMPB (EuropaNET) connections to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania under the EC PHARE Programme was extended from 31 December 1993 to 30 June 1994. Since 1 July PTT Telecom has been continuing the service which is being funded from the remaining PHARE budget. However, this funding runs out very shortly. DANTE has been lobbying both PTT Telecom and the EC to the effect that termination of the services (at least without a replacement being put in place) would be very bad. PTT Telecom has now received a letter from the EC which gives them enough reassurance that payment will eventually be made from the PHARE 1994 Programme to keep the present services going. Both the technical and the funding aspects of the longer term Cooper [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 continuation of these services will be taken up again once the management contract for the PHARE 1994 Programme of support for research networking has been awarded by the EC. US CONNECTIVITY ISSUES DANTE will locate the US end of its new 8 Mbps link from Amsterdam to the US at the Network Access Point (NAP) in New York which is set up as a result of the new arrangements which have been put in place by NSF. Another consequence of NSF's changes is that the trans-(US-)continental broadband network is not available for general use. As a consequence, DANTE and other non-US organisations will have to make new arrangements with US service providers for distribution of their traffic with the US and for transit between Europe and Asia/Pacific (see also 'Some impressions from the 30th IETF'). The actual form of the NAP connection still has to be decided on: the choice will be either to obtain a direct connection or via a US service provider. CONNECTION TO KOREA IN PLACE A 64 kbps line between Europe and Korea has become operational on 23 August 1994. The line provides a direct link between KREONet (Korea Research Environment Open Network), the Korean national R&D network and EuropaNET. DANTE was awarded the contract to organise the connection under the EC EKORN project. KREONet, one of five government networks in Korea, was launched in 1988 and connects all the major university, government and commercial research institutes. It provides the Korean research community with the 'usual' services such as e-mail, file transfer, remote login etc. DANTE's partner in setting up the connection has been SERI (Systems Engineering Research Institute), the organisation that operates, manages and develops KREONet. EUROCAIRN ACTVITY TAKES OFF Work on the EuroCAIRN Study Report has started. A contract for this Project, to specify requirements and options for the setting up of a Superhighway for the European research community, was awarded to DANTE in May 1994. The Project team consists of DANTE employees complemented with a group of external specialists: Robert Cooper (UKERNA/SuperJANET), Bernhard Stockman (KTH, Stockholm), Maria Pallares and Chris Broomfield. Istvan Tetenyi, from HUNGARNET (Hungary) will be joining from October 1994. Cooper [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 DANTE is organising a meeting with representatives of the national networks in November 1994 to present the findings of the preliminary report. The final version of the report will be delivered in March 1995. SOME IMPRESSIONS FROM THE 30TH IETF, TORONTO - MICHAEL BEHRINGER As the title of this article suggests, this is not meant to be a precise report on the IETF, but rather an informal gathering of a few personal impressions. The most interesting decision that was to be made at this summer IETF 1994 was concerning the next generation of the Internet Protocol. Due to the current growth rate of routing tables, and the problems of running out of IP address space, the current version of the Internet Protocol has to be either updated or completely re- designed. Three proposals have been discussed as IP next generation, TUBA, CATNIP and SIPP (I won't explain the details here). Although it was not clearly stated during the Plenary Session, it was obvious that the choice for IPng went to SIPP. The "Simple Internet Protocol Plus" is supposed to tackle a whole range of problems experienced with the current version 4 of the IP, for example security aspects. Another important issue that the Internet has to face during the coming months is the change in the US infrastructure. The NSFnet backbone as it is today will disappear and be replaced by a completely new structure, based on Network Access Points (NAPs). Four of those neutral interconnection points will be provided and are currently being set up. The basic idea behind it is that network providers connect to one or more NAPs and peer there with other providers. Providers who need transit capacity to remote spots of the Internet will have to buy it from other providers. Unfortunately this model only looks at US requirements, without taking European or other non-US countries' concerns or problems into consideration. As there are a lot of unknowns in this new model, it was a heavily discussed item during the IETF, in sessions as well as off-line. Apart from those two major topics there were a lot of issues discussed in the numerous working groups. To list all the work that was done there would require a lot of paper or storage space. But the fact that quite a few people present at the IETF did not get out of the hotel more than once or twice during this week probably tells enough about the loads of work being done there. For more information, like proceedings, information on the Internet Society, working groups, etc. see: Cooper [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html WWW SERVER IN PLACE DANTE has set up its 'thread' in the World Wide Web . The server contains information on all DANTE services and activities. A picture of EuropaNET and statistics on EuropaNET backbone traffic will be updated on a monthly basis. DANTE is also maintaining a picture which gives an overview of Intercontinental connectivity of the European research community - via EuropaNET as well as other networks and arrangements. ____________________________________________________________________ DANTE - Lockton House - Clarendon Road - Cambridge - CB2 2BH - UK tel +44 223 302992 fax +44 223 303005 E-mail dante@dante.org.uk S=dante; O=dante; P=dante; A=mailnet; C=fi WWW server http://www.dante.net/ Gopher server gopher://gopher.dante.net/ ____________________________________________________________________ J.Bersee@dante.org.uk (Josefien Bersee) INTERNIC -------- INFORMATION SERVICES Contact Information: Reference Desk Information Phone +1 619 455-4600 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 Cooper [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 NICLink General Information info@internic.net Problems/bugs niclink-bugs@is.internic.net InterNIC Seminar Series General Information seminars@internic.net Listserv lists net-happenings majordomo@is.internic.net net-resources majordomo@is.internic.net scout-report majordomo@is.internic.net InfoGuide Host Name is.internic.net Host Address 192.153.156.15 URL: http://www.internic.net/ Postal address InterNIC Information Services General Atomics P.O. BOX 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 THE InterNIC INFOGUIDE The InterNIC InfoGuide is a comprehensive online information service which provides information about the Internet and online Internet resources. Accessible through gopher and the WorldWideWeb, the InterNIC InfoGuide replaces the older InterNIC information server, the InfoSource. The InfoGuide includes new services such as the Scout Report and an online hypertext version of the _NSF Network News_. To access the InterNIC InfoGuide, point your WorldWideWeb client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html or your gopher client to: is.internic.net NET-HAPPENINGS The net-happenings list is a service of InterNIC Information Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's SENDIT Network. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the Cooper [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 community announcements of interest to network staffers and end users. This includes conference announcements, call for papers, publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network resources. Net-happenings is a moderated, announcements-only mailing list which gathers announcements from many Internet sources and concentrates them onto one list. To provide better distribution to a wider audience, net-happenings was turned into a USENET newsgroup. The group passed its call for votes by a wide margin and (CFV) was named comp.internet.net-happenings. To access net-happenings, point your gopher client to: is.internic.net and search the InterNIC InfoGuide for Net-Happenings. THE SCOUT REPORT: A Weekly Summary of Internet Highlights Presently the Scout Report has over 7500 subscribers and the HTML versions on the InfoGuide are receiving thousands of accesses each week. A new mailing list was created for easier distribution of the HTML Scout Report, which is located at scout-report-html. Since its formation the new list has accumulated nearly 100 subscribers. The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed on network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place the highlights of new resource announcements and other news which occurred on the Internet during the previous week. The Scout Report is released every Friday in multiple formats -- electronic mail, gopher, and WorldWideWeb. WorldWideWeb versions of the Report include links to all listed resources allowing instantaneous browsing of items of interest. Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout@internic.net. How to Get the Scout Report To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. This mailing list will be used only to distribute the Scout Report once a week. Send mail to: majordomo@is.internic.net Cooper [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 In the body of the message, type: subscribe scout-report youremailaddress To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW client to: http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html Gopher users can tunnel to: is.internic.net/Information Services THE InterNIC SEMINAR SERIES InterNIC Information Service's first in-house course, "Learning the Whole Internet" is now available. This course, based on Ed Krol's "The Whole Internet" is a one-day seminar that covers the Internet basics as outlined in "The Whole Internet". Instruction includes the history and technology behind the Internet, Telnet, FTP, email, USENET, archie, Gopher, WAIS, and WWW. The audience for this course will be new and limited exposure (email only) Internet users. Past seminars presented by the InterNIC have been lecture presentations with the instructor providing brief demonstrations of Internet applications for the attendees. However, presentation of this course will encompass hands-on training and will be introduced in universities, colleges, corporations, and other locations with computer laboratory facilities. NSF NETWORK NEWS The _NSF Network News_ Vol. 1, No. 3 (July/August 1994) is now online. This issue features an interview with Laura Breeden, who is currently the director of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP). Also highlighted are articles profiling the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and its connection and history with NCSA Mosaic; a map designed by Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS) especially for NSF News readers that graphs the number of Internet Hosts per capita in the United States; a useful Registration Services FAQ; an informative"how-to" article on Internet publishing by Daniel Dern; and the regular features of the _NSF Network News_ such as the InterNIC Event Calendar and updates from InterNIC partners. To subscribe, send email to newsletter- request@internic.net. Cooper [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 The July/August issue of the _NSF Network News_ is available on the WorldWideWeb at http://www.internic.net/newsletter/jul-aug94/index.html The newsletter is also available via gopher to the InterNIC InfoGuide at is.internic.net and mailserv to mailserv@is.internic.net with the following text in the body of the message: get /about-internic/newsletter/nsfnews-aug94.txt REFERENCE DESK The following table gives a summary of Reference Desk contacts for August: Method Contacts % of Total ------- -------- --------- Email 162 5 Phone 2421 80 Fax 432 14 US Mail 14 <1 Referral 1 <1 ------- -------- --------- Total 3030 100.0 by Anna Knittle DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES In August, we made a number of changes to our services to improve usability. For our general telnet interface (the interface you see when you log in to our machines as "guest"), we added variable scrolling (the user can indicate how many lines are in one "screen" on his or her terminal) and improved both the help information and the tutorial. These changes were made in response to customer requests. We have installed a new version of WAIS (FreeWAIS from CNIDR) and a new WAIS client on all our machines. This system is currently in test mode, and can be tried by logging in as "nwais" to our servers. If you have your own WAIS client and would like to try our new server, you can connect to our hosts on port 8210 rather than the normal WAIS port, 210. Cooper [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 We have also installed Bunyip's latest version of Archie on one of our servers. This version includes a number of improvements. The most significant addition is that Archie can now search for Gopher menu items as well as anonymous FTP file names. Since it now stores information on Gopher menus as well as anonymous FTP archives, the new Archie database is substantially larger than the old. For this reason, the new Archie is currently available on only one of our servers (ds1.internic.net); additional storage has been ordered for the other servers but will not arrive for a while. To search Archie for Gopher menu items, Gopher to ds1.internic.net, and select "InterNIC Directory and Database Services" (item 4), "Search Anonymous FTP Site and Gopher Menu Indices using Archie" (item 8), and then "Gopher Index" (item 3). At that point, you might want to start with item 8 "Things you should know" and continue through item 13 to get an idea of how to use the system. If you do not have a Gopher client of your own, you can telnet to ds1.internic.net, log in as gopher, and follow the same steps. We welcome comments on any of these changes or additions. Users of the general telnet interface are given an opportunity to enter comments when they log out. Electronic mail comments can also be sent to our administrators at admin@ds.internic.net. 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 InterNIC Registration Services assigned over 6,000 network addresses and registered over 2,400 domains. Blocks of 256 Class C addresses were assigned to Globalcom, CAnet/Manitoba, UTAH Education, Sun.Belt, Sprint, Los Alamos, DEC, ADP, AT&T, Lawrence Livermore, Colorado Supernet, Galaxy, CA-NET Ontario. A top-level country domain for the Republic of Armenia was registered. Cooper [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 I. Registration Statistics For August Hostmaster Email 6,160 Postal/Fax Applications 266 Telephone Calls 1,492 Domain Registered 2,426 Inverse Addresses 667 Class C's Assigned 6,044 Class B's Assigned 27 ASN Assigned 59 The Registrations Services host computer supported a large volume of information retrieval requests during the month of August. Connections Retrievals Gopher 50,265 30,277 WAIS 32,055 44,065 FTP 10,005 41,453 Mailserv 2,535 In addition, for WHOIS the number of queries were: Client Server 231,999 654,313 Duane Stone ISI --- NETSTATION ========== Work this month continued to focus on protocol software investigation and development. The basic focus of the Netstation project is to determine the practicality of substituting a network/protocol interface for devices in place of the system bus and memory-mapped control registers. Whereas today's devices are typically memory mapped, the devices developed here would be network mapped. Ths new class of device would communicate with the outside world entirely via packets. A natural model is to communicate withe the device via remote procedure calls (RPCs). The resulting computing system with its devices becomes similar to a cluster computer or heterogeneous multicomputer. By implication, netstation devices are accessible directly, via the internetwork at large, rather than Cooper [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 as a slave only, hung off a bus. LANai 1.1 Software Development ------------------------------ One of the unanswered questions regarding Netstation development is just what type of performance is it realistic to expect from a LANai network interface and the end-point application processess that produce and consume packets. To define the outlines of a practical engineering envelope, the LANai code was rewritten to reflect what is thought to be the configuration that will be used by applications to achieve high performance in both hosts and netstation devices. The resulting LANai/host interface supports multiple simultaneous protocol stacks. This allows a small number of applications to have direct access to the network interface via software packages and is loosely similar to the application direct channels (ADCs) developed by the X-Kernel project at Arizona. Typical performance figures for high-speed networks stress maximum attained bandwidth. This is achieved by using large packets, in some cases as large as 64K byte/pkt. Such a maximum bandwidth figure is of little use in determining what the engineering limitations are for general device control. A typical RPC packet is short, perhaps only 120 bytes long. Two important pieces of engineering information are: (1) How many RPCs can an application program running in a workstation realistically be expected to generate? (2) How many RPCs can an interface program running in a device realistically be expected to consume? To answer those questions sender and receiver application programs were written and installed into separate Sun workstations, interfaced to the LANai ADCs, and tested. These figures below were measured by the application programs themselves, with three protocol stacks in place, so as to fairly represent achievable end-to-end application performance. Configuration: Two Sun SPARCstation-2 workstations, each with a LANai 1.1 network interface running at 20 MHz, with the LAN channel between them operating at 640 Mb/s. Cooper [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Sending application: 70.0K pkt/sec @ 120 byte/IP pkt Receiving application: 63.5K pkt/sec @ 120 byte/IP pkt Sending application: 29.7K pkt/sec @ 1500 byte/IP pkt Receiving application: 26.5K pkt/sec @ 1500 byte/IP pkt Sending application: 17.6K pkt/sec @ 3000 byte/IP pkt Receiving application: 15.8K pkt/sec @ 3000 byte/IP pkt A LANai running at 20 MHz, using 640 Mb/s channels, can provide a host application with a sustained end-to-end performance of 63.5K RPC/sec or bandwidth of 360 Mb/s while using an MTU compatible with the Ethernet. These figures can be improved significantly by raising the clock rate of the LANai. The 20 MHz SBus clock rate of the SPARCstation-2 platforms used here made that impractical. We expect that when these tests are run in a SPARCstation-20, the performance will be substantially higher. Higher figures can also be obtained either via use of larger packets or by specially crafting the application/network interface. Notes The LANai chips were clocked at 20 MHz to match the SBus clock. Cable transmission latency across the network between SPARstation-2 hosts was insignificant for the tests reported here. Much of the overhead per packet for short packets is LANai program execution at the source and destination, which introduces a forced latency between packets. It is of some interest to sketch the typical execution costs within the LANai for both transmission and reception. ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | ---> 11 + 3 4 4 ---- 8 + <12> + 9 19 + <10> + 11 + <5> + 10 SEND RECEIVE The typical case LANai interrupt and status condition loop consumes 22 machine instructions. This includes checks for clock and channel status, send ready, receive complete, and packet overrun conditions. A send operation consists of a check for at least one pending output packet. If that is true, a check is made to determine if the send DMA is available. If it is, a loop determines which of Cooper [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 several sources (protocol stacks) has a packet to send if any. This loop consumes 12 instructions per stack that is checked. Enabling DMA transmission of the packet consumes 9 instructions. A receive operation consumes 19 instructions to perform packet length and CRC condition checks. Subsequently, the free buffer pool is scanned to determine the next available packet buffer. This consumes 10 instructions per buffer check. Enabling DMA packet reception into that buffer requires 11 instructions. The received packet is then demux'ed. The demux loop requires approximately 5 instructions per packet field check to determine into which stack the packet should be placed. Notifying the awaiting application consumes the final 10 instructions. These counts are complete. They include the handshaking between the host-system and LANai shared data structures. Greg Finn , Bruce Parham , and S.K. Monnangi RSVP PROJECT ------------ Following the Toronto IETF meeting, ISI concentrated on putting together a preliminary source release of RSVP. This release is expected to include the rsvpd daemon and the API. It will also include the RSVP modifications to sd, vat, and nv that were produced by MIT, LBL, and PARC, and modifications to the LBL tcpdump program to display RSVP messages. An initial RSVP release should be ready early in September. The traffic control kernels from MIT and from Sun are expected to be released separately. Prior to the release, ISI did RSVP development work to bring the package into line with the specification. Path and reservation teardown messages are now included. A logical problem with routing reservation error messages was found and fixed; the specification will require updating in this area. Bobby Minnear at MIT supplied a package "tcl-rsvp", which is a set of Tcl and C programs to provide an RSVP interface to sd and vat. These components were tested with RSVP across DARTnet as well as locally within ISI. He also updated the nv/RSVP interface that Ron Frederick at PARC had produced last year. John Wroclawsi at MIT produced and started testing a DARTnet kernel realizing the CSZ service model. Some anomalies which were observed with this kernel in service have not been tracked down yet. Cooper [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Ajit Thyagarajan at Xerox PARC included the RSVP kernel changes in his new (3.3) release of IP multicasting code. This will greatly aid the introduction of RSVP. This new code also requires that rsvpd obtain multicast routes from mrouted, rather than from the kernel, by a process-process query mechanism. This mechanism must be developed and tested next month; it will not be included in the initial RSVP release, which will support only pre-3.3 versions of IP multicast. Bob Braden , Steve Berson INFRASTRUCTURE Joe Touch attended the Protocol for High Speed Networks meeting in Vancouver, Canada, August 9-12, 1994. 33 RFCs were published this month. RFC 1650: Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types using SMIv2", FTP Software, Inc., August 1994. RFC 1664: Allocchio, C., A. Bonito (GARR-Italy), B. Cole (Cisco Systems Inc.), S. Giordano (Centro Svizzero Calcolo Scientifico), R. Hagens (Advanced Network & Services), August 1994. RFC 1666: Kielczewski, Z., (Eicon Technology Corporation), D. Kostick (Bell Communications Research), K. Shih (Novell), "Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA NAUs Using SMIv2", August 1994. RFC 1667: Syminton, S., D. Wood (MITRE), M. Pullen, (George Mason University), "Modeling and Simulation Requirements for IPng", August 1994. RFC 1668: Estrin, D., (USC), T. Li (Cisco Systems), Y. Rekhter, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp. "Unified Routing Requirements for IPng, August 1994. RFC 1669: Curran, J., "Market Viability as a IPng Criteria" BBN, August 1994. RFC 1670: Heagerty, D., "Input to IPng Engineering Considerations", CERN, August 1994. RFC 1671: Carpenter, B., "IPng White Paper on Transition and Other Considerations", CERN, August 1994. Cooper [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 RFC 1672: Brownlee, N., "Accounting Requirements for IPng" The University of Auckland, August, 1994. RFC 1673: Skelton, R., "Electric Power Research Institute Comments on IPng", EPRI, August 1994. RFC 1674: Taylor, M., "A Cellular Industry View of IPng", CDPD Consortium, August 1994. RFC 1675: Bellovin, S., "Security Concerns for IPng", AT&T Bell Laboratories, August 1994. RFC 1676: Ghiselli, A., D. Salomoni, C. Vistoli, "INFN/CNAF Requirements for an IPng", August 1994 RFC 1677: Adamson, B., "Tactical Radio Frequency Communication Requirments for IPng", Naval Research Laboratory August 1994. RFC 1678: Britton, E., J. Tavs, "IPng Requirements of Large Corporate Networks", IBM, August 1994. RFC 1679: Green, D., P. Irey, D. Marlow, and K. O'Donoghue (NSWC-DD), "HPN Working Group Input to the IPng Requirements Solicitation", August 1994. RFC 1680: Brazdziunas, C., "IPng Support for ATM Services", Bellcore, August 1994. RFC 1681: Bellovin, S., "On Many Addresses Per Host", AT&T Bell Laboratories, August 1994. RFC 1682: Bound, J., "IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis" Digital Equipment Corp., August 1994. RFC 1683: Clark, R., M. Ammar, K. Calvert, "Multiprotocol Interoperability in IPng", August 1994. RFC 1684: Jurg, P., "Introduction to White Pages Services Based on X.500", SURFnet bv, August, 1994. RFC 1685: Alvestrand, H., "Writing X.400 O/R Names", UNINETT August 1994. RFC 1686: Vecchi, M., "IPng Requirements: A Cable Television Industry Viewpoint", Time Warner Cable, August 1994. Cooper [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 RFC 1687: Fleischman, E., "A Large Corporate User's View of IPng", Boeing Computer Services, August 1994. RFC 1688: Simpson, W., "IPng Mobility Considerations", Daydreamer, August 1994. RFC 1689: Foster, J., Editor "A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups", University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Augus 1994. RFC 1690: Huston, G., "Introducing the Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG)", AARNet, August 1994. RFC 1691: Turner, W., "The Document Architecture for the Cornell Digital Library", LTD, August 1994. RFC 1692: Cameron, P., (Xylogics, International Ltd.), D. Crocker (Silicon Graphics, Inc.), D. Cohen (Myricom), J. Postel (ISI), " Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux)", August 1994. RFC 1694: Brown, T., and K. Tesink, Editors, "Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces using SMIv2", Bell Communications Research", August 1994. RFC 1695: Ahmed, M., K. Tesink, Editors, "Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management Version 8.0 Using SMIv2", Bell Communications Research, August 1994. RFC 1696: Barnes, J., (Xylogics, Inc.), L. Brown, (Motorola) R. Royston (US Robotics, Inc.), S. Waldbusser (Carnegie Mellon University), "Modem Management Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2", August 1994. RFC 1697: Brower, D., Editor, (The ASK Group, INGRES DBMS Development), B. Purvy, RDBMSMIB Working Group Chair (Oracle Corporation), A. Daniel (Informix Software Inc), M. Sinykin, J. Smith (Oracle Corporation), "Relational Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Management Information Base (MIB) using SMIv2", August 1994. Cooper [Page 27] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 THE US DOMAIN ============= US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ EMAIL/FAX 535 PHONE 66 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 601 DELEGATIONS 59 DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: 15 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 527 --------------------------- Total 601 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. The list of delegations below does not reflect the entire number of registrations and delegations in the whole US Domain. Many subdomains have been delegated and administrators of those subdomains register applicants in their domains. Below are direct registrations in the US Domain. To obtain a copy of the list of other delegated localities and subdomains you can ftp the file in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt from venera.isi.edu, via anonymous ftp. Third Level US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------------- CAMERON-PARK.CA.US Cameron-Park, California, locality CRYSTAL-BAY.CA.US Crystal-Bay, California, locality EMERALD-BAY.CA.US Emerald-Bay, California, locality EL-DORADO-HILLS.CA.US El-Dorado-Hills, California, locality FOLSOM.CA.US Folsom, California, locality GRAEAGLE.CA.US Graeagle, California, locality GRASS-VALLEY.CA.US Grass-Valley, California, locality KINGS-BEACH.CA.US Kings-Beach, California, locality LOOMIS.CA.US Loomis, California, locality MARYSVILLE.CA.US Marysville, California, locality NEVADA-CITY.CA.US Nevada-City, California, locality Cooper [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 NORTH-TAHOE.CA.US North-Tahoe, California, locality OROVILLE.CA.US Oroville, California, locality POLLOCK-PINES.CA.US Pollock-Pines, California, locality PLACERVILLE.CA.US Placerville, California, locality QUINCY.CA.US Quicy, California, locality ROCKLIN.CA.US Rocklin, California, locality ROSEVILLE.CA.US Roseville, California, locality SOUTH-TAHOE.CA.US South-Tahoe, California, locality TAHOE-CITY.CA.US Tahoe-City, California, locality CHAMPAIGN.IL.US Champaign, Illinois, locality MUS.MO.US Missouri, Museums GEN.MS.US Mississippi General JACKSON.MS.US Jackson, Mississippi, locality LIB.MS.US Mississippi Libraries AUBURN.NV.US Auburn, Nevada, locality DAYTON.NV.US Dayton, Nevada, locality ELY.NV.US Ely, Nevada, locality STEAD.NV.US Stead, Nevada, locality VERDI.NV.US Verdi, Nevada, locality YERINGTON.NV.US Yerington, Nevada, locality EUCLID.OH.US Euclid, Ohio, locality LANCASTER.OH.US Lancaster, Ohio, locality MINERVA.OH.US Minerva, Ohio, localty PATASKALA.OH.US Pataskala, Ohio, locality K12.WY.US Wyoming, K12 Schools Other US Domain Delegations this month -------------------------------------- ASD.K12.AK.US Anchorage School District CO.LA.CA.US Los Angeles County, agencies LACUSC.CO.LA.CA.US Los Angeles, USC Medical Center DHS.CO.LA.CA.US Los Angeles, County Dept. of Health CO.PALM-BEACH.FL.US County of Los Angeles MEC.K12.MA.US Merrimack Education Center PIONEER.LIB.OK.US Pioneer Library System, Norman, Ok TEN.K12.TN.US Tennessee Board of Regents SPOKNET.LIB.WA.US Spokane Public Library KCLS.LIB.WA.US King County Library System, Seattle SBVMWD.DST.CA.US San Bernadino Valley Municipal Water Dist. ESP.TULSA.OK.US Educational Systems Products, Inc., Tulsa NOLS.LIB.WA.US North Olympic Library System, Port Angeles Cooper [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 MCL.LIB.WA.US Mid-Columbia Library System, Kennewick NCPL.LIB.CA.US National City Public Library SPOKPL.LIB.WA.US Spokane Public Library SLACK.THOROFARE.NJ.US Slack Inc., Thorofare, NJ TENNPREP.PVT.K12.TN.US Tennessee Preparatory School, Nashville PLEASANT.CAMBRIDGE.MA.US Private Individual HANSCON.LINCOLN.K12.MA.US Hanscom k12 School, Hanscom AFB, MA MARIN-ACADEMY.MARIN.CA.US Marin Academy High School, San Rafael VIRTUALCAFE.WASHINGTON.DC.US Virtual Cafe Systems, Wash. D.C. COMMONWEALTH.PVT.K12.MA.US The Commonwealth School, Cambridge TABLE OF DELEGATED DOMAINS BY STATE K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- AK X AL X AR X AZ X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- CA X X X X CO X X X X X X X CT DC X ----------------------------------------------------------- DE X FL X X X X X X X GA X X X X HI ----------------------------------------------------------- IA X X X X ID X X X X X X X IL X X X X X IN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- KS X KY X X X X X X X LA X X X X X MA X ----------------------------------------------------------- MD X X X X ME X X MI X X X X X MN X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- Cooper [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN ----------------------------------------------------------- MO X X X X X X MS X X X X MT X NC X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- ND X X X X X X X NE X X X X NH X X NJ X ----------------------------------------------------------- NM X X X NV NY X X X X X X X OH X X X X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- OK OR X X X X X X X PA X RI X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- SC X X X X X X SD X X TN X TX X X X X ----------------------------------------------------------- UT X X X X VA X X X X VI VT X X ----------------------------------------------------------- WA WI X X X WV X X X X X X X WY X X =========================================================== 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 Ann Westine Cooper (Cooper@ISI.EDU) Cooper [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 NEARNET (NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK) --------------------------------------------------- NEARnet Membership Update ------------------------- BARRNET ACQUISITION IS COMPLETE On August 24, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN) announced the completion of an agreement to acquire the Bay Area Regional Research Network (BARRNet(SM)) from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. This marks the consolidation of two of the country's premier Internet service providers: BBN's NEARNET(SM) operation in the Northeast, and BARRNet, the leading provider of such services in the San Francisco Bay Area. BBN and Stanford had previously announced their intention for BBN to acquire BARRNet on June 22. NEARNET MINI-SEMINAR UPDATE The fourth NEARNET Mini-Seminar for 1994, "Publishing and the Internet" will be held on Friday, September 23 from 9:00-12:30 at the BBN Newman Auditorium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The seminar is free of charge to all NEARNET members, however, seating is limited and registration will be handled on a first-come first-served basis. The seminar will be videotaped and copies will be made available for NEARNET members to borrow. This seminar will focus on how and why the publishing industry is increasingly using the Internet as a tool for delivering online publishing services. This seminar is being held to satisfy the continued demand for information on the way organizations are increasingly using the Internet to conduct a wide-range of business services. Presentors will include: Laura Fillmore, President of Editorial Inc. and the Online Bookstore. DC Denison, Lead Feature Writer for O'Reilly and Associates Global Network Navigator (GNN) Service and freelance write for the Boston Globe. Robert Fleischman, Systems Engineer, BBN Systems and Technologies Inc., Developer of the Personal Internet Newspaper (PIN) Project. Cooper [Page 32] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Additional information regarding the remaining Mini-Seminars and Annual Seminar for 1994 will be announced shortly. For more information, contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet- us@near.net or call 617-873-8730 or 1-800-NEARNET. THE BBN INTERNET TRAINING GROUP In response to the overwhelming requests from the Internet community for more Internet-specific training, BBN has created an Internet Training Group. Since July of this year, and in conjunction with the NEARNET staff, the Internet Training Group has offered training courses to the general public. Upcoming courses for September include: 9/7 Business on the Internet: Strategic Approaches (with Mary Cronin, author of "Doing Business on the Internet") 9/13 Publishing on the Internet (with Laura Fillmore, president of the Online Bookstore and Editorial Inc.) 9/14 Hands-on Publishing on the Internet - Building your own WWW 9/19 Intro. to Internet Resources 9/20 Hands-on Internet Tools for PC/Windows 9/27 Hands-on Internet Tools for PC/Windows Training courses are offered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York City, New York; and, upon request, on-site at the customer's organization. In the near future, training courses will also be offered in Palo Alto, California. NEARNET members and educational users are eligible for a 25 percent introductory discount. To find out more about BBN's Internet Training Courses, please send email to: net-train@bbn.com or call 617-873-3282. NEARNET NEW SITE TRAINING PROGRAM UPDATE The Summer set of NEARNET new site training courses was held on August 10-12 in BBN's Newman Auditorium. The Fall set of NEARNET new site training courses will be held on November 16-18. For more information, please contact the NEARNET Client Services Staff at nearnet-us@near.net or call 617-873-8730 or 1-800-NEARNET. The three full-day set of courses include: (Day 1) An Introduction Cooper [Page 33] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 to Resources on the Internet; (Day 2) An Orientation for New NEARNET Liaisons; and (Day 3) An Introduction to Internet Technology. All three days of training are available free of charge to all new sites. The Internet Resources and Internet Technology courses are available for existing sites and non-members for a fee. The NEARNET Orientation is free to all NEARNET sites. by NEARNET Client Services NORTHWESTNET ------------ Dr. Eric Hood, president of the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET), attended the FARNET meeting in Snowmass, Colorado on August 10-12. The meeting theme was "The National Information Infrastructure and the 50 States: Practical Implementation Issues of the NII." During the week of August 22, nearly 60 participants attended Internet training classes contracted from NorthWestNet and provided through the Washington State University Conferences and Institutes Continuing Education Programs in Richland, Washington. Participants were comprised primarily of staff from several high-technology firms in the area, including Boeing, Westinghouse, ICF Kaiser, and Batelle Pacific Northwest Labs. NorthWestNet's Internet Training Series added a new three-hour course to its program. "Internet Discussion Groups" covers LISTSERVs, mailing-lists, and Usenet. This new course along with our regular offerings were each held at the training facility in Bellevue, Washington. These for-fee classes are open to the public. For information about upcoming scheduled classes, retrieve the following via anonymous FTP: FTP Host: ftp.nwnet.net directory: /training filename: course-descriptions.txt ----------------- NorthWestNet E-mail: info@nwnet.net 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Phone: (206) 562-3000 Bellevue, WA 98007 Fax: (206) 562-4822 NorthWestNet serves the six state region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington. Cooper [Page 34] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 NYSERNET -------- NYSERNET CONTRACTS WITH NYNEX AND SPRINT TO PROVIDE MOST ADVANCED STATE DATA NETWORK IN THE COUNTRY Liverpool, NY, September 1 - The New York State Education and Research Network - NYSERNet, Inc. - announces agreements with NYNEX and Sprint to significantly upgrade NYSERNet's network and internetworking services for New York State. This unique arrangement is the first step in NYSERNet's Five-Year Network deployment Plan to provide more than a 100-fold increase in the information carrying capabilities of the New York Network, At the completion of Phase I of the Plan, at the end of 1995, NYSERNet and New York State will have the most technologically advanced state data network in the country. The NYNEX and Sprint agreements will provide a 45 million bit per second (T-3) statewide network for NYSERNet affiliates by November of 1994. This will vastly improve routing and service to NYSERNet affiliates and deliver T-3 speeds for prices that are less than half the current national average. NYSERNet now operates a 1.5 million bit per second T-1 network. "By working with NYNEX and Sprint, access to the network and Internet will eventually be provided throughout the State through a local dial-up phone call anywhere," said James Luckett, Executive Director and Vice President of NYSERNet. "This will guarantee that there is no have assured and equal access to information resources and the other benefits which will accrue from the National Information Infrastructure." Sprint, a premier provider of advanced technology data services, will initially provide a 45 mb high speed state wide area network, which will include 45 mb connectivity to the Internet, comprehensive management of the new NYSERNet network, and management of the NYSERNet affiliates TCP/IP based services onto that network and onto the Internet. Sprint will also provide communications and routing equipment. This network is expected to grow to gigabit speeds quickly in the next few years. "NYNEX is proud to be a part of this important partnership," said NYNEX State Group Vice President, Duane Albro. "NYSERNet is as critical to New York State as Internet is to the country," he added. "In providing the backbone network, NYNEX continues to aggressively pursue the expansion of the information superhighway." Cooper [Page 35] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 The NYSERNet Plan will deliver in New York State the first production gigabit communication network in the U.S. It will be capable of providing high speed access at all the State's institutions of higher education, all of its 6,000 K-12 schools, its 7,000 libraries and museums, 500 health care institutions, 1,500 municipal, county, state and federal agencies, and some 15,000 commercial users who interact with these sectors. NYSERNet's new network will support all traditional Internet services as well as such new services as interactive 2-way video and teleconferencing and electronic commerce applications. It will enable a new generation of inexpensive distance learning, telemedicine and community network applications. "We anticipate a vast increase in Internet connections in New York State by the end of the century, bringing the number of New Yorkers with Internet access up to 10 million from the half million today," said Dr. Richard Mandelbaum, President of NYSERNet. "Our goal is to ensure access to the network and high quality service for all school children and their families, college students and faculty, health care practitioners and patients, and small and minority- owned businesses -- cheaply, easily and quickly." NYSERNet is the leading regional high-speed data network in the U.S. NYSERNet connects New York State to the global community of computing resources known as the Internet. it serves an affiliate base of over 400 organizations such as large research centers, hospitals, universities, colleges, public libraries, K-12 schools, museums, large corporations and small Business. NYSERNET FALL TRAINING CATALOG AVAILABLE NYSERNet, Inc. announces the availability of the NYSERNet Internet Training and Education Center -- NITEC -- Fall Training Catalog. Designed to operate year-round, NITEC offers a full schedule of seminars and workshops for beginning, intermediate, and advanced Internet users. The Fall Catalog is now available. FALL SEMINAR SAMPLER For New Internet Users: -- Locating and Using Internet Information Resources -- Tourist UNIX -- We the People: Accessing Government Information -- Integrating the Internet into Your Curriculum Cooper [Page 36] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 For More Advanced Users: -- Building an Internet Information Server: Gopher -- Building an Internet Information Server: WWW -- Conquering Client/Server Computing -- Understanding LANs and WANs FACILITIES IN SYRACUSE, NEW YORK The NITEC classroom is a state-of the-art facility that seats 24 students for lectures or smaller groups for hands-on training. NITEC supports both Macintosh and DOS/Windows computers. NITEC students work with the latest Internet client software and resources in an environment conducive to learning and retention. The center also provides technical training for systems administrators, primarily in UNIX. NITEC has assembled a knowledgeable team of instructors and curriculum- specific consultants and educators. FOR A NITEC CATALOG U.S. MAIL Send your name, address and zip code to: NYSERNet/NITEC Suite 103, 200 Elwood Davis Road Liverpool, NY 13088-6147 or request via E-Mail to training@nysernet.org. GOPHER (nysernet.org 70) /NYSERNet Internet Training & Education Center (NITEC)/Fall 1994 Course Abstracts - NEW WORLD WIDE WEB http://nysernet.org/nitec.info/fall.94.html PROJECT GAIN REPORT NYSERNet is pleased to announce the availability of a new videotape about Project GAIN, which extended Internet access to five rural New York State public libraries and one Indian Nation school. Project GAIN (Global Access Information Network) asked what would happen if rural librarians were given access to the Internet, its tools, and training. Could they learn to use networked information resources effectively? Was there anything of value on the Net to improve the quality of service offered to rural patrons? And what resources did the rural areas have to offer back to the larger Internet community? Cooper [Page 37] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 The video documents the project from the first training meetings to site visits at all the libraries. The style is perfect for workshops introducing the Internet to librarians, or for anyone wondering how rural areas might benefit from a community Internet connection. The printed Project GAIN Report, bundled with the video, outlines the lessons learned from connecting; details critical success factors contributing to the overall accomplishments of the project; and offers a number of recommendations for public librarians, network service providers, policy makers, and researchers. Appendices include evaluation instruments, contracts, success stories, and more. Phone orders will be accepted with credit card purchase. More info: Call 315/453-2912, x221, or send email to info@nysernet.org. NEW AFFILIATES NYSERNet welcomes the following new leased-line affiliates for the month of August: - Pratt Institute - Western Suffolk BOCES - Monroe I BOCES. Terri Damon (tmdamon@nysernet.ORG) NYERNET Inc, 315-453-2912 x225 PREPNET ------- PREPnet New Members ------------------ - Office of Personnel Management, Boyer, PA - Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA With these additions, PREPnet now totals 190 members. PREPnet News ------------ PREPnet' Network Engineer, Jon "Iain" Boone got married on August 6. Congratulations Jon! Cooper [Page 38] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Meetings & Conferences ---------------------- PREPnet's Executive Director, Tom Bajzek, attended FARNET on August 10-12. PREPnet's Annual Member Meeting will be on September, 21, 1994 in Pittsburgh. The theme of this year's meeting is "The Internet in Transition." Plenary speakers are scheduled for the morning and breakout and tutorials for the afternoon. Topics to be covered include: Structural Changes in the NSFNET, Challenges in High- speed, Wide-area Networking, Business Applications, Libraries, Network Security, WWW and Mosaic Servers, Routing, and Managing Your Internet Connection. For more information, please send e-mail to nic@prep.net or call 412-268-7870. 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 ---- UCL CS hosts the ACM SIGCOMM Conference this month. Many ad hoc meetings about networking research happened around this. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Cooper [Page 39] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 USER SERVICES REPORT -------------------- Prague Trip Report RARE ISUS Meetings and INET94/JENC5 Conference June 13 - 17, 1994 Joyce K. Reynolds USC/Information Sciences Institute RARE ISUS Meetings The RARE ISUS (Information Services and User Support) Working Group met before the INET94/JENC5 Conference in Prague, The Czech Republic. 1) Introductions Jill Foster introduced to the attendees the new ISUS WG Chair, David Hartland (University of Newcastle upon Tyne). There was quite a large attendance at this meeting, with many new participants. Jill had invited the attendees from ISOC's "Developing Networking Countries" Workshop the week before to attend ISUS. There was discussion regarding the ISUS "Introductions" file. ISUS meeting participants were requested to fill in the template about themselves and turn it in. 2) Minutes, Workplan, and Task Forces Minutes from the last ISUS meeting were reviewed. Jill asked the attendees if anyone had any problems with the minutes of the Telematics group. There were no objections. There is on-going work on setting up National ISUS WGs in parallel with the European group. RTR1 (RARE Technical Report 1) is out of date and the ISUS needs to take a look at the document and provide new ideas and input for the revision. This includes updating the document to include details about coordination of national entry points via the Eurogopher effort. The RARE ISUS workplan needs to be revised, as it is out of date. It was decided to drop the ISO-SR (Search and Retrieval) program, due to no progress or interest. 3) Review of Liaison Groups Brief reviews were given by various representatives. Jill lead the reviews with ISUS. She reported that she had to step down as Chair Cooper [Page 40] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 of the ISUS Group as she is now employed two days a week with RARE. There is a new policy within RARE that if you are paid by RARE, you cannot be a RARE WG Chair, as this would pose a conflict of interest. Hence, David Hartland has become the new ISUS WG Chair. Joyce Reynolds reported on the User Services Area (USV) efforts in the IETF. Before traveling to Prague, she circulated her area report to the ISUS WG email list. Due to time constraints, she gave a brief overview of the area. The User Services Working Group (USWG) is the "umbrella" WG for the USV. This group is the spawning ground for most of the working groups which are created within the area. There are currently 11 working groups in the USV area. Particular groups of interest to this audience include: Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI), which is currently producing a NIC Guidelines Document, Network Training Materials (a joint RARE and IETF endeavor), Internet School Networking (ISN), User Documentation (UserDoc2), which is producing a short introductory bibliography of books about the Internet, Network Information Retrieval (NIR), a joint RARE and IETF endeavor, and Integrated Directory Services (IDS), which is a combined effort of the USV and Applications Area of the IETF. Joyce continued her report by describing the RFC (Request for Comments) series of notes of the Internet, and in particular, the FYI (For Your Information) subseries of RFCs. FYIs are introductory and overview documents for network users. Their purpose is to make available general information, rather than the protocol specifications or standards that is typical of other RFCs. If there were any questions or if anyone wanted further information in more detail, Joyce mentioned that she would be happy to answer queries via email. Daniele Bovio was asked by Jill to report on EARN and EARNINFO, since David Sitman had not yet arrived to the meeting. Daniele briefly discussed EARN's Network Services Conference (NSC) which is to be held this coming November in London. Daniele punted the EARNINFO report to David to talk about later, when he arrives. Geza Turchanyi provided a brief report on RIPE and its Network Information Discovery for Users Support Working Group (NIDUS), chaired by Nandor Hovarth. Unfortunately, the NIDUS group has not been very active. The RIPE NCC currently has available Gopher, WWW, FTP, and WAIS services. The WWW server locator is: http://www.ripe.net/ Bert Stals gave a report on the Gopher Conference (Gophercon). He opened his report by providing some Gopher history. When it first started, there was a need for alternative information. In 1993, Cooper [Page 41] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 about one third of all Gophers were Gopher+ servers, globally. A Z39.50 gateway is available. The problems with Veronica are increasing. Most complaints are about the bandwidth. To date, Veronica has 6,900 Gopher servers, with 31 simultaneous sessions of Veronica available, with a two second response time. Veronica is not scaling well. Chris Weider mentioned that indexing of Gopher menu items will be in a future release of archie (gopher- index@bunyip.com). George Munroe reported on the WWW Conference. Tim Berners-Lee is concerned about where WWW is going from where he originally intended it to be. There is a need for better integration on desktop access. Tim mentioned that there is a need for a "Bill of Rights for the Network." There needs to be a close relationship prevailing everywhere in industry and research. There should be a consideration for social impacts and the need for on-going standardization. The RARE Document Store was reported by Tim Dixon. RARE publications, WG documents and other miscellaneous pointers to RARE documents can be found on ftp.rare.nl, gopher.rare.nl, and www.rare.nl. Tim suggested that David, Jill, and the ISUS group look at the RARE document server to see how to get more information out via this service. Information Services Jill provided an introduction to the European Information Services which included Dante, the RARE server, the RIPE NCC, Eurogopher, and EARN. There is a Dante proposal out, soliciting a new entry point for a Euroserver. Josefien Bersee put out the proposal one week ago. Jill encouraged the ISUS attendees to read it, then introduced Josefien who presented a talk on the Dante proposal. The proposal reflected ideas on a provision of a Central Information Service for the European Research Community. Dante is a not-for- profit entity via twelve countries with national networks. This project used to be CONCISE. They are investing in another service as funding will end this year. The key requirements to this proposal include a collection of distributed information that is up-to-date, accurate, and complete as possible. This will also include round the clock availability and support for information management. The proposed information flow model intends to provide links to local information. The use of WWW, Gopher and FTP is included. The most important issue is the management of the information by building a management information base. Josefien expressed that the Dante proposal is not intending to take over other services, but to link with them (e.g., RARE, RIPE, Cooper [Page 42] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 EARNINFO, etc.). The promotion of the service is to attract new groups to contribute. The technical requirements include stable guidance services and making accessibility to end users as easy as possible. There will be a Help Desk, and its function will be to perform support and information services to end user, new information providers, and documentation. Staff running the Help Desk should speak more than one language. In regards to Dante funding efforts, it should be self-supporting. Funding should come from the customers, national networks, the CEC, and commercial providers. Issues of Quality of Information and Quality of Service are big points. A lively discussion was held on Dante after Josefien's presentation. Comments included that "Quality Assurance" is becoming a very hot topic. Eurogopher was brought up as a project that has already completed the efforts that are spelled out in the Dante proposal, and all done via volunteer work. There was a concern with some ISUS members that Dante may be taken as opposition to the Eurogopher work, though this remains to be seen. Anders Gillner commented that he does not see Dante as a threat. The Eurogopher acts as one link, so there is no problem with other links. The world will never be just one link. There needs to be a spirit of cooperation and coordination. Networked Information Retrieval (NIR) Jill provided a status report on NIR Tools and Groups. She provided a history of this group as it was noted that two thirds of the attendees to ISUS at this session were new. The NIR document has been assigned "RTR 13", and is on its way to the RFC Editor. Note: since this meeting, this document has been published as an RFC: RFC 1689, RTR 13, FYI 25, "A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups", August 1994. A discussion focussed on RTR 1. This document is out of date and is over one year old. Jill's intention in the next two to three months is to work on an update to this document. There is a question about the use of Gopher and WWW, as some people don't have access. David Sitman arrived at the meeting and Jill asked if he had anything new to report about EARNINFO. David replied he did not. User Network Interface to Everything (UNITE) George Munroe gave a report on the UNITE group. UNITE's concept is one of an interface to everything out on the network. In October Cooper [Page 43] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 1992, this effort was started and driven by Jill. There is a UNITE overview, charter, and summary of activities. One of the IETF groups, Integration of Internet Information Resources (IIIR), has a vision paper in development which includes UNITE. How can UNITE be more effective? Perhaps setting up a web would help. There is a prototype that has been set up, and George would like input on it. Jill will put a pointer to the source in the ISUS minutes. [From the 26 July minutes filed to the ISUS WG list: (url: file://www.qub.ac.uk/UNITE/unite.html).] UNITE working with the IETF and other ISUS groups will continue. This work is of relevance to each person's own institution, and George feels that everyone should convince their employers of this. There are three key factors: 1) Coordination 2) Cooperation 3) Consolidation George talked about the 4th Framework Initiative and envisioned a diagram or map a UNITE interface of how he perceives it today, as an "ideal" picture under the 4th Framework. A system is being designed, not just a white pages service. The UNITE interface needs much more definition. There has been some discussion on the mailing list regarding opportunities for funding projects which would help develop and progress UNITE's endeavors and other ISUS task forces. There has also been some commercial interest. NSC Conference Program Committee Meeting, Monday, 6:30 pm Joyce Reynolds, as a member of the NSC94 (Network Services Conference) Program Committee, met with other committee members Monday evening, June 13. The meeting included discussion on a potential keynote speaker, schedules, dates and deadlines for paper submissions, demos, and sessions to the conference. Organization of tutorials, tracks and plenary sessions were also discussed. INET94/JENC5 Conference INET'94, the Annual Conference of the Internet Society was held in conjunction with the 5th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC5) Prague, Czech Republic, June 13-17, 1994. It was jointly organized by The Internet Society (ISOC) and Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne (RARE). Jill Foster, RARE, The Netherlands and Joyce Reynolds, ISI, USA, were Cooper [Page 44] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 the User Support and Training Track Leaders. There were six sessions developed for this particular track: 1) Training for the Network Citizen - Chair: Peter Kemp, University of Glasgow, Scotland - EDUCATE - End-user Courses in Information Access through Communication Technology - Nancy Fjaellbrant, Sweden - Approaches to Network Training with Particular Reference to a Perceived Need for Self-Help Materials - Margaret Isaacs, UK - Network Training: Anywhere, Anytime, Anyplace? - Jodi-Ann Chu, USA 2) Network Information: Tools and Access - Chair: David Sitman, EARN, France - Mosaic, WWW and Networked Multimedia as a Learning Tool - Michael Greenhalgh, Australia - Becoming an Information Provider on the WWW - Brian Kelly, UK - Wild Beasts and Unapproachable Bogs - Chris Weider, USA 3) Electronic Documents - Chair: Maria Heijne, SURFnet BV, Netherlands - From Babel to Edil: The Evolution of a Standard - Andrew Braid, UK - Work in Progress: - ELDORADOC - "The Promised Land of Gold?" - Robert Janz, The Netherlands - RED SAge - Czeslaw Jan Grycz, USA - Discussion 4) Building and Supporting Electronic Communities - Chair: David Conrad, Asia Pacific Network Information Center, Japan - Rural Datafication: A Multiple-Network Collaboration to Extend the Internet to Underserved Communities - E. Michael Staman, John Hankins, Paul Holbrook and Rhana Jacot, USA - Building Electronic Communities: Implementing Electronic Communication within the European Law Students' Association (ELSA) - Christian B. Fulda, Switzerland - The Internet and Schools: A Survey of Networking Activities - Tracy LaQuey Parker, USA Cooper [Page 45] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 5) Panel: Power to the User! Enabling Users to Help Themselves Chair: Rolf Nordhagen, University of Oslo Information Technology Services, Norway To provide support for the increasing numbers of users on the network is a formidable task. This session will be run as a panel discussion with expert panelists from around the world sharing their knowledge and experience. Audience participation is highly encouraged. Panelists: Robert F. Janz, University of Groningen, The Netherlands David Hartland, NISP/Mailbase, Newcastle University, UK Anders Gillner, NORDUnet, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Joyce K. Reynolds, Information Sciences Institute, USA 6) Issues in building the Virtual Library - Chair: Michael Breaks, Heriot-Watt University Library, UK - Internet Resource Guides: Stories for the Net - Louis B. Rosenfeld, USA - Commercial Services on the Infobahn - George Brett, USA - Electronic Journals: Transforming the Information Cycle? - Hans Roes, The Netherlands User Help Thyself Panel - Rolf Nordhagen, Chair Panelists: Joyce K. Reynolds, Information Sciences Institute, USA Joyce was asked by Rolf to open the panel session in describing and updating the work that is going on in the IETF User Services Area and how this entity and the RARE ISUS WG assist in helping users. When the IETF was first established, it did not immediately create a distinct User Services Area. As of 1991, this area has grown to take its place with other Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) areas as the importance of a user services forum has increased globally. 1) ALL levels of "user" - novice, intermediate, advanced. 2) People attend the INET/JENC conference to learn. For example, teachers, trainers, and consultants, not only their students must learn about networking tools, documentation, and current protocol standards. 3) This last Monday and Tuesday RARE's Information Services and User Support (ISUS) Group convened. Their activities include: Cooper [Page 46] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Documentation, Training Materials, User Network to Everything (UNITE), Network information Retrieval, etc., to help the user. Joyce continued to describe the details of what the User Services Area of the IETF entails, including the FYI RFC series of notes. Robert F. Janz, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Robert Janz displayed six bullets on the overhead projector and described what he felt was needed for the users to help themselves. One should not react after a user is in trouble, but before trouble happens. Yet, what can one do? 1) Prevent "after sales repair" 2) Abolish paper documentation 3) Get into specification phases 4) Use network technology extensively 5) NO support of the state of the art technology 6) Encourage "electronic" work groups David Hartland, NISP/Mailbase, Newcastle University, UK David Hartland responded to Robert's six bullets listed above. He explained that he does not necessarily agree with Richard on all points. There is the project he has been working on at Newcastle, which is the Mailbase User Support Project. It has a very high level of support, but it's a small team effort. David disagreed with Robert about he abolishment of paper documentation. He stated that there should still be paper documentation, and his group will continue to do so. There are no plans in the future to get rid of it. "Physiotheraphysics" - still growing by leaps and bounds - needs help from the audience. Anders Gillner, NORDUnet, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Anders discussed the issue of tools and the availability of global network documentation. There should be the availability to look at documentation from all uses, either via the network or by hardcopy. Users are all academics. They can read well. Anders agreed on the panel's current view, which is to get people to use the network. There should be continued motivation to get them to do so. In order to do this there we need to produce better tools. We use robots to extend our muscles, networks should be able to help user's with shortcomings. Cooper [Page 47] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 The term, "selective perception scanning" was discussed by Anders. He felt that selective perception scanning cannot be done in the information network. There needs to be some sensitizing. There is a need for cyberspace and virtual worlds, but also habituation and selective perception. Self clustering documents are needed as well as programs for analyzing reasoning. First, one has to get rid of the litter and tag the information. None of the network tools currently have this. Rolf Nordhagen - Opened discussion to audience participation. One member of the audience had a disagreement with no paper copies or virtual copies of documents. He said think about the values of paper. There is even legislation in the UK on how long a person should be sitting in front of the PC. Another participant felt that paper documentation is not searchable and indexing confusing. There are efforts to provide one page descriptions as a starter, but no bigger, and short and to the point. There was also discussion regarding Anders' thoughts on habituation. Habituation may not necessarily be textual. It should be built into the program. A book was cited by Edward Tufte on "Envisioning Information". He is a professor at MIT. The book describes presenting information and visualizing information. It was suggested that the panelist and audience read this work. Another audience participant agreed regarding the progression and dissemination of information. SGML, HTML are not page layout. Not scrolling paradimes. Everyone needs help, put a lot back into it, but also one need to put a lot back into it, too. There also needs to be a change of user support of the tools that are being developed. There are Internationalization issues. In many cases, English and computers are not users "first" languages. There are wonderful resources out there. Perhaps putting out single sheet A4 cards would be a first start. Then, get the URLs together to access information. The Interpedia project was mentioned, which will turn the Internet into a global "encyclopedia". User groups have magnificent tools available, yet how do you make sure that this information is spread to all the Universities and all over the world? Some of these tools are totally illegible to the end user. Electronic mailing lists and mailing list groups are valuable. There needs to be a separation of the context and community which goes beyond the technical development. In the last part of the session, the audience discussed how to access training material, and what material is available. Margaret Issacs is a person to talk to about training materials. It was pointed out Cooper [Page 48] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 that her materials are "just" in English, and not in other languages. There is a need to find out what other training materials are available in one's native language. Network Information: Tools and Access - Chair: David Sitman, EARN, France Wild Beasts and Unapproachable Bogs - Chris Weider, USA In many aspects, the Internet is still in the Bronze Age. We know it's here, somewhere. Surveying tools: 1) Send it everywhere tools (email, usenet news). Send it everywhere tools have a hidden assumptions of immediate consumption. 2) Come and get it tools (used by most of the tools). Allows the information provider the video communications and is the closest to sent it everywhere. What are the implications? The "send it everywhere tools" provide human to human communication. The "come and get it tools" allow extensive logging, but means extra space and resources on the host machine. Balance and Symmetry There is no way to access data across a small pipe, because of bandwidth problems. Chris encouraged the session attendees to think about cooperative local cache. The technology to do this is probably a year off. Is accessible to a big resource a right or a privilege? Building the Maps - Signposts and Markers There is a lot of building going on in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in working groups that are defining and specifying, URLs (Universal Resource Locators), URNs (Universal Resource Names), a set of coordinates, and URCs (Universal Resource Characters) a consistent set of descriptions. Supporting Diversity - Tying it all Together Chris feels that there are unapproachable bogs out there in which new tools are required. All tools are all essentially the same as are the visual tools for navigation. Revolution is needed. Each user needs her own maps, not just following the information providers' concept of how resources are arranged and related. Cooper [Page 49] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 URNs and URLs should support this, but this is not the whole solution. Navigation - What's That? There is a need for richer metainformation. Many users can't play, as they don't' have bandwidth to do that. Active Agents (Chris akined them to Armstrong or Cortez?). There is a need for them, but we must be careful. Conclusions We are starting to map the net. It will be a long process. We need to make sure that everyone can organize the resources of the net to their liking. Looking forward to: 2001 - The Internet Odyssey. Cooper [Page 50] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 CALENDAR -------- Last update 8/31/94 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. ************************************************************************ 1994 ------------ Sep. 7-9 Windows Solutions San Francisco, CA. Sep. 12-14 19th RIPE Meeting Lisbon, Portugal Sep. 12-16 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Sep. 12-16 OIW Sep. 13-16 Seybold San Francisco, CA Sep. 14-16 4th Int'l CCHP Vienna, Austria Sep. 26-28 2nd IWACA Heidelberg, Germany Sep. 28 Intnt'l Computer Comm. & Ntwks Bangkik, Thailand Sep. 29-Oct. 1 NYSERNet Conference '94 Albany, NY Sep. 29-Oct. 1 NATO Adv. Wkshp on Ntwking in the NIS Moscow Oct. 2-5 IEEE Leading Edge Comp. Ntwg Minneapolis, MN Oct. 4-6 IFIP TC6 SEACOMM'94, Conf on South East Asia Communication Kuala Lumpur, Malasia Oct. 6-8 Parallel & Dist. Compt. Sys Las Vegas, NV Oct. 15-20 ACM Conference on Multimedia San Francisco, CA Oct. 16-20 ACM SIGUCCS Oct. 24-28 NetWorld+Interop '94 Paris, France October/November Windows Solutions Germany Oct. 31-Nov. 1 1st Intntl ACM/SIGCAPH Conf. Assistive Technolgies (ASSETS) Marina del Rey, CA Oct. 31-Nov. 3 EDUCOM Nov. 2-4 Gigabit Testbed Jamboree Reston, VA Nov. 2-4 ACM Conf. of Computer and Comm Fairfax, VA Security Nov. 7-11 IEEE P802.11 Plenary Incline Village, NV Nov. 8-11 German Soc. of Internet Users Munich Nov. 11-14 ICCCN '94 San Francisco, CA Cooper [Page 51] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Nov. 14-15 CEC Cist 237 M-media Vienna, Austria Nov. 14-18 Supercomputing '94 Washington, DC Nov. 14-18 USENIX/ACM SIGOPS Monterey, CA Nov. 15-16 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Conf. Brussels Nov. 18-29 Nerdathon '94 - Windows into the Internet Lake Tahoe Nov. 28-30 Ntwk. Svs. Conf. (NSC'94) London, UK Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Email World Boston, MA Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ATM Forum Kyoto, Japan Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Cause Dec. 1-2 RARE Working Groups London, UK Dec. 5-7 Australian Telecom Networks and Applications Conf. ATNAC 94 Melbourne, AU Dec. 5-9 31st IETF (Definite) San Jose, CA Dec. 5-9 ANSI X3T11 Dec. 5-9 10th Comp. Sec. Applications Orlando, FL Dec. 7-9 Windows Solutions Tokyo, JP Dec. 7-9 IEEE R/T Systems Symposium San Juan, Puerto Rico Dec. 12-16 OIW Dec. 30-Jan. 2 IFIP Intl. Conf. Networks '94 Madras, India 1995 --------- Jan. 16-20 USENIX New Orleans, LA Feb. 16-17 ISOC Symposium on Ntwk & Distribruted System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 20-24 UniForum Dallas CC, Dallas, TX Feb. 26-Mar. 3 SHARE (IBM) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) Mar. 13-17 OIW Mar. 13-17 Email World (confirmed) Santa Clara, CA Mar. 13-24 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Tokyo, JP Mar. 16-19 3rd Intntl Telecom. Systems Modelling & Analysis Nashville, TN Mar. 27-31 NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas, NV Apr. 3-7 IEEE Infocom Boston, MA Apr. 3-7 32nd IETF (Definite) Apr. 19-21 5th Network & Operating System Support (NOSSADV) Workshop Boston, MA Apr. 24-25 IFIP Workshop on Personal Wireless Communications Prague, Czech Republic May 15-19 Joint European Ntwkg Conf. Tel Aviv, Israel May 18-19 RARE Council of Admin. Tel Aviv, Israel Jun. ISO/IEC JTC 1SC 21 WGs and Plenary (tentative) Turkey Jun. ISOC Wkshop for Tech. Emerging Countries Jun. 12-16 INET '95 (tentative) Singapore Cooper [Page 52] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Jun. 12-16 OIW Jun. INET95 Jul. 4 Independence Day Jul. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) JULY 14 BASTILLE DAY Jul. 17-21 33rd IETF (Tentative) Sweden Jul. 17-21 NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, JP Sep. 11-15 OIW Oct. 3-11 Telecom '95 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 9-13 Email World San Jose, CA (likely to be replaced by Nov. 27-Dec. 1 dates) Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary (Tentative) Nov. 13-17 34th IETF (Tentative) Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Email World (Probable) Boston, MA Dec. 4-8 OIW Dec. 4-8 34th IETF (Tentative) Dec. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (Possible) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 Supercomputing '95 (Possible) San Diego, CA Dec. 4-8 10th Comp. Sec. Applications (Tentative) 1996 ----------- Mar. 11-14 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 18-22 OIW May ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21 WGs and Plenary (tentative) Kansas City, US Jun. 10-14 OIW Sep. 2-6 14th IFIP Conf. Canberra, AU Sep. 9-13 OIW Dec. 9-13 OIW 1997 ----------- Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA 1998 ----------- Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World Comp. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary --------- Via ftp: /ietf/1events.calendar.imr.txt on ietf shadow directories Via gopher: "Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) / IETF Meetings / Scheduling Calendar" on ietf.cnri.reston.va.us ================================================================= Cooper [Page 53] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 RARE LIST OF MEETINGS Ref. RSec(94)001-ac September 1994 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 ------------------------ RARE Council of Administration ------------------------------ 20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam NewOrg General Assembly ----------------------- GA1 20/21 October 1994 Amsterdam GA2 18/19 May 1995 Tel Aviv UPTURN BoF ---------- 27 October Interop, Paris (from 18.30 till 20.30 hrs) 4th Framework & Telematics for Research --------------------------------------- 30 November (afternoon) London RARE Technical Committee / WG Convenors --------------------------------------- RARE Working Groups ------------------- MHS Managers 20-21 October Zurich Cooper [Page 54] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 WG-ISUS 1/2 December London WG-LLT 1 December (morning) London WG-NOP 1 December (morning) London RIPE ---- 12-14 September Lisboa RIPE NCC Contributors Committee ------------------------------- 21 September RARE/Amsterdam VARIOUS ------- EuroCAIRN 3/4 October Vienna EUROPEAN OPERATORS FORUM 12 September Lisboa EBONE Consortium of Contributing Organisations 02 November Munich EBONE Management Committee 06 September Copenhagen EOT (Ebone Operations Team) 10 October Paris EARN Board of Directors 30 November - 1 December London DANTE Board of Directors 19 September Utrecht DANTE Shareholders 20 September Utrecht Cooper [Page 55] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 Euro-CCIRN CCIRN 16/17 June 1995 Singapore INTERNET SOCIETY Board of Trustees 15/16 December Washington DC IETF 5-9 December San Jose, California 3-7 April 1995 Danvers, Massachusetts Summer 1995 Stockholm, Sweden EWOS ---- Technical Assembly 13-14 September Brussels 22-23 November Brussels Steering Committee 27 September Brussels 6 December Brussels Workshops 10-14 October Brussels ETSI ---- General Assembly 22/23 November Nice, France Technical Assembly 18-20 October Nice, France ******************************************************************* JENC6 - 6th Joint European Networking Conference 15-18 May 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel To be added to the conference email distribution list, send a message to . For information, email . To submit a paper, email ******************************************************************* Cooper [Page 56] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 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) SIXTH UNICODE IMPLEMENTERS' WORKSHOP ------------------------------------ 8/9 September 1994 at Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, California information from: THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (ICCCN'94) from 11-14 September 1994, San Fransisco, U.S.A. Conference Chairman: Prof. T. Suda INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY & APPLICATIONS -------------------------------------------------------------- 28 September 1994 at Asia Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand (limited budget to pay for local expenses of all international speakers, ie. local transportation, hotel, meals...) information from Srisakdi Charmonman, email NATO ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON NETWORKING IN THE NIS ----------------------------------------------- "Establishing a cooperative framework for networking in Russia and her neighbourhing states" 29 September until 1 October 1994 In Moscow, Russian Federation CLOSED - BY INVITATION ONLY OPENNET'94 - German Society of Internet Users (DIGI e.V.) --------------------------------------------------------- from 8-11 November in Goettingen (Park Hotel Ropeter) For further information contact the DIGI board via email: Cooper [Page 57] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI CONFERENCE 1994 -------------------------------- on 15 and 16 November 1994 in the European Parliament, Brussels. Information from Kristien Van Ingelgem, fax.+32 2 519 6819 ICT STANDARDIZATION POLICY WORKSHOP 1994 ---------------------------------------- 28, 29 and 30 November 1994 Chateau du Lac, Genval, Belgium organised by the European Commission with logistic support from EWOS. For information, email NETWORK SERVICES CONFERENCE 94 ------------------------------ from 28 to 30 November 1994 in London (UK) For further information contact David Sitman (PC Vice Chairman) via email: ; Paper submissions to: EMAIL WORLD ----------- The Mail Enabled Technologies Conference from 29 November to 1 December 1994 Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA, USA For further information, email Tel. +1 508 470 3880; Fax. +1 508 470 0526 WORKSHOP ON EUROPEAN USER REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONALISATION OF IT AND CHARACTER SET TECHNOLOGY ------------------------------------------------------- on 1 and 2 December 1994 in Luxembourg. Organised by CEN/TC304, sponsored by CEC/DGIII, EFTA and STRI. Registrations before 30 September 1994 For information, email IS&T/SPIE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC IMAGING ----------------------------------------- from 5 till 11 February 1995 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA -> Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995 -> Digital Video Compression: Algorithms & Technologies 1995 Tel.(206)676 3290 - Fax.(206)647 1445 Cooper [Page 58] Internet Monthly Report August 1994 INTERNET SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY ----------------------------------------------------- 16-17 February 1995 Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California USA Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 1995. For further information, email David Balenson EEMA MEETINGS ------------- Autumn Conference 14-16 September Madrid Winter Conference 15-17 November Luxembourg Cooper [Page 59]