December 1997 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS ------------------------ The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by the participating organizations. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to "IMR-ED@ISI.EDU". ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The Internet Monthly Report mailing list is now managed by MajorDomo at ISI.EDU. The announcements of new issues on the Internet Monthly Report are sent to the IETF-Announce list and to this IMR list. Requests to be ADDED or DELETED from the Internet Monthly report list should be sent to "majordomo@isi.edu" with the message body either "subscribe imr" or "unsubscribe imr". 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For example: To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU Subject: getting imrs help: ways_to_get_imrs or URL: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/imr/ Ramos [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 CALENDAR OF EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24 TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- 1. The IETF will meet in Los Angeles from March 30 - April, 3, 1998 and then in Chicago August 24-28. We're still looking into the final meeting of 1998. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meetng sites can always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL is: http://www.ietf.org/ 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF shadow directories in the iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: November 20, 1997 (iesg.97-11-20) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 19 Protocol Actions during the month of December: o Internet Nomenclator Project for publication as an Informational RFC. o Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol (SNQP) for publication as an Informational RFC. o Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video for publication as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 o Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The LDAP URL Format for publication as a Proposed Standard. o A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Mail Monitoring MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Network Services Monitoring MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o SNMPv3 Applications for publication as a Proposed Standard. o User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 4. Six Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of December: o Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name Resolution for publication as an Informational RFC. o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Naming Plan for Internet Directory-Enabled Applications for publication as a Proposed Standard. o SDP: Session Description Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 over PPP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks for publication as a Proposed Standard. 5. There were 183 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of December: (ion) o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast MIB (idmr) o IP Multicast Routing MIB (cat) o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (IDUP-GSS-API) (mobileip) o Route Optimization in Mobile IP (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) (none) o Photuris: Session Key Management Protocol (mmusic) o SDP: Session Description Protocol (idmr) o A ''traceroute'' facility for IP Multicast. Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 (madman) o Mail Monitoring MIB (madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB (http) o PEP - an Extension Mechanism for HTTP (ids) o The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture (mobileip) o Mobility Support in IPv6 (wts) o Security Extensions For HTML (dhc) o Extensions for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (ion) o Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) (rsvp) o RSVP Diagnostic Messages (none) o Photuris: Extended Schemes and Attributes (issll) o Interoperation of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed-Service with ATM (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extensions for Dynamic Directory Services (issll) o SBM (Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Proposal for Admission Control over IEEE 802-style networks (none) o Internet Calendar Access Protocol (ICAP) (ediint) o Requirements for Inter-operable Internet EDI (stdguide) o Guide for Internet Standards Writers (dnsind) o Secret Key Transaction Signatures for DNS (TSIG) (issll) o A Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over Shared and Switched IEEE 802 LAN Technologies (ediint) o MIME-based Secure EDI (roamops) o The Network Access Identifier (ftpext) o Extended Directory Listing and Restart Mechanism for FTP (ssh) o Users' Security Handbook Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 (ftpext) o Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol (svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes (ids) o Naming Plan for Internet Directory-Enabled Applications (vrrp) o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (radius) o RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol Support (drums) o Internet Message Format Standard (none) o MTP/SO: Self-Organizing Multicast (mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) (avt) o Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links (disman) o Distributed Management Framework (none) o Content Duration MIME Header Definition (calsch) o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - Application F for Facsimile (spki) o Simple Public Key Certificate (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (ospf) o The OSPF NSSA Option (qosr) o A Framework for QoS-based Routing in the Internet (ipngwg) o Router Renumbering for IPv6 (none) o Aggregation of Internet Integrated Services State (urn) o URI Resolution Services Necessary for URN Resolution (ion) o A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP (snmpv3) o An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks (none) o DHCP Options For Host System Characteristics Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 (none) o IP Header Compression over PPP (none) + Distributed Registration Extension to Mobile IP (none) o IMAP4 Namespace (calsch) o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) (snmpv3) o Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (find) o MIME Object Definitions for the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) (find) o The Architecture of the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) (snmpv3) o View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (none) o A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm (ipsec) o IP Security Document Roadmap (ipsec) o The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IV (mhtml) o MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration (cat) o The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5) (dnsind) o Test and Example Top Level Domain Names (snmpv3) o User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) (ipngwg) o TLA and NLA Assignment Rules (ippcp) o IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (snmpv3) o SNMPv3 Applications (calsch) o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries (dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions (svrloc) o Wide Area Network Service Location Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 (pppext) o PPP Over FUNI (acap) o ACAP Personal Addressbook Dataset Class (ipngwg) o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) (ipngwg) o IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (ipngwg) o Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (lsma) o Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for Large-scale Multicast Applications (issll) o Integrated Service Mappings on IEEE 802 Networks (avt) o An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error Correction (2000) o The Internet and the Millenium Problem (Year 2000) (none) o An Internet Firewall Transparency Requirement (avt) o Options for Repair of Streaming Media (dnsind) o Local DNS Names (ipsec) o The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms (none) o Use of the IPv4 TOS Octet to Support Differential Services (none) + Identification of messages delivered via both mail and news (grip) o Security Expectations for Internet Service Providers (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP (urlreg) o Guidelines for new URL Schemes (cat) o User to User Kerberos Authentication using GSS-API (pppext) o L2TP Header Compression (''L2TPHC'') (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol (cat) o Initial Authentication with Kerberos and the GSS-API (IAKERB) (none) o Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 (none) o Anti-Spam Requirements on an SMTP MTA (manet) + The Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) for Ad Hoc Networks (fax) o Facsimile over Internet Mail (pppext) o PPP EAP KEA Public Key Authentication Protocol (pppext) o PPP Fortezza Encryption Encapsulation Protocol (pppext) o PPP EAP DSS Public Key Authentication Protocol (pppext) o PPP Certificate Exchange Protocol (ipsec) o A GSS-API Authentication Mode for ISAKMP/Oakley (manet) + Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing (mobileip) + Registration Keys for Route Optimization (mobileip) + Special Tunnels for Mobile IP (mobileip) + Tunnel Establishment Protocol (iab) + The Case for IPv6 (manet) + Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) Version 1 Functional Specification (manet) + An Internet MANET Encapsulation Protocol (IMEP) Specification (mobileip) + Rapid Authentication for Mobile IP (tcpsat) + Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites (none) + LDP Specification (dnsind) + Larger Domain Name System UDP Replies (none) + Heuristics for utilizing ISSL Mechanisms for A/V Streams Over Low Bandwidth Links in the absence of Announcement Protocols (none) + Persistent Search: A Simple LDAP Change Notification Mechanism (drums) + The ''Message-ID'' header Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 (none) + A Proposal for the Format and Semantics of the TOS Byte and Traffic Class Byte in IPv4 and IPv6 Headers (drums) + Reply-To-Meaning Proposal (none) + Staged Refresh Timers for RSVP (avt) + New Results in RTP Scalability (calsch) + CAP Requirements (calsch) + iCalendar Real-time Interoperability Protocol (iRIP) (idmr) + Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3 (ipngwg) + Reverse Address lookup in DNS for IPng. (radius) + RADIUS Accounting Modifications for Tunnel Protocol Support (ldapext) + LDAP Extensions for Scrolling View Browsing of Search Results (pkix) + Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Representation of Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) Keys and Signatures in Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificates (pppext) + Securing L2TP using IPSEC (none) + Protocol for shopping over the Internet (none) + Dynamic Tunnel Configuration Protocol (drums) + The ''Mail-Followup-To'' header (radius) + Salt-Encryption of RADIUS Attributes (ipsec) + Extended Authentication Within ISAKMP/Oakley (none) + Stream Aggregation (spki) + SPKI Examples (ipsec) + Dynamic remote host configuration over IPSEC using DHCP (ipsec) + Revised SA negotiation mode for ISAKMP/Oakley (none) + DNSSEC Signature and Data Verification Semantics Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 (cat) + Kerberos vs firewalls (none) + User-Share Differentiation (USD) Scalable bandwidth allocation for differentiated services (none) + LDAPv3 Change Log Triggered Search Result Control (none) + IP Multicast over ATM Networks with Cut-through Forwarding (drums) + Reply-To Personal Proposal (ippcp) + IP Payload Compression Using DEFLATE (none) + Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option (none) + End to End Aggregation of Multicast Addresses (none) + A Minimum LDAPv3 White Pages Schema (fax) + Terminology and Goals for Internet Fax (fax) + Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail (fax) + Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail (fax) + Some comments on the TIFF 'application' parameter (vrrp) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol using SNMPv2 (none) + The Batch SMTP Media Type (none) + Conversational Multimedia URLs (none) + A Two-bit Differentiated Services Architecture for the Internet (none) + UTF-9, a transformation format of UCS (none) o LDAP-based Routing of SMTP Messages: Approach Used by Netscape (oncrpc) + BGP Security Analysis (none) + Some Issues and Applications of Packet Marking (none) + A Description of the MISTY1 Encryption Algorithm Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 (mboned) + Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP) (none) + Multicast Address Alloctation Protocol (AAP) (none) + Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U (avt) + Guidelines for writers of RTP payload format specifications (none) + Requirements for protocol-independent content negotiation (none) + The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture (ngtrans) + Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT] (none) + Cell Switch Router - Architecture and Protocol Overview - (none) + An SMTP URL Interface (none) + Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Distributed Control Mode (mpls) + Use of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification (none) + Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Ingress Control Mode (none) + VPN support for MPLS (none) + Definition of a Common Management Interface Format (tn3270e) + TLS-based Telnet Security (none) + An Architecture and Protocols for Initiation and Control of Telephone Calls From Terminals Connected to a CallBroker over a TCP/IP Connection (disman) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Scheduling Management Operations (none) + Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Neighbor Discovery Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 6. Eight RFCs were published during this period RFC2244 PS ACAP -- Application Configuration Access Protocol RFC2245 PS Anonymous SASL Mechanism RFC2251 PS Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) RFC2252 PS Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions RFC2253 PS Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguised Names RFC2254 PS The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters RFC2255 PS The LDAP URL Format RFC2256 PS A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAP3 Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES Gopher Sessions: 29,564 Retrievals: 6,051 WAIS Sessions: 7,896 Retrievals: 7,710 FTP Sessions: 94,450 Retrievals: 152,797 Telnet Sessions: 67,437 HTTP: 12,997,628 Whois Client Queries: 5,237,399 Whois Server Queries: 21,441,429 Updates: 150,656 email: 547,615 Phone: 39,218 by Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The Netfind seed database for December contained over 2.5 million entries. The parallel version of Nomenclator is now in operation on all of our production servers. The parallel version searches multiple remote directory servers in parallel. The new version of Nomenclator is available at: http://ds.internic.net/nomen/nomenclator.html by Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY The US Domain registration form is now available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. The US Domain has the maps of all the delegated special domains online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 Some of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. Recent announcements: 1. A new policy has been added to avoid several cases of misleading, erroneous, and outright false information provided on registration applications. One situation that occurs is that one individual represents himself as several distinct companies in order to bypass some limitations on the number of delegations allowed (e.g., the 50/500 rule). Another situation is that with the requirement to provide a government employee as the administrative contact for a locality delegation. Some applications have been received with a government employee's contact information but that person has no idea that such an application has been submitted. Some applications provide contact information for an individual that knows what is going on but is not an employee of the locality government. Still other applications have been received where the administrative contact information is fictional. The US Domain Administration may choose to verify any or all of the information on registration applications (including the administrative contact) and if it is determined that the an application contains false of substantially misleading information that application may be denied, or if already acted on the delegation may be revoked, and in either case all other delegations made to the party submitting the false or misleading application may also be revoked. 2. A total of about 2000 locality domains that were delegated to several domain name managers have been returned to the US Domain administrator. These localities will be made available for redelegation in the coming months. 3. For delegations made after 1-Jul-97, it is assumed by the US Domain Administrator that every applicant for the delegation (or redelegation) of a locality name has the written agreement of the legitimate government for that locality for the applicant to manage the domain name of that locality. Evidence of such an agreement does not need to be presented at the time of delegation (except that the administrative contact on the application template must be the government representative). Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 However, if the delegation is later challenged or contested, the manager of the locality domain must produce the agreement. Failure to do so will most likely result in the transfer of the management of the locality domain to another manager that does have such an agreement. If there is a dispute as to what is the legitimate government for a locality is and who may act for it, the league of cities or association of municipalities that each state (as recognized by the National League of Cities) may be asked to assist in resolving such disputes. In some places there are overlapping jurisdictions with the same name (for example, the city of Los Angeles and the county of Los Angeles). In such cases, the higher level government should have priority. A new policy has been added regarding the charges for the domain name passed on during delegation. The administrator of the locality has to notify one year in advance before charging for those domains. 4. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2564 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3064 DELEGATIONS: 91 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1096 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:1877 --------------------------- Total 3064 OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES include referrals to other subdomains or to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name servers, and whois listings. Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 52 39 36 48 41 27 30 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== There were no special domains delegated this month. LOCALITIES ========== SALINA.KS.US. MONROE.MI.US. MOJAVE.CA.US. CHAUTAUQUA.NY.US. LINN.OR.US. WESTFORD.VT.US. SEA-ISLE-CITY.NJ.US. MOOREVILLE.NC.US. RUPERT.ID.US. HILL-CITY.KS.US. COLBY.KS.US. GOODLAND.KS.US. SALINE.KS.US. ELLSWORTH.KS.US. GARDEN-CITY.KS.US. DODGE-CITY.KS.US. HUSDONVILLE.KS.US. BROOMFIELD.CO.US. CRESCENT-SPRINGS.KY.US. TOPEKA.KS.US. PLAINVILLE.KS.US. STOCKTON.KS.US. TREGO.KS.US. OSBORNE.KS.US. HUTCHINSON.KS.US. RENO.KS.US. RILEY.KS.US. CARLYLE.IL.US. CARPINTERIA.CA.US. AYER.MA.US. BROWN.WI.US. CATAWBA.NC.US. WICHITA.KS.US. GARNETT.KS.US. AVON-BY-THE-SEA.NJ.US. BRECKSVILLE.OH.US. We delegated 2 domains under NSN.US. GILA-RIVER.NSN.US. COWCREEK.NSN.US. Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== CI.TRACY.CA.US. CI.LONE-TREE.CO.US. CO.CALDWELL.NC.US. PAINTCREEK.ROCHESTER.MI.US. HEALTH.CO.GREENE.NY.US. STARTECH.KELLER.TX.US. CO.GILA.AZ.US. TMCA.GEN.AZ.US. OWNS.ORLANDO.FL.US. CO.GENESEE.MI.US. CO.MIAMI-DADE.FL.US. THE-PURITAN-PARTY.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CO.BOX-ELDER.UT.US. CI.GREENFIELD.CA.US. NWRC.COG.WA.US. CARR.SOUTH-GATE.CA.US. INDIANLAKE.LOGAN.OH.US. CO.ALLEN.OH.US. BADBRADLEY.TAMPA.FL.US. COMMUNITY.JAMESPORT.MO.US. DEEDS.SALEM.MA.US. CO.OUTAGAMIE.WI.US. TWSP.FAIRVIEW.PA.US. TAXCOLLECTOR.CO.OKALOOSA.FL.US. CI.NEW-IBERIA.LA.US. DAVENPORT.WAYNE.OH.US. SPRINGVILLE.FORTUNA.CA.US. CI.IDAHO-FALLS.ID.US. OSU-EXT.KAY.OK.US. GRNCSB.GEN.GA.US. CI.FLOWOOD.MS.US. HOME.KANEOHE.HI.US. OSU-EXT.PITTSBURG.OK.US. DIERKS.JOPLIN.MO.US. CI.LEHI.UT.US. CI.KING.NC.US. GOLDEN.PROSPERITY.WV.US. CO.IREDELL.NC.US. DCRA.WASHINGTON.DC.US. TODD.ALDEN.NY.US. AVALON.ALBUQUERQUE.NM.US. SAWYERHS.SAWYER.WI.US. DEMENTIA.TRAFFORD.PA.US. CI.MINNETRISTA.MN.US. BCEM.CO.BAY.FL.US. BEARD.DECATUR.GA.US. KE4GFF.DAVIE.FL.US. TOWN.GLEN-ECHO.MD.US. CI.INDEPENDENCE.OR.US. CI.BOYNTON-BEACH.FL.US. UNIXNET.WYANDOTTE.MI.US. ENIGMA.WHEATON.MD.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes December 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. The Route Server Next Generation project (http://www.rsng.net/) has proposed a new mechanism for using Internet Routing Registry (IRR) Agreements (MLPAs) at the exchange points. MLPAs never gained wide acceptance at the IXPs. The agreements can be somewhat cumbersome Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 to maintain: even in cases where each organization at the exchange agrees to peer with all the others, each peer has to modify the routing policy in its aut-num object by hand in order to establish peering with new organizations as they join the IXP. Jake Khuon has proposed the use of a single as-macro object that would dynamically configure routing policy for all organizations at the exchange point. The as-macro object would be referenced by each organization's aut-num object. Each time a new organization joined the exchange, it would simply modify the macro object, automatically updating the 'as-in' and 'as-out' policy for all other organizations at the exchange. The new procedure would greatly simplify the process of reconfiguring policy to accommodate new peers. Previously, such an approach could not be implemented because of security controls inherent in the Internet Routing Registry: all objects in the IRR can either be modified only by their authorized maintainers, or by anyone. Neither technique is practical for an IXP; ideally, each organization would be able to view all routing policies in the as-object, but would only be able to modify its own information. In Khuon's new model, a secure, automated e-mail gateway gives authorized users (i.e., all peering organizations at the IXP) secure access to their own - and only their own - routing information in the macro object. The proposal is introduced in two drafts: "Specifying and Supporting a Layer-3 MLPA Using as-macros," for use with RIPE-181, and "Specifying and Supporting a Layer-3 MLPA Using as-sets," for RPSL. The documents are available on the RSng Web pages: http://www.rsng.net/papers/ The schema was first presented at a December MREN (Metropolitan Research and Education Network) meeting in Chicago, and has been well received by the community. New documentation is available for the 1.4.2 snapshot release of MRT, the Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit. The publications include a revised User/Configuration Guide and Programmer's Guide, and a new Installation Guide. See: http://www.merit.edu/net-research/mrt/html/mrt_doc/ MRT uses novel approaches to routing architecture design, and incorporates features such as parallelized light-weight processes, multiple processor support, and shared memory. The object- oriented, modular design of the software encourages the rapid Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 addition and prototyping of experimental routing protocol and inter-domain policy algorithms. You can use MRT to: -Serve as the backbone routing software for your IPv6 or IPv4 network connection. -Simultaneously handle tasks such as routing policy communication, routing policy calculation, and maintenance of a RIB, and distribute these tasks over multiple processors or multiple machines -Generate and analyze route flap statistics -Generate real-time graphical maps of Internet routing -Capture a BGP peering session and monitor it in real time -Record and replay sequences of events, such as routing failures. The toolkit comprises two main categories of tools: Routing and Network Performance measurement tools. The MRT applications include: ROUTING TOOLS ------------- -MRTd - A routing daemon supporting RIPng, BGP4+, multiple RIBs (route server), and RIP1/2. MRTd reads Cisco Systems-like router configuration files and supports a Cisco Systems router-like telnet interface. -BGPsim - A BGP4+ traffic generator/simulator -SBGP - A simple BGP4+ speaker and listener -Route_BtoA - Converts binary MRT messages to ASCII -Route_AtoB - Converts ASCII descriptions of MRT messages to binary. NETWORK PERFORMANCE/STATISTICS TOOLS ------------------------------------ -NetNowd - Measures network performance (one-way latency/loss, ICMP, topology/traceroute and bulk file transfer metrics) Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 -IRRd - An Internet Routing Registry database daemon. Supports RIPE-181 and RPSL routing database objects. -SalServerd-A "webcasting" server supplying Internet statistics/performance channels. MRT fans will be glad to hear that the code is now stable, in production use on the 6bone, and being used for statistics collection at several sites on the Internet. At the 40th IETF in Washington, D.C., Sue Hares chaired the Inter- Domain Routing Working Group session, and also hosted several GateD technical meetings. Abha Ahuja and Jake Khuon attended the December MREN (Metropolitan Research and Education Network) meeting in Chicago to discuss Route Server issues and Khuon's MLPA proposal. Susan R. Harris UCL ---- We've been testing a version of Vic that uses a semi-reliable multicast protocol to do layred congestion avoidance. This is running with SAIC and UCL over the CAIRN, and to other sites. A paper describing the protocol was accepted for infocom98 (ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/infocom98.ps) We are also testing the priced/adaptive TCP on the CAIRN (described in a paper in submission, at ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/multcp.ps) John Crowcroft IANA REPORT ----------- Country Codes 1 Machine Names 2 Media Types 1 Multicast Addresses: Blocks 5 Novell SAP Numbers 1 Private Enterprise Numbers 63 Port Numbers 24 SMI Numbers 9 by Josh Elliott Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of December, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 9 3 11 | 23 month | | New 24 0 0 0 | 24 | | Processed 8 2 2 0 | 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 16 7 1 11 | 35 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Alegre Ramos Ramos [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 CALENDAR -------- Last update 2/2/98 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1998 ----------- Feb. 4-7 Europen Telematics: Advancing the Information Society Barcelona, Spain Feb. 8-10 NANOG 12 Albuquerque, NM Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum Anaheim, CA Feb. 7-9 DCI'S Internet Expo San Jose, CA Ramos [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 Feb. 12-13 IBC UK Conference on TCP/IP based VPNs London, UK Feb. 15-20 IEEE/IFIP '98 Network Operations and Mangement Symp New Orleans, LA Mar. 2-3 USENIX New Network Technologies Symposium Salt Lake City, UT Mar. 2-3 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) San Francisco, CA Mar. 8-11 IEEE, 2nd Euromicro Working Conf. on Soft. Maint. & Reeng. Florence, Italy Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA Mar. 11-13 Internet Society NDSS '98: Symposium on Network & Distributed Sys. Security Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, CA Mar. 16-18 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Mar. 29-Apr 2 IEEE INFOCOM '98 - Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Mar. 30-Apr. 3 41st IETF (No Host) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 30-Apr. 3 NetWorld+Interop Singapore Mar. 30-Apr. 3 First Merged Symposium IPPS/SPDP 1998, 1sth Intl Parallel Processing Symposium & 9th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Orlando, FLA Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA Apr. 6-7 IBC UK Conference on TCP/IP & London, UK ATM: The Telco Strategy Summit Apr. 6-10 wmATM'98 1st Int'l Workshop on Wireless Mobile ATM Implementation Hangzhou, China Apr. 14-18 WWW7 Brisbane, Australia Apr. 18-23 CHI '98 (ACM SIGCHI) Los Angeles, CA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum Berlin, Germany Apr. 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Apr. 22-24 Third IEEE Int'l Workshop on Systems Management Newport, Rhode Island Apr. 27-30 USENIX 4th Conf, COOTS Santa Fe, Mexico May RIPE30 Stockholm (tbd) May 5-8 Networld+Interop '98 Las Vegas, NV May 17-20 9th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Alberta, Canada May 18-20 6th IEEE/IFIP Int'l Wkshp on Quality of Service IWQos '98 Napa, CA May 25-28 Interactive Multimedia Service and Equipment Zurich, Switzerland SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jun. 7-11 ENCOM '98 in conjunction with ICC/SuperComm '98 Atlanta, GA Jun 15-19 USENIX '98 Technical Conf. New Orleans, LA Ramos [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 Jun 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 21-24 INET '98 The Internet Society's 8th Annual Networking Conference Geneva, Switzerland Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum Portland, OR Aug. 3-5 USENIX 2nd Windows NT Seattle, Washington Aug. 5-7 USENIX 2nd Large Instal. Sys. Admin of Windows NT(LISA NT) Seattle, Washington Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Aug. 24-28 42nd IETF Chicago, IL Aug. 29-Sep 4 SIGCOMM '98 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 31-Sep 3 USENIX 2nd Workshop on Electronic Commerce Boston, MA Aug. 31-Sep 4 SEC '98 14th Int'l Information Security Conference Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 14-18 USENIX - 6th TCL/TK Conf. San Diego, CA Sep. 17-18 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) Tentative (TBD) Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum Gold Coast, Australia Oct. 5-8 TERENA (host by DFN) Dresden, Germany Oct. 13-16 Intl Conf on Netw Protocols Austin, TX Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA Oct 25-30 MobiCom'98 4th Annual ACM/IEEE Dallas, TX Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov 25 TERENA Executive Committe Amsterdam Nov. 29-Dec 4 ATM Forum Nashville, TN Dec. 6-11 12th Systems Administration Conf. (LISA '98) Boston, MA Dec. 7-11 43rd IETF (Tentative) TBD 1999 ----- Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Feb. 22-25 USENIX - 3rd Sym. on Oper. Sys Design and Implementation (OSDI '99) New Orleans, LA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 31-Jun 4 WWW8 Toronto, CANADA Ramos [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report December 1997 Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jul 12-16 45th IETF (tentative) Oslo, Norway Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Boston, tentative Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA Nov. 8-12 46th IETF (tentative) TBA Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA 2000 ---- MAR 26-31 47th IETF Adelaide, Australia May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative) Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, GA The TERENA Calendar for January 1998 may be found on URL: http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam the Netherlands email tel: +31 20 639 1131 fax: +31 20 639 3289 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ramos [Page 27]