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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 October 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 Network Solutions Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- Internet Monthly Report for October, 1998 1. The final meeting of the year will be held in Orlando, Florida from December 7-11, 1998. This meeting is being hosted by Microsoft. Registration is scheduled to begin the first part of October. 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: September 24, 1998 (iesg.98-09-24) October 8, 1998 (iesg.10-08) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 20 Protocol Actions during the month of October, 1998: o Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o A Distributed MARS Service Using SCSP for publication as an Experimental Protocol. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 o The Batch SMTP Media Type for publication as an Informational RFC. o Collaboration between ISOC/IETF and ITU-T for publication as an Informational RFC. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0 Bundle Interface Type for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video for publication as a Proposed Standard. o POP3 Extension Mechanism for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries for publication as a Proposed Standard. o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o BGP Route Flap Damping for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Extended Border Node for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN TRAPS for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN for publication as a Proposed Standard. o OpenPGP Message Format for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The One-Time-Password SASL Mechanism for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information for publication as a Standard. o RFC1722: RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicabilty Statment for publication as a Standard. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 o RFC1049: Content-type header field for Internet messages be reclassified as an Historic document. 4. 12 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of October, 1998: o Procedure for Defining New DHCP Options for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o An Architecture for Differentiated Services for consideration as an Informational RFC. o LDAP Schema Definitions for Intranet Mail Routing - The mailRecipient Object Class for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Router Renumbering for IPv6 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o PPP LCP Internationalization Configuration Option for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o DHCP Option for User Authentication Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Service Location Protocol, Version 2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 o Service Templates and service: Schemes for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. One new working group was created Policy Framework (policy) o and 2 working groups were concluded: Integrated Directory Services (ids) Transaction Internet Protocol (tip) 6. There were 150 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of October, 1998: (madman) o Directory Server Monitoring MIB (dhc) o Procedure for Defining New DHCP Options (dnssec) o Detached Domain Name System (DNS) Information (atommib) o Managed Objects for Controlling the Collection and Storage of Accounting Information for Connection-Oriented Networks (ion) o IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks (svrloc) o Finding Stuff (How to discover services) (pppext) o Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol--PPTP (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6 (atommib) o Accounting Information for ATM Networks (dhc) o DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol (ipngwg) + Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels (radius) o Implementation of L2TP Compulsory Tunneling via RADIUS Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 (ssh) o Users' Security Handbook (svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes (rtfm) o RTFM Working Group - New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services (none) o A Simulation Model for IP Multicast with RSVP (ftpext) o FTP Security Considerations (radius) o RADIUS Extensions (spki) o SPKI Requirements (none) o DIAMETER Base Protocol (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS (mboned) o Multicast Debugging Handbook (roamops) o Proxy Chaining and Policy Implementation in Roaming (urn) o URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms (urn) o URI Resolution Services Necessary for URN Resolution (disman) o Event MIB (disman) o Expression MIB (disman) o Notification Log MIB (ipvbi) + THE TRANSMISSION OF IP OVER THE VERTICAL BLANKING INTERVAL OF A TELEVISION SIGNAL (urn) o A URN Namespace for IETF Documents (ipcdn) o Cable Device Management Information Base for MCNS compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems (ipcdn) o Radio Frequency (RF) Interface Management Information Base for MCNS/DOCSIS compliant RF interfaces (webdav) o HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 (ion) o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for ATMARP (ion) o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS (none) o Guidelines for Next Hop Client (NHC) Developers (none) o Performance Issues in VC-Merge Capable ATM LSRs (ion) o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for NHRP (dnssec) o DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS) (manet) o Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET): Routing Protocol Performance Issues and Evaluation Considerations (ipsec) o The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms (ion) o IPv6 over ATM Networks (pppext) o PPP EAP TLS Authentication Protocol (pkix) o X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP (smime) o Cryptographic Message Syntax (smime) o Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol, Version 2 (idr) o BGP Route Flap Damping (openpgp) o OpenPGP Message Format (none) o A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP (ipngwg) o Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 (none) o LDAP Proxied Authentication Control (ippm) o IPPM Metrics for Measuring Connectivity (ion) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Server Cache Synchronization Protocol Using SMIv2 (spki) o SPKI Certificate Theory Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 (mboned) o Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP) (mpls) o Use of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification (none) o LDAP Schema Definitions for Intranet Mail Routing - The mailRecipient Object Class (dnssec) o RSA/MD5 KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS) (none) o POP3 Extension Mechanism (printmib) o Printer Finishing MIB (policy) + Schema for Differentiated Services and Integrated Services in Networks (ipfc) o IP and ARP over Fibre Channel (none) o The Java SASL Application Program Interface (none) o Host Resources MIB V2 (fax) o Extended Facsimile Using Internet Mail (bridge) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering and Virtual LAN Extensions (ospf) o OSPF Optimized Multipath (OSPF-OMP) (pppext) o PPP LCP Internationalization Configuration Option (svrloc) o Definition of afp: URLs for use with Service Location (none) o NFS Version 2 and Version 3 Security Issues and the NFS Protocol's Use of RPCSEC_GSS and Kerberos V5 (none) o Distributed Network Address Translation (ldapext) o Signed Directory Operations Using S/MIME (diffserv) o Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers (none) + Schema for Representing Java(tm) Objects in an LDAP Directory (none) o List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the Identification of Mailing Lists Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 (diffserv) o An Architecture for Differentiated Services (smime) o Certificate Distribution Specification (smime) o Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method (diffserv) o A Framework for Differentiated Services (nat) o IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations (iptel) o A Framework for a Gateway Location Protocol (snmpv3) o Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework (none) o The vCard v3.0 XML DTD (nat) o DNS extensions to Network Address Translators (DNS_ALG) (snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN/HPR in IP Networks (none) o AT&T's Error Resilient Video Transmission Technique (dhc) o DHCP Option to Disable Stateless Auto-Configuration in IPv4 Clients (diffserv) o Assured Forwarding PHB Group (fax) o Indicating Supported Media Features Using Extensions to DSN and MDN (snmpv3) o An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks (none) o Internet Cache Protocol Extension (none) o PKCS 1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.0 (none) o Deliver By SMTP Service Extension (snmpv3) o SNMPv3 Applications (webdav) + Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (ipngwg) o Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses (snmpv3) o Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 (cat) o The Kerberos Version 5 GSSAPI Mechanism, Version 2 (none) o ACK Spacing for High Delay-Bandwidth Paths with Insufficient Buffering (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Service Level Agreements Performance Monitoring (mhtml) o The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type (none) o MIME Types for Use with the ISO ILL Protocol (none) o Multicast Manager (MCM): A Multipoint-to-Multipoint Multicasting Protocol for ATM (nfsv4) o NFS Version 4 Requirements (rtfm) o RTFM: Applicability Statement (fax) o MIME content-type for Internet Fax Full Mode (trade) o Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0 (dhc) o Automaticly Choosing an IP Address in an Ad-Hoc IPv4 Network (ipsec) o IPSec Monitoring MIB (iesg) + Bylaws for a Protocol Support Organization (none) + A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks (avt) + Issues and Options for RTP Multiplexing (none) + Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism (tn3270e) + Open Host Interface Objects for TN3270E (none) + Requirements for Human Friendly Identifiers (none) + CPE based VPNs using MPLS (none) o Secret Handshakes: How to get RFCs published in the IETF (manet) + Core Extraction Distributed Ad hoc Routing (CEDAR) Specification (none) + Publicly Verifiable Random Selection Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 (pppext) o Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions, Version 2 (pppext) o Deriving MPPE Keys From MS-CHAP V2 Credentials (none) + Core IP VPN Architecture (none) + Atomic Certificates (none) + Light-weight Reliable Multicast Protocol Specification (none) + H.323 Signaling and SS7 ISUP Gateway: Procedure Interworking (none) + Collaboration between ISOC/IETF and ITU-T (ion) + Definitions of Managed Objects for ATMARP dependent Server Cache Synchronization Protocol Using SMIv2 (webdav) + Use of Dublin Core Metadata in WebDAV (none) + Disconnecting TCP connection toward IPv6 anycast address (ipsec) + An LDAP Schema for Configuration and Administration of IPSec based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) (none) + Applicability of GSMP as an IETF Protocol (ipsec) + Secure Configuration of IPsec-Enabled Network Devices (none) + IS-IS Optimized Multipath (ISIS-OMP) (dnssec) + Domain Name System (DNS) Security Key Rollover (radius) o Microsoft Vendor-specific RADIUS Attributes (none) + IVR control (ipsec) + Security Policy Specification Language (rap) + COPS usage for RSVP (none) + PAX PDL - a non-procedural packet description language (none) + Generic Architecture for Information Availability (none) + HTML REFRESH LANGUAGE (HTMLR/1.0) (conneg) + W3C Composite Capability/Preference Profiles Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 (ipngwg) + A method for flexible IPv6 address assignments (none) + The Use of the Internet Print Protocol [IPP] as a Facsimile Service (uswg) + FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked New Internet User Questions (none) + Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) (ion) + Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5 (none) + Management Information Base for IS-IS 7. 12 RFCs were published during this period: RFC2429 PS (avt) RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+) RFC2430 I (none) A Provider Architecture for Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering (PASTE) RFC2431 PS (avt) RTP Payload Format for BT.656 Video Encoding RFC2432 I (bmwg) Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking RFC2433 I (pppext) Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions RFC2434 B (iesg) Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs RFC2435 PS (avt) RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video RFC2436 I (none) Collaboration between ISOC/IETF and ITU-T RFC2437 I (none) PKCS 1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.0 RFC2438 B (iesg) Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track RFC2444 PS (otp) The One-Time-Password SASL Mechanism RFC2468 I (none) I REMEMBER IANA Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- NETWORK SOLUTIONS REPORT ****************************************************** * gopher sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: cat: gopher-server*: No such file or directory 0 Retrievals: cat: gopher-server*: No such file or directory 0 ****************************************************** * wais sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: wais-server*.gz: No such file or directory 0 Retrievals: wais-server*.gz: No such file or directory 0 ****************************************************** * whois sessions * ****************************************************** Client Queries: 28241904 Server Queries: 38114937 ****************************************************** * ftp sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 112579 Retrievals: 168348 ****************************************************** * telnet sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 152604 ****************************************************** * mailserver sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 0 ****************************************************** * http sessions * ****************************************************** Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 Retrievals: 32621534 Phones: 71,611 Emails : 876,693 Updates: 309,224 by Ricardo A. Gonzalez THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY THE US DOMAIN ============= The US Domain registration information is available online at http://www.isi.edu/us-domain. Much of the processing of the requests to the third level domain name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator of that locality. US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 2450 PHONE 90 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 2540 DELEGATIONS: 79 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1025 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:1436 --------------------------- Total 2540 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 15] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 40 36 48 43 25 29 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== LOCALITIES ========== NEWBURY.VT.US. AURORA.IN.US. WELLS-RIVER.VT.US. DOTHAN.AL.US. ADELANTO.CA.US. PEPPERELL.MA.US. CARROLLTOWN.PA.US. AROOSTOOK.ME.US. ASHEVILLE.NC.US. ANACONDA.MT.US. CHARMECK.NC.US. EDELSTEIN.IL.US. GAINESVILLE.TX.US. OCEAN-ISLE-BEACH.NC.US. CARLETON.MI.US. CASCADE-LOCKS.OR.US. DELANO.MN.US. LOS-CERRILLOS.NM.US. OTHERS ====== WRPAIUTE.NSN.US. TULALIP.NSN.US. CATAWBA-NATION.NSN.US. YUROKTRIBE.NSN.US. LPT.NSN.US. YAVAPAI-APACHE-NATION.NSN.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== CI.SOUTH-HAVEN.MI.US. WWW.VILLAGE.COTTAGE-GROVE.WI.US. CO.DAVIE.NC.US. TOWN.REHOBOTH.MA.US. CI.YORBA-LINDA.CA.US. CRENSHAW.WAKE-FOREST.NC.US. CI.NORWALK.CA.US. CAMPBELL.K12.VA.US. BIGRED.BELLTOWN.CA.US. TOWNSHIP.NORTH-HUNTINGDON.PA.US. WVSD.DST.CA.US. CLACKAMAS.LIB.OR.US. ESTACADA.LIB.OR.US. GLADSTONE.LIB.OR.US. MILWAUKIE.LIB.OR.US. MOLALLA.LIB.OR.US. OREGONCITY.LIB.OR.US. SANDY.LIB.OR.US. MYSTERY.VAN-NUYS.CA.US. HESSELRODE.AGOURA.CA.US. CO.CARBON.UT.US. TOWN.BETHEL.NY.US. GAVERS.MARTINEZ.CA.US. HOTDOG.MIAMI.FL.US. BEHEL.LONGWOOD.FL.US. THP.JOHNSONVILLE.NY.US. CI.SAN-BRUNO.CA.US. REALESTATE.MOBILE.AL.US. Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 TWP.UPPER-FREDERICK.PA.US. CO.IMPERIAL.CA.US. PWAC.LANTANA.FL.US. TOOLBOX.SAN-MARCOS.CA.US. BOILERMAKER.LAMAR.SC.US. CI.OLMOS-PARK.TX.US. SVLS.LIB.CA.US. LCPS.K12.VA.US. HIGHWAY38.DEER-RIVER.MN.US. DESIGNETT.DEER-RIVER.MN.US. KLASEN.WASHINGTON.DC.US. PWAC.LAKE-WORTH.FL.US. HGS.K12.VA.US. MINI-ISP.ELLICOTT-CITY.MD.US. CI.VERONA.WI.US. VWENTHUSIAST.JOHNSON.VT.US. CI.SEMINOLE.FL.US. CI.CARRBORO.NC.US. FIRE.KEY-BISCAYNE.FL.US. OTN.CAMARILLO.CA.US. OVERTHENET.CAMARILLO.CA.US. CI.PACIFIC-GROVE.CA.US. TOWN.BROOKLINE.MA.US. HEALTH.EL-PASO.TX.US. WILSONVILLE.LIB.OR.US. GEORGESHALL.WASHINGTON.DC.US. CAMP.SCOTTSVILLE.TX.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ by Brenna Guthrie MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes October 1998 Internet engineering activities at Merit Network, Inc. (www.merit.edu). Merit is pleased to announce a limited beta release of IRRd Version 1.1. The new release offers full e-mail/PGP support for database submissions. If you would like to participate in the beta trials, contact us by sending e-mail to irrd-support@merit.edu. IRRd is a freely available, stand-alone Internet Routing Registry database server that supports both RIPE-181 and RPSL routing registry syntaxes. The code and documentation are available on the Merit Web pages: http://www.merit.edu/radb/irrd/ The Route Server Next Generation (RSng) team installed Route Servers at the Automotive Network eXchange (ANX) in Southfield, Michigan. The ANX, which is operated by the Automotive Industry Action Group, provides a secure IP network for trading partners throughout the automotive supply chain. RSng oversees all RS operations at ANX, including configuration generation for the ANX routers, 7/24 system monitoring, and monitoring of peering Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 sessions. Other exchange points taking advantage of RSng services include AADS, the Digital Internet Exchange, the PacBell NAP, MAE- East, and MAE-West. by Susan R. Harris UCL ---- UCL Is putting togerther the program for IEEE/IFIP sponsored International Workshop on Quality of Service, to be held in London in Jun 1-4 1999. See http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/iwqos99/ for details, but there will be a 1 day workshop on Internet Pricing at the end of the 3 day paper sessions, which neatly dovetails with the ITC in Scotland the next week. by John Crowcroft IANA REPORT ----------- Address Resolution Protocol Parameters: 1 MIME Media Types 2 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 11 Multicast Addresses: Blocks 2 Private Enterprise Numbers 91 Port Assignments 39 Protocol Numbers Assignments 1 Radius Types 1 SMI Numbers 1 Telnet Options 1 by Josh Elliott Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of October, 1998: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 16 25 10 | 51 month | | New 19 0 0 0 | 19 | | Processed 9 9 0 0 | 18 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 10 7 25 10 | 52 * 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. by Alegre Ramos Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 CALENDAR -------- Last update 11/30/98 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. Northern Europe Address: ftp.nordu.net (192.36.148.198) Southern Europe Address: ftp.nis.garr.it (193.205.245.10) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12) West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) US East Coast Address: ftp.ietf.org cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1998 ----------- Dec. 6-11 12th Systems Administration Conf. (LISA '98) Boston, MA Dec. 7-11 43rd IETF Orlando, FL Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 1999 ----- Jan 31-Feb 2 NANOG 15 Denver, CO Feb. 3-5 1999 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, CA Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum Atlanta, GA Feb. 22-25 USENIX - 3rd Sym. on Oper. Sys Design and Implementation (OSDI '99) New Orleans, LA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Mar. 8-9 Electronic Payments Forum San Francisco, CA Mar. 8-12 IEEE 802 Austin Mar. 15-19 44th IETF TBA Mar. 22-25 14th Int'l Unicode Conference Boston, MA Mar. 24-Apr 1 ITU Fax Standards Meeting Geneva, Switzerland Mar. 24-29 Electronic Messaging Assoc. EMA '99 Geneva, Switzerland Apr. 5-9 Networld+Interop 99 Singapore Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum Rome, Italy Apr. 26-27 Ninth Int'l Packet Video Wrkshp New York, NY May 10-14 IFIP/IEEE Int'l Symposium on Integrated Network Mgmt Boston, MA May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 11-May 14 8th International World Wide Web Conference Toronto, Canada May 31-Jun 4 Networld+Interop 99 Tokyo, Japan Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jun 7-10 TERENA-NORDUnet Networking 1999 Lund, Sweden Jun 25-29 INET'99 San Jose, CA Jul 5-9 IEEE 802 Montreal, Canada Jul 12-16 45th IETF Oslo, Norway Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum New Orleans, LA Aug. 30-Sep 3 SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Cambridge, MA Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum Bangkok, Thailand Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA Nov. 3-4 Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT) Crystal City, VA Nov. 8-12 46th IETF Wash DC Nov. 8-12 IEEE 802 Kaui Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum Beverly Hills, CA 2000 ---- Mar. 6-10 IEEE 802 Albuquerque Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 San Diego, CA Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report October 1998 MAR 27-31 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 Nov. 6-10 IEEE 802 Tampa, FL The TERENA Calendar for December 1998 may be found on URL: http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam the Netherlands email tel: +31 20 530 4488 fax: +31 20 530 4499 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ramos [Page 22]