September 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 September 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 16 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27 SOFTBANK Forums. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report September 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 ---------------------------- Internet Monthly Report for September, 1997 1. The final meeting of the year will be held in Washington, DC from December 8-12, 1997. Our local host is Newbridge Networks. Registration is scheduled to begin on October 6. 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 (iesg.YY-MM-DD). They may also be accessed via the Web (ftp://ftp.ietf.org/iesg/) The following IESG minutes have been added: August 28, 1997 September 8, 1997 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 16 Protocol Actions during the month of September, 1997: o Telnet Com Port Control Option for publication as an Experimental Protocol. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 o Network Element Service Specification Template for publication as an Informational RFC. o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Message Processing Rules for publication as an Informational RFC. o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on Deployment for publication as an Informational RFC. o Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet for publication as an Informational RFC. o Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service for publication as a Proposed Standard. o General Characterization Parameters for Integrated Service Network Elements for publication as a Proposed Standard. o A Common Schema for the Internet White Pages Service for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Management Information Base for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Integrated Services Management Information Base for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Integrated Services Management Information Base Guaranteed Service Extensions for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services for publication as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 4. 18 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of September, 1997: o Guide for Internet Standards Writers for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Hobbes' Internet Timeline for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The LDAP URL Format for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 o OTP Extended Responses for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o ACAP -- Application Configuration Access Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Anonymous SASL Mechanism for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o ATM Signalling Support for IP over ATM - UNI Signalling 4.0 Update for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Netware/IP Domain Name and Information for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. One new working group was created An Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy (openpgp) 6. There were 157 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of September, 1997: (ion) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT version 2) Multicast Routing -- Protocol Specification -- (none) o Routing Aspects Of IPv6 Transition (none) o Photuris: Session Key Management Protocol (none) o The Auto-Submitted, Supersedes and Expires E-mail Headers (mmusic) o SDP: Session Description Protocol (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 (idmr) o Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Routing Architecture (ssh) o Site Security Handbook (none) o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) (grip) o Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response (pktway) o Proposed Specification for the End-to-End (EEP) PacketWay Protocol (http) o Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP (drums) o Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF (none) o IANA Charset Registration Procedures (avt) o RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams (svrloc) o Finding Stuff (How to discover services) (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Protocols (none) o Quality of Service Extensions to OSPF or Quality Of Service Path First Routing (QOSPF) (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extensions for Dynamic Directory Services (avt) o RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (none) o Requirements for IETF Mailing Lists (none) o VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service (asid) o Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names (bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices (roamops) o Review of Roaming Implementations (otp) o OTP Extended Responses (none) o A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks. Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 (none) o IMAP URL Scheme (none) o MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations (none) o The Safe Response Header Field (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch Networks Version 1.0 (tip) o Transaction Internet Protocol (none) o Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 (none) o Network Data Management Protocol (roamops) o The Network Access Identifier (none) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL): Generic Syntax and Semantics (none) o NNTP Full-text Search Extension (ipsec) o The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP (none) o Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels (none) o PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2 (urn) o Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name Resolution (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks (ids) o Naming Plan for Internet Directory-Enabled Applications (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services (mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) (find) o A Tagged Index Object for use in the Common Indexing Protocol (dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 (none) o AT&T/Neda's Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO) Protocol Specification Version 1.2 (otp) o A One-Time Password System (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - Application F (none) o Dublin Core Metadata for Simple Resource Description (none) o Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field (webdav) o Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB (none) o Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol (http) o The User Agent Hint Response Header (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAP (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks (poisson) o IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures (none) + Test Cases for HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA-1 (none) o S/MIME Message Specification (none) o S/MIME Certificate Handling (none) o RIDE classes (none) + Age Header Field in HTTP/1.1 (roamops) o Guidelines for the Operation of RADIUS Proxies in Roaming (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics (ipngwg) o Separating Identifiers and Locators in Addresses: An Analysis of the GSE Proposal for IPv6 Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 (asid) o A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3 (none) o UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 (none) + An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service (urn) o Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names (none) o Application of Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 (printmib) o Job Monitoring MIB - V0.85 (none) o IMAP4 Namespace (none) o A Protocol for the Transmission of Net News Articles over IP multicast (calsch) o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) (none) o PKCS 7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Version 1.5 (none) o IMAP4 Login Referrals (none) + IMAP4 Mailbox Referrals (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security (tn3270e) o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Using SMIv2 (none) o The IP Network Address Translator (NAT) (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks (none) o IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages (mhtml) o MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) (none) o Transaction Internet Protocol - Requirements and Supplemental Information (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration (none) o Telnet Remote Serial Port (RSP) Option Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 (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 compliant RF interfaces (none) o ODETTE File Transfer Protocol (none) o A Dictionary Server Protocol (dnsind) o Test and Example Top Level Domain Names (none) o HTTP X-Connfrom header (entmib) o Entity MIB Extesions for Persistent Component Identification (ptopomib) o Physical Topology MIB (ptopomib) o Physical Topology Discovery Protocol and MIB (dnsind) o Local DNS Names (none) + Network Address Translation issues with IPsec (none) o URLs for Telephony (none) o SPKI: ShrinkWrap (none) + Short Port Commands for FTP (snanau) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Extended Border Node (none) + Test Cases for HMAC-RIPEMD160 and HMAC-RIPEMD128 (nntpext) o Network News Transport Protocol (none) + P_Mul: An Application Protocol for the Transfer of Messages over Multicast Subnetworks and under EMCON Restrictions (none) + Labels for MPLS over LAN Media (mhtml) + The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 (mmusic) + The Internet Multimedia Conferencing Architecture (none) o IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations (idr) o Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (idr) + Capabilities Negotiation with BGP-4 (none) + The Use of DES-MAC within ESP and AH (none) o How to find LDAP servers (none) + Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) (dnssec) + DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (none) + Confirmation of Mail Message Reception (none) + The 'news' URL scheme (none) + Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX (none) + Avoiding the TCP TIME_WAIT state at Busy Servers (idmr) + Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (none) + Extending POP Version 3 To Do Mailbox Compression (none) + The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System (ipngwg) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks (dnssec) + Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (dnssec) + Indirect Keys in the Domain Name System (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 (none) + Generation of the Age header field in HTTP/1.1 (http) + Format and Example of HTTP/1.1 Requirements Summary (manet) + Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET): Routing Protocol Performance Issues and Evaluation Considerations (none) + Internet Protocol Multicast Problem Statement Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 (none) + Internet Protocol Quality of Service Problem Statement (http) + The Alternates Header Field (none) + Use of Label Switching With Frame Relay Specification (none) + The Application/MARC Content-type (none) + Telnet Authentication: SRP (fax) + Fax address format in e-mail services (none) + RIDE referencing (none) + RIDE functional requirements (none) + IPv6 over Point-to-Point ATM Link (none) + Communicating Information for External Program Use in Internet Messages: The Process Content-Disposition Type (none) + VC-ID, VC Pool, and ATM SVC Support for ATM-LSRs (fax) + Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff-f MIME Sub-type Registration (pkix) + Internet Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP (cat) + Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2 (none) + Automated Digital Network System Description (rtfm) + Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture (none) + Using LDAP for SMTP Mailing Lists & Aliases (none) + SDP syntax for H.263 options (none) + Mapping Financial Transaction Card Numbers into the Domain Name System Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 7. 20 RFCs were published during this period RFC2115 DS (ion) Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs Using SMIv2 RFC2148 B (ids) Deployment of the Internet White Pages Service RFC2183 PS (none) Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field RFC2184 PS (none) MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations RFC2185 I (ngtrans) Routing Aspects of IPv6 Transition RFC2186 I (none) Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 RFC2187 I (none) Application of Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 RFC2188 I (none) AT&T/Neda's Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO) Protocol Specification Version 1.2 RFC2189 E (idmr) Core Based Trees (CBT version 2) Multicast Routing -- Protocol Specification -- RFC2190 PS (avt) RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams RFC2191 PS (none) VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service RFC2192 PS (none) IMAP URL Scheme RFC2193 PS (none) IMAP4 Mailbox Referrals RFC2194 I (roamops) Review of Roaming Implementations RFC2195 PS (none) IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response RFC2196 PS (ssh) Site Security Handbook RFC2197 DS (none) SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining RFC2198 PS (avt) RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data RFC2201 E (idmr) Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Routing Architecture RFC2203 PS (oncrpc) RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES Gopher Sessions: 92,524 Retrievals: 8,921 WAIS Sessions: 12,921 Retrievals: 10,118 FTP Sessions: 105,137 Retrievals: 170,842 Telnet Sessions: 72,951 HTTP: 13,145,095 Whois Client Queries: 4,860,001 Whois Server Queries: 20,577,554 Updates: 614,154 email: 614,154 Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The Netfind Seed Database topped 2 million entries for the first time in September. Netfind version 5.1 went into production use in September. It includes updates to the lookup and the search code. The new support for Boolean queries allows the user to give more detailed specifications of a search than the previous version. The latest version of Webfinder (version 2.0) is also in production and supports the new search features. Netfind is available at: http://ds.internic.net/wp/netfind.html The URL for Webfinder is: http://ds.internic.net/cool/WebFinder.html 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 Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 Directory of Directories. If you prefer, you can enter information about your resource in our WWW suggestion form. The form can be reached through our Directory of Directories Web page at: http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.htm by Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY THE US DOMAIN ============= 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. 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 Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 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. Evidience 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). 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). Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 3203 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3703 DELEGATIONS: 76 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1639 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:1988 --------------------------- Total 3703 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. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED ========================== K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 52 39 36 47 41 27 29 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== MUS.OK.US. Museums, Oklahoma. LOCALITIES ========== LINCOLN.NE.US. SEDGWICK.KS.US. REIDSVILE.NC.US. SUGAR-CREEK.MO.US. HARVARD.MA.US. MONON.IN.US. STERLING.IL.US. WINSTED.MN.US. MORRO-BAY.CA.US. RIVERSIDE.OH.US. BRANCHBURG.NJ.US. OSAWATOMIE.KS.US. EUREKA.MO.US. HAMILTON.IN.US. BROWARD.FL.US. ARLINGTON.MA.US. Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== IAS.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US. MCLN.LIB.AL.US. CO.PIMA.AZ.US. ACID.PALM-BEACH.FL.US. BOE.SEVIER.TN.US. PAPERPOSSIBILITIES.VICTORVILLE.CA.US. TWSP.LITTLE-EGG-HARBOR.NJ.US. BUTTERNUT.CLIFTON.VA.US. CO.CHESHIRE.NH.US. CO.CAMBRIA.PA.US. 24THST.WASHINGTON.DC.US. ERICF.MIAMI.FL.US. TWP.JACKSON.OH.US. HIGHWAY-24.UTAH.UT.US. GREEEN-RIVER.UTAH.UT.US. NS.MIAMI.FL.US. CO.CAMPBELL.TN.US. LIBERTY.JURUPA.CA.US. ONLINE.MILILANI.HI.US. INFO.FORT-MYERS.FL.US. INFO.NAPLES.FL.US. CO.CALAVERAS.CA.US. CI.FAIRVIEW.TN.US. CI.PORTLAND.TX.US. CI.OPELIKA.AL.US. TOWN.DARTMOUTH.MA.US. CI.SARASOTA.FL.US. CO.BUENA-VISTA.IA.US. PAINTCREEK.ROCHESTER.MI.US. QUAKE.PITTSBURGH.PA.US. CI.AUBURN.ME.US. GCI.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US. GLOBAL.LAS-VEGAS.NV.US. NORWAY.SOUTH-PARIS.ME.US. CI.ATKINSON.NE.US. CI.HOLDREGE.NE.US. SWMD.CO.PERRY.IN.US. MLH.DST.CA.US. SULPHUR.CISCO.UT.US. CI.CRAIG.CO.US. JAVATERRA.RAYMOND.ME.US. CI.HARRISVILLE.UT.US. IWCC.MIAMI.FL.US. STCRPDB.DST.NY.US. HASENTALER.THOUSAND-OAKS.CA.US. UNITEDWAY.ESCAMBIA.FL.US. DRIVEN.SOUTHGATE.MI.US. PANTS.JOPLIN.MO.US. LSD.TAKILMA.OR.US. LVMWD.DST.CA.US. CO.CENTRE.PA.US. CI.QUEEN-CREEK.AZ.US. DODGER.HORNELL.NY.US. POLICE.EAST-WINDSOR.NJ.US. CO.HOWARD.IN.US. CI.FLOWER-MOUND.TX.US. CO.OTTAWA.MI.US. PROPERTY-APPRAISER.CITRUS.FL.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes September 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 New tools and statistical reports on the Merit Web pages provide a variety of useful information about the current status of the Internet Routing Registry (IRR). A new Java applet known as RODAN, the Route Object Duplicate and aggregation ANalyzer, makes it possible to display: - All IRR routes originating from an AS. - Duplicate objects, i.e., routes registered with the same origin AS in more than one registry, or registered more than once in a single registry. - Routes that could be aggregated to less specific prefixes. The reports also include monthly counts of: - Updates of IRR Route objects, AS objects, and Maintainer objects. - Routes registered in more than one IRR database. - All queries to RAWhoisd, the RADB whois server, and whois queries to RAWhoisd. - IRR Route objects with multiple AS origins. In many cases, network operators choose to multihome their routes to ensure a redundant connection to the Internet. Other such routes are duplicates that have been mistakenly left in the registry. The new Web pages are available from: http://www.ra.net/RADB.tools.docs/stats/ Jake Khuon attended the 28th RIPE meeting in Amsterdam. At the Routing Working Group, he gave a presentation on the Policy Analysis of Internet Routing (PAIR) project, which makes it possible to compare prescribed policy, i.e., policy registered in the Internet Routing Registry, with policy actually being configured in the Internet. (See (http://www.rsng.net/pair/). At the Database Working Group, Khuon gave a talk on privacy extensions to RIPE-181 in the Routing Arbiter Database. Craig Labovitz presented a paper titled "Internet Routing Instability" at the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference. Co-authored with student Robert Malan and Professor Farnam Jahanian of the University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the paper won the SIGCOMM '97 Best Conference Paper award. The monograph examines the backbone inter-domain routing information exchanged Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 between network service providers at the major U.S. public Internet exchange points. The authors describe several unexpected trends in routing instability, and examine a number of anomalies and pathologies observed in the exchange of inter-domain routing information. The researchers show that the volume of these routing updates is several orders of magnitude more than expected, and the majority of this routing information is shown to be pathological. Furthermore, the analysis reveals several unexpected trends and ill-behaved systematic properties in Internet routing. Several explanations for these anomalies are posited and evaluated with regard to their potential impact on the Internet infrastructure. The paper is available from: ftp://ftp.merit.edu/statistics/ipma/html/docs/lmjSigcomm97.ps.gz Sue Hares attended the first "TRAIL (Testbed Routers for Advanced Internet Labs) Workshop on IPv6 Hands-On Network Research," sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The goal of the workshop was to advance hands-on IP networking, and especially IP Next Generation, research. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- Jon Crowcroft, Isidor Kouvelas, Colin Perkins, Panos Gevros and Lorenzo Vicisano from UCL attended the ACM SIGCOMM '97 Conference in Cannes, France , and also attended the NS and RM workshops. The UL work on relaible multicast was presented at the RM workshop by our collaborator from Pisa, Luigi Rizzo. We are working on switching over to the FreeBSD router on the CAIRN link. The 16 Wavelength WDM net between UCL, Essex, Cambridge and BT Research Labs is about to go live - Initial IP on SDH deployment is currently being tested. See http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/pearl for some details. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 IANA REPORT ----------- Country Codes 1 DHCP Options 1 Multicast Addresses: Individual 2 PPP Field Assignments 1 Private Enterprise Numbers 64 Port Numbers 38 Protocol Numbers 1 SMI Numbers 6 RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of September, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 10 15 16 | 41 month | | New 24 0 0 0 | 24 | | Processed 16 10 9 6 | 41 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 8 0 6 10 | 24 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month Processed documents include those that are "Do Not Publish" as well as published RFCs. This month a few RFCs were published that had previously been "Do Not Publish". For this reason the "Beginning of Month" numbers, for RFCs that have been in the queue for 60 and 90 days, are not the same numbers as the "End of Month" numbers from last month. Documents added back to the queue include: 60 Days draft-cheng-hmac-test-cases-00.txt draft-rfced-info-nash-01.txt 90 Days draft-rfced-info-banan-esro-00.txt Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 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 (rfc-ed@isi.edu) CALENDAR -------- Last update 09/30/97 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) Ramos [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1997 ---- Oct. 6-10 NetWorld+Interop Atlanta, GA Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 (host by FSI) Tucson, AZ Oct. 7-10 COMDEX Internet '97 and Object World '97 Internet Forum Europe (IFE) & Object World Frankfurt (OWF) Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 15-17 USENIX Conf. on Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) Santa Barbara, CA Oct. 20-23 NetWorld+Interop Paris, France Oct. 23-24 TERENA General Assembly Madrid Oct. 24-26 1st Int'l Enterprise Distributed Objected Computing Wrkshop EDOC '97 Gold Coast, Australia Oct. 23-25 ETSI Nice, France Oct. 26-31 11th USENIX Sys. Admin Conference (LISA '97) San Diego, CA Oct. 27-28 NANOG 11 Meeting Phoenix, AZ Oct. 27-28 Mobile Agents & Security Wrkshp Baltimore, MD Oct. 27-30 NetWorld+Interop London Oct. 27-31 EWOS Workshops Brussels Oct. 28-31 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols Atlanta, GA Nov. 3-5 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Nov. 3-5 Int'l Test Conference 1997 Sheraton Washington Hotel Washington, DC Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Nov. 3-7 SPIE Int'l Symposium Voice, Video & Data Communications Conf. on Performance & Control of Network System - Special Session on Switching & Traffic Mgmt in High Speed Networks Dallas, TX Nov. 3-7 2nd French/Brazilian Symposium on Distributed System Architectures: Telecommunication Multimedia Architectures Ceara, Brazil Nov. 8-14 ACM MULTIMEDIA '97 Seattle, WA Nov. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary Queen Elizabeth, Montreal Ramos [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 Nov. 12-13 8th Maryland Workshop on Very High Speed Networks Baltimore, MD Nov. 12-13 CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Brussels Nov. 19-21 ICCC'97 Cannes, France Nov. 24-26 PROMSMmNet '97 Multimedia Networking Santiago, Chile Nov. 27-28 NetWorld+Interop Sydney, Australia Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-3 30th IEEE/ACM Int'l Symposium on Microarchitecture RTC, NCA Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 2-3 EWOS Assembly Brussels Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (Host: Newbridge) Washington, DC Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Dec. 8-11 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technology and Systems) Monterey, CA Dec. 8-11 GigNet San Jose, CA Dec. 17-19 97 Int'l Sym. on Communications Hsinchu, Taiwan TBA TELECOM '97 Asia TBA 1998 ----------- Jan 6-8 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jan. RIPE29 Amsterdam (tbd) Jan 26-29 7th USENIX Security Symposium San Antonio, TX Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum Anaheim, CA Feb 7-9 DCI'S Internet Expo San Jose, CA Mar. 2-3 USENIX New Network Technologies Symposium Salt Lake City, UT Mar. 9-11 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 Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA Apr. 6-10 wmATM'98 1st Int'l Workshop on Wireless Mobile ATM Implementation Hangzhou, China Apr. 12-17 WWW7 Brisbane, Australia Apr. 18-23 CHI '98 (ACM SIGCHI) Los Angeles, CA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum Berlin, Germany Ramos [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 Apr 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA May RIPE30 Stockholm (tbd) May 5-8 Networld+Interop '98 Las Vegas, NV SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jun. 7-11 ENCOM '98 in conjunction with ICC/SuperComm '98 Atlanta, GA Jun 13-17 USENIX '98 Technical Conf. New Orleans, LA Jun 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 21-24 INET '98 Geneva, Switzerland Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum Portland, OR 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 Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum Gold Coast, Australia Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA Oct. 26-29 TERENA (host by DFN) Dresden, Germany Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM 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 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 Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) TBA 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. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Ramos [Page 26] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 2000 ----- 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 October 1997 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] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 SOFTBANK FORUMS --------------- SOFTBANK Forums 303 Vintage Park Drive Foster City, CA 94404 (650) 578-6900 Fax: (650) 525-0194 http://www.sbforums.com 1998 Future Event Calendar Business Conferences & Expositions Seybold Seminars New York Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY http://www.seyboldseminars.com Customer Service (888) 800-8922 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7072 (International) Conference: Mar 16-20, 1998 Exposition: Mar 17-19, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Singapore Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre Singapore http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (65) 227 5755 Conference: Mar 30-Apr 3, 1998 Exhibition: Apr 1-3, 1998 Comdex Japan Makuhari Messe Tokyo, Japan Information 011 (81) 3 5642 8433 Conference: Apr 6-9, 1998 Exposition: Apr 6-9, 1998 Support Services Conference & Expo 98 Washington DC Convention Center Washington DC http://www.sbforums.com/ssce Customer Service (800) 801-1354 (U.S. only) Ramos [Page 28] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 (719) 531-5138 (International) Housing (800) 754-8378 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 378-6643 (International) Conference: Apr 20-22, 1998 Exposition: Apr 19-22, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Las Vegas Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, NV http://www.interop.com/events Customer Service (800) 944-4629 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7090 (International) Conference: May 4-8, 1998 Exhibition: May 5-7, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Tokyo Makuhari Messe Tokyo, Japan http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (81) 3 5642 8433 Conference: June 1-5, 1998 Exhibition: June 3-5, 1998 Learning Technology Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta, GA http://interactive.sbforums.com Registration (SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact) (800) 909-9848 (U.S. only) (719) 531-6522 (International) Housing (888) 611-2189 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7084 (International) Conference: June 14-17, 1998 Exhibition: June 14-17, 1998 Seybold San Francisco Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA http://www.seyboldseminars.com Customer Service (888) 473-9265 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7078 (International) Conference: Aug 31-Sept 4, 1998 Exposition: Sept 1-3, 1998 Ramos [Page 29] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 Support Service Conference & Expo West Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA http://www.sbforums.com/ssce Registration (SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact) (800) 801-1354 (U.S. only) (719) 531-6522 (International) Housing (800) 754-8378 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 378-6643 (International) Conference: Sept 8-11, 1998 Exposition: Sept 8-10, 1998 Windows NT Intranet Solutions Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA http://www.wintis.com Customer Service (888) 800-8920 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7071 (International) Conference: Sept 8-10, 1998 Exposition: Sept 8-10, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 London Earls Court 2 London, England http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (44) 0181 261 4415 Conference: Oct 13-15, 1998 Exhibition: Networld+Interop 98 Atlanta Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta, GA http://www.interop.com/events Customer Service (800) 962-6513 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7079 (International) Conference: Oct 19-23, 1998 Exhibition: Oct 21-23, 1998 Ramos [Page 30] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 Windows NT Intranet Solutions Japan Makuhari Messe Tokyo, Japan Information 011 (81) 3 5642 8433 Conference: Nov 4-6, 1998 Exhibition: Nov 4-6, 1998 Networld+Interop 98 Paris Porte de Versailles Paris, France http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (33) 1 46 39 5656 Conference: Nov 4-6, 1998 Exhibition: Networld+Interop 98 Sydney Sydney Convention Center Sydney, Australia http://www.interop.com/events Information 011 (61) 2 9369 1242 Conference: TBA Exposition: Nov 23-27, 1998 Java Internet Business Expo * Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY http://www.javaexpo.sbforums.com Customer Service (888) 528-2397 (U.S. & Canada) (650) 372-7069 (International) Conference: Dec 7-10, 1998 Exposition: Dec 8-10, 1998 Seybold Seminars Tokyo Makuhari Messe Tokyo, Japan http://www.seyboldseminars.com Information 011 (81) 3 5642 8433 Conference: Dec 8-11, 1998 Exposition: Dec 9-11, 1998 Ramos [Page 31] Internet Monthly Report September 1997 Strategic Networks Seminars Strategic Networks offers one-day seminars for Interop Remote Access, Interop NetSwitch, Interop WAN, and Interop Secure ManageNet periodically throughout the year in various locations in the United States. For registration information, please call Strategic Networks at 800-898-7488. For sponsor opportunities, please call Strategic Networks at 800-999-7624. Help Desk Institute Regional Seminar and Expo Series Help Desk Institute offers several seminar series periodically throughout the year in various locations across the United States. For registration information, please call (800) 248-5667 or (719) 531-5138 . Software Support Professionals Association (SSPA) SSPA offers a variety of support programs throughout the year which include executive forums, software support conferences, and monthly on-line roundtable and executive sessions. For a description of the events and for registration information, please call SSPA at (800) 801-1354 or (719) 531-6522. SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact Seminars SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact offers SkillTech Professional Seminars periodically throughout the year in various locations throughout the United States. For a calendar of 1997 events and registration information, please call SOFTBANK Knowledge Interact at 800-34-TRAIN. All dates are subject to change Revision date: 9/25/97 *Indicates an addition or correction Ramos [Page 32]