December 1996 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@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/ Kennedy [Page 1] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 Kennedy [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 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 ---------------------------- IETF Monthly Report for December, 1996 1. The IETF meeting, hosted by cicso Systems, met in San Jose, California on December 9-13, 1996. As has been noted, it was the largest IETF meeting to date with just under 2000 registered attendees. The IETF opens 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee where Federal Express will be the host. This meeting will be held April 7-11, 1997. Following Memphis, the IETF is we returning to Europe and will met in Munich, Germany August 11-15, 1997, hosted by Digi/ISOC.DE. The Secretariat is still working on the final meeting of 1997 (probably located in Washington, DC). Once all the arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future IETF meetings can be always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt which is located on the IETF shadow directories. This information can also be viewed from the IETF Home Page on the Web. The URL is: http://www.ietf.org 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences have been publicly available on the IETF Shadow directories since 1991. These files are placed in the /ftp/iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: November 21, 1996 (iesg.96-11-21) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following three Protocol Actions during the month of December, 1996: o Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification be published as an Experimental Protocol. Kennedy [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs be published as a Draft Standard. o X.500 Implementations Catalog-96 be published as an Informational RFC. 4. The IESG issued three Last Calls to the IETF during the month of December, 1996: o Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Combined DES-CBC, HMAC and Replay Prevention Security Transform for consioderation as a Proposed Standard. 5. Two Working Groups were created during this period: NNTP Extensions (nntpext) Large Scale Multicast Applications (lsma) and one working group concluded this period: CIDR Deployment (cidrd) Kennedy [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 6. A total of XX Internet-Draft actions were taken during the month of December, 1996: (Revised draft (o), New Draft (+) ) (ion) o Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs (none) o IP Router Alert Option (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (rsvp) o RSVP Cryptographic Authentication (dhc) o DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions (none) o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) (idmr) o A "traceroute" facility for IP Multicast. (pppext) o PPP EAP RSA Public Key Authentication Protocol (none) + Some Thoughts on the Importance of Modesty and Decorum and the Need for an IETF Code of Conduct (ipngwg) o Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification (pppext) o Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) "L2F" (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part I: X.509 Certificate and CRL Profile (none) o VEMMI URL Specification (dnssec) o Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update (none) o RTP usage with Layered Multimedia Streams (madman) o Mail and Directory Alarms (none) + TFTP Blocksize Option (none) + Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol - ATMP (ifmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for System and Interface Testing (none) o Multiple MCS support using an enhanced version of the MARS server. Kennedy [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 (none) o Lessons Learned from IMSP (none) + TCP Control Block Interdependence (none) o Link Level Resource Management Protocol (LLRMP) Protocol Specification - Version 1 (roamops) o Dialup Roaming Requirements (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP" (none) o IMAP URL Scheme (none) + MIME Calendaring and Scheduling Content Type (calsch) + MIME Calendaring and Scheduling Content Type Profile (mboned) o Administratively Scoped IP Multicast (none) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL) (applmib) o Application Management MIB (asid) + The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) (tls) + The TLS Protocol (asid) + Definition of an Object Class to Hold LDAP Change Records (none) + Issues and Options for an Aggregation Service within RTP (none) + Videotex URL Specification (bmwg) + Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking (none) + Internationalization of Domain Names (none) + LZS Compression Transform for TLS Protocol (dhc) + DHCP Agent-Supplied Options (ssh) + Overview of the Site Security Handbook Working Group (none) + Multicast Tag Binding and Distribution using PIM (none) + Partitioning Tag Space among Multicast Routers on a Common Subnet (none) + DNS MX Record Deployment for Large Mail Sites Kennedy [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 (none) + Gateway Traversal for Mobile IP using IPSEC primitives (none) + Flow Grouping For Reducing Reservation Requirements for Guaranteed Delay Service (mmusic) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol (issll) + Integrated Services over IEEE 802.1D/802.1p Networks (none) + NNTP SASL AUTHentication command (none) + Originator-Info Message Header (none) + Path Precedence Discovery (none) + Date and Time on the Internet (none) + Tag Switching Support for Classes of Service (none) + Orbit Shadow TM - Data Transport Protocol for Java Thin Client Applications to access Network Management Platforms (none) + Telnet Comport Control Option (none) + SIMPLE EXTENDED AREA NETWORK (SEAN) ARCHITECTURE (none) + FTP Security Considerations (harts) + Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet (none) + Draft Specifications for Administration and Management of gTLDs (ipngwg) + IP Version 6 over PPP (none) + NAT extension for existing "external" networks (none) + Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP Kennedy [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 7. There were six RFC's published during the month of December, 1996: RFC St WG Title ------- -- -------- ------------------------------------- RFC2045 DS (822ext) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies RFC2046 DS (822ext) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types RFC2047 DS (822ext) MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text RFC2049 DS (822ext) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples RFC2060 PS (none) INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 RFC2061 I (none) IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2BIS RFC2062 I (none) INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - OBSOLETE SYNTAX St(atus): ( S) Internet Standard (PS) Proposed Standard (DS) Draft Standard ( B) Best Current Practice ( E) Experimental ( I) Informational Steve Coya Kennedy [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES Current Status December: Email: Postal/Fax: Phone: Gopher connections: 1111 retrievals: 1175 WAIS connections: 34797 retrievals: 21130 FTP connections: 77898 retrievals: 146999 Mailserv: n/a Telnet: 91638 Http: not available Whois Queries: 15,762,390 Total Registrations: 70.020 Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The latest version of the Netfind seed database has over 950,000 entries. The database continues to expand at a rapid rate (the November version had just over 760,000 entries). This version of the seed database is in the new format, and we will continue to provide updates in the new format, which requires Netfind source code version 5.0.2. There is a copy of the old format of the October/November seed database available on our site, but we will no longer update the old format. Sites running Netfind servers should check http://ds.internic.net/wp/netfind-seeddb.html for information on the new seed database and the new version of Netfind that supports it. Kennedy [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 The MBONE recordings of the December IETF meeting (in San Jose) are available on our site. These recording are in raw RTP format. We are converting these recordings to RealAudio(TM) format, which can be more easily accessed through the web. The converted recordings should be available soon. A reminder - if you would like to help the Internet community find a resource that you offer, send mail to admin@ds.internic.net and we will send information about listing your resource in the Directory of Directories. 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.html by Rick Huber THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY The US Domain has an online line registration form (see "http://www.isi.edu/us-domain". 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). Some of the processing of the requests for the third level domain names is now automated. In particular, most requests to register names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded to the administrator for that locality. Kennedy [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ------------------------------------ Transactions this month: EMAIL/FAX 2875 PHONE 450 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 3325 DELEGATIONS 937 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1000 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 1388 --------------------------- Total 3325 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. The RWhois database has the records of 6150 domain names. MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG =================================================================== 51 38 34 47 39 25 25 9 5 =================================================================== The K12, CC, TEC, LIB, STATE, DST, COG and GEN domain under each state are established for special purposes (see RFC 1480). In addition to the constaint to use them only for the defined purpose, each of these special domains is also to delegated only to a manager within the state, and the operation of the delegated registry should be non-profit. The LIB domain should be managed by a govermental or educational library organization. Further, it is most appropriate for the K12, CC, and TEC, domains to be managed by an educational organization (for example, a university or a department of education). Kennedy [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 The STATE domain is most appropriately managed by an agency of the state government. DST and COG should be managed by a goverment agency. The GEN domain may be delegated to any organization that will provide the registration service for free (and remember the purpose of the GEN domain is to register statewide non-profit organizations). ----------------------- THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ----------------------- There was no new special domain delegations. LOCALITIES ========== Not listed specifically, 902 localities have been delegated in Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Hawii, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Michigan, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Vermont, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and Wyoming this month. To obtain a copy of the list of the delegated localities and subdomains, get the file "us-domain-delegated.txt". URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH -------------------------------------- CI.BIG-SPRINGS.NE.US. CI.REPUBLICAN-CITY.NE.US. INFO.ESTHERVILLE.IA.US. VHS.DST.CA.US. CI.DEWITT.NE.US. CI.DAKOTA-CITY.NE.US. TIGERNET.ST-JAMES.MO.US. WHITNER.NW.DC.US. KOSACK-NET.WALKERSVILLE.MD.US. GROVEHS.K12.OK.US. UNION.K12.OK.US. CI.POOLESVILLE.MD.US. SHERIFF.MINERAL.WV.US. CALVARYCRC.GEN.MI.US. MCWD.DST.CA.US. SHERIFF.CO.AMADOR.CA.US. CI.DUNBARTON.NH.US. MICHAELHART.WINNSBORO.TX.US. SMCHD.DST.CA.US. ONWARD.VALLE-CRUCIS.NC.US. CI.PORT-CLINTON.OH.US. CI.THOUSAND-OAKS.CA.US. CI.ALMA.NE.US. CI.COLERIDGE.NE.US. CI.LEXINGTON.NE.US. CI.OSMOND.NE.US. CI.HOWELLS.NE.US. CI.EDGAR.NE.US. Kennedy [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 DACC.DEXTER.MI.US. ECONDEV.FAIRFIELD.IL.US. HEALTH.CO.HAMILTON.NY.US. CI.TISBURY.MA.US. ENGAGE.CLEMMONS.NC.US. CO.CRAIG.VA.US. CCMVCD.DST.CA.US. ----------------------------------------------------------- For further information about the US Domain, send a message to: US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU, or see our web page: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes December 1996 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Merit is pleased to announce "Route Server Next Generation" (RSNG), a new service supported by exchange point operators nationwide. The project provides for continued operation of the Route Servers, which were developed by Merit and the University of California Information Sciences Institute as part of the NSF-funded Routing Arbiter project. The Route Servers take over the task of processing routing updates for ISP routers, eliminating the need to establish separate peering sessions with other routers at each exchange point. The Route Servers thus provide a boost in throughput for ISP routers and allow faster delivery of customers' data through the Internet. For more information about RSNG, see: http://www.merit.edu/~rsng Route Server operations at the Network Access Points were supported by the National Science Foundation until January 1, 1997. NSF made the decision to commercialize Route Server and Network Access Point operations following the 24-month review of the Routing Arbiter and the four NAP projects in July 1996. NSF noted that all these projects had completed their basic missions ahead of schedule, and Kennedy [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 stated that the Routing Arbiter and the NAPs "have now proven that multiple network providers can work together in a competitive marketplace, and so can be scheduled for transition to commercial operations themselves." Routing Arbiter Database support and development continue to be supported by NSF, along with several routing engineering and statistical research projects. Last month's report described development work on Trawhoisd, a distributed version of the RADB whois server that supports data caching by FTP and by mirroring. We neglected to note that the database mirroring mechanism was developed by David Kessens of the RIPE NCC. We apologize for the omission. Merit staff members Sue Hares, Bill Norton, Craig Labovitz, Jerry Winters, and Jake Khuon attended the 37th IETF in San Jose during the week of December 9. Norton gave a talk at the afternoon plenary session about Merit's Route Server Next Generation project. Winters discussed Trawhoisd at a Routing Policy System Working Group meeting, and Labovitz gave a presentation titled "Internet Routing Stability Analysis" at the IEPG meeting preceding IETF. IETF was also the site of a Merit GateD Consortium meeting. The next release of GateD, expected in early 1996, will incorporate support for route dampening, the BGP Multi Exit Discriminator (MED), and the BGP Destination Preference Attribute (DPA). Future releases will provide support for multicast routing, incorporate several OSPF enhancements, and support the CMU-SNMP agent and SNMP ISODE Smux interfaces. For more information about the GateD Consortium, see: http://www.gated.org Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- Ballardie, Crowcroft, Kirstein and Perkins attended the San Jose IETF, and participated in rsvp, qos routeing and mmusic WGs. Crowcroft co-chaired the new WG on Large Scale Multicast, and Ballardie co-chaired the IDMR working group. Plans on CAIRN connectivity for UCL have now just about reached closure. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Kennedy [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 CALENDAR -------- Last update 01/3/97 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) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". Kennedy [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 ************************************************************************ 1997 ----------- Jan. 6-10 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jan. 6-10 USENIX '97 Annual Technical Conf. Anaheim, CA Jan. 6-10 USELINUX: Linux Appl. Dev. Anaheim, CA Jan. 7-10 13th Annual Hawaii Int'l Conf on Systems Sciences Maui, Hawaii Jan. 7-10 Internet World Canada '97 Toronto, Canada Jan. 9-10 ENPG Amsterdam Jan. 20-22 RIPE 26 Amsterdam Jan. 21-23 Internet World Shanghai-China Shanghai, China Jan. 21-25 Internet World Singapore Intl Singapore Jan. 22 TERENA Tech. Committee Amsterdam Jan. 28-30 IEEE 802.10 Interim meeting Orlando, FL Jan. 28-31 RSA Data Security Conf San Francisco Feb. 3-7 ANSI X3T11 (host by Sun) San Jose, CA Feb. 9-14 ATM Forum San Diego, CA Feb. 10-11 ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security San Diego, CA Feb. 10-12 Multimedia Computing & Networking 1997 San Jose, CA Feb. 17-19 Internet Expo & EMail World San Jose, CA Feb. 24-26 2nd Annual VRML '97 Monterey, CA Feb. 25-26 EEMA Conf & Exhibit Berlin Mar. 1-5 ACM '97: The Next 50 yrs. of Computing San Jose, CA Mar. 3-7 1997 Spring Simulation Interoperablity Workshop Orlando, FL Mar. 10-11 10th Int'l Unicode Conf & Global Computing Showcase Mainz, Germany Mar. 10-13 UniForum San Francisco, CA Mar. 10-14 OIW (Firm) Mar. 10-14 IEEE 802 '97 Irvine, CA Mar. 11-14 Spring Internet World '97 Los Angeles, CA Mar. 11-15 ANSI X3T10 '97 Mar. 17-19 1st Euromicro Working Conf. on Software Maintenance & Reengineering Berlin, Germany Mar. 19-21 Internet World Asia '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mar. 24-27 APPN Implementers Workshop Raleigh, NC Apr. 2-3 Europia '97 Edinburgh, Scotland Apr. 7-10 EMA'97 Philadelphia, PA Apr. 7-11 38th IETF (host by Fed. Exp) Memphis, TN Apr. 7-11 ANSI X3T11 (Brocade) Palm Springs, CA Kennedy [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 Apr. 7-11 IEEE INFOCOM '97 Kobe, Japan Apr. 7-12 W3C "Accessibility" 6th Int'l WWW Conference Santa Clara, CA Apr. 9-11 ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on Autonmous Decentralized Sys. Berlin, Germany Apr. 22-24 Internet Expo & EMail World Chicago, IL Apr. 27-May 2 ATM Forum Chicago, IL May 5-9 ANSI X3T10 '97 May 5-9 NATO Workshop Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-15 8th JENC8 Edinburgh, Scotland May 12-16 IFIP/IEEE San Diego, CA May 15-16 TERENA General Assembly Edinburgh, Scotland May 19-21 7th Int'l Workshop on Ntwk & Oper for Digital Audio & Video St. Louis, MO May 21-23 RIPE 27 Dublin May 27-29 IS&N '97 4th Int'l Conf. on Intelligence in Services & Networks Como, Italy May 28-30 Web Developer '97 Chicago, IL Jun. 2-6 IEEE Multimedia Systems '97 Ottawa, CANADA Jun. 3-5 Internet World Mexico '97 Mexico City, Mexico Jun. 8-12 ICC '97 (joint with ENM) Montreal, CANADA Jun. 9-13 OIW (Firm) Jun. 9-13 ANSI X3T11 (host by Boeing) Seattle, WA Jun. 16-18 EEMA'97 Netherlands Jun. 23-25 4th IEEE Wrkshp on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication Systems (HPCS'97) Sani Beach, Greece Jun. 24-27 INET '97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jul. 7-11 IEEE 802 '97 Hyatt Regency Maui, Lahaina HI Jul. 14-18 ANSI X3T10 '97 Jul. 14-17 APPN Implementers Workshop San Jose, CA Jul. 20-25 ATM Forum Montreal, CANADA Jul. 24-25 DMS '97 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 4-8 ANSI X3T11 (host by Hitachi) Honolulu, HI Aug. 11-15 39th IETF (host by German ISOC) Munich, Germany Aug. 12-14 (tenative) Internet Expo & EMail World Boston, MA Aug. 13-15 IEEE 25th Annual Int'l Computer Software and Application Conference Washington, DC Sep. 8-12 ANSI X3T10 '97 Sep. 8-12 OIW (Firm) Sep. 8-14 TELECOM Interactive 97 Geneva, Switzerland Sep. 10-12 IDMS '97 w/ ACM SIGMM, GMD, IEEE Darmstadt, Germany Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Sep. 21-26 ATM Forum Paris, France Oct. 6-10 ANSI X3T11 (host by FSI) Tucson, AZ Kennedy [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 Oct. 7-10 COMDEX Internet '97 and Object World '97 Internet Forum Europe (IFE) & Object World Frankfurt (OWF) Frankfurt, Germany Oct. 23-25 ETSI Nice, France Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97 Nov. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary Queen Elizabeth, Montreal Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore Dec. 1-5 ANSI X3T11 (host by DPT) Orlando, FL Dec. 8-12 40th IETF (tentative) Washington, DC Host by NewBridge Dec. 8-12 OIW (Firm) TELECOM '97 Asia (Venue and Dates to be Determined) 1998 ----------- Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum TBA Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum TBA SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum TBA Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum TBA Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Dec. 6-11 ATM Forum TBA Dec. 6-11 43rd IETF Adelaide, Australia Host: Univ. of Adelaide 1999 ----- Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Kennedy [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 TERENA CALENDAR updated 3 January 1997 --------------- This list of meetings is provided for information. Many of the meetings are closed or by invitation; if in doubt, please contact the chair of the meeting or the TERENA Secretariat. If you have additions/corrections/comments, please mail . ********************************************************************** NAME / DATE LOCATION TERENA General Assembly GA7 15-16 May Edinburgh TERENA Technical Committee 22 January Amsterdam TERENA Executive Committee 4 February Amsterdam JENC8 Programme Committee 12 February Amsterdam Conference Committee 17 January Amsterdam TF-CACHE -------- 23 January Amsterdam EEMA ---- Spring Regional Conference and Exhibition 25-26 February Berlin ENPG ---- 9-10 January Amsterdam Kennedy [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 European Commission ------------------- Educational Multimedia Information Day 10 January Brussels ICT Partnership - General Meeting 30 January Brussels EWOS ---- EWOS Assembly 2, 25-26 February Brussels EWOS Assembly 3, 13-14 May " EWOS Assembly 4, 16-17 September " EWOS Assembly 5, 2-3 December " Workshops 36: 20-24 January Brussels 37: 7-11 April " 38: 16-20 June " 39: 27-31 October " IETF ---- 38, 7-11 April Memphis, Tenn. 39, 11-15 August Munich, Germany ISOC ---- Symposium 10-11 February San Diego, CA NATO ---- Workshop 5-9 May Edinburgh RIPE ---- RIPE 26 20-22 January Amsterdam RIPE27 21-23 May Dublin Kennedy [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA CONFERENCES JENC8 - 8th Joint European Networking Conference "Diversity and Integration: The New European Networking Landscape" 12-15 May Edinburgh, Scotland This conference will be the European Forum to get up-to-date information, to debate and assess the new deregulated tele-communication environment in Europe, new leading-edge applications, and the network/internetwork support infrastructure which is currently being developed Subject Areas: * Emerging Network Technologies and Network Engineering * User Support, Training and Education * Security and Management Issues * Information Systems and Distributed Applications * Economic and Political Issues For information please contact the JENC8 Secretariat at: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 email: http://www.terena.nl/jenc8 or JENC8 Local Organization c/o Concorde Services Ltd Unit 5, SECC Glasgow, G3 8YW, Scotland email: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kennedy [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 OTHER CONFERENCES Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) ----------------------------------------- 27-31 January Excelsior Hotel, Hong Kong Target of this conference is primarilyfor those who run (or who plan to run) large networks, particularly Internet Service Providers. For information see: http://www.apricot.net/program.html Internet Society's 5th Annual Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security ------------------------------------------------------- 10-11 February San Diego, California, USA The symposium is intended for people interested in the practical aspects of network and distributed system security. It focuses on actual system design and implementation, rather than theory. For information, see ISOC web page: http://info.isoc.org.80/conferences/ndss97 Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997 ---------------------------------------- 10-12 February San Jose, CA, USA The object of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia computing and networking. Paper submission by 16 July 1996. For further information email Tenth International Unicode Conference and Global Computing Showcase -------------------------------------------------------------------- 10-12 March Mainz Hilton, Mainz, Germany Conference will bring together industry-wide experts on global Internet and Unicode, internationalization and localization, implementation of Unicode in operating systems and applications, fonts, text layout, and multilingual computing. For information: http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10 and/or http://unicode.org Kennedy [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 IEEE INFOCOM '97 16th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer & Communications Societies ----------------------------------------- 7-11 April Kobe, Japan Paper submissions by 14 June 1997. For further information contact http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom/ http:// arpeggio.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/infocom.html ISADS 97 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems --------------------------------------------------------------- 9-11 April Berlin, Germany Supported by Hitachi, DeTeBerkom, NEC, Digital, GMD-FOCUS, Hewlett Packard, IBM. The focus will be on advancements and innovations in ADS platforms and applications. Integration of telecommunication and computing aspects into a uniform concept for providing an open distributed processing environment. For information see WWW:http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ws/isads97/ The Arab World and the Information Society - Regional Symposium --------------------------------------------------------------- 5-9 May Tunis, Tunisia Organized by ITU and UNESCO, in cooperation with the government of Tunisia and in the framework of RAITNET (Regional Arab Information Technology Network) For information see www site: http://www.irsit.rnrt.tn/symposium and/or email Apply for admission by 7 February 1997 to e-mail INET'97 7th Annual Internet Society Conference --------------------------------------- 24-27 June Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference will address the traditional and evolving frontiers of the Internet as well as its significant impact on education, commerce and societies throughout the world. -information on INET97, the K-12 workshop, the Tutorials, and the associated Developing Countries Workshop, along with an abstract submission form, can be found on the ISOC web page: http://isoc.org/inet or, for information via e-mail: - for details of submission procedure email - for other information email FIRST - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams 9th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Workshop ------------------------------------------------------- 23-27 June Marriott Hotel, Bristol, England This annual workshop is part of FIRST's ongoing program of education and raising awareness for its members and others. Paper submission deadline 15 January For information see: http://www.first.org/ Kennedy [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report December 1996 FMOODS'97 - Second IFIP International Workshop on Formal Methods for Open-based Distributed Systems ---------------------------------------------------- 21-23 July Canterbury, United Kingdom Objective is to provide an integrated forum for the presentation of research in several related fields. Paper submission deadline 14 January 1997 For all information: e-mail or web page: http://alethea.u,c.ac.uk/Dept/Computing/Research/NDS/FMOODS/ IDMS'97 European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services --------------------------------------------------------------- 10-12 September Darmstadt, Germany In cooperation with ACM SIGM, Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, GMD, IEEE Computer Society and VDE ITG. The purpose of this 4th workshop is to provide a forum for the presentation, exploration and discussion of technologies and their advancements in the broad field of interactive distributed multimedia systems. Paper submission due 1 March 1997 For additional information se www: http://www.th-darmstadt.de/idms97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kennedy [Page 26]