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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 August 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Internet Projects INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report August 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 August, 1997 1. The next meeting of the IETF will be held in Washington, DC from December 8-12, 1997. Our local host is Newbridge Networks. The IETF will meet in Los Angeles from March 30 - April, 3, 1998 and then in Chicago August 24-28. We're still looking into the final meeting of 1998. Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on future meetng sites can always be found in the file 0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL is: http://www.ietf.org/ 2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF shadow directories in the iesg directory. The following IESG minutes have been added: July 24, 1997 (iesg.97-07-24) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following two Protocol Actions during the month of August, 1997: o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining for publication as a Draft Standard. o RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data for publication as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 4. Four Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of August, 1997: o An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of System-Level Managed Objects for Applications for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. There were 169 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of August, 1997: (dnssec) o Mapping Autonomous Systems Number into the Domain Name System (mobileip) o Route Optimization in Mobile IP (none) o The Auto-Submitted, Supersedes and Expires E-mail Headers (cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Management (rsvp) o RSVP Cryptographic Authentication (drums) o Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (madman) o Mail Monitoring MIB (madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB (rsvp) o RSVP Management Information Base (intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base (madman) o Directory Server Monitoring MIB Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 (mobileip) o Mobility Support in IPv6 (dhc) o Authentication for DHCP Messages (none) o Header Compression for IPv6 (dhc) o Extensions for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part I: X.509 Certificate and CRL Profile (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions (asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) (avt) o RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams (asid) o vCard MIME Directory Profile (ids) o Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services (acap) o ACAP -- Application Configuration Access Protocol (none) o The Public Key Login Protocol (ids) o Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol (SNQP) (pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part III: Certificate Management Protocols (issll) o Interoperation of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed-Service with ATM (intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base Guaranteed Service Extensions (none) o Making Postscript and Acrobat Files International (mboned) o Multicast pruning a necessity (bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices (none) o Firewall Support for Mobile IP (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 (ids) o Internet Nomenclator Project (none) o NFS URL Scheme (none) o FTP Extensions for Variable Protocol Specification (none) o The Safe Response Header Field (none) o PDC/NetApp Backup Protocol (none) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL): Generic Syntax and Semantics (ftpext) o Extended Directory Listing and Restart Mechanism for FTP (drums) o Mail and Netnews Header Registration Procedure (none) o Label Switching: Label Stack Encodings (ssh) o Users' Security Handbook (dhc) o An Inter-server Protocol for DHCP (svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes (none) o Enhanced Communications Transport Service Definition (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks (cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm Authentication in Kerberos (applmib) o Application Management MIB (asid) o Definition of the inetOrgPerson Object Class (applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services (radius) o RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol Support (rps) o Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) (mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) (bmwg) o Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity (none) o The RWhois Version 1.x Uniform Resource Locator Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 (none) o Securing FTP with TLS (bmwg) o Framework for IP Provider Metrics (bmwg) o A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM (none) o Selectively Reliable Transport Protocol (dhc) o DHCP Relay Agent Information Option (bmwg) o Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking (mmusic) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol (none) o Originator-Info Message Header (none) o FTP Security Considerations (none) o Tag Switching Architecture - Overview (dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) (mobileip) o Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP (none) o Extensions to the Internet Relay Chat Protocol (IRCX) (calsch) o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - Application F (ion) o Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM using Sparse Mode PIM (webdav) o Requirements for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web (roamops) o Session Record Accounting in Roaming (http) o HTTP State Management Mechanism (Rev1) (none) + Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol (none) o Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data (rsvp) o Open Outsourcing Policy Service (OOPS) for RSVP Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 (dhc) o Multicast address allocation extensions options (dhc) o Multicast address allocation extensions to the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (radius) o RADIUS Client MIB (bmwg) o A Packet Loss Metric for IPPM (none) o The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields (asid) o The LDAP URL Format (rps) o A strategy for the transition from RIPE-181 to RPSL (none) + The Receiver-Initiated Shortcut Path Protocol (RISP) (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics (dhc) o Security Architecture for DHCP (none) o Simple Transaction Security (STS) (urn) o URI Resolution Services Necessary for URN Resolution (none) o E-Mail Headers to Facilitate Mailing List Subscriptions and Unsubscriptions (printmib) o Job Monitoring MIB - V0.85 (none) o IP Header Compression over PPP (ipsec) o A revised encryption mode for ISAKMP/Oakley (snmpv3) o Message Processing Model for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (mpls) o A Framework for Multiprotocol Label Switching (tn3270e) o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Using SMIv2 (acap) o Anonymous SASL Mechanism (calsch) o Internet Calendar Model Specification Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration (dnsind) o Test and Example Top Level Domain Names (ipp) o Rationale for the Structure of the Model and Protocol for the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) (webdav) o Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web -- WEBDAV (snmpv3) o SNMPv3 Applications (poisson) o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees (ion) + ILMI-Based Server Discovery for ATMARP (ion) + ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS (dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions (none) o Directory Schema Listing Requirements (ip1394) o IP over IEEE 1394 (High Performance Serial Bus) Revision 3 (http) o Specification of HTTP/1.1 OPTIONS messages (none) + When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers (svrloc) + Conversion of LDAP Schemas to and from SLP Templates (ipcdn) + Logical IP Subnetworks over IEEE 802.14 Services (none) + DHCP Option for IPv6 Transitions (none) + DHCP Options for Locating LDAP Servers (none) + Assignment of Status Codes for HTTP and HTTP-Derived Protocols (none) + Support of Shortcuts for RSVP Flows Over ATM (none) + IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) for Implementors (none) + Security issues for ION protocols Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 (pkix) + Representation of Key Exchange Algorithm (KEA) Keys in Internet Public Key Infrastructure Certificates (none) + Network Security API for Sockets (idmr) + Grand Unified Multicast (GUM): Protocol Specification (none) + Performance Issues in VC-Merge Capable MPLS Switches (none) + Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IPv6 and IPv4 Tunnels. (entmib) + Entity MIB Extesions for Persistent Component Identification (ptopomib) + Physical Topology MIB (ptopomib) + Physical Topology Discovery Protocol and MIB (none) + Portable Node Support Using Mobile IP Protocol (none) + Increasing TCP's Initial Window (2000) + The Internet and the Millenium Problem (Year 2000) (none) + IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Extensions for Inverse Discovery Specification (none) + An Approach to Service Allocation in the Internet (ospf) + The OSPF Address Resolution Advertisement Option (none) + IP Tunnel MIB (dhc) + The Domain Search Option for DHCP (avt) + An A/V Profile Extension for Generic Forward Error Correction in RTP (ion) + ILMI-Based Server Discovery for NHRP (none) + An Internet Firewall Transparency Requirement (none) + Messages between Email and Netnews (avt) + Options for Repair of Streaming Media (mpls) + A Proposed Architecture for MPLS (madman) + Message Tracking MIB Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 (none) + Soft State Switching A Proposal to Extend RSVP for Switching RSVP Flows (none) + Local DNS Names (none) + PPP for Asynchronous PAD to Synchronous X.25 access (none) + End-to-End Throughput and Response Time Testing With HTTP User Agents and the JavaScript Language (none) + MAPPING OF AIRLINE TRAFFIC OVER IP (radius) + RADIUS Accounting Client MIB (radius) + RADIUS Accounting Server MIB (none) + DNS Top Level Domain Name Classification and Structure (none) + Capabilities Exchange over SMTP (none) + Capabilities Exchange over SMTP (none) + Immediate Delivery over SMTP (radius) + RADIUS Authentication Client MIB (radius) + RADIUS Authentication Server MIB (none) + Tunnel Set-up Protocol (TSP) (none) + Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages (none) + URLs for Telephony (none) + Responder-Initiated Shortcut Path Protocol (RISP) (none) + SPKI: ShrinkWrap (none) + Protecting IMAP4 and POP3 Connections (ipcdn) + Logical IP Subnetworks over MCNS Data Link Services (none) + Mobile Network Computing Protocol (MNCP) (none) + Hobbes' Internet Timeline (none) + ElGamal Profile for X.509 Certificates Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 (none) + Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol Version 2 (mixer) + Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory (mixer) + Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree 6. Two RFCs were published during this period RFC2181 PS (dnsind) Clarifications to the DNS Specification RFC2182 B (dnsind) Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES Phone connections: 42,553 Emails sent to hostmaster: 546,260 Whois queries: 28,417,093 Cumulative Registrations: 1,769,781 August Registrations: 120,900 Updates: 113,570 Http sessions: 76,245,947 gopher sessions: 372,324 telnet sessions: 850,591 FTP retrievals: 1,803,708 Rich Landers INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The 39th IETF was held in Munich, Germany on August 11-15. The IETF typically broadcasts 2 working group meetings in each time slot over the MBONE to allow remote participation in the meeting. InterNIC Directory and Database Services has been recording the broadcast sessions and making them available on our servers to allow people who were unable to listen "live" to hear what went on. The MBONE recordings for the 39th IETF are now available on our servers in both RTP and Real Audio (TM) format. The recordings are available through the web at: http://www.internic.net/mbone/39th/ Recordings from the 35th, 37th, and 38th IETFs are also available on the web at: http://www.internic.net/mbone/mbone.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 Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 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 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 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. 2. 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. Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 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. 3. The US Domain administrator no longer makes direct registrations of hosts, and only makes delegations of third or fourth level domain names (such as localities). US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ===================================== EMAIL/FAX 3575 PHONE 500 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 4075 DELEGATIONS: 141 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 1811 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:2123 --------------------------- Total 4075 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 26 29 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== GEN.NC.US. General Independent Entities, North Carolina. Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 LOCALITIES ========== ROOSEVELT-ISLAND.NY.US. CLARKDALE.AZ.US. ALBANY.GA.US. DOUGHERTY.GA.US. DOOR.WI.US. WAKEFIELD.MA.US. COPLEY.OH.US. OAKFIELD.NY.US. HAHIRA.GA.US. UNICOI.TN.US. LANSING.NY.US. SPARTA.IL.US. SEBASTIAN.FL.US. HURON.OH.US. LORAIN.OH.US. WINDSOR.CO.US. MOSINEE.WI.US. MARATHON.NY.US. WASHINGTON.AR.US. MIDDLETOWN.CA.US. STONEHAM.MA.US. MONTICELLO.IA.US. ERIE.OH.US. CARSON.CA.US. ALPENA.MI.US. GENEVA.IL.US. BYRAM.NJ.US. FRANKFORD.NJ.US. GREEN.NJUS. HARDYSTON.NJ.US. SANDYSTON.NJ.US. WALPACK.NJ.US. BHAM.AL.US. MONA.WI.US. PRESCOTT.WI.US. BERLIN-HEIGHTS.OH.US. We delegated 3 Native Soverign Nations: SANTA-ANA.NSN.US. PUYALLUPTRIBE.NSN.US. TULALIPTRIBES.NSN.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== We delegated 101 4th level domain names this month. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes August 1997 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. Organizations peering with Route Servers at the exchange points can now use a fast, automated procedure to update their Route Server Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 peering policy. Authorized maintainers, i.e., end users authorized to update their organization's policy in the Routing Arbiter Database (RADB), can now use e-mail to: 1. Retrieve their organization's inet-rtr (Internet router) objects, which store information about routes exported and imported by the Route Servers on their behalf. 2. Edit the objects to reflect any new policy. 3. Re-submit the updated objects through e-mail. The updates will be immediately reflected in the Routing Arbiter Database, which is used to generate the Route Server configuration files. Previously, customer requests for policy updates had to be completed manually by Merit's Route Server Next Generation (RSng) staff. The Route Servers were developed under the NSF-supported Routing Arbiter project, a partnership between Merit and the USC Information Sciences Institute. RSng, a commercial follow-on activity, makes it possible for exchange point operators to purchase Route Server services from Merit. For more information, see: http://www.rsng.net The RSng inet-rtr object extends the definition found in the RIPE document, "Specifying an `Internet Router' in the Routing Registry" (RIPE-122). The extended inet-rtr objects contain not only information about each customer's Route Server peering policy, but also private information such as contact procedures and NOC phone numbers. To restrict access to the private information, inet-rtr objects had been stored in a database that could only be accessed by the Merit Internet Engineering staff and the NOC. Now, authorized maintainers can retrieve both the public and private information through authenticated e-mail, with privacy still maintained. To retrieve an inet-rtr object, send a message to auto-dbm@ra.net with the following text: request: : For example: request: inet-rtr: 192.41.177.3 Ramos [Page 17] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 You may request several inet-rtr objects in a single message, in addition to any other objects for which you are an authorized maintainer. Simply insert a blank line between each request: request: inet-rtr: 1.2.3.4 request: mntner: MAINT-TEST request: aut-num: AS10000 Requests for Route objects must also include the route's origin AS: request: route: 1.2.3.0/24 AS10000 Note that you must follow the authentication method specified in your Maintainer object in order for the request to be processed correctly. If your Maintainer object mandates the use of PGP, for example, you must use PGP to sign your requests. The new "auto-responder" can only be used to view your own database objects. If you want to check another AS's registered policy, for example when debugging a network problem, see the RSng Configuration Viewer: http://www.rsng.net/peer_template/viewconf.html To use the Configuration Viewer to display public information in an AS's inet-rtr object, simply enter the IP address or AS number of the peer you want to obtain information about. AS objects, Route objects, and Maintainer objects can also be retrieved through whois queries to the various databases in the Internet Routing Registry. The new RSng procedures were implemented by Gerald Winters, Jake Khuon, and Abha Ahuja of Merit, with assistance from Tom Spindler of the University of Michigan Information Technology Division. If you have questions or comments about your configuration requests, send e-mail to rsng@merit.net. ------------------------------------------------------------ Kitty Bridges joined the Merit staff as Associate Director for National Networking. Before coming to Merit, Bridges headed the University of Michigan's Future Computing Environment Project. In this role, she led U-M's effort to move from a mainframe-based to a distributed computing environment. Among the projects Bridges now oversees is Merit's role in Internet2. Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 Merit staff members Sue Hares, Bill Norton, and Jake Khuon attended the 39th IETF in Munich during the week of August 17. Hares, who has been proposed as Chair of the Internet Research Task Force's Routing Research Group, chaired an Inter-Domain Routing Working Group session. The IDR Working Group is co-chaired by Yakov Rekhter. Hares also made a presentation about multicast routing in GateD at the MBONE Deployment Working Group. Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu) UCL ---- UCL staff attended Munich ietf, and co-chaired IDMR, LSMA. Went to IAB, and to int-serv, mmusic, avt, and sundry TCP implementor, TCP on satellite and mboned WGs. UCL <-> INRIA IP on 2Mbps satellite link (with IP multicast) now operational) John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) IANA REPORT ----------- BOOTP-DHCP Extension Codes 1 Country Codes 5 MIME Media Types 1 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 4 Multicast Addresses: Blocks 2 PPP Field Assignments 1 Private Enterprise Numbers 58 Port Numbers 23 Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of August, 1997: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 16 4 11 | 31 month | | New 10 0 0 0 | 10 | | Processed 0 3 0 0 | 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 10 13 4 11 | 38 * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Alegre Ramos (rfc-ed@isi.edu) Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 CALENDAR -------- Last updated 9/3/97 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". ************************************************************************ 1997 ----------- Sep 2-5 1997 Int'l Conference Intelligent Networks and Intelligence in Networks Paris, France Sep. 5 TERENA Technical Committee Amsterdam Sep. 5 TERENA Executive Committee Amsterdam Sep. 7-11 5th European Conf. on Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 Computer Supported Coop. Work Lancaster University U.K. 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. 11-12 4th Int'l Workshop on Community Networking (IEEE) Atlanta, Georgia Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France Sep. 16-17 EWOS Assembly Brussels Sep. 21-26 ATM Forum Paris, France Sep. 24-26 RIPE28 Amsterdam Sep. 25-26 INFOS INTERNET Ljubljana, Slovenia Sep. 26-30 3rd ACM/IEEE on Mobile Computing & Networking 1997 (MobiCom'97) Budapest, Hungary 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 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 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 Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 Ceara, Brazil Nov. 8-14 ACM MULTIMEDIA '97 Seattle, WA Nov. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary Queen Elizabeth, Montreal 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. 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 Ramos [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum Berlin, Germany 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 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 24] Internet Monthly Report August 1997 2000 May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative) Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, TERENA LIST OF MEETINGS ----------------------- The current TERENA Calendar 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 25]