January 1998 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 January 1998 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 16 US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21 CALENDAR OF EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23 TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26 Ramos [Page 2] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/. Brian Carpenter IAB Chair INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- Internet Monthly Report for January, 1998 1. The IETF will meet in Los Angeles from March 30 - April, 3, 1998 and then in Chicago August 24-28. We're still looking into the final meeting of 1998, but it will be the second week of December, 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: December 18, 1997 (iesg.97-12-18) January 15, 1998 (iesg.98-01-15) 3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 16 Protocol Actions during the month of January, 1998: o IANA Charset Registration Procedures for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. Ramos [Page 3] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 o Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name Resolution for publication as an Informational RFC. o Using the MARS model in non-ATM NBMA networks. for publication as an Informational RFC. o Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing for publication as an Informational RFC. o Scalable Support for Multi-homed Multi-provider Connectivity for publication as an Informational RFC. o A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm for publication as an Informational RFC. o Cisco's Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) for publication as an Informational RFC. o Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices for publication as an Informational RFC. o Using the Internet DNS to Distribute MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping (MCGAM) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER address mapping for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks for publication as a Proposed Standard. o UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Repeater Devices for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 for publication as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 4] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 4. 16 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of January, 1998: o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Using the MARS model in non-ATM NBMA networks. for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (IPOA-MIB) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o File Format for Internet Fax for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IP Header Compression for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Ramos [Page 5] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM using Sparse Mode PIM for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. One new working groups was created: o LDAP Service Deployment (lsd) and one working group concluded this period: o 100VG-AnyLAN MIB (vgmib) 6. There were 152 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of January, 1998: (none) o The Auto-Submitted, Supersedes and Expires Headers in E-mail and Netnews (mmusic) o SDP: Session Description Protocol (pppext) o PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (dnsind) o Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (IPOA-MIB) Ramos [Page 6] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 (ids) o The CCSO Nameserver (Ph) Architecture (ospf) o The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (dhc) o Interaction between DHCP and DNS (dnssec) o Detached Domain Name System (DNS) Information (http) o Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP (none) o TFTP Blocksize Option (none) o Distributed Component Object Model Protocol -- DCOM/1.0 (none) o A Common Internet File System (CIFS/1.0) Protocol Preliminary Draft (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (svrloc) o Service Location Modifications for IPv6 (aft) o Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol for SOCKS V5 (none) o Firewall Support for Mobile IP (pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' (none) o ST2+ over ATM Protocol Specification - UNI 3.1 Version (none) o The TACACS+ Protocol Version 1.78 (ftpext) + FTP Extensions for IPv6 (http) o Content Feature Tag Registration Procedure (tip) o Transaction Internet Protocol Version 3.0 (ldapext) + Use of Language Codes in LDAP (drums) o Mail and Netnews Header Registration Procedure (none) o Securing FTP with TLS (find) o A Tagged Index Object for use in the Common Indexing Protocol (mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) Ramos [Page 7] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 (ftpext) + FTP Security Considerations (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 over PPP (none) o The mailto URL scheme (none) o The Multicast Attribute Framing Protocol (none) o VPIM Voice Message MIME Sub-type Registration (mobileip) o Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP (ipngwg) o Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group (ipngwg) o Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - F Profile for Facsimile (http) o HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0 (svrloc) o The 'wp' and 'yp' Abstract Service Types (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB (http) o HTTP State Management Mechanism (none) o Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAPv2 (none) o RSVP over ATM Implementation Guidelines (pppext) o PPP over AAL5 (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics (none) o An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service (ion) o A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP (none) o Sieve -- a Mail Filtering Language (none) o Access Protocol Ramos [Page 8] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (ipngwg) o An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format (find) o MIME Object Definitions for the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) (radius) o RADIUS Accounting Interim Accounting Record Extension (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration (issll) o RSVP over ATM Implementation Requirements (none) + The Site Installation Handbook (dnsind) o Test and Example Top Level DNS Names (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Protocol Specification (ippcp) o IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (poisson) o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees (webdav) o Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web -- WEBDAV (none) o IMSS: IP Multicast Shortcut Service (dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions (ion) o A Distributed MARS Service Using SCSP (ip1394) o Ipv4 over IEEE 1394 (pppext) o PPP Over FUNI (tn3270e) o Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2 (none) o Universal Forms Description Language Specification Version 4.0 (none) o Network Security API for Sockets (avt) o Options for Repair of Streaming Media (dnsind) o Local DNS Names Ramos [Page 9] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 (none) o Using TLS with IMAP4, POP3 and ACAP (none) + Short Passive (SPASV) Command for FTP (nntpext) o Network News Transport Protocol (idr) o Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (none) o Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) (dnssec) o DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (none) o Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 (cat) o Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture (tcpsat) o Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms (iesg) o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs (nntpext) o Common NNTP Extensions (smime) o Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME (find) o LDAPv2 client Vs the Index Mesh (idr) o BGP Route Flap Damping (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 (svrloc) o Definition of printer: URLs for use with Service Location (ipngwg) o DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 (none) o Simple Server Discovery Protocol (none) o Form-based Device Input and Upload in HTML (pppext) o Multi-link Multi-node PPP Ramos [Page 10] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 (avt) o RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+) (none) o The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol (none) o Requirements for DAV Searching and Locating (fax) o A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail (fax) o Extended Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail (none) o Media Features for Display, Print, and Fax (smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification (smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling (ngtrans) o IPv6 routing issues (ippcp) o IP Payload Compression Using DEFLATE (fax) o Terminology and Goals for Internet Fax (fax) o Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail (avt) + RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications (pppext) + L2TP-over-IP Path MTU Discovery (''L2TPMTU'') (none) + A POP3 URL Interface (mobileip) + Use of IPSec in Mobile IP (none) o WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (schema) + MIME Directory Profile for LDAP Schema (cat) + The Multiple-Path Authentication of Kerberos (MPAKER) (ipngwg) o Forcing Fragmentation to Network MTU (none) o PGM Reliable Transport Protocol Specification (none) + Delta encoding in HTTP (none) + Instance Digests in HTTP Ramos [Page 11] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 (pppext) + L2TP Alternate Data Channel (``L2TPADC'') (none) + Provider Architecture for Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering (none) + NAT Bypass for End 2 End 'sensitive' applications (none) + Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast (none) o Matrix Model for Selective Dissemination (none) + Division of IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Into Separable Mechanisms (iab) + Folklore of Protocol Design (none) + talk: a historical protocol for interactive communication (svrloc) + The Systems Management Abstract Service Type (none) + Proposal for the object-oriented, cross-platform filesystem (OFS) (nntpext) + NNTP Full-text Search Extension (none) + Common Internet Message Header Fields (none) + IP Private Address Identification (PAID) (none) + Simple General Awareness Protocol (SGAP) (printmib) + Job Submission Protocol Mapping Recommendations (rap) + The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol (none) + Globally-Distributed Troubleshooting (GDT): Protocol Specification (none) + Mandatory Extensions in HTTP (dnssec) + RSA/MD5 KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS) (snmpv3) + User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) (none) + One Time Password SASL mechanism (none) + Using SASL and GSSAPI with Telnet (none) + DSS Secured Password Authentication Mechanism Ramos [Page 12] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 (none) + Sieve -- Vacation Extension (tls) + HTTP Over TLS (none) + TFTP Option Extension (none) + TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options (none) + The Ted.Net protocol for messaging based business interchanges (cat) + Public Key Cryptography for KDC Recovery in Kerberos V5 (none) + Duplicate IP Address Detection Based on Gratuitous ARP (none) + Multicast Address Request Protocol (MARP) 7. 36 RFCs were published during this period: RFC2156 PS (mixer) MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME RFC2157 PS (mixer) Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message Bodies RFC2158 PS (mixer) X.400 image body parts RFC2159 PS (mixer) A MIME body part for FAX RFC2160 PS (mixer) Carrying PostScript in X.400 and MIME RFC2161 E (mixer) A MIME body part for ODA RFC2162 E (mixer) MaXIM-11 - Mapping between X.400 / Internet mail and Mail-11 mail RFC2163 PS (mixer) Using the Internet DNS to Distribute MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping (MCGAM) RFC2164 PS (mixer) Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER address mapping RFC2199 PS (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2100-2199 RFC2247 PS (asid) Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names RFC2248 PS (madman) Network Services Monitoring MIB RFC2249 PS (madman) Mail Monitoring MIB RFC2250 PS (avt) RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video RFC2257 PS (agentx) Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 RFC2258 I (ids) Internet Nomenclator Project RFC2259 I (ids) Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol (SNQP) RFC2260 I (none) Scalable Support for Multi-homed Multi- provider Connectivity Ramos [Page 13] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 RFC2262 PS (snmpv3) Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) RFC2263 PS (snmpv3) SNMPv3 Applications RFC2264 PS (snmpv3) User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) RFC2265 PS (snmpv3) View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) RFC2266 PS (vgmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Repeater Devices RFC2267 I (none) Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing RFC2269 I (ion) Using the MARS model in non-ATM NBMA networks. RFC2270 I (idr) Using a Dedicated AS for Sites Homed to a Single Provider RFC2271 PS (snmpv3) An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks RFC2272 PS (snmpv3) Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) RFC2273 PS (snmpv3) SNMPv3 Applications RFC2274 PS (snmpv3) User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) RFC2275 PS (snmpv3) View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) RFC2276 I (urn) Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name Resolution RFC2277 B (none) IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages RFC2278 B (none) IANA Charset Registration Procedures RFC2279 PS (none) UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 RFC2280 PS (rps) Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) Ramos [Page 14] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- INTERNIC -------- REGISTRATION SERVICES ****************************************************** * gopher sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 81015 Retrievals: 6032 ****************************************************** * wais sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 8733 Retrievals: 7719 ****************************************************** * whois sessions * ****************************************************** Client Queries: 8210301 Server Queries: 27366131 ****************************************************** * ftp sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 97651 Retrievals: 155980 ****************************************************** * telnet sessions * ****************************************************** Connections: 86939 ****************************************************** ****************************************************** * http sessions * ****************************************************** Retrievals: 14621861 Telephone: 35,858 Hostmail: 464,105 by Rich Landers Ramos [Page 15] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES The Netfind seed database for January contained over 2.7 million entries. Since the InterNIC Directory and Database Services project will end at the end of March, we have stopped taking new entries for our Directory of Directories. Only InterNIC Directory and Database Services will end at that time; InterNIC Registration Services will continue operation. 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 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. Ramos [Page 16] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 The US Domain Administration may choose to verify any or all of the information on registration applications (including the administrative contact) and if it is determined that the an application contains false of substantially misleading information that application may be denied, or if already acted on the delegation may be revoked, and in either case all other delegations made to the party submitting the false or misleading application may also be revoked. 2. A total of about 2000 locality domains that were delegated to several domain name managers have been returned to the US Domain administrator. These localities will be made available for redelegation in the coming months. 3. For delegations made after 1-Jul-97, it is assumed by the US Domain Administrator that every applicant for the delegation (or redelegation) of a locality name has the written agreement of the legitimate government for that locality for the applicant to manage the domain name of that locality. 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 January 1998 US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ==================================== EMAIL/FAX 1344 PHONE 200 ---------------------------- Total Contacts 1544 DELEGATIONS: 57 FORWARDED REQUESTS: 400 OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:1087 --------------------------- Total 1544 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 48 41 27 30 10 6 =================================================================== THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS ======================== There were no special domains delegated this month. LOCALITIES ========== ABILENE.KS.US. BERLIN.NJ.US. PEBBLE-BEACH.CA.US. HASBROUCK-HEIGHTS.NJ.US. NORWICH.VT.US. CLAYTON.OH.US. OAKLEY.KS.US. TYLER.MN.US. LIBERTYVILLE.IL.US. HARVARD.IL.US. ROSEMONT.IL.US. WOOD-DALE.IL.US. ITASCA.IL.US. LINCOLNSHIRE.IL.US. Ramos [Page 18] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 NORTH-OAKS.MN.US. MELROSE.MN.US. PRAIRIE-GROVE.IL.US. PRINCETON-BOROUGH.NJ.US. TOPANGA.CA.US. OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH ====================================== MAIL.CI.NOVI.MI.US. EMWD.DST.CA.US. SAMOSET.JOHNSON.VT.US. ARTREYU.CHINO-HILLS.CA.US. BPC-INFO.COLUMBIA.IL.US. JENSEN.BILLINGS.MT.US. JEEPLOVERS.DETROIT.MI.US. ADTRONICS.WOODSTOCK.GA.US. ELITE.SLINGER.WI.US. SOUNDCITY.CI.ALTOONA.PA.US. COMPSVS.CI.BLOOMINGTON.IL.US. BBBACH.MUNCIE.IN.US. SBA.SOLOMONS.MD.US. CITYHALL.CI.BLOOMINGTON.IL.US. OWNS.ROCKLAND.ID.US. CI.WINDSOR.WI.US. OSP.MCALESTER.OK.US. REMORA.MIAMI.FL.US. THEBOYS.TROY.MI.US. MRHC.MCALESTER.OK.US. TAXCOLLECTOR.CO.LAKE.FL.US. FREYREALTY.MARSHALL.WI.US. CI.NEWCASTLE.WA.US. CI.SALEM.MA.US. CI.FAYETTEVILLE.TN.US. SHA.SOMERVILLE.MA.US. MONKEY.ARLINGTON.TX.US. CI.MOUNT-PLEASANT.TX.US. CI.GALT.CA.US. CI.UNIVERSITY-HEIGHTS.OH.US. ELITETECH.ORLANDO.FL.US. CI.STRANG.NE.US. WHITCO.LIB.WA.US. PORT.PITTSBURGH.PA.US. ENTERPRISE.TROY.MI.US. DIVERSIFIEDCONSULTING.TROY.MI.US. HG.CI.TWIN-FALLS.ID.US. CO.BONNEVILLE.ID.US. URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/ Sungita Patel MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING -------------------------- This report summarizes January 1998 activities of Merit's Internet Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and other projects. The Routing Arbiter project, a partnership between Merit Network, Inc., and the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, was launched in 1994 as one of several NSFNET follow-on projects supported by the National Science Foundation. In the following years, the RA successfully deployed Route Server Ramos [Page 19] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 systems to facilitate routing information exchange at the Network Access Points, and operated the Routing Arbiter Database as an important source of information for global policy routing. Since the 1995 transition from the NSFNET to a commercial networking infrastructure, NSF has focused its networking support on network research and development efforts, rather than operational activities such as the RADB and the Route Servers. In late 1996, on NSF's recommendation, Route Server operations moved from NSF sponsorship to private funding, with several U.S. exchange point operators taking over support of the Route Servers (see the Route Server Next Generation Web pages, http://www.rsng.net). Similarly, the National Science Foundation has now determined that there is sufficient support in the community to provide funding for the operation of the Routing Arbiter Database, and has asked Merit to complete a transition from federal funds to an alternative funding model by the end of March 1998. Merit wishes to thank those network service providers that have already committed financial resources to sustaining RADB operations. Additional resources are still needed, however, to ensure that the RADB continues to operate until the routing community completes its planned transition to a distributed routing registry model. Merit and other organizations participating in global routing plans to phase out centralized registries, such as the RADB, and move to a distributed registry on or about March 31, 1999. If your organization can assist in supporting the RADB through this transition, please contact Merit at (734) 764-9430 and ask for Bill Norton, Internet Engineering Manager, or Kitty Bridges, Associate Director for National Networking. You can also send e-mail to wbn@merit.edu and bridges@merit.edu. -------------------------------- Gerald Winters and Jake Khuon attended the 29th RIPE meeting in Amsterdam. At the Routing Working Group, Winters gave a presentation titled "Using Internet Routing Announcements to Identify Incorrect Internet Routing Registry Data." Susan Rebecca Harris UCL ---- UCL Submitted their NS work on transcoders, reliablie multicast and priced TCP back to the Vint project. John Crowcroft Ramos [Page 20] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 IANA REPORT ----------- DHCP Options 3 Ethernet Numbers 1 ICMPv6 Parameters 1 Media Types 4 MobileIP Numbers 8 Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 1 PPP Numbers 2 Private Enterprise Numbers 73 Port Numbers 37 Protocol/Type Field Assignments 1 RTP Parameters 2 SMI Numbers 3 by Josh Elliott RFC EDITOR REPORT ----------------- This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the month of January, 1998: TIME IN QUEUE DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Beginning of 0 16 7 12 | 35 month | | New 18 0 0 0 | 18 | | Processed 10 15 0 9 | 34 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | End of month 8 1 7 3 | 19 * 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. Ramos [Page 21] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author). Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join work already in progress in the IETF. Alegre Ramos Ramos [Page 22] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 CALENDAR -------- Last update 2/26/98 The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section. Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to: Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for the events listed below. A copy of this calendar is available as follows: VIA FTP ------- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites. US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12) cd ietf ls *0mtg* WWW ------- Click on the link for "meetings" and you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events". ************************************************************************ 1998 ----------- Mar. 2-3 USENIX New Network Technologies Symposium Salt Lake City, UT Mar. 2-3 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) San Francisco, CA Mar. 8-11 IEEE, 2nd Euromicro Working Conf. on Soft. Maint. & Reeng. Florence, Italy Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA Ramos [Page 23] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 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. 2 pulver.com's Spring '98 Voice on the Net(TM) San Jose, CA Mar. 30-Apr. 3 41st IETF (No Host) Los Angeles, CA Mar. 30-Apr. 3 NetWorld+Interop Singapore Mar. 30-Apr. 3 First Merged Symposium IPPS/SPDP 1998, 1sth Intl Parallel Processing Symposium & 9th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Orlando, FLA Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA Apr. 6-7 IBC UK Conference on TCP/IP & London, UK ATM: The Telco Strategy Summit Apr. 6-10 wmATM'98 1st Int'l Workshop on Wireless Mobile ATM Implementation Hangzhou, China Apr. 14-18 7th IW3C Brisbane, Australia Apr. 18-23 CHI '98 (ACM SIGCHI) Los Angeles, CA Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum Berlin, Germany Apr. 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Apr. 22-24 Third IEEE Int'l Workshop on Systems Management Newport, Rhode Island Apr. 27-30 USENIX 4th Conf, COOTS Santa Fe, Mexico May RIPE30 Stockholm (tbd) May 5-8 Networld+Interop '98 Las Vegas, NV May 17-20 9th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Alberta, Canada May 18-20 6th IEEE/IFIP Int'l Wkshp on Quality of Service IWQos '98 Napa, CA May 25-28 Interactive Multimedia Service and Equipment Zurich, Switzerland SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa Jun. 7-11 ENCOM '98 in conjunction with ICC/SuperComm '98 Atlanta, GA Jun. 8-11 pulver.com's Voice on the Net(TM): Europe '98 Oslo, Norway Jun. 15-17 3rd Intl WWW Caching Wkshp Manchester, En Jun. 15-19 USENIX '98 Technical Conf. New Orleans, LA Jun. 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL Jul. 2-3 pulver.com's Voice on the Net(TM) Tokyo, Japan Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA Ramos [Page 24] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 Jul. 21-24 INET '98 The Internet Society's 8th Annual Networking Conference Geneva, Switzerland Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum Portland, OR Aug. 3-5 USENIX 2nd Windows NT Seattle, Washington Aug. 5-7 USENIX 2nd Large Instal. Sys. Admin of Windows NT(LISA NT) Seattle, Washington Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary Aug. 24-28 42nd IETF Chicago, IL Aug. 29-Sep 4 SIGCOMM '98 Vancouver, CANADA Aug. 31-Sep 3 USENIX 2nd Workshop on Electronic Commerce Boston, MA Aug. 31-Sep 4 SEC '98 14th Int'l Information Vienna, Austria and Security Conference Budapest, Hungary Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA Sep. 14-18 USENIX - 6th TCL/TK Conf. San Diego, CA Sep. 14-18 pulver.com's Fall '98 Voice on the Net(TM) Boston, MA Sep. 17-18 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) Tentative (TBD) Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum Gold Coast, Australia Oct. 5-8 TERENA (host by DFN) Dresden, Germany Oct. 13-16 Intl Conf on Netw Protocols Austin, TX Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA Oct 25-30 MobiCom'98 4th Annual ACM/IEEE Dallas, TX Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM Nov 25 TERENA Executive Committe Amsterdam Nov. 29-Dec 4 ATM Forum Nashville, TN Dec. 6-11 12th Systems Administration Conf. (LISA '98) Boston, MA Dec. 7-11 43rd IETF (Tentative) Orlando, FL 1999 ----- Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Feb. 22-25 USENIX - 3rd Sym. on Oper. Sys Design and Implementation (OSDI '99) New Orleans, LA Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Mar/April 44th IETF (tentative) TBA Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV May 10-May 14 8th IW3C Toronto, CANADA Ramos [Page 25] Internet Monthly Report January 1998 Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Jul 12-16 45th IETF (tentative) Oslo, Norway Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Boston, tentative Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA Nov. 8-12 46th IETF (tentative) Wash DC (tentative) Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA 2000 ---- MAR 26-31 47th IETF Adelaide, Australia May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative) Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, GA The TERENA Calendar for March 1998 may be found on URL: http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 1017 AW Amsterdam the Netherlands email tel: +31 20 639 1131 fax: +31 20 639 3289 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ramos [Page 26]