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February 1997


INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
------------------------

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Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by
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business day of the month describing the previous month's activities.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD

IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3

Internet Projects

INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
Registration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
Directory Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
RFC-EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19

CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
TERENA List of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25
































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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 February, 1997


1. The first meeting of the year will be held in Memphis, Tennessee
from April 7-10, 1997. Our local host will be Federal Express.
Following Memphis, the IETF returns to Europe for the summer
meeting in Munich, Germany from August 11-15, 1997. Our hosts for
this meeting will be Digi/ISOC.DE. The final meeting of the year
will be held in the D.C. area, hosted by Newbridge.

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:

January 9, 1997 (iesg.97-01-09)
January 23, 1997 (iesg.97-01-23)
February 6, 1997 (iesg.97-02-06)

3. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol
Actions during the month of February, 1997:

o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth
Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) for publication as a
Proposed Standard.





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o Microsoft Point-To-Point Compression (MPPC) Protocol for
publication as an Informational RFC.

o Managing the X.500 Root Naming Context for publication as an
Experimental Protocol.

o Issues affecting MARS Cluster Size for publication as an
Informational RFC.

o Traffic Flow Measurement: Experiences with NeTraMet for
publication as an Informational RFC.

o Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update for publication as a
Proposed Standard.

o Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE) for
publication as a Proposed Standard.


4. Five Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of
February, 1997:

o FTP Security Extensions for
consideration as a Proposed Standard.

o A Common Schema for the Internet White Pages Service
for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.

o MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES AND FUNCTIONS
for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.

o Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services
for consideration as a Best
Current Practices RFC.

o IMAP4 Referrals for
consideration as a Proposed Standard.


5. Four new working groups were created

QoS Routing (qosr)
TCP Implementation (tcpimpl)
Secure Shell (secsh)
The Internet and the millenium problem (2000)




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6. There were 101 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of
February, 1997:

(ospf) o OSPF Version 2
(none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric
Element in Fibre Channel Standard

(ipsec) o Internet Security Association and Key Management
Protocol (ISAKMP) .ps>
(atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM
Management
(intserv) o Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service

(none) o SMTP Service Extension for Authentication

(mixer) o MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping
between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME

(vgmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12
Repeater Devices

(mixer) o Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message
Bodies
(none) o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)

(mixer) o A MIME body part for FAX

(mixer) o A MIME body part for ODA

(pppext) o PPP EAP RSA Public Key Authentication Protocol

(madman) o LDAP/CLDAP/X.500 Directory Services Monitoring MIB

(pppext) o The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP
Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP)

(mixer) o Carrying PostScript in X.400 and MIME

(dnsind) o Clarifications to the DNS Specification

(idmr) o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol

(dnssec) o Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update

(http) + Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP

(none) o Netstrings



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(none) o Public Information Retrieval Protocol (PIRP)

(none) o Tools in the War on Mail Loops

(none) o Notice-Requested-Upon-Delivery-To (NRUDT)

(none) o The qmail-send Bounce Message Format (QSBMF)

(none) o The Hash Convention For Mail System Status Codes
(HCMSSC)
(none) o Easily Parsed LIST Format (EPLF)

(atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management

(ids) o Best Current Practice for the Internet White Pages
Service
(svrloc) + Finding Stuff (How to discover services)

(ipsec) o The resolution of ISAKMP with Oakley

(urn) o Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using
the Domain Name System

(svrloc) o Service Location Modifications for IPv6

(none) o VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service

(oncrpc) o RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification

(pppext) + Microsoft Point-To-Point Compression (MPPC)
Protocol
(asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8
String Representation of Distinguished Names

(asid) o An Approach for Using Domains in LDAP Distinguished
Names
(none) o The Owner Hack
(none) o RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG

(none) o Quick Mail Transfer Protocol (QMTP)

(bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices

(none) + A Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over
Shared and Switched LAN Technologies

(none) o A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode




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(none) o Advanced Sockets API for IPv6

(none) o Transaction Internet Protocol

(none) o Network Data Management Protocol

(roamops) o The Network Access Identifier

(none) o POP3 AUTHentication command

(urn) o A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN
Resolution
(applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Servers

(mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

(dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE)

(none) o StarBurst Multicast File Transfer Protocol (MFTP)
Specification
(none) o IMAP4 Referrals

(mobileip) o Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP

(none) o Extensions to the Internet Relay Chat Protocol
(IRCX)
(ion) + NHRP for Destinations off the NBMA Subnetwork

(http) + HTTP State Management Mechanism (Errata)

(calsch) + Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object
Specification (iCalendar)

(calsch) + Core Object Specification - Issues Document

(ipngwg) + Management Information Base for IP Version 6:
Textual Conventions and General Group

(ipngwg) + Management Information Base for IP Version 6:
ICMPv6 Group

(ipngwg) + Management Information Base for IP Version 6: UDP
and TCP Groups

(none) + A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation

(none) + MAPOS - Multiple Access Protocol over SONET/SDH
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(none) + Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning
on the World Wide Web -- WEBDAV

(fax) + Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - Class F

(http) + HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0

(frnetmib) + Frame Relay Service Extensions MIB for Switched
PVCs
(none) + Telnet Remote Serial Port (RSP) Option

(none) + Electronic Part Catalog to Business System
Interface
(find) + A CIP-based Centroid Exchange for LDAP

(calsch) + Calendaring Interoperability over HTTP (CIH)

(svrloc) + Advertising Services (Providing information to
support service discovery)

(svrloc) + Defining White Pages and Yellow Pages Services

(rsvp) + RSVP Extensions for CIDR Aggregated Data Flows

(mboned) + Some Issues for an Inter-domain Multicast Routing
Protocol

(none) + Dublin Core Metadata for Simple Resource
Description
(svrloc) + Service Specific Multicast Address Assignment for
use with the Service Location Protocol

(mobileip) + Mobile IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP IPCP

(cat) + Public Key Utilizing Tickets for Application
Servers (PKTAPP)
(none) + Communicating Presentation Information in Internet
Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field

(none) + An Extension to the Web Robots Control Method for
supporting Mobile Agents

(mboned) + Guidelines for Rate Limits on the MBONE

(none) + Light-weight Flow Admission Protocol Specification
Version 1.0
(none) + BOOTP and DHCP on Mixed Media Link-Layer Networks




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(none) + Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM

(mixer) + Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to support MIXER
address mapping
(ipngwg) + GSE - An Alternate Addressing Architecture for IPv6

(mboned) + PIM Multicast Border Router (PMBR) specification
for connecting PIM-SM domains to a DVMRP Backbone

(asid) + Selecting a server from among many replicas

(asid) + LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results
Manipulation

(none) + Fine-Grained Transclusion in the Hypertext Markup
Language
(tcplw) + TCP Extensions for High Performance

(none) + UUIDs and GUIDs
(none) + E-mail addressing: the worst of all worlds?

(rmonmib) + Remote Network Monitoring Management Information
Base for High Capacity and Switched Networks

(none) + DHCP Option for Proxy Client Configuration File

(none) + Requirements for Distributed Authoring and
Versioning on the World Wide Web

(none) + GSE+ - An Alternate Addressing Architecture to GSE





















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7. 14 RFCs were published during this period

RFC2000 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS
RFC2076 I (mailext) Common Internet Message Headers
RFC2085 PS (ipsec) HMAC-MD5 IP Authentication with Replay
Prevention
RFC2090 E (none) TFTP Multicast Option
RFC2098 I (none) Toshiba's Router Architecture Extensions
for ATM : Overview
RFC2101 I (none) IPv4 Address Behaviour Today
RFC2102 I (nimrod) Multicast Support for Nimrod : Requirements
and Solution Approaches
RFC2103 I (nimrod) Mobility Support for Nimrod : Challenges
and Solution Approaches
RFC2104 I (ipsec) HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message
Authentication
RFC2105 I (none) Cisco Systems' Tag Switching Architecture
Overview
RFC2107 I (none) Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol - ATMP
RFC2108 PS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE
802.3 Repeater Devices using SMIv2
RFC2109 PS (http) HTTP State Management Mechanism
RFC2113 PS (none) IP Router Alert Option




























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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------


INTERNIC
--------

REGISTRATION SERVICES

InterNIC statistics from February follows:

Current Status

February: Email: 257,969
Phone: 38,318

Gopher connections: 6579 retrievals: 20,871
WAIS connections: 27,616 retrievals: 14,222
FTP connections: 90,760 retrievals: 178,580
Telnet: 54,174
Http: not available

Whois Queries: 13,148,824

Total Registrations: 90,885

Rich Landers


INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES

We recently built a new search engine which is in service on our
production machines. WebFinder is designed to help users who are
looking for a particular organization on the web. It looks for
the organization's web servers rather than specific web pages. It
uses the same seed database that we maintain for Netfind.

To try WebFinder, look at:

http://ds.internic.net/ds/webfinder/WebFinder.html

In early February one of our servers (ds2.internic.net) was moved
from Columbus, Ohio to Middletown, Virginia. The machine is back
up and running with the same name and services but a new IP
address.






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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 registration form available at
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 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.

The policy regarding the charges for the domain name passed on
during delegation is that the administrator of the locality has to
notify one year in advance before charging for those domains.

US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
====================================


EMAIL/FAX 2777
PHONE 475
----------------------------
Total Contacts 3252


DELEGATIONS 138
FORWARDED REQUESTS: 920
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS: 2194
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Total 3252




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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
===================================================================
51 38 34 47 39 25 25 9 5
===================================================================


THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS
========================

FED.US. Federal Governments, US.

LOCALITIES
==========

WMAT.NSN.US. KIRTLAND.OH.US.
DAVIE.NC.US. FRANKLIN.NH.US.
GORHAM.ME.US. CAPE-ELIZEBETH.ME.US.
LISBON.ME.US. LIMESTONE.ME.US.
GARDINER.ME.US. TOPSHAM.ME.US.
FAIRFIELD.ME.US. RUMFORD.ME.US.
PHOENIX.OR.US. BROWNFIELD.TX.US.
LEVELLAND.TX.US. LITTLEFIELD.TX.US.
INTERLAKEN.NY.US. LODI.NY.US.
MECKLENBURG.NY.US. ROMULUS.NY.US.
WATERLOO.NY.US. WATKINS-GLEN.NY.US.
HECTOR.NY.US. SENECA-FALLS.NY.US.
OVID.NY.US. ULYSSES.NY.US.
COVERT.NY.US. STEPHENS.OK.US.
DOUGLAS.WI.US. LINCOLN.LA.US.
LEE.NC.US. GILA.AZ.US.
KENAI-PENINSULA.AK.US. ROUTT.CO.US.
CEDAREDGE.CO.US. RIFLE.CO.US.
YORKVILLE.IL.US. OSWEGO.IL.US.
ROCK-FALLS.IL.US. LONOKE.AR.US.
LAWRENCEBURG.IN.US. CASWELL-BEACH.NC.US.
YAUPON-BEACH.NC.US. ALBERTA.VA.US.
BOYDTON.VA.US. BRACEY.VA.US.



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BRUNSWICK.VA.US. CHARLOTTE.VA.US.
CHASE-CITY.VA.US. CLARKSVILLE.VA.US.
CREWE.VA.US. GREENSVILLE.VA.US.
HALIFAX.VA.US. LAWRENCEVILLE.VA.US.
LUNENBURG.VA.US. MECKLENBURG.NY.US.
NOTTOWAY.VA.US. SOUTHSIDE.VA.US.
HEARD.GA.US. HARRIS.GA.US.
MERIWETHER.GA.US. TOMBSTONE.AZ.US.
COFFEE.AL.US. COFFEE.TN.US.
BARRON.WI.US. PREBLE.OH.US.
WEBSTER.LA.US. DEARBORN.IN.US.
DUNDEE.IL.US. LAURENS.GA.US.
BALDWIN.GA.US. SWEETWATER.WY.US.
WISE.VA.US. MERCER.OH.US.
VANCE.NC.US. LOWER-PAXTON.PA.US.
FULTON.OH.US. PEARL-RIVER.MS.US.
BINGHAM.ID.US. WEBSTER.IA.US.
DUPLIN.NC.US. SANILAC.MI.US.
ELLISVILLE.AL.US. ERIE.OH.US.
MONROE.FL.US. HILLSBOROUGH.FL.US.
SIGNAL-HILL.CA.US. EPPING.NH.US.
ASPEN.CO.US. BAILEY.CO.US.
MASON.WA.US. FRANKLIN.WA.US.
SOUTHBOROUGH.MA.US.

OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH
======================================

CASTANET.GEN.CA.US. CI.JACKSON.WY.US.
CO.PATRICK.VA.US. NID.DST.CA.US.
BERGIN.BOONE.NC.US. FEML.LIB.OK.US.
WEALTHYPARKBAPTIST.GEN.MI.US. CI.HOLBROOK.AZ.US.
CI.NORTHVILLE.MI.US. NSCS.GUEMES.WA.US.
CI.FUQUAY-VARINA.NC.US. ELLIS.CENTRE.AL.US.
CI.NEWTON.NC.US. YEARROM.HAZEL-GREEN.AL.US.
CI.SMITHVILLE.TX.US. SLOAPCD.DST.CA.US.
CO.CANADIAN.OK.US. EUFAULA.LIB.OK.US.
CI.WILBER.NE.US. CI.SILVER-CREEK.NE.US.
CI.OHIOWA.NE.US. CI.GORDON.NE.US.
CI.ELGIN.NE.US. CI.PLATTSBURGH.NY.US.
AUGUSTA-RICHMOND.COG.GA.US. KANZA.CO.ANMDERSON.KS.US.
WINDOW.SANDERSON.TX.US. LATTA.K12.OK.US.
NOCROP.TEC.CA.US. CI.SOUTHLAKE.TX.US.
LARPD.DST.CA.US. EWC.CC.WY.US.
CUMBERLAND.TEC.NJ.US. CCTS.TEC.NJ.US.
VICISCHOOLS.K12.OK.US. MID-DEL.K12.OK.US.
IMAGE.TALKEETNA.AK.US. PASADENA.LIB.CA.US.
CODE.TROY.SC.US. CI.CLARKSON.NE.US.



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CI.FAIRMONT.NE.US. CCCSAW.DST.CA.US.
SJPL.LIB.CA.US. SPS.K12.OK.US.
JASMINEMORAN.MUS.OK.US. TWP.SOUTH-BRUNSWICK.NJ.US.

-----------------------------------------------------------

URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/

Shanthi Ranganathan (US-Domain@ISI.EDU)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~





MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING
--------------------------

This report summarizes February 1997 activities of Merit's Internet
Engineering group on behalf of the Routing Arbiter (RA) service and
other projects.

Merit is seeking beta testers for Trawhoisd (Trivial rawhoisd), the
distributed version of the Routing Arbiter Database whois server.
Trawhoisd allows users to cache any or all of the databases in the
Internet Routing Registry on local workstations, giving users
complete, local administrative control of their own registry. Users
can select a subset of the registries to be locally cached--only AS
objects, Route objects, or Maintainer objects, for example. This
kind of flexibility brings considerable savings in cache storage
requirements--a major concern for users maintaining their own
copies of the IRR. The streamlined Trawhoisd code is easy to
install, and runs under SunOS, Solaris, and Digital Unix. If you
would like to test the new code, please send e-mail to db-
admin@radb.ra.net.

Route Server Next Generation (RSng) operations are now up and
running at the Digital Internet Exchange, Digital's exchange point
in Palo Alto CA. Two DEC Alphas running Digital Unix are in
production at the site. RSng services went into production at the
MAE-East interconnection point in January. By taking over the task
of processing routing updates for ISP routers, the Route Servers
eliminate the need to establish separate peering sessions with
other routers at each exchange point. The Route Servers boost
throughput for ISP routers and allow faster delivery of customers'
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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

Intensive IPv6 development work continues for Merit's Multi-
Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT). MRT now provides IPv6 supports
for:

- Solaris IPv6 Release 5 (Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1)
- Linux IPv6 (2.1.24 and later)
- INRIA IPv6 (FreeBSD 2.1 and 2.1.5)

Non-IPv6-compliant versions of MRT run under:
- Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1
- SunOS 4.1.3 and 4.1.4
- Linux 2.0 and later
- FreeBSD 2.1 and 2.1.5
- NetBSD 1.1 and 1.2

MRT's RIPng implementation now interoperates with DEC, Cisco, and
Bay Networks routers over the 6bone. In addition, MRT's BGP
implementation has been extended to support the COMMUNITIES
attribute. The current MRT development platforms are a four-
processor SPARCstation 20 running Solaris IPv6 Release 5 on Solaris
2.5.1 with POSIX threads support, and Intel Pentium Pro and 486DX
systems running INRIA IPv6 on FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Linux IPv6 2.1.24.

MRT developers Craig Labovitz and Masaki Hirabaru would like to
thank their colleagues in Japan, Portugal, the Netherlands, the UK,
and the US for their many contributions, including bug fixes,
patches, and Unix ports. For more information about MRT, see:

http://www.merit.edu/~mrt/












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PacBell hosted the ninth North American Network Operators' Group
(NANOG) meeting in San Francisco on February 10-11. Stan Barber of
Academ Consulting Services has kindly made available a complete set
of notes and slides from the meeting; they are available through
Merit's Web site (http://www.nanog.org). Bill Norton of Merit
moderated the meeting, which featured the following presentations
and BOFs:

>Common Metrics for K. Claffy, NLANR, moderator
Exchange Points

>TCP Response Under Loss Curtis Villamizar, ANS
Conditions

>InterNIC Update Mark Kosters and Kim Hubbard,
InterNIC

>Congestion in Network Switches Stephen Polit, Digital

>End-to-End TCP Packet Vern Paxson, Lawrence Berkeley
Dynamics Lab

>Internet II: Pragmatic Steve Corbato, Univ. of
Views from Higher Education Washington
Dave Meyer, Univ. of Oregon

>Report on Inter-Provider Randy Bush, WNA
Cooperation

>Introducing Trawhoisd Xin Liu, Merit

>AS Object Editor WeeSan Lee, ISI

>Using the IRR to Assist Curtis Villamizar, ANS
With Aggregation

>Consideration of Policy: Laura Cunningham, MCI
What's Needed and Can RSVP Help?

>RA Update Bill Norton, Merit
Bill Manning, ISI

>Internet Routing Craig Labovitz, Merit
Instability

>Squid Update Duane Wessels, NLANR





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>Non-BGP Multihoming for Web Paul Vixie, CIX
Sites

>What can be Done About Curtis Villamizar, ANS
HTTP and Small TCP Flows?

>How to be a Good MBone Bill Fenner, Xerox PARC
Neighbor

>Controlling Network Abuse Paul Vixie, CIX
Using BGP-4

---------

BOFS: TRACK 1

>Exchange Point Engineering Bill Manning, ISI
Issues

>Flow Switching Analysis John Hawkinson, BBN Planet
Daniel McRobb, ANS

BOFs: TRACK 2

>Route Server Peering at the Jake Khuon and
IXPs: Procedures, Policy, Abha Ahuja, Merit
and Connectivity


>MLPAs: All for One, One for Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing
All House

Susan R. Harris (srh@merit.edu)


















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IANA REPORT
-----------

Here are IANA's assignments for February:

Cable Address Blocks 1
Country Codes 3
INT TLDs 2
Media Types 18
Multicast Addresses: Individual Assignments 1
Multicast Addresses: Blocks 4
Point-to-Point Protocol Assignments 3
Port Assignments 21
SMI Numbers 1


Josh Elliott

RFC-EDITOR REPORT
-----------------

This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the
month of February, 1997:

TIME IN QUEUE
DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL
------------------------------------------------------------------
|
Beginning of |
month 0 13 5 21 | 39
|
New 12 0 0 0 | 12

Processed 3 1 1 17 | 22
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End of month 9 12 4 4 | 29

* New RFCs added to queue throughout the month












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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.

Mary Kennedy





























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CALENDAR
--------

Last update 04/01/97

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
-----------

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
Apr. 7-11 IEEE INFOCOM '97 Kobe, Japan
Apr. 7-12 W3C "Accessibility" 6th Int'l Santa Clara, CA



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Apr. 9-11 ISADS 97 - 3rd Intl Symposium on
Autonmous Decentralized Sys. Berlin, Germany
Apr. 21-22 1st European Conf on Internet
Voting and Rating Vienna, Austria
Apr. 22-24 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL
Apr. 27-May 2 ATM Forum Chicago, IL
Apr. 28-May 2 HPN'97 (High Performance Net) White Plains, NY
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 ETW'97 IEEE Europen Test Wrkshop Cagliari,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. 17-19 VTIC-97 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 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA
Aug. 13-15 IEEE 25th Annual Int'l Computer Software and
Application Conference Washington, DC
Sep 2-5 1997 Int'l Conference
Intelligent Networks and
Intelligence in Networks Paris, France
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



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Sep. 14-18 ACM SIGCOMM '97 Cannes, French Riviera, France
Sep. 21-26 ATM Forum Paris, France
Sep. 26-30 3rd ACM/IEEE on Mobile Computing
& Networking 1997 (MobiCom'97) Budapest, Hungary
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. 23-25 ETSI Nice, France
Nov. 3-5 Int'l Test Conference 1997
Sheraton Washington Hotel Washington, DC
Nov. 3-7 ANSI X3T10 '97
Nov. 3-7 SPIE Int'l Symposium
Voice, Video & Data Communications
Conf. on Performance & Control of
Network System - Special Session on
Switching & Traffic Mgmt in
High Speed Networks Dallas, TX
Nov. 3-7 2nd French/Brazilian Symposium
on Distributed System Architectures:
Telecommunication Multimedia Architectures
Ceara, Brazil
Nov. 8-14 ACM MULTIMEDIA '97 Seattle, WA
Nov. 10-14 IEEE 802 Plenary Queen Elizabeth, Montreal
Nov. 19-21 ICCC'97 Cannes, France
Nov. 24-26 PROMSMmNet '97
Multimedia Networking Santiago, Chile
Nov. 30-Dec 5 ATM Forum Singapore
Dec. 1-3 30th IEEE/ACM Int'l Symposium
on Microarchitecture RTC, NC
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
-----------
Jan 6-8 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Feb. 8-13 ATM Forum TBA
Feb 7-9 DCI'S Internet Expo San Jose, CA
Mar. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Irvine, CA
Mar. 29-Apr 2 IEEE INFOCOM '98 - Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA
Apr. 3-4 IEEE "OPENARCH '98" San Francisco, CA
Apr. 19-24 ATM Forum TBA
Apr 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
SPRING 1998 TELECOM '97 Africa Midrand, South Africa
Jun 16-18 DCI's Internet Expo Chicago, IL



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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
Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA
Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum TBA
Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM
Nov. 30-Dec 4 ATM Forum TBA
Dec. 6-11 43rd IETF Adelaide, Australia
Host: Univ. of Adelaide



1999
-----

Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Sep 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland






























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TERENA CALENDAR
---------------

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




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European Commission
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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



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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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:


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OTHER CONFERENCES

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
IS&N '97
4th International Conference on Intelligence in Services & Networks
-------------------------------------------------------------------
27-29 May
Como, Italy
Title: "Technology for Co-operative Competition". The conference will
provide a forum for the discussion of issues and the exchange of
outstanding technical results related to the engineering of advanced
communication services and experiments on their use.
Sponsored by the European Commission and Italtel, and supported by
ACTS projects in IS&N domain.
Further information is available on WWW:
http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/SONAH/Acts/domain5

ECOOP'97
11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
-------------------------------------------------------
9-13 June
University of Jyv=E4skyl=E4, Jyv=E4skyl=E4, Finland
or information see www page:
http://www.trese.cs.utwente.nl/ecoop97 or
http://www.ecoop97.jyu.fi

EEMA'97 - Annual Conference and Exhibition
Electronic Commerce and Messaging in Europe,
"The Premier European Forum for Advanced Business"
-------------------------------------------------
16-18 June
Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
Issues of the conference will be:
Global Security; Corporate Directories; Messaging Products & Services;
Electronic Commerce; Global Messaging Enterprise; European
Initiatives; Mobile Messaging Technology; Messaging Technology &
Management Strategy; Intranet; World Wide Web & Infobots.
For information contact WWW: http://www.eema.org/




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International Distributed Conference on Network Interoperability
----------------------------------------------------------------
16-18 June
Madeira
Organized by ACTS project GINA and sponsored by the European
commission, this conference is open for all involved in networking
solutions for information society.
Paper submission by 28 February
Contact for information and submissions email Local organizer email
INET'97 - Workshop
------------------
15-21 June
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Focus of the workshop will be upon assisting countries that are either
not yet connected to the Internet or are in the process of developing
and enhancing an initial national Internet.
For copy of announcement e-mail

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











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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/

FMOODS'97 - Second IFIP Interrnational 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
















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