August 1997
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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
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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
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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.
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4. Four Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of
August, 1997:
o An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition
Notifications <draft-ietf-receipt-mdn-05> for consideration as
a Proposed Standard.
o RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video
<draft-ietf-avt-mpeg-new-01> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o Definitions of System-Level Managed Objects for Applications
<draft-ietf-applmib-sysapplmib-08> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1
<draft-ietf-agentx-ext-pro-04> 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 <draft-ietf-dnssec-as-map-05.txt>
(mobileip) o Route Optimization in Mobile IP
<draft-ietf-mobileip-optim-06.txt>
(none) o The Auto-Submitted, Supersedes and Expires E-mail
Headers <draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-09.txt>
(cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication
in Kerberos
<draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-04.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM
Management <draft-ietf-atommib-atm2-11.txt>
(rsvp) o RSVP Cryptographic Authentication
<draft-ietf-rsvp-md5-05.txt>
(drums) o Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
<draft-ietf-drums-smtpupd-06.txt>
(madman) o Mail Monitoring MIB
<draft-ietf-madman-mail-monitor-mib-05.txt>
(madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB
<draft-ietf-madman-nsm-mib-06.txt>
(rsvp) o RSVP Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-rsvp-mib-10.txt>
(intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-intserv-mib-10.txt>
(madman) o Directory Server Monitoring MIB
<draft-ietf-madman-dsa-mib-1-04.txt>
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(mobileip) o Mobility Support in IPv6
<draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-03.txt>
(dhc) o Authentication for DHCP Messages
<draft-ietf-dhc-authentication-04.txt>
(none) o Header Compression for IPv6
<draft-degermark-ipv6-hc-03.txt>
(dhc) o Extensions for the Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol for IPv6 <draft-ietf-dhc-v6exts-07.txt>
(pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part I: X.509
Certificate and CRL Profile
<draft-ietf-pkix-ipki-part1-05.txt>
(asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3):
Attribute Syntax Definitions
<draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-attributes-07.txt>
(asid) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)
<draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-protocol-07.txt>
(avt) o RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams
<draft-ietf-avt-rtp-payload-04.txt>
(asid) o vCard MIME Directory Profile
<draft-ietf-asid-mime-vcard-03.txt>
(ids) o Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services
<draft-ietf-ids-dnsnames-03.txt>
(acap) o ACAP -- Application Configuration Access Protocol
<draft-ietf-acap-spec-06.txt>
(none) o The Public Key Login Protocol
<draft-kemp-auth-pklogin-03.txt>
(ids) o Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol (SNQP)
<draft-ietf-ids-snqp-01.txt>
(pkix) o Internet Public Key Infrastructure Part III:
Certificate Management Protocols
<draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-03.txt>
(issll) o Interoperation of Controlled-Load and
Guaranteed-Service with ATM
<draft-ietf-issll-atm-mapping-03.txt>
(intserv) o Integrated Services Management Information Base
Guaranteed Service Extensions
<draft-ietf-intserv-guaranteed-mib-04.txt>
(none) o Making Postscript and Acrobat Files International
<draft-palme-int-print-02.txt>
(mboned) o Multicast pruning a necessity
<draft-ietf-mboned-pruning-02.txt>
(bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices
<draft-ietf-bmwg-lanswitch-06.txt>
(none) o Firewall Support for Mobile IP
<draft-montenegro-firewall-sup-01.txt>
(pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP'
<draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-06.txt>
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(ids) o Internet Nomenclator Project
<draft-ietf-ids-inp-02.txt>
(none) o NFS URL Scheme <draft-callaghan-url-nfs-01.txt>
(none) o FTP Extensions for Variable Protocol Specification
<draft-allman-ftp-variable-05.txt>
(none) o The Safe Response Header Field
<draft-holtman-http-safe-02.txt>
(none) o PDC/NetApp Backup Protocol
<draft-stager-pdc-netapp-backup-03.txt>
(none) o Uniform Resource Locators (URL): Generic Syntax and
Semantics <draft-fielding-url-syntax-06.txt>
(ftpext) o Extended Directory Listing and Restart Mechanism
for FTP <draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-02.txt>
(drums) o Mail and Netnews Header Registration Procedure
<draft-ietf-drums-MHRegistry-01.txt>
(none) o Label Switching: Label Stack Encodings
<draft-rosen-tag-stack-03.txt>
(ssh) o Users' Security Handbook
<draft-ietf-ssh-users-02.txt>
(dhc) o An Inter-server Protocol for DHCP
<draft-ietf-dhc-interserver-02.txt>
(svrloc) o Service Templates and service: Schemes
<draft-ietf-svrloc-service-scheme-02.txt>
(none) o Enhanced Communications Transport Service
Definition <draft-kim-jtc1-sc6-ects-02.txt>
(ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over
UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks
<draft-ietf-ion-mars-mib-02.txt>
(cat) o Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm
Authentication in Kerberos
<draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-cross-02.txt>
(applmib) o Application Management MIB
<draft-ietf-applmib-mib-04.txt>
(asid) o Definition of the inetOrgPerson Object Class
<draft-ietf-asid-inetorgperson-01.txt>
(applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services
<draft-ietf-applmib-wwwmib-04.txt>
(radius) o RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol Support
<draft-ietf-radius-tunnel-auth-02.txt>
(rps) o Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)
<draft-ietf-rps-rpsl-03.txt,.ps>
(mmusic) o Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
<draft-ietf-mmusic-rtsp-03.txt,.ps>
(bmwg) o Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity
<draft-ietf-bmwg-ippm-treno-btc-01.txt>
(none) o The RWhois Version 1.x Uniform Resource Locator
<draft-mealling-rwhoisurl-01.txt>
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(none) o Securing FTP with TLS
<draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-02.txt>
(bmwg) o Framework for IP Provider Metrics
<draft-ietf-bmwg-ippm-framework-01.txt>
(bmwg) o A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM
<draft-ietf-bmwg-ippm-delay-02.txt>
(none) o Selectively Reliable Transport Protocol
<draft-laviano-srtp-02.txt>
(dhc) o DHCP Relay Agent Information Option
<draft-ietf-dhc-agent-options-02.txt>
(bmwg) o Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking
<draft-ietf-bmwg-mcast-02.txt>
(mmusic) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
<draft-ietf-mmusic-sip-03.txt,.ps>
(none) o Originator-Info Message Header
<draft-newman-msgheader-originfo-02.txt>
(none) o FTP Security Considerations
<draft-allman-ftp-sec-consider-02.txt>
(none) o Tag Switching Architecture - Overview
<draft-rekhter-tagswitch-arch-01.txt>
(dnsind) o Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE)
<draft-ietf-dnsind-ncache-05.txt>
(mobileip) o Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP
<draft-ietf-mobileip-tunnel-reverse-04.txt>
(none) o Extensions to the Internet Relay Chat Protocol
(IRCX) <draft-pfenning-irc-extensions-02.txt>
(calsch) o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object
Specification (iCalendar)
<draft-ietf-calsch-ical-02.txt>
(fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - Application F
<draft-ietf-fax-tiff-03.txt>
(ion) o Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM using
Sparse Mode PIM
<draft-ietf-ion-intralis-multicast-01.txt>
(webdav) o Requirements for Distributed Authoring and
Versioning on the World Wide Web
<draft-ietf-webdav-requirements-02.txt>
(roamops) o Session Record Accounting in Roaming
<draft-ietf-roamops-actng-03.txt>
(http) o HTTP State Management Mechanism (Rev1)
<draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-03.txt,.ps>
(none) + Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol
<draft-shiroshita-rmtp-spec-00.txt>
(none) o Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data
<draft-masinter-form-data-01.txt>
(rsvp) o Open Outsourcing Policy Service (OOPS) for RSVP
<draft-ietf-rsvp-policy-oops-01.txt,.ps>
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(dhc) o Multicast address allocation extensions options
<draft-ietf-dhc-multopt-01.txt>
(dhc) o Multicast address allocation extensions to the
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
<draft-ietf-dhc-mdhcp-01.txt>
(radius) o RADIUS Client MIB
<draft-ietf-radius-clientmib-05.txt>
(bmwg) o A Packet Loss Metric for IPPM
<draft-ietf-bmwg-ippm-loss-01.txt>
(none) o The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List
Commands and their Transport through Message Header
Fields <draft-baer-listspec-01.txt>
(asid) o The LDAP URL Format
<draft-ietf-asid-ldapv3-url-04.txt>
(rps) o A strategy for the transition from RIPE-181 to RPSL
<draft-ietf-rps-transition-01.txt>
(none) + The Receiver-Initiated Shortcut Path Protocol
(RISP) <draft-ogawa-receiver-shortcut-path-00.txt>
(ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and Semantics
<draft-ietf-ipp-model-04.txt>
(dhc) o Security Architecture for DHCP
<draft-ietf-dhc-security-arch-01.txt>
(none) o Simple Transaction Security (STS)
<draft-tung-transsec-sts-01.txt>
(urn) o URI Resolution Services Necessary for URN
Resolution
<draft-ietf-urn-resolution-services-02.txt>
(none) o E-Mail Headers to Facilitate Mailing List
Subscriptions and Unsubscriptions
<draft-costales-subscribe-01.txt>
(printmib) o Job Monitoring MIB - V0.85
<draft-ietf-printmib-job-monitor-05.txt>
(none) o IP Header Compression over PPP
<draft-engan-ip-compress-01.txt>
(ipsec) o A revised encryption mode for ISAKMP/Oakley
<draft-ietf-ipsec-revised-enc-mode-01.txt>
(snmpv3) o Message Processing Model for version 3 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
<draft-ietf-snmpv3-v3mpc-model-03.txt>
(mpls) o A Framework for Multiprotocol Label Switching
<draft-ietf-mpls-framework-01.txt>
(tn3270e) o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E
Using SMIv2 <draft-ietf-tn3270e-tn3270-mib-02.txt>
(acap) o Anonymous SASL Mechanism
<draft-ietf-acap-anon-01.txt>
(calsch) o Internet Calendar Model Specification
<draft-ietf-calsch-mod-01.txt>
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(fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME
Sub-type Registration
<draft-ietf-fax-tiff-reg-01.txt>
(dnsind) o Test and Example Top Level Domain Names
<draft-ietf-dnsind-test-tlds-01.txt>
(ipp) o Rationale for the Structure of the Model and
Protocol for the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
<draft-ietf-ipp-rat-01.txt>
(webdav) o Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning
on the World Wide Web -- WEBDAV
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-01.txt>
(snmpv3) o SNMPv3 Applications <draft-ietf-snmpv3-appl-01.txt>
(poisson) o IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall
Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall
Committees <draft-ietf-poisson-nomcom-02.txt>
(ion) + ILMI-Based Server Discovery for ATMARP
<draft-ietf-ion-discov-atmarp-00.txt>
(ion) + ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS
<draft-ietf-ion-discov-mars-00.txt>
(dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-dnssec-secext2-01.txt>
(none) o Directory Schema Listing Requirements
<draft-apple-schema-rqmts-list-01.txt>
(ip1394) o IP over IEEE 1394 (High Performance Serial Bus)
Revision 3 <draft-ietf-ip1394-ipv4-03.txt,.ps>
(http) o Specification of HTTP/1.1 OPTIONS messages
<draft-ietf-http-options-02.txt>
(none) + When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only
Three Buffers
<draft-shepard-tcp-4-packets-3-buff-00.txt>
(svrloc) + Conversion of LDAP Schemas to and from SLP
Templates
<draft-ietf-svrloc-template-conversion-00.txt>
(ipcdn) + Logical IP Subnetworks over IEEE 802.14 Services
<draft-ietf-ipcdn-ipover-802d14-00.txt>
(none) + DHCP Option for IPv6 Transitions
<draft-harrington-ngtrans-dhcp-option-00.txt>
(none) + DHCP Options for Locating LDAP Servers
<draft-hedstrom-dhc-ldap-00.txt>
(none) + Assignment of Status Codes for HTTP and
HTTP-Derived Protocols
<draft-schulzrinne-http-status-00.txt,.ps>
(none) + Support of Shortcuts for RSVP Flows Over ATM
<draft-guerin-issll-rsvp-shortcut-00.txt>
(none) + IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) for
Implementors <draft-simpson-esp-v2-00.txt>
(none) + Security issues for ION protocols
<draft-armitage-ion-security-00.txt>
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(pkix) + Representation of Key Exchange Algorithm (KEA) Keys
in Internet Public Key Infrastructure Certificates
<draft-ietf-pkix-ipki-kea-00.txt>
(none) + Network Security API for Sockets
<draft-metz-net-security-api-00.txt>
(idmr) + Grand Unified Multicast (GUM): Protocol
Specification <draft-ietf-idmr-gum-00.txt>
(none) + Performance Issues in VC-Merge Capable MPLS
Switches <draft-widjaja-mpls-vc-merge-00.txt>
(none) + Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IPv6 and IPv4
Tunnels. <draft-conta-ipv6-trans-tunnel-00.txt>
(entmib) + Entity MIB Extesions for Persistent Component
Identification <draft-bierman-entmib-compid-00.txt>
(ptopomib) + Physical Topology MIB
<draft-ietf-ptopomib-mib-00.txt>
(ptopomib) + Physical Topology Discovery Protocol and MIB
<draft-ietf-ptopomib-pdp-00.txt>
(none) + Portable Node Support Using Mobile IP Protocol
<draft-malkin-pnsmip-00.txt>
(none) + Increasing TCP's Initial Window
<draft-floyd-incr-init-win-00.txt>
(2000) + The Internet and the Millenium Problem (Year 2000)
<draft-ietf-2000-issue-00.txt>
(none) + IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Extensions for Inverse
Discovery Specification
<draft-conta-ipv6-nd_ext_ind-00.txt>
(none) + An Approach to Service Allocation in the Internet
<draft-clark-diff-svc-alloc-00.txt>
(ospf) + The OSPF Address Resolution Advertisement Option
<draft-ietf-ospf-ara-00.txt>
(none) + IP Tunnel MIB <draft-thaler-tunnel-mib-00.txt>
(dhc) + The Domain Search Option for DHCP
<draft-ietf-dhc-domsrch-00.txt>
(avt) + An A/V Profile Extension for Generic Forward Error
Correction in RTP <draft-ietf-avt-fec-00.txt>
(ion) + ILMI-Based Server Discovery for NHRP
<draft-ietf-ion-discov-nhrp-00.txt>
(none) + An Internet Firewall Transparency Requirement
<draft-freed-firewall-req-00.txt>
(none) + Messages between Email and Netnews
<draft-palme-newsmail-00.txt>
(avt) + Options for Repair of Streaming Media
<draft-ietf-avt-info-repair-00.txt>
(mpls) + A Proposed Architecture for MPLS
<draft-ietf-mpls-arch-00.txt>
(madman) + Message Tracking MIB
<draft-ietf-madman-trackmib-00.txt>
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(none) + Soft State Switching A Proposal to Extend RSVP for
Switching RSVP Flows
<draft-viswanathan-mpls-rsvp-00.txt>
(none) + Local DNS Names <draft-eastlake-local-names-00.txt>
(none) + PPP for Asynchronous PAD to Synchronous X.25 access
<draft-rfced-info-khana-00.txt>
(none) + End-to-End Throughput and Response Time Testing
With HTTP User Agents and the JavaScript Language
<draft-rfced-info-stanislevic-00.txt>
(none) + MAPPING OF AIRLINE TRAFFIC OVER IP
<draft-rfced-info-robert-00.txt>
(radius) + RADIUS Accounting Client MIB
<draft-ietf-radius-acc-clientmib-00.txt>
(radius) + RADIUS Accounting Server MIB
<draft-ietf-radius-acc-servmib-00.txt>
(none) + DNS Top Level Domain Name Classification and
Structure <draft-kim-tld-class-00.txt>
(none) + Capabilities Exchange over SMTP <draft-Capabilities
Exchange over SMTP-00.txt>
(none) + Capabilities Exchange over SMTP
<draft-wing-smtp-capabilities-00.txt>
(none) + Immediate Delivery over SMTP
<draft-wing-smtp-session-00.txt>
(radius) + RADIUS Authentication Client MIB
<draft-ietf-radius-auth-clientmib-00.txt>
(radius) + RADIUS Authentication Server MIB
<draft-ietf-radius-auth-servmib-00.txt>
(none) + Tunnel Set-up Protocol (TSP)
<draft-montenegro-tsp-00.txt>
(none) + Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
<draft-rfced-info-tamaru-00.txt>
(none) + URLs for Telephony
<draft-antti-telephony-url-00.txt>
(none) + Responder-Initiated Shortcut Path Protocol (RISP)
<draft-ogawa-responder-shortcut-path-00.txt>
(none) + SPKI: ShrinkWrap
<draft-simpson-spki-shrinkwrap-00.txt>
(none) + Protecting IMAP4 and POP3 Connections
<draft-newman-tls-imappop-00.txt>
(ipcdn) + Logical IP Subnetworks over MCNS Data Link Services
<draft-ietf-ipcdn-ip-over-mcns-00.txt>
(none) + Mobile Network Computing Protocol (MNCP)
<draft-piscitello-mncp-00.txt>
(none) + Hobbes' Internet Timeline
<draft-rfced-info-hobbes-00.txt>
(none) + ElGamal Profile for X.509 Certificates
<draft-rfced-info-pgutmann-00.txt>
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(none) + Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol Version 2
<draft-shiroshita-rmtpv2-00.txt>
(mixer) + Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500
Directory <draft-ietf-mixer-subtrees-00.txt>
(mixer) + Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500
Directory Information Tree
<draft-ietf-mixer-infotree-00.txt>
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
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INTERNET PROJECTS
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INTERNIC
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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 <richl@internic.net>
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
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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 <rvh@ds.internic.net>
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.
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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.
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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
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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: <key-attribute>: <key>
For example:
request: inet-rtr: 192.41.177.3
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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.
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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
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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)
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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:
<meeting-planning@ietf.org>
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
-------
<http://www.ietf.org/home.html> 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 <secretariat@terena.nl> +
+ +
+ tel: +31 20 639 1131 +
+ fax: +31 20 639 3289 +
+ +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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