<NIS.NSF.NET> [IMR] IMR88-09.TXT
SEPTEMBER 1988
INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research
Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by
the participating organizations.
This report is for research use only, and is not for public
distribution.
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 Ann Westine
(Westine@ISI.EDU) or Karen Roubicek (Roubicek@NNSC.NSF.NET).
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
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No report received.
Bob Hinden (Hinden@BBN.COM)
ISI
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Internet Concepts Project
Greg Finn is running simulations to determine the effectiveness of
some end-to-end congestion control schemes that are implemented at
the IP protocol level. Greg is also writing a short report of the
results.
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Greg Finn (Finn@ISI.EDU)
Paul Mockapetris worked on the hosts requirements RFC, installed
new domain software at the TOPS-20 root servers to correct some
minor bugs and allow a larger database. Paul attended the Interop
88 Conference, September 27-30, at Santa Clara where he presented a
two-day tutorial on the Domain Name System.
Paul Mockapetris (pvm@ISI.EDU)
Annette DeSchon made some additions to the Intermail mail
forwarding system so that it would use a dial-out modem to exchange
mail with two commercial mail systems, the IEEE Compmail system,
and the NSFMAIL system. In addition some of the forwarding
functions are being taken over by the new Commercial Mailer system
that is being developed by the ISI Computer Center.
Annette DeSchon (DedSschon@ISI.EDU)
Jon Postel, Walter Prue, Joyce Reynolds and Ann Westine attended
the INTEROP 88 Conference in Santa Clara. Jon Postel hosted the
Board of Directors the Los Nettos meeting at ISI. Walter Prue
attended the CISCO Systems Customer Training program, September
11-13.
One RFC was published this month.
RFC 1071: Braden, R., (ISI), D. Borman (Cray Research),
C. Partridge, (BBN), "Computing the Internet
Checksum", September, 1988.
Ann Westine (Westine.ISI.EDU)
Los Nettos
As described last month, a user-supported regional network has been
formed in the Los Angeles area to provide connectivity between
sites such as individual campuses and research centers in the
greater Los Angeles area and from Santa Barbara to the San Diego
area. It will provide connectivity to long haul networks for all
the campuses and centers.
All of the equipment, T1 facilities, and cables have been ordered
for the first phase of Los Nettos. The five sites, ISI, UCLA, TIS,
CalTech, and USC have T1 lines due in October. Some sites have a
second line due early November. Cisco gateway routers have
arrived.
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A board-of-directors meeting was held September 16. Discussed were
finances, management, appropriate use, back door use, and network
usage billing.
Los Nettos was represented by Walt Prue at the September 28,
California Internet Federation meeting held at Interop 88.
Discussed were federation goals, voting rules, and methods for
Northern California to Southern California interconnection. The
north-south interconnection looks promising. The next California
Internet Federation meeting will be held at ISI December 9.
Two sites have expressed interest in the next phase of Los Nettos.
Any sites wishing to participate in phase 2 should contact Walt
Prue soon.
Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU)
Multimedia Conferencing Project
This month Brian tested the packet voice echo canceler over the
Wideband net with Vanessa Rudin and Lou Berger at BBN. In these
tests algorithm constants were chosen for best performance. The
cancellers are now in operation at ISI and BBN. A document
describing the theory and implementation of the echo canceler is
available. (Brian has completed his studies at USC and moved on to
E-Systems, Inc. Inquiries on the echo canceller may be directed to
Casner@ISI.EDU).
PVP, the Butterfly-based packet video handler, was converted to be
compatible with Chrysallis release 3.0 and the new Greenhills C
compiler. The protocol between the multimedia conferencing control
program (MMCC) and the Voice Terminal (VT) program has been
augmented so that packets are now exchanged in both directions to
open and close conference connections and to acknowledge the
completion of conference set up.
Demonstrations of multimedia conferencing were given to Yao-Sing
Tao from Singapore's Information Technology Institute and to Dr.
William Wulf and Dr. Charles Brownstein of the National Science
Foundation. Eve Schooler attended the Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work '88 Conference in Portland, Oregon. Steve Casner
attended the 2nd Packet Video Workshop in Turin, Italy.
Eve Schooler, Brian Hung, Steve Casner, Dave Walden,
schooler@ISI.EDU, hung@ISI.EDU, casner@ISI.EDU, djwalden@ISI.EDU)
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NSFNET Project
Bob Braden presented a talk at the Interop '88 meeting on the
Gateway Requirements and Host Requirements RFC's.
One RFC was published. RFC-1071, "Computing the Internet Checksum"
by Bob Braden, Dave Borman of Cray Research, and Craig Partridge of
BBN which is an outgrowth of the efforts of the IETF Host
Requirements Working Group.
Annette DeSchon completed a BFTP software release and prepared an
article on BFTP for the ConneXions newsletter. A compressed "tar"
file is available for anonymous FTP on VENERA.ISI.EDU.
Work continued on putting together the Host Requirements RFC. Two
major critiques where received, extensively reviewed, and
incorporated into the document. Substantive issues discussed by
the Working Group during this month included: the effect of ICMP
Destination Unreachable on TCP connections, legal names in Telnet
Terminal Type options, the precise definition of the Nagle
Algorithm, appropriate initial Type-of-Service values, and TCP
listen concurrency. A new major draft (dated Sept 22) was
reproduced for the Interop conference (thanks to the NIC and the
NNSC for each reproducing 50 copies of this 150 page document!) A
subset of the IETF Working Group on Host Requirements met at
Interop '88 to consider a new proposal from Steve Deering for
gateway discovery and dead gateway detection.
Bob Braden and Annette DeSchon (Braden@ISI.EDU, DeSchon@ISI.EDU)
MIT-LCS
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Radia Perlman has happily finished her PhD dissertation (Title:
"Network Layer Protocols with Byzantine Robustness", Supervisor:
David D. Clark). She is now back to Digital Equipment Corporation.
People interested in getting a copy of the thesis should contact
her directly at "perlman%nac.dec@decwrl.dec.com".
Lixia Zhang (Lixia@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU)
MITRE Corporation
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No report received.
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NTA-RE and NDRE
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1. Our SATNET connection was permanently taken down on August 17.
2. The long promised replacement, the 9.6 kb/s line between NTA-
RD and RSRE finally became operational on September 28. NTA
had promised to have the line installed by May/June, but could
not live up to that for various reasons. And when the line was
in place, the butterfly gateways at both ends were not
prepared, among others due to delay in the upgrading of the
RSRE-side.
I would like to make use of this opportunity to thank all
parties involved in the joint effort to reestablish our
connectivity to the internet; John Laws of RSRE, Terry Brett
of BTI, Mike Brescia of BBN, Mark Pullen of DARPA, Paul Ivar
Myhren of NTA, and not to forget myself. If this line is a
temporary solution or a permanent one remains to be seen.
3. NORSAR has for some time had an order for a 64 kb/s satellite
link to CSS in Washington DC. The link is expected to be up
late October, and will be terminated in Proteon gateways at
both sides. Most probably the line capacity will be filled up
with seismic information. It will be investigated if the line
can be accessed by traffic from the other institutes at
Kjeller. Academic traffic will definitely not be permitted
over that line.
4. The academic community decided to go by a common Nordic
solution, by establishing NORDUNET, with a 64 kb/s line from
Stockholm to JVNC in the US. NORDUNET is a giant ethernet,
spanning Trondheim, Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen.
Ethernet segments in the four cities are interconnected by
means of VITALINK bridges, thus permitting TCP/IP, DECNET, ISO
and X.25 traffic to flow between the national networks in the
Nordic countries. NORDUNET will only contain gateways and a
few servers or mail-bridges for EARN and HEPNET. The gateways
connect to the various national academic networks, to NSF-net
at JVNC and to COSINE somewhere in the Netherlands (X.25). The
US-line is completely funded by the Nordic countries, and is
expected to be up and operational in late October.
5. NDRE is currently considering its possible participation in
ICB, evaluating the benefits it may have and weighing that
against the utilization of its scarce resources. The
evaluation was initiated by a letter from DARPA to the
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director of NDRE, and will be prperly responded to in due
cource.
Tor Gjertsen (NDRE) and Paal Spilling (Paal@TOR.NTA.NO)
SRI
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Zaw-Sing Zu attended Open Routing Working Group meeting held
September 14 and 15 at BBNCC in Cambridge, MA.
Zaw-Sing Su (zsu@tsca.istc.sri.com)
UCL
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The UCL MAC Bridge implementation has been expanded to a four port
(2 Ethernet, 2 2 Mbps serial) version, and now includes IEEE 802.1
Addendum B management protocols, using correct ASN encoding of
management protocol data units (courtesy of Pepy/ISODE), over LLC1.
A simulator has been completed for testing topologies, and
measuring packet loss during Bridge reconfiguration, which
incorporates that actual Bridge routing code. The Bridge also
supports Telnet login, with passwords, for remote management from
high level hosts.
John Crowcroft (jon@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
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1. Mike Minnich is experimenting with gateway congestion
avoidance techniques. thus far has concentrated on the
effectiveness of load estimators and end-node congestion
indicators (source quench, packet drops, DEC bit). Preliminary
trials with the DEC-bit scheme have shown that it possesses a
relatively long time constant resulting in overestimation of
the burst period and underutilization of the network.
2. Paul Schragger is modifying the MIT network simulator to
support interactive experiments whose results can be analyzed
using the S statistical package. There are two sets of
experiments planned. One of these involves conservative M/M/1
queues and is designed to display a baseline manifold showing
the queue behavior as a function of service time. The other
set involves various preemption policies with end-end ARQ and
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is designed to explore the control space for instances of
classic cusp catastrophe behavior.
3. Jeff Simpson is finishing up his logical-list processor, which
produces and validates policy-based routes. Both the lexical
analyzer and parser are now defined and functional. A
forthcoming paper will describe and summarize the existing
routing policies and the concerns which are driving future
routing algorithms/protocols.
4. As part of an undergrad project in VLSI, Chuck Cranor is
working on a 3x3 digital crossbar switch for possible
application to a high-speed reservation-based packet network.
Digital Equipment has kindly donated a MicroVAX-I for possible
use as an engine to drive such things.
5. The new timekeeping code has been deployed on all eighteen
fuzzball time servers in the US and Europe. Louie Mamakos is
now refitting the Unix 4.3bsd ntpd daemon to match. The NTP
specification itself has been overhauled and an archival paper
is on course. Two of the eight primary time servers have
croaked and are suffering repair. One of them failed in such a
way that its precision suddenly degraded to one 30-second
monstertick every 30 seconds; however, the falseticker
algorithms of its peers are chiming correctly with other peers
to avoid timewarps.
6. Thanks to valuable input from Frank Kastenholz, the cause of
the low-level problems reported with U Delaware access to the
Internet has apparently been found. The problems are due to
ARP cache timeouts in the Proteon gateways, which result in a
packet being dropped about once every five minutes for each
net. Besides causing low-level retransmissions at every level
of traffic, this behavior destroys NTP peer associations at
times when no other traffic is present and the polling rate
drops below one per five minutes. We consider casual packet
drops, especially under light-load conditions, as unclean,
unneccessary and unmannered in any implementation, in spite of
the well intentioned suggestions made in RFC-826.
7. Dave Mills presented a tutorial and chaired a session at the
INTEROP 88 Symposium in Santa Clara. Work continues with Paul
Schragger on developing a strawman proposal for a high-speed,
reservation-switched network model suitable for early
evaluation along with a strawman for the introduction of Maya
calender-round timestamps for NTP.
Dave Mills (Mills@UDEL.EDU)
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NSF NETWORKING
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NSF NETWORKING
UCAR/BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.,
Staff of the NNSC met with Jim Sweeton of Merit at BBN to
discuss the status of NSFNET information services and plan
activities for the next few months. At the TCP/IP
Interoperability Conference, Craig Partridge chaired a session
on Internetwork Management and spoke at a session on Host and
Gateway Requirements.
by Karen Roubicek (roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net)
NSFNET BACKBONE (MERIT)
NSFNET Backbone
With September over, the re-engineered backbone has been in
full production for three months. Both traffic and network
connections have increased dramatically in this period. The
number of networks with primary connections to NSFNET through
the mid-level networks has gone from 173 at the beginning of
July to 292 by the end of September.
Packet counts indicate traffic has more than doubled that
carried by the old backbone. The figures below are packet
counts on the new backbone for August and September 1988.
(July statistics are not available.) As shown, September was
over a third higher than August indicating rapid increases in
usage of the new backbone.
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Packets in Packets out
August 202,641,056 194,041,532
September 314,675,718 304,171,588
% increase 35.6% 36.2%
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The packet counts are taken at the token ring interface to the
E-PSP in each Nodal Switching Subsystem (NSS) via SGMP. The
counts are collected hourly and stored in a database on the
Information Services host machine. As this database is
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developed, it will be accessible to interested users.
A software upgrade was made to all NSSs in mid-September.
This included enhancements to priority-based traffic and
filtering on the backbone.
A number of Merit/NSFNET staff members participated in Interop
88, Sept. 26-30 in Santa Clara, CA. In addition to several
formal presentations, including a technical session by Hans-
Werner Braun, a fully-functional NSS was on exhibit and used
to provide Internet connections to conference participants.
This "travelling" NSS will be used in future conference
exhibits.
by Ellen Hoffman (Ellen_Hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu)
NSFNET BACKBONE SITES & MID-LEVEL NETWORK SITES
BARRNET
BARRNet is entering a major expansion period. The US
Geological Survey in Menlo Park and the Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC) were added as "stub" members off the
BARRNEt backbone network in September 1988. Scheduled Fall
'88 additions included the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
Institute (Monterey, CA), Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard
Labs, 3Com, Excelan-Kinetics and SRI.
BARRNet continues to have T-1 link problems the symptom of
which is large (intolerable) numbers of receive aborts. The
cause is not clear but the problem appears to be in the
interaction between the T-1 serial line card and the CSUs.
Disconnecting the link and reconnecting generally causes
recovery (unless there are other problems present). The
problem is being referred to Proteon for their analysis.
Much time has been spent in the last two months preparing
membership documents (agreements) for use as the legal basis
for new BARRNEt members. The base document is in its third
revision and expected to be available to interested parties by
mid-October at the latest.
Bill Yundt and David Wasley represented BARRNet at the first
meeting of the California Internet Federation .... a
California State equivalent to FARNet.
by Bill Yundt (GD.WHY@forsythe.stanford.edu)
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CERFNET
We have four node test network that runs IP inside of X.25
connecting the San Diego Supercomputer Center, California
State University at Fresno, California Polytechnic State
University at San Luis Obispo and California State University
at Stanislaus. The net has been up for approximately one
month using cisco gateway products. Some problems have be
encountered, the most serious being very dated firmware in the
SDSC cisco gateway, which is also the gateway to the NSFnet.
After some argument with cisco, we received updated ROMs.
CERFnet has been running better for the last two weeks.
by Susan Estrada (estradas@luac.sdsc.edu)
CORNELL UNIVERSITY THEORY CENTER
No report received.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET
NCSA/NCSAnet
NCSAnet topology remained the same this month, we are working
with several schools to try to get them connected within
several months (Purdue University, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale).
NCSA has been funded for two years to do research and
development in the area of switched digital circuits.
Specifically, the NCSA Telnet for PC's and Macintoshes will be
enhanced so that a switched 56Kbps circuit can be used to
connect to a remote host (another PC or a Sun workstation
class machine). The availability of cheap switched 56Kbps
service in Champaign-Urbana, for example, makes this an
attractive offering for those of us without Internet
connections to our homes. In addition, we are looking at the
possibility of making the NCSA Telnet software (which also
supports FTP) run on an ISDN Basic Rate Interface which may be
available soon via the campus DMS-100 telecommunications
switch. HDLC is the current forerunner for the link-level
protocol, however suggestions are welcome. The project is
co-directed by Charlie Catlett (NCSA) and Professor Roy
Campbell (UIUC Dept. of Computer Science).
by Charlie Catlett (catlett@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
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JOHN VON NEUMANN NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
No report received.
MERIT/UMNET
Merit started implementation of the Merit Inter-Nodal Protocol
over IP. Used within the Merit Computer Network, this project
will allow Merit to use part of the Internet (for example, the
University of Michigan's Pronet 80 fiber optic backbone) for
interconnecting Merit Secondary and Primary Communications
Processors (SCPs and PCPs). Previously, such interconnections
required dedicated lines limited to Merit's internal
protocols, while already allowing IP to run on top of Merit
protocols.
Submitted by Merit/NSFNET Information Services (NSFNET-
info@merit.edu)
by Ellen Hoffman (Ellen_Hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu)
MIDNET
No report received.
MRNET
One new network was attached to MRNet, 129.191 for Network
Systems Corp. Another, for St. Olaf College, is just about to
be connected. We ceased to advertise one net to UIUC,
192.35.44 (GECRD-ISONET), as GE is now connecting to NSF via
NYSERNET, though we are still a backup ARPAnet path.
Our connection remains fairly reliable, though we continue to
see sporadic problems with "dropouts" on the Proteon link
connecting us to UIUC, as well as transient local routing
loops related to our use of remote-EGP to get complete NSFnet
routing information for our ARPAnet gateway. Neither problem
seems related to the NSF backbone.
by Stuart Levy (slevy@uf.msc.umn.edu)
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY SATELLITE
NETWORK PROJECT (USAN)
No report received.
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NORTHWESTNET
General: The NorthWestNet annual meeting will be held in
Portland, OR, October 10-12. For registration information,
contact markwood@vaxf.colorado.edu.
Configuration: The network and its links to the Internet
seemed quite reliable during September. Boeing Corporation
has joined NWnet as a full member, with NWnet providing
Internet access to a number of internal systems. Proteon
routers at the U of Washington have been upgraded to 8.1x and
1 MB memory; others to follow (DECNET routing doesn't work
very well with less memory). Boeing is now providing a
secondary domain name server for any NWnet member that needs
one.
by JQ Johnson (jqj@hogg.cc.uoregon.edu)
NYSERNET
No report received.
OARNET
No report received.
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
No report received.
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Our upgraded p4200 (new CPU and Ethernet interfaces) has been
installed along with 8.1X software. Much better. Now, if it
would just advertise via EGP what it learns via EGP...
The CERFnet evaluation cisco router has had the firmware on
its CPU and X.25 cards updated to current levels - was shipped
with OLD versions. Its MTTF has gone from apprx. 9 minutes to
many, many hours. (See the CERFnet report for full details.)
We have verified the operation of the VMS 5.0 version of SRI's
MultiNet TCP/IP package in a multiprocessor (SMP) system (an
8350).
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We are in the process of porting the Network Computing Forum's
RPC package to VMS with SRI's MultiNet. We hope to have it in
use by 1 Nov.
by Paul Love (loveep@sds.sdsc.edu)
SESQUINET
On September 26th, Guy Almes chaired the initial meeting of a
new IETF Working Group on Interconnectivity. This meeting,
hosted by Milo Medin of NASA/Ames, focused on how EGP-3 could
be used to do inter-autonomous-system routing of significantly
more sophistication than currently done with EGP. We (tried
to) limit ourselves to strategies that could be implemented
within the next 18 months. We will meet again on the first
day of the coming IETF meeting in Ann Arbor.
The complete initially proposed SesquiNet configuration has
been operational for a year now. The following campus
networks are being served, and are advertised via EGP to
NSFnet and (currently via UIUC) to the Arpanet core:
Baylor College of Medicine 128.249
BCM-Technologies 192.31.88
Houston Area Research Center 192.31.87
Prairie View A&M University 129.208
Rice University 128.42
Texas A&M University 128.194
Texas Southern University 192.31.101
and the University of Houston 129.7
In addition we are advertising to NSFnet the following
networks in cooperation with the University of Texas:
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UT-Austin 128.83
UT-HSC-Houston 129.106
UT-Arlington 129.107
UT-ElPaso 129.108
UT-MB-Galveston 129.109
UT-Dallas 129.110
UT-HSC-SanAntonio 129.111
UT-HSC-Dallas 129.112
UT-PermianBasin 129.113
UT-CCSPRD 129.114
UT-CHPC-Hyperchannel 129.116
Texas Tech University 129.118
University of North Texas 129.120
UT-SanAntonio 192.6.201
THEnet 192.16.72
and UT-Austin-TestNetwork 192.16.73
The new NSFnet backbone node at Rice University became
operational during the last week of June, and has proved quite
reliable. FTPs of 96kb/s across the new NSFnet are typical.
The triangle connecting UT-Austin, Texas A&M, and Rice
University is now up and operational.
by Guy Almes (almes@rice.edu)
SURANET
The following SURAnet sites are presently on-line:
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Alabama Supercomputer Network
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Catholic University of America
Clemson University
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
University of Delaware
Department of Energy/Oak Ridge Operations Office
University of Florida
Florida State University
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Emory University
Gallaudet University
George Mason University
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Georgia
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Johns Hopkins University
University of Kentucky
Louisiana State University
University of Maryland
Mississippi State University
NASA/Goddard
NASA/Langley
National Bureau Of Standards
National Cancer Institute/Frederick Cancer Research Center
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
National Science Foundation
Naval Research Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Old Dominion University
Supercomputer Research Center (IDA)
University of Tennessee
Triangle Universities Computation Center
DUKE UNIVERSITY
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Tulane University
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Commonwealth University
US Geological Survey
University of Virginia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
University of West Virginia
College of William & Mary
SURAnet NETWORKS THAT ARE BEING ADVERTISED TO NSFNET
128.4 DCN
128.8 University of Maryland
128.60 NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
128.61 Georgia Tech
128.82 Old Dominion University
128.109 Triangle Universities
128.140 Emory
128.143 University of Virginia
128.150 National Science Foundation
128.163 University of Kentucky
128.164 George Washington University
128.167 Southeastern University Research Association Network
128.169 University of Tennessee
128.172 Viriginia Commonwealth University
128.173 Virginia Tech
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128.175 University of Delaware
128.186 Florida State University
128.192 University of Georgia
128.220 John Hopkins University
128.227 University of Florida
128.231 National Institute of Health
128.239 College of William & Mary
129.6 National Bureau of Standards
129.43 NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
129.57 Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
129.59 VANDERBILT
129.66 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
129.71 WEST VIRGINIA NET
129.81 TULANE UNIVERSITY
130.11 United States Geological Survey
130.14 National Library of Medicine
130.18 MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
130.39 Louisiana State University
192.5.39 University of Delaware
192.5.45 Fox Chase Cancer Center
192.5.57 University of Delaware
192.5.82 Florida State University
192.5.214 DEC
192.5.215 George Mason University
192.5.219 Clemson Univeristy
192.12.121 FSUCS
192.12.122 FSUCS2
192.16.175 Georgetown Univeristy
192.16.176 Louisiana State University
192.26.10 Gallaudet Univeristy
192.26.11 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET1
192.26.12 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET2
192.26.13 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET3
192.26.14 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET4
192.26.17 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET7
192.26.26 National Research Laboratory-FIBER
192.31.192 IDA/Supercomputer Research Center
192.31.193 Catholic University of America
192.33.115 National Radio Astronomy Observatory
192.41.177 SURAnet Network Operations Center
by Jack Hahn (HAHN@umdc.umd.edu)
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WESTNET
1. Ron Uchida, the Executive Director of Colorado Supernet,
one of Westnet's state networks, has resigned effective
Oct. 15, 1988 to take a position with Sun Microsystems.
Colorado Supernet is seeking a highly qualified director,
with experience, who can act as a liaison with the
Universities and the private sector within Colorado.
Applicants will be sought during the month of October.
2. US West has yet to install the T-1 line between the
University of Colorado at Boulder and NCAR. This line was
ordered in June; we were promised installation within 45
working days. First, US west lost our order. Then, they
found it necessary to formalize the agreement with a
contract (not mentioned to us as a requirement upon our
placing the order), resulting in further delay. Now, they
are whining (there is no other word for it) when we ask
them to expedite the order, and cite a cost of $20 per
day for so doing. This is making even more attractive
the possibility of a Colorado state microwave system
(projected costs are about 1/3 those of US West).
3. On September 21, a progress report detailing networking
in the Westnet region over the past two years was
forwarded to NSF. Those interested in being transmitted a
TROFF version (sans illustrations), may request one via
e-mail from pburns@super.org.
4. Los Alamos National Labatory, connected now for over a
month, may be reached at LANL.GOV (128.165).
5. The Second Westnet Annual Technical Workshop is scheduled
for Nov. 9 to 11 at the University of Colorado at
Boulder. Cisco-specific items will be covered, in
addition to a DOMAIN tutorial from Mockpetris, and a
SENDMAIL tutorial. There will be a nominal fee for
attending (order $30), and attendance is not limited to
those with cisco hardware, or those in Westnet. For
additional information, contact Carol Ward at
cward@spot.colorado.edu.
by Patrick J Burns (pburns@super.org)
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TASK FORCE REPORTS
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APPLICATIONS -- USER INTERFACE
No report received.
AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
Work continues on policy routing summaries and interviews. A
task force meeting is being planned for early November and a
joint meeting with the Privacy Task Force is being planned for
February.
Deborah Estrin (Estrin@OBERON.USC.EDU)
END-TO-END SERVICES
No internet-related progress to report.
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE
The next meeting of the INARC Task Force will be held in
conjunction with the IAB meeting in Santa Clara, CA, for two
days during the week of 9 January 1989. The workshop will
include invited presentations by research contributors from
throughout the Internet community and especially the IAB and
its task forces. Important areas of research interest include
policy-based technologies, advanced routing architectures,
high-speed networks and interfaces, network management,
congestion avoidance/control and advanced transport protocols.
Present plans for the first day are for the IAB task-force
chairs to present in-depth summaries of past activity and
anticipated future work. This will include an assessment of
other ongoing work in the area, with special emphasis on
issues affecting the growth in size, scope and
interoperability of the Internet. On the second day volunteers
are solicited to present concise papers of 20-30 minutes in an
area of specialization. Appropriate papers may be selected for
publication in the ACM Computer Communication Review.
Volunteers do not have to be members of the IAB, its task
forces or their dependents. Prospective attendees do not have
to volunteer a paper, but they must expect to be harassed and
caught up in lively discussions. Please send a note expressing
your interest and/or paper topic to mills@udel.edu.
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Dave Mills (Mills@HUEY.UDEL.EDU)
INTERNET ENGINEERING
No report received.
Phill Gross (gross@gateway.mitre.org)
INTERNET MANAGEMENT
No report received.
PRIVACY
The IAB Privacy Task Force had a productive two-day meeting at
Xerox Special Information Systems' facility in Arlington,
Virginia on 13, 14, and 15 September 1988. Attendees were:
Dave Balenson, Curt Barker, Morrie Gasser, RussHousley, Steve
Kent, John Linn, Rob Shirey, and Steve Wilbur. Jim Bidzos, of
RSA Data Security Inc. (RSADSI), attended the 14 September
session.
The next PTF meeting was tentatively scheduled for 6 December
at BBN Communications, Cambridge, MA in order to review
anticipated RFC drafts; this date will be confirmed as work on
the RFCs proceeds.
Major topics included a review of privacy-enhanced mail
implementation activities, followed by discussion of public-
key certificate contents, certificate ordering and generation,
support infrastructure, licensing issues, certificate
management, and specifics of public-key algorithm usage. A
paper by RSADSI concerning its anticipated involvement in the
certificate generation process was presented at the meeting.
The final day of the meeting was devotedto discussion of
various privacy-relevant aspects of policy-based routing
architectures.
John Linn (Linn@CCY.BBN.COM)
ROBUSTNESS AND SURVIVABILITY
No report received.
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SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
No report received.