<NIS.NSF.NET> [IMR] IMR88-12.TXT
DECEMBER 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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WIDEBAND NETWORK
The Wideband Network supported a demonstration of the Cronus
Distributed Operating System and the Cronus-based Technology
Validation Experiment (TVE) on December 20. The Cronus/TVE
software ran concurrently on computer clusters located at RADC and
BBN. Cronus network and system monitoring capabilities, including
newly developed Cronus manager access to real-time Wideband Network
monitoring data, were featured in this demonstration.
SATNET
December was a very quite month for the SATNET. The new link from
RSRE to BBN is still being delayed. The circuit has been installed
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and tested from BBN to London but there are still problems getting
the line extended from London to RSRE.
Bob Hinden (Hinden@BBN.COM)
ISI
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Internet Concepts Project
Jon Postel hosted the California Internet meeting at ISI December
9. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris participated in the CERFNET
meeting at UCI, Irvine, CA, December 7. Jon Postel and Walter Prue
attended a GTE ISDN presentation at GTE in Thousand Oaks, CA,
December 6. Jon Postel hosted the IAB Teleconference meeting at ISI
December 2, 1988.
Greg Finn performed more simulations to study the effectiveness of
an IP source quench congestion control algorithm. The results are
being gathered into a report.
Four RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1083: "IAB Official Protocol Standards", Internet
Activities Board, December 1988.
RFC 1084: "BOOTP Vendor Information Extensions",
J. Reynolds, ISI, December 1988.
RFC 1085: "ISO Presentation Services on Top of TCP/IP-based
internets", M. Rose, TWG, December 1988.
RFC 1086: "ISO-TP0 Bridge Between TCP and X.25",
J. Onions, Nottingham, M. Rose, TWG, December 1988.
Ann Westine (Westine.ISI.EDU)
Los Nettos
All five links are operational. We now have a closed loop topology
which provides a redundant path if any one of four links fail. It
also provides additional bandwidth across the diagonal path due to
ciscos load sharing capability. This has proved valuable when one
site had to have power work done and during a T1 link failure.
Los Nettos was affected by a problem with malformed EGP updates
from the core, gateway.isi.edu. The number of distances field was
overflowing the 8 bits alocated for the value in the EGP update.
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Because of this, subsequent distances were interpreted by the cisco
as new gateways in the update. We forwarded a copy of the bad
format and our cisco's attempt at interpreting the update to Mike
Brescia. He and Steve Atlas had a fix to the core gateway code
soon after the problem was reported. This problem was affecting
other networks across the Internet as well.
We are now working on trying to get all our traffic to and from the
ARPANET to be forwarded through the butterfly gateway,
BFGWY.ISI.EDU, to improve performance. GATEWAY.ISI.EDU is one of
the most heavily loaded gateways to the ARPANET.
The favorable T1 tariff change proposed by Pacific Bell appears
delayed until February. We now have two additional sites committed
to joining Los Nettos as regular members.
A meeting was scheduled for Friday January 6 to talk to sites
interested in regular membership or back-door membership. Any
sites in the Southern California area wishing continued
connectivity to the Internet, after May 1, 1989, should be talking
to Walt Prue (Prue@isi.edu) representing Los Nettos, or Susan
Estrada (estradas@luac.sdsc.edu) representing CERFnet.
Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU)
Multimedia Conferencing Project
The teleconferencing system was used this month for several
multipoint technical sessions and an all-day 3-site meeting of the
Internet Activities Board. Again, the need for conferencing tools
to help organize multisite participation was stressed. In
addition, it becomes more and more evident that things as seemingly
trivial as video monitor height, room lighting, and room layout
effect the utility of the system. For anyone interested in using
the multimedia teleconferencing system, the installation at SRI is
ready for use now that some adjustments to the cameras and audio
system have been completed.
Coding changes were made to the packet video host to enable it to
accommodate a variable data rate from the video codec so that
better motion fidelity can be provided when there are only two
sites in conference. The packet video host-to-ST Gateway interface
was debugged in coordination with BBN.
Eve Schooler, Steve Casner, Dave Walden (schooler@ISI.EDU,
casner@ISI.EDU, djwalden@ISI.EDU)
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NSFNET Project
Bob Braden and Annette DeSchon released a version 2.2 of the ISI
NNStat programs, which is now available via anonymous FTP from
VENERA.ISI.EDU. This version of NNStat runs on Sun OS4 systems, in
addition to Sun OS3.x systems. Various statspy performance
improvements and miscellaneous bug fixes are also included. In the
process of modifying statspy to read packets via the Sun OS4 NIT
interface, we encountered several bugs in the NIT interface which
delayed progress for a time, however fixes and workarounds now
exist for all known problems. We would especially like to thank
Van Jacobson, Bill Nowicki and Neal Nuckolls for their help in
tracking down these bugs.
Annette DeSchon released a new version of the Background File
Transfer Program (BFTP). This version runs on Sun OS4 and includes
several bug fixes, and some improved error messages. We are still
continuing to encounter many bugs in the FTP servers of the world,
and plan to write an RFC on that subject in the near future.
Bob Braden attended a one-day video teleconference of the IAB, at
ISI. During this meeting, he accepted a part-time role providing
support to Dave Clark and the IAB. This role has the grandiose
title of "Executive Director" (titles are cheap.) This work is
being funded by NSF as part of a plan by the FRICC to provide
administrative support for the IAB and the IETF. The intent is to
allow both these organizations to provide more effective leadership
in meeting the present and future challenges of the Internet. The
first major task for the IAB Exec Dir was to organize an IAB
workshop and meeting for early January.
Work also continued on the Host Requirements RFC. Another
extensive series of comments was received and processed, and
consequent changes were made to the document. A new section on
dead-gateway detection, written by Paul Mockapetris, was edited
into the document. We expect the final meeting of the Working
Group to be held at the January IETF meeting, and that the Host
Requirements RFC will be published shortly thereafter.
Bob Braden and Annette DeSchon (Braden@ISI.EDU, DeSchon@ISI.EDU)
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MIT-LCS
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We proposed and simulated a resource allocation algorithm for a
gateway, which allocates switch and link capacity among user
groups. Based on the fair queueing idea, it should permit
efficient implementation. It seems to work well in first tests.
Lixia Zhang (Lixia@LCS.MIT.EDU)
MITRE Corporation
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No report received.
NTA-RE and NDRE
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No report received.
SRI
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No report received.
UCL
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Steve Kille visited a number of research institutes in Australia
and talked about collaboration and OSI conformance.
Our work on the application of Neural Networks to various aspects
of Network Management (particularly topology and traffic
management) has been wound up due to a change of staff. A report of
the work will be forthcoming.
The initial design for a broadband ISDN ATM node and network
simulator is complete. Implementation proceeds.
John Crowcroft (jon@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
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UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
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1. A good deal of effort this month was spent on refining the
high-speed reservation-TDMA model mentioned in previous
reports. Professors Charles Ih and Charles Boncelet of our EE
Department and Paul Amer of our CICS Deparftment have agreed
to contribute to the effort. A white paper on the model was
submitted in connection with the NRI/NSF initiative on gigabit
networks.
2. Mike Minnich, Paul Schragger and Jeff Simpson continue to plow
the snowdrifts. Mike's dissertation is on flow and congestion
management, while Jeff's thesis is on policy-routing
engineering. Paul and Jeff are working a paper on a multiple-
server queueing problem with applications to priority and
schedule-to-deadline services. In an effort to regularize our
various windowing projects, Paul installed and deglitched the
MIT network simulator in X-Windows version 11 on our Suns and
VAXen.
3. The eighteen Fuzzball time servers and estimated 500 Unix NTP
time servers clocked in the New Year without a warp. There was
no leap second to worry about this year, but all the Fuzzball
primary (stratum-1) servers had to have their startup files
reset to the current year, my first duty of the New Year since
1982. While there has been serious talk of incorporating year
and leap-second timecode information as part of equipment
upgrade programs for WWV/WWVH and the LORAN-C radio-navigation
system, this hasn't happened yet.
4. The nice folk at DEC dropped a MicroVAX I and a couple of new,
high- end, colorgraphics workstations on us for evaluation and
comment. For the moment at least, our grad students are
becoming quite spoiled with superflashy graphics and blinding
speeds using X-Windows and various heavy applications like
Spice, Magic and network simulation. Our Backroom test site
installed a monstrous 386 system and high-resolution color
display even bigger than the biggest known Fuzzball right
beside it.
5. Dave Mills attended the IAB telemeet at DARPA on 2 December.
Paul Schragger agreed to serve as Scribe Apprentice for the
IAB meeting in January.
Dave Mills (Mills@UDEL.EDU)
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NSF NETWORKING
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NSF NETWORKING
UCAR/BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC., NNSC
The NNSC completed work on an NSFNET poster to be distributed to
all campuses on the network. Campus liaisons should be receiving
several posters during January.
by Karen Roubicek (roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net)
NSFNET BACKBONE (The Merit Computer Network)
With December the NSFNET backbone entered its sixth month of
production. Both traffic and network connections have continued to
increase in this period. The number of "allowed" networks has gone
from 173 primary networks and 30 secondary networks at the
beginning of July to 346 primary networks, 152 secondary networks,
and seven tertiary networks by the end of November. Of these 346
networks configured, between 290 and 310 networks are online at any
time. The number increases daily as configured networks come
online.
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Packets in Packets out
November 376,052,359 403,084,221
December 395,580,713 419,348,204
% increase 4.9% 3.9%
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December shows a continuation of the steady growth in backbone use.
Even with a significant drop in traffic during the week of the
holiday break, the traffic continued to increase during the month
of December.
Packets counts are taken at the token ring interface to the E-PSP
in each Nodal Switching Subsystem (NSS) via Simple Gateway
Monitoring Protocol (SGMP). The hourly counts are collected and
stored in a database on the Information Services host machine.
Information from Merit/NSFNET Information Services is now available
via an electronic mail query system. This system, based on the
Remote SPIRES product developed at Stanford University, enables
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users to send a message to a server, which will respond with
information from its databases. Commands for the server should be
the first text line of the message. In response to the command
HELP, the server will return a list of the other commands that are
available. The server can be queried by sending a message to:
nis-info@nis.nsf.net or
nis-info@merit [Bitnet]
If assistance is needed in using the server, a message should be
sent to the Information Services staff at the following address:
UserHelp@nis.nsf.net or
UserHelp@merit [Bitnet]
During December, the D4 framing scheme was converted to Extended
SuperFrame (ESF). Through the hard work and cooperation of MCI,
IBM, and Merit, the ESF installation occurred without significant
difficulties. ESF will greatly enhance our ability to directly
monitor the T1 circuits.
To improve our ability to monitor traffic flows in the NSFNET
backbone, a modified version of the NNStat package, developed at
the Information Sciences Institute, was installed during December.
In accordance with our agreement with the National Science
Foundation, this tool will help us to gather a net to net traffic
matrix. The monitor will be located on the internal token rings of
the NSS. Modifications necessary to make this work in an NSS
environment were software changes to support the package under
4.3bsd as well as PROM changes on the token ring boards of the
monitoring RT/PC.
by Laura Kelleher (Laura_Kelleher@um.cc.umich.edu)
NSFNET BACKBONE AND MID-LEVEL NETWORK SITES
BARRNET
No report received.
CERFNET
No report received.
CICNET
December is a month of waiting for tangible signs of CICNet.
Orders with vendors have been placed and delivery is expected. It
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is difficult to site completion of milestones because nothing has
yet happened.
Communication Line Installation
MCI Telecommunications is the DS-1 long lines carrier of choice.
They will perform site surveys at each CICNet installation node
before Christmas. MCI is also taking responsibility for ordering
all of the local exchange loops and for testing each circuit with
the Case/Datatel CSU equipment attached to the circuit. MCI will
assure CICNet of end-to-end circuit integrity before turning the
lines over to us for our use. The schedule for the lines being
available to CICNet is:
University of Wisconsin to University of Minnesota January 19, 1989
University of Michigan to Michigan State University January 13,
1989
Ohio State University to University of Michigan December 30, 1988
University of Minnesota to University of Iowa January 3, 1989
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to Indiana University
January 25, 1989
Indiana University to Ohio State University January 25, 1989
University of Iowa to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
January 16, 1989
University of Chicago to Michigan State University January 13, 1989
University of Chicago to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
January 19, 1989
University of Wisconsin to Northwestern University January 24, 1989
CICNet will be taking over the existing circuits connecting
Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago and
connecting University of Illinois at Chicago and University of
Chicago. These two local exchange circuits are within the Chicago
metropolitan area.
Equipment Delivery
All Case/Datatel CSU's are being delivered to Ohio State University
where the staff are individually testing each unit before
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reshipping it to its proper node. All cisco Systems routers are
being shipped to Merit, Inc. for testing and loading of
configuration tables. The routers are then being reshipped to
their proper node requiring only rack mounting and cabling by local
staff. Cabinets for mounting the equipment have arrived at most
locations. Cables have been built and switches purchased so that
once the equipment is installed at each site, local operations
staff can switch between various modes of operation with remote
telephone direction from the CICNet Network Operation Center.
Internet Routing
CICNet, Inc. has contracted with Merit, Inc. for the services of an
internet routing engineer during the months of December and
January. In consultation with the Technical Working Group of
CICNet, Inc. and Roger Gulbranson, the CICNet Interim Assistant
Director for Technical Support, preliminary configuration tables
have been built to work toward optimum connections for each
institution presently connected to the NSFNet backbone network.
This has obviated the need for many leased circuits which we expect
these institutions will discontinue after CICNet becomes fully
operational. This should result in substantial savings and
hopefully these funds will be redirected for support of CICNet.
Bringing up CICNet
And now we will attempt to answer the really important question of
when CICNet will be fully operational. The target date for full
operation is January 30, 1989. As soon as circuits are available
in a pattern that will not disrupt existing usage patterns, Merit,
Inc. will begin to bring institutions onto CICNet. We expect that
this activity will occur primarily between January 20 and January
30, 1989, since a substantial number of circuits will not be
available before that time. Cutovers will occur after the above
dates of circuit availability. Advance notice will be given on
each campus for this cutover so users of the NSFNet should be alert
to looking for such information. If all goes well, users should
not notice any change except a several minutes of outage as the
cutover occurs. These cutovers will be scheduled at off peak hours
of usage, such as, the middle of the night or very early in the
morning.
Merit Contract
Negotiation of the contract to operate the CICNet Network Operation
Center and Network Information Center by Merit, Inc. are proceeding
with the expectation that the CICNet, Inc. Board of Directors will
approve the contract at their meeting on January 20, 1988. Merit,
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Inc. has already established a good working relationship with MCI
so circuit management should operate smoothly. The cisco Systems
routers are familiar to the Merit staff since they are used in the
campus network which they operate for the University of Michigan.
Additional computer equipment to serve the particular needs of
CICNet needs to be ordered for the use of the Merit staff.
Policy Discussions
Policy issues continue to be under detailed discussion by the
CICNet, Inc. subcommittee of the Board of Directors. The fact
that the configuration tables which were drafted by the Network
Technical Group attempted to serve all existing institutions
already connected to the NSFNet in the most efficient manner
demonstrated that many nodes on CICNet already have other networks,
universities, and corporations connected to them. It seems most
reasonable in the long term to establish costs for the CICNet nodes
based upon the amount of traffic that each node contributes. It
will take some time to establish these traffic patterns based upon
usage. These discussions will continue as CICNet, Inc. grapples
with the modern complexities of running a cooperative network.
Hiring a New Executive Director
CICNet, Inc. is searching for a new Executive Director with a
closing date for application of January 15, 1989. The Executive
Director is the chief operating officer of the corporation and is
responsible to the Board of Directors. Ideally, this person will
be located on the campus of one of the CICNet member institutions
and will need to have frequent contact with the staff at Merit,
Inc. The position requires someone skilled in management with
innovative ideas that can be applied in developing cooperative
networks and applications to operate on such networks. Interested
parties should contact Roger G. Clark, Director of the Committee on
Institutional Cooperation, at 217-333-8475.
by Barbara B. Wolfe (BBWOLFE%UMNACVX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu)
CORNELL UNIVERSITY THEORY CENTER
No report received.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET
No report received.
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JOHN VON NEUMANN NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
No report received.
MERIT/UMNET
No report received.
MIDNET
No report received.
MRNET
An MRNet general meeting was held December 14. It was well
attended by members as well as organizations interested in becoming
members.
MRNet officers for 1989 were elected:
Mahlon Stacy Chair
Jeff Wabik Vice Chair/Chair, Technical Committee
Carl Henry Treasurer
Tim Salo Secretary
Special recognition is due Dan McCreary who had been Vice Chair,
but has since moved on to NeXT.
Two organizations were formally accepted as members: Honeywell and
Network Systems Corporation.
The private colleges in Minnesota were well represented: six
private colleges interested in joining MRNet attended. The MRNet
Technical Committee will assist these colleges in designing and
implementing connections to MRNet which will enable them to
communicate with each other and the Internet.
The next MRNet general meeting is scheduled for March 15.
by Tim Salo (tjs@msc.umn.edu)
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND UNIVERSITY SATELLITE
NETWORK PROJECT
No report received.
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NORTHWESTNET
Intel Corp. in Hillsboro, OR has joined NWNet as a commercial
member.
Network usage continues to grow. As of December, the average daily
traffic into and out of NWnet at the NSS (located at the U of
Washington) was about 1.8 million packets per day, double that of
the highest month in the previous quarter. Internal NWNet traffic
statistics reporting the traffic between the U of Washington and
adjacent nodes show a three-fold growth between June and December,
1988.
by JQ Johnson (jqj@hogg.cc.uoregon.edu)
NYSERNET
No report received.
OARNET
No report received.
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
PSCnet added two new networks, Nasa Lewis (128.156) and Malone
College (192.42.153). There has been no unschedualed downtime for
our NSFnet connectivity. Our ARPAnet gateway was manually
restarted twice in association with the PSN14 outage due to power
upgrades at Carnegie Mellon University.
by Matt Mathis (mathis@fornax.ece.cmu.edu)
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
No report received.
SESQUINET
No report received.
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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
Emory University
University of Florida
Florida Institute of Technology
Florida State University
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Gallaudet University
George Mason University
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Georgia
ICASE (Inst. for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering)
Johns Hopkins University
University of Kentucky
Louisiana State University
University of Maryland
Mississippi State University
MSCC
University of Mississippi
University of So. Mississippi
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
OSTI
Supercomputer Research Center (IDA)
University of Tennessee
Triangle Universities Computation Center
Duke University
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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
The following networks are presently advertised to the 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
128.175 University of Delaware
128.183 NASA/Goddard
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
129.2 UMD bogon-net
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
129.174 George Mason University
129.81 Tulane University
130.11 United States Geological Survey
130.14 National Library of Medicine
130.18 Mississippi State University
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130.39 Louisiana State University
130.74 University of Mississippi
130.85 UMBC.NET
130.207 Georgia Institute of Technology
131.95 University of South Mississippi
131.118 MINC.NET
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
192.42.142 ICASE-NET
192.42.239 Florida Institute of Technology
1/3/89
by Jack Hahn (HAHN@umdc.umd.edu)
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WESTNET
1. David Wood and Carol Ward finally got the Dowty T-1 CSU's
(apparently) working with the cisco T-1 interface. When
stable, the 56 KBPS circuit between the University of Colorado
at Boulder will be replaced with a the T-1 circuit.
2. There will be a meeting of the Westnet Steering Committee in
Denver on 12 January 1989. Issues to be discussed will
include BITNET, and NIC/NOC models.
3. Below is a list of the networks currently being advertised to
the NSFNET. We provide this now, as it has changed a good
deal since the last time it was reported.
Westnet-East 129.19.0.0
Colorado - Universities
University of Colorado 128.138.0.0
Colorado State University 129.82.0.0
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 128.198.0.0
University of Denver 192.26.49.0
Colorado School of Mines 192.26.83.0
University of Colorado, Denver 192.31.14.0
Colorado - Non-University
US West 130.13.0.0
Wyoming
University of Wyoming 129.72.0.0
New Mexico - Universities
New Mexico State University 128.123.0.0
University of New Mexico 129.124.0.0
New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology 129.138.0.0
New Mexico - Non-University
New Mexico Technet 129.121.0.0
National Sunspot Observatory 192.35.200.0
Apache Point Observatory 192.41.211.0
Santa Fe Institute 192.12.12.0
*Los Alamos National Labs 128.165.0.0
* secondary - they now have a direct link to NCAR
Westnet-West 192.31.39.0
Utah - Universities
University of Utah 128.110.0.0
University of Utah - Apollo Ring 192.12.56.0
Utah-Michigan-Chicago Cosmic Ray Experiment 192.42.108.0
Utah State University 129.123.0.0
Brigham Young University 128.187.0.0
Arizona - Universities
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Arizona State University 129.219.0.0
University of Arizona 128.196.0.0
CMI 192.35.195.0
ECE 192.35.203.0
SAO 192.33.140.0
Steward Observatory 192.31.28.0
NAOA 192.31.165.0
by Pat Burns and Carol Ward (pburns@super.org and cward@spot.colorado.edu)
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TASK FORCE REPORTS
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APPLICATIONS -- USER INTERFACE
"The next meeting of the task force is scheduled for February
7-8, in the Bay Area."
Keith Lantz (LANTZ@ORC.OLIVETTI.COM)
AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
Currently members of the ANTF are preparing for the January
IAB meeting (and our February meeting at ISI) by synthesizing
(and documenting!) more detailed descriptions of proposed
project areas.
Deborah Estrin (Estrin@OBERON.USC.EDU)
END-TO-END SERVICES
No internet related progress to report.
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE
No report received.
INTERNET ENGINEERING
1) The next meeting of the IETF is Jan 18-20 at the University
of Texas in Austin. Meeting information (agenda, hotel,
directions) are available from Karen Bowers
(bowers@sccgate.scc.com) or Phill Gross
(gross@sccgate.scc.com).
2) There are currently 15 active Working Groups in the IETF
and the quarterly meetings are typically attended by 100-150
people. Managing the activities for a group this size is no
longer a simple task. I am pleased that Karen Bowers (NRI,
Senior Systems Analyst) will be working with me on IETF
matters in the future. By next month, we should be able to
announce the dates and locations of the next 5 IETF meetings.
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3) The status of the currently active IETF Working Groups is
summarized in the matrix below. For more detailed information
(eg, to obtain a description of the WGs; to obtain copies of
the draft documents or WG reports; or to obtain information on
meeting dates and locations), contact either the
Chairs/Points-of-Contact directly (listed below) or send a
request to bowers@sccgate.scc.com. We are now in the process
of updating and reorganizing the IETF directory at SRI-NIC to
make all this information more easily accessible online.
IETF Working Group Status
Working Groups RFC or Met Current Meeting Chair or POC
Draft? Oct 88? Report? Jan 89? (address)
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Authentication Yes Yes Yes No Jeff Schiller (MIT)
jis@athena.mit.edu
CMIP-over-TCP (CMOT) Yes Yes Yes Yes Lee LaBarre (MITRE)
cel@mitre-bedford.arpa
Host Requirements Yes Yes Yes Yes Bob Braden (ISI)
braden@isi.edu
Interconnectivity No Yes Yes Yes Guy Almes (Rice)
almes@rice.edu
Internet MIB Yes Yes Yes Yes Craig Partridge (BBN)
craig@nnsc.nsf.net
NSFnet/Reg. Monitoring No Yes Yes Yes Susan Hares (Merit)
skh@merit.edu
Open SPF-based IGP Yes Yes Yes No Mike Petry (UMD)
petry@trantor.umd.edu
Open Systems Routing Yes No Yes No Marianne Lepp (BBN)
mlepp@bbn.com
OSI Interoperability Yes NA NA Yes Ross Callon (DEC)
callon@erlang.dec.com
PDN Routing Group No Yes Yes No C-H Rokitansky
roki@isi.edu
Performance and CC No Yes Yes Yes Allison Mankin (MITRE)
mankin@gateway.mitre.org
Pt-Pt Protocol Yes Yes Yes Yes Drew Perkins (CMU)
ddp#@andrew.cmu.edu
ST and CO-IP Yes Yes Yes Yes Claudio Topolcic (BBN)
topolcic@bbn.com
TELNET Linemode Yes Yes Yes Yes Dave Borman (Cray)
dab@cray.com
User Services (New) NA NA NA Yes Karen Bowers (NRI)
bowers@sccgate.scc.com
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Phill Gross
(interim address: gross@sccgate.scc.com)
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (NRI)
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, VA 22091
703-620-8990
INTERNET MANAGEMENT
No report received.
PRIVACY
The Privacy Task Force held a one-day interim meeting on 6
December at BBN Communications, Cambridge, MA, in order to
review drafts of two documents on privacy-enhanced electronic
mail: the successor to RFC-1040 and its (as-yet unnumbered)
companion key management RFC. As a result of discussion at
the meeting, John Linn and Steve Kent revised and recirculated
the pair of RFCs. We expect to present the architecture
defined in the RFCs at the January 1989 IAB workshop meeting
in Santa Clara.
John Linn (Linn@CCY.BBN.COM)
ROBUSTNESS AND SURVIVABILITY
No report received.
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
1. The Telescience Testbed Pilot Program (TTPP), conducted
by 15 universities under subcontract to the Universities
Space Research Association (USRA), is completed as of the
end of December. A final report is currently being
written. The TTPP was a set of user-oriented rapid-
prototyping testbeds investigating various critical
issues in the design of the information system of the
space station era. Many of these issues were
communication networking related, and as a result, many
of the results of the program pertain directly to the
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Internet.
2. The task force is planning on having a meeting 17-18
January at ISI. Topics to be covered include finalizing a
paper on the requirements for high bandwidth networking,
reviewing the results of the TTPP, and discussing the
requirements and implications of distributed systems.
Barry Leiner (Leiner@RIACS.EDU)
DSAB
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No internet-related progress to report.
Charlotte Tubis (Tubis@Purdue.Edu)