<NIS.NSF.NET> [IMR] IMR89-10.TXT
October 1989
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).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ACTIVITIES BOARD
IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4
AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4
END-TO-END SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4
PRIVACY AND SECURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4
USER INTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5
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Internet Projects
BARRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10
CERFNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
CICNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
CORNELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK . . . . . . page 15
LOS NETTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
MERIT/UMNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
MIDNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
MIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
MITRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
MRNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
NCAR/USAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK . . . . . . . . page 18
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . page 19
NORTHWESTNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
NSFNET BACKBONE, MERIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
NTA-RE/NDRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
NYSERNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
OARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
Pennsylvania Research and Economic Partnership Network . page 21
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
SESQUINET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
SRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
SURANET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23
UDEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET . . . page 24
WESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24
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IAB MESSAGE
The Internet Activities Board met in conjunction with the Interop
'89 meeting.
The following decisions and indecisions resulted.
A. Open IGP
The IAB considered whether it is still appropriate to select a
single standard Interior Gateway Protocol, with the hope and
intent of universal implementation in vendor gateways. There
is considerable technical and political ferment surrounding
this issue at present; as a result, the IAB decided to defer a
decision on this matter. This deferral should not impede
development and standardization of any particular candidate
open IGP. In particular, the IAB reaffirms that the OSPF[IGP]
protocol, designed and currently being prototyped by a Working
Group of the IETF, is on the track for future standardization
as an open IGP.
B. IESG and Standards
The IAB decided that the success of the recent reorganization
requires that the IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group)
play a key role in setting Internet standards. Therefore, the
standard-setting loop has been enlarged to include the IESG,
which will make recommendations for final action by the IAB on
requests to designate Draft Standards and Standards.
C. RFC's in Postscript
The IAB has noted the intense concern in the community about
Postscript-only RFC's; unfortunately, there is no ideal
solution for this problem. Until ODA or its equivalent is
widely available, some combination of ASCII and Postscript is
the best we can do. The IAB has instructed the RFC Editor to
obtain an ASCII version from the author of any Postscript-only
document whenever possible, and both versions are to be made
publicly available. Although the dual versions may cause
significant extra work for both authors and editor, this
appears to be the only feasible compromise.
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INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
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Since the work in Policy Routing has shifted largely to the Open
Routing Working Group (of which many of us are members), ANRG is
in the process of investigating several new work areas for this
next year, e.g., charging, fault isolation, and inter-
administrative domain application level relays.
Deborah Estrin (Estrin@OBERON.USC.EDU)
END-TO-END SERVICES
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No internet progress to report.
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
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The Privacy and Security Research Group met on 24-26 October
1989 at Hanover, NH. There were presentations and discussion of
draft papers by Michael Roe on "Standard Interfaces to
Cryptographic Functions" and Dave Solo on "Secure Gateway
Routing". Guests Noel Chiappa, an IETF area director for
Internet based services, and Scott Bradner, designer and manager
of Harvard High Speed Data Network, discussed with the PSRG
Internet Router requirements with the PSRG that relate to
security issues.
Comments concerning the recently distributed Privacy Enhanced
Mail RFCs 1113, 1114, 1115 were discussed. Some minor
corrections and clarifying suggestions were noted and are
expected to be incorporated into a future version of the RFC's.
Steve Kent and Dave Balenson of the PSRG were speakers at
Interop 89 in a session on Secure Electronic Mail. Steve Kent
chaired the workshop on Commercial IP Security Options which had
12 participants, many from the PSRG and industry. Papers were
presented on the use of CIPSO for policy routing and other
security services.
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In a joint implementation effort by BBN, TIS, and RSADSI the
PSRG expects to distribute to its members a Phase I
implementation of Privacy Enhanced Mail compliant with RFCs
1113, 1114, and 1115.
Lyndalee Korn (lkorn@BBN.COM)
USER INTERFACE
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No report received.
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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1) The IETF will meet on 30 Oct - 4 Nov at the University of
Hawaii. The meeting will be hosted by Torben Nielson (UH) and
NASA. The agenda for the meeting is included below. Highlights
include 19 working groups meeting, an open steering group meeting,
a focus on Pacific rim network connectivity, and a report by
Marshall Rose on the Nysernet White Pages Pilot Project.
2) Some current WG status
The OSPF WG has finished its work and submitted the OSPF
specificiation for publishing as an RFC. (Now published as RFC
1131, Postscript format).
The PPP WG has essentially concluded its work, with a final
Internet-Draft and demo at Interop '89. Russ Hobby has
developed a PC version of PPP under the KA9Q package, and Drew
Perkins has developed a version for 4.3 bsd. The PPP
specification has been split into two documents. The main
document contains the encapsulation scheme and the specification
for the Link Control Protocol (LCP). Negotiable options used by
the LCP are defined in a second document. The main PPP
specification was submitted for publishing as an RFC at the IETF
meeting. Please contact Russ Hobby (rdhobby@ucdavis.edu) or
Drew Perkins (ddp@andrew.cmu.edu) directly for information about
their openly-available interoperable packages.
3) The IETF steering group (IESG) met briefly October 4th at
Interop '89. Issues included:
o Future IETF Meetings - A suggestion to reduce the number of
IETF meeting from four per year to three per year was favorably
received. This would help reduce the overall travel burden.
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It was hoped that WGs could use the additional time to meet
between IETF meetings via video teleconference. It will take
almost a year to begin implementing this suggestion because we
are currently scheduled out through summer 1990.
o Working Group management and Area planning - Area Directors
are beginning to take a direct role role in managing the
activities of WGs in their areas. We discussed the need to
sharpen up the focus of some existing WGs, and also discussed
the need for creating other specific WGs. This is a continuing
topic that will be discussed at the IESG meeting in Hawaii.
o Multiple standard IGP's - There is interest in forming a new
WG to develop a specification for an Open Distance Vector
Routing Protocol. This opens the question about having multiple
standard IGP's. The general feeling of the IESG was that while
multiple standards are possible the preference would be a single
standard IGP implemented by all router vendors. No decision was
reached and it was recognized that any decision will have to be
carefully deliberated. This will be discussed again at the IESG
meeting in Hawaii. In any case, the final decision rests with
the IAB. The IESG will simply make a recommendation.
o Format of future IESG meetings - All IESG meetings will be
open, with some possible executive sessions. The agenda and
minutes of all IESG meetings and executive sessions will be made
available online and in the Internet Monthly Report.
4) The agenda for the next IESG meeting follows. The meeting will
be Thursday November 2nd (9am-noon).
o Emphasize open meeting and reporting policy (10 minutes)
- Open meetings; some executive sessions
- Progress reported in Internet Monthlies and IETF
mailing list
o OSF Report - Craig Partridge (10 minutes)
o PPP Report - Phill Gross (10 minutes)
o Routing Area (60 minutes)
* IGP Issues and policy
- Discuss timing and immediacy of IGP
- Explore alternative decisions
- Set date for decision
- Set milestones and deadlines
* BGP, EGP3, IWG
* Routing Architecture
o Working Group Management (60 minutes)
- Review current and proposed WGs
- Continue delegation from IETF Chair to Areas
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- Better tracking of WG activity (milestones/deadlines)
- Prepare for lunch with WG chairs
- Future reporting (Friday morning; Internet Monthly)
o Future Planning (10 minutes)
- February as Protocol Evolution Workshop?
o Ad hoc topics
Minutes of this meeting will be in next month's Internet Monthly
Report.
5) The agenda for the October 30 IETF meeting is below.
TUESDAY, October 31
9:00-12:00 AM Morning Working Group Sessions
OSI X.400 (Rob Hagens/UWisc)
Open Distance Vector Routing (Hedrick, Rutgers)
Alert Management (Louis Steinberg/IBM)
ST-CoIP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
Pt-Pt Protocol (Russ Hobby/UCal, Phill Gross/NRI)
User DOC (Karen Roubicek/BBN, Tracy Laquey/UTexas)
1:00-4:00 PM Afternoon Working Group Sesisons
OSI X.400/Domain Name System - Joint Meeting
ST-CoIP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
User Services (Karen Bowers/NRI and Craig Partridge/BBN)
4:15-5:30 PM Technical Presentations
Steve Hunter "Hyper MIB Demonstration" (15 minutes)
Richard Pethia "The CERT" (1 hour)
5:30 PM Recess
WEDNESDAY, November 1st
9:00-12:00 AM Morning Working Group Sessions
Internet User Populations (Craig Partridge/BBN)
OSI (Rob Hagens/UWisc, Ross Callon/DEC)
Dynamic Host Configuration (Ralph Droms/NRI)
Open Systems Routing (Marianne Lepp/BBN)
Pt-Pt Protocol (Russ Hobby/UCal, Gross/NRI)
NOC Tools (Bob Enger/Contel, Bob Stine/Sparta)
Interconnectivity (Guy Almes/Rice)
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1:00-4:00 PM Afternoon Working Group Sessions
Ad Hoc on TCP Options (Craig Partridge/BBN)
OSI (Ross Callon/DEC, Rob Hagens/UWisc)
User DOC, NOC Tools joint meeting
ST-CoIP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
Dynamic Host Configuration (Ralph Droms/NRI)
Open Systems Routing (Marianne Lepp/BBN)
Pt-Pt Protocol (Russ Hobby/UCal, Gross/NRI)
4:15-5:30 PM Technical Presentations
Ramakrishnan "Selective Binary Scheme for Congestion
Avoidance" (1 hour)
Tony Hain "ESnet status report" (15 Minutes)
5:30 PM RECESS
THURSDAY November 2nd
9:00-9:15 Technical Presentation
Mark Lotter "NIC Update" (15 minutes)
9:15-12:00 AM IETF Steering Group Meeting (Open)
9:15-12:00 AM Morning Working Group Sessions
PDN (Open session) (CH Rokitansky/Fern Uni-Hagen)
ST-CoIP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
Open Systems Routing (Marianne Lepp/BBN)
Authentication (Jeff Schiller/MIT)
Interconnectivity (Guy Almes/Rice)
Domain Name System (Paul Mockapetris/USC-ISI)
CMIP over TCP (CMOT) (Lee Labarre/Mitre)
Telnet (Dave Borman/Cray)
1:00-5:30 PM Technical Presentations
o CH Rokitansky "Talking Roads and Networked Cars"
(30 minutes)
o Pacific Rim Interconnectivity
* Torben Nielson "PACOM and Hawaii: present
and future plans" (30 minutes)
* Milo Medin "Agency Requirements in
Tony Hain the Pacific Rim" (30 minutes)
* Geoff Huston "The Australian Academic and
Research Network (AARN)" (30 minutes)
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* Robert Elz "Internetworking in the South Pacific"
(15 minutes)
* Jun Murai "Internetworking in Japan and the
North Pacific" (30 minutes)
o Marshal Rose "White Pages Pilot Program" (1 hour)
o Bilal Chinoy "NSFnet update" (20 minutes)
o Paul McKenney "Routing and Fair Pricing in Internets
with Packet Loss" (15 minutes)
5:30 PM Recess
FRIDAY, November 3rd
9:00-11:30 Working Group Area And Selected Working
Group Presentations
o Network Management (Dave Crocker/DEC)
-SNMP Marshal Rose (30 minutes)
-CMOT Lee LaBarre (15 minutes)
o Host Based Services (Craig Partridge/BBN)
o Internet Based Services (Noel Chiappa/Proteon)
o OSI Coexistance (Rob Hagens/UWisc and Ross Callon/DEC)
o Routing (Bob Hindon/BBN)
o Applications (Phill Gross/NRI)
o Operations (Phill Gross/NRI)
o Security (Phill Gross/NRI)
11:30-12:00 AM Concluding Remarks and Discussion
(Phill Gross, NRI)
12:00 PM ADJOURN
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INTERNET PROJECTS
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BARRNET
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No report received.
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
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INTERNET RESEARCH
Most of this month was spent on the architecture RFC. We have
identified the key functions of the protocol (the ES-VG part and
the VG-VG part), the agents that will execute these functions,
where these agents should be located, and some details of the
protocol. In the VG-VG protocol we have identified the information
that goes into the update, which of the two AD pieces send out what
part of this data, what the route servers should do with the
dynamic information, and the election of the speaker for the VG
(which can consist of several physical forwarding boxes in two
different ADs.) We are still concentrating on the VG-VG and the
data dissemination functions.
TERRESTRIAL WIDEBAND NETWORK AND ST/IP GATEWAY
During October, The Terrestrial Wideband continued to support
cross-country multi-media conferences. Dr. Barry Boehm, Director
of DARPA ISTO, held an ISTO staff meeting on October 2 and has
scheduled one for October 30. Other conferences were held by the
"Forward Edge of the Battle Group" on October 5, and the
"Collaborative Effort on Environments" group on October 6.
The version of the IP gateway with ST protocol support and the
real-time performance attributes described in last months status
report was fielded this month at the four Terrestrial Wideband Net
sites currently supporting packet-switched video teleconferencing.
On 10/26, the Pittsburgh WPS was installed and brought up on the
network. There was a problem with the tail circuit, so the CMU
gateway has not been connected to the WPS as of the date of this
report (10/27). However, it is up and connected to the local
ethernet.
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION BOARD (ICB) INFRASTRUCTURE
The Butterfly gateway at SHAPE Technical Centre was installed, and
connected to the 64KB line that connects to RSRE. Hosts on the
ethernet are being configured and registered by the site, and are
enjoying their new-found throughput.
BBN/Slate and MMConf software has been delivered to SHAPE Technical
Centre and installed on the DARPA provided SUN system.
Demonstrations of the document handling and conferencing
capabilities will be done for local site people, so that they may
begin exchanging these documents with people in other groups in the
ICB.
Bob Hinden (Hinden@BBN.COM)
CERFNET
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Installations
A 56 kilobits-per-second (kbps) link to Occidental College in Los
Angeles, was brought up on the network on October 23. Occidental
is connected to CERFnet via the Caltech backbone node. Also, the
Communications and Data Processing Division of Hughes Aircraft
moved their 56 kbps CERFnet connection to Fullerton on October 28.
Hughes is now connected to CERFnet via the UCI backbone node.
Two new sites will be brought up on CERFnet over the next two
months. A division of Xerox Corporation located in San Diego, will
be brought up on November 29. Science Application International
Corporation, San Diego, will be brought up on December 14.
Technically Speaking
CERFnet experienced problems with EGP neighbors at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center from about 18:30 pdt October 16, to about 9:30
pdt on October 17. This caused the SDSC cisco boxes to stop
working at various times throughout the night. The EGP processes
that caused the problems were discovered and stopped shortly after
software personnel arrived in the morning. During the outages
CERFnet traffic was denied access to the NSFNET. UC Santa
Barbara's (UCSB) cisco box continues with its Ethernet storms and
its link outages. CERFnet operations staff have to login via UCLA
and clear the interface on the UCSB cisco box in order for it to
restart. The MCI card in UCSB's cisco box will be replaced on
October 30 in attempt to resolve this problem.
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Administration
The CERFnet Plenary board met on October 24 to discuss CERFnet
related issues. Items on the agenda included Fiscal Year 1989
achievements, Fiscal Year 1990 goals and budget, staff
introductions, dial-up service to CERFnet, FARNet and IETF reports.
The October-November issue of CERFnet News was distributed via
electronic mail and hard copy. Articles in this issue include;
FDDI, CERFnet Report, SNMP and CERFnet, Internet Accessible Library
Catalogs and Databases, Internet Notes.
The current issue of CERFnet News and back issues are available via
anonymous ftp to sds.sdsc.edu in the subdirectory [.cerfnet_news].
The filenames are in the format Month-MonthYear.txt, for the text
only version, and MonthMonthYear.ps, for the postscript version.
by Karen Armstrong (armstrongk@sds.sdsc.edu)
CICNET
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CICNet has been active in a variety of areas during the past month.
These include the addition of two new Computer/Telecommunications
members, further progress on the physical reconfiguration of our
backbone network to ensure greater facility survivability, the
implementation of our Video Applications Study Group, and the
demonstration of a PC/Fax hybrid for library applications.
Effective at the September meeting of the CICNet Board of
Directors, Network Equipment Technologies (NET) and LiTel
Telecommunications have become corporate members of CICNet. This
entitles them to participate in the various applications oriented
affinity groups established by CICNet as members rather than as
vendors. They are also entitled to network connectivity consistent
with acceptable use policies. At the present time, there are more
than thirty new member prospects under consideration, including
universities, nonprofit organizations, and corporations. To
accommodate this growth, CICNet has a Marketing Manager position
currently open.
MCI has successfully reconfigured key portions of the CICNet
backbone facilities, making them more geographically independent,
and therefore less likely to be compromised by a single point of
failure.
CICNet's Video Study Group will meet November 9, 1989 in Ann Arbor
to evaluate the various types of video applications and solutions
that might be appropriate over our network. Participants will
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include end users, networking groups, and vendors. Topics will
cover actual applications, video technologies, and video networking
issues.
At our October Library Director's meeting, a group from The Ohio
State University, led by Bob Dixon, successfully demonstrated the
use of a Group III Fax, PC with Fax card, and custom-designed
software to transmit and receive facsimile messages over the
Internet. CICNet will be assisting in the deployment of the
project.
by Joel Maloff (Joel_Maloff@um.cc.umich.edu)
CORNELL
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No report received.
ISI
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INTERNET CONCEPTS PROJECT
Bob Braden attended the Interop '89 meeting to participate in a
session on the Host Requirements RFCs and to attend a one-day IAB
meeting. He has been helping to organize internet experiments that
could make use of a T1 testbed built on the DRI lines. He also
completed a new release of the NNStat package, incorporating a
number of important extensions: support for the Sun 4 hardware,
support for a PC RT, access control, and subnet support.
Greg Finn continued the development of the IP Source Quench
implementation.
Jon Postel attended the IAB meeting and Interop '89, in Santa
Clara, CA, 3-6 October. Jon Postel attended Cerfnet meetings at
SDSC, October 24, 1989.
Nine RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1122: Braden, B., "Requirements for Internet Hosts --
Communication Layers", USC/ISI, October 1989.
RFC 1123: Braden, B., "Requirements for Internet Hosts --
Application and Support", USC/ISI, October 1989.
RFC 1124: Leiner, B., "Policy Issues in Interconnecting Networks",
RIACS, October 1989.
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RFC 1126: Little, M., "Goals and Functional Requirements for
Inter-Autonomous System Routing", SAIC, October 1989.
RFC 1127: Braden, B., "Perspective on Host Requirements", USC/ISI,
October 1989.
RFC 1128: Mills, D., "Measured Performance of the Network Time
Protocol in the Internet System" UDEL, October 1989.
RFC 1129: Mills, D., "Internet Time Synchronization: The Network
Time Protocol", UDEL, October 1989.
RFC 1130: Postel, J., "IAB Official Protocol Standards" USC/ISI,
Oct 1989.
RFC 1131: Moy, J., "The OSPF Specification", Proteon, October 1989.
Ann Westine (Westine.ISI.EDU)
MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING PROJECT
Last month we tested Compression Labs and PictureTel video codecs
across the packet video system between ISI and DARPA. This month
we completed our planned three-way test when we used VideoTelecom
codecs during the third ISTO staff meeting teleconference. Audio
was carried through the video codec as well, using the built-in
echo cancellers so no headphones were required.
The packet video host, PVP, was released in a new version which
provides more diagnostic information and more flexibility in
adapting to various video codec frame sizes.
This month there were several features added to the MBFTPTOOL. We
completed the implementation of "dot-files", which will enable
MMConf to determine whether or not a file placed in the conference
directory needs distribution to the other conference participants.
In addition, we are experimenting with a new user interface feature
where "hints" are provided to make it easy for the user to
determine which parameters must be explicitly entered.
Steve Casner attended the User Interface Research Group meeting at
BBN.
Steve Casner, Annette DeSchon, Dave Walden, Eve Schooler
(casner@ISI.EDU, deschon@ISI.EDU, djwalden@ISI.EDU,
schooler@ISI.EDU)
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FAST PARTS
Alan Katz continued work on a mail based FAX server and did some
work on his remote execution protocol, T.REX.
Alan Katz (Katz@ISI.EDU)
JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK
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The major events of September can be summarized as follows: (i)
traffic volume, (ii) JvNCNet Phase II update, (iii) network
seminars, (iv) regional network meeting.
The overall up-time for the network this month was 98.54%, which is
higher than last month (97.99%).
The total amount of traffic for the month was 1,257,314,946
packets, of which NSFnet/JvNCnet traffic amounted to 42%.
The JvNCnet Phase II backbone continues to grow in number of sites.
This month (September) we added NEARnet and NYU to the Phase II
backbone, these two sites were previously connected to the JvNCnet
network. These connections were made with the one-week overlap
procedure allowing for a duplication of services for one week to
have a smooth transcition between the old network and the new one.
An acceptance test is being developed, and will be utilized to
declare a new site operational, which internally means the transfer
of control from the Network Installation and Maintenance Group to
the Network Operations Group.
A Network Seminar was held on September 7 at JvNC. The purpose of
these seminars is to foster dialogue among the network community,
selected vendors, Center's staff and distinguished members of the
National Research Networking community. The September 7 seminar
had as a topic the "JvNCnet Phase II network". There were
presentations from the Rochester Telecommunications Company's
president and product manager, Cisco Systems and JvNC.
A Regional Network meeting was held on September 8 at JvNC. The
status of the network was discussed during the morning. In the
afternoon there were two presentations, one on "Bitnet II" from
Peter Olenick (Princeton University), and the second one on
"Integrating Heterogeneous Campus Mail Systems" from Stephen
Campbell (Dartmouth College). The next Regional meeting will be in
January 1990.
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JvNCnet North East Research Regional Network
(As of 10/20/89)
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Backbone Node Institutions
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1 Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania
Penn State University
2 JvNC Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study
Squibb & Sons
Siemens Research
NORDUnet
JANET
NEC *
GFDL *
Columbia (Phase I)
University of Massachusetts (Phase I)
Northeastern (via a UMASS, Phase I)
3 Trenton
4 Newark Rutgers University
Stevens Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
Montclair State College *
Kean College *
AT&T Bell Labs
Bell Communications Research
5 New York New York University
6 Stanford Yale University
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Wesleyan University
7 Providence Brown University *
American Mathematics Society
University of Rhode Island
8 Boston NEARnet
Dartmouth College *
* scheduled for connection to the JvNCnet Phase II network.
by Sergio Heker "heker@nisc.jvnc.net"
LOS NETTOS
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Jon Postel and Walt Prue attended the CERFnet meeting held at the
San Diego Super Computer Center on October 24.
Los Nettos has had a number of billing errors in T1 line bills
received from both Pacific Bell and GTE. Some of the errors have
been due to incorrect initial assumptions on installation. The
other type of error we have seen is a failure to change the billing
rate after a tariff change. We have learned that it is critical
that initial bills and bills after tariff changes be closely
inspected. In order to make critical inspections of the bills it
is further necessary to fully understand the component costs making
up the monthly rate. Further, circuits going between PacBell and
GTE are prone to being incorrectly billed. All of our circuits are
intra-LATA presumably making things simple. Pacific Bell has been
quick to resolve the billing problems but GTE has not.
Our SNMP based route monitoring tool is proving valuable for
quickly showing problems which would affect performance and
reliablility but not connectivity. Thanks go to cisco and the
NSFNET for implementing SNMP in their gateways, and to MIT for
making their SNMP client software available.
Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU)
MERIT/UMNET
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No report received.
MIDNET
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No report received.
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MIT-LCS
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No report received.
MITRE Corporation
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No report received.
MRNET
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Work continues on upgrading MRNet's link to the NSFnet backbone to
a T1 circuit. In fact, the ciruit itself has been installed.
However, all of the rest of the approvals, equipment purchases, and
installation remain. Nonetheless, I expect the upgraded MRNet link
to be operational in November.
Jeff Wabik, Technical Chair of MRNet, met with the ten Minnesota
private colleges to review their plans for connecting to MRNet.
The colleges should connect to MRNet in the next few months.
The MRNet Executive and Technical Committees continue to work on
plans to connect the Minnesota State University System to MRNet and
the Internet.
by Timothy J. Salo (tjs@msc.umn.edu)
NCAR/USAN
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No report received.
NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK
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NEARnet added Clearpoint Research Corporation to the network during
October. Operation of the network continued to be stable.
by John Rugo (jrugo@bbn.com)
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NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC.
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Craig Partridge gave a presentation on Internet Networking at the
NORDUNET Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Karen Roubicek and Craig
Partridge moderated panels at the Interop-89 conference in San
Jose.
The NNSC distributed revisions to Chapters 1 and 2 of the Internet
Resource Guide. Requests to be added to or removed from the
distribution list should go to resource-guide-request@nnsc.nsf.net.
The guide is also available via anonymous ftp at <nnsc.nsf.net>, cd
resource-guide.
by Karen Roubicek (roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net)
NORTHWESTNET
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No report received.
NSF BACKBONE (MERIT)
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Traffic on the Backbone
During September 1989, NSFNET traffic reached 1.6 billion packets.
This represents an increase of 9% over August 1989, and an increase
of more than 500% since September 1988. In addition, as of 9/30/89
total network connections stand at 836.
InterOp '89
Several representatives of Merit/NSFNET attended the InterOp
conference held in San Jose during October. In particular, Susan
Hares gave a presentation on Policy Based Routing and David Katz
demonstrated prototype implementations of OSI and FDDI.
In the OSI implementation the NSFNET backbone provided OSI
Intermediate System functionality for the ISO Connectionless
Network Protocol ("ISO IP"). The exhibit illustrated wide area
connectivity between OSI LANs as well as End Systems. Packets were
carried across a T1 link between the InterOp OSI Demonstration
Network in San Jose and an OSI network in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
As NSFNET today is primarily a TCP/IP network, the prototype OSI
implementation is designed to coexist with the existing network
architecture. Both DoD IP and OSI packets are forwarded together
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through the same packet switches and links. Fully dynamic routing
is supported for both protocols, providing automatic rerouting in
case of an outage.
The FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) implementation was
intended to demonstrate TCP/IP networking between local and long-
haul networks using FDDI. As cross-country bandwidth increases,
high-speed technologies such as FDDI will become important as an
access media to local networks.
Monthly Packet Counts Available
A new directory has been added to the NSFNET Information Services
remote query database. The directory 'stats' contains monthly
packet counts for each of the 13 backbone nodes. The files are
available through anonymous ftp to spreadsheet programs for further
analysis. For further information send electronic mail to 'nis-
info@nis.nsf.net' or 'nis-info@merit' (Bitnet).
EDUCOM
NSFNET's accomplishments and its ongoing commitment to the
development and use of a nationwide computer networking system were
subjects of keen interest at the recent EDUCOM '89 conference held
in Ann Arbor, MI. Special interest groups conducted by
Merit/NSFNET staff on national and campus networking drew overflow
crowds. Merit/NSFNET staff also presented an introduction to the
Internet for conferees.
An unexpected use of the NSFNET occurred when the earthquake struck
California on October 17. Because of the disruption of
conventional voice communications the many California residents
attending the conference quickly turned to the network in order to
communicate with relatives and friends back home. Service to
backbone nodes in Palo Alto and Seattle was uninterrupted during
this time. All-in-all the combination of EDUCOM and Mother Nature
provided an exciting week of activities for Merit/NSFNET staff.
by Patricia G. Smith (psmith@merit.edu)
NTA-RE and NDRE
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No report received.
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NYSERNET
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No report received.
OARNET
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No report received.
PREPNET-Pennsylvania Research and Economic Partnership Network
--------------------------------------------------------------
PREPnet added U.S. Steel Research as a new member during October.
On October 12, PREPnet held its first meeting of general members in
Harrisburg. Although the PREPnet Steering Committee, comprised of
representatives from the charter institutions, Bell of
Pennsylvania, and the Commonwealth, has been meeting monthly for
more than a year, this was our first opportunity to assemble the
entire PREPnet community, including our new members and affiliates,
and some prospective members. Nearly sixty people were present,
representing most of the current membership and about a half dozen
prospective members, as well as Bell and the Commonwealth.
Thomas W. Cummings <tc1r+@andrew.cmu.edu>
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
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PSC would like to welcome Wendy Huntoon to our networking staff.
She will be taking on production communications programming at PSC.
Our side door with SURAnet has been phased out due to bugetary
constraints. While it was operational it was used heavily, both as
a direct path between PSCnet and SURAnet and as a full backup for
our NSFnet connectivity. It is believed to have been the first and
possibly only true fully symmetric side door implemented between
two mid-level networks.
Both of our ARPAnet ports were officially scheduled down on October
first. Our internal routing has been substantially re-engineered,
and we are now using the NSFnet for our our default route. In
addition we are no longer carrying any NSFnet <-> ARPAnet transit
traffic.
by Gene Hastings (Gene.Hastings@boole.ece.cmu.edu)
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SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
------------------------------
No report received.
SESQUINET
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No report received.
SRI
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In October, we have assigned 49 new numbers for government-
sponsored connected networks. In addition, we assigned 72 numbers
this month for unconnected IP networks. The total number of all
assigned IP networks is now 3,438 which includes 1,952 connected
networks and 1,486 unconnected networks. The total number of
assigned Autonomous System numbers (ASNs) is 544.
There are currently a total of 1,214 registered domains which
includes 44 at the top level, 1,170 at the second level, and 38
third-level MIL domains.
Douglas MacGowan (MacGowan@NIC.DDN.MIL)
SURANET
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SURAnet continues to increase in the number of sites connected and
in the number of networks advertised to the NSFnet.
At present there are 70 sites online and 99 networks are being
advertised to the NSFnet.
The current list of sites and networks can be obtained via
anonymous FTP from noc.sura.net, password guest, cd pub. File name
is "online".
by Jack Hahn (hahn@umd5.umd.edu)
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK
------------------------------
No report received.
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UCL
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Work on porting the X Protocol to run over the ISODE implementation
of the Transport Service is underway. The initial mapping is fairly
direct. The main purpose is to allow the use of X Windows over
(TS+) X.25 nets, and with the help of Transport Bridges, between
TCP and TS+X.25 nets.
John Crowcroft (jon@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
----------------------
1. Paul Schragger's gigabit network scheduling simulator tool is
being reviewed for possible redesign. Besides its application
to non-slotted systems, we would like to use it also for the
exploration of slotted systems. Mike Davis is working on
correlation methods to analyze network behavior during periods
of congestive stress and presented a departmental seminar on
SNMP. Ken Monington is reviewing principles of time
synchronization and expects to participate with NTARE and
others in wide-area synchronization experiments. Erik Perkins
is reviewing documentation and preparing plans to participate
in RIG-related experiments. Dave Mills presented an
interdepartmental seminar on the Internet and a briefing on
high-speed network scheduling at USENIX.
2. We have connected the dcn1.udel.edu fuzzball NTP time server
to a cesium standard providing time to less than a millisecond
independent of outside (radio) reference. The time offset is
calibrated as best we can using existing radios; however, we
expect to reduce the errors when LORAN-C radios arrive next
month. Paal Spilling at NTARE (Norway) now has fuzzballs
operating and expects to duplicate the setup.
3. Two additional documents on NTP have appeared, RFC-1129
describing the concepts and principles of network time
synchronization and RFC-1128 discussing the results of the
glorious NTP experiments of last Summer, both sprinkled
lavishly with figures, graphs and tables for PostScript
lasers.
Dave Mills (Mills@UDEL.EDU)
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET
--------------------------------------------------
No report received.
WESTNET
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1. The T-1 line between New Mexico Technet and NCAR is still
being tested. We are running this line in parallel with the
56 kbps circuit until we become convinced of stability.
2. The annual Westnet Technical workshop will be held from Nov.
15 through Nov. 17, 1989 at the University of Colorado at
Boulder. Thanks to all of the NSF Phase II Sites who sent
information to be distributed. Thanks also to MERIT, MCI,
NNSC and cisco who will be sending speakers.
by Pat Burns (pburns@csupwb.colostate.edu)
Carol Ward (cward@spot.colorado.edu)