<NIS.NSF.NET> [IMR] IMR90-08.TXT
August 1990
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
COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5
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Internet Projects
BARRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7
CERFNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8
CICNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
CORNELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
FARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10
JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK . . . . . . page 12
LOS NETTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
MERIT/UMNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
MIDNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
MIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
MITRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
MRNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
NCAR/USAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK . . . . . . . . page 13
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . page 13
NORTHWESTNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
NSFNET BACKBONE, MERIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
NDRE and NTA-RD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
NYSERNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
OARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
PENNSYLVANIA RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP NETWORK . page 17
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
SESQUINET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
SRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
SURANET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
UDEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET . . . page 20
WESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
WISCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
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IAB MESSAGE
OSI REGISTRATION
Vint Cerf represented the IAB at the State Department on August 13
and August 27, as part of an ad hoc committee to consider ways to
satisfy the US requirement for registration of object
names/identifiers necessary for the operation of OSI-based systems.
The outcome of this committee's deliberation will be presented to
CCITT Study Group D, which is the U.S. State Department body used
to coordinate official U.S. positions at the CCITT on OSI-based
systems.
The primary motivation for this committee is the registration of
names which will ultimately be used as electronic mail Private or
Administrative Management Domains in the X.400 Mail Handling
System, but it may also consider how to meet the need for OSI NSAP
registration. Since the Internet needs NSAP registration, the work
of this committee is vitally important. It is even possible that
the Internet community, with its widespread NIC and Domain Name
facilities could provide special assistance in the registration of
NSAP (Network Service Access Point) addresses.
CCIRN MEETING
Barry Leiner, as international representative of the IAB, attended
a meeting of the North American Coordinating Committee for
International Research Networks (NACCIRN). This meeting had a dual
purpose: 1) prepare for the upcoming CCIRN meeting in October, and
2) continuing coordination of North American networking.
The meeting began with status reports from Canada and United
States. Canada reported the continuing development of Canadian
research networking, including CA*net, CDN*net, and DRInet
(Canadian Defense research network, not to be confused with DARPA's
DRI). They have formed the Canadian Coordinating Committee for
Research Networks (CCCRN) which is effective in coordinating such
networks and developing representation to the NACCIRN and CCIRN.
Some interesting developments were reported re: mail bridging in
the CDN*net, establishing bridges between Envoy and X.400. Also,
they reported an X.400 connection to a university in China (PRC).
A briefing was given on CA*net.
The US reported on continuing progress re: the HPCCI (High
Performance Computing and Communication Initiative). Two senate
authorization bills continue their way through the process. The
White House has recommended to OSTP full funding of the HPCC in
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FY92. An updated program plan for NREN is intended to be released
December 1990. It was noted that the NREN is broader than just the
federally funded networks. Some detailed items were reported re:
NSFnet. A briefing was given on the Hepnet/SPAN Decnet Coordinating
Group.
A CCIRN-initiated workshop on connection/connectionless approaches
was held at NRI in July. A brief report was given on the results
of that workshop.
An Intercontinental Engineering Planning Group (IEPG) has been
formed and will be meeting October 21-22 1990 in conjunction with
the upcoming CCCIRN meeting. The IEPG is intended to have a
comparable function to the Federal Engineering Planning Group
(FEPG) set up by the US Federal Networking Council (FNC).
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
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Deborah Estrin and Lixia Zhang of the ANRG have completed a
paper entitled, "Design Considerations for Usage Accounting and
Feedback in Internetworks." Please send mail to estrin@usc.edu
if you are interested in reading it. We are submitting it to the
next issue of ACM CCR.
Deborah Estrin (Estrin@USC.EDU)
END-TO-END SERVICES
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No progress to report this month.
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
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No internet-related progress to report this month.
Ken Rossen (kenr@bbn.com)
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COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY
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No report received.
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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IETF Report for August 1990
1) Congratulations are in order for the User-Doc WG of the Host
and User Services Area. The Used-Doc Bibliography has been
published, thanks to the hard work and leadership of co-chairs
Karen Roubicek (BBN) and Tracy LaQuey (ISI). The User-Doc WG will
now retire back to the main User Service WG, chaired by Joyce
Reynolds (ISI). Again, thanks for job well done.
2) The following represent the Internet-Drafts posted in August
1990:
document Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual
Environments
work_group isis
revision 01
document Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
Part IV --- Certifying Authority and Organizational
Notary Services
research-group prsg
revision 01
document OSI Internet Management: Management Information Base
work_group oim
revision 02
document Asynchronous Discovery of an Effective Maximum
Transmission Unit for IP Datagram Delivery
[MTU Discovery]
work_group none
revision 00
document Telnet Linemode Option
work_group telnet
revision 02
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document Telnet Environment Option
work_group telnet
revision 01
document Telnet Authentication Option
work_group telnet
revision 01
document The Finger User Information Protocol
work_group none
revision 03
document SNMP Over IPX
work_group snmp
revision 00
3) In August, there were 2 standards related activities. The IESG
recommended that the latest version of CMOT by published as an RFc,
and designated as a Proposed Standard. The LPR document was
published as an Experimental protocol. After some activity with
this designation, we will re-open the question of moving LPR
forward as an Internet standard.
4) Let me remind everyone that the next IETf meeting will be hosted
by the University of Colorado, Westnet, and NCAR in Boulder Colorado
on December 4-7, 1990.
Indications are that we can look forward to a meeting with
excellent Internet connectivity. Plans are in progress for a 56Kb
line to the hotel with router, terminal server, and terminals in a
separate hotel room. Four organizations are donating equipment and
or services for this meeting.
As an experiment at this IETF, all plenary and WG meetings are
planned to be in the hotel.
More details will be provided as the date gets closer.
Phill Gross (CNRI), IETF/IESG Chair (pgross@NRI.RESTON.VA.US) Greg
Vaudreuil (CNRI), IESG Secretary (gvaudre@NRI.RESTON.VA.US)
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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 O&M / ICBNET INFRASTRUCTURE
Direct EGP route exchange between the DARPA Internet and the NSFNet
at FIX-East (SURANet/UMd), and between the DARPA Internet and both
the NSFNet and MILNET at FIX-West (NASA Ames Research Center), was
established this month. Recently-installed Terrestrial Wideband
Network gateways are providing the connection between the DARPA
networks and the two FIXes. The provision of global Internet
connectivity for TWBNet/ICBNet users via direct connections to the
FIXes replaces the use of a temporary path that had been set up for
these users through NEARnet and JvNCnet.
Routing was initiated between users of the NSFNet in the US and the
Joint Academic Network (JANET) in the UK via the 384 Kbps channel
of the new US/UK "fat pipe". This facility will replace NSFNet-
JANET routing via the JvNC-UK line, which is scheduled for
termination at the beginning of September.
A new ICBNet gateway was installed at the Warrior Preparation
Centre (WPC) in West Germany in July. The installation of this
gateway had been awaiting the completion of the 64 Kbps circuit
linking it to the SHAPE Technical Centre in The Hague, Netherlands.
The ICBNet gateway at the Italian National Research Council (CNUCE)
was upgraded in July to a configuration incorporating additional
processing capability.
TCP-TP4 PROTOCOL TRANSLATION
BBN along with SHAPE Technical Centre have completed writing a
Protocol Conversion between TCP and ISO TP4. We are testing with a
common application protocol that can be run both over TCP and TP4.
The implementation will establish connections and transfer data in
both directions, but is being debugged so that a complete session
can be demonstrated.
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We completed live network interfaces for both TP4 over X.25 and TCP
over IP. The TCP needs to bypass the TCP normally used by the
operating system, because the protocol translation program expects
to see or send each datagram including the information in the TCP
header.
As an example application, we ran the FTAM in ISODE over both TCP
and X.25. This could not be used for testing a TP4-TCP
translation, because the ISODE would use the TP both over X.25 and
over TCP, and in addition, the ISODE was using TP0 over TCP and
over X.25, so that it wouldn't provide TP4 traffic.
We then chose for an example application a version of user telnet
which was altered to use SUN's sunlink osi TP4 over X.25 which also
uses CLNP. This has been used to open a connection from a sunlink
osi host over an x.25 (single wire) net to a host running the
protocol converter, and then connecting through to an Internet host
telnet server, which displayed the login prompt, and echoed typed
characters.
INTER-DOMAIN POLICY ROUTING
The joint USC/SAIC/BBN implementation of the IDPR protocols is
proceeding relatively smoothly. We are testing functions
individually in our own labs, and we are coordinating our designs
to make sure that all of the modules will fit together properly.
Protocol implementation distributed over thousands of miles is a
little bit scary. We are still on schedule for the proposed
DARTNET testing in October.
TERRESTRIAL WIDEBAND NETWORK AND ST/IP GATEWAY
During August, the ST Gateway and Terrestrial Wideband projects
supported six video conferences and one SIMNET exercise. One of
the video conferences involved three sites and five involved two
sites. The SIMNET exercise involved three sites. Conferences were
held by IETF working groups and DARPA sponsored groups.
Conferences participants included Mark Pullen (DARPA), Danny Cohen
(ISI), and many others.
Bob Hinden (Hinden@BBN.COM)
CERFNET
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No report received.
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CICNET
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Three major activities have been at the forefront for CICNet during
August: the issuance of our FY 1991 Business Plan, the awarding of
our Request for Proposals for Network Management and Operations
Support Services, and the planning to accommodate the new CICNet
NSFNet NSS to be located at Argonne National Laboratories near
Chicago.
The Business Plan is now available upon request. In addition, a
separate Schedule of Rates has been created, reflecting a reduction
in new member fees, revised categories of membership, and an
expanded list of member options.
Negotiations are underway to finalize the award of our Network
Operations and Support Services procurement. An announcement of the
award is expected shortly.
The CICNet Technical Board and Board of Directors have endorsed a
proposal to reconfigure the CICNet network backbone, incorporating
Argonne National Laboratories, and thus providing better
connectivity to and from the node. Issues of primary and secondary
hop count, current traffic flow patterns, and cost were considered.
Additionally, during August, CICNet Executive Director Joel Maloff
addressed a CERFnet Plenary Meeting at CalTech on the topic of
CICNet's Affinity Groups Programs. These programs, emphasizing user
and technical participation in the exploration of possible specific
networking applications, has been quite successful thus far and is
expanding at a rapid rate.
by Joel Maloff <maloff@@merit.edu>
CORNELL
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No report received.
FARNET
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Planning for the September 24 and 25 meeting ensued. The meeting
will be held in Boulder, Colorado and hosted by Colorado Supernet.
The agenda and local arrangement information will be posted to the
FYI@farnet.org mailing list by early September.
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FARNET has an anonymous FTP directory available at farnet.org where
userid = anonymous and password = yourname. Listings include FPPs
and a CCIRN May 90 Report and Views.
Proceedings of the June 18 and 19 FARNET meeting are available in
hardcopy form by contacting Carlos Robles at roblesc@farnet.org or
619-534-5063. Member networks will receive a limited number of
proceedings at no cost. The non-members' cost is $25 per copy
which includes shipping. The proceedings include minutes of the
meeting, a list of attendees, and slides from presentations given
at the meeting. June's meeting included presentations on the
Federal Networking Council, Gigabit Networks, Knowbots, and
IAB/IETF as well as slides from the RARE and CCIRN meetings.
An easy method of contacting FARNET member networks was set up this
month. If you'd like to send electronic mail to the network, type
netname@farnet.org. The two FARNET member representatives of that
network will receive the mail. For example, if you typed
cicnet@farnet.org, mail is sent to the CICNet Executive Director
and Assistant Director. Current members of FARNET which can be
reached by netname@farnet.org are:
BARRNET CICNet CERFnet
CREN Colorado-Supernet
Cornell-Theory-Center
JVNCnet LosNettos Merit
MIDnet MRNET NCAR
NEARnet NETILLINOIS NevadaNet
NorthWestNet NYSERnet OARnet
Onet PREPnet PSCnet
SDSCnet Sesquinet SURAnet
THEnet VERnet Westnet
by Susan Estrada <estradas@luac.sdsc.edu>
ISI
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INTERNET CONCEPTS PROJECT
Greg Finn is finishing a paper that discusses the behavior of the
IP/SQ algorithm in a small network test setting. Joyce Reynolds
visited the DDN NIC 29-Aug.
Eight RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1169: Cerf, V., (IAB), Mills, K., (NIST), "Explaining
The Role of GOSIP", August 1990.
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RFC 1173: Bokkelen, J. Van, "Responsibilities of Host and
Network Managers A Summary of the `Oral Tradition'
of the Internet", FTP Software, Inc., August 1990.
RFC 1174: Cerf, V., "IAB Recommended Policy on Distributing
Internet Identifier Assignment and IAB Recommended
Policy Change to Internet `Connected' Status",
CNRI, August 1990.
RFC 1175: Bowers, K., (CNRI), T. LaQuey (UTEXAS), J. Reynolds
(ISI), K. Roubicek (BBNST), M. Stahl (SRI),
A. Yuan (MITRE), "FYI on Where to Start - A
Bibliography of Internetworking Information",
August 1990.
RFC 1176: Crispin, M., "Interactive Mail Access Protocol -
Version 2", University of Washington, August, 1990.
RFC 1177: Malkin, G., (FTP Software, Inc.,) A. Marine (SRI)
J. Reynolds (ISI) "FYI on Questions and Answers -
Answers to Commonly Asked `New Internet User'
Questions", August 1990.
RFC 1178: Libes, D., "Choosing a Name for Your Computer"
Integrated Systems Group/NIST, August 1990.
RFC 1179: L. McLaughlin III, Editor, The Wollongong Group,
"Line Printer Daemon Protocol", August 1990.
Ann Westine (Westine@ISI.EDU)
MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING PROJECT
The Voice Terminal (VT) and Packet Video Host (PVP) programs have
been ported to the Sun SPARCstation platform. With this software
and the built-in /dev/audio device on the SPARCstation, we are able
to hold real-time audio conversations over ISI's local Ethernet.
The programs form Stream Protocol (ST) Point-to-Point and Multi-
Point connections using raw IP sockets to encapsulate ST packets in
IP. For test purposes, PVP is also using the /dev/audio device as
its source of real-time data. Once the High Speed Interface board
and device driver are available, we will be able to connect video
codecs to the SPARCstation so that PVP can send video data as
intended.
Following the IETF meeting at the beginning of the month, work on
the ST-II protocol specification continued in teleconferences and
e-mail between ISI and BBN. The draft has just been released to
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the IETF Internet-Drafts directory.
Dave Walden, Eve Schooler, Steve Casner, Annette Deschon
(djwalden@ISI.EDU, schooler@ISI.EDU, casner@ISI.EDU,
deschon@ISI.EDU)
FAST PARTS
No report received.
JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK
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No report received.
LOS NETTOS
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A remote console access kit was installed at Caltech and Unisys
Camarillo. We experienced an MCI board failure at Caltech. The
outage lasted about three hours but full service was restored by
reconfiguration in 1/2 hour.
Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU)
MERIT/UMNET
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No report received.
MIDNET
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No report received.
MIT-LCS
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No report received.
MITRE Corporation
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No report received.
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MRNET
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No report received.
NCAR/USAN
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No report received.
NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK
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No report received.
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC.
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Karen Roubicek spoke at the NSFNET Orientation and Training
Workshop presented at the MCNC Center for Communications CONCERT
Network and Laura Breeden gave a presentation at the NSFNET
sponsored Deans of Minority Institutions Workshop in New Orleans.
Craig Partridge attended the IETF in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The original electronic distribution list for additions to the
Internet Resource Guide has been split into two parts -- one list
for those who want to receive text files, and one for those who
want to receive PostScript files. To request a change in update
format, recipients should send a message to <resource-guide-
request@nnsc.nsf.net> indicating which version they prefer.
by Corinne Carroll <ccarroll@nnsc.nsf.net>
NORTHWESTNET
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The Technical Committee met early in the month. Agenda items
included election of officers, reports from the Strategic Planning
process and the NSF site visit, and the agreement to move toward a
homogeneous CSU/DSU pool for the 56kb connections. Codex was
chosen based upon the ability to do remote management via derived
secondary channel, their offer to retrofit existing equipment, and
an agreeable pricing structure and maintenance policy.
Implementation of this equipment will be dependent upon the
successful deployment of the equipment for the University of
Washington's own circuits later this fall.
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The NSS14 was moved from it's old location at 3737 Brooklyn NE in
Seattle to 4545 15th Ave in Seattle. The move was required as the
old location was destined to become classroom space, and the 24-
hour UW operations center was moving to the 4545 15th Ave location.
Two new networks were added to NWNet this month:
Oregon Health Sciences University, based out of Portland, Oregon
connected at 56kbps to the Oregon Graduate Institute.
Analytical Methods Inc., a software firm in Seattle, Washington
connected to the University of Washington at 56kbps.
by Dan Jordt <danj@cac.washington.edu>
NSF BACKBONE (Merit)
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August 1990 saw an increase of 8.85% over July in packets coming
into the NSFNET backbone, for a total inbound packet count of
3,729,357,107. As of August 31, 1990, 1894 networks are configured
for announcement on the NSFNET backbone.
On August 27, the ability to transmit ISO CLNP packets between Ann
Arbor, Michigan and Bonn, West Germany was demonstrated via the
NSFNET backbone infrastructure and the EASInet (European Academic
Supercomputer Initiative) backbone. This demonstration is the
first step towards offering OSI services on the NSFNET backbone,
and occurs at the time the U.S. Government's Open Systems
Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) takes effect.
The current NSFNET prototype OSI implementation is intended to
provide wide area connectivity between OSI networks, including
networks utilizing the DECnet Phase V protocols. As NSFNET today
is primarily a TCP/IP network, the OSI implementation is designed
to coexist with the operational IP NSFNET. Both DoD and ISO CLNP
packets are forwarded together through the same packet switches and
links. CLNP packets are transmitted "native" on the links; they
are not encapsulated within DoD IP. Dynamic routing is supported
for both protocols, providing automatic rerouting in case of an
outage.
The implementation of CLNP and ES-IS was originally developed as
part of the ARGO project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
with the support of the IBM Corporation. This software was
integrated into the packet switching nodes by David Katz and Susan
Hares of the Merit Computer Network with support from IBM's NSFNET
software development departments in Milford, CT and Yorktown
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Heights, NY. Critical to the international demonstration was the
support from Willi Porten of GMD/EASINET in West Germany as well as
Peter Streibelt of IBM Europe in Heidelberg, West Germany.
Interconnection between MILNET and NSFNET was re-established at
FIX-E. Jessica Yu of the Merit/NSFNET Internet Engineering staff,
in cooperation with individuals from BBN and DCA, re-engineered the
FIX-E interconnection as an EGP peer to the NSFNET backbone.
Activities also included the successful testing of T-3 between Ann
Arbor, MI and White Plains, NY. The last of the scheduled NSS
relocations, NSS 14 at Seattle, was completed August 16. Merit has
received a three year grant from the National Science Foundation
for the support of three circuits interconnecting NSFNET and the
Canadian CA*net.
International guests included Olivier Martin from CERN and Ruediger
Volk from the University of Dortmund. The Merit/NSFNET Network
Operations Center hosted representatives of Western Ontario
University and Argonne National Laboratory with particular interest
in establishing a NOC. A group of academics visiting the
University of Michigan's Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN)
and an ongoing program of minority science majors were also guests
at the NOC.
Hans-Werner Braun, Principal Investigator for the NSFNET Backbone
Project, gave a presentation on the NSFNET at the University of
Bielefeld, West Germany. Braun also participated in the
demonstration of CLNP as well as discussions of other performance
issues regarding NSFNET's international connections with GMD and
EASINET in Bonn. Elise Gerich, of the Merit/NSFNET Internet
Engineering group, met with Scott Brim in a mini-FEPG meeting which
is working to draft an architecture for the NREN. The IETF
meeting, July 31 - August 3, was attended by Susan Hares, Dale
Johnson, Dana Sitzler, Chris Weider and Jessica Yu. Glee Cady,
manager of Merit/NSFNET Information Services, spoke at a meeting of
CERFNET in Pasadena, CA, August 21. Ken Latta, of the Merit/NSFNET
Information Services Mainframe Systems group, attended Bit Tech
held August 11 as well as the SHARE meeting held in New Orleans,
August 12 - 17.
Jo Ann Ward (jward@merit.edu)
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NDRE and NTA-RD
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NDRE
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1. Army Material Command Norway has now signed a contract
for development and production of the new multi role
radio system briefly described in IMR of August 1989. The
contract was awarded to the Norwegian based company
NFT-Ericsson Communications ANS.
2. Studies and testbed activities on distributed databases
have lead to a collaboration and joint development of a
distributed database system for application in military
command and control systems, emphasing on the avail-
ability of the database in environments of unstable
communications conditions. This collaboration is
conducted between NDRE, NTA-RD, NODECA and ELAB-RUNIT
in Norway, with interest from STC in The Hague, NL.
Anton B. Leere (leere%dione.ndre.uninett@nac.no)
NTA-RD
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1. Automated Network Management System, ANM, is currently
under installation, and will be in operation shortly. The
version of ANM being installed does not contain proxy
agent for SNMP. This would have been very helpful in our
situation with a variety of gateways to maintain.
2. Two timeservers (Fuzzball) has been installed. They are
controlled by cesium clocks. One is used as time server
for the Norwegian community, the other one for network
time experiments. They both maintain absolute time to
within a few millisec.
3. A network management project is well under way as a
collaboration between NTA-RD, UNIK and the University of
Oslo. The CMIS/CMIP has been implemented under UNIX and
is currently in the debugging testing phase. When our
local tests are completed, we intend to perform some
conformance testing with UCL using some simple service
user and agent processes.
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4. The official name of NTA-RE has been changed to:
Norwegian Telecommunications Administration
Research Department (NTA-RD).
Please use this name in the future.
Paal Spilling (paal@tor.nta.no)
NYSERNET
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No report received.
OARNET
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No report received.
PENNSYLVANIA RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP NETWORK
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No report received.
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
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No report received.
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
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No report received.
SESQUINET
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No report received.
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SRI
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DDN NIC
Sue Kirkpatrick and Mary Stahl hosted a visit by Joyce Reynolds of
USC ISI. We discussed the potential impact of RFC 1174 on the
Internet in general and NIC operations in particular. There are
a number of procedural changes that need to be initiated prior
to a full implementation of the recommendations made in the RFC.
These changes will include database, program, and information server
modifications. NIC staff are actively planning the efforts needed
to move forward on this recommendation.
Other NIC visitors included Ruediger Volk from the University of
Dortmund in Germany who discussed Internet number assignments and
setting up a European NIC with Mary Stahl, Sue Kirkpatrick, and April
Marine; and Sheri Repucci from MERIT to discuss Internet number
assignments with Linda Medina.
The INTEREST-GROUPS files, that are sometimes referred to as the
"lists of lists", was temporarily taken offline from the DDN NIC host.
By popular demand, these files are now made available via anonymous
FTP from "ftp.nisc.sri.com" under filename "netinfo/interst/groups.txt".
April Marine coauthored recently issued RFC 1177 (FYI 4), "FYI on
Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "new internet user"
questions", while Mary Stahl coauthored RFC 1175 (FYI 3), FYI on
where to start: A bibliography of internetworking information."
We presented statistics on internet numbers assigned by the NIC
at the IETF in Vancouver.
In August, we assigned 27 numbers to new government-sponsored IP
networks and 98 numbers to new independent IP networks. The total
number of all assigned IP numbers is now 5,434 which includes 3,108
sponsored networks and 2,326 independent networks. The total number
of assigned Autonomous System numbers (ASNs) is now 1019.
There are currently a total of 1,923 registered domains which includes
49 at the top level, 1,824 at the second level, and 50 third-level MIL
domains.
Mary Stahl (Stahl@nisc.sri.com) and Sue Kirkpatrick (sue@nisc.sri.com)
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SURANET
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No report received.
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK
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No report received.
UCL
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Steve Kille attended the CO-CL meeting in Washington to discuss what
might be termed the ultimate impasse.
Steve Wilbur attended the Privacy/Security Rsearch Group meeting and
IETF in Vancouver.
The UCL ST/IP butterfly gateway has been successfully set into loopaback
and video/audio sent from our conferencing room through it and back to
a monitor. All the kit is now in place to reach the US, and all the
separate components function.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
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1. Intermittent SURA outages continue, but at diminished
frequency relative to last month. The packet loss rate on
connections transiting the SURA switchyard at College Park has
risen to almost two percent. We are exploring alternative
connectivity options.
2. A donated SPARC station router has arrived, but without a T2
interface, so we are not yet able to participate in DARTNET
experiments.
3. Precision timekeeping on SPARC platforms has turned out to be
a problem. While fuzzball platforms can keep time to the
millisecond, SPARC platforms are much worse than that. It is
not yet clear what the problem is.
Dave Mills (Mills@UDEL.EDU)
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET
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No report received.
WESTNET
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1. The following circuits have all been upgraded to T1 service
through joint efforts with Colorado SUperNet:
CU-Boulder / CSU
CU-Boulder / CU-Denver
CU-Denver / CU-ColoSpgs
2. Colorado SuperNet has added connections to:
George Washington High School in Denver,
General Government Computing Center in Lakewood,
Mesa State College in Grand Junction,
Ft. Lewis College in Durango,
Rocky Mountain High School in Ft. Collins, and
Solbourne Computer in Longmont.
by Pat Burns (pburns@csupwb.colostate.edu)
David C. M. Wood (dcmwood@spot.colorado.edu)
WISCNET
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The communication bandwidth vendor for WiscNet will be the
Wisconsin Department of Administration CDN (Consolidated Data
Network). Negotiations between CDN and WiscNet are underway to
establish a letter of understanding. Orders for communication
services, multiplexors, DSUs, and routers are expected to be issued
in September. Initial operation is now expected in December.
The test installation between UW-Madison and UW-Platteville was
installed 28 August 1990. The installation went smoothly and
Platteville is now using this link for Internet access and DECNet
phase IV communications with Madison. Work next month includes a
Platteville name server, use of TCP/IP for email delivery to
Platteville, conversion of the Platteville - Madison BITNet link
from a analog synchronous line to a DECNet session, and addition of
this link to the Madsion NOC.
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A series of four small meetings is scheduled next month around the
state with site technical staff to review site preparations,
discuss campus LAN issues, and campus network integration.
Michael Dorl (dorl@MACC.WISC.EDU)
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