<NIS.NSF.NET> [IMR] IMR90-11.TXT
November 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 3
AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
END-TO-END SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
PRIVACY AND SECURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5
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Internet Projects
BARRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
CERFNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
CICNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 11
CORNELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
FARNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK . . . . . . page 14
LOS NETTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
MERIT/UMNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
MIDNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
MIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
MITRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
MRNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
NCAR/USAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK . . . . . . . . page 17
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . page 17
NORTHWESTNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
NSFNET BACKBONE, MERIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
NTA-RD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
NYSERNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
OARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeans) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
SESQUINET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
SRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
SURANET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
UDEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET . . . page 24
WESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24
WISCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24
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IAB MESSAGE
No progress to report.
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
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No progress to report.
Deborah Estrin (Estrin@USC.EDU)
END-TO-END SERVICES
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No progress to report.
Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
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The Privacy and Security Research Group spent much of November
recovering from the incredibly productive meeting in October,
the description of which prompted me to way overstep my allotted
half-page in this space last month.
In the area of Privacy-Enhanced Mail, representatives of BBN,
RSADSI, and TIS have been coordinating with regular conference
calls to track the progress toward the Internet distribution.
At least 12 sites now have P-E Mail beta test software. A
general distribution is now expected for some time in Spring
1991. In the meantime, BBN will be working on certificate-
issuing software and hardware and TIS will be finishing the mail
processing software to reflect updates to the protocol (see next
paragraph).
Progress at the October meeting and the continued heavy volume
on the "pem-dev@tis.com" mailing list has been keeping the RFC
1113-15 editors (Balenson, Kent, Linn, Rossen) busy.
Publication of the revisions as Internet Drafts is now planned
for January 1991.
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Other editing and review activity occurring behind the scenes
involves Rob Shirey's draft of an Internet Security
Architecture, and a review of comments and a new document
returned by the SNMP Authentication draft authors. Addditional
RG comments on the SNMP documents were sent to the authors in
late November.
Ken Rossen (kenr@BBN.COM)
COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY
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It is with considerable regret that I must announce the passing
of the CTRG. From June 1987 through February 1990, the CTRG
held 8 full meetings, three special working group meetings (on
audio servers, desktop video, and connection architectures), and
is felt to have strongly influenced R&D efforts at most of its
members' institutions. Activities spanned the general areas of
user interfaces, multi-media technologies, and, of course,
collaboration technologies--in particular, desktop
teleconferencing. For approximately the last 18 months of its
active life the CTRG also served as collaboration technologies-
-in particular, desktop teleconferencing. For approximately the
last 18 months of its active life the CTRG also served as a
vehicle for promoting the development and deployment of
collaboration technologies on a national scale.
The CTRG was disbanded not for lack of a continued need for a
working group covering its areas of interest. Rather, with the
demise of Olivetti Research California and my move into start-up
land I was unable to continue as chairman, and no other member
felt they could afford to succeed me. I encourage anyone in the
larger community who has the necessary resources to take a shot
at rebuilding an equivalent group.
Keith Lantz (LANTZ@VICOR.COM)
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INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
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Preliminary Agenda of the Nineteenth IETF
(December 3-7, 1990)
MONDAY, December 3
9:30-12:00 noon Morning Working Group Sessions
o Character MIB (Bob Stewart/Xyplex)
o Connection IP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
o How to Write a MIB (Dave Perkins/3COM)
o Interdomain Policy Routing (Martha Steenstrup/BBN)
o Network Information Services Infrastructure
(Dana Sitzler/Merit)
o Network Printing Protocol (Glenn Trewitt/DEC)
o OSI X.500 (Steve Kille/UCL)
o Topology Engineering/Network Status Reports
(Phill Gross/CNRI)
o Reserved for Security
1:30-3:30 pm Afternoon Working Group Sessions
o Benchmarking Methodology (Scott Bradner/Harvard)
o Bridge MIB (Fred Baker/ACC)
o Connection IP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
o DECnet Phase IV MIB (Jonathan Saperia/DEC)
o Distributed File Systems (Peter Honeyman/UMich)
o Domain Name System (Philip Almquist/Consultant)
o Interdomain Policy Routing (Martha Steenstrup/BBN)
o Multicast Extentions to OSPF (Steve Deering/Xerox
PARC)
o OSI X.500 (Steve Kille/UCL)
o Reserved for Security
4:00-6:00 pm Working Group Sessions
o Connection IP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
o Interdomain Policy Routing (Martha Steenstrup/BBN)
o Introduction to Router Requirements (Philip
Almquist/Consultant)
o Network Joint Management (Gene Hastings/PSC)
o Network Database (Russ Hobby/UCDavis)
o OSI X.500 (Steve Kille/UCL)
o PPP Extensions (Stev Knowles/FTP)
o Reserved for Security
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TUESDAY, December 4
9:00-12:00 noon Morning Working Group Sessions
o Connection IP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
o IP over Switched Megabit Data Service
(George Clapp/Ameritech)
o Interdomain Policy Routing (Martha Steenstrup/BBN)
o OSI X.500 (Steve Kille/UCL)
o Reserved for Security
o Router Requirements (Philip Almquist/Consultant
and James Forster/cisco Systems)
o Telnet (Dave Borman/Cray Research)
o Operational Statistics (Bernhard Stockman/NORDUnet
and Phill Gross/CNRI)
o OSI Internet Management (Brian Handspicker/DEC)
1:30-3:30 pm Afternoon Working Group Sessions
o Assignment of OSI NSAP Addresses (Richard
Colella/NIST)
o Bridge MIB (Fred Baker/ACC)
o Interdomain Policy Routing (Martha Steenstrup/BBN)
o IP over Appletalk (John Veizades/Apple)
o IP over Switched Megabit Data Service
(George Clapp/Ameritech)
o OSI X.500 (Steve Kille/UCL)
o Reserved for Security
o User Connectivity (Dan Long/BBN)
4:00-6:00 pm IETF Protocol and Technical Presentations
WEDNESDAY, December 5
9:00-12:00 noon Morning Working Group Sessions
o Connection IP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
o FDDI MIB (Jeffrey Case/UTenn)
o Internet Accounting (Cyndi Mills/BBN)
o Interdomain Policy Routing (Martha Steenstrup/BBN)
o IP over Appletalk (John Veizades/Apple)
o IP over Large Public Data Networks
(George Clapp/Ameritech)
o Management Services (Oscar Newkerk/DEC)
o OSI X.400 (Rob Hagens/UWisc)
o Router Requirements (Philip Almquist/Consultant
and James Forster/cisco Systems)
o User Services (Joyce Reynolds/ISI)
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1:30-3:30 pm Afternoon Working Group Sessions
o Connection IP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
o Dynamic Host Configuration (Ralph Droms/Bucknell)
o Interdomain Policy Routing (Martha Steenstrup/BBN)
o IP over FDDI (Dave Katz/Merit)
o IP over Large Public Data Networks
(George Clapp/Ameritech)
o Network Fax Working Group (Mark Needleman/UC)
o OSI X.400 (Rob Hagens/UWisc)
o Point-to-Point Protocol Extentions (Stev
Knowles/FTP)
o Security Policy (Rich Pethia/CERT)
o Simple Network Management Protocol (Marshall
Rose/PSI)
o Remote LAN Monitoring (Mike Erlinger/Micro
Technology, Inc.)
4:00-6:00 pm Technical Presentions
o High Speed TCP (Dave Borman/Cray Research)
o IP Over Switched Megabit Data Service
(George Clapp/Ameritech)
THURSDAY, December 6
9:00-12:00 noon Morning Working Group Sessions
o Border Gateway Protocol (Guy Almes/Rice)
o Connection IP (Claudio Topolcic/BBN)
o Internet Accounting (Cyndi Mills/BBN)
o OSI General (Robert Hagens/UWISC and Ross Callon/DEC)
o Resource Location Protocol -B.O.F.(John
Veizades/Apple
and Steve Deering/Xerox PARC)
o Router Requirements (Philip Almquist/Consultant
and James Forster/cisco Systems)
o Site Security Policy Handbook (Joyce Reynolds/ISI
and Paul Holbrook/CERT)
o Eight-Bit Character Sets for SMTP (TBD)
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1:30-3:30 pm High Speed Transport Presentations
o Design and Implementation of a High-Speed
Transport Protocol (Krishan Sabnani/AT&T)
o Deterministic Transfer Protocol (Ashok
Agrawala/UMD)
o Axon: Host Communications Architecture for High
Bandwidth Applications (Guru Parulkar/WashU)
4:00-6:00pm Open Plenary and IETF
FRIDAY, December 7
9:00-11:30 am Working Group Area and Selected Working Group
Presentations
o User Services Area (Joyce K. Reynolds/ISI)
o Applications Area (Russ Hobby/UC Davis)
o Internet Services Area (Noel Chiappa/Consultant)
o Routing Area (Bob Hinden/BBN)
o Security Area (Steve Crocker/TIS)
o OSI Interoperability Area
(Ross Callon/DEC and Rob Hagens/UWisc)
o Operations Area (Interim - Phill Gross/CNRI)
o Network Management Area (Chuck Davin/MIT)
11:30-12:00 noon Concluding Remarks (Phill Gross/CNRI)
12:15 pm Adjourn
Phill Gross (pgross@NRI.RESTON.VA.US)
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INTERNET PROJECTS
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BARRNET
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Three new 56kbps connections were made in November, and one new T1
connection. Orders were also placed for the next four 9600 bps
dedicated lines, following completion of the evaluation of the
first such circuit. Six new applications for membership were
received and approved, bringing the total membership to 81,of which
70 will be connected by the end of December.
Work is continuing on the installation of the MCI DS-3 microwave
and the associated equipment for the upgraded NSS at Stanford
University. Activation has been postponed from the projected late
November date until mid-December.
As of the end of November, BARRNet is running OSPF on 11 of the 14
"core" routers, with the other three scheduled for cut-over as soon
as we receive upgraded Ethernet boards. Also, a redundant T1 link
between Northern and California, using fiber provided by the
California Department of Water Resources, is scheduled to go into
full operation shortly according to a plan implemented by the
California Internet Federation (CalINet), to which BARRNet belongs.
by Paul Baer <baer@jessica.stanford.edu>
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
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Terrestrial Wideband Network (TWBNet) and ST/IP Gateway
Video conferencing was used heavily in November. There were a
total of 16 conferences and demonstrations. Of these, 7 were
multipoint connections -- one 4-site conference and six 3-site
conferences. The remaining nine were point-to-point. Two
conferences were held with UCL in London, UK.
Conferences were held for discussions in the following areas: IETF
User Services Area, IETF Router Requirements Working Group,
Autonomous Networks Research Group, Dartnet experimenters, and
ACTS/Gigabit Studies. Conferees included Mark Pullen, Peter
Kirstein, Ira Richer, and Paul Mockapetris.
ST gateways were also used to support SIMNET exercises among 3
sites, Ft. Rucker, AL, Orlando, FL, and the Air Force Human
Resources Lab at Williams AFB in Phoenix, AZ. These were held to
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demonstrate SIMNET during the I/ITSC show in Orlando.
Work continued on preparations for the new "southern loop" to be
added to the TWBNet. This will provide added robustness in the
form of an alternate path between the east and west coasts and will
also allow shorter tail circuits to Southern sites such as Ft.
Rucker and Los Alamos. Current plans call for Wideband Packet
Switches (WPSs) to be installed in Mobile and Albuquerque.
Inter-Domain Policy Routing
We are currently organizing two separate IDPR "testbeds" - one at
USC and another at SAIC. The purpose of these testbeds is to
provide facilities where we can perform our integration testing and
where we can exercise the IDPR protocols without disrupting other
users. Most portions of the IDPR protocol suite have already been
integrated and tested at USC. Once BBN becomes fully attached to
DARTNET, we will continue our IDPR experiments using DARTNET.
Internet O&M / ICBNet Infrastructure
US Internet connectivity for the "Human Genome Project", a
cooperative international research activity, was implemented this
month via the 384 Kbps shared-bandwidth channel of the US-UK fat
pipe.
No IP routing problems have been experienced in the US Internet.
However, the circuits implementing the US-UK shared fat pipe
channel were re-routed by the international carriers from the TAT-8
cable to a backup satellite link for the majority of November. The
US-UK fat pipe provides connectivity to the ULCC, UCL, RSRE, STC,
WPC, and NTA ICBNet sites. A break currently exists in the TAT-8
cable which is expected to be repaired in early December.
IP routing configuration changes are being put in place that will
allow backup routing to the US Internet for various ICBNet sites
via the NORDUNET connection at the NTA site. This backup
capability will be automatically used during outages in the US-UK
fat pipe. It should first be implemented and tested for the RSRE
site next month; other ICBNet sites will then follow.
Jil Westcott (westcott@BBN.COM)
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CERFNET
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Three new industrial facilities will be connected to CERFnet in
January. Micro Technology (Anaheim, CA), Sparta Inc. (Laguna
Hills, CA), and Unocal Corporation (Brea, CA) will connect to the
network via 56 kilobits-per-second (kbps) leased line circuits to
the node at the University of California, Irvine.
In December, CERFnet will install a new backbone node in San Jose,
California. This node provides access to the Internet through a T1
leased line circuit to the University of California Office of the
President (UCOP). UCOP is connected to the San Diego Supercomputer
Center (SDSC) where CERFnet is connected to the NSFNET.
On November 29, from 8:30 a.m. (PST) to 10:40 a.m. (PST) CERFnet
suffered a major network outage. A MCI fibre cut isolated sites
beyond the San Diego-area from the NSFNET. These sites, however,
did have connectivity to one another.
The AGS cisco Systems Gateway Servers at SDSC were upgraded to
AGS+. The remaining AGS servers at the other CERFnet backbone
nodes will be upgraded in December.
Karen McKelvey (mckelvey@sds.sdsc.edu)
CICNET
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In early November CICNet held a meeting of scientific computation
support personnel from CICNet member institutions. The meeting
included a review of the scientific computational facilities at
each site as well as presentations on parallel processing and
scientific visualization. The next meeting of this group is
scheduled for March, 1991.
CICNet staff members John Hankins and Kimberly Shaffer managed an
exhibit at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North
America. The meeting, held from Nov. 26 through Nov. 30 in
Chicago, IL had attendance of over 40,000. The exhibit included
two Sun workstations linked via a cisco Systems router and56 kbs
circuit to the Internet. The exhibit, developed and staffed in
conjunction with Merit/NSFNET, MichNet, and CERFnet, provided a
live demonstration of some of the many resources available via the
Internet to the meeting attendees.
During early November CICNet completed negotiations with AT&T and
Ohio State University on a three year contract to provide CICNet
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with Network Operations Center services. NOC services are currently
provide by Merit, Inc. The contract, which became effective Nov.
15, includes a 90 day transition period. Active monitoring is
expected to be implemented by AT&T/OSU in December with the
transition from Merit services to be completed by early February.
Personnel changes - Joel Maloff, formerly Executive Director of
CICNet, has joined ANS as Vice President for Client Services. The
CICNet staff wishes Joel good luck in his new role. John Hankins
has assumed Joel's responsibilities on an acting basis. Paul
Holbrook, currently a staff member at CERT, will be joining the
CICNet staff as technical manager in mid-December.
by John Hankins <hankins@cic.net>
CORNELL
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No report received.
FARNET
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FARNET has had a busy couple of months. In September, a meeting
was held in Boulder, Colorado to discuss various topics of interest
to FARNET. Proceedings from this meeting should be available by
mid-December and can be obtained by sending e-mail to
roblesc@farnet.org. At the meeting, FARNET decided to write an RFP
for a consultant to help write a strategic plan. During November,
the RFP was let and Northeast Consulting Resources, Inc. was
selected.
New officers for calendar year 1991 were elected. The results are
as follows:
Glenn Ricart - chair
Joel Maloff - vice chair (resigned due to job change)
Bill Yundt - treasurer
Tom Bajzek - secretary
A new election will be held prior to the next meeting to elect a
new vice-chair. The next FARNET plenary meeting is scheduled to be
held in Las Vegas on January 14 and 15 with the primary topic of
discussion being the strategic plan.
by Susan Estrada <estradas@luac.sdsc.edu>
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ISI
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INTERNET CONCEPTS PROJECT
Bob Braden attended the End-to-End research group meeting at
Stanford University, Stanford, Ca., November 7-11, 1990.
An automated tool for testing the configuration of DNS nameservers
was developed. The first implementation, "Doc", is a shell script
which uses "dig" to query the nameservers for a specified domain.
Doc (version 1.0) primarily tests that delegation information is
consistent between the authoritative and delegating nameservers for
a given domain. Doc is available for anonymous ftp from
venera.isi.edu, file: pub/doc.1.0.tar.Z
The latest version of the DNS query tool ("dig" version 2.0) was
also made available for anonymous ftp from venera.isi.edu, file:
pub/dig.2.0.tar.Z. This version includes support for zone
transfer, a more convenient way to make an address to domain name
query, and various bug fixes.
Four RFCs were published this month.
RFC 1191: Mogul, J., (DECWRL), S. Deering, (STANFORD),
"Path MTU Discovery", November 1990.
RFC 1192: Kahin, B., "Commercialization of the Internet,
Summary Report", Harvard, November 1990.
RFC 1193: Ferrari, D., "Client Requirements For Real-Time
Communication Services", UC Berkeley,
November 1990.
RFC 1194: Zimmerman, D., "The Finger User Information
Protocol", Center for Discrete Mathematics and
Theoretical Computer Science, November 1990.
Ann Westine (Westine@ISI.EDU)
MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING PROJECT
Now that the ST protocol specification is an RFC, we have turned
our attention to the application program interface. Through
teleconferences and e-mail, we have been working with BBN to design
extensions to the BSD socket interface to add the ST protocol.
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The SPARCstation version of the teleconferencing system is on the
brink of being released. Many refinements were made to both the
packet voice host, VT, and the packet video host, PVP. These
included more complete microphone and speaker control in VT, and
PVP performance improvements.
To accommodate interoperability between Butterfly and SPARCstation
versions of PVP, the Butterfly version was enhanced to allow byte
swapping of video data. This feature will allow big-endian
SPARCstation PVP's to communicate with little-endian Butterfly
PVP's.
The multimedia conference control program, MMCC, was changed to
support multiple conference rooms at BBN. This is an example of
the need to support different site configurations. Toward this
end, we worked with Tim Cowans at UCL on a generic video server
interface that will allow MMCC to control different types of video
crossbar switches. We are also considering rewriting the control
program to be more easily configured.
MMCC now uses feedback via the host control protocol, HCP, to
ensure that voice and video connections are successfully completed.
Extensions were also made to HCP to control stream selection in VT
and PVP. This will be used by MMCC during multisite PictureTel
codec conferences to select which PVP video stream to display,
since only one video stream can be displayed at a time.
As part of a panel on "Collaborative Design", Eve Schooler gave a
presentation about the ISI/BBN Multimedia Conferencing Project at
the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
in Los Angeles. Steve Casner participated in the workshop on
Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video at
ICSI in Berkeley.
Annette DeSchon, Dave Walden, Eve Schooler, Steve Casner
(deschon@ISI.EDU, djwalden@ISI.EDU, schooler@ISI.EDU,
casner@ISI.EDU)
JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK
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JvNCnet
Princeton University
B6 von Neumann Hall
Princeton, N.J. 08544
Director: Sergio Heker
General telephone number 609-258-2400
Network operations 609-258-1544
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Chris Waters-Pierandozzi has joined the network as Operations
Manager on November 12. Her email address is waters@nisc.jvnc.net.
The next JvNCnet regional meeting will take place January 25, 1991
at the Computer Science Building at Princeton University.
Megabytes, the JvNCnet newsletter will be distributed very soon.
Its purpose is to inform, acquaint and familiarize our current,
potential users, and other individuals interested in networking
about information, activities, and programs concerning the JvNCnet.
In addition, the newsletter will communicate issues and events
concerning the global Internet. We welcome the opportunity to have
our users and readers collaborate and participate with us on this
newsletter. We feel collaboration is a necessity in order for us
to produce the best newsletter, one that provides a wealth of
helpful and useful information. We also want to make it
interesting reading.
Availability for the month was 99.46%. The average network uptime
for the six month interval May 1990 to October 1990 equals 99.37%.
The amount of traffic (in billions of packets) equaled 3.57
(incoming: 1,773,111,727 and outgoing: 1,733,125,315). The figure
of 3.57 reflects an increase of 23% compared to September's
traffic.
JvNCnet ranks first this month for the amount of traffic sent to
the NSFnet. Approximately 850 million packets were transmitted and
it represents 16.17% of the total NSFnet traffic.
Router configurations for the default route on a number of ENS
gateways were changed to ensure these gateways would not lose
connectivity to the JvNCnet if the route for the NSS was lost.
Planning is in progress for a network reconfiguration. The plan
includes firmware upgrade, software upgrade, new BNS model and
topology changes. Significant improvements in backbone topology,
overall performance and capacity, and robustness will result from
the reconfiguration. The new backbone shape will decrease the
backbone routing diameter and upgrade switching performance.
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For providing economical Internet connectivity for small
institutions and individuals, Engineering has started a SLIP pilot
project. In development stages are addressing, security, store-
and-forward mails, and other value-added services for SLIP
connections.
Trinity College, located in Storrs, Connecticut, has been connected
to JvNCnet.
Rochelle Hammer <hammer@nisc.jvnc.net>
LOS NETTOS
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Nothing unusual to report in Los Nettos this month.
Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU)
MERIT/MICHNET
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Significant progress has been made on the initial backbone upgrade
experiment. Routers have been installed at Oakland University,
Wayne State University, The University of Michigan, and Michigan
Tech. Additionally, we have installed a 56K link between MTU and
UM, substantially improving service to that university.
Expected to be added to the new backbone soon are WMU, MSU and UM-
Flint.
In other news, the asynchronous PPP protocol code is now being
loaded into production on terminal server nodes.
MichNet staff participated at the Internet booth at the
Radiological Society of North America conference in Chicago, along
with representatives from CICNet, the Merit/NSFNET project, and
CERFNet.
Pat McGregor (patmcg@merit.edu)
MIDNET
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No report received.
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MIT-LCS
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No progress to report this month.
Chuck Davin (jrd@PITT.LCS.MIT.EDU)
MITRE Corporation
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No report received.
MRNET
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No report received.
NCAR/USAN
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No report received.
NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK
-----------------------------------------
No report received.
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC.
----------------------------------------
The NNSC Internet Manager's Phonebook has been published and will
be distributed to network managers during the first part of
December. The phone book lists the domain and IP addresses for all
technical contacts.
The NNSC distributed additions to Chapters 1, 5, and 6 of the
Internet ResourceGuide.
Karen Roubicek and Corinne Carroll gave an presentation on
introducing the Internet to researchers at the Harvard Herbarium.
by Corinne Carroll <ccarroll@nnsc.nsf.net>
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NORTHWESTNET
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The NWNet Annual meeting took place Nov 14-17, and the focus of the
meeting was to enumerate and discuss the strategic goals of our
regional network as we look to the next decade of internetworking.
Key components of these goals included:
o A focus of providing programmatic support for other
complimentary regional development projects. It is
recognized that other regional efforts in distributed
health care, economic development and educational renewal
can benefit from the telecommunications and programmatic
infrastructure provided by NWNet.
o Formation of a Customer Services Committee to peer with
the existing Technical Committee in an advisory role to
the Executive Board. The realization is that the services
needs of the our widening customer base are as important as
the technical problems faced in running a regional network.
o A dedication to bring internetwork access to the K-12
community either through the selection or emulation of
successful programs in place at other regionals.
o To increase the reliability and robustness of NWNet
connectivity while reducing the operational overhead of
operating and managing NWNet, it was recommended by the
Technical Committee that NWNet provide, maintain, and
manage all necessary equipment for connection to the regional.
o To facilitate the successful implementation of the new
directions and promotion of the new programs presented in
the strategic plan, the NWNet Board of Directors has
created an Executive Director's office.
In other news, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in
Seattle was connected to NWNet via T1 to the University of
Washington, and the UW-Seattle to OGI-Portland connection was
upgraded from 56kbps to T1.
by Dan Jordt <danj@cac.washington.edu>
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NSF BACKBONE (Merit)
-------------------
The count of packets coming into the NSFNET Backbone during
November 1990 was 4,857,386,823. This represents a 7.40% decrease
from the October 1990 total of 5,245,630,461 packets. As of
November 30th, 2125 networks are configured for announcement on the
NSFNET backbone.
IBM's newly developed T3 router has been deployed at four sites on
the NSFNET backbone, where T3 testing continues successfully.
An architectural change has been implemented so that the NEARnet
router peers individually with NSS 8 at Princeton.
Visitors to the Merit/NSFNET Network Operations Center included
Jean-Luc Borsotto of France Telecom.
Eric Aupperle, President of Merit Network, Inc., attended the
Information Infrastructure for the 1990's conference held at
Harvard University. Glee Cady, Manager of Merit/NSFNET Information
Services, and Ellen Hoffman, assistant to the President of Merit,
gave presentations on Michnet and NSFNET at the University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Glee also spoke to the
New York State Department of Education on internetworking and the
NSFNET project.
Laura Kelleher, of Merit/NSFNET Information Services, was its
representative to the second meeting of the Coalition for Networked
Information. The mission of CNI is to promote the creation of and
access to information resources in networked environments in order
to enrich scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity.
Laura participated in the Directories and Resource Information
Services working group.
The three-day conference, "Making Your NSFNET Connection Count,"
was presented by Merit/NSFNET staff and national and regional
experts in networking November 12 -14th in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
More than 80 educators, reseachers, and administrators attended the
seminar which encouraged participants to use available NSFNET
connections to foster education and research.
Pat Smith and Susan Calcari, of Merit/NSFNET Information Services,
were on hand to discuss internetworking and the NSFNET Backbone
Project with attendees of the 76th Annual meeting and conference of
the Radiological Society of North America held in Chicago, November
25-30th. As part of InfoRAD, an instructional and informational
exhibit presenting topics of interest to radiologists as a whole,
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representatives from Merit/NSFNET, Merit/Michnet and CERFNET
demonstrated internet resources with connectivity provided through
the University of Chicago and CICNET.
Susan Hares, of Merit/NSFNET Internet Engineering, attended a
meeting of Westnet, presenting information on the current state of
the backbone as well as plans for T3 and OSI implementation. Elise
Gerich, also of Merit/NSFNET Internet Engineering, attended the
Australian Academic and Research Network workshop in Sydney,
Australia where she spoke on the current state of the NSFNET and
plans for implementing T3. Elise also spoke to network operations
and user services staff at the University of Sydney about NSFNET
and Merit/NSFNET NOC and IS services.
Jo Ann Ward (jward@merit.edu)
NDRE and NTA-RD
---------------
No report received.
NYSERNET
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No report received.
OARNET
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No report received.
PREPNET
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During November, Wilkes University and Pine Creek Software joined
PREPnet. Wilkes University will be connected to the Scranton hub
at 56Kbps, and Pine Creek Software will be connected to the
Pittsburgh hub at 56Kbps.
On November 13th, PREPnet held its second Annual General Member
meeting in Philadelphia. Seventy people attended the meeting.
Topics included: security issues, suggestions for informing faculty
members about the uses of PREPnet, and special projects at member
sites.
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Tom Bajzek, PREPnet's Executive Director, attended a three-day
workshop on "Information Infrastructure for the 1990s" at Harvard
University.
PREPnet NIC (prepnet+@andrew.cmu.edu)
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
-------------------------------
The PSC has received, and is in the process of installing, all FDDI
equipment needed to peer with the T-3 NSS.
The PSC is currently reconfiguring its machine room to accommodate
T-3 equipment.
The gigabit Ultra link between the PSC (site of NSS#5) and the
Westinghouse Energy Center (site of the Cray YMP) has successfully
been used as a transport mechanism for both graphical data and IP
traffic. Equipment is currenly on order which will allow
interconnection of the Ultra link and FDDI networks at each site.
The number of networks announced by the PSC to the NSFnet is now
44, an increase of 4 since our last report.
Greg Dobrich <DOBRICH@a.psc.edu>
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
------------------------------
No report received.
SESQUINET
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No report received.
SRI
----
DDN NIC
In November, we assigned 2,114 numbers to new IP networks. The
total of all IP numbers assigned is now 25,382. (This includes
numbers that fall within assigned "blocks" and numbers that were
previously tagged as being "unconnected"). The total number of
assigned Autonomous System numbers (ASNs) is now 1,190.
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There are currently a total of 2,159 registered domains which
includes 54 at the top level, 2,051 at the second level, and 54
third-level MIL domains. Four new top-level domains have been
registered: the People's Republic of China (CN), the Arab Republic
of Egypt (EG), Hungary (HU), and South Africa (ZA). Seventy-three
new second-level domains were registered in November. NIC staff
have been working with Matti Rendahl at the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm, SE, to assist with the activation of a
root domain name server for Europe. On a related note, after being
off the net for over a month in order to undergo a system upgrade,
the host GUNTER-ADAM.AF.MIL was reactivated as a root domain name
server on 9 November.
Cumulative Network Statistics
Month/Year Class
A B C Total
Nov. 1990 35* 4,198 21,149 25,382
Oct. 1990 36 3,846 19,386 23,268
*SHOWNET for Interop90 deactivated
Douglas MacGowan (macgown@nisc.sri.com)
Mary Stahl (stahl@nisc.sri.com)
SURANET
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No report received.
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK
------------------------------
No report received.
UCL
----
Professor Kirstein and Steve Kille had a video conference with Paul
Mockapetris between UCL & DARPA/Wahington to discuss Directories
and other work.
ULCC/UCL and BBN had a video conference to discuss some operational
problems and some possible further users of UK-US connectivity.
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Several IETF dratfs and other documents were issued by Steve Kille
on IETF Directory Work, including:
IETF Directory Working Group Scope (Version 3)
S.E. Kille
Building and Internet Directory using X.500
S.E. Kille
"An Interim Approach to use of Network Addresses"
S.E. Kille
UCL Research Note RN/89/13 (February 1989)
DRAFT-UCL-KILLE-NETWORKADDRESSES-00.PS.1 (January 1990)
A String encoding of Presentation Address
S.E. Kille
UCL Research Note RN/89/14 (February 1989)
DRAFT-UCL-KILLE-PRESENTATIONADDRESSES-00.PS.1 (January 1990)
Domains and X.500
S.E. Kille
UCL Research Note RN/89/49 (June 1989)
DRAFT-UCL-KILLE-X500DOMAINS-00.PS (January 1990)
Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming
S.E. Kille
UCL Research Note RN/90/29
Local control of a UCL video switch via an ANSA RPC has been
translated to align with the ISI MMCC Sun RPC control mechanisms.
A three way local video conference has been demonstrated in a very
prototypical setting as part of the CAR project, which is
collaborating closely with our DARPA video conferencing activities.
John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
----------------------
1. DARTNET is now alive and kicking at UDel. Our DARTNET router
is hooked to our research net DCNET, which bristles with
SPARCstations, fuzzballs, PCs and timekeeping paraphernalia.
Mike Davis systematically solved problems with misconfigured
smartjacks, noisy cables and feisty interfaces only after gobs
of hardworking overtime.
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2. An initial configuration for DARTNET time servers has been
built, including primary time servers at ISI and UDel. Local
routes were forged at ISI and UDel so that the primary servers
can reach DARTNET, although these routes are not published
elsewhere. Initial observations suggest that timekeeping
within the DARTNET community can probably be maintained to
better than a millisecond as long as the SPARCstations are not
stressed with lots of disk traffic.
3. The specification document for the Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Version 3 has been forwarded to the IETF for processing. The
Version-3 protocol has been running in the fuzzball time
servers for several months and is backward-compatible with
earlier versions. Version 3 provides more accurate time, cer-
tifiable error bounds, a revised clock-selection procedure,
including algorithms developed by Marzullo and Owicki, and an
adaptive-parameter local- clock model which significantly
reduces network overhead.
Dave Mills (Mills@UDEL.EDU)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET
--------------------------------------------------
No report received.
WESTNET
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No report received.
WISCNET
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Meetings with WiscNet site technical staff were held in Wisconsin's
four LATAs to discuss site preparations for WiscNet. Sites have
been busy installing TCP/IP software and electronic mail user and
delivery agents on their various (primarily DEC VMS) systems and
are now fairly well prepared for the advent of the network.
The design of the network has been finalized. It consists of a
well connected fractional T1 backbone riding on the State of
Wisconsin Department of Administration's T1 network with 56K DDS
end node sites connected to the backbone through central office
multiplexing equipment.
A committee of user service staff has been formed to prepare some
"model" documentation. It's intended that this documentation set
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will be a starting point for each site to use in preparing its own
end user documentation. We'd like to hear form anyone who might
have developed a similar documentation set.
All equipment has been ordered with delivery expected in mid-
December. T1 lines between the State of Wisconsin Department of
Administration's T1 network and WiscNet's backbone sites have been
ordered. 56K DDS lines will be ordered soon. We expect to have
the backbone and a few end node sites operating in early to mid-
January and to have all sites operational by the end of January.
We'd like to hear from anyone using cisco routers with Tellabs or
AT&T T1 multiplexors.
Michael Dorl (608) 262-0466 fax (608) 262-4679
dorl@vms.macc.wisc.edu MACC / University of Wisconsin - Madison
dorl@wiscmacc.bitnet 1210 W. Dayton St. / Madison, WI 53706
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