August 1991
 
 
 INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
 ------------------------
 
 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 Internet information purposes only, and is not
      to be quoted in other publications without permission from the
      submitter.
 
 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).
 
 Requests to be added or deleted from the Internet Monthly report list
 should be sent to "westine@isi.edu".
 
 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
      INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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   Internet Projects
 
      BARRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  4
      BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC.,  . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  4
      CERFNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  5
      CICNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  6
      CIX (COMMERCIAL INTERNET EXCHANGE). . . . . . . . . . . . page  6
      CREN  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  7
      FARNET (FEDERATION OF AMERICAN RESEARCH NETWORKS) . . . . page  8
      ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  8
      JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK . . . . . . page 10
      LOS NETTOS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10
      NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC . . . . . . . . . page 11
      NEARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
      PREPnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
      PSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
      SAIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13
      SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER  . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
      SRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
      UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
      UDEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
 
   DIRECTORY SERVICES ACTIVITIES
 
      DIRECTORY SERVICES MESSAGE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
      FOX - FIELD OPERATIONAL X.500 PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . page 18
         ISI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
         MERIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
         PSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
         SRI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
      NORTH AMERICAN DIRECTORY FORUM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
      PARADISE PROJECT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
      PSI DARPA/NNT X.500 PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
      PSI WHITE PAGES PILOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
      REGISTRATION AUTHORITY COMMITTEE (ANSI USA RAC) . . . . . page 22
      SG-D MHS-MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26
      ANSI ASC X3T5.4 Directory Ad Hoc Group. . . . . . . . . . page 26
 
   CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 IAB MESSAGE
 
      Internet Society:
 
      Preparations for the first Internet Society publications are moving
      ahead. A newsletter is scheduled to be released in January and the
      first journal issue we hope to have ready at the time of the June
      15-19, 1992 INET92 meeting in Kobe, Japan. People who have either
      patiently waited for responses on registrations or who have asked
      when they will hear something should be getting membership notices
      (and invoices in the event they didn't send in payments with their
      registrations) towards the end of 1991.
 
      Vint Cerf (vcerf@NRI.RESTON.VS.US)
 
 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
 -------------------------
 
      AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
      -------------------
 
         No progress to report this month.
 
         Deborah Estrin (Estrin@USC.EDU)
 
      END-TO-END SERVICES
      -------------------
 
         No progress to report this month.
 
         Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
 
 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
 ----------------------------
 
      No report received.
 
      Phill Gross (pgross@NRI.RESTON.VA.US)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 INTERNET PROJECTS
 -----------------
 
 BARRNET
 -------
 
      Three new 56kbps connections were added in August and two dial-in
      connections, bringing the total number of connected sites to 94.
      One of the sites, St.  Mary's College in Moraga, California, was a
      recipient of an NSF grant for connection that had been prepared
      with BARRNet staff assistance in 1990.
 
      The first BARRNet member was connected through BARRNet's new hub
      site at Santa Clara University. The Santa Clara hub, which was
      connected by T1 to Stanford University in July, is expected to
      substantially lower the line costs for members in the southern part
      of Santa Clara County, all of whom were previously connected to
      Stanford.
 
      With the activation of a T1 circuit between Stanford and the Naval
      Postgraduate School in Monterey, BARRNet can now provide T1
      connectivity to the whole Monterey Bay region.
 
      During the week of August 26-30 BARRNet supported the OSI hot-stage
      demonstration for the upcoming Interop exposition. During the
      entire week, systems in Europe were reachable, the most active
      participant situated in Finland on the FUNET.  Some tests were
      achieved by using TCP/IP/TELNET to access an Internet host, then
      initiating an OSI application, e.g. FTAM, back to the OSI host in
      the hotstage.
 
      Paul Baer <baer@jessica.stanford.edu>
 
 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
 ----------------------------
 
      Terrestrial Wideband Network (TWBNet) and ST/IP Gateway
 
      During August, an on-line calendar was made available for use at
      WPC and LANL, allowing those sites to check conferencing schedules
      to avoid conflicts when they initiate their own conferences.  After
      these sites have used the calendar successfully for several weeks,
      we plan to make it generally available.  Because conferences
      usually require assistance from BBN, reservations will still be
      required, but the calendar should provide useful information for
      last-minute testing, demonstrations, and impromptu conferences.
      Also during August, one of the codecs was removed from the hublet
      machine at BBN that supports 4-site Picturtel Codec conferencing.
 
 
 
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      This codec was needed for DWS testing.  Sites such as UCL and WPC,
      which use only Picturetel codecs, can no longer participate in
      conferences with more than two other sites.  Sites such as DARPA
      and ISI, which use both Picturetel and Concept codecs, can still
      participate in four-site conferences.
 
      There were few conferences in August.  Part of the reason for this
      was that the German fat pipe was down for two weeks during the
      scheduled installation of deicing equipment on the satellite ground
      stations.  Another part of the reason was probably the large number
      of vacations scheduled in August.  Several reservations have been
      received for September already.  During August, the TWB supported
      four two-site conferences, one four-way conference and one two-site
      Simnet exercise.  Of these conferences, one involved the
      conferencing suite at UCL.  These conferences were in support of
      the following projects; OMG group of the UK FatPipe, DARTnet and
      discussions on the DWSnet.
 
      Inter-Domain Policy Routing
 
      During the month of August, members of IDPR development group spent
      most of their time working on the gated version of IDPR.  SAIC is
      leading this effort, with BBN collaborating on the design of the
      software architecture.  There are a lot of interesting UNIX and
      gated-related issues which we were able to sidestep in our original
      prototype implementation but which we now must deal with for a
      releasable version.  For a detailed discussion, please refer to the
      idpr-wg mailing list.
 
      Jil Westcott (westcot@bbn.com)
 
 CERFNET
 -------
 
      In August, several sites were installed on CERFnet.  These include
      ISIS Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, California), Dataproducts,
      (Woodland Hills, California) and Apple Computer (Cupertino,
      California).
 
      In cooperation with PSINet and Alternet, CERFnet installed the
      first Commercial Internet Exchange in Northern California (CIX).
      The CIX allows CERFnet customers to exchange commercial Internet
      traffic with other CIX member sites.
 
      Karen McKelvey <karen@cerf.net>
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 CICNET
 -------
 
      CICNet activities for July and August
 
      On July 11, the four CICNet T-1 circuits to Argonne National
      Laboratory were cut over from terrestrial access to the MCI
      alternative access digital microwave radio.  The cutover went off
      without a hitch and was the final step in the reconfiguration of
      CICNet facilities in the Chicago area to take advantage of the
      NSFNET node at Argonne.  In July, CICNet also hosted separate
      meetings with Ameritech and MCI to discuss new technologies and new
      services.  At the end of July Paul Holbrook attended the IETF
      meeting in Atlanta.
 
      In August, Mike Staman and John Hankins attended the FARNET meeting
      and NSF sponsored planning meeting in Big Sky, Montana.  On August
      23, CICNet staff and representatives from CICNet member sites met
      with staff at Ameritech to discuss use of SMDS services in the
      CICNet infrastructure.  To support increased quality of
      communication between its members, CICNet installed a computer
      conferencing system during August.  A first application of this
      system will be to support the NIC activities described below.
 
      On August 28, an initial meeting of the CICNet NIC Services
      Committee was held in Chicago.  This committee includes
      representatives from nearly all of the CICNet member institutions
      and is charged with the development of high quality network
      information services on CICNet.  A wide range of disciplines was
      represented at the meeting, including: library automation, user
      support, and technical support.  At this meeting a steering
      committee and three task forces were appointed.  The task forces
      are: Tools and Infrastructure; Research Activities Database
      Development; and Campus-Wide Information Systems.  The next meeting
      of the committee is planned for Nov. 1, 1991
 
      John Hankins (hankins@cic.net)
 
 
 COMMERCIAL INTERNET EXCHANGE (CIX)
 ----------------------------------
 
      The T1 Line to CERFNet became operational linking CERFNet to the
      other CIX member network providers (Alternet and PSINet).
 
      Traffic statistics are being gathered via SNMP and reports are
      being generated.  The following report outlines CIX-WEST usage for
      the month of August 1991.
 
 
 
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      CIX         In                           Out
      Member        Octets   Packets  Errors      Octets  Packets  Errors
      --------  ----------------------------  ---------------------------
      Alternet  6405681877  23290775    2823  2436041753  18012204      0
      CERFNet    185674302   1922536  453890   564414690   3092209      0
      PSINet    2615511850  18930171      34  6166635910  22541248   6777
 
      Starting: Aug 7 1991 at 09:27
      Ending: Aug 31 1991 at 23:54
      SNMP Polling Intervals: 2590
      SNMP Polling Frequency: 15 minutes
 
      In  - data entering the CIX member network
      Out - data exiting the CIX member network
 
      At the present time, approximately 370 networks within Alternet,
      CERFNet, and PSINet are using the CIX-WEST.
 
      Send mail to info@cix.org for information regarding the CIX.
 
      Mark Fedor  (fedor@uu.psi.com)
 
 CREN
 ----
 
      The CREN Board decided in June that, because of the number and
      variety of alternative providers of similar services, CREN should
      terminate its CSNET services.  Because other providers have become
      larger and often less expensive than similar CSNET services, CSNET
      has been losing participants to alternative providers and began
      losing money on its services last year, which was also a factor in
      the CREN Board's decision.
 
      Participants in CSNET services were notified in June of the
      forthcoming termination and that their CSNET services would
      continue, if desired, until September 15, 1991, in order to allow
      an orderly transition to alternative suppliers.  CREN, through BBN,
      is providing assistance to participants in making this transition.
 
      By now, most participants are progressing nicely toward completion
      of their transition to new providers to replace their CSNET
      services, and many have already completed the transition to a
      regional network or a for-profit provider of direct or dial-up
      Internet access.
 
      CREN does NOT plan to terminate its BITNET services at this time.
      It does expect to expand into ancillary services in support of
      network mail, file transfer, and other activities useful for low-
 
 
 
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      end research and educational networking.  A proposed strategic plan
      for CREN is available as the file CREN PLAN9106 from
      LISTSERV@BITNIC.EDUCOM.edu.
 
      Jim Conklin (Conklin@BITNIC.EDUCOM.edu)
 
 FEDERATION OF AMERICAN RESEARCH NETWORKS (FARNET)
 -------------------------------------------------
 
      FARNET held a two-day workshop on interregional connectivity after
      1992 on August 12-13 and a one-day business meeting the following
      day.  The participants in the workshop will continue their
      interaction online in September and a set of recommendations will
      be delivered to NSF early in October.
 
      The next FARNET meeting will be held in conjunction with the
      November meeting of the IETF in New Mexico and will focus on the
      role of the midlevel networks in defining and implementing
      operations standards in the Internet.
 
      FARNET committees and their chairs are:
 
      External Affairs Richard Mandelbaum, NYSERNet
      K-12             Jim Luckett, NYSERNet
      Membership       Jim Williams, NevadaNet
      Nominating       Glenn Ricart, U. of Maryland/SURAnet
      Program          Paul Love, San Diego Supercomputer Center
      Technical        Gene Hastings, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center
      User Services    Martyne Hallgren, Cornell U.
 
      Non-members are welcome to participate in committee activities.
      Let us know if you are interested.
 
      Laura Breeden (breeden@farnet.org)
 
 ISI
 ---
 
      GIGABIT NETWORKING
 
      INFRASTRUCTURE
 
      Joyce Reynolds attended the Consortium for School Networking
      Meeting on User Interfaces in Austin, Texas, August 14th - 16th.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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      DARTNOC
 
      A "standard" DARTnet router kernel and corresponding source tree
      have been set up at ISI to serve as the basis for DARTnet
      experimenters to build their own additions and modifications to the
      kernel.  This kernel is mostly SunOS 4.1.1 with enhancements, fixes
      and hsis driver supplied by Van Jacobson, plus IP multicasting
      supplied by Steve Deering.
 
      Steve Casner (Casner@isi.edu)
 
      MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING
 
      ISI organized a meeting this month with other researchers working
      on connection management architectures from Xerox PARC and
      Bellcore.  Discussion centered around the various approaches that
      have been used in the past to support multimedia services across
      local and wide-area networks.  In particular, the question was
      raised, "What protocols and models do we need to define in order to
      allow multiple implementations of teleconferencing systems to
      interoperate across the Internet?"  We are working on a
      specification of a conference control protocol -- based on our
      existing system -- as one such protocol.
 
      Eve Schooler and Steve Casner (schooler@ISI.EDU, casner@ISI.EDU)
 
      Seven RFCs were published this month.
 
         RFC 1248:  Baker, F. (ACC), R. Coltun, Computer Science
                    Center, "OSPF Version 2 Management Information
                    Base", July 1991.
 
         RFC 1249:  Howes, T., M. Smith, B. Beecher, "Dixie Protocol
                    Specification", University of Michigan.
 
         RFC 1250:  Postel, J., Editor, "IAB Official Protocol
                    Standards", USC/Information Sciences Institute,
                    August 1991.
 
         RFC 1251:  Malkin, G., "Who's Who in the Internet Biographies
                    of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members", FTP Software, Inc.,
                    August 1991.
 
         RFC 1252:  Baker, F. (ACC), R. Coltun, Computer Science
                    Center, "OSPF Version 2 Management Information
                    Base", August 1991.
 
 
 
 
 
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         RFC 1253:  Baker, F. (ACC), R. Coltun, Computer Science
                    Center, "OSPF Version 2 Management Information
                    Base", August 1991.
 
         RFC 1254:  Mankin, A. (MITRE), K. Ramakrishnan, (DEC),
                    "Gateway Congestion Control Survey", August 1991.
 
      Ann Westine (Westine@ISI.EDU)
 
 JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK
 ---------------------------------------------
 
      General information is available on-line from nisc.jvnc.net.  Use
      "telnet nisc.jvnc.net", username: nicol, no password.
 
      The next Megabytes newsletter will be distributed in October.  To
      receive a complimentary subscription, send email to "megabytes-
      request@jvnc.net".
 
      The next planned JvNCnet symposium will focus on network
      applications.  For further symposium information, please send
      inquiries to "nisc@jvnc.net."
 
      For more NOCOL information (JvNCnet Network Operations Center On-
      Line software package) and for acquisition of this application
      without charge, please send email to "nocol-info@jvnc.net."
 
      Operations
 
      Availability for July, 1991 is 99.73%.
 
      The traffic for July was 1,818,051,429 (combined incoming plus
      outgoing) packets. Four highest contributors were Princeton
      University (15.62%), Rutgers University (14.17%), UPENN (6.21%),
      and Yale (6.18%)
 
      Rochelle Hammer <hammer@nisc.jvnc.net>
 
 LOS NETTOS
 ----------
 
      A long standing T1 outage between ISI and NOSC was finally
      resolved.  PacBell installed new repeaters as part of routine
      maintenence and suddenly the T1 link was back in operation.  It was
      fortunate alternate routing was available.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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      The NOSC Cisco node was retrofitted with an AUX port.
 
      OSPF testing has been temporarily defered.
 
      Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU)
 
 NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC.
 ----------------------------------------
 
      The Internet Resource Guide and the files in the Internet-drafts
      directory are now available via electronic mail from the NNSC
      Info-Server.  The Info-Server is an automatic program that delivers
      information by electronic mail.  This allows many sites without IP
      services access to this information in a convenient manner.
 
      For retrieval information on the resource guide directory, send a
      mail message to: info-server@nnsc.nsf.net, with the following body:
 
           Request: resource-guide
           Topic:   resource-guide-help
           Request: end
 
      The guide will continue to be maintained and available through
      anonymous FTP at nnsc.nsf.net, in the directory "resource-guide."
      The NNSC Staff will also continue to maintain the electronic
      mailing lists which distribute additions and updates to the guide.
 
      For retrieval information on the Internet-drafts directory, send a
      mail message to: info-server@nnsc.nsf.net, with the following body:
 
           Request: internet-drafts
           Topic:   help
           Topic:   1id-abstracts.txt
           Request: end
 
      The file "1id-abstracts.txt", is a summary sheet that provides a
      short synopsis of each Internet Draft available within the
      "Internet-Drafts" Directory.
 
      The NNSC Staff has distributed additions to Chapters 3 and 5 of the
      guide.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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      The NNSC is also participating the development of a simple screen
      client for the the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) system.
      WAIS is a electronic information publishing system developed by
      Thinking Machines, Apple Computer, and Dow Jones.  The new screen-
      based interface will allow the NNSC to provide a simple and natural
      query tool for its many documents.  The test version of the client
      may be seen by telneting to "hub.nnsc.nsf.net" and logging in with
      username "wais". Send any comments or feedback to
      "jcurran@nnsc.nsf.net".
 
      Corinne Carroll <ccarroll@nnsc.nsf.net>
 
 NEARNET
 -------
 
      NEARnet has grown to 95 members.
 
      The NEARnet Trouble Ticket system has been enhanced to allow sites
      remote access to tickets using the "finger" protocol.
 
      NEARnet has deployed OSI CLNS routing throughout its backbone so
      that members may partipcipate in the Interop '91 Wide Area OSI
      demonstration.
 
      by John Rugo <jrugo@bbn.com>
 
 PREPNET
 -------
 
      During August, SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied
      Mathematics) joined PREPnet.  SIAM will be connected to the
      Philadelphia hub at 56Kbps.
 
      Marsha Perrott, PREPnet NIC Manager, attended the July/August IETF
      meeting in Atlanta.
 
      Tom Bajzek, PREPnet Executive Director, and Gary Augustson, PREPnet
      Steering Committee Chairperson, attended a FARNET workshop to
      discuss the funding of the NSFNET backbone.
 
      PREPnet NIC (prepnet+@andrew.cmu.edu)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 PSI
 ----
 
      PSI's SNMP
 
      The PSI MIB compiler was modified to enforce ASN.1 rules more
      rigorously.
 
      A configuration database was implemented and tested in preparation
      for the implementation of the recommendations of the IETF SNMP
      Security Working Group.
 
      The PSI SNMP software was successfully tested for interoperability
      with approximately 15 other Network Management Station
      implementations, and approximately 20 SNMP Agent implementations.
 
      Wengyik Yeong (yeongw@spartacus.psi.com)
 
 SAIC
 ----
 
      The initial gated implementation has undergone some testing.  More
      experience with this version is still needed.  However, the changes
      to gated software have been forwarded to Cornell.  The design
      document for the gated implementation is nearing completion,
      although there are some unresolved issues.  These include:
 
         - The specification of the common database for the different
           IDPR modules and how the modules will do database access.
         - The interaction of the gated process with an independent
           route synthesis process.
 
      Another critical area where discussion has begun is the
      implementation of the kernel software needed for IDPR
      encapsulation.  The existing software is inadequate.  The operation
      of IP forwarding in various flavors of 4.3BSD UNIX and the
      requirements specified in the Router Requirements document are
      being examined to see how IDPR forwarding can best be inserted.
 
      Existing SNMP facilities in gated have been found to be inadequate
      for experimentation with other network management software.
      Alternatives are being investigated.
 
      Zorica Avramovic has been preparing a seminar on IDPR to be held on
      September 5th at MITRE in McLean, VA.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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      Planned activies:
 
      More complex configurations need to be examined with the existing
      software.  This is expected to be done using a 16 node testbed,
      using Sparta and MITRE facilities.
 
      BBN has organized a video conference for September 12th for
      discussion of some of the issues surrounding the gated
      implementation.
 
      With the design document complete, work will being on the
      implementation of the new configuration parser and common database
      facilities.
 
      Robert "Woody" Woodburn (Woody@sparta.com)
 
 SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
 ------------------------------
 
      Work on the CASA gigabit project continued during August.  At a
      recent meeting LANL expressed interest in SDSC helping to adapt
      their HiPPI network simulator to a wide area network, such as CASA.
      Hans-Werner Braun and Dan Massey of SDSC are investigating the
      possibility.  Additionally, they're looking into adding graphic
      displays to the simulator.  Hans-Werner Braun also attended a CASA
      Executive Committee meeting at LANL.
 
      During the month NSF expressed interest in including a part of
      Hans-Werner Braun's time in the NSF-supported NREN Engineering
      Group (NEG).  An agreement was reached with Steve Wolff where
      Hans-Werner will be able to contribute to this project.
 
      SDSC's involvement in the DEC sponsored Sequoia-2000 project
      continues in the areas of both networking and visualization.  The
      networking effort is currently in the areas of topology & equipment
      vendor identification.
 
      We are working to integrate the Macintosh shareware mailer, Eudora,
      into our central mail gateway which is based on SoftwareTools and
      MultiNet.
 
      During the coming two weeks we will be integrating a pair of NSC
      FDDI/T3 routers into our network.  They will be used to connect
      SDSC with the San Diego Convention Center and provide the link for
      demos at the TCA & EDUCOM shows being held there.
 
      by Paul Love <loveep@sdsc.edu>
 
 
 
 
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 SRI
 ----
 
      Over 3,700 new numbers were assigned in August.  The cumulative
      total of all IP numbers now assigned is now 34,930.  See the table
      below for a breakdown of these assignments by class.
 
      The cumulative total of assigned Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs)
      is 1,336.  The total number of domains registered is 3,245.  This
      number includes the root domain, 64 top-level domains, 3,113
      second-level domains, and 67 third-level MIL subdomains.
 
                              Cumulative IP Network Statistics
 
      Month/Year                       Class
 
                              A       B       C           Total
 
      Aug. 1991               45      5,908   28,977      34,930
      Jul. 1991               43      5,799   25,364      31,206
      Jun. 1991               43      5,654   24,449      30,146
      May. 1991               43      5,026   24,797      29,866
      Apr. 1991               43      4,977   25,897      30,917
      Mar. 1991               41      4,520   24,572      29,133
      Feb. 1991               39      4,347   22,552      26,938
      Jan. 1991               39      4,246   21,731      26,016
      Dec. 1990               36      4,305   21,811      26,152
      Nov. 1990               35      4,198   21,149      25,382
 
      Please note: On 26 September, the Internet registration functions
      (IP networks, ASNs, and domains) that have been performed by SRI
      will be transferred to Government Systems Inc.  All registration
      activities will be suspended between 26 - 30 September to
      facilitate this transition.  Please refer to DDN Management
      Bulletin 84 for details.  Until the end of September, this bulletin
      is available online via FTP from host NIC.DDN.MIL host
      (192.67.67.20) with pathname DDN-NEWS:DDN-MANAGEMENT-BULLETIN-
      84.TXT.
 
      Mary Stahl (stahl@nisc.sri.com)
 
      SRI is now offering two new network information products.  The
      TCP/IP CD is a CD-ROM that contains all the online RFCs and IENs,
      as well as archives of the namedroppers and tcp-ip mailing lists.
      It has a program that allows searches of these files to isolate
      information on particular topics of interest.  Some public domain
      software is also included on the CD as there was enough space left
      over.  This CD will be offered at a discount at Interop91.
 
 
 
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      The Internet Technology Handbook was edited by Vint Cerf.  It
      organizes currently pertinent RFCs into ten general networking
      topics offered in six volumes.  Each topic is introduced and
      explained, thus providing some background context for the RFCs.  An
      update to the outdated Protocol Handbook, the new compendium has
      the same goal of gathering in hardcopy all the RFC information a
      novice TCP/IP network implementor would need.  It takes its
      guidance from the IAB Official Protocol Standards RFC (1250) and
      includes many informational RFCs and FYIs along with those RFCs on
      the standards track.
 
      For more information on either of these new offerings, call 1-415-
      859-NETS or send a message to nisc@nisc.sri.com.
 
      April Marine (april@nisc.sri.com)
 
 UCL
 ----
 
      We have succesfully put up ST-II (the kernel version) and made VT
      connection to SICS.  Ian Wakeman got the connection through (to
      Steve Pink & Craig Partridge) and heard laughter in return - Ian
      says: "I feel just like Alexander Graham Bell..."
 
      We also finally properly installed our video CODEC on our analog
      video switch and also installed the serial line side connection
      (selectable between this and the butterfly/T20) to an HSI card on a
      sparc with Van Jacobsons driver.
 
      We have also run VT experiments (but not video) to Lancaster, and
      plans are afoot to connect to the University of Ulster. We await
      someone in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire).
 
      We are running the London FIX measurements that were reported at
      INET again as there are now about 10 major campus sites in the UK
      providing "real" IP traffic sources of some complexity. The current
      stats (at a quiet time of year) still show average around 50% line
      utilization in daytime.
 
      There was an OMG video conference - using our second video
      conferencing room & switching some services round the department.
 
      John Crowcroft attends the End to End research group meeting at
      SICS 31 Aug/1st Sep.
 
      John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
 
 
 
 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
 ----------------------
 
 
      1.   The IAB approved the IESG recommendation that NTP Version 3 be
           a proposed Standard.  Among other places, it can be fetched
           from louie.udel.edu in the pub/ntp/doc directory as the
           compressed files ntpv3a.ps.Z, ntpv3b.ps.Z and ntpv3c.ps.Z.
           These files are in PostScript format and are known to survive
           HP and Apple PostScript printers.
 
      2.   The DARTnet time-synchronization subnet involving ten routers
           and over 18 test hosts is still undergoing tests and
           measurements. A dedicated primary time server has been
           configured for exclusive DARTnet access. This server is
           synchronized via our GPS reciever, with backups our WWVB
           receiver, LORAN receiver and cesium clock.
 
      3.   Work continues with Delmarva Power on rehosting our fuzzball
           time servers to SPARCstations using the xntp NTP daemon, as
           well as provide support for our GPS receiver. Meanwhile, the
           UDel and ISI fuzzball time servers have been converted to use
           the new WWVB broadcast timecode format which provides the year
           and advance leap-second warning.
 
      4.   Dave Mills attended the DARPA ITAI meeting at Mitre Bedford,
           the end2end research group meeting in Stockholm, and the
           SIGCOM 91 Symposium in Zurich.
 
      5.   Dave Mills (Mills@UDEL.EDU)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 DIRECTORY SERVICES
 ------------------
 
 This section of the Internet Monthly is devoted to efforts working to
 develop directory services that are for, or effect, the Internet.  We
 would like to encourage any organization with news about directory
 service activities to use this forum for publishing brief monthly news
 items.  The current reporters list includes:
 
         o IETF OSIDS Working Group [X]
         o IETF DISI Working Group  [X]
         o Field Operational X.500 Project
            - ISI
            - Merit
            - PSI
            - SRI
         o National Institute of Standards and Technology [X]
         o North American Directory Forum
         o OSI Implementor's Workshop [X]
         o PARADISE Project
         o PSI DARPA/NNT X.500 Project
         o PSI WHITE PAGES PILOT
         o Registration Authority Committee (ANSI USA RAC)
         o U.S. Department of State, Study Group D,
             MHS Management Domain subcommittee (SG-D MHS-MD)
         o ANSI ASC X3T5.4 Directory Ad Hoc Group
 
                 [X] indicates no report this month
 
 Steve Hotz (hotz@isi.edu)
 DS Report Coordinator
 
 FOX -- FIELD OPERATIONAL X.500 PROJECT
 --------------------------------------
 
      The FOX project is a DARPA and NSF sponsored effort to provide a
      basis for operational X.500 deployment in the NREN/Internet.  This
      work is being carried out at Merit, NSYERNet/PSI, SRI and ISI.  ISI
      is the main contractor and responsible for project oversight.
 
      ISI
      ---
 
         ISI organized the August 27 FOX phone conference, which included
         participants from all of the FOX contractors.  FOX participants
         are tentatively scheduled to meet at Interop '91.
 
         Steve Hotz (hotz@ISI.EDU)
 
 
 
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      MERIT
      -----
 
          o Sue Hares chaired the Interop OSI hot staging session,
            which includes X.500 interoperability testing and demos.
 
          o Chris Weider is compiling a list of DUA demos that can
            be done at Interop.
 
          o Chris will attend the RARE WG3 meeting in Zurich at the
            end of September.
 
          o Demonstrated the K-12 directory system and e-mail interface.
 
          o Upgrade to isode/quipu 7.0 and new versions of DIXIE and
            sendmail-x.500 for sprint.com.  All mail going through this
            gateway now does directory lookups.
 
          o Work on schema documents progressing.  An additional document
            on schema for NSAP addresses is in progress.
 
         Mark Knopper (mak@merit.edu)
 
      PSI
      ---
 
         A script was written to automate the loading of uumap
         information into the DIT.
 
         PSI participated in the FOX phone conference of 8/27/91.
 
         Wengyik Yeong (yeongw@psi.com)
 
      SRI
      ----
 
         Based on discussion during the IETF DISI Working Group meeting
         in July, Russ Wright (LBL) and Ruth Lang compiled and began work
         on the list of required changes to the document "A Catalog of
         Available X.500 Implementations" (Internet-Draft document
         draft-ietf-disi-catalog-00.txt).  We received one revised
         submission for WIN/DS from The Wollongong Group, Inc.  We
         solicited descriptions for PIZARRO, ud, and AT&T
         implementations(s).  Thus far one description has been returned
         for ud from the University of Michigan.  We received and
         responded to 10 queries regarding the document's availability.
 
 
 
 
 
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         Interop demonstration ideas were submitted to Chris Weider of
         Merit who volunteered to coordinate this effort for the FOX
         project.
 
         @o=Internet@ou=WHOIS is populated based on dumps of the DDN-NIC
         WHOIS database.  The transfer of responsibility for DDN-NIC
         services which includes the maintenance of the WHOIS database
         will transfer from SRI to GSI in October 1991.  Because this
         transfer will effect SRI's ability to keep the information in
         @o=Internet@ou=WHOIS up to date, SRI initiated discussion with
         NSF and DARPA to pursue options to ensure that the X.500
         information is kept up to date.
 
         Jose Garcia-Luna, Ken Harrenstien, and Ruth Lang participated in
         the FOX phone conference project meeting held on August 27.
 
         Ruth Lang (rlang@nisc.sri.com)
 
 NORTH AMERICAN DIRECTORY FORUM
 -------------------------------
 
      A revised version of the NADF naming document (NADF-175) is being
      issued as RFC-1255 ("A Naming Scheme for C=US").  Comments are
      being solicited.
 
 PARADISE
 --------
 
      Forthcoming project operational meetings will be held on 24
      September (Nottingham) and 30 October (London).  The next PUNTERS
      meeting will be held on the first day of the RARE WG3 meeting to be
      held in Zurich between 30 September and 2 October, which will
      include a day of tutorials, demonstrations and presentations with
      representation from MERIT et al.
 
      After discussion with the CPMU (the COSINE Project Management Unit)
      some changes are to be made to the COSINE DUA known as "de".  It is
      hoped these will be implemented by 13 September and we look forward
      to receiving comments on the interface's feel and usability.  The
      address again is: telnet 128.86.8.56, and type "dua" at the login.
      The project is committed to a second release of this software in
      twelve month's time.
 
      PARADISE will shortly be announcing the release of a packaged DSA
      and DUA based on QUIPU 7.0 and "de".  The intention of this package
      is to be able to market a more turnkey X.500 solution particularly
      to organizations/pilots with little experience with OSI products.
 
 
 
 
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      The next PARADISE brochure is due to come out in November to
      coincide with ESPRIT Conference Week, hosted by the European
      Commission, which takes place in Brussels between 25-29 November.
      There is a limited number of the first brochure still available;
      when supplies run dry we will make the electronic version available
      in PostScript.  We are planning a much greater volume for the
      second issue.
 
      David Goodman (d.goodman@cs.ucl.ac.uk)
      PARADISE Project Manager
 
 
 PSI DARPA/NNT X.500 Project
 ---------------------------
 
      Modifications were made to the 'pcwp' MSDOS front-end to the White
      Pages, and another beta version was released at the end of the
      month.  It is available for anonymous ftp from uu.psi.com in
      wp/pcwp.exe.
 
      Work is progressing on a full-screen front-end to the White Pages
      for MSDOS.
 
      A script was written to retrieve listings of the contents of
      archives available for anonymous ftp in preparation for extensions
      to the x5ftp retrieval application.
 
      A proposal for the organization of the US DMD was prepared, based
      on planning and testing (in the testbed, below) performed during
      the month.
 
      Testbeds were set up to perform some testing on X.500-related
      proposals.  In the past month, testing was performed on the IETF
      OSIDS group's recommendations on DSA naming, and to test a proposed
      plan for the organization of the US DMD.  Some minor testing was
      also performed to verify that changes made to the US public naming
      scheme in the last NADF meeting did not cause any problems.
 
      Wengyik Yeong (yeongw@psi.com)
 
 PSI WHITE PAGES PILOT PROJECT
 -----------------------------
 
      New organizations added to the pilot this past month are:
 
              The Mitre Corporation
              Vitalink Communications Corporation
              Duke University
 
 
 
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              Hughes Aircraft Co.
 
      Organizations deleted from the US arc in the past month are:
 
              University of Alaska at Fairbanks
 
      Wengyik Yeong (yeongw@psi.com)
 
 Registration Authority Committee (ANSI USA RAC)
 -----------------------------------------------
 
      REPORT on the ANSI RAC Meeting of August 6-7 in NYC.
 
      Agenda items of interest to OSI-DS and the internet community were:
 
         (1) Approval of some changes to the ANSI Procedures for
         Registration of Names in C=US.  These are not substantive in
         terms of the needs of the Internet community, or of OSI-DS.
         They mostly deal with minor legalities for things like challenge
         procedures and such.
 
      Registration of c=US Organization Names is proceeding smoothly at
      this point, though fewer than 10 names have been registered so far.
      Most registrations to date have been for Numeric Identifiers.
 
         (2) Results of the joint ISO/CCITT Editing Meeting for ISO DIS
         9834-1 which changes the arc which is used for the combined
         Alpha-numeric and Numeric identifiers which are used for the
         ANSI c=US registrations.  It seems that CCITT realized too late
         that only ISO had an arc that was designated to do this.
 
      (This is very confusing.  I will do my best to explain it as fast
      simply as possible!)  All the ramifications of this change are not
      yet fully understood, but it is agreed that any identifiers already
      assigned under the original arc { iso(1) member-body(2) US(840)
      organization(n) } must never be invalidated or compromised in any
      way.  Thus, all alpha names and numeric identifier values already
      assigned under {1 2 US(840) } must be reserved by ANSI under
      {joint-iso-ccitt(2) country(?)  840 }, which is the new arc that is
      assigned to c=US by joint-iso-ccitt and which will (most likely) be
      administered by ANSI, since ANSI is already in the business with
      acceptable operational rules.
 
      Joint-iso-ccitt authority has not yet decided what number the new
      arc will be assigned, so it is represented here with a (?).
      Perhaps the number will be assigned this month at the ISO/CCITT
      meeting.
 
 
 
 
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      The question of whether ANSI will have administrative authority
      over the new arc { 2 ? 840 } hinges on the fact that the new arc is
      under joint-iso-ccitt, and is assigned to the Country (c=US) and
      not to an ISO Member-Body (ANSI).  Thus, the authority and
      responsibility is shared by ANSI (ISO Member-Body for the US) and
      the US Department of State CCITT National Committee, Study Group D
      (CCITT Member Body for the US).  Actions are underway to resolve
      this in favor of ANSI assumption of { 2 ? US(840) } registration
      authority and responsibility.  Both ANSI and Study Group D are
      working on it.
 
      As for the impact of this change on the use of c=US registered
      names in the X.500 Directory Service, it should be noted that the
      full numeric identifier (OID) is not used for a Distinguished Name
      (DN) (except possibly for the "short-form" name if it is ever
      approved -- but that is another story altogether).  In c=US, the
      X.500 DN is formed with the Alpha Name value of of an ANSI
      Registered Organization under c=US.
 
      This means that the alpha names will all be the same in either the
      old or the new c=US arc, and X.500 Directory Services will be
      unaffected by the change.  Only numeric OID values will be
      affected.
 
      Since the new joint-iso-ccitt arc { 2 ? 840 } will be constrained
      by ANSI to have the same Values (used or reserved) for any
      registered organization in both the { 1 2 840 } and { 2 ? 840 }
      arcs, and since X.500 "top" levels are always country codes (from
      iso 3166), nothing is changed in c=US.
 
         (3) The Proposed NADF c=US Naming scheme was presented to USA
         RAC for consideration of any aspects that might affect, or be
         affected by ANSI registration actions.  ANSI USA RAC has taken
         the NADF proposal under study, but has not otherwise taken any
         action.
 
      There is concern by the NADF that ANSI should endorse the c=US
      scheme in order to stabilize it and assure that no actions will be
      taken to upset it after NADF begins to deploy systems.  On behalf
      of the NADF, Einar Stefferud made the following proposal to the
      ANSI USA RAC:
 
           That the ANSI Register of Organization Names should have a
           related list of reserved names of organizations chartered by
           the US Government (e.g., Lawrence Livermore National Labs), so
           as to prevent attempts by private organizations to register
           names that are already in use by US Government chartered
           organizations.
 
 
 
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           ANSI USA RAC countered with the argument that this is only
           feasible if the US Government already maintains such a list
           (Register of US Chartered Organization Names) that ANSI can
           use, without having to do a research job to find these names.
 
      Einar Stefferud has taken an assignment from the USA RAC to locate
      the register of US Government Chartered Organizations.  This task
      is to be accomplished by asking those organizations involved with
      OSI-DS to find this register, and tell us where to get copies of
      the list of names to use. (e.g., LLNL should tell us where it is!)
 
      Another proposal involved the observation that ANSI appears to have
      registered each of the state governments, using the same FIPS 5
      locality codes that the NADF uses for stateOrStateEquivalent.
      Closer examination shows that what is really registered are
      stateOrProvince names, and not states-as-organizations.  Indeed,
      there is some confusion at this point with regard to exactly what
      was originally intended when ANSI grafted the FIPS 5 two letter
      State Codes into its registry under the { 1 2 US(840) } arc.
 
      We also note that ANSI has registered a number of ANSI Standards
      under the same arc, with a segment of the numeric ID space reserved
      for standards.  Thus, under the { 1 2 US(840) } arc, ANSI has
      registered three distinct kinds of things (stateOrProvince names,
      standards names, and private organization names), each with a
      segment of numeric values reserved for the type.
 
      Given all this, Einar Stefferud made the following proposal to the
      ANSI USA RAC.
 
           Remove the copy of FIPS 5 state codes in favor of pointing to
           the FIPS 5 registry, in order to avoid any possible confusion
           about who is the real naming authority for assigning names to
           states and state equivalents in c=US.  It is obvious that c=US
           naming is the prerogative of the US Government, and that the
           US Government is not going to ask ANSI for permission to name
           any new states, or state-equivalents.
 
           ANSI USA RAC countered with a task assignment Stefferud to
           produce a complete, fleshed out proposal as a contribution to
           the next ANSI USA RAC meeting during the week of November 18.
           The proposal is due by September 30.
 
      The skeleton of this (DRAFT) proposal is as follows (your comments
      are welcome):
 
 
 
 
 
 
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      ANSI shall use and maintain 3 tables of names.
 
         Table 1: The names of the states and state-equivalents are found
         in FIPS 5.  The FIPS 5 name for any state or state-equivalent
         (e.g., "California") is the registered name for that state or
         state-equivalent (e.g., "for the State of California").
 
         Table 2: Names of standards registered by ANSI under { 1 2
         US(840) } must be distinguished (different) from any state or
         state-equivalent names in FIPS 5, and from any names assigned to
         any private organization under this same arc.
 
         Table 3: Names of organizations in the { 1 2 US(840) } and the {
         2 ? US(840) } registers maintained by ANSI must always be
         distinguished (different) from any names registered in Part 1,
         Part 2, or Part 3.
 
      The logic of this proposal is that any alpha or numeric name of any
      entity (state, standard or organization) registered in { 1 2
      US(840) } or in {2 ? US(840) } must be unique without consideration
      of the attribute type with which it may be associated.  This will
      assure that
 
      These three tables (plus the to-be-discovered table of US
      Government Chartered Organization Names) will thus serve as
      reserved lists against which names requested by applicants will be
      checked for conflicts.  In the event of a conflict, the name
      request must be denied.
 
      This proposal has not yet been given to anyone else for review or
      comment.  It will be further fleshed out and refined before
      submission as a contribution to the next ANSI USA RAC meeting.
 
      It is not part of this specific proposal that the two arcs -- { 1 2
      US(840) } and { 2 ? US(840) } must be synchronized so that they are
      identical wherever there is any entry in one that also exists in
      the other.  Also, all existing alpha names registered in { 1 2
      US(840) } must be simply copied over to { 2 ? US(840) } and new
      organization names should henceforth be registered only in { 2 ?
      US(840) }.  As noted above, this will not be detectable in the use
      of these alpha names in X.500 DistinguishedNames.
 
      Einar Stefferud (stef@ics.uci.edu)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 SG-D MHS-MD
 -----------
 
      MHSMD will meet next month on Sept 17-18 at the US Dept of State,
      Room 1207.  To arrange for your attendance if you wish to attend:
 
                  Phone Gary Fereno at 202-647-2592, or
                  FAX at 202-647-7407, or
                  Internetmail to "Gary Fereno" <0004266994@mcimail.com>
 
      Secutity is tight at the State Dept.  You must be listed in advance
      to be admitted to the building, and you must have ID to show, but
      there are no other restrictions that I know of.  If you are not a
      US Citizen, ask Gary if this is a problem.
 
      A report will be forthcoming after the MHSMD  meeting.
 
      Einar Stefferud (stef@ics.uci.edu)
 
 ANSI ASC X3T5.4 Directory Ad Hoc Group
 --------------------------------------
 
      The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited
      Standards Committee (ASC) X3T5.4 met at Nashua, New Hampshire from
      July 22-26 1991.  The major agenda item was the preparation of
      ballot comments on the Committee Draft (CD) for Replication and the
      12 Proposed Draft Amendments (PDAMs) for extensions to the
      International Consultative Committee for Telegraphy and Telephony
      (CCITT) X.500 Recommendations/International Organization for
      Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission
      (IEC) 9594.  The CD and PDAMs resulted from the international
      editing meeting in Phoenix in April-May.
 
      The Directory Ad Hoc Group is generally pleased with the content of
      the CD and PDAMs and proposed that the US vote to accept them with
      one exception, the abstract services PDAM, which has one service
      that is not compatible with the access control model.  The proposed
      ballot comments were accepted by ANSI ASC X3T5.5 and with minor
      modifications by ANSI ASC X3T5.  Draft International Standard (DIS)
      and Draft Amendment (DAM) text is expected in November 1991.
 
      Ella Gardner (epg@gateway.mitre.org)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
 ------------------
 
      Readers are requested to send in dates of events that are
      appropriate for this calendar section.
 
 1991 CALENDAR
 
      Sep 3-6         ACM SIGCOMM91, Zurich, Switzerland
                      Bernhard Plattner (plattner@inf.ethz.ch)
      Sep 29-Oct 4    5TH SDL (CCITT FDT) FORUM,
                      Rick Reed, GPT Coventry, UK
                      rick_reed@eurokom.ie
      Oct 7-15        6TH WORLD TELECOM'92 SYMPOSIUM, Geneva
      Oct 8-11        IFIP WORKSHOP ON OPEN DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
                      jdm@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de or
                      heymer@iir-adlershof.adw.dp.dd
      Oct 15-17       4TH INTL. WORKSHOP ON PROTOCOL TEST SYSTEM
                      Leidschendam, Jan Kroon (J_Kroon@pttrnl.nl)
      Nov 18-22       IETF, Santa Fe, MN
                      Megan Davies (mdavies@NRI.RESTON.VA.US
      Nov 19-22       FORTE'91, University of Queensland
                      Ken Parker, Telecom Austrl (k.parker@trl.oz.au)
      Dec 2-5         4TH INT. WORKSHOP ON PETRI NETS AND
                      PERFORMANCE MODELS, Melbourne, Australia
                      Jonathan Billington, Telecom Austrl.
                      (j.billington @ trl.oz.au)
      Dec 2-5         GLOBECOM'91, See IEEE Publications. Phoenic
      Dec 14-18       OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
 
 1992 CALENDAR
 
      Jan 13-21       ANSI X3T5
      Jan 20-22       RIPE, Amsterdam
      Jan 28-30       ANSI X3S3.3, Tucson, AZ
      Feb 19-20       RARE WG1, Location unknown
      Feb 20-21       RARE Manager Mtg, Location unknown
      Mar 2-6         ANSI X3T5
      Mar 2-6         CAIA '92  8th IEEE Conference on AI Application
      Mar 3-5         ACM CSC, Kansas City, MO
      Mar 9-13        IEEE802 Plenary, Irvine, CA
      Mar 9-13        OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
      Mar 16-19       Info Netwrk&DataComm, Espoo, FI
      Mar 18-20       Computers, Freedom & Privacy II,
                      Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, DC
      Mar 25-27       National Net 92, Washington DC
                      Mike Roberts (roberts@educom.edu)
      Apr 6-16        CCITT SG VII, Geneva, Switzerland
 
 
 
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      Apr 21-23       ANSI X3S3.3, Mountain View, Ca.
      <Spring>        IETF, San Diego, CA
                      Megan Davies (mdavies@nri.reston.va.us)
      May 4-6         ANSI X3T5
      May 4-8         DECUS '92, Atlanta, GA
      May 4-8         IEEE INFOCOM'92, See IEEE Pub., Florence
      May 12-14       Joint Network Conference 3, Innsbruck, Austria
                      (this is the RARE Networkshop - renamed)
      May 18-25       INTEROP92, Washington, D.C.
                      Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
      May 19-29       ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
      May 27-29       IFIP WG 6.5 Int'l Conference, Vancouver, Canada
      May ??-??       Third IFIP International Workshop on
                      Protocols for High-Speed Networks, Stockholm
                      Per Gunningberg, per@sics.se
                      Bjorn Pehrson, bjorn@sics.se
                      Stephen Pink, steve@sics.se
      Jun 8-12        OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
      Jun 10-11       RARE WG1, tentative-Location unknown
      Jun 11-12       RARE COSINE MHS MGR, tentative-Location unknown
      Jun 14-17       ICC-SUPERCOMM'92, Chicago, IL
      Jun 15-19       INET92, Kobe, Japan
                      Jun Murai (jun@wide.ad.jp), KEIO University
      Jun 16-18       ANSI X3S3.3, Minneapolos, MN
      Jun 22-25       PSTV-XII, Orlando
                      Umit Uyar (umit@honet5.att.com)
                      Jerry Linn or Holmdel, NIST
                      linnrj@ECF.NCSL.NIST.GOV
      Jun 14-17       ICC-SUPERCOMM'92, Chicago, See IEEE Publ..
      Jul 6-10        IEEE802 Plenary, Bloomington, MN
      Jul 13-17       ANSI X3T5
      Jul 13-24       ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6, San Diego, CA
      Aug 17-20       SIGCOMM, Baltimore, MD
                      Deepinder Sidhu, UMBC
      Sep 14-18       ANSI X3T5
      Sep 21-25       OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
      Sep 22-24       ANSI X3S3.3, Boston, MA
      Oct 5-8         FORTE'92, Lannion
                      Roland Groz (groz@lannion.cnet.fr)
                      Michel Diaz (diaz@droopy.laas.fr)
      Oct 26-30       INTEROP92, San Francisco
                      Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
      Nov 9-13        ANSI X3T5
      Dec             ANSI X3S3.3, Boulder, CO
      Dec 7-11        DECUS '92, Las Vegas, NV
      Dec 14-18       OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
 
 
 
 
 
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 1993 CALENDAR
 
      Mar 8-12        INTEROP93, Wasington, D.C.
                      Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
      Mar 8-12        OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
      May 23-26       ICC'92, Geneva, Switzerland
      May-Jun         PSTV-XIII, University of Liege.
                      Contact: Andre Danthine,
      May 23-26       ICC'93, Geneva, See IEEE Publications.
      Jun 7-11        OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
      Aug             INET93,  San Francisco Bay Area
      Aug             SIGCOMM, San Francisco
      Sep 13-17       OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
      Sep 20-31       ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6, Seoul, Korea.
      Oct 25-29       INTEROP93, San Francisco
                      Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
      Nov 9-13        IEEE802 Plenary, LaJolla, CA
      Dec 6-10        OIW, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
 
 1994 CALENDAR
 
      Apr 18-22       INTEROP94, Washington, D.C.
                      Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
      Sep 12-16       INTEROP94, San Francisco
                      Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
 
 1995 EVENTS
 
      Sep 18-22       INTEROP95, San Francisco, CA
                      Dan Lynch (dlynch@interop.com)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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