[IMR] IMR90-08.TXT August 1990 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 research use only, and is not for public distribution. Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first business day of the month describing the previous month's activities. These reports should be submitted via network mail to Ann Westine (Westine@ISI.EDU) or Karen Roubicek (Roubicek@NNSC.NSF.NET). TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNET ACTIVITIES BOARD IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4 AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4 END-TO-END SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4 PRIVACY AND SECURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4 COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5 INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5 Westine [Page 1]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 Internet Projects BARRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7 CERFNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8 CICNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 CORNELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 FARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10 JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK . . . . . . page 12 LOS NETTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 MERIT/UMNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 MIDNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 MIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 MITRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 MRNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 NCAR/USAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK . . . . . . . . page 13 NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC., . . . . . . . . page 13 NORTHWESTNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 NSFNET BACKBONE, MERIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14 NDRE and NTA-RD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 NYSERNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 OARNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 PENNSYLVANIA RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP NETWORK . page 17 PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 SESQUINET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17 SRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18 SURANET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 UDEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET . . . page 20 WESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 WISCNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20 Westine [Page 2]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 IAB MESSAGE OSI REGISTRATION Vint Cerf represented the IAB at the State Department on August 13 and August 27, as part of an ad hoc committee to consider ways to satisfy the US requirement for registration of object names/identifiers necessary for the operation of OSI-based systems. The outcome of this committee's deliberation will be presented to CCITT Study Group D, which is the U.S. State Department body used to coordinate official U.S. positions at the CCITT on OSI-based systems. The primary motivation for this committee is the registration of names which will ultimately be used as electronic mail Private or Administrative Management Domains in the X.400 Mail Handling System, but it may also consider how to meet the need for OSI NSAP registration. Since the Internet needs NSAP registration, the work of this committee is vitally important. It is even possible that the Internet community, with its widespread NIC and Domain Name facilities could provide special assistance in the registration of NSAP (Network Service Access Point) addresses. CCIRN MEETING Barry Leiner, as international representative of the IAB, attended a meeting of the North American Coordinating Committee for International Research Networks (NACCIRN). This meeting had a dual purpose: 1) prepare for the upcoming CCIRN meeting in October, and 2) continuing coordination of North American networking. The meeting began with status reports from Canada and United States. Canada reported the continuing development of Canadian research networking, including CA*net, CDN*net, and DRInet (Canadian Defense research network, not to be confused with DARPA's DRI). They have formed the Canadian Coordinating Committee for Research Networks (CCCRN) which is effective in coordinating such networks and developing representation to the NACCIRN and CCIRN. Some interesting developments were reported re: mail bridging in the CDN*net, establishing bridges between Envoy and X.400. Also, they reported an X.400 connection to a university in China (PRC). A briefing was given on CA*net. The US reported on continuing progress re: the HPCCI (High Performance Computing and Communication Initiative). Two senate authorization bills continue their way through the process. The White House has recommended to OSTP full funding of the HPCC in Westine [Page 3]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 FY92. An updated program plan for NREN is intended to be released December 1990. It was noted that the NREN is broader than just the federally funded networks. Some detailed items were reported re: NSFnet. A briefing was given on the Hepnet/SPAN Decnet Coordinating Group. A CCIRN-initiated workshop on connection/connectionless approaches was held at NRI in July. A brief report was given on the results of that workshop. An Intercontinental Engineering Planning Group (IEPG) has been formed and will be meeting October 21-22 1990 in conjunction with the upcoming CCCIRN meeting. The IEPG is intended to have a comparable function to the Federal Engineering Planning Group (FEPG) set up by the US Federal Networking Council (FNC). Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU) INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS ------------------------- AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS ------------------- Deborah Estrin and Lixia Zhang of the ANRG have completed a paper entitled, "Design Considerations for Usage Accounting and Feedback in Internetworks." Please send mail to estrin@usc.edu if you are interested in reading it. We are submitting it to the next issue of ACM CCR. Deborah Estrin (Estrin@USC.EDU) END-TO-END SERVICES ------------------- No progress to report this month. Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU) PRIVACY AND SECURITY -------------------- No internet-related progress to report this month. Ken Rossen (kenr@bbn.com) Westine [Page 4]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY ------------------------ No report received. INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS ---------------------------- IETF Report for August 1990 1) Congratulations are in order for the User-Doc WG of the Host and User Services Area. The Used-Doc Bibliography has been published, thanks to the hard work and leadership of co-chairs Karen Roubicek (BBN) and Tracy LaQuey (ISI). The User-Doc WG will now retire back to the main User Service WG, chaired by Joyce Reynolds (ISI). Again, thanks for job well done. 2) The following represent the Internet-Drafts posted in August 1990: document Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments work_group isis revision 01 document Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part IV --- Certifying Authority and Organizational Notary Services research-group prsg revision 01 document OSI Internet Management: Management Information Base work_group oim revision 02 document Asynchronous Discovery of an Effective Maximum Transmission Unit for IP Datagram Delivery [MTU Discovery] work_group none revision 00 document Telnet Linemode Option work_group telnet revision 02 Westine [Page 5]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 document Telnet Environment Option work_group telnet revision 01 document Telnet Authentication Option work_group telnet revision 01 document The Finger User Information Protocol work_group none revision 03 document SNMP Over IPX work_group snmp revision 00 3) In August, there were 2 standards related activities. The IESG recommended that the latest version of CMOT by published as an RFc, and designated as a Proposed Standard. The LPR document was published as an Experimental protocol. After some activity with this designation, we will re-open the question of moving LPR forward as an Internet standard. 4) Let me remind everyone that the next IETf meeting will be hosted by the University of Colorado, Westnet, and NCAR in Boulder Colorado on December 4-7, 1990. Indications are that we can look forward to a meeting with excellent Internet connectivity. Plans are in progress for a 56Kb line to the hotel with router, terminal server, and terminals in a separate hotel room. Four organizations are donating equipment and or services for this meeting. As an experiment at this IETF, all plenary and WG meetings are planned to be in the hotel. More details will be provided as the date gets closer. Phill Gross (CNRI), IETF/IESG Chair (pgross@NRI.RESTON.VA.US) Greg Vaudreuil (CNRI), IESG Secretary (gvaudre@NRI.RESTON.VA.US) Westine [Page 6]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 INTERNET PROJECTS ----------------- BARRNET ------- No report received. BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- INTERNET O&M / ICBNET INFRASTRUCTURE Direct EGP route exchange between the DARPA Internet and the NSFNet at FIX-East (SURANet/UMd), and between the DARPA Internet and both the NSFNet and MILNET at FIX-West (NASA Ames Research Center), was established this month. Recently-installed Terrestrial Wideband Network gateways are providing the connection between the DARPA networks and the two FIXes. The provision of global Internet connectivity for TWBNet/ICBNet users via direct connections to the FIXes replaces the use of a temporary path that had been set up for these users through NEARnet and JvNCnet. Routing was initiated between users of the NSFNet in the US and the Joint Academic Network (JANET) in the UK via the 384 Kbps channel of the new US/UK "fat pipe". This facility will replace NSFNet- JANET routing via the JvNC-UK line, which is scheduled for termination at the beginning of September. A new ICBNet gateway was installed at the Warrior Preparation Centre (WPC) in West Germany in July. The installation of this gateway had been awaiting the completion of the 64 Kbps circuit linking it to the SHAPE Technical Centre in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICBNet gateway at the Italian National Research Council (CNUCE) was upgraded in July to a configuration incorporating additional processing capability. TCP-TP4 PROTOCOL TRANSLATION BBN along with SHAPE Technical Centre have completed writing a Protocol Conversion between TCP and ISO TP4. We are testing with a common application protocol that can be run both over TCP and TP4. The implementation will establish connections and transfer data in both directions, but is being debugged so that a complete session can be demonstrated. Westine [Page 7]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 We completed live network interfaces for both TP4 over X.25 and TCP over IP. The TCP needs to bypass the TCP normally used by the operating system, because the protocol translation program expects to see or send each datagram including the information in the TCP header. As an example application, we ran the FTAM in ISODE over both TCP and X.25. This could not be used for testing a TP4-TCP translation, because the ISODE would use the TP both over X.25 and over TCP, and in addition, the ISODE was using TP0 over TCP and over X.25, so that it wouldn't provide TP4 traffic. We then chose for an example application a version of user telnet which was altered to use SUN's sunlink osi TP4 over X.25 which also uses CLNP. This has been used to open a connection from a sunlink osi host over an x.25 (single wire) net to a host running the protocol converter, and then connecting through to an Internet host telnet server, which displayed the login prompt, and echoed typed characters. INTER-DOMAIN POLICY ROUTING The joint USC/SAIC/BBN implementation of the IDPR protocols is proceeding relatively smoothly. We are testing functions individually in our own labs, and we are coordinating our designs to make sure that all of the modules will fit together properly. Protocol implementation distributed over thousands of miles is a little bit scary. We are still on schedule for the proposed DARTNET testing in October. TERRESTRIAL WIDEBAND NETWORK AND ST/IP GATEWAY During August, the ST Gateway and Terrestrial Wideband projects supported six video conferences and one SIMNET exercise. One of the video conferences involved three sites and five involved two sites. The SIMNET exercise involved three sites. Conferences were held by IETF working groups and DARPA sponsored groups. Conferences participants included Mark Pullen (DARPA), Danny Cohen (ISI), and many others. Bob Hinden (Hinden@BBN.COM) CERFNET ------- No report received. Westine [Page 8]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 CICNET ------- Three major activities have been at the forefront for CICNet during August: the issuance of our FY 1991 Business Plan, the awarding of our Request for Proposals for Network Management and Operations Support Services, and the planning to accommodate the new CICNet NSFNet NSS to be located at Argonne National Laboratories near Chicago. The Business Plan is now available upon request. In addition, a separate Schedule of Rates has been created, reflecting a reduction in new member fees, revised categories of membership, and an expanded list of member options. Negotiations are underway to finalize the award of our Network Operations and Support Services procurement. An announcement of the award is expected shortly. The CICNet Technical Board and Board of Directors have endorsed a proposal to reconfigure the CICNet network backbone, incorporating Argonne National Laboratories, and thus providing better connectivity to and from the node. Issues of primary and secondary hop count, current traffic flow patterns, and cost were considered. Additionally, during August, CICNet Executive Director Joel Maloff addressed a CERFnet Plenary Meeting at CalTech on the topic of CICNet's Affinity Groups Programs. These programs, emphasizing user and technical participation in the exploration of possible specific networking applications, has been quite successful thus far and is expanding at a rapid rate. by Joel Maloff CORNELL ------- No report received. FARNET ------ Planning for the September 24 and 25 meeting ensued. The meeting will be held in Boulder, Colorado and hosted by Colorado Supernet. The agenda and local arrangement information will be posted to the FYI@farnet.org mailing list by early September. Westine [Page 9]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 FARNET has an anonymous FTP directory available at farnet.org where userid = anonymous and password = yourname. Listings include FPPs and a CCIRN May 90 Report and Views. Proceedings of the June 18 and 19 FARNET meeting are available in hardcopy form by contacting Carlos Robles at roblesc@farnet.org or 619-534-5063. Member networks will receive a limited number of proceedings at no cost. The non-members' cost is $25 per copy which includes shipping. The proceedings include minutes of the meeting, a list of attendees, and slides from presentations given at the meeting. June's meeting included presentations on the Federal Networking Council, Gigabit Networks, Knowbots, and IAB/IETF as well as slides from the RARE and CCIRN meetings. An easy method of contacting FARNET member networks was set up this month. If you'd like to send electronic mail to the network, type netname@farnet.org. The two FARNET member representatives of that network will receive the mail. For example, if you typed cicnet@farnet.org, mail is sent to the CICNet Executive Director and Assistant Director. Current members of FARNET which can be reached by netname@farnet.org are: BARRNET CICNet CERFnet CREN Colorado-Supernet Cornell-Theory-Center JVNCnet LosNettos Merit MIDnet MRNET NCAR NEARnet NETILLINOIS NevadaNet NorthWestNet NYSERnet OARnet Onet PREPnet PSCnet SDSCnet Sesquinet SURAnet THEnet VERnet Westnet by Susan Estrada ISI --- INTERNET CONCEPTS PROJECT Greg Finn is finishing a paper that discusses the behavior of the IP/SQ algorithm in a small network test setting. Joyce Reynolds visited the DDN NIC 29-Aug. Eight RFCs were published this month. RFC 1169: Cerf, V., (IAB), Mills, K., (NIST), "Explaining The Role of GOSIP", August 1990. Westine [Page 10]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 RFC 1173: Bokkelen, J. Van, "Responsibilities of Host and Network Managers A Summary of the `Oral Tradition' of the Internet", FTP Software, Inc., August 1990. RFC 1174: Cerf, V., "IAB Recommended Policy on Distributing Internet Identifier Assignment and IAB Recommended Policy Change to Internet `Connected' Status", CNRI, August 1990. RFC 1175: Bowers, K., (CNRI), T. LaQuey (UTEXAS), J. Reynolds (ISI), K. Roubicek (BBNST), M. Stahl (SRI), A. Yuan (MITRE), "FYI on Where to Start - A Bibliography of Internetworking Information", August 1990. RFC 1176: Crispin, M., "Interactive Mail Access Protocol - Version 2", University of Washington, August, 1990. RFC 1177: Malkin, G., (FTP Software, Inc.,) A. Marine (SRI) J. Reynolds (ISI) "FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly Asked `New Internet User' Questions", August 1990. RFC 1178: Libes, D., "Choosing a Name for Your Computer" Integrated Systems Group/NIST, August 1990. RFC 1179: L. McLaughlin III, Editor, The Wollongong Group, "Line Printer Daemon Protocol", August 1990. Ann Westine (Westine@ISI.EDU) MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING PROJECT The Voice Terminal (VT) and Packet Video Host (PVP) programs have been ported to the Sun SPARCstation platform. With this software and the built-in /dev/audio device on the SPARCstation, we are able to hold real-time audio conversations over ISI's local Ethernet. The programs form Stream Protocol (ST) Point-to-Point and Multi- Point connections using raw IP sockets to encapsulate ST packets in IP. For test purposes, PVP is also using the /dev/audio device as its source of real-time data. Once the High Speed Interface board and device driver are available, we will be able to connect video codecs to the SPARCstation so that PVP can send video data as intended. Following the IETF meeting at the beginning of the month, work on the ST-II protocol specification continued in teleconferences and e-mail between ISI and BBN. The draft has just been released to Westine [Page 11]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 the IETF Internet-Drafts directory. Dave Walden, Eve Schooler, Steve Casner, Annette Deschon (djwalden@ISI.EDU, schooler@ISI.EDU, casner@ISI.EDU, deschon@ISI.EDU) FAST PARTS No report received. JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK --------------------------------------------- No report received. LOS NETTOS ---------- A remote console access kit was installed at Caltech and Unisys Camarillo. We experienced an MCI board failure at Caltech. The outage lasted about three hours but full service was restored by reconfiguration in 1/2 hour. Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU) MERIT/UMNET ----------- No report received. MIDNET ------ No report received. MIT-LCS ------- No report received. MITRE Corporation ----------------- No report received. Westine [Page 12]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 MRNET ----- No report received. NCAR/USAN --------- No report received. NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK ----------------------------------------- No report received. NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC. ---------------------------------------- Karen Roubicek spoke at the NSFNET Orientation and Training Workshop presented at the MCNC Center for Communications CONCERT Network and Laura Breeden gave a presentation at the NSFNET sponsored Deans of Minority Institutions Workshop in New Orleans. Craig Partridge attended the IETF in Vancouver, British Columbia. The original electronic distribution list for additions to the Internet Resource Guide has been split into two parts -- one list for those who want to receive text files, and one for those who want to receive PostScript files. To request a change in update format, recipients should send a message to indicating which version they prefer. by Corinne Carroll NORTHWESTNET ------------ The Technical Committee met early in the month. Agenda items included election of officers, reports from the Strategic Planning process and the NSF site visit, and the agreement to move toward a homogeneous CSU/DSU pool for the 56kb connections. Codex was chosen based upon the ability to do remote management via derived secondary channel, their offer to retrofit existing equipment, and an agreeable pricing structure and maintenance policy. Implementation of this equipment will be dependent upon the successful deployment of the equipment for the University of Washington's own circuits later this fall. Westine [Page 13]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 The NSS14 was moved from it's old location at 3737 Brooklyn NE in Seattle to 4545 15th Ave in Seattle. The move was required as the old location was destined to become classroom space, and the 24- hour UW operations center was moving to the 4545 15th Ave location. Two new networks were added to NWNet this month: Oregon Health Sciences University, based out of Portland, Oregon connected at 56kbps to the Oregon Graduate Institute. Analytical Methods Inc., a software firm in Seattle, Washington connected to the University of Washington at 56kbps. by Dan Jordt NSF BACKBONE (Merit) ------------------- August 1990 saw an increase of 8.85% over July in packets coming into the NSFNET backbone, for a total inbound packet count of 3,729,357,107. As of August 31, 1990, 1894 networks are configured for announcement on the NSFNET backbone. On August 27, the ability to transmit ISO CLNP packets between Ann Arbor, Michigan and Bonn, West Germany was demonstrated via the NSFNET backbone infrastructure and the EASInet (European Academic Supercomputer Initiative) backbone. This demonstration is the first step towards offering OSI services on the NSFNET backbone, and occurs at the time the U.S. Government's Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) takes effect. The current NSFNET prototype OSI implementation is intended to provide wide area connectivity between OSI networks, including networks utilizing the DECnet Phase V protocols. As NSFNET today is primarily a TCP/IP network, the OSI implementation is designed to coexist with the operational IP NSFNET. Both DoD and ISO CLNP packets are forwarded together through the same packet switches and links. CLNP packets are transmitted "native" on the links; they are not encapsulated within DoD IP. Dynamic routing is supported for both protocols, providing automatic rerouting in case of an outage. The implementation of CLNP and ES-IS was originally developed as part of the ARGO project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with the support of the IBM Corporation. This software was integrated into the packet switching nodes by David Katz and Susan Hares of the Merit Computer Network with support from IBM's NSFNET software development departments in Milford, CT and Yorktown Westine [Page 14]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 Heights, NY. Critical to the international demonstration was the support from Willi Porten of GMD/EASINET in West Germany as well as Peter Streibelt of IBM Europe in Heidelberg, West Germany. Interconnection between MILNET and NSFNET was re-established at FIX-E. Jessica Yu of the Merit/NSFNET Internet Engineering staff, in cooperation with individuals from BBN and DCA, re-engineered the FIX-E interconnection as an EGP peer to the NSFNET backbone. Activities also included the successful testing of T-3 between Ann Arbor, MI and White Plains, NY. The last of the scheduled NSS relocations, NSS 14 at Seattle, was completed August 16. Merit has received a three year grant from the National Science Foundation for the support of three circuits interconnecting NSFNET and the Canadian CA*net. International guests included Olivier Martin from CERN and Ruediger Volk from the University of Dortmund. The Merit/NSFNET Network Operations Center hosted representatives of Western Ontario University and Argonne National Laboratory with particular interest in establishing a NOC. A group of academics visiting the University of Michigan's Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN) and an ongoing program of minority science majors were also guests at the NOC. Hans-Werner Braun, Principal Investigator for the NSFNET Backbone Project, gave a presentation on the NSFNET at the University of Bielefeld, West Germany. Braun also participated in the demonstration of CLNP as well as discussions of other performance issues regarding NSFNET's international connections with GMD and EASINET in Bonn. Elise Gerich, of the Merit/NSFNET Internet Engineering group, met with Scott Brim in a mini-FEPG meeting which is working to draft an architecture for the NREN. The IETF meeting, July 31 - August 3, was attended by Susan Hares, Dale Johnson, Dana Sitzler, Chris Weider and Jessica Yu. Glee Cady, manager of Merit/NSFNET Information Services, spoke at a meeting of CERFNET in Pasadena, CA, August 21. Ken Latta, of the Merit/NSFNET Information Services Mainframe Systems group, attended Bit Tech held August 11 as well as the SHARE meeting held in New Orleans, August 12 - 17. Jo Ann Ward (jward@merit.edu) Westine [Page 15]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 NDRE and NTA-RD --------------- NDRE ---- 1. Army Material Command Norway has now signed a contract for development and production of the new multi role radio system briefly described in IMR of August 1989. The contract was awarded to the Norwegian based company NFT-Ericsson Communications ANS. 2. Studies and testbed activities on distributed databases have lead to a collaboration and joint development of a distributed database system for application in military command and control systems, emphasing on the avail- ability of the database in environments of unstable communications conditions. This collaboration is conducted between NDRE, NTA-RD, NODECA and ELAB-RUNIT in Norway, with interest from STC in The Hague, NL. Anton B. Leere (leere%dione.ndre.uninett@nac.no) NTA-RD ------ 1. Automated Network Management System, ANM, is currently under installation, and will be in operation shortly. The version of ANM being installed does not contain proxy agent for SNMP. This would have been very helpful in our situation with a variety of gateways to maintain. 2. Two timeservers (Fuzzball) has been installed. They are controlled by cesium clocks. One is used as time server for the Norwegian community, the other one for network time experiments. They both maintain absolute time to within a few millisec. 3. A network management project is well under way as a collaboration between NTA-RD, UNIK and the University of Oslo. The CMIS/CMIP has been implemented under UNIX and is currently in the debugging testing phase. When our local tests are completed, we intend to perform some conformance testing with UCL using some simple service user and agent processes. Westine [Page 16]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 4. The official name of NTA-RE has been changed to: Norwegian Telecommunications Administration Research Department (NTA-RD). Please use this name in the future. Paal Spilling (paal@tor.nta.no) NYSERNET -------- No report received. OARNET ------ No report received. PENNSYLVANIA RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP NETWORK ------------------------------------------------------ No report received. PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER ------------------------------- No report received. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER ------------------------------ No report received. SESQUINET --------- No report received. Westine [Page 17]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 SRI ---- DDN NIC Sue Kirkpatrick and Mary Stahl hosted a visit by Joyce Reynolds of USC ISI. We discussed the potential impact of RFC 1174 on the Internet in general and NIC operations in particular. There are a number of procedural changes that need to be initiated prior to a full implementation of the recommendations made in the RFC. These changes will include database, program, and information server modifications. NIC staff are actively planning the efforts needed to move forward on this recommendation. Other NIC visitors included Ruediger Volk from the University of Dortmund in Germany who discussed Internet number assignments and setting up a European NIC with Mary Stahl, Sue Kirkpatrick, and April Marine; and Sheri Repucci from MERIT to discuss Internet number assignments with Linda Medina. The INTEREST-GROUPS files, that are sometimes referred to as the "lists of lists", was temporarily taken offline from the DDN NIC host. By popular demand, these files are now made available via anonymous FTP from "ftp.nisc.sri.com" under filename "netinfo/interst/groups.txt". April Marine coauthored recently issued RFC 1177 (FYI 4), "FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "new internet user" questions", while Mary Stahl coauthored RFC 1175 (FYI 3), FYI on where to start: A bibliography of internetworking information." We presented statistics on internet numbers assigned by the NIC at the IETF in Vancouver. In August, we assigned 27 numbers to new government-sponsored IP networks and 98 numbers to new independent IP networks. The total number of all assigned IP numbers is now 5,434 which includes 3,108 sponsored networks and 2,326 independent networks. The total number of assigned Autonomous System numbers (ASNs) is now 1019. There are currently a total of 1,923 registered domains which includes 49 at the top level, 1,824 at the second level, and 50 third-level MIL domains. Mary Stahl (Stahl@nisc.sri.com) and Sue Kirkpatrick (sue@nisc.sri.com) Westine [Page 18]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 SURANET ------- No report received. TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK ------------------------------ No report received. UCL ---- Steve Kille attended the CO-CL meeting in Washington to discuss what might be termed the ultimate impasse. Steve Wilbur attended the Privacy/Security Rsearch Group meeting and IETF in Vancouver. The UCL ST/IP butterfly gateway has been successfully set into loopaback and video/audio sent from our conferencing room through it and back to a monitor. All the kit is now in place to reach the US, and all the separate components function. John Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK) UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ---------------------- 1. Intermittent SURA outages continue, but at diminished frequency relative to last month. The packet loss rate on connections transiting the SURA switchyard at College Park has risen to almost two percent. We are exploring alternative connectivity options. 2. A donated SPARC station router has arrived, but without a T2 interface, so we are not yet able to participate in DARTNET experiments. 3. Precision timekeeping on SPARC platforms has turned out to be a problem. While fuzzball platforms can keep time to the millisecond, SPARC platforms are much worse than that. It is not yet clear what the problem is. Dave Mills (Mills@UDEL.EDU) Westine [Page 19]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET -------------------------------------------------- No report received. WESTNET -------- 1. The following circuits have all been upgraded to T1 service through joint efforts with Colorado SUperNet: CU-Boulder / CSU CU-Boulder / CU-Denver CU-Denver / CU-ColoSpgs 2. Colorado SuperNet has added connections to: George Washington High School in Denver, General Government Computing Center in Lakewood, Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Ft. Lewis College in Durango, Rocky Mountain High School in Ft. Collins, and Solbourne Computer in Longmont. by Pat Burns (pburns@csupwb.colostate.edu) David C. M. Wood (dcmwood@spot.colorado.edu) WISCNET ------- The communication bandwidth vendor for WiscNet will be the Wisconsin Department of Administration CDN (Consolidated Data Network). Negotiations between CDN and WiscNet are underway to establish a letter of understanding. Orders for communication services, multiplexors, DSUs, and routers are expected to be issued in September. Initial operation is now expected in December. The test installation between UW-Madison and UW-Platteville was installed 28 August 1990. The installation went smoothly and Platteville is now using this link for Internet access and DECNet phase IV communications with Madison. Work next month includes a Platteville name server, use of TCP/IP for email delivery to Platteville, conversion of the Platteville - Madison BITNet link from a analog synchronous line to a DECNet session, and addition of this link to the Madsion NOC. Westine [Page 20]  Internet Monthly Report August 1990 A series of four small meetings is scheduled next month around the state with site technical staff to review site preparations, discuss campus LAN issues, and campus network integration. Michael Dorl (dorl@MACC.WISC.EDU) Westine [Page 21]