[IMR] IMR88-12.TXT DECEMBER 1988 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). BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. ---------------------------- WIDEBAND NETWORK The Wideband Network supported a demonstration of the Cronus Distributed Operating System and the Cronus-based Technology Validation Experiment (TVE) on December 20. The Cronus/TVE software ran concurrently on computer clusters located at RADC and BBN. Cronus network and system monitoring capabilities, including newly developed Cronus manager access to real-time Wideband Network monitoring data, were featured in this demonstration. SATNET December was a very quite month for the SATNET. The new link from RSRE to BBN is still being delayed. The circuit has been installed Westine [Page 1]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 and tested from BBN to London but there are still problems getting the line extended from London to RSRE. Bob Hinden (Hinden@BBN.COM) ISI --- Internet Concepts Project Jon Postel hosted the California Internet meeting at ISI December 9. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris participated in the CERFNET meeting at UCI, Irvine, CA, December 7. Jon Postel and Walter Prue attended a GTE ISDN presentation at GTE in Thousand Oaks, CA, December 6. Jon Postel hosted the IAB Teleconference meeting at ISI December 2, 1988. Greg Finn performed more simulations to study the effectiveness of an IP source quench congestion control algorithm. The results are being gathered into a report. Four RFCs were published this month. RFC 1083: "IAB Official Protocol Standards", Internet Activities Board, December 1988. RFC 1084: "BOOTP Vendor Information Extensions", J. Reynolds, ISI, December 1988. RFC 1085: "ISO Presentation Services on Top of TCP/IP-based internets", M. Rose, TWG, December 1988. RFC 1086: "ISO-TP0 Bridge Between TCP and X.25", J. Onions, Nottingham, M. Rose, TWG, December 1988. Ann Westine (Westine.ISI.EDU) Los Nettos All five links are operational. We now have a closed loop topology which provides a redundant path if any one of four links fail. It also provides additional bandwidth across the diagonal path due to ciscos load sharing capability. This has proved valuable when one site had to have power work done and during a T1 link failure. Los Nettos was affected by a problem with malformed EGP updates from the core, gateway.isi.edu. The number of distances field was overflowing the 8 bits alocated for the value in the EGP update. Westine [Page 2]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 Because of this, subsequent distances were interpreted by the cisco as new gateways in the update. We forwarded a copy of the bad format and our cisco's attempt at interpreting the update to Mike Brescia. He and Steve Atlas had a fix to the core gateway code soon after the problem was reported. This problem was affecting other networks across the Internet as well. We are now working on trying to get all our traffic to and from the ARPANET to be forwarded through the butterfly gateway, BFGWY.ISI.EDU, to improve performance. GATEWAY.ISI.EDU is one of the most heavily loaded gateways to the ARPANET. The favorable T1 tariff change proposed by Pacific Bell appears delayed until February. We now have two additional sites committed to joining Los Nettos as regular members. A meeting was scheduled for Friday January 6 to talk to sites interested in regular membership or back-door membership. Any sites in the Southern California area wishing continued connectivity to the Internet, after May 1, 1989, should be talking to Walt Prue (Prue@isi.edu) representing Los Nettos, or Susan Estrada (estradas@luac.sdsc.edu) representing CERFnet. Walt Prue (Prue@ISI.EDU) Multimedia Conferencing Project The teleconferencing system was used this month for several multipoint technical sessions and an all-day 3-site meeting of the Internet Activities Board. Again, the need for conferencing tools to help organize multisite participation was stressed. In addition, it becomes more and more evident that things as seemingly trivial as video monitor height, room lighting, and room layout effect the utility of the system. For anyone interested in using the multimedia teleconferencing system, the installation at SRI is ready for use now that some adjustments to the cameras and audio system have been completed. Coding changes were made to the packet video host to enable it to accommodate a variable data rate from the video codec so that better motion fidelity can be provided when there are only two sites in conference. The packet video host-to-ST Gateway interface was debugged in coordination with BBN. Eve Schooler, Steve Casner, Dave Walden (schooler@ISI.EDU, casner@ISI.EDU, djwalden@ISI.EDU) Westine [Page 3]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 NSFNET Project Bob Braden and Annette DeSchon released a version 2.2 of the ISI NNStat programs, which is now available via anonymous FTP from VENERA.ISI.EDU. This version of NNStat runs on Sun OS4 systems, in addition to Sun OS3.x systems. Various statspy performance improvements and miscellaneous bug fixes are also included. In the process of modifying statspy to read packets via the Sun OS4 NIT interface, we encountered several bugs in the NIT interface which delayed progress for a time, however fixes and workarounds now exist for all known problems. We would especially like to thank Van Jacobson, Bill Nowicki and Neal Nuckolls for their help in tracking down these bugs. Annette DeSchon released a new version of the Background File Transfer Program (BFTP). This version runs on Sun OS4 and includes several bug fixes, and some improved error messages. We are still continuing to encounter many bugs in the FTP servers of the world, and plan to write an RFC on that subject in the near future. Bob Braden attended a one-day video teleconference of the IAB, at ISI. During this meeting, he accepted a part-time role providing support to Dave Clark and the IAB. This role has the grandiose title of "Executive Director" (titles are cheap.) This work is being funded by NSF as part of a plan by the FRICC to provide administrative support for the IAB and the IETF. The intent is to allow both these organizations to provide more effective leadership in meeting the present and future challenges of the Internet. The first major task for the IAB Exec Dir was to organize an IAB workshop and meeting for early January. Work also continued on the Host Requirements RFC. Another extensive series of comments was received and processed, and consequent changes were made to the document. A new section on dead-gateway detection, written by Paul Mockapetris, was edited into the document. We expect the final meeting of the Working Group to be held at the January IETF meeting, and that the Host Requirements RFC will be published shortly thereafter. Bob Braden and Annette DeSchon (Braden@ISI.EDU, DeSchon@ISI.EDU) Westine [Page 4]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 MIT-LCS ------- We proposed and simulated a resource allocation algorithm for a gateway, which allocates switch and link capacity among user groups. Based on the fair queueing idea, it should permit efficient implementation. It seems to work well in first tests. Lixia Zhang (Lixia@LCS.MIT.EDU) MITRE Corporation ----------------- No report received. NTA-RE and NDRE --------------- No report received. SRI --- No report received. UCL --- Steve Kille visited a number of research institutes in Australia and talked about collaboration and OSI conformance. Our work on the application of Neural Networks to various aspects of Network Management (particularly topology and traffic management) has been wound up due to a change of staff. A report of the work will be forthcoming. The initial design for a broadband ISDN ATM node and network simulator is complete. Implementation proceeds. John Crowcroft (jon@CS.UCL.AC.UK) Westine [Page 5]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ---------------------- 1. A good deal of effort this month was spent on refining the high-speed reservation-TDMA model mentioned in previous reports. Professors Charles Ih and Charles Boncelet of our EE Department and Paul Amer of our CICS Deparftment have agreed to contribute to the effort. A white paper on the model was submitted in connection with the NRI/NSF initiative on gigabit networks. 2. Mike Minnich, Paul Schragger and Jeff Simpson continue to plow the snowdrifts. Mike's dissertation is on flow and congestion management, while Jeff's thesis is on policy-routing engineering. Paul and Jeff are working a paper on a multiple- server queueing problem with applications to priority and schedule-to-deadline services. In an effort to regularize our various windowing projects, Paul installed and deglitched the MIT network simulator in X-Windows version 11 on our Suns and VAXen. 3. The eighteen Fuzzball time servers and estimated 500 Unix NTP time servers clocked in the New Year without a warp. There was no leap second to worry about this year, but all the Fuzzball primary (stratum-1) servers had to have their startup files reset to the current year, my first duty of the New Year since 1982. While there has been serious talk of incorporating year and leap-second timecode information as part of equipment upgrade programs for WWV/WWVH and the LORAN-C radio-navigation system, this hasn't happened yet. 4. The nice folk at DEC dropped a MicroVAX I and a couple of new, high- end, colorgraphics workstations on us for evaluation and comment. For the moment at least, our grad students are becoming quite spoiled with superflashy graphics and blinding speeds using X-Windows and various heavy applications like Spice, Magic and network simulation. Our Backroom test site installed a monstrous 386 system and high-resolution color display even bigger than the biggest known Fuzzball right beside it. 5. Dave Mills attended the IAB telemeet at DARPA on 2 December. Paul Schragger agreed to serve as Scribe Apprentice for the IAB meeting in January. Dave Mills (Mills@UDEL.EDU) Westine [Page 6]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 NSF NETWORKING -------------- NSF NETWORKING UCAR/BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC., NNSC The NNSC completed work on an NSFNET poster to be distributed to all campuses on the network. Campus liaisons should be receiving several posters during January. by Karen Roubicek (roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net) NSFNET BACKBONE (The Merit Computer Network) With December the NSFNET backbone entered its sixth month of production. Both traffic and network connections have continued to increase in this period. The number of "allowed" networks has gone from 173 primary networks and 30 secondary networks at the beginning of July to 346 primary networks, 152 secondary networks, and seven tertiary networks by the end of November. Of these 346 networks configured, between 290 and 310 networks are online at any time. The number increases daily as configured networks come online. --------------------------------------------------------------- Packets in Packets out November 376,052,359 403,084,221 December 395,580,713 419,348,204 % increase 4.9% 3.9% --------------------------------------------------------------- December shows a continuation of the steady growth in backbone use. Even with a significant drop in traffic during the week of the holiday break, the traffic continued to increase during the month of December. Packets counts are taken at the token ring interface to the E-PSP in each Nodal Switching Subsystem (NSS) via Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol (SGMP). The hourly counts are collected and stored in a database on the Information Services host machine. Information from Merit/NSFNET Information Services is now available via an electronic mail query system. This system, based on the Remote SPIRES product developed at Stanford University, enables Westine [Page 7]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 users to send a message to a server, which will respond with information from its databases. Commands for the server should be the first text line of the message. In response to the command HELP, the server will return a list of the other commands that are available. The server can be queried by sending a message to: nis-info@nis.nsf.net or nis-info@merit [Bitnet] If assistance is needed in using the server, a message should be sent to the Information Services staff at the following address: UserHelp@nis.nsf.net or UserHelp@merit [Bitnet] During December, the D4 framing scheme was converted to Extended SuperFrame (ESF). Through the hard work and cooperation of MCI, IBM, and Merit, the ESF installation occurred without significant difficulties. ESF will greatly enhance our ability to directly monitor the T1 circuits. To improve our ability to monitor traffic flows in the NSFNET backbone, a modified version of the NNStat package, developed at the Information Sciences Institute, was installed during December. In accordance with our agreement with the National Science Foundation, this tool will help us to gather a net to net traffic matrix. The monitor will be located on the internal token rings of the NSS. Modifications necessary to make this work in an NSS environment were software changes to support the package under 4.3bsd as well as PROM changes on the token ring boards of the monitoring RT/PC. by Laura Kelleher (Laura_Kelleher@um.cc.umich.edu) NSFNET BACKBONE AND MID-LEVEL NETWORK SITES BARRNET No report received. CERFNET No report received. CICNET December is a month of waiting for tangible signs of CICNet. Orders with vendors have been placed and delivery is expected. It Westine [Page 8]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 is difficult to site completion of milestones because nothing has yet happened. Communication Line Installation MCI Telecommunications is the DS-1 long lines carrier of choice. They will perform site surveys at each CICNet installation node before Christmas. MCI is also taking responsibility for ordering all of the local exchange loops and for testing each circuit with the Case/Datatel CSU equipment attached to the circuit. MCI will assure CICNet of end-to-end circuit integrity before turning the lines over to us for our use. The schedule for the lines being available to CICNet is: University of Wisconsin to University of Minnesota January 19, 1989 University of Michigan to Michigan State University January 13, 1989 Ohio State University to University of Michigan December 30, 1988 University of Minnesota to University of Iowa January 3, 1989 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to Indiana University January 25, 1989 Indiana University to Ohio State University January 25, 1989 University of Iowa to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign January 16, 1989 University of Chicago to Michigan State University January 13, 1989 University of Chicago to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign January 19, 1989 University of Wisconsin to Northwestern University January 24, 1989 CICNet will be taking over the existing circuits connecting Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago and connecting University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Chicago. These two local exchange circuits are within the Chicago metropolitan area. Equipment Delivery All Case/Datatel CSU's are being delivered to Ohio State University where the staff are individually testing each unit before Westine [Page 9]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 reshipping it to its proper node. All cisco Systems routers are being shipped to Merit, Inc. for testing and loading of configuration tables. The routers are then being reshipped to their proper node requiring only rack mounting and cabling by local staff. Cabinets for mounting the equipment have arrived at most locations. Cables have been built and switches purchased so that once the equipment is installed at each site, local operations staff can switch between various modes of operation with remote telephone direction from the CICNet Network Operation Center. Internet Routing CICNet, Inc. has contracted with Merit, Inc. for the services of an internet routing engineer during the months of December and January. In consultation with the Technical Working Group of CICNet, Inc. and Roger Gulbranson, the CICNet Interim Assistant Director for Technical Support, preliminary configuration tables have been built to work toward optimum connections for each institution presently connected to the NSFNet backbone network. This has obviated the need for many leased circuits which we expect these institutions will discontinue after CICNet becomes fully operational. This should result in substantial savings and hopefully these funds will be redirected for support of CICNet. Bringing up CICNet And now we will attempt to answer the really important question of when CICNet will be fully operational. The target date for full operation is January 30, 1989. As soon as circuits are available in a pattern that will not disrupt existing usage patterns, Merit, Inc. will begin to bring institutions onto CICNet. We expect that this activity will occur primarily between January 20 and January 30, 1989, since a substantial number of circuits will not be available before that time. Cutovers will occur after the above dates of circuit availability. Advance notice will be given on each campus for this cutover so users of the NSFNet should be alert to looking for such information. If all goes well, users should not notice any change except a several minutes of outage as the cutover occurs. These cutovers will be scheduled at off peak hours of usage, such as, the middle of the night or very early in the morning. Merit Contract Negotiation of the contract to operate the CICNet Network Operation Center and Network Information Center by Merit, Inc. are proceeding with the expectation that the CICNet, Inc. Board of Directors will approve the contract at their meeting on January 20, 1988. Merit, Westine [Page 10]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 Inc. has already established a good working relationship with MCI so circuit management should operate smoothly. The cisco Systems routers are familiar to the Merit staff since they are used in the campus network which they operate for the University of Michigan. Additional computer equipment to serve the particular needs of CICNet needs to be ordered for the use of the Merit staff. Policy Discussions Policy issues continue to be under detailed discussion by the CICNet, Inc. subcommittee of the Board of Directors. The fact that the configuration tables which were drafted by the Network Technical Group attempted to serve all existing institutions already connected to the NSFNet in the most efficient manner demonstrated that many nodes on CICNet already have other networks, universities, and corporations connected to them. It seems most reasonable in the long term to establish costs for the CICNet nodes based upon the amount of traffic that each node contributes. It will take some time to establish these traffic patterns based upon usage. These discussions will continue as CICNet, Inc. grapples with the modern complexities of running a cooperative network. Hiring a New Executive Director CICNet, Inc. is searching for a new Executive Director with a closing date for application of January 15, 1989. The Executive Director is the chief operating officer of the corporation and is responsible to the Board of Directors. Ideally, this person will be located on the campus of one of the CICNet member institutions and will need to have frequent contact with the staff at Merit, Inc. The position requires someone skilled in management with innovative ideas that can be applied in developing cooperative networks and applications to operate on such networks. Interested parties should contact Roger G. Clark, Director of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, at 217-333-8475. by Barbara B. Wolfe (BBWOLFE%UMNACVX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu) CORNELL UNIVERSITY THEORY CENTER No report received. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET No report received. Westine [Page 11]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 JOHN VON NEUMANN NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER No report received. MERIT/UMNET No report received. MIDNET No report received. MRNET An MRNet general meeting was held December 14. It was well attended by members as well as organizations interested in becoming members. MRNet officers for 1989 were elected: Mahlon Stacy Chair Jeff Wabik Vice Chair/Chair, Technical Committee Carl Henry Treasurer Tim Salo Secretary Special recognition is due Dan McCreary who had been Vice Chair, but has since moved on to NeXT. Two organizations were formally accepted as members: Honeywell and Network Systems Corporation. The private colleges in Minnesota were well represented: six private colleges interested in joining MRNet attended. The MRNet Technical Committee will assist these colleges in designing and implementing connections to MRNet which will enable them to communicate with each other and the Internet. The next MRNet general meeting is scheduled for March 15. by Tim Salo (tjs@msc.umn.edu) NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND UNIVERSITY SATELLITE NETWORK PROJECT No report received. Westine [Page 12]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 NORTHWESTNET Intel Corp. in Hillsboro, OR has joined NWNet as a commercial member. Network usage continues to grow. As of December, the average daily traffic into and out of NWnet at the NSS (located at the U of Washington) was about 1.8 million packets per day, double that of the highest month in the previous quarter. Internal NWNet traffic statistics reporting the traffic between the U of Washington and adjacent nodes show a three-fold growth between June and December, 1988. by JQ Johnson (jqj@hogg.cc.uoregon.edu) NYSERNET No report received. OARNET No report received. PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER PSCnet added two new networks, Nasa Lewis (128.156) and Malone College (192.42.153). There has been no unschedualed downtime for our NSFnet connectivity. Our ARPAnet gateway was manually restarted twice in association with the PSN14 outage due to power upgrades at Carnegie Mellon University. by Matt Mathis (mathis@fornax.ece.cmu.edu) SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER No report received. SESQUINET No report received. Westine [Page 13]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 SURANET The following SURAnet sites are presently on-line: University of Alabama at Birmingham Alabama Supercomputer Network University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa Catholic University of America Clemson University Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility University of Delaware Department of Energy/Oak Ridge Operations Office Emory University University of Florida Florida Institute of Technology Florida State University Fox Chase Cancer Center Gallaudet University George Mason University Georgetown University George Washington University Georgia Institute of Technology University of Georgia ICASE (Inst. for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering) Johns Hopkins University University of Kentucky Louisiana State University University of Maryland Mississippi State University MSCC University of Mississippi University of So. Mississippi NASA/Goddard NASA/Langley National Bureau Of Standards National Cancer Institute/Frederick Cancer Research Center National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences National Institutes of Health National Radio Astronomy Observatory National Science Foundation Naval Research Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory Old Dominion University OSTI Supercomputer Research Center (IDA) University of Tennessee Triangle Universities Computation Center Duke University Westine [Page 14]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 North Carolina State University University of North Carolina Tulane University Vanderbilt University Virginia Commonwealth University US Geological Survey University of Virginia Virginia Polytechnic Institute University of West Virginia College of William & Mary The following networks are presently advertised to the NSFnet: 128.4 DCN 128.8 University of Maryland 128.60 Naval Research Laboratory 128.61 Georgia Tech 128.82 Old Dominion University 128.109 Triangle Universities 128.140 Emory 128.143 University of Virginia 128.150 National Science Foundation 128.163 University of Kentucky 128.164 George Washington University 128.167 Southeastern University Research Association Network 128.169 University of Tennessee 128.172 Viriginia Commonwealth University 128.173 Virginia Tech 128.175 University of Delaware 128.183 NASA/Goddard 128.186 Florida State University 128.192 University of Georgia 128.220 John Hopkins University 128.227 University of Florida 128.231 National Institute of Health 128.239 College of William & Mary 129.2 UMD bogon-net 129.6 National Bureau of Standards 129.43 National Cancer Institute 129.57 Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility 129.59 Vanderbilt 129.66 University of Alabama 129.71 West Virginia Net 129.174 George Mason University 129.81 Tulane University 130.11 United States Geological Survey 130.14 National Library of Medicine 130.18 Mississippi State University Westine [Page 15]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 130.39 Louisiana State University 130.74 University of Mississippi 130.85 UMBC.NET 130.207 Georgia Institute of Technology 131.95 University of South Mississippi 131.118 MINC.NET 192.5.39 University of Delaware 192.5.45 Fox Chase Cancer Center 192.5.57 University of Delaware 192.5.82 Florida State University 192.5.214 DEC 192.5.215 George Mason University 192.5.219 Clemson Univeristy 192.12.121 FSUCS 192.12.122 FSUCS2 192.16.175 Georgetown Univeristy 192.16.176 Louisiana State University 192.26.10 Gallaudet Univeristy 192.26.11 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET1 192.26.12 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET2 192.26.13 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET3 192.26.14 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET4 192.26.17 National Research Laboratory-HUBNET7 192.26.26 National Research Laboratory-FIBER 192.31.192 IDA/Supercomputer Research Center 192.31.193 Catholic University of America 192.33.115 National Radio Astronomy Observatory 192.41.177 SURAnet Network Operations Center 192.42.142 ICASE-NET 192.42.239 Florida Institute of Technology 1/3/89 by Jack Hahn (HAHN@umdc.umd.edu) Westine [Page 16]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 WESTNET 1. David Wood and Carol Ward finally got the Dowty T-1 CSU's (apparently) working with the cisco T-1 interface. When stable, the 56 KBPS circuit between the University of Colorado at Boulder will be replaced with a the T-1 circuit. 2. There will be a meeting of the Westnet Steering Committee in Denver on 12 January 1989. Issues to be discussed will include BITNET, and NIC/NOC models. 3. Below is a list of the networks currently being advertised to the NSFNET. We provide this now, as it has changed a good deal since the last time it was reported. Westnet-East 129.19.0.0 Colorado - Universities University of Colorado 128.138.0.0 Colorado State University 129.82.0.0 University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 128.198.0.0 University of Denver 192.26.49.0 Colorado School of Mines 192.26.83.0 University of Colorado, Denver 192.31.14.0 Colorado - Non-University US West 130.13.0.0 Wyoming University of Wyoming 129.72.0.0 New Mexico - Universities New Mexico State University 128.123.0.0 University of New Mexico 129.124.0.0 New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology 129.138.0.0 New Mexico - Non-University New Mexico Technet 129.121.0.0 National Sunspot Observatory 192.35.200.0 Apache Point Observatory 192.41.211.0 Santa Fe Institute 192.12.12.0 *Los Alamos National Labs 128.165.0.0 * secondary - they now have a direct link to NCAR Westnet-West 192.31.39.0 Utah - Universities University of Utah 128.110.0.0 University of Utah - Apollo Ring 192.12.56.0 Utah-Michigan-Chicago Cosmic Ray Experiment 192.42.108.0 Utah State University 129.123.0.0 Brigham Young University 128.187.0.0 Arizona - Universities Westine [Page 17]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 Arizona State University 129.219.0.0 University of Arizona 128.196.0.0 CMI 192.35.195.0 ECE 192.35.203.0 SAO 192.33.140.0 Steward Observatory 192.31.28.0 NAOA 192.31.165.0 by Pat Burns and Carol Ward (pburns@super.org and cward@spot.colorado.edu) Westine [Page 18]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 TASK FORCE REPORTS ------------------ APPLICATIONS -- USER INTERFACE "The next meeting of the task force is scheduled for February 7-8, in the Bay Area." Keith Lantz (LANTZ@ORC.OLIVETTI.COM) AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS Currently members of the ANTF are preparing for the January IAB meeting (and our February meeting at ISI) by synthesizing (and documenting!) more detailed descriptions of proposed project areas. Deborah Estrin (Estrin@OBERON.USC.EDU) END-TO-END SERVICES No internet related progress to report. Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU) INTERNET ARCHITECTURE No report received. INTERNET ENGINEERING 1) The next meeting of the IETF is Jan 18-20 at the University of Texas in Austin. Meeting information (agenda, hotel, directions) are available from Karen Bowers (bowers@sccgate.scc.com) or Phill Gross (gross@sccgate.scc.com). 2) There are currently 15 active Working Groups in the IETF and the quarterly meetings are typically attended by 100-150 people. Managing the activities for a group this size is no longer a simple task. I am pleased that Karen Bowers (NRI, Senior Systems Analyst) will be working with me on IETF matters in the future. By next month, we should be able to announce the dates and locations of the next 5 IETF meetings. Westine [Page 19]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 3) The status of the currently active IETF Working Groups is summarized in the matrix below. For more detailed information (eg, to obtain a description of the WGs; to obtain copies of the draft documents or WG reports; or to obtain information on meeting dates and locations), contact either the Chairs/Points-of-Contact directly (listed below) or send a request to bowers@sccgate.scc.com. We are now in the process of updating and reorganizing the IETF directory at SRI-NIC to make all this information more easily accessible online. IETF Working Group Status Working Groups RFC or Met Current Meeting Chair or POC Draft? Oct 88? Report? Jan 89? (address) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authentication Yes Yes Yes No Jeff Schiller (MIT) jis@athena.mit.edu CMIP-over-TCP (CMOT) Yes Yes Yes Yes Lee LaBarre (MITRE) cel@mitre-bedford.arpa Host Requirements Yes Yes Yes Yes Bob Braden (ISI) braden@isi.edu Interconnectivity No Yes Yes Yes Guy Almes (Rice) almes@rice.edu Internet MIB Yes Yes Yes Yes Craig Partridge (BBN) craig@nnsc.nsf.net NSFnet/Reg. Monitoring No Yes Yes Yes Susan Hares (Merit) skh@merit.edu Open SPF-based IGP Yes Yes Yes No Mike Petry (UMD) petry@trantor.umd.edu Open Systems Routing Yes No Yes No Marianne Lepp (BBN) mlepp@bbn.com OSI Interoperability Yes NA NA Yes Ross Callon (DEC) callon@erlang.dec.com PDN Routing Group No Yes Yes No C-H Rokitansky roki@isi.edu Performance and CC No Yes Yes Yes Allison Mankin (MITRE) mankin@gateway.mitre.org Pt-Pt Protocol Yes Yes Yes Yes Drew Perkins (CMU) ddp#@andrew.cmu.edu ST and CO-IP Yes Yes Yes Yes Claudio Topolcic (BBN) topolcic@bbn.com TELNET Linemode Yes Yes Yes Yes Dave Borman (Cray) dab@cray.com User Services (New) NA NA NA Yes Karen Bowers (NRI) bowers@sccgate.scc.com Westine [Page 20]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 Phill Gross (interim address: gross@sccgate.scc.com) Corporation for National Research Initiatives (NRI) 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 22091 703-620-8990 INTERNET MANAGEMENT No report received. PRIVACY The Privacy Task Force held a one-day interim meeting on 6 December at BBN Communications, Cambridge, MA, in order to review drafts of two documents on privacy-enhanced electronic mail: the successor to RFC-1040 and its (as-yet unnumbered) companion key management RFC. As a result of discussion at the meeting, John Linn and Steve Kent revised and recirculated the pair of RFCs. We expect to present the architecture defined in the RFCs at the January 1989 IAB workshop meeting in Santa Clara. John Linn (Linn@CCY.BBN.COM) ROBUSTNESS AND SURVIVABILITY No report received. SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING 1. The Telescience Testbed Pilot Program (TTPP), conducted by 15 universities under subcontract to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), is completed as of the end of December. A final report is currently being written. The TTPP was a set of user-oriented rapid- prototyping testbeds investigating various critical issues in the design of the information system of the space station era. Many of these issues were communication networking related, and as a result, many of the results of the program pertain directly to the Westine [Page 21]  Internet Monthly Report December 1988 Internet. 2. The task force is planning on having a meeting 17-18 January at ISI. Topics to be covered include finalizing a paper on the requirements for high bandwidth networking, reviewing the results of the TTPP, and discussing the requirements and implications of distributed systems. Barry Leiner (Leiner@RIACS.EDU) DSAB ---- No internet-related progress to report. Charlotte Tubis (Tubis@Purdue.Edu)