January 1993 - ripe-list - mailman.ripe.net

RIPE NCC Quarterly Report #3 Available
by Daniel Karrenberg 19 Jan '93

19 Jan '93

RIPE NCC Quarterly Report #3 Available -------------------------------------- The third quarterly report from the RIPE NCC is now available from the RIPE document store. It details NCC activities during the third quarter of 1992. In particular it gives statistics of the European Internet Registry and the NCC information services. As always we eagerly look forward to your comments and suggestions about the report in particular and NCC activities in general. We will *not* distribute paper copies of the report at the Praha RIPE meeting in order to save some trees. As usual there will be a short presentation of NCC activities during the RIPE meeting. How to get it: The document ID is ripe-79. Gopher, WAIS and WWW users should be able to find it. FTP users can get it from host ftp.ripe.net. The filenames are ripe/docs/ripe-docs/ripe-79.txt ASCII ripe/docs/ripe-docs/ripe-79.ps PostScript The RIPE NCC Team

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Misc. Info Services and User Support items
by Jill.Foster＠newcastle.ac.uk 19 Jan '93

19 Jan '93

Unfortunately I'm unable to make the RIPE meeting at the end of this month. I wish you a fruitful meeting - particularly in the area of networked information services and user support. A couple of items you may wish to consider... The new NSFNET NIC is saying that they may charge for access to their information by non-US sites. They (amongst others) are tasked with providing a Directory of information resources. To be of any value - such a resource would depend on there being a two way flow of information between US and non-US sites in gathering together this info. I wouldn't be happy about them charging for information collected by/from us!! Several reports are available from the Mailbase Server - either via email or anonymous ftp - that may be of interest. In particular - I would like your help in updating the report on Information Sevices and User Support in Europe. Please contact me if you wish to contribute an entry for your country. Reports available: o Report IETF - Washington: Nov 16-20, 1992 (Jill Foster) o Network Training Status Report, Dec 1992 (Jill Foster) o RARE Technical Report 1: User Support and Information Services in Europe. A status report. (JF: editor) o Draft report on Networked Information Retrieval (RARE/IETF/CNI joint NIR WG) (JF: editor) To retrieve a copy, email to Mailbase(a)mailbase.ac.uk with the following command(s) as required in the body of the message: send wg-isus ietf.11.92 send wg-isus nw.training.12.92 send rare-wg3-usis rtr-usis-92 send nir consumer.report Alternatively use anonymous ftp to: mailbase.ac.uk file: pub/wg-isus/ietf.11.92 file: pub/wg-isus/nw.training.12.92 file: pub/rare-wg3-usis/rtr-usis-92 file: pub/nir/consumer.report Best wishes, Jill Foster (chair RARE Information Services and User Support Working Group)

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Tony Bates Joins RARE/RIPE NCC
by Daniel Karrenberg 14 Jan '93

14 Jan '93

Tony Bates Joins RARE/RIPE NCC for two Important Technical Projects =================================================================== I am very happy to announce that Tony Bates will join RARE to work with the RIPE NCC team starting January 18th for a period of six months. Tony is a well known personality within RIPE due to his participation in many RIPE activities and his work for the UK Joint Network Team including international connections. Tony will work on two projects: "Internet Service Specification" and "Implementation of a Route Server for policy based routing across the GIX". A short description of these is appended below; Tony will present them in more detail during the Praha RIPE meeting. The projects are run in conjunction with the RARE technical programme. The main funding for the projects has been provided by SURFnet through RARE. Both projects have a tight schedule. Their success depends on the cooperation of many people within RIPE. I urge all of you to give Tony the support he will need. Daniel Karrenberg RIPE NCC Manager Internet Service Specification ------------------------------ The goal of the project is to produce a document describing all aspects of a "useful Internet service". The intention is to provide guidance to both service providers and customers. All important aspects of Internet services will be covered. This includes essential secondary aspects such as DNS service, routing protocols, routing policy features. Service providers will be able to use the document to specify the service they intend to offer. Users will be able to use it as a checklist for the services they require. The document will reference existing sources such as the relevant Internet RFCs. It is intended to give the document wide circulation including publication as RTC report, RIPE document and/or RFC as appropriate. Implementation of a Route Server for policy based routing across the GIX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The goal of this project is to produce a functioning route server (RS) as specified in "Internet Routing in a Multi Provider, Multi Path Open Environment" by Bates, Karrenberg, Lothberg, Stockman and Terpstra. The function of the RS will be to present unified routes to European destinations to routers on the GIX. The results of the project are: - refining the specifications on routing policy information storage in the RIPE database - route server software - software to derive route server configuration information from the RIPE database - a technical report describing the above This project requires close coordination with the RIPE NCC for the database related aspects and with the operators of transatlantic links, especially EBONE. The resulting software components should be realised with generalisation of the route server concept in mind. The results will be publicly available. It is intended to give the resulting documents wide circulation including publication as an RTC report, RIPE document and/or RFC as appropriate. ----- End of Forwarded Message

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RIPE 14 - Agenda
by k13＠nikhef.nl 14 Jan '93

14 Jan '93

ripe-a-14 R I P E Agenda of the 14th RIPE meeting =============================== January 25 - January 27, 1993 The following items will be treated at the plenary sessions of the coming RIPE meeting. A final draft of the agenda, including the parallel sessions of the working groups, will be distributed a week from now. This agenda, and other documents relevant to the meeting, can also be found at the RIPE archives under: ripe/docs/ripe-current 1. Opening (R Blokzijl) 15 min o welcome o apologies o approval of the agenda o papers tabled o organisation of the meeting o dinner for Tuesday evening 2. Welcome (Prof.J Hlavicka) Prof.Jan Hlavicka is the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University 3. Minutes of the last meeting 15 min o approval of the minutes o action list 4. RIPE and the RARE Technical Program (R.Blokzijl, T.Bates) 45 min o RIPE representation in the RTC o joint projects: - route server software - IP service specifications 5. The introduction of CIDR and BGP4 in Europe 60 min (P.Lothberg, A.Others) 6. GIX - progress report (P.Lothberg) 15 min 7. RIPE NCC (D Karrenberg, P.V.Binst) 60 min o report o the future of the RIPE NCC: - organisational position - budget - financing 8. Global Internet traffic measurement 15 min o status of technical proposal (D.Karrenberg) o report on the use of EASIgate (O.Martin) 9. The Internet - your local radio station? (C.Malamud) 30 min 10. Introduction to the demonstrations (M.Sterba) 30 min 11. EBONE (P Jones, B Stockman) 60 min o status report o plans for EBONE 93 12. EMPB IP services (PTT Telecom NL) 30 min o EMPB is going to introduce IP on it's network, EMPB will be connected to some of the RIPE coordinated networks. Issues related to interworking between EMPB/IP and the European Internet will be presented and discussed. 13. Reports from the working groups. 120 min 14. Date, place and time of next meetings 15 min o January 25 - 27, Prague 15. A.O.B. 15 min 16 Closing

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RIPE meeting - any vegetarians
by Anne Lord 13 Jan '93

13 Jan '93

Dear All, Re: RIPE meeting - lunches Can anyone who is a vegetarian or has special dietary requirements let me know as soon as possible so that I can inform the local organisers in Prague. Many thanks, Anne.

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RAEC (Res, Ac, Ed & Comm) Meeting at Prague
by Glenn.Kowack＠mcsun.eu.net 12 Jan '93

12 Jan '93

To Prague Meeting Attendees: At Prague there will be a meeting of the group on relations between the Research, Academic, and Educational nets and the Com- mercial nets (the RAEC group). I will have a document on some current issues between these nets, including an overview of network traffic types, for discussion at that meeting. I urge everyone interested in these topics to attend. And, those of you with suggestions and ideas regarding these nets and their relations are urged to contact me before the meeting. regards, Glenn

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IETF Trip Report (abstract)
by Jill.Foster＠newcastle.ac.uk 08 Jan '93

08 Jan '93

Some of you may be interested in this report. -- Jill Abstract of Trip Report: Internet Engineering Task Force Jill Foster - Newcastle University, UK Chairman: RARE Information Services and User Support Working Group IETF - Washington: Nov 16-20, 1992 This report is about 1000 lines long - but is structured to allow you to skip over bits not of interest to you. My main reasons for attending (thanks to funding from RARE) were to: o represent RARE Information Services and User Support Working Group (which I chair) [RARE is the Association of European Research Networks] o join in the User Services and associated WG sessions. o co-chair a WG session on networked information retrieval tools. o co-chair a BOF session on network training materials. This informal report is in note form and deals mainly with the areas of User Support, Network Training and Networked Information Retrieval, although reports of the plenary sessions are also included. This report will be stored on the UK Mailbase Server. To retrieve a copy, email to Mailbase(a)mailbase.ac.uk with the following command in the body of the message: send wg-isus ietf.11.92 Alternatively use anonymous ftp to: mailbase.ac.uk file: pub/wg-isus/ietf.11.92 Jill Foster

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Name Change of General RIPE Mailing List
by Daniel Karrenberg 05 Jan '93

05 Jan '93

Dear Colleagues, a happy and successfull 1993 to you all! In 1992 it has happened more than once that an unsuspecting person sent a message which was intended for the RIPE chairpeople or the NCC to this whole list. Therefore we have decided that the name of the list for 1993 (and thereafter, funding permitting :-) shall be ripe-list(a)ripe.net and ripe(a)ripe.net will henceforth point to the duty mail person at the NCC. Any messages recieved here wich are clearly intended for the list will be forwarded of course. According to Internet custom the address for administrative requests concering the list is: ripe-list-request(a)ripe.net. The list is still unmoderated and we still encourage you to keep the volume of messages on this general list to a minimum by using more specific mailing lists where appropriate. To this end here is the list of current lists @ripe.net: chair RIPE chairpeople db-wg RIPE Database working group dns-wg DNS working group ip-provs List of IP service providers used exclusively to forward requests for service. local-ir Local Internet Registries maps-wg RIPE Mapping working group nidus-wg "Network Information Discovery and User Support" working group raec-wg "Relations between Academic, Educational and Commercial Networks" working group ripe-list the general RIPE mailing list ripe-op network operators ripe-org attendees of (past) RIPE meetings This list is included in ripe-list! routing-wg the Routing working group Again all the best for this year from the NCC. Daniel Karrenberg NCC Manager

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Important for RIPE 14 hotel bookings !!
by Marten Terpstra 04 Jan '93

04 Jan '93

Dear folks, Despite of what was mentioned earlier in the announcement and my latest message in the hostcount, hotel reservations must be in before January 8, so January 7th at the latest. **************************************************************** * For reasons beyond our control, a list of the KRYSTAL * * hotel guests must be completed on January 8, 1993, i.e. * * one day sooner than originally planned. Therefore, we * * must ask those of you who have not sent us their * * Accomodation Requests so far but who wish to take * * advantage of the special price in KRYSTAL, to register * * as soon as possible. We cannot accept any requests for * * accomodation which are delivered to us after January 7, * * 1993. We regret any inconvenience which this may cause * * to the RIPE members. * * * * Best regards, * * Organisers of the RIPE Meeting in Prague * ****************************************************************

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Autonomous System Number Request
by Steve Kennedy 04 Jan '93

04 Jan '93

Dear Sir/Madam, Please could you email me an autonomous system number form as we wish to apply for one. This is for the network CELLNET (158.230). Regards Steve Kennedy -- __| Steve Kennedy (UNIX Systems Team Leader) * / -- Cellnet / | \_ | _ _ Hanover House [tel +44 753 504233] < |___ \|/_)\ //_) 49-60 Borough Road [fax +44 753 504759] > | | __/|\_ \/ \_ London SE1 1DS / |_ _| |_|_| Email stevek(a)cellnet.co.uk (work) or (home) steve(a)gbnet.org |_|_| steve(a)marvin.demon.co.uk (dialup [PPP] Internet - SMTP) |_|_|

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