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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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RIPE DNS Hostcount December 1992
by Marten Terpstra 04 Jan '93

04 Jan '93

Friends, First of all, best wishes for 1993 once more. Below the last hostcount for 1992. Not much comments, just that CS and FI went down a bit, probably due to unreachable nameservers. Overall a nice increase of 12,500 to over 284,000. We have some catching up to do to reach 300,000 at the next RIPE meeting. Again the entire history is appended below, and all the output files can be fetched again from ftp.ripe.net:ripe/hostcount Before I forget, anyone who wishes to have their hotel for the next RIPE meeting to be reserved by the people in Prague, should send in the registration form before the end of this week. Also people who arrange their own hotel, but will be present at the RIPE meeting should send in a line to meeting(a)ripe.net, so that we and the people in Prague have some estimate on the number of people that will attend for all logistics. See you in Prague, -Marten ---------- RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Nov 30 1992 This Count : Thu Dec 31 1992 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 1 0 0 0 0 at 201 8786 52 8734 + 506 be 34 2076 68 2008 + 111 bg 1 0 0 0 0 by 0 0 0 0 0 ch 112 23120 169 22951 + 1236 cs 40 962 72 890 - 22 de 997 62461 1166 61295 + 2511 dk 85 4949 48 4901 + 5 dz 0 0 0 0 0 ee 8 67 0 67 + 3 es 186 5574 91 5483 + 3 fi 164 19042 473 18569 - 460 fr 334 25243 499 24744 + 1051 gb 1 5 0 5 + 1 gr 42 697 150 547 + 56 hr 0 0 0 0 0 hu 6 491 2 489 + 389 ie 29 1128 13 1115 + 133 is 15 748 9 739 + 29 it 217 7212 105 7107 + 240 il 42 3640 54 3586 + 169 lt 1 0 0 0 0 lu 6 110 0 110 + 2 lv 1 7 0 7 0 nl 294 24443 397 24046 + 488 no 361 18837 268 18569 + 1329 pl 79 1573 10 1563 + 552 pt 62 1838 41 1797 + 1797 ro 0 0 0 0 0 se 355 25379 224 25155 + 535 si 1 1 0 1 0 su 127 52 0 52 + 2 tn 2 12 0 12 0 ua 0 0 0 0 0 uk 435 56048 6227 49821 + 1913 va 0 0 0 0 0 yu 2 11 0 11 0 ============================================================ 4241 294512 10138 284374 +12579 History Oct 1990 31724 Nov 1990 33665 Dec 1990 29230 Jan 1991 43832 Feb 1991 - Mar 1991 44506 Apr 1991 46948 May 1991 - Jun 1991 63267 Jul 1991 - Aug 1991 73069 Sep 1991 92834 Oct 1991 104824 Nov 1991 129652 Dec 1991 - Jan 1992 - Feb 1992 161434 Mar 1992 167939 Apr 1992 170050 May 1992 182528 Jun 1992 196758 Jul 1992 213017 Aug 1992 221951 Sep 1992 232522 Oct 1992 254585 Nov 1992 271795 Dec 1992 284374

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