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RIPE DNS Hostcount October 1992
by Marten Terpstra 02 Nov '92

02 Nov '92

Folks, hostcount time once more. Comments: - This was the first time that some countries were counted not at the NCC, but within the country. The UK and DE have been counted by ULCC and DE-NIC, and the output collected at the NCC. As you will see, this has increased counts for both countries quite significantly, especially the UK. If anyone besides these two is interested to do the hostcount for their country, please send me a message. (One per country please ....) - All went up nicely, except for GR. I have tried GR once extra, but no improvements were made. Total increase just over 22,000. - Total is now over 254,000, which is roughly 22 percent of the global count, taken from the October zone survey done by Mark Lottor of SRI. His count comes to 1,136,000 hosts worldwide. - History is again appended below. - Again all output can be found on ftp.ripe.net:/ripe/hostcount Cheers, -Marten RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Sep 26 1992 This Count : Sat Oct 31 1992 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 1 0 0 0 0 at 184 7619 43 7576 + 566 be 21 1671 63 1608 + 91 bg 1 0 0 0 0 by 0 0 0 0 0 ch 99 20987 168 20819 + 1413 cs 17 898 68 830 + 819 de 935 56147 1168 54979 + 2701 dk 75 4678 46 4632 + 267 dz 0 0 0 0 0 ee 7 60 0 60 + 3 es 162 5114 85 5029 + 831 fi 144 18542 164 18378 + 1141 fr 307 21396 362 21034 + 1461 gb 1 2 0 2 0 gr 38 498 137 361 - 173 hr 0 0 0 0 0 hu 9 173 2 171 + 52 ie 18 920 11 909 + 70 is 12 680 7 673 + 123 it 177 6106 183 5923 + 1141 il 41 3383 56 3327 + 228 lt 1 0 0 0 0 lu 5 90 0 90 + 12 lv 1 0 0 0 0 nl 270 22760 396 22364 + 1126 no 332 16743 232 16511 + 1041 pl 60 804 10 794 + 125 pt 53 1627 4 1623 + 264 ro 0 0 0 0 0 se 344 23736 212 23524 + 722 si 1 0 0 0 0 su 127 47 0 47 + 19 tn 2 9 0 9 0 ua 0 0 0 0 0 uk 365 49203 5902 43301 + 8020 va 0 0 0 0 0 yu 2 11 0 11 0 ============================================================ 3812 263904 9319 254585 +22063 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

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RTR 1 - 2nd Edition
by Jill.Foster＠newcastle.ac.uk 27 Oct '92

27 Oct '92

I have just updated the RARE Technical Report 1. This gives an overview of user support activities and major information services in Europe. (Plus network contact details). The following networks are included: National networks: Austria ACONET Beligum BNAN Denmark DKnet Finland FUNET France EARN-France Germany DFN Greece ARIADNE Hungary HUNGARNET Iceland ISnet Ireland HEANET Italy GARR Luxembourg RESTENA The Netherlands SURFnet Norway UNINETT Portugal RCCN Slovenia ARNES Spain RedIRIS Sweden SUNET Switzerland SWITCH Turkey TUVAKA United Kingdom JANET Regional networks: NORDUnet The Nordic Countries European networks/institutes: CERN Europe EARN Europe To retrieve a copy of this report from Mailbase send the command: send rare-wg3-usis rtr-usis-92 in an email message to: mailbase(a)mailbase.ac.uk OR Anonymous ftp to: mailbase.ac.uk file: /pub/rare-wg3-usis/rtr-usis-92 -- Jill Foster (Information Services and User Support Working Group)

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REMINDER Call for Papers JENC4
by bersee＠rare.nl 27 Oct '92

27 Oct '92

R E M I N D E R Announcement & Call for Papers 4 t h J o i n t E u r o p e a n N e t w o r k i n g C o n f e r e n c e "EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORKING IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT" Trondheim, Norway, 10-13 May 1993 Organized by RARE in cooperation with: ACM Sigcomm, EARN, EUnet/EurOpen, IFIP TC6, Internet Architecture Board, Internet Society, NORDUnet, UNINETT __________________________________________________________ CONFERENCE TOPICS Lower Layers Technology; Mail And Messaging; Network Management; Network Applications; Users; Security; Policy, Funding, and Strategies; Status Reports of National Initiatives and European Projects. CALL FOR PAPERS Two-page summaries of proposed papers should arrive at the programme chair (Bernhard Plattner) not later than November 1. CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS Requests for demonstrations should be made through the RARE Secretariat, specifying technical requirements before November 1 (later proposals will be taken into account but can not be guaranteed booth space). CALL FOR TUTORIALS This year for the first time tutorials will be held at the end of the conference, on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Proposals for half-day or full-day tutorials should arrive at the programme chair before the 1st of November, 1992. The programme committee also invites prospective attendees to send a list of topics on which a Tutorial would be appreciated to the programme chair before November 1, 1992. DEADLINES AND OTHER IMPORTANT DATES November 1, 1992 deadline for two-page summaries of proposed papers November 1, 1992 deadline for proposed tutorials December 15, 1992 deadline for proposed demonstrations End January, 1993 notification of acceptance of papers to speakers April 10, 1992 deadline for submission of full papers and one page up-to-date demonstration descriptions (camera-ready) for the conference hand-out FURTHER INFORMATION Further information: General and Programme Chair: RARE Secretariat Bernhard Plattner Singel 466-468 c/o Singel 466-468 NL-1017 AW AMSTERDAM NL-1017 AW AMSTERDAM tel: +31 20 639 1131 tel: +31 20 639 1131 fax: +31 20 639 3289 fax: +31 20 639 3289 e-mail RFC822 raresec(a)rare.nl plattner(a)rare.nl e-mail X.400 C=nl; ADMD=400net; C=nl; ADMD=400net; PRMD=surf; PRMD=surf; O=rare; S= raresec; O=rare; S= plattner;

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Draft Minutes of the 13th Meeting Available
by Daniel Karrenberg 23 Oct '92

23 Oct '92

The draft minutes of the 13th meeting are available now from the RIPE documents store. FTP access is via ftp.ripe.net. The file names are as usual: ripe/docs/ripe-minutes/ripe-m-13.txt for the ASCII version ripe/docs/ripe-minutes/ripe-m-13.ps for the PostScript version Comments should be sent to Anne.Lord(a)ripe.net. In two weeks time the version for approval at the next meeting will be finalised. Have a nice weekend. Daniel

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Database WG has mailing list
by Daniel Karrenberg 20 Oct '92

20 Oct '92

A new mailing list has been created for discussions of the RIPE database working group. Since there are quite some work items pending regarding the database a good deal of traffic is expected in the next few days. Since we unfortunately forgot to pass around the signup sheet at the last WG meeting I have taken the liberty to initialise the list with names of people who have been interested or have contributed in the past. If you would like to subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, please send mail to the usual address db-wg-request(a)ripe.net The initial list is: Wilfried Woeber <woeber(a)cc.univie.ac.at> # Tony Bates <t.bates(a)noc.ulcc.ac.uk> Stefan Biesbroek <stephan(a)ub4b.buug.be> Antonio Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)cnuce.cnr.it> Erik-Jan Bos <bos(a)surfnet.nl> Daniele Bovio <hi(a)frors12.bitnet> Bob Day <R.Day(a)jnt.ac.uk> Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> Stefan Fassbender <stf(a)nis.easi.net> Elise Gerich <epg(a)merit.edu> Arnold Nipper <nipper(a)ira.uka.de> Willi Porten <porten(a)gmd.de> Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)inria.fr> Duncan Rogerson <D.Rogerson(a)noc.ulcc.ac.uk> Andreas Schachtner <afs(a)Germany.EU.net> Don Stikvoort <stikvoort(a)surfnet.nl> Daniele Vanozzi <vannozzi(a)nis.garr.it> Ruediger Volk <rv(a)deins.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Scott Williamson <scottw(a)nic.ddn.mil> # RIPE NCC <ncc(a)ripe.net>

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RIPE NCC Quarterly Report Issue 2 Available
by Daniel Karrenberg 19 Oct '92

19 Oct '92

The second Quarterly Report of the RIPE NCC is now available. It can be fetched from the RIPE document store as document ripe-73 in both PostScript and plain ASCII. RIPE documents can be found in directory ripe/docs/ripe-docs. The differences with the draft which was distributed at the RIPE meeting are minor. Most notable are additional graphics in Appendix H. As usual the NCC welcomes comments and suggestions.

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How to get a free EMPB connection to your network
by Peter Lothberg 14 Oct '92

14 Oct '92

EMPB are offering their customers a network with guareanteed quality of service (well 200kb/s on a 2m link). Any one that buys a EMPB connection to his workstation, needs to asure that this connection, actually makes the IP arcitecture as a whole fully functional. This means that EMPB has to provide connectivity to all nameservers as an example. If EMPB connects through something that has no quality of service guarantees at all, the quality of the FUNCTIONALTY provided is the sum of the transit networks. So I suggest that all regional/RBS etc networks in the world choices to offer the EMPB providor to connect to them locally, at the expences of EMPB, so that EMPB customers can reach a particular RBS-region through EMPB controled paths. Otherwice it would be really hard for the EMPB providor to live up to any of the guarantees for quality of service, if they relay on such a thing as the unreliable Ebone. For those wo don't follow me, here is a summary; If you want a free EMPB connection, so that EMPB customers can talk to you, just excercice the right of implementing your policy in the RBS, and offer EMPB a free ethernet connector on your central routers. -Peter If you talk to EMPB through the Ebone, you are using your resources to subsidise the EMPB providor.

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RARE UPDATE, Nr.7
by bersee＠rare.nl 12 Oct '92

12 Oct '92

***************** A RARE UPDATE No.7, October 1992 ***************** NEWS FROM THE COA by Josefien Bersee at the RARE Secretariat The 24th meeting of the RARE Council of Administration took place on September 24/25 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. The major results of the meeting are summarized below. _________________________________________________________ MEMBERSHIP MATTERS Two new members and two changes in existing membership were accepted in Bratislava. The Turkish national research network TUVAKA and the Croatian CARNet are new Full National Members. Poland and Hungary changed their membership status from Associate to Full National Member. This brings the total number of RARE members to 41. EXECUTION TECHNICAL PROGRAMME GUARANTEED By accepting a 33% membership fee increase the CoA has guaranteed basic support for the execution of the RARE Technical Programme. Execution of a Technical Programme is felt to be an important factor determining RARE's influence on the development of future research networking activities. TECHNICAL STRUCTURE The CoA decided to accept the slightly changed Technical Structure as proposed by the RTC: the establishment of one Multi-Media Working Group instead of the previous two (on Interactive Multimedia and Multimedia Document Transfer), and the establishment of a Working Group on Character Sets. The following RARE Working Groups (followed by the name of its convenor) are now officially established: International Character Sets (WG-CHAR), Borka Jerman-Blazic Multimedia (WG-IMM), John Dyer Information Services and User Support (WG-ISUS), Jill Foster Lower-Layers Technology (WG-LLT), Piet Bovenga Mail & Messaging (WG-MSG), Harald Alvestrand Network Applications Support (WG-NAP), Paul-Andre Pays Network Operations (WG-NOP), Bernhard Stockman Security Technology (WG-SEC), Klaus Truoel RARE welcomes anyone who wishes to join one of the above-mentioned working groups. Joining is easy: send electronic mail to: mailserver(a)rare.nl containing in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE wgname yourfirstname yourlastname where wgname is the abbreviation for the name of the working group. SIGNING OF 2Mbps CONTRACT RARE accepts to sign and manage the 2Mbps contract with the CEC on behalf of those national networks which will use EC funds in support of their participation in the 2Mbps pilot service. The 2Mbps pilot is part of the European Multi-Protocol Backbone (EMPB) service. OPERATIONAL UNIT The CoA agreed that RARE should act as a legal body on behalf of the Operational Unit under establishment, under the condition that shareholders are accepting the commercial risks. Shareholders should also organize the provision of management of the execution of OU activities. RELATION RARE/RIPE REDEFINED RARE and RIPE will remain independent bodies. The CoA agreed that RARE will continue to rely on RIPE for the coordination of IP activities - and not establish its own IP coordination group - , while RIPE will rely on the RARE Technical Committee and IETF for the setting up of a technical development plan. To enable close cooperation between RIPE and the RTC, RARE has invited RIPE to appoint a representative on the RTC. With regard to the RIPE NCC, the CoA agreed that it should remain under the umbrella of RARE until at least the end of 1993, even if the funds for operation of the RIPE NCC were to be channelled via the Operational Unit. LIAISON WITH ISODE CONSORTIUM RARE will become a member of the ISODE Consortium. This organization has been founded to support further development of ISODE, a package of OSI upper layer software and applications. Many organizations in the research community have used the ISODE as a tool for working with a range of OSI applications. COMBINED JENC5/INET94 The CoA has agreed that the 5th Joint European Networking Conference should be organized in combination with INET 94. The REC is asked to proceed with the investigation of the Prague offer to host the event, and to negotiate with the Internet Society on the basis of that proposal.

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Re: Mis-information
by Peter Lothberg 29 Sep '92

29 Sep '92

> > >This means that the IP-community of Europe will probably have > > >a zero influence on the network, that are supposed to serve our > > >community. And that the CPMU totally ignores the skills of the > > >Ripe community. > > > > This will only be true if none of the Ripe member networks > > paticipate in the IP pilot. > > We (ie JANET/JIPS) intend to participate in the EMPB IP pilot. The reason > we're doing it is that we believe it's important to have high-quality > networks available for our users, and piloting is a necessary part of the > quality-assurance procedure. > > This attitude is no different to our attitude to Ebone '92 -- we've been > happy to participate, and be active in the management and operational > work to get things sorted out. It's been a rewarding experience for us, > our users, and (I'd suggest) other members of the Ebone consortium. > > I find it hard to see much difference between doing this and doing the > same for EMPB -- in both cases we see a reward for work invested. I'd > hope other networks connecting to EMPB participate in the pilot as well. > Otherwise there won't be much to pilot :-) > > > >We have to pay twice, as the skills of the coumunity are not > > >used, and we have to pay the consultants on our taxes/ charges. > > > > You might have to pay for the consultants by your taxes if your > > organisation is part of COSINE, but NOT in charges for the EMPB. > > It seems to me that it's a bit dangerous to start suggesting that one > IP network is a burden on the taxpayer, whilst another isn't. As Bruce > points out, EMPB charges aren't. Even a cursory inspection suggests that > substantial bits of the Ebone '92 infrastructure are publically funded, > at least originally. Nothing particularly wrong with that -- they've > been put to good use -- but it seems fairly silly to start this > particular line of discussion at this particular time. > > Bob Day Bob, you are missing the crusial point of the Ebone, it is a OPEN forum for cooperation among networks. And the long term perspective is that it in some form will provide the interconnection between all independent network providors that wants to sell THEIR users a global IP service. EMPB is one of the network providors, among others offering the same kind of services. To use IP you have to provide unrestricted connectivity to all users that share the same address-space, that's the way IP and its user services are designed. To do this a forum for cooperation is needed. EMPB is in direct competetion with several of the Ebone sponsors. -Peter

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MICE - not quite there yet...
by Jon Crowcroft 29 Sep '92

29 Sep '92

-------- the message i sent about multimedia for europe was a bit premature - sorry, enthusiasm got the better of me. the project is not yet funded... you will certainly know as soon as we find out! note, also, that the protocol stack is subject to much study (as one would expect for continous media, there are no firm standaards yet, so some investigation is needed before committing to any particular technmology...an isochronous service is offered byu some x.25 switch manufactuerers, for instance (e.g. netcomm)). sorry to over-raise hopes... j. --------------- To: matsb(a)sics.se Cc: Piet.Beertema(a)mcsun.eu.net, wallace(a)rare.nl (Bruce Wallace), cpmu(a)rare.nl, davies(a)rare.nl, kalin(a)rare.nl, roll(a)sbd.stupi.se, ripe(a)ripe.net Subject: Re: Mis-information In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 92 12:48:24 BST." <9209291148.AA03177(a)asia.sics.se> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:37:43 +0100 From: Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft(a)cs.ucl.ac.uk> >Waht we do need is risk capital from tax payers to show new >applications so taht the service providers will invest in higher >bandwidth network solutions for mulitmedia mail and video >conferencing. >Step 1 34 Mbps addtional bandwidth support to Ebone, maybe PTT telcomm >is interested to prowide this for the same amount of money? >Step 2 Separate testbed to try new concepts and protocol structures yes - we will need just these two steps to finalise work on the MICE project in late 1993. However, to start this project (from the day after tomorrow:-), we need: For those of you not aware, the EC has funded MICE (Multimedia International Conferencing for the Ec) to coordinate pilot services for audio, video, audio and shared whiteboard/editors between any interested EC and EFTA countries....at least France, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden + Norway are involved already. We will be using existing tools (e.g. vat, dvc, inria, videoconf,) for workstation conferencing and H.261 CODECs with packetizers and any other technology to link video conferencing roms facilities at Research and Educational Facilities. (A Packetiser is usually a sparcstation with hsi board). typically, this will entail IP (since much of the video/audio technology comes from the US< just like good networking technology), to carry packet video and audio - we hope to work with RIPE/RARE and with router and switch vendors to influence the production pof resource guarantees in ther network devices. End systems are already fine for audio, and shared applications in the Ebone environment. Video has not been extensively tried. If you are worred about being swamped with traffic, let me assure you that each user nation *must* have full approval end to end... obviously, the multicast facilities of the Mbone will be essential in optimising traffic (will EMPB provide multicast?). jon and just to agree on the sign-off: > Who would want to participate in an IP *pilot*, when > we have a globe-wide, reliable, and well-managed IP > *service* right behind our keyboards??? ------- End of Forwarded Message

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