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complete hostcount for February 1996
by Mirjam Kuehne 15 Mar '96

15 Mar '96

Dear all, Here is the complete hostcount for February 1996. I am sorry for the delay. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 120,000 (or 5.3%) to a total of more than 2,406,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. The UK shows the highest increase for February with more than 24,000 hosts more than in January (Hence, my assumption was wrong that DE would make it this month :-). As I mentioned in my previous mail SM (San Marino) is a new zone and will from now on be inlcuded every month in the hostcount. The hostcount can also be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler(a)cc.univie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons(a)CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Christoph Graf <graf(a)chx400.switch.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala(a)eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)inria.fr> gr Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric(a)stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg(a)sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason(a)NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek(a)nask.pl> pt Graca Carvalho <fccn(a)dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)argo.net.kiae.su> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak(a)Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias(a)uakom.sk> sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener(a)knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley(a)nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Wed Jan 31 1996 This Count : Fri Feb 29 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 58 0 58 + 22 am 4 101 3 98 - 75 at 1513 67775 3198 64577 + 4257 az 3 17 0 17 + 1 be 1462 35240 1211 34029 + 2109 bg 70 1294 55 1239 + 138 by 6 38 6 32 - 2 ch 1638 87199 2288 84911 - 2307 cy 60 386 9 377 + 18 cz 485 25082 431 24651 + 1289 de 7537 507007 20199 486808 +19784 dk 1085 96505 41054 55451 + 2915 dz 2 16 0 16 0 ee 216 4699 85 4614 + 522 eg 14 707 10 697 + 86 es 1378 62412 929 61483 + 4879 fi 1620 241323 3388 237935 + 7462 fo 20 547 0 547 + 19 fr 2757 159523 3878 155645 + 9815 gb 1 39 0 39 0 ge 10 68 0 68 + 7 gr 404 10471 571 9900 + 789 hr 55 1278 14 1264 - 1434 hu 420 16399 127 16272 - 1184 ie 378 14376 230 14146 + 458 il 795 34805 2815 31990 + 2339 is 157 9408 90 9318 + 561 it 3145 93531 6142 87389 + 9134 li 22 83 9 74 + 22 lt 56 665 5 660 + 58 lu 104 2250 45 2205 + 183 lv 77 3002 54 2948 + 925 ma 8 324 46 278 + 40 md 9 2 0 2 0 mk 12 126 20 106 + 69 mt 15 257 57 200 + 85 nl 2215 188128 3819 184309 + 7259 no 2420 100860 3466 97394 +13100 pl 904 30017 2260 27757 + 1444 pt 448 13772 396 13376 + 678 ro 188 2222 63 2159 + 356 ru 544 15473 1233 14240 + 2005 se 3664 167602 6030 161572 + 7998 si 252 7088 545 6543 + 337 sk 143 3642 146 3496 + 353 sm 6 237 114 123 + 123 su 465 12758 609 12149 + 162 tn 3 89 5 84 + 1 tr 224 7384 124 7260 + 345 ua 169 3462 573 2889 + 429 uk 11658 527333 44223 483110 +24183 va 1 2 0 2 0 yu 3 0 0 0 0 ============================================================ 48835 2556843 150461 2406382 +121757

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Updating the priorities for Telematics for Research
by WINTLEV-JENSEN Peter 07 Mar '96

07 Mar '96

There is a need to assess the priorities for the future calls of the Telematics for Research Sector of the EU TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS Research and Technology Development Programme (URL: http://www.echo.lu/telematics/telehome.html) The technical evolution is moving very rapidly and the increasing commercialisation of the Internet technologies adds additional complexity to the setting of priorities for this sector. The main objective is still to promote the development, deployment and utilisation of telematics services and applications for European researchers in order to increase the possibility for collaboration and the overall cost-effectiveness of research. However, it needs to be ensured that EU support is adding value to existing and planned initiatives in this domain, whether funded from national public or commercial sources. Therefore a consultation should allow for an open framework for ideas and suggestions from all actors within the Telematics for Research sector of the programme. We would like to invite you to participate in this and ask you to recommend priorities for future calls for proposals in order to ensure that the available remaining EU funding in this sector can be used in the best possible way with a view to meeting the overall objectives of the initiative. The objective of this exercise is to obtain input for the future evolution of Telematics for Research and correlate this with the existing workplan for the sector, with a view to assigning priorities across the different work sectors. It is not expected that the existing workplan needs to be modified. The main objective will rather be to identify specific RTD topics, within the context of the existing workplan, which have emerged since the previous call and which would be complimentary to the activities of the projects which have already been launched. A small report will be produced which will act as a guide for future proposers and which will also be used as background information for the evaluators used in the evaluation of proposals. The assignment of priorities must be achieved with active participation and consultation of the Telematics for Research sector actors, including user representatives. The report should contain recommendations for priorities relating to the existing tasks within the workplan and identification of new areas of work within the overall scope of the workplan, which should be addressed in the future calls. This should be done while taking into account the current situation,including both EU and non-EU funded activities, and in close consultation with the research community. At URL: http://www.scimitar.terena.nl/ you will find further information about the Telematics for Research initiative and this exercise.

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Half the Hostcount for February 1996
by Mirjam Kuehne 01 Mar '96

01 Mar '96

Dear all, I have bad news this month: Unfortunately I won't be able to publish the hostcount overview for February before March 15th, 1996. During the hostcount my machine crashed and the result file looks like this: DNS Hostcount - Mirjam Kuehne, RIPE NCC START at Thu Feb 29 17:33:02 MET 1996 Counting : fo gb ge gr is li lt lu lv ma md mk mt nl ro se si su tn ua va yu Domain Subdomains Counted Dupl Real ====================================== (END) Unfortunately I don't have enough time to investigate and produce the output by hand, because I have to leave town soon. I could save all files and stored them at the usual place: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/ (The files RIPE-Hostcount and the graphs are not updated.) I can also present the overview of the hosts under TLDs that were counted locally (Another good reason to produce the counts locally: You are not dependent on our machines ;-) Domain Subdomains Counted Dupl Real =========================================== at 1513 67775 3198 64577 be 1462 35240 1211 34029 ch 1638 87199 2288 84911 cz 442 23760 398 23362 de 7537 507007 20199 486808 dk 922 53614 1078 52536 es 1378 62412 929 61483 fr 2757 159523 3878 155645 hu 420 16399 127 16272 hr 55 1278 14 1264 ie 378 14376 230 14146 it 3145 93531 6142 87389 no 2420 100860 3466 97394 pl 904 30017 2260 27757 pt 448 13772 396 13376 ru 544 15473 1233 14240 sk 143 3642 146 3496 sm 6 237 114 123 uk 11658 527333 44223 483110 That looks like DE made it this time just before the UK ;-) but we can't be sure, because we can't compare the numbers with the other zones yet. We have a new zone: SAN MARINO (SM) I would again like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler(a)cc.univie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons(a)CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Christoph Graf <graf(a)chx400.switch.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala(a)eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)inria.fr> gr Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric(a)stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg(a)sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason(a)NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek(a)nask.pl> pt Graca Carvalho <fccn(a)dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)argo.net.kiae.su> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak(a)Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias(a)uakom.sk> sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener(a)knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Duncan Rogerson <D.Rogerson(a)nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Re: Amsterdam Internet Exchange
by sgoldste＠nsf.gov 22 Feb '96

22 Feb '96

At 5:14 PM 2/22/96, Boudewijn Nederkoorn wrote: >The Amsterdam Internet Exchange: the place to interconnect > >The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is a historical place for >Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to interconnect. ... Congratulations! --Steve Goldstein, NSF ____________________________________________ Steve Goldstein, National Science Foundation +1(703)306-1949 Ext. 1119 "Let's not procrastinate until next week!"

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Amsterdam Internet Exchange
by Boudewijn Nederkoorn 22 Feb '96

22 Feb '96

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange: the place to interconnect The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is a historical place for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to interconnect. The AMS-IX is used by ISPs to exchange traffic with each other at a national or international level. In order to accomodate the growing number of ISPs looking for interconnection at the AMS-IX services are being restructured. In addition to the currently supported ethernet connections, switched ethernet and FDDI facilities are being introduced. Any ISP with an arrangement for traffic exchange with any of the ISPs already connected to the AMS-IX can connect to the AMS-IX. The Internet Service Providers that are currently connected to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange are: Ebone, EuropaNET, EUnet, NLnet and SURFnet. Several other ISPs are currently in the process of becoming connected to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. Since the end of 1993 the forerunner of the AMS-IX is in use, better known as "IBR-LAN". This ethernet spans the computer rooms of SARA, CWI and NIKHEF, all located in Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam. As of February 1994 the Amsterdam Internet Exchange was formally established. Due to the growing of the Internet and, hence, the growing number of ISPs looking for an interconnection point that meets todays quality standards, new technology such as switched ethernet and FDDI is introduced for the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. Through the use of the new technology inside the AMS-IX, new connections can be accomodated for at the location of the layer-2 equipment which is at SARA. More information (e.g. about costs) can be found via WWW at the URL: http://www.ams-ix.net/ Do you have questions? Please contact: SURFnet bv Network Services P.O. Box 19035 NL - 3501 DA Utrecht The Netherlands E-mail: netmaster(a)surfnet.nl Phone: +31 302 305 305 Fax: +31 302 305 329

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Ars Electronica 1996
by Oliver Frommel 13 Feb '96

13 Feb '96

| | _______ | Ars Electronica 1996 | | | ___ | | "Memesis - The Future Of Evolution" | |_| | |_| | September 2 - 7, 1996 |_____| |____| ______ ______ Prix Ars Electronica 1996 ____ | | ____ Deadline April 30, 1996 ______| |_____ Calling all Friends of Ars Electronica! This year's Ars Electronica Festival has - among other things - new dates. The theme of the 1996 Festival, which runs from 2nd - 7th September in Linz, is "Memesis - the Future of Evolution". Symposia, exhibitions, concerts, events and a wealth of art projects will illuminate the fast-approaching moment in "digital evolution". "Memesis" is concerned with "interactivity" as a key cultural technique, and adresses the question of the evolutionary "fitness" of "memes" - that is, the cognitive behavioural patterns which are propagated via communication, and which find what amounts to an ideal environment in the electronic media. The 1996 Festival week - which in future will always be in autumn - coincides with the opening week of the Ars Electronica Center, which opens its doors on 2 September 1996. The Ars Electronica Center is now co-organiser together with the Upper Austrian Regional Studio of the ORF- (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) - of the Ars Electronica Festival. Both the Ars Electronica Center and the Festival are under new management, with artistic responsibility vested in media artist Gerfried Stocker as the new Managing Director of the Center. Together with Christine Schopf of the ORF, Gerfried Stocker is also responsible for substance and conception of the Ars Electronica Festival. As in previous years, the Prix Ars Electronica, which was first organised in 1987 by the Upper Austrian Regional Studio of the ORF, will again be one of the pillars of the Festival. In fact in 1996 it is to be accorded even greater prominence in the Festival. The Prix Ars Electronica, which this year is funded with a total of approx. US$ 122,600, provides a forum for both the status quo and future developments in what the Festival addresses as "digital evolution". If you would like to receive entry forms for the international competition of computer arts, the Prix Ars Electronica, please contact us under the following numbers: phone: + 43-732-6900-267 fax: + 43-732-712121-2 e-mail: info(a)aec.at

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Hostcount for January 1996
by Mirjam Kuehne 06 Feb '96

06 Feb '96

Dear all, Here is the hostcount for January 1996. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 78,000 (or 3.6%) to almost 2,400,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. The UK shows the highest increase for January with almost 20,000 hosts more than last month. The hosts for PL and for HU are now also counted locally. Please find more details below in the list of "local counters". The hostcount can also be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Wilfried Woeber <Wilfried.Woeber(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons(a)CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Christoph Graf <graf(a)chx400.switch.ch> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala(a)eunet.fi> fr Benoit Grange <grange(a)sagres.inria.fr> gr Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric(a)stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg(a)sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason(a)NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek(a)nask.pl> pt Graca Carvalho <fccn(a)dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)argo.net.kiae.su> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak(a)Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias(a)uakom.sk> tr Yener Yigit <yener(a)knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley(a)nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Dec 29 1995 This Count : Wed Jan 31 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 36 0 36 + 1 am 6 179 6 173 0 at 1349 62950 2630 60320 + 6976 az 3 16 0 16 0 be 1321 33143 1223 31920 + 1299 bg 67 1145 44 1101 + 46 by 7 35 1 34 + 17 ch 1404 89106 1888 87218 + 7084 cy 47 369 10 359 - 31 cz 442 23760 398 23362 + 1506 de 6623 485533 18509 467024 - 7351 dk 922 53614 1078 52536 + 1979 dz 2 16 0 16 0 ee 168 4164 72 4092 + 514 eg 13 623 12 611 + 50 es 1301 57498 894 56604 + 5148 fi 1499 234461 3988 230473 +14769 fo 17 528 0 528 + 1 fr 2490 148613 2783 145830 - 5343 gb 1 39 0 39 + 3 ge 10 61 0 61 + 4 gr 398 9755 644 9111 + 1370 hr 155 3278 580 2698 + 237 hu 388 17787 331 17456 + 1664 ie 108 13819 131 13688 + 253 il 694 31851 2200 29651 + 2038 is 150 8840 83 8757 + 447 it 2877 83810 5555 78255 + 2879 li 17 60 8 52 - 16 lt 47 606 4 602 + 144 lu 100 2062 40 2022 + 142 lv 61 2061 38 2023 + 702 ma 2 238 0 238 + 9 md 6 2 0 2 + 2 mk 6 39 2 37 - 53 mt 13 129 14 115 + 29 nl 1880 180641 3591 177050 + 5285 no 1835 87543 3249 84294 0 pl 834 28483 2170 26313 + 3229 pt 411 13942 1244 12698 + 922 ro 145 1854 51 1803 + 64 ru 528 13175 940 12235 + 814 se 3191 159376 5802 153574 + 8730 si 226 6449 243 6206 + 591 sk 133 3188 45 3143 + 152 su 465 12528 541 11987 + 1468 tn 3 88 5 83 + 4 tr 185 7018 103 6915 + 1366 ua 173 3000 540 2460 + 51 uk 10286 500215 41288 458927 +19195 va 1 2 0 2 0 yu 3 0 0 0 0 ============================================================ 43018 2387728 102978 2284750 +78390

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New mailing list: netnews-wg
by Geert Jan de Groot 01 Feb '96

01 Feb '96

As requested at the RIPE meeting, I set up a new mailing list for the netnews issue: netnews-wg(a)ripe.net. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo(a)ripe.net which is an automatic robot; if you don't know how to use majordomo, just send 'help'. The archives can be found on ftp.ripe.net/ripe/archives/netnews-wg starting tomorrow. Geert Jan

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Re: Weather forecast: COLD!
by Dave Morton 28 Jan '96

28 Jan '96

Rob, Piet, This just proves that the RIPE NCC is working so hard they don't have *time* to look out the window :-) Dave

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Re: Weather forecast: COLD!
by k13＠nikhef.nl 26 Jan '96

26 Jan '96

+--- Start of included message from: RIPE NCC Staff ----- | | | Thursday 25 Jan: | | | | Weather prediction for the next week: | | C O L D !!!!! | | The predicted temperatures for next week are -2 degrees Celsius | maximum, and -6 degrees minimum. The wind blowing from the east makes | it worse, it gives the feeling that it is -10 degrees or colder... | | The chances for rain/snow/hail are low, fortunately. The chances for The RIPE NCC staff are like true professional weather forecasters: NEVER LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW WHEN GIVING A WEATHER REPORT Since early morning it has been snowing quite nicely :-) | sunshine are not too high either. | | | People who want to check out more recent forecasts and are not afraid | of a little bit Dutch, can take a look at: | | http://www.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/tt/nos/page/t/704 | +--- End of included message from: RIPE NCC Staff ----- See you all, Rob Blokzijl

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