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hostcount April - not yet
by Mirjam Kuehne 12 May '97

12 May '97

Dear all, The hostcount will be a bit delayed this time (you might have noticed already ;-). There were a few problems in various zones and we are still investigating. Thank you for your patience, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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RIPE Database Workshop Announcement
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 03 May '97

03 May '97

In conjunction with the 27th RIPE meeting to be held in Dublin, 21-23 May, 1997, we will again hold a: ******************************************************* * RIPE Database Workshop * * Dublin, Wednesday 21 May, 10:00-12:30 * ******************************************************* Agenda: 1. Finding what you're looking for in the RIPE database. Based on a number of example problems, some tips on graveling in the database to find the answers. This would include [LmM] whois flags, and the WAIS interace. 2. Tips and Tricks for maintaining your data. How to keep track of your data in the RIPE database: Using authorization methonds and keeping your data consistent. 3. Fun and Games using URL's in the RIPE database. Some tips on making the most of the Web interface to the database. 4. Seeking information globally. What kind of NIC handles are there? How do I find JL123-ORG? And who has 192.0.4.3? What flags [a,h,s] can I use to find what? We will precede the workshop with a 45 minute introduction for new users (at 09:00) if there is sufficient interest (at least 5 people). **** Sign up deadline: 14 May, 1997 **** ** (sign up is first come, first served)** =============================================================================== %START PART 1 - Registration %MTG [ dbws2 ] 1) Your name Enter First name, Last name in FULL e.g. John Doe Mary-Beth Walton %NAME [ ] 2) Your Organisation/Institution %ORG [ ] 3) Your e-mail address %EMAIL [ ] 4) Registtry ID The registry ID string of the local IR (if any) e.g. fr.lereseau de.dasnetz uk.thenet. Contributing local IRs will receive priority registration. %REGID [ ] %END

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RIPE 27 Meeting Registration Form
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 02 May '97

02 May '97

Dear Colleagues, Included below is the registration form for the 27th RIPE meeting, to be held in Dublin, Ireland. Please accept our apologies for sending this out so late. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE NCC Meeting Registrations ============================================================================ %START Please add a value in the 'box' area marked between the square brackets (i.e. "[" and "]" s). If values are already supplied between the brackets, please delete all values except one. PART 1 - Registration Note this is what will be used for your badge and for the attendee list, so please take care to fill it in correctly. 1) Your name Please enter your name in FULL. First name first, surname last. e.g. John Doe Mary-Beth Walton %NAME [ ] 2) Your Organisation/Institution %ORG [ ] 3) Your e-mail address %EMAIL [ ] 4) Country code of organisation e.g. IT FR DE %CTRY [ ] PART 2 - Payment of Registration Fees WARNING!! - Note that sending your credit card information via e-mail is in principle not secure. The payment information will be transmitted in clear via e-mail. If you do not want to do this, please leave your credit card details blank in this form, and send them to us by fax. Please do not forget to mention your name and organisation on the fax, so there will be no risk in us getting confused. Our fax number is: +31 20 592 5090 1) Method of payment. Payment in advance is greatly preferred. If you wish to pay in cash at the meeting you can also pay in IEP. (please delete all choices except one) %PMETH [in advance; credit card / at meeting; credit card / at meeting; cash ] 2) Type of credit card (please delete all choices except one) %CTYPE [ VISA / American Express / Mastercard ] 3) Card number %CCNUM [ ] 4) Expiry date %CCDATE [ ] 5) Card holders name %CCNAME [ ] 6) Card holders address %CCADDR [ ] 7) Amount to be paid Only meeting NLG 105 Meeting plus RIPE dinner NLG 195 %AMT [ ] More information about the RIPE Dinner (Dublin Viking Adventure), will appear on our website soon. %END

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REMINDER - Power outage
by Carol Orange 22 Apr '97

22 Apr '97

As we warned last Friday, tomorrow morning: Wednesday, April 23, 1997 09:00 - 11:00 we will not be reachable due to a power outage in the Nikhef computer room. We thank you for your understanding. Carol Orange RIPE NCC

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JENC8 "Final Programme", May 12-15, 1997, Edinburgh, Scotland
by RIPE NCC Staff 22 Apr '97

22 Apr '97

"8th Joint European Networking Conference" (JENC8) Edinburgh, Scotland, 12-15 May 1997 The JENC8 "FINAL PROGRAMME" and registration information is now available via the Web. Please visit the JENC8 conference Web site for further information at: http://www.terena.nl/jenc8/ For conference registration enquiries please send an email to <jenc8(a)ed.ac.uk> For general enquiries please send an email to <jenc8-sec(a)TERENA.nl> or contact: TERENA Secretariat Singel 466-468 NL - 1017 AW Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 639 1131 Fax: +31 20 639 3289 Email: jenc8-sec(a)TERENA.nl

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Power outage
by Carol Orange 18 Apr '97

18 Apr '97

Sorry for the late notice! We've just found out that due to activities in the Nikhef computer room, the NCC service machines will be unreachable during the following periods: Wednesday, April 23, 1997 09:00 - 11:00 Tuesday, April 29, 1997 08:00 - 12:00 Carol Orange RIPE NCC

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Invitation for Technical Proposals
by John Martin 11 Apr '97

11 Apr '97

Dear Colleague, Please feel free to re-distribute this message. The TERENA Technical Programme exists to co-ordinate new and emerging technical activities on behalf of research and education network users in Europe. The core activities are carried out in 3 main fora: Working Groups, Task Forces and Projects. More recently, TERENA has been concentrating on Task Forces and Projects as a means of delivering fast and timely results to its members. At the TERENA General Assembly meeting in Bled in Nov. 1996, it was agreed to make a limited amount of funding available to the community in order to generate new and innovative pilot projects. The TERENA Technical Committee is therefore soliciting proposals for small to medium sized projects which can demonstrate short-term gains and yield swift results. It is hoped that a few of the resulting projects may lead to larger, externally funded projects in the longer term. Funding of approximately 10-15 kECU is available for 5-6 projects. For more details, please see: http://www.terena.nl/tech/invitation.html Regards, The TERENA Technical Committee

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RIPE 27 meeting announcement
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 07 Apr '97

07 Apr '97

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 27th RIPE meeting, which will be held at: the Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland from Wednesday May 21st until Friday May 23rd. For those who wish to attend the RIPE meeting and will need a visa we would advise that you begin these procedures as soon as possible. The RIPE NCC will be able to send invitations on request to those requiring them. Also please note that there appears to be a shortage of availabe hotels in Dublin in May. Again: we would like to advise you to start looking for accommodation as soon as possible. Registration for the meeting will commence mid April. For more information you can look at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/ripe-27/info.html Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE NCC Meeting Registrations

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Hostcount for March 1997
by Mirjam Kuehne 03 Apr '97

03 Apr '97

Dear all, Here is the hostcount for March 1997. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 162,000 (or 4.0%) to a total of over 4,200,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. This comes to a total increase of 14.6% during the last three months. The UK shows the highest increase for March with more than 24,000 hosts more than in February. 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 All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount.html If you are intersted in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services is hosting the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe 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 Marcel Schneider <hostmaster(a)nic.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 Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis(a)forthnet.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 Armando Domingues <fccn(a)dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)ripn.net> 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> Robert Stone <robert(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 Feb 28 1997 This Count : Mon Mar 31 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 0 am 17 221 7 214 + 24 at 5709 113351 10318 103033 + 2110 az 3 52 1 51 - 24 ba 11 50 1 49 + 19 be 4578 84804 3720 81084 + 3399 bg 185 4276 162 4114 + 536 by 20 365 17 348 + 58 ch 9628 150826 9738 141088 + 2631 cy 210 1626 20 1606 + 31 cz 2642 48999 1771 47228 + 2839 de 36424 821139 48567 772572 +16155 dk 19176 131575 9334 122241 + 7714 dz 2 27 0 27 0 ee 648 10518 527 9991 + 824 eg 153 1434 56 1378 + 151 es 4273 138859 3319 135540 + 8291 fi 4458 358482 6727 351755 +18897 fo 35 101 0 101 + 5 fr 7885 283939 12679 271260 +11669 gb 2 41 0 41 0 ge 16 265 2 263 + 19 gr 949 22212 966 21246 + 1383 hr 580 6736 1027 5709 + 133 hu 1344 35478 1961 33517 + 1967 ie 2068 31861 1290 30571 + 595 il 2612 64336 6480 57856 + 3146 is 413 12645 172 12473 + 110 it 11383 238543 20136 218407 +17718 li 118 369 99 270 + 51 lt 279 2172 138 2034 + 105 lu 449 4409 523 3886 + 186 lv 250 6792 445 6347 + 142 ma 35 599 34 565 + 71 md 15 114 15 99 - 10 mk 29 236 13 223 - 102 mt 88 636 97 539 - 19 nl 12996 308517 13999 294518 +11244 no 7760 192447 9024 183423 + 7588 pl 2985 62886 2936 59950 + 2911 pt 1357 28455 1152 27303 + 2736 ro 536 9967 476 9491 + 498 ru 3055 54697 4399 50298 + 375 se 14768 279712 13015 266697 + 6636 si 944 17155 1268 15887 + 604 sk 953 11999 1824 10175 + 1125 sm 14 1042 485 557 + 37 su 740 21082 1054 20028 + 2347 tn 3 56 5 51 - 5 tr 1626 22552 2049 20503 + 1136 ua 387 9665 2387 7278 + 132 uk 48293 933031 126670 806361 +24088 va 2 8 0 8 + 3 yu 362 3121 146 2975 + 181 ============================================================ 213473 4534559 321251 4213308 +162460

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Announcing TF-ETM meeting
by Kevin Meynell 13 Mar '97

13 Mar '97

All, At the end of last year, TERENA announced the establishment of a new Task Force for European Traffic Metrics (TF-ETM). The first meeting was due to be held in January, but due to various circumstances, unfortunately had to be cancelled. TERENA appreciates there is a great deal of interest in this subject and would like to re-schedule this meeting for Thursday, 24th April 1997 at the TERENA offices in Amsterdam . Kevin Hoadley of UKERNA has kindly agreed to lead the new task force, which will also be assisted by Kevin Meynell, a TERENA Project Development Officer. Networking professionals from academic, governmental or commercial sectors are all welcome to attend TF-ETM. Attached below are the proposed activities of TF-ETM. There is also a mailing list that can be joined by sending mail to mailserver(a)terena.nl containing only the text subscribe tf-etm <your real name>. A Web Page will be available shortly. If you would like to attend this meeting, or wish to obtain some more information, please e-mail Kevin Meynell (meynell(a)terena.nl) Apologies to anyone who receives multiple copies of this message. Regards, Kevin Meynell ----- In order to address the problem of predicting the growth of network traffic and its consequences for performance, many network operators already collect basic statistics on their own network's performance and traffic flows. However there is no data available for national-level comparisons with other networks' performance. The objective of the proposed project is to collect and analyze data which will enable technicans to focus on the causes of decreased performance, and propose corrective actions. The activities will include the development of a mechanism and structure for collecting statistics of traffic loads on an end to-end international level, measurements of delays, flow capacity and packet loss information. The vacuum created in national-level statistics/metrics collection has significantly complicated planning by TERENA members and service providers. While detailed traffic and performance measurements are essential to identifying the causes of network problems and formulating corrective actions, it is trend analysis and accurate network/system monitoring which permits network managers to identify 'hot spots', predict problems before they occur, and identify ways to avoid them by efficient deployment of resources and optimising of network configuration. As the explosive growth and dependence on the information infrastructure continues, it is critical that mechanisms be established to enable infrastructure planning and analysis. It is proposed to address these problems on two levels of relevance: significance to analysis of network performance, and relevance to Internet settlements. The activities will then include cross-European measurements of total traffic through specified links and the mapping of reachable destinations covered by a route, delay measurements, flow capacity, continental averages of hops, and rate of packet loss monitoring. These measurements will be conducted using publicly available software packages.

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