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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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RIPE26 minutes available
by RIPE NCC Staff 07 Mar '97

07 Mar '97

Dear all, Finally, the first draft of the minutes from the 26th RIPE meeting is available. The various formats can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/ripe-m-26.html ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/minutes/ripe-m-26.ps ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/minutes/ripe-m-26.txt Kind regards, Roderik Muit RIPE NCC

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Hostcount for February 1997
by Mirjam Kuehne 06 Mar '97

06 Mar '97

Dear all, Here is the hostcount for February 1997. The table shows an increase since last month of almost 1,300,000 (or 3.2%) to a total of over 4000,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe (Yes, we hit the 4 Million!). The UK shows the highest increase for February with almost 18,000 hosts more than in January. 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 Jan 31 1997 This Count : Fri Feb 28 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 0 am 12 196 6 190 + 10 at 5080 110541 9618 100923 + 2088 az 5 76 1 75 + 20 ba 3 30 0 30 + 30 be 4251 80875 3190 77685 +10734 bg 146 3737 159 3578 - 160 by 13 301 11 290 + 47 ch 8862 147401 8944 138457 + 3912 cy 194 1594 19 1575 + 22 cz 2195 46060 1671 44389 + 2663 de 32692 804172 47755 756417 +13214 dk 13158 121068 6541 114527 + 3210 dz 2 27 0 27 0 ee 608 9562 395 9167 + 31 eg 130 1293 66 1227 - 716 es 4088 130453 3204 127249 + 8440 fi 4243 338987 6129 332858 + 5169 fo 29 96 0 96 0 fr 7270 272061 12470 259591 + 7259 gb 2 41 0 41 + 1 ge 15 245 1 244 + 25 gr 911 20817 954 19863 + 3595 hr 563 6390 814 5576 + 137 hu 1169 33326 1776 31550 + 918 ie 1929 31241 1265 29976 + 2381 il 2452 61135 6425 54710 + 1644 is 371 12523 160 12363 + 404 it 10295 214654 13965 200689 + 8029 li 99 306 87 219 + 7 lt 256 2056 127 1929 + 111 lu 397 3964 264 3700 + 236 lv 219 6484 279 6205 + 245 ma 33 560 66 494 + 22 md 12 125 16 109 + 4 mk 29 347 22 325 + 23 mt 70 612 54 558 + 56 nl 12048 293869 10595 283274 + 6569 no 7053 183764 7929 175835 - 1988 pl 2714 59794 2755 57039 + 2946 pt 1034 25422 855 24567 + 733 ro 497 9342 349 8993 + 199 ru 2978 53883 3960 49923 + 5123 se 13490 274747 14686 260061 +13706 si 833 16491 1208 15283 + 525 sk 779 9925 875 9050 + 754 sm 13 969 449 520 + 48 su 653 18629 948 17681 - 770 tn 4 60 4 56 + 13 tr 1060 16672 1228 15444 + 4873 ua 346 8583 1437 7146 + 236 uk 43348 896385 114112 782273 +17943 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 325 2950 156 2794 + 258 ============================================================ 188985 4334925 288000 4046925 +124979

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NATO Advanced Networking Workshop - 5-9 May 1997
by John Martin 03 Mar '97

03 Mar '97

Dear Colleague, Please find attached the application form for this year's NATO Advanced Networking Workshop to be held in Edinburgh, UK, 5-9 May 1997. Note that applications should be sent to nato-anw97(a)terena.nl and *not* to me directly. Please feel free to distribute this to appropriate fora. Regards, John Martin ************************************************************************* * John Martin * * Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association * * http://www.terena.nl/ * * * * TERENA Tel : +31 20 639 1131 * * Singel 466-468 Fax : +31 20 639 3289 * * NL-1017 AW Amsterdam UK : +44 141 339 9239 * ************************************************************************* -- Application for NATO Advanced Networking Workshop - Migrating Towards a High Speed Networking Service 5-9th May 1997 Introduction ------------ Adjacent to the TERENA Joint European Networking Conference in Edinburgh in May 1997, a NATO Advanced Networking Workshop has been organised with the theme: "Migrating Towards a High Speed Networking Service". It is aimed at those who are currently running national network services but who will, in the near future, be moving to new technologies to provide new applications, higher bandwidth and a more reliable service. The workshop will be practical and technology-oriented but will also provide some experience of network management and an exploration of the application-level issues which arise with the newer technology. The event will be a single-track workshop with possibly a limited number of parallel sessions. There will be classroom-style lectures complemented by hands-on technical sessions where appropriate and practicable. For more details about the workshop, please see: http://www.terena.nl/conf/nato-anw97/ ------8<------8<------ cut here ------8<------8<------ Application ----------- Please complete *all* sections as fully as possible and return to: nato-anw97(a)terena.nl Any additional information should be appended in plain ASCII format. A. Personal data: FAMILY NAME: First Name: Sex[1]: Male / Female (please delete) Employer: Business Address: Country[2]: Business Telephone: Business Fax: E-mail: B. Administration: 1. Accomodation: Please note that participants will be required to share twin hotel rooms for the duration of the workshop and conference. If you have any objections to this, please let us know the reasons here: 2. Travel: Please indicate the approximate cost in US$ of the cheapest method of travel from your place of residence to Edinburgh, UK[3]: C. Description of the candidate's role in National Networking Activities: 1. Please give a brief summary of your educational background: 2. Please supply a description of your current employer, position, duties and responsibilities and how they relate to current and future networking activities in your country: 3. Please outline details of work you have done with inter- networking, and what you hope to achieve in the future with the help of the knowledge gained at the workshop: 4. Upon your return from the workshop, how would you expect to disseminate the knowledge you gain through attendance at the workshop: 5. Please give details of any NATO Advanced Networking Workshops you have participated in previously: D. Please append any additional information in support of your application here, in plain ascii text: ------8<------8<------ cut here ------8<------8<------ Notes: [1] Please note that participants will be required to share twin hotel rooms for the duration of the workshop and conference. [2] Please note that only residents of NATO Co-operation Partner (CP) countries are eligible to attend this workshop and receive assistance from NATO. Eligible countries are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan NATO countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. [3] The period of stay will include a weekend and the dates of travel should be so that you arrive on / before Sunday 4th May and depart on / after Saturday 17th May. NB: Should you choose to spend any additional time in Edinburgh before travelling home, you must assume any costs incurred. --end

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