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neutral interconnects in Europe
by Frode Greisen 20 Jan '94

20 Jan '94

20 January 1994 Interim neutral interconnect structure in Europe ------------------------------------------------ A joint statement by Howard Davies, Dante Frode Greisen, Ebone Glenn Kowack, EUnet Christian Michau, Renater Bernhard Stockmann, KTH Peter Villemoes, NORDUnet 1. Introduction --------------- With the growth of the Internet and with the growing number of service providers it is mandatory to develop the interconnect structure. The pilot GIX (Global Internet eXchange) in Washington (1,2) has gone in production in 1993 and new plans for a D-GIX (Distributed GIX) structure are being developed (3). It is expected that the D-GIXes will use the same routing registry data base as the GIX, but that tools will be developed which will allow the derivation of different routing databases for the D-GIX route servers to describe the situation at any particular D-GIX. However, as this is development and pilot work, there is a need to agree on interim solutions which support the overall strategy towards improved interconnectivity. The authors of this paper met to discuss how the service providers in Europe could best take advantage of the D-GIX development and also to set up guiding principles for the providers on how to cooperate until the D-GIX technology is fully developed. Regardless of the D-GIX development, a number of interconnecting points exist, eg. ethernets where different providers connect routers to exchange IP traffic. Such points are sometimes called DMZs (De-Militarized Zones) or neutral interconnects. We suggest a new name for such interconnection points that satisfy certain criteria: INIX (Interim Neutral Internet eXchange). For definition of other terms, such as GIX, route server, D-GIX, peering etc. see reference 1,2 and 3. 2. INIX definition ------------------ An INIX is an IP network connection structure that satisfies the following three conditions: 1. Freedom of peering. Each partner may bilaterally or multi-laterally decide to peer (send traffic to and accept traffic from) or not to peer with any other partner connected to the INIX. The partners are also free to establish transit agreements or not. 2. Potential GIX access. In order to minimise the undue proliferation of INIX sites, an interconnect point must demonstrate at least one access possibility to the GIX in Washington in order to qualify as an INIX. The organization owning the INIX may have such a connection itself, or one of the network connected to the INIX may have it so that a transit access can be offered to other networks, on terms to be determined by the network having the connection. 3. Openness and fairness. The owner of the INIX must offer any service provider the possibility to place a router at the INIX. This may be at a cost but such cost must be the same for all networks. Different INIXs may have different costs and tariffs and these tariffs as well as eg. the geographic location will determine whether any particular INIX will attract connections or not. INIXs may not make access conditional on the purchase of further services. Note that an INIX is not necessarily a D-GIX as a route server is not needed to exchange routing and payload traffic and thus not a condition. However, we expect that INIXs develop into D-GIXes, see below. 3. Strategy for European IP providers. -------------------------------------- At present, three announcements have been made in Europe of interconnects which seem to fit our INIX definition: - NORDUnet at KTH in Stockholm (contact Bjorn Eriksen <ber(a)sunet.se>) - Renater in Paris (contact Christian Michau <michau(a)urec.fr>) - Surfnet in Amsterdam (contact Erik-Jan Bos <erik-jan.bos(a)surfnet.nl>) The authors recommend that service providers use these INIXs to establish peering where improved connectivity is required. Note that the GIX is an INIX according to the above definition but that our recommendation is that the European INIXs are used to exchange production traffic between European service providers. We further recommend support of the D-GIX development work in agreement with the overall strategy of improved, cost effective connectivity. Finally, we recommend that the INIXs develop into D-GIXes, or IXFs or whatever will be the name of the structure which will provide optimal routing stability and connectivity support for Internet service providers. This is because service providers will need to invest in lines and equipment to connect to the INIXs and such investments will only be justified if they can be used over a long period. We have no recommendation regarding the number of INIXs. On the one hand, a large number of INIXs may minimize line costs if suitable transit agreements develop, on the other hand, the D-GIX development and eventual operation may become more difficult if there are too many locations in the structure. We could not identify an organization that would formally decide where INIX should or should not be located, rather we expect that market forces will determine the number and location of the INIXs. (1) Almes, Ford and Lothberg: Proposal for Global Internet Connectivity, 1992. (2) Bates, Karrenberg, Lothberg, Stockmann and Terpstra: Internet Routing in a Multi Provider, Multi Path Open Environment, 1993. (3) Eidnes: Draft Distributed GIX Specification, 1993.

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RIPE 17 - Agenda
by k13＠nikhef.nl 20 Jan '94

20 Jan '94

17th RIPE Meeting ----------------- Amsterdam, January 24-26 1994 AGENDA ------ ----- M O N D A Y 24 J A N U A R Y -------------- 14:00 h -------------- 1. Opening 15 min o welcome o apologies o dinner o logistics o agenda 2. Minutes RIPE-16 15 min o approval of the minutes o review of the Action List 3. RIPE NCC Report 45 min o technical report (D.Karrenberg) o financial report (R.Blokzijl) 4. RIPE NCC Activity Plan for 1994-1995 15 min o introduction (R.Blokzijl) o discussion o approval ----- break 15:30 h - 16:00 h ------------------------------------------- 5. Joint Projects - Status and Progress 45 min o PRIDE (T.Bates) o Route Server (T.Bates) 6. European Engineering and Planning Group (EEPG) 30 min o Terms of Reference (B.Stockman) o Workplan (B.Stockman) 7. IP Next Generation 30 min o Introduction (B.Carpenter) o discussion 8. RIPE: Restructuring the Organisation 15 min o Introduction (R.Blokzijl) o Discussion ----- E N D O F D A Y 1 ------------------------ 18:00 h -------------- ----- T U E S D A Y 25 J A N U A R Y ------------ 09:00 h -------------- Parallel Sessions: o Routing Working Group o Connectivity Working Group ----- break 10:30 h - 11:00 h ------------------------------------------- o Routing Working Group o European Engineering and Planning Group ----- lunch 12:30 h - 14:00 h ------------------------------------------- o Data Base Working Group o Network Information Discovery & User Services Working Group o European Engineering and Planning Group ----- break 15:30 h - 16:00 h ------------------------------------------- o Domain Name System Working Group o Data Base Working Group ----- E N D O F D A Y 2 ------------------------ 18:00 h -------------- ----- W E D N E S D A Y 26 J A N U A R Y -------- 09:00 H -------------- Parallel Sessions: o Local Internet Registries Working Group o RIPE Restructuring BOF ----- break 10:30 h - 11:00 h ------------------------------------------- 9. Report on networking with the CIS and Baltics 30 min 10. Points for Decision 30 min o RIPE NCC activity plan o EEPG Terms of Reference o EEPG Work Plan 11. Short Announcements 15 min o EUnet (P. G. Bilse) o CEENet (W. Woeber) 12. Next Meetings 15 min o RIPE 18: Amsterdam, May 16-18, 1994 o RIPE 19: Lisbon, September 1994 (proposed) o RIPE 20: Somewhere, January 1995 ----- lunch 12:30 h - 14:00 h ------------------------------------------- 13. Reports from the Working Groups 90 min 14. A.o.b. 15. Closing ----- E N D O F D A Y 3 ------------------------ 16:00 h --------------

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Re: **Announcement* RIPE 17 DINNER
by Graca Carvalho 20 Jan '94

20 Jan '94

Anne, As you possibly know, Portugal and Indonnesia don't have a very friendly relationship due to all the serious problems, specialy the disrespect of human rights, that involve East Timor. So, unfortunatly and with great sorrow, I will not attend the 17th RIPE Meeting Dinnner. Graca.

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ICCCN94 Call for Papers
by eun＠SCS.USNA.NAVY.MIL 19 Jan '94

19 Jan '94

CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'94) September 11 - 14, 1994, San Francisco, California, USA Sponsored by USC Communication Sciences Institute In cooperation with IEEE Communication Society* The third ICCCN will cover all aspects of computer communications and networks. Of particular interest are recent advances in high-speed distributed multimedia applications, and the design and performance evaluation of system and network architectures that support these applications. Authors are invited to submit papers and tutorial proposals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ATM Network Design Protocols for High Speed Networks ATM Traffic Control Distributed Multimedia applications ATM LAN's Multimedia Man/Machine Interface ATM Testbeds Video-on-Demand Systems Quality of Service Issues Video Coding Wireless Networks Network Management Multicast Protocols Performance Modeling/Analysis Optical Networks LAN/WAN Internetworking INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter containing a list of all authors, their affiliations, phone/fax numbers, and email addresses. Papers should be at most 20 double-spaced pages and must include an abstract of 100-150 words with up to ten keywords. Tutorial proposals should contain a one-page description and a detailed outline. All submissions will be refereed and judged with respect to quality and relevance. Submit six copies of each paper to the Program Chair (J. W. Wong), and tutorial proposal to the Program Vice Chair (E. K. Park). Proceedings will be available at the conference. CONFERENCE CHAIR: Professor T. Suda Department of Information and Computer Science University of California at Irvine Irvine, CA 92717 USA Phone (714) 856-5474; Fax (714) 856-4056; Email suda(a)ics.uci.edu PROGRAM CHAIR: Professor J. W. Wong Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Phone (519) 888-4431; Fax (519) 885-1208; Email jwwong(a)math.uwaterloo.ca PROGRAM VICE CHAIR: Professor E. K. Park Computer Science Department United States Naval Academy Annapolis, MD 21042 USA Phone (410) 267-3037; Fax (410) 267-2686; Email eun(a)usna.navy.mil LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: Dr. I. Khan, SRI International Phone (415) 859-6335; Fax (415) 859-4812; Email khan(a)erg.sri.com IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for paper and/or tutorial submissions: March 4, 1994 Notification of acceptance: May 10, 1994 Camera ready papers due: June 10, 1994 ICCCN'94 STEERING COMMITTEE: Prof. V. O. K. Li (Chair, 213-740-4665, vli(a)irving.usc.edu) Prof. B. G. Lee (Korea), Prof. J.-F. Chang (Taiwan), Dr. Y. C. Lee (USA), Prof. H. Okada (Japan), Prof. R. Pickholtz (USA), Prof. G.-S. Poo (Singapore), and Prof. I. Rubin (USA) *Pending approval

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RIPE 17 - MINUTES
by Anne Lord 19 Jan '94

19 Jan '94

**REMINDER** **REMINDER** **REMINDER** **REMINDER** **REMINDER** RIPE 17 - MINUTES - - - - - - - - - Just a quick reminder for all those who will be making a presentation[s] at the plenary or running a working group at the RIPE meeting next week. To be able to get the minutes out quickly (and the quicker the better :-), I am dependent on your help. Please dont leave it too late to mail me your presentation if you would like something included in the minutes. Everyone was great after the last meeting and were very prompt. If you would explicitly *not* like anything included in the minutes, please let me know. Many thanks for your cooperation. It is really appreciated! Anne ---------------------- Working Group Presentations/BOF's and Plenary Presentations Requirements: Summary of your presentation. Indication whether you would like your summary to be archived in the RIPE document store in the presentations directory. Deadline: one week after the RIPE meeting Thursday 3rd February, 1994 Format: ASCII for the minutes ASCII/ps for the presentations directory (there is no deadline on submission to the document store) Action by WG Chair: Review presentation {optional} Action by NCC: Editing text for spelling and grammar only. Editorial control remains with author. -----------------------

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**Announcement* RIPE 17 DINNER
by Anne Lord 17 Jan '94

17 Jan '94

* ANNOUNCEMENT * * ANNOUNCEMENT * * ANNOUNCEMENT * * ANNOUNCEMENT * * 17th RIPE Meeting Dinnner Tuesday, January 25th, Amsterdam Venue: Kantjil en de Tijger Spuistraat 291-293 Amsterdam For the 17th RIPE meeting dinner we have decided to go East. The dinner will be held at an Indonesian restaurant in the centre of Amsterdam and will be a traditional "Rice Table" feast. This means there will be a wide variety of dishes (something in the region of 22 dishes in total), all of which you will be able to try and enjoy. The menu for the dinner is as follows: -00- Pangsit Goreng Loempia Semarang -00- Rice Table -00- Fresh fruit with ice-cream -00- Coffee and Indonesian cake -00- *Cost of the dinner will be Hfl. 70,- inc. drinks. Our drinks budget covers us for EITHER one half bottle of wine per person OR approx 3 beers/soft drinks* Please reply to <meeting(a)ripe.net> if would like to have a place reserved for you at the dinner. Unfortunately you will not be able to attend without prior registration, so please let us know asap. Payment in cash is needed and this will be collected on the second day of the RIPE meeting during lunch. - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - -- 17th RIPE Meeting, Amsterdam Evening Dinner 25th January, 1994 < > I will be attending the RIPE Evening Dinner < > I will be bringing a guest(s). Please state below how many guests you will be bringing No. of guests: < > Please indicate if you are a vegetarian or have special dietary needs vegetarian : special diet, please specify : < > Name: < > Email address:

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Document Announcement
by Anne Lord 14 Jan '94

14 Jan '94

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-106 Title: RIPE NCC Quarterly Report, Issue 7, December 1993 Author: RIPE NCC Date: 14 January, 1994 Format: PS=712837 TXT=60940 Short content description ------------------------- This is the seventh quarterly report to be produced by the RIPE NCC. As before, comments and suggestions are very welcome. FTP Access ---------- All RIPE documents and Internet RFC`s are available via anonymous FTP from host ftp.ripe.net. Type "ftp ftp.ripe.net". Login with username "anonymous" supplying your email address as the password. After logging in, type "cd ripe/docs/ripe-docs" followed by the command "get filename". The relevant filenames for this document are: ripe-106.txt for the ASCII version ripe-106.ps for the PostScript version Electronic Mail Retrieval of Documents -------------------------------------- Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to: mail-server(a)ripe.net with "send HELP" in the body text. RIPE NCC Interactive Information Server --------------------------------------- Type "telnet info.ripe.net". This is a menu driven service allows the document store to be browsed. After reading documents you are prompted as to whether you would like to receive an email copy of the document you have just read. If you would, you simply enter your email address and the document will be mailed to you. Below are details of alternative methods of access. Gopher Access ------------- The same documents are available via a "gopher" server at "gopher gopher.ripe.net". WAIS Access ----------- There is also a "WAIS" server at wais.ripe.net, where there is a WAIS index for RIPE documents "ripe-docs.src" WWW Access ---------- For those who wish to add this home page at the RIPE NCC to their own customized home pages, it can be accessed as: http://www.ripe.net MIME Mail Reader ---------------- Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant Mail Reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the RIPE document. SEND ripe/docs/ripe-docs/ripe-106.txt

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programme 3rd High Speed Symposium
by High Speed Symposium Secretariat 14 Jan '94

14 Jan '94

Please find included the programme and registration form for the 3rd Symposium on High Speed Networking for Research in Europe. Some of you have already seen this before and I apologize to those that have already registered. Attendance to the Symposium is free but please be aware that it is necessary to register! best regards, Marieke Dekker PROGRAMME third Symposium on High Speed Networking for Research in Europe, organized by RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) with the support of the CEC (Commission of the European Communities) 2 February 1994 Centre Borschette Rue Froissart 36 1040 Brussels [Metro station Schuman] 09:00 Welcome - Paul Van Binst (RARE) 09:10 Opening Address - Michel Richonnier, Director CEC DG XIII/C: Technological Developments relating to Telematic Applications (networks and services) 09:30 Report on the RARE ATM Task Force - Les Clyne (Chairman) 09:50 DANTE High Speed Services Plans - Howard Davies (DANTE) 10:10 SuperJANET Update - Les Clyne (JNT) 10:30 break 11:00 Engineering Trans-oceanic 44 Mb/s TCP/IP Networks Guy Almes (Advanced Network & Services) 11:30 Rolling-out ATM based Network Services Juha Heinanen (FUNET) 12:00 Multimedia Experiments in SGN, the Stockholm Gigabit Network Bjorn Pehrson (KTH/SICS) 12:30 lunch 14:00 High Speed Networking within the French University and Research Community Jacques Prevost (Renater) 14:30 ATM cells are crossing European Borders Philippe Loiret/Jalal Samain (Expertel) 15:00 SURFnet extension to ATM Kees Neggers (SURFnet) 15:30 break 16:00 LARA, an Interconnection of ATM Products Jocelyne Lemagnen (EDF/DER) 16:30 Evolution to Very High Speed Networks Philippe Rix/Jacques Dupraz (Alcatel-CIT) 17:00 ATLAS, an ATM demonstration experiment for High Rate Space Telemetry Transportation Robert Rumeau (CNES Toulouse) 17:30 Closing Address ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM for the third Symposium on High Speed Networking for Research in Europe taking place on February 2, 1994 in Brussels Exact address details will follow PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT CLEARLY - one registration per form please. The undersigned wishes to register for the one day symposium on High Speed Networking for Research in Europe Family name: First name: University/Institute/firm: Office address: tel: fax: email: signed: date: Please return this form to the High Speed Symposium Secretariat tel. +31 20 639 1131 c/o RARE Secretariat fax. +31 20 639 3289 Singel 466-468 Internet: hssec(a)rare.nl NL 1017 AW Amsterdam X.400: C=nl;ADMD=400net;PRMD=surf;O=rare;S=hssec The 3rd Symposium on High Speed Networking for Research in Europe is organized by RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) with the support of the CEC (Commission of the European Communities) Please note that no hotel accomodation will be organized for the Symposium. end-of-form

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RIPE 17 - Preliminary Agenda - Draft 1
by k13＠nikhef.nl 13 Jan '94

13 Jan '94

Dear friends, please find below the first draft of the agenda for RIPE 17. Two remarks: 1. as always, there will be Working Group and BOF meetings taking place in parallel during part of the meeting. People planning to have such meetings are kindly requested to let this be known the coming days. The provision of agenda's for such meetings in advance is appreciated. 2. also as always, comments/additions/changes to the draft agenda are most welcome. See you in Amsterdam, Rob Blokzijl 17th RIPE Meeting ----------------- Amsterdam, January 24-26 1994 DRAFT AGENDA ------------ 1. Opening 2. Minutes RIPE-16 and Action List 3. RIPE NCC Report 4. RIPE NCC Activity Plan for 1994-1995 5. Joint Projects - Status and Progress o PRIDE o Route Server 6. European Engineering and Planning Group (EEPG) o Terms of Reference o Workplan 7. IP Next Generation 8. RIPE: Restructuring the Organisation 9. Reports from the Working Groups 10. Closing

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IP next generation session at January RIPE meeting
by Daniel Karrenberg 13 Jan '94

13 Jan '94

IP next generation session at January RIPE meeting ================================================== As the European members of the IESG's IPng Directorate, we would like to take advantage of the RIPE meeting to collect input on the engineering considerations involved. The scope of this session is that described in RFC 1550, the call for IPng White Papers. (Of course you are also encouraged to respond directly to RFC 1550 by writing a white paper before the end of January.) The session will not have a formal agenda. We will open the floor for opinions on requirements (not solutions) after a brief introduction. Monday, January 24th in the afternoon session of the RIPE meeting Brian.Carpenter(a)cern.ch Daniel.Karrenberg(a)ripe.net

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