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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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RIPE 23 - Agenda Update
by k13＠nikhef.nl 26 Jan '96

26 Jan '96

RIPE 23 ======= Agenda and Meeting Schedule --------------------------- Monday 29 January: ----------------- 10:00 - 12:30 EOF (European Operators Forum) 14:00 - 15:30 A. DNS (Domain Name System) B. Mbone Coordination 16:00 - 18:00 L-IR (Local Internet Registries) Tuesday 30 January: ------------------ 09:00 - 10:30 L-IR 11:00 - 12:30 DB (Database Issues) 14:00 - 15:30 DB 16:00 - 18:00 BOF - European NetNews Coordination Wednesday 31 January: -------------------- Plenary Session starts at 09:00h 1. Opening 2. Agenda 3. Minutes RIPE 22 4. Action List RIPE 22 5. Report from the RIPE NCC (Daniel Karrenberg) 6. RIPE NCC Activity Plan - evaluation - update 7. European NetNews Coordination (Willi Huber) 8. RA report - Update (Elise Gerich) 9. Address Space & Routing: Conservation vs Aggregation - introduction and discussion 10. WG Reports - conclusions - decissions - actions 11. Next Meetings: - RIPE 24: Berlin, April 22-24 - RIPE 25: Amsterdam 13. A.O.B. 14. Closing

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Is NetNews coordination needed ?
by Willi Huber 26 Jan '96

26 Jan '96

Hi, SWITCH has recently got requests for News feeds from countries, where SWITCH has no ideal connectivity to. A full feed is today in the same order of magnitude than MBone traffic (100 .. 150 kbps steadily). But News is not coordinated well. Is the RIPE meeting a place, where such coordination could be done? Does it need a working group? Do News administrators normally visit RIPE meetings? At least a well working mailing list is needed. What do you think? SWITCH would be willing to invest some man power and travelling expenses to coordinate News better. Daniel, could we discuss this matter shortly in the plenary session next Tuesday? Regards, Willi Huber

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Weather forecast: COLD!
by RIPE NCC Staff 26 Jan '96

26 Jan '96

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 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

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