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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD

     IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  3
     INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  3

  Internet Projects

     INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
       Network Solutions Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
       US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
     MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
     UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
     IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
     RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19


  CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
    TERENA List of Meetings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23































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INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD

     The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp
     access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB
     World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/.

     Brian Carpenter IAB Chair

INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------

  1. The next meeting of the IETF will be held Chicago August,
     Illinois from August 24-28, 1998. Our local host is Motorola. The
     final meeting of 1998, hosted by Microsoft, will be held in
     Orlando, Florida.

     Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent
     to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on
     future meetng sites can always be found in the file
     0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of
     course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL
     is:

                          http://www.ietf.org/

  2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF
     shadow directories in the iesg directory.

     The following IESG minutes have been added:

       May 7, 1998 (iesg.98-05-07)
       May 21, 1998 (iesg.98-05-21)


  3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 13 Protocol
     Actions during the month of May, 1998:

     o Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response for
       publication as a Best Current Practices RFC.

     o TFTP Blocksize Option for publication as a Draft Standard.

     o TN3270 Enhancements for publication as a Draft Standard.

     o TFTP Option Extension for publication as a Draft Standard.





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     o TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options for publication
       as a Draft Standard.

     o Firewall Support for Mobile IP for publication as an
       Informational RFC.

     o Options for Repair of Streaming Media for publication as an
       Informational RFC.

     o Cisco Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) 'L2F' for publication as
       an Informational RFC.

     o Making Postscript and PDF International for publication as an
       Informational RFC.

     o Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval for publication as an
       Informational RFC.

     o APPN/HPR in IP Networks APPN Implementers' Workshop Closed
       Pages Document for publication as an Informational RFC.

     o Mapping of Airline Reservation, Ticketing, and Messaging
       Traffic over IP for publication as an Informational RFC.

     o Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS) Overview for
       publication as an Informational RFC.


  4. 14 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of May,
     1998:

     o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
       <draft-iesg-iana-considerations-04.txt> for consideration as a
       Best Current Practices RFC.

     o Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
       <draft-ietf-mboned-admin-ip-space-04.txt> for consideration as
       a Best Current Practices RFC.

     o Some Thoughts on the Importance of Modesty and Decorum and the
       Need for an IETF Code of Conduct
       <draft-odell-code-of-conduct-02.txt> for consideration as a
       Best Current Practices RFC.

     o Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
       <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-spec-v2-01.txt> for consideration as a
       Draft Standard.




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     o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet
       Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
       <draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v2-00.txt> for consideration as a Draft
       Standard.

     o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
       <draft-ietf-ipngwg-discovery-v2-02.txt> for consideration as a
       Draft Standard.

     o IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
       <draft-ietf-ipngwg-addrconf-v2-02.txt> for consideration as a
       Draft Standard.

     o Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators
       <draft-ietf-mhtml-cid-v2-00.txt> for consideration as a
       Proposed Standard.

     o The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
       <draft-ietf-mhtml-rel-v2-00.txt> for consideration as a
       Proposed Standard.

     o POP3 Extension Mechanism <draft-gellens-pop3ext-05.txt> for
       consideration as a Proposed Standard.

     o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
       (iCalendar) <draft-ietf-calsch-ical-07.txt> for consideration
       as a Proposed Standard.

     o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol
       (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries
       <draft-ietf-calsch-itip-04.txt> for consideration as a Proposed
       Standard.

     o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)
       <draft-ietf-calsch-imip-05.txt> for consideration as a Proposed
       Standard.

     o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP'
       <draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-11.txt> for consideration as a Proposed
       Standard.

  5. Three new working groups were created this month:

       IP Over Fibre Channel (ipfc)
       Multicast-Address Allocation (malloc)
       ADSL MIB (adslmib)





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  6. There were 139 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of May,
     1998:

     (cat)      o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security
                  Service Application Program Interface
                  (IDUP-GSS-API) <draft-ietf-cat-idup-gss-11.txt>
     (none)     o Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol MIB
                  <draft-thaler-dvmrp-mib-09.txt>
     (atommib)  o Definitions of Textual Conventions and
                  OBJECT-IDENTITIES for ATM Management
                  <draft-ietf-atommib-atm2TC-07.txt>
     (drums)    o Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
                  <draft-ietf-drums-smtpupd-07.txt>
     (ospf)     o The OSPF Opaque LSA Option
                  <draft-ietf-ospf-opaque-05.txt>
     (pktway)   o The End-to-End (EEP) PacketWay Protocol for
                  High-Performance Interconnection of Computer
                  Clusters
                  <draft-ietf-pktway-protocol-eep-spec-03.txt>
     (atommib)  o Definitions of Tests for ATM Management
                  <draft-ietf-atommib-test-03.txt>
     (trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0
                  Bundle Interface Type
                  <draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds0-mib-06.txt>
     (atommib)  o Managed Objects for Controlling the Collection and
                  Storage of Accounting Information for Connection-Oriented
                  Networks
                  <draft-ietf-atommib-acct-04.txt>
     (atommib)  o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management
                  <draft-ietf-atommib-atm1ng-04.txt>
     (atommib)  o Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using
                  Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals
                  <draft-ietf-atommib-perfhistTC-01.txt>
     (atommib)  o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH
                  Interface Type <draft-ietf-atommib-sonetng-02.txt>
     (hubmib)   o Definitions of Managed Objects for the
                  Ethernet-like Interface Types
                  <draft-ietf-hubmib-etherif-mib-06.txt>
     (ipsec)    o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
                  <draft-ietf-ipsec-arch-sec-05.txt>
     (ipsec)    o IP Authentication Header
                  <draft-ietf-ipsec-auth-header-06.txt>
     (none)     o Message Submission <draft-gellens-submit-07.txt>
     (pkix)     o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
                  Certificate Management Protocols
                  <draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt>





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     (ion)      o Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next
                  Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
                  <draft-ietf-ion-nhrp-mib-04.txt>
     (none)     o Making Postscript and PDF International
                  <draft-palme-int-print-04.txt>
     (atommib)  o Accounting Information for ATM Networks
                  <draft-ietf-atommib-atmacct-01.txt>
     (stdguide) o Guide for Internet Standards Writers
                  <draft-ietf-stdguide-ops-07.txt>
     (pppext)   o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP'
                  <draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-11.txt>
     (issll)    o A Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over
                  Shared and Switched IEEE 802 LAN Technologies
                  <draft-ietf-issll-is802-framework-05.txt>
     (ftpext)   o FTP Extensions for IPv6
                  <draft-ietf-ftpext-ftp-over-ipv6-02.txt>
     (ediint)   o MIME-based Secure EDI
                  <draft-ietf-ediint-as1-06.txt>
     (rmonmib)  o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch
                  Networks Version 1.0
                  <draft-ietf-rmonmib-smon-04.txt>
     (mboned)   o Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
                  <draft-ietf-mboned-admin-ip-space-04.txt>
     (tip)      o Transaction Internet Protocol Version 3.0
                  <draft-lyon-itp-nodes-08.txt>
     (ipsec)    o The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation
                  for ISAKMP <draft-ietf-ipsec-ipsec-doi-09.txt>
     (radius)   o Implementation of PPTP/L2TP Compulsory Tunneling
                  via RADIUS <draft-ietf-radius-tunnel-imp-03.txt>
     (ssh)      o Users' Security Handbook
                  <draft-ietf-ssh-users-05.txt>
     (ftpext)   o Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol
                  <draft-ietf-ftpext-intl-ftp-05.txt>
     (atommib)  + Managed Objects for Recording ATM Performance
                  History Data Based on 15 Minute Intervals
                  <draft-ietf-atommib-atmhist-00.txt>
     (applmib)  o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services
                  <draft-ietf-applmib-wwwmib-08.txt>
     (none)     o IETF Criteria For Evaluating Reliable Multicast
                  Transport and Application Protocols
                  <draft-mankin-reliable-multicast-03.txt>
     (mmusic)   o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
                  <draft-ietf-mmusic-sip-05.txt,.ps>
     (none)     o Originator-Info Message Header
                  <draft-newman-msgheader-originfo-05.txt>
     (radius)   o Extensible Authentication Protocol Support in
                  RADIUS <draft-ietf-radius-eap-05.txt>




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     (calsch)   o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object
                  Specification (iCalendar)
                  <draft-ietf-calsch-ical-07.txt>
     (run)      o DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited
                  Mailings and Postings (spam)
                  <draft-ietf-run-spew-04.txt>
     (none)     o DIAMETER Base Protocol
                  <draft-calhoun-diameter-03.txt>
     (none)     o DIAMETER User Authentication Extensions
                  <draft-calhoun-diameter-authent-03.txt>
     (dhc)      o Subnet Configuration Option Set for DHCP
                  <draft-ietf-dhc-dyn-subnet-conf-02.txt>
     (ospf)     o The OSPF NSSA Option
                  <draft-ietf-ospf-nssa-update-04.txt>
     (qosr)     o A Framework for QoS-based Routing in the Internet
                  <draft-ietf-qosr-framework-05.txt>
     (pppext)   o PPP over AAL5 <draft-ietf-pppext-aal5-06.txt>
     (calsch)   o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol
                  (iMIP) <draft-ietf-calsch-imip-05.txt>
     (urn)      o A URN Namespace for IETF Documents
                  <draft-ietf-urn-ietf-05.txt>
     (none)     o Creating 40-Bit Keys for DES
                  <draft-hoffman-des40-02.txt>
     (tn3270e)  o TN3270 Enhancements
                  <draft-ietf-tn3270e-ver2-enhance-01.txt>
     (tn3270e)  o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E
                  Using SMIv2 <draft-ietf-tn3270e-tn3270-mib-08.txt>
     (tip)      o Transaction Internet Protocol - Requirements and
                  Supplemental Information
                  <draft-evans-tip-functions-03.txt>
     (ipcdn)    o Cable Device Management Information Base for MCNS
                  compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination
                  Systems <draft-ietf-ipcdn-cable-device-mib-04.txt>
     (ipcdn)    o Radio Frequency (RF) Interface Management
                  Information Base for MCNS compliant RF interfaces
                  <draft-ietf-ipcdn-rf-interface-mib-04.txt>
     (dnsind)   o Reserved Top Level DNS Names
                  <draft-ietf-dnsind-test-tlds-09.txt>
     (ipngwg)   o Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules
                  <draft-ietf-ipngwg-tla-assignment-03.txt>
     (ippcp)    o IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp)
                  <draft-ietf-ippcp-protocol-06.txt>
     (calsch)   o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability
                  Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos
                  and Journal Entries <draft-ietf-calsch-itip-04.txt>
     (ipsec)    o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
                  <draft-ietf-ipsec-esp-v2-05.txt>




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     (ion)      o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for ATMARP
                  <draft-ietf-ion-discov-atmarp-01.txt>
     (ion)      o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS
                  <draft-ietf-ion-discov-mars-01.txt>
     (issll)    o A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over
                  ATM <draft-ietf-issll-atm-framework-04.txt>
     (dnssec)   o Domain Name System Security Extensions
                  <draft-ietf-dnssec-secext2-05.txt>
     (mhtml)    + Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators
                  <draft-ietf-mhtml-cid-v2-00.txt>
     (pppext)   o PPP Over FUNI <draft-ietf-pppext-funi-06.txt>
     (lsma)     o Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for
                  Large-scale Multicast Applications
                  <draft-ietf-lsma-requirements-02.txt>
     (tn3270e)  o Definitions of Protocol and Managed Objects for
                  TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2
                  (TN3270E-RT-MIB) <draft-ietf-tn3270e-rt-mib-05.txt>
     (tcpimpl)  o Increasing TCP's Initial Window
                  <draft-floyd-incr-init-win-03.txt>
     (ion)      o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for NHRP
                  <draft-ietf-ion-discov-nhrp-01.txt>
     (snanau)   o Definitions of Managed Objects for Extended Border
                  Node <draft-ietf-snanau-ebnmib-02.txt>
     (none)     o IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations
                  <draft-leiba-imap-implement-guide-07.txt>
     (mhtml)    + The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
                  <draft-ietf-mhtml-rel-v2-00.txt>
     (none)     o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1
                  <draft-crispin-imapv-05.txt>
     (fax)      + GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services
                  v3.10 <draft-ietf-fax-fulladdr-00.txt>
     (ipsec)    o The ISAKMP Configuration Method
                  <draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-mode-cfg-04.txt>
     (tcpsat)   o Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using
                  Standard Mechanisms
                  <draft-ietf-tcpsat-stand-mech-04.txt>
     (iesg)     o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations
                  Section in RFCs
                  <draft-iesg-iana-considerations-04.txt>
     (urlreg)   o Guidelines for new URL Schemes
                  <draft-ietf-urlreg-guide-02.txt>
     (smime)    o Cryptographic Message Syntax
                  <draft-ietf-smime-cms-05.txt>
     (svrloc)   o Service Location Protocol
                  <draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-v2-05.txt>
     (idr)      o BGP Route Flap Damping
                  <draft-ietf-idr-route-damp-03.txt,.ps>




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     (pppext)   o Multi-link Multi-node PPP
                  <draft-ietf-pppext-mmp-discovery-02.txt>
     (avt)      o RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T
                  Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+)
                  <draft-ietf-avt-rtp-h263-video-02.txt>
     (openpgp)  o OpenPGP Message Format
                  <draft-ietf-openpgp-formats-03.txt>
     (none)     + Handle System: A Persistent Global Naming Service
                  Overview and Syntax
                  <draft-sun-handle-system-00.txt>
     (smime)    o S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification
                  <draft-ietf-smime-msg-04.txt>
     (smime)    o S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling
                  <draft-ietf-smime-cert-04.txt>
     (ngtrans)  o 6Bone Routing Practice
                  <draft-ietf-ngtrans-6bone-routing-01.txt>
     (tcpsat)   o Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites
                  <draft-ietf-tcpsat-res-issues-03.txt>
     (pppext)   o Securing L2TP using IPSEC
                  <draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-security-02.txt>
     (ipsec)    o Extended Authentication Within ISAKMP/Oakley
                  <draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-xauth-02.txt>
     (otp)      o The One-Time-Password SASL Mechanism
                  <draft-ietf-otp-sasl-02.txt>
     (none)     o APPN/HPR in IP Networks APPN Implementers' Workshop
                  Closed Pages Document
                  <draft-rfced-info-dudley-02.txt>
     (printmib) o Printer Finishing MIB
                  <draft-ietf-printmib-finishing-02.txt>
     (tn3270e)  o 5250 Telnet Enhancements
                  <draft-ietf-tn3270e-tn5250e-01.txt>
     (snanau)   o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN
                  <draft-ietf-snanau-appnmib-v2-01.txt>
     (none)     o DIAMETER Resource Management Extensions
                  <draft-calhoun-diameter-res-mgmt-01.txt>
     (rps)      o Routing Policy System Security
                  <draft-ietf-rps-auth-01.txt,.ps>
     (pint)     o Toward the PSTN/Internet Inter-Networking
                  --Pre-PINT Implementations
                  <draft-ietf-pint-pre-implement-01.txt>
     (rtfm)     o SRL: A Simple Ruleset Language
                  <draft-ietf-rtfm-ruleset-language-01.txt>
     (webdav)   o WebDAV Advanced Collections Protocol
                  <draft-ietf-webdav-collection-reqts-02.txt>
     (conneg)   o An algebra for describing media feature sets
                  <draft-ietf-conneg-feature-algebra-01.txt>
     (none)     o Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS) Overview
                  <draft-rfced-info-vns-01.txt>



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     (fax)      o Extended Facsimile Using Internet Mail
                  <draft-ietf-fax-eifax-01.txt>
     (fax)      o Extended MDN for Internet Fax Full Mode
                  <draft-ietf-fax-mdn-fullmode-01.txt>
     (webdav)   o Requirements for Event Notification Protocol
                  <draft-ietf-webdav-enpreq-01.txt>
     (none)     o XML Media Types <draft-whitehead-mime-xml-03.txt>
     (dhc)      + Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server
                  MIB <draft-ietf-dhc-server-mib-00.txt>
     (usefor)   + News Article Format
                  <draft-ietf-usefor-article-00.txt>
     (none)     + Designing QoSMIC: A Quality of Service sensitive
                  Multicast Internet protoCol
                  <draft-banerjea-qosmic-00.txt,.ps>
     (fax)      + Scenarios for Internet fax capability exchange
                  <draft-ietf-fax-capability-scenarios-00.txt>
     (none)     + Negotiated Address Reuse (NAR)
                  <draft-montenegro-aatn-nar-00.txt>
     (none)     + Requirements for Simple Workflow Access Protocol -
                  SWAP <draft-sreddy-swap-requirements-00.txt>
     (none)     + Photuris: Secret Exchange
                  <draft-simpson-photuris-secret-00.txt>
     (none)     + TFTP Multicast Option <draft-rfced-exp-yung-00.txt>
     (ldapext)  + Signed Directory Operations Using S/MIME
                  <draft-ietf-ldapext-sigops-00.txt>
     (none)     + DHCP on IEEE 1394
                  <draft-fujisawa-ip1394-dhcp-00.txt
     (diffserv) + Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS
                  Byte) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
                  <draft-ietf-diffserv-header-00.txt>
     (smime)    + Signing Certificate Attribute Specification
                  <draft-ietf-smime-sigattr-00.txt>
     (none)     + Schema for Representing Java(tm) Objects in an LDAP
                  Directory <draft-ryan-java-schema-00.txt>
     (hubmib)   + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3
                  Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2
                  <draft-ietf-hubmib-mau-mib-v2-00.txt>
     (none)     + DIAMETER Framework Document
                  <draft-calhoun-diameter-framework-00.txt>
     (snanau)   o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN TRAPS
                  <draft-ietf-snanau-appntrapmib-01.txt>
     (none)     + Simple Gateway Control Protocol (SGCP)
                  <draft-huitema-sgcp-v1-00.txt>
     (none)     + Armenian Character Sets: Implementation Guide
                  <draft-melikyan-armenian-charsets-00.txt>
     (none)     + Current Status of NFS version 4
                  <draft-shepler-nfsv4-00.txt>




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     (avt)      + An RTP Payload Format for User Multiplexing
                  <draft-ietf-avt-aggregation-00.txt>
     (tn3270e)  o TN3270E Service Location and Session Balancing
                  <draft-ietf-tn3270e-service-loc-01.txt>
     (none)     + TN3270E Service Location and Session Balancing
                  Templates
                  <draft-naugle-tn3270e-serv-loc-template-00.txt>
     (none)     + ACC's Vendor Specific Attributes
                  <draft-ilgun-radius-accvsa-00.txt>
     (none)     + NNTP Authentication
                  <draft-newman-nntpext-auth-00.txt>
     (none)     + PPP LCP extensions for Initial Program load,
                  Discard received, Link Bandwidth and Link Delay
                  measurement <draft-passera-lcp-misc-00.txt>
     (none)     + HTTP Proxy State Management Mechanism
                  <draft-kristol-http-proxy-state-00.txt,.ps>
     (none)     + List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the
                  Identification of Mailing Lists
                  <draft-chandhok-listid-00.txt>
     (diffserv) + An Architecture for Differentiated Services
                  <draft-ietf-diffserv-arch-00.txt>
     (none)     + The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1
                  <draft-coar-cgi-v11-00.txt>
     (none)     + The Zone Referral Key
                  <draft-lewis-dnskey-referral-00.txt>
     (none)     + DIAMETER QOS Extension
                  <draft-calhoun-diameter-qos-00.txt>
     (smime)    + Certificate Distribution Specification
                  <draft-ietf-smime-certdist-00.txt>


  7. 18 RFCs were published during this period

     RFC2300 S  (none)    INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS
     RFC2330 I  (ippm)    Framework for IP Performance Metrics
     RFC2337 E  (ion)     Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over
                          ATM using Sparse Mode PIM
     RFC2338 PS (vrrp)    Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
     RFC2339 I  (none)    An agreement between the Internet Society,
                          the IETF and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the
                          matter of NFS V.4 protocols
     RFC2340 I  (none)    Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS)
                          Overview
     RFC2341 I  (none)    Cisco Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) 'L2F'
     RFC2342 PS (none)    IMAP4 Namespace
     RFC2343 E  (none)    RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG
     RFC2344 PS (mobileip)Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP
     RFC2345 E  (none)    Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval



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     RFC2346 I  (none)    Making Postscript and PDF International
     RFC2347 DS (none)    TFTP Option Extension
     RFC2348 DS (none)    TFTP Blocksize Option
     RFC2349 DS (none)    TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size
                          Options
     RFC2351 I  (none)    Mapping of Airline Reservation, Ticketing,
                          and Messaging Traffic over IP
     RFC2352 I  (none)    A Convention For Using Legal Names as
                          Domain Names
     RFC2353 I  (none)    APPN/HPR in IP Networks APPN Implementers'
                          Workshop Closed Pages Document








































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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------

INTERNIC
--------

     NETWORK SOLUTIONS REPORT

     ops% service.stats May
     ******************************************************
     *       gopher sessions                              *
     ******************************************************
     Connections:        0
     Retrievals:        0
     ******************************************************
     *        wais sessions                               *
     ******************************************************
     Connections:        0
     Retrievals:        0
     ******************************************************
     *        whois sessions                              *
     ******************************************************
     Client Queries:  24,555,886
     Server Queries:  29,308,542
     ******************************************************
     *         ftp sessions                               *
     ******************************************************
     Connections:   118,861
     Retrievals:   183,759
     ******************************************************
     *      telnet sessions                               *
     ******************************************************
     Connections:    96,740
     ******************************************************
     *       mailserver sessions                          *
     ******************************************************
     Connections:        0
     ******************************************************
     *       http sessions                                *
     ******************************************************
     Retrievals:  29,070,330
     ops%

     Phones: 50,135
     Emails : 784,402
     Updates: 225,192

     by Ricardo A. Gonzalez <rgonzale@internic.net>



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     THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY

     THE US DOMAIN
     =============

     The US Domain registration information is available online at
     http://www.isi.edu/us-domain.

     Much of the processing of the requests to the third level domain
     name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register
     names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded
     to the administrator of that locality.

     US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
     ====================================


             EMAIL/FAX            2485
             PHONE                 500
             ----------------------------
             Total Contacts       2985


             DELEGATIONS:          100
             FORWARDED REQUESTS:   771
             OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:2114
             ---------------------------
             Total                2985

     OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES include referrals to other subdomains or
     to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application
     requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
     about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name
     servers, and whois listings.

     MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED
     ==========================


     K12     CC      TEC     STATE   LIB     MUS     GEN     DST     COG
     ===================================================================
     53      40      38      48      42      27      31      10      6
     ===================================================================








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     THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS
     ========================

     K12.PR.US.                      K Thru 12 schools, Puerto Rico.

     LOCALITIES
     ==========

     BENTONVILLE.AR.US.              NORTH-LOGAN.UT.US.
     SPILLVILLE.IA.US.               LOGAN.WV.US.
     GILCHRIST.FL.US.                CLARENDON-HILLS.IL.US.
     SAUGUS.MA.US.                   COACHELLA-VALLEY.CA.US.
     CLEAR-CREEK.CO.US.              LATAH.ID.US.
     DILLINGHAM.AK.US.               GRAYSON.VA.US.
     MENDOTA.IL.US.                  VACAVILLE.CA.US.
     RODEO.CA.US.                    BUNCOMBE.NC.US.
     NEW-MADRID.MO.US.               HIGHLAND.NY.US.
     OAK-BROOK.IL.US.                ERIE.CO.US.
     PENNSBURY.PA.US.

     We delegated 4 special domains. They are

     SSC.SAUK-SUIATTLE.NSN.US.
     SSC.SWINOMISH.NSN.US.
     SSC.UPPER-SKAGIT.NSN.US.
     UMATILLA.NSN.US.


     OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH
     ======================================

     CI.INDEPENDENCE.MN.US.          BBS.CO.MONROE.MS.US.
     JDC.IDAHO-FALLS.ID.US.          HEALTH.CI.GIRARD.OH.US.
     CI.OSHKOSH.NE.US.               FALLS-CHURCH.LIB.VA.US.
     CI.EXETER.NE.US.                CO.MIAMI.KS.US.
     TOWN.CUMBERLAND.ME.US.          ABRAMS.PACIFIC-PALISADES.CA.US.
     CO.MADISON.NE.US.               CO.BINGHAM.ID.US.
     APPRAISER.CO.HIGHLANDS.FL.US.   ADAM.MACON.GA.US.
     TROOP334.INDEPENDENCE.MO.US.    CI.ALTOONA.PA.US.
     REX.CO.JOHNSON.IA.US.           ASAAW.ASHBURN.VA.US.
     REUNITE.BOONE.NC.US.            CO.JUAB.UT.US.
     COURTHOUSE.CARTER.OK.US.        DEXTROMETHORPHAN.MIAMI.FL.US.
     CI.DEMOPOLIS.AL.US.             CI.KRUM.TX.US.
     LCS.ISSAQUAH.WA.US.             VELASQUEZ.HUMBOLDT.CA.US.
     CI.PERU.NE.US.                  CI.RIVER-BEND.NC.US.
     DJBRIAN.QUEENSBURY.NY.US.       NETWORX.SCOTTSBLUFF.NE.US.
     BORO.TOPTON.PA.US.              CSMA.NICHOLS.NY.US.
     TUD.DST.CA.US.                  DHS.DUNEDIN.FL.US.



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     COACH.OGDEN.UT.US.              CI.LONGWOOD.FL.US.
     WEBSERVERS.PROVO.UT.US.         CI.DODGE.NE.US.
     BCS.BRYAN.TX.US.                COMPUTERS.BRICK.NJ.US.
     ICONNECT.LAKE.IL.US.            CI.AUBURN.NY.US.
     CI.JOLIET.IL.US.                HRA.CO.GLENN.CA.US.
     DELMORE.ALBUQUERQUE.NM.US.      HOMES.ALBUQUERQUE.NM.US.
     INTERTECH.ALBUQUERQUE.NM.US.    UNICORN.MAITLAND.FL.US.
     CI.PETAL.MS.US.                 CI.EAST-PALO-ALTO.CA.US.
     TWP.LOWER.NJ.US.                CO.ORANGE.NY.US.
     TWP.MARSHALL.PA.US.             DOWNNG.OCALA.FL.US.
     TOWN.CAREFREE.AZ.US.            CI.NIAGARA-FALLS.NY.US.
     CI.WYOMING.MI.US.               CO.MADISON.ID.US.
     TWO.CHEYENNE.WY.US.             DAPHNIS.SCOTTSBLUFF.NE.US.
     DAPHNIS.MITCHELL.NE.US.         STEGESD.DST.CA.US.
     HMP.BAYVILLE.NJ.US.             CBW.BAYVILLE.NJ.US.
     BAY.BAYVILLE.NJ.US.             CI.PLAIN-CITY.UT.US.
     CI.FLAGER-BEACH.FL.US.          CI.CORTE-MADERA.CA.US.
     CI.PIEDMONT.OK.US.              CI.LUCAS.TX.US.
     HCWSA.HENRY.GA.US.              WEBNET.TAYLOR.MI.US.
     CI.CLAYTON.CA.US.               TWN.WASHINGTON.VA.US.

     URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/

     by Shanthi Ranganathan <US-Domain@ISI.EDU>


MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING
--------------------------

     This report summarizes May 1998 activities of Merit's Internet
     Engineering group.

     Several ISPs are now providing funding in support of Routing
     Arbiter Database operations.  We'd like to thank our new sponsors,
     who include:

       -  Verio, Inc. (www.verio.net)

       -  Teleglobe International (www.teleglobe.net/en/index.html)

       -  CONNECT (www.connect.com.au/)

     The RADB will continue to operate until the routing community
     completes its planned transition to a distributed routing registry
     model.  Merit and other organizations participating in global
     routing intend to phase out centralized registries, such as the
     RADB, and move to a distributed registry on or about March 31,
     1999.



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     If your organization can assist in supporting the RADB through this
     transition, please contact Merit at (734) 764-9430 and ask for Bill
     Norton, Internet Engineering Manager, or Kitty Bridges, Associate
     Director for National Networking.  You can also send e-mail to
     wbn@merit.edu and bridges@merit.edu.  See also the RADB Web page:

       http://www.merit.edu/radb/

     The Merit/MichNet 6bone continues to expand, with the following
     sites connected so far:

       - Eastern Upper Peninsula Telecommunications Consortium (Michigan)
       - Telebit Communications (Denmark)
       - WIDE Project (Japan)
       - Cisco Systems
       - WAMnet Enterprises, Inc. (Minnesota)
       - Kansas State University
       - ANS
       - Viagenie, Inc. (Quebec)
       - CERNET (Tsinghua University, the first IPv6 connection to China)
       - SingaREN Centre for Internet Research, National University of
         Singapore

     In addition to the sites above, Merit has established purely
     experimental tunnels with two Japanese organizations (Zebra and
     INTEC), which are developing their own IPv6 routing software.

     Project leader Masaki Hirabaru of the Merit Internet Engineering
     Group looks forward to future collaborations as more of our
     neighbors connect to the MichNet 6bone.  Please send mail to
     6bone@merit.edu if you are interested in joining the project.

     Jake Khuon, Tom Spindler, and Craig Labovitz attended the 30th RIPE
     meeting in Stockholm.  At the Routing Working Group, Labovitz gave
     a presentation titled "Inter-domain Routing." At the Database
     Working Group, Jake Khuon gave a talk titled "Routing Policy
     Specification Language Transition Phase II:  Merit's Experience."

     by Susan R. Harris <srh@merit.edu>


UCL
----

     We ran the HIPPARCH Workshop and sent on mbone - see
     http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/hipparch/program.html for online
     papers.




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     We presented some work on IP Multicast support in ATM using a novel
     approach to cell re-labelling at the IEEE ICATM Conference.  See
     ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/cram.ps and
     ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/cram-sim.ps

     We are integrating a number of different systems into our CAIRN
     router in line with collaboraters on the CAIRN.

     We shall be hosting the IRTF's RM meeting in July - see
     http://www.east.isi.edu/rm/

     by John Crowcroft <j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK>


IANA REPORT
-----------

     MIME Media Types                                6
     Multicast Address: Blocks                       1
     Private Enterprise Numbers                      74
     Port Numbers                                    38
     SMI Numbers                                     3

     by Josh Elliott <elliott@IANA.ORG>


RFC EDITOR REPORT
-----------------

     This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the
     month of May, 1998:

                                  TIME IN QUEUE
     DOCUMENTS        New*   30 days     60 days      90 days      TOTAL
     ------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                  |
     Beginning of       0       11         13            5        | 29
     month                                                        |
                                                                  |
     New               12        0          0            0        | 12
                                                                  |
                                                                  |
     Processed          6        8          7            0        | 21
     ------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                  |
     End of month      6        3           6            5        | 20

     * New RFCs added to queue throughout the month



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     The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in
     1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss
     many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in
     networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also
     including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The
     specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by
     the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the
     IESG), are published as RFCs.

     RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor.  RFCs enter the RFC Editor's
     work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent
     submission.  Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to
     check for overlap with IETF work.  The IESG might put a hold on a
     document to gather more input from its members.  The wait for an RFC
     to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications
     (typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author).
     Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found
     to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join
     work already in progress in the IETF.

     by Alegre Ramos <rfc-ed@RFC-EDITOR.ORG>






























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CALENDAR
--------

Last update 6/22/98

The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a
means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to
send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section.
Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to:

               <meeting-planning@ietf.org>

Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for
the events listed below.

A copy of this calendar is available as follows:

VIA FTP
-------

IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites.

        Northern Europe Address:   ftp.nordu.net (192.36.148.198)
        Southern Europe Address:   ftp.nis.garr.it (193.205.245.10)
        Pacific Rim Address:  munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)
        Africa Address:       ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12)
        West Coast Address:  ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32)
        US East Coast Address:  ftp.ietf.org

cd ietf
ls *0mtg*


WWW
-------
<http://www.ietf.org/home.html> Click on the link for "meetings" and
you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events".


************************************************************************


1998
-----------

Jul. 2-3          pulver.com's Voice on the
                   Net(TM)                        Tokyo, Japan
Jul. 6-10         IEEE 802 Plenary                San Diego, CA



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Jul. 13-14        Workshop on Internet-Scale
                   Event Notification (WISEN)     Irvine, CA
Jul. 21-24        INET '98
                  The Internet Society's 8th
                  Annual Networking Conference    Geneva, Switzerland
Jul. 26-31        ATM Forum                       Portland, OR
Aug. 3-5          USENIX 2nd Windows NT           Seattle, Washington
Aug. 5-7          USENIX 2nd Large Instal. Sys.
                   Admin of Windows NT(LISA NT)   Seattle, Washington
Aug. 23-29        15th IFIP World. Com. Conf.     Vienna, Austria and
                                                   Budapest, Hungary
Aug. 24-28        42nd IETF                       Chicago, IL
Aug. 29-Sep 4     SIGCOMM '98                     Vancouver, CANADA
Aug. 31-Sep 3     USENIX  2nd Workshop on
                        Electronic Commerce       Boston, MA
Aug. 31-Sep 4     SEC '98
                  14th Int'l Information          Vienna, Austria and
                  Security Conference             Budapest, Hungary
Sep 1-3           DCI's Internet Expo             Boston, MA
Sep. 14-18        USENIX - 6th TCL/TK Conf.       San Diego, CA
Sep. 14-18        pulver.com's Fall '98 Voice on
                   the Net(TM)                    Boston, MA
Sep. 17-18        Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) Boston, MA
Oct. 4-9          ATM Forum                       Gold Coast, Australia
Oct. 5-8          TERENA (host by DFN) TNC'98     Dresden, Germany
Oct. 13-16        Intl Conf on Netw Protocols     Austin, TX
Oct 20-22         W3C Interest Group Mtg          TBA
Oct 21-23         Networld+Interop '98            Atlanta, GA
Oct 25-30         MobiCom'98  4th Annual
                   ACM/IEEE                       Dallas, TX
Nov. 9-13         IEEE 802 Plenary                Albuquerque, NM
Nov 25            TERENA Executive Committe       Amsterdam
Nov. 29-Dec 4     ATM Forum                       Nashville, TN
Dec. 6-11         12th Systems Administration Conf.
                    (LISA '98)                    Boston, MA
Dec. 7-11         43rd IETF                       Orlando, FL


1999
-----
Feb. 7-13         ATM Forum (tentative)           TBA
Feb. 22-25        USENIX - 3rd Sym. on
                   Oper. Sys Design and
                   Implementation (OSDI '99)      New Orleans, LA
Feb 23-25         W3C Interest Group Mtg          TBA
Mar/April         44th IETF (tentative)           TBA
Apr. 18-24        ATM Forum (tentative)           TBA
Apr. 26-27        Ninth Int'l Packet Video Wrkshp New York, NY



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May 10-14         IFIP/IEEE Int'l Symposium on
                   Integrated Network Mgmt        Boston, MA
May 11-14         Networld+Interop '99            Las Vegas, NV
May 10-May 14     8th IW3C                        Toronto, CANADA
Jun 4-6           W3C Interest Group Mtg          TBA
Jul 12-16         45th IETF (tentative)           Oslo, Norway
Jul. 18-24        ATM Forum (tentative)           TBA
late Aug          SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US)     Boston, tentative
Sep. 21-23         W3C Interest Group Mtg         TBA
Sep. 26-Oct 2     ATM Forum (tentative)           TBA
Oct. 8-14         TELECOM '99                     Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 13-17        Networld+Interop '99            Atlanta, GA
Nov. 8-12         46th IETF (tentative)           Wash DC (tentative)
Nov. 28-Dec 4     ATM Forum (tentative)           TBA


2000
----
MAR 27-31       47th IETF                         Adelaide, Australia
May 9-11        Networld+Interop '00              Las Vegas, NV
late Aug        SIGCOMM 2000                      Europe (tentative)
Sep 25-29       Networld+Interop '00              Atlanta, GA



The TERENA Calendar for July 1998 may be found on URL:

http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

       TERENA Secretariat

       Singel 466-468
       1017 AW Amsterdam
       the Netherlands

       email <secretariat@terena.nl>

       tel: +31 20 530 4488
       fax: +31 20 530 4499

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++








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