From kbuyukat@mail.coin.missouri.edu Tue Sep 3 10:37:07 1996 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:29:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Kaya Buyukataman To: ** ITUMD ** ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI MEZUNLARI DERNEGI ULUSLARARASI KURULUSU Subject: NEWS FROM ISOC (fwd) To: members.1@linus.isoc.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE I S O C FORUM international electronic publication of the Internet Society 19 August 1996 * * * * * * * * * Vol. 2, No. 8 editor@isoc.org http://www.isoc.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ISOC Forum is an electronic newsletter of the Internet Society composed of timely information about Internet-related products and services, Internet Society updates, summaries of Internet news from the international press, and announcements of relevant conferences, seminars, and workshops. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE... NEWS FROM ISOC * INET'97 Call for Papers * ISOC Seeks Membership/Marketing Professional NETWORK NEWS * IETF Awarded Dvorak PC Telecommunications Excellence Award * IAB And IESG Release Statement On Cryptographic Technology And The Internet. * Internet Routing Stability Measurement Initiative * Internet Domain Survey * British Government Forms Millennium Bug Task Force * Surprise! Continued Growth On The Internet. POLICY & LAW * Quebec Law Would Control English Software Sales * Singapore To Limit Access To "Objectionable" Material NEW DISCUSSION GROUP * QoS Routing Mailing List RESEARCH * Stanford Economists Explain Why Technology Benefits Are Not Yet Apparent PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE MEETINGS, EVENTS, AND CALL FOR PAPERS CALENDAR OF EVENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEWS FROM ISOC... * INET'97 CALL FOR PAPERS Papers and submissions are invited for INET'97, scheduled for 24-27 June 1997 in Kuala Lumpur. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10 October 1996. Send e-mail to inet-program-interest@isoc.org for complete details of the submission procedure and periodic updates from the Program Committee. For information on ISOC's Web site, see http://www.isoc.org/inet. * ISOC SEEKS MEMBERSHIP/MARKETING PROFESSIONAL. The Internet Society seeks a membership/marketing professional to manage all facets of membership and to implement plans for recruitment and retention. The successful candidate will possess excellent organizational skills and have the ability to manage multiple assignments with tight deadlines. Candidates should have 3+ years membership experience and a BA in marketing, communications, or related field. Strong written and verbal communication skills required. Ability to interact well with members and volunteers. Must be computer literate and have working knowledge of Microsoft Office. Salary open. Nonsmoking office The pace is picking up. If you want to get in on the excitement, call 703-648-9888, send e-mail to mary@isoc.org, or fax your CV with cover letter to 703-648-9887. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NETWORK NEWS * IETF AWARDED DVORAK PC TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXCELLENCE AWARD IETF/IESG Chair Fred Baker accepted a Dvorak PC Telecommunications Excellence Award on behalf of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IETF was recognized as a volunteer organization "that has changed the world in which we live." "Without the IETF," it was announced, "the Internet would disintegrate into different factions that cannot communicate with each other so much the way some partisans believe the many independent HTML 'extensions' among warring Web browsers have done to the World Wide Web." The Dvorak awards program was established to recognize the people, organizations, companies, products, and services that have contributed to the growth and advancement of PC telecommunications and the Internet. * IAB AND IESG RELEASE STATEMENT ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY AND THE INTERNET. (24 July 1996) The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) have released a statement expressing their concern over government-proposed or actual policies on access to cryptographic technology that either: (a) impose restrictions by implementing export controls; and/or (b) restrict commercial and private users to weak and inadequate mechanisms such as short cryptographic keys; and/or (c) mandate that private decryption keys should be in the hands of the government or of some other third party; and/or (d) prohibit the use of cryptology entirely, or permit it only to specially authorized organizations. The statement expresses the belief of the IAB and the IESG that "such policies are against the interests of consumers and the business community, are largely irrelevant to issues of military security, and provide only marginal or illusory benefit to law enforcement agencies...." The statement includes a technical analysis of the cryptography issue and offers the following conclusion: "As more and more companies connect to the Internet, and as more and more commerce takes place there, security is becoming more and more critical. Cryptography is the most powerful single tool that users can use to secure the Internet. Knowingly making that tool weaker threatens their ability to do so, and has no proven benefit." Complete text of the release is available on ISOC's Web site at http://www.isoc.org. * INTERNET ROUTING STABILITY MEASUREMENT INITIATIVE Merit Network is seeking volunteers to participate in an Internet routing stability measurement initiative. This project aims to provide participants and the Internet community with empirical insights regarding Internet routing stability trends. Fifty geographically distributed volunteers are being sought to install the Network Probe Daemon (NPD) on their UNIX machines. Volunteers can download software at: ftp://nic.merit.edu/routing.arbiter/tools/npd-1.0.tar.Z. Also send e-mail to dunl@merit.edu. The INSTALL file has all the information needed to install the NPD software. Dun will verify that the software was installed correctly. * INTERNET DOMAIN SURVEY Network Wizards has conducted an Internet Domain Survey that attempts to discover every host of the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System. The latest results were gathered during late July 1996. Below is an excerpt of their findings. The full report can be found at www.nw.com. Number of Hosts, Domains, and Nets Advertised in the Domain Name System Replied Network Class Date | Hosts Domains ToPing* A B C ------+----------------------------------------------------- Jul 96| 12,881,000 488,000 2,569,000 95 5892 128378 Jan 96| 9,472,000 240,000 1,682,000 92 5655 87924 Jul 95| 6,642,000 120,000 1,149,000 91 5390 56057 Jan 95| 4,852,000 71,000 970,000 91 4979 34340 Jul 94| 3,212,000 46,000 707,000 89 4493 20628 Jan 94| 2,217,000 30,000 576,000 74 4043 16422 [* estimated by pinging 1% of all hosts] * BRITISH GOVERNMENT FORMS MILLENNIUM BUG TASK FORCE The British government has announced the creation of an "A Team" to tackle the problems of the Millennium computer bug. Known as Task Force 2000, the main aim of the newly formed division at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to ensure that businesses are aware of the potential problem and to point them in the right direction for help. The Millennium bug is a coding oversight wherein many programs only use the last two digits of the four digit year (such as 96 instead of 1996) to save on memory allocated to "variables" in a program. (NewsBytes 2 August) * SURPRISE! CONTINUED GROWTH ON THE INTERNET. A new study from Nielsen Media Research and CommerceNet reveals that Internet access in the United States and Canada grew by 50 percent from September 1995 through April 1996. The study is based on a survey of 2,800 people conducted in March and April of this year. The survey found that nearly a quarter of North Americans over the age of 16 have some form of Internet access, and that more women are now on the Net. Women accounted for 40 percent of new users, versus 33 percent of long-term users. An executive summary of the survey is available at http://www.nielsenmedia.com/commercenet/exec.html. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ POLICY & LAW * QUEBEC LAW WOULD CONTROL ENGLISH SOFTWARE SALES The Quebec National Assembly is now considering draft legislation that would require French-language versions of software, if they exist, to be sold alongside English-language versions in the province. The law is meant to counter what the government said is a tendency for some retailers in Quebec, where the official language is French but English is widely used in business, to sell only English-language versions of software even when French versions are available. (NewsBytes 30 July) * SINGAPORE TO LIMIT ACCESS TO "OBJECTIONABLE" MATERIAL Singapore's three Internet service providers will begin shunting all traffic through proxy services on 15 September as part of an effort to limit access to objectionable sites. The Singapore Broadcasting Authority, which has regulatory authority over local Internet content, endorses the proxy servers as "the most efficient way we can think of to monitor objectionable sites," according to a spokesman. (Cowles/SIMBA Media, 14 August) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW DISCUSSION GROUP * QoS ROUTING MAILING LIST A QoS Routing mailing list has been set up to discuss issues, architectures, and protocols for Quality of Service Routing. The list is called: qosr@newbridge.com. Subscription requests should be sent to qosr-request@newbridge.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RESEARCH * STANFORD ECONOMISTS EXPLAIN WHY TECHNOLOGY BENEFITS ARE NOT YET APPARENT. Stanford economist Timothy Bresnahan reports that computer technology has been slow to demonstrate much benefit to society in national income accounts, but only because new information technology has developed so rapidly, the public is still confused about how to use it well. He suggests that the potentially large benefits are still to be reaped. Bresnahan codirects the Stanford Computer Industry Project and leads the sub-team investigating ways that large businesses, nonprofit organizations, and governments use computers. These white-collar beaurocracies are believed to be the best places to get a close-up view of the "productivity paradox" -- the much discussed observation that computers have been around 50 years but have yet to show up in national productivity statistics as a major spur to economic growth. Bresnahan and his graduate students have uncovered several reasons why intelligent, effective use of information technology lags well behind the inventions of the raw technology itself. As Bresnahan explains: > Information technology is not one invention but a long series that includes >thousands of localized users. > Information technology isn't a cost-lowering technology in most commercial >uses, but more of a tool for new product development or improvement in >quality, especially for service industries. > Most new technologies get cheaper over time so that more companies can afford >to reap gains from them. > Sellers of the technology have yet to figure out the best ways to sell it. For more information see the Stanford Computer Industry Project at http://www-scip.stanford.edu/scip/. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE * "New Registries and the Delegation of International Top Level Domains" http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-drafts/files/draft-postel-iana-itld-a dmin-01.txt * Internet Domain Names: Whose Domain is This? Available at http://www.itu.int/intreg/dns.html * Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms (Online Version). O'Reilly & Associates. Available at http://www.ora.com/reference/dictionary/. * Internet Intelligence Bulletin. News, features, and data update aimed at public sector users of the Internet. Available by subscription only. For more information and rates, see http://www.iib.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MEETINGS, EVENTS, AND CALL FOR PAPERS * SPECIAL OFFER TO ISOC MEMBERS. Open Source Solutions, Inc. is offering ISOC members a 10 percent discount off registration for OSS'96, the fifth International Symposium on Global Security and Global Competitiveness. The meeting is scheduled for 15-18 September 1996 in Washington, DC. Technical themes include Specific Sources of Public Data Including Commercial Imagery and Signals; Advanced Discovery, Discrimination, Distillation, and Dissemination Technologies; and Private Sector Intelligence Capabilities and Privatization Opportunities. For more information see http://www.oss.net/oss or e-mail oss@oss.net. * Object World Frankfurt 96 and Internet Forum Europe 96. Full conference programs are available at http://www.ltt.de. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALENDAR OF EVENTS *FITCE Annual Congress: Multimedia Services on the Telecommunications Networks of Europe. 26 August - 1 September. Vienna Hilton Hotel. Contact: dominic.pinto@itu.ch. *Interactive Television 1996--The Superhighway through the Home? Configuring and Consolidating the Vision. 3-5 September 1996. Edinburgh, Scotland. Contact: http://www.ed.ac.uk/iTV96.html *PCT's 3rd Annual Tourism and Telecommunications Conference, "The Application of the Information Technology to the Travel/Tourism Industry in the Pacific Hemisphere." 8 - 10 September. Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.ptc.org or http://hoohana.aloha.net/ptc/tt96.html *Coordination and Administration of the Internet. Cosponsored by the Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard University, the Commercial Internet Exchange Association (CIX), and the Internet Society. 8-10 September 1996. John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Contact: jkeller@harvard.edu. *Internet Commerce Expo (ICE). 9-12 September. Anaheim, California. Contact: http://www.idg.com/ice. *OSS'96 (Fifth International Symposium on Global Security & Global Competitiveness: Open Source Solutions). 15-18 September, Washington, DC. Contact: http://www.oss.net/oss or e-mail OSS@oss.net. *IC-CON I: Genesis, Internet and Computer Convention. 21 September. Treasure Bay Resort Hotel, Biloxi, Mississippi. Contact: http://www.datasync.com/sotmesc/ic-con or http://www.southwind.com/sotmesc/ic-con. *SotMESC International presents IC-Con I: Genesis (The Internet and Computer Convention of the Gulf Coast). 21 September 1996. Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.datasync.com/sotmesc/ic-con *3rd International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communication. 25-27 September 1996. Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Contact: http://winwww.rutgers.edu/pub/symposiums/momuc3/ *DCI Client/Server Application Packages Conference. 1-3 October 1996. Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.DClexpo.com/. *Privacy and American Business: Global Privacy Conference. 8-10 October. Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC, U.S.A. Contact: +1 201-996-1154 *User-Centered Interface Design and Prototyping (short course from UCLA). 9-11 October 1996. UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Contact: mhenness@unex.ucla.edu or http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses. *21st Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks. 13-16 October 1996. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.hill.com/lcn/lcn.html *DCI's Internet Expo. 15-17 October 1996. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.DClexpo.com/ *Intelligent Software Agents (short course from UCLA). 23-25 October 1996. UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Contact: mhenness@unex.ucla.edu or http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses. *TeleCon XVI: Connecting Video to the Desktop in the Office, the School, and the Home. 29-31 October 1996. Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.usdla.org/telecon.html. *MOBICOM'96 (2nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking). 10-12 November 1996. Rye Hilton, Rye, New York, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/conf/mobicom96/ or E-mail: Badri@cs.rutgers.edu *OPENNET '96 "Internet, Open and Secure." November 11 - 13, 1996. Berlin. Contact: http://www.digi.de/opennet96/more.html *23rd Annual Computer Security Conference and Exhibition. 11-13 November 1996. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.gocsi.com. *1996 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. 18-22 November 1996. Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London. Contact: http://www.labs.bt.com/profsoc/globecom/ ~1997~~ *MASCOTS'97. 8-10 January, Eilat, Israel; 12-15 January, Haifa, Israel. Contact: http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/projekte/mascots/CFP.html *19th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference (PTC'97), "Pacific Connections: Policy and Technology in the Information Economy." 19 - 22 January, 1997. Waikiki Sheraton Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Contact: http://www.ptc.org or http://hoohana.aloha.net/ptc/ptc97/ptc97reg.html *Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997 (MMCN97). 10-12 February 1997. San Jose, CA. Call for papers and deadline information is available at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mmcn. *The Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security. 10-11 February, 1997, San Diego Princess Resort, San Diego, California. Contact: http://www.isoc.org/conferences/ndss97. *National Science & Technology Week'97. 20-26 April, 1997. Contact: nstw@nsf.gov or see http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nstw/geninfo/start.htm. *8th Joint European Networking Conference. 12-15 May 1997. Edinburgh, Scotland. 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