<NIS.NSF.NET> [IMR] IMR89-07.TXT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
JULY 1989
 
 
INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
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The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research
Group the accomplishments, milestones reached, or problems discovered by
the participating organizations.
 
     This report is for research use only, and is not for public
     distribution.
 
Each organization is expected to submit a 1/2 page report on the first
business day of the month describing the previous month's activities.
These reports should be submitted via network mail to Ann Westine
(Westine@ISI.EDU) or Karen Roubicek (Roubicek@NNSC.NSF.NET).
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
  INTERNET ACTIVITIES BOARD
 
     IAB MESSAGE . . . . .  . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page   3
     INTERNET RESEARCH STEERING GROUP REPORTS. . . . . . . . . page   4
        AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page   4
        END-TO-END SERVICES  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page   4
        PRIVACY AND SECURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page   4
        SCIENTIFIC REQUIREMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page   5
        USER INTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page   5
     INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP REPORTS . . . . . . . page   5
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  Internet Projects
 
     BARRNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page   9
     BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC.,  . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  10
     CERFNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  12
     CICNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  12
     CORNELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  12
     ISI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  12
     JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK . . . . . . page  14
     LOS NETTOS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  14
     MERIT/UMNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  15
     MIDNET  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  15
     MIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  15
     MITRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  15
     MRNET. . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  15
     NCAR/USAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  17
     NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK . . . . . . . . page  18
     NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC.  . . . . . . . . page  18
     NORTHWESTNET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  18
     NSFNET BACKBONE, MERIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  18
     NTA-RE/NDRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  19
     NYSERNET  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  21
     OARNET  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  22
     PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  22
     SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER  . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  22
     SESQUINET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  23
     SRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  23
     SURANET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  24
     TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK  . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  24
     UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  24
     UDEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  24
     UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET  . . . page  26
     WESTNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page  26
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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IAB MESSAGE
 
     Chairman's Message:
 
     At the July IAB meeting in Boston, the IAB was restructured into
     three major parts: the IAB itself, an Internet Research Task Force
     and the existing Internet Engineering Task Force. This
     restructuring was initiated by Dr. David Clark who has served the
     Internet with great distinction as the IAB chairman and Internet
     Architect since 1981. Dr. Clark proposed to head the newly-formed
     IRTF, recommended a reduction in size of the IAB, and chaired the
     committee which ultimately drafted a new chairman for the IAB.
 
     I am sure I speak for all of the Internet community in
     acknowledging the great debt we owe to Dr. Clark for his past work
     and our great pleasure that he will continue to serve as chairman
     of IRTF.
 
     The Internet is embarking on some major development work. In
     particular, the IAB will be emphasizing network stability and
     operability over the next two years. This means more attention to
     network management and the ability of multiple vendor systems to
     work together. We will introduce a private mail system design and
     will make available through Trusted Information Systems, public
     domain implementations. In a major policy change, the Internet will
     stretch to accommodate coexistence WITHIN THE INTERNET of OSI and
     DECNET protocols. This means that we will be experimenting with
     multiprotocol routers.
 
     Testbeds for the development and evaluation of new gateway/router
     capabilities, for experimentation with multi-media conferencing and
     collaboration and for development of Internet Protocol level
     enhancements are in development with the support of the FRICC.
     Links to commercial services are being actively pursued, especially
     with electronic mail systems such as Telemail, MCI Mail, ATTMAIL,
     Dialcom, On-Tyme, Quik-Comm and Easylink.
 
     Attention to the security and integrity of the Internet has been
     increased and efforts are underway to develop means to enforce
     access and transit policies of the subnets that make up the
     Internet. Research on policy-based resource allocation is in
     progress.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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     The IAB has a number of policy actions on its agenda including
     establishment of links with European groups such as RARE
     (Association of European Research Networks) and the EUREKA program;
     links with ANSI and NIST; consideration of DES export restrictions
     (which affect our ability to field the private electronic mail
     standard); and interworking of X.400 and SMTP address spaces. On
     the latter point, the IAB will be working to foster rapid
     development of white pages services in the Internet.
 
     Comments, suggestions and complaints are welcome: my emailbox is
     always open: VCERF@nri.reston.va.us (or CERF@ISI.EDU).
 
     Vint Cerf
 
INTERNET RESEARCH STEERING GROUP REPORTS
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     AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS
 
        ANTF met jointly with ORWG during the July IETF meeting. A
        summary of the meeting will be available at a later date.
 
        Deborah Estrin (Estrin@OBERON.USC.EDU)
 
     END-TO-END SERVICES
 
        No progress to report this month.
 
        Bob Braden (Braden@ISI.EDU)
 
     PRIVACY AND SECURITY
 
        The following RFCs were submitted to Jon Postel for editing and
        release: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
        I: Message Encipherment and Authentication Procedures, Part II:
        Certificate-Based Key Management, and Part III: Algorithms,
        Modes, and Identifiers.
 
        The next meeting of the PSRG is scheduled for October 24-26,
        1989 in Hanover, NH hosted by Matt Bishop of Dartmouth College.
        Topics for the meeting include gateway and network time protocol
        security issues and interface standards for DES and RSA
        algorithms.
 
        Lyndalee Korn (lkorn@BBN.COM )
 
 
 
 
 
 
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     SCIENTIFIC REQUIREMENTS
 
        No progress to report this month.
 
        Barry Leiner (Leiner@ICARUS.RIACS.EDU)
 
     USER INTERFACE
 
        No report received.
 
INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP REPORTS
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     1) The IETF met at Stanford University on July 25-28, 1989.  The
     meeting was hosted by Paul Baer.  Eighteen of the 22 active Working
     Groups met and reported.  The agenda is given below.  The
     Proceedings are being compiled and will be mailed to all attendees.
     For copies for non-attendees, send to ietf-request@isi.edu for
     ordering information.
 
     2) Some highpoints from the meeting:
 
          o 12 WGs have documents at an early draft stage (ie, soon to
            be installed in the INTERNET-DRAFT directory).
          o There are 4 New INTERNET-DRAFTS.*
          o There have been 5 recent RFCs from IETF activity.**
 
          *  See INTERNET-DRAFT directory at DDN.NIC.MIL for more
             information on recent draft documents
          ** See IETF directory at DDN.NIC.MIL for more detailed Working
             Group status
 
        The Point-Point WG has scheduled a video teleconference for
        early August as a final editing session.  There are several
        unresolved higher functionality issues (eg, IP address
        assignment, authentication).  Therefore, the current draft will
        be an upwardly compatible version of PPP that will allow the
        next release to address those remaining issues.
 
        3) A reorganization of both the IETF and IAB was announced at
        this meeting.  Dave Clark (MIT) addressed the opening Plenary on
        the IAB reorganization.  Vint Cerf (NRI), chair of the
        reorganized IAB for the next two years, was unable to attend,
        but recorded a video tape for the Plenary.  In his talk, Dr.
        Cerf reviewed the revised structure of the IAB, and presented
        the IAB's priorities for his tenure as Chair.
 
 
 
 
 
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        4) The IETF is being reorganized to have a Steering Group and
        functional areas.  The Internet Engineering Steering Group
        (IESG) will set technical direction for IETF, and will be
        composed of one Technical Director for each Area, plus at-large
        members.  Each Director oversees Working Group activity in an
        Area and carries out an agenda set in conjunction with the IESG.
        The current areas are:
 
               o Host-based Services
               o Internet-based Services
               o Routing
               o Network Management
               o OSI Interoperability
               o User Services
 
        Other areas may be added in the future.  The IESG will hold its
        initial meeting in early September.  Some immediate goals are
        the development of the following documents:
 
               o Five Year Plan for Protocol and Operational
                 Evolution of the Internet
               o Internet Routing Architecture
               o User Services Infrastructure Definition
               o Gateway Requirements Definition
               o Host Requirements Definition
               o OSI Interoperability and Implementation Plan
 
        A more detailed report on the IESG will be made in the September
        Internet Monthly Report, after the scheduled meeting.
 
        5) The current Working Groups align with the above six areas as
        follows:
 
        o HOST-BASED SERVICES and ISSUES:  Topics spanning the protocol
                suite, but with greater emphasis above IP (except
                Network Management)
 
           - Dynamic Configuration (Droms, Bucknell, and Gross, NRI)
           - Host Requirements (Braden, ISI)
           - Telnet (Borman, Cray)
           - Domain Name System (DNS) Enhancements (Mockapetris, ISI)
 
        o INTERNET-BASED SERVICES and ISSUES:  Topics focused at IP and
                below, (except Routing)
 
           - Authentication (Schiller, MIT)
           - Performance and Congestion Control (Mankin, Mitre)
           - Point-Point Protocol (Hobby, UCDavis, and Perkins, CMU)
 
 
 
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           - ST and Connection IP (Topolcic, BBN)
           - [ Gateway Requirement ( chair TBD) ]
 
        o NETWORK MANAGEMENT:  Topics in defining and extending the
                standard Internet MIB, NM protocols, and NM
                applications requirements
 
           - CMIP-Over-TCP (LaBarre, Mitre)
           - LAN Manager MIB (Amatzia, 3Com)
           - Alert Management MIB (Steinberg, IBM)
 
        o OSI INTEROPERABILITY:  Topics in introducing OSI protocols
                into the Internet, including interoperation with Internet
                applications and services
 
           - [ OSI WG Charter contains numerous objectives that will become
             individual WGs ]
 
        o ROUTING:  Topics in routing protocols and routing operations
                in the Internet
 
           - Interconnectivity (Almes, Rice)
           - Open SPF IGP (Petrt, UMd, and Moy, Proteon)
           - Open Routing (Lepp, BBN)
           - PDN Routing (Rokitanski, Fern Uni-Hagen)
 
        o USER SERVICES:  Topics in defining and providing user-oriented
                information, and other, services to network
                managers and end-users
 
           - Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI)
                (Bowers, NRI, and Gross, NRI)
           - NOC Tools Catalogue (Stine, Sparta, and Enger, Contel)
           - Joint Monitoring Access for NSFnet/Regionals (Jomaan)
                (Hares, Merit)
           - [ Several WGs in various stages of formation ]
 
        6) Agenda of the July IETF meeting at Stanford University:
 
        MONDAY, JULY 24TH
 
        OSI: Review of GOSIP V2 (Hagens, UWisc and Callon, DEC)
 
        TUESDAY, JULY 25TH (STANFORD)
 
        9:00 am   Opening Plenary, Introductions and Local Arrangements
                    Phill Gross (NRI)
        9:15 am   Morning Working Group Sessions
 
 
 
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                  * CO-IP (Topolcic, BBN)
                  * Host Requirements (Braden, ISI)
                  * OSI: Inter Domain Routing (Hagens,UWisc and Callon,DEC)
                  * PT-PT Protocol (Hobby, Davis and Perkins, CMU)
                  * User Services (Bowers, NRI)
        10:45 am  * USER-DOC WG (Roubicek, BBN and LaQuey, UTexas)
        12:00 pm  LUNCH
        1:00 pm   Afternoon Working Group Sessions
                  * Authentication (Schiller, MIT and Rochlis, MIT)
                  * CO-IP (Topolcic, BBN)
                  * Host Requirements (Braden, ISI)
                  * Interconnectivity (Almes, Rice)
                  * OSI: Intra Domain Routing (Hagens,UWisc and Callon,DEC)
                  * USER-DOC WG (Roubicek, BBN and LaQuey, UTexas)
        4:15 pm   Technical Presentations and Network Status Reports
                  * Fair Queuing Revisited (Scott Shenkar, XEROX PARC) 1 hr.
                  * NSFnet Status Report  (TBD) 15 min.
        5:45      Recess
        6:00 pm   Demonstration of a 16th Century Machine (Jacobsen,ACE)
        7:30 pm   JOMANN (Hares, MERIT)
        7:30 pm   Interconnectivity (Almes, Rice)
 
        WEDNESDAY, JULY 26TH (STANFORD)
 
        9:00 am   Opening Plenary
        9:15 am   Morning Working Group Sessions
                  * Alertman (Steinberg, IBM) (15)
                  * Autonomous Network TF (Invitation Only) (Estrin/USC)
                  * Interconnectivity (Almes, Rice)
                  * NISI (For members only) (Bowers and Gross, NRI)
                  * OSI: General Meeting (Hagens, UWisc and Callon, DEC)
                  * Perf and CC (Mankin, MITRE)
                  * PT-PT Protocol (Hobby, Davis and Perkins, CMU) (20-25)
                  * ST (Topolocic, BBN)
        12:00     LUNCH
        1:00 pm   Afternoon Working Group Sessions
                  * Autonomous Network TF (Invitation Only) (Estrin/USC)
                  * Dynamic Configuration (Droms, Bucknell)
                  * NOC-Tools (Stine, SPARTA and Enger, Contel)
                  * Open Systems Routing (Lepp, BBN)(For Members Only)
                  * OSI: X.500 and DEC DNS (Hagens, UWisc and Callon, DEC)
                  * Perf and CC (Mankin, MITRE)
                  * ST (Topolcic, BBN)
        4:15 pm   Technical Presentations and Network Status Reports
                  * Giga Speeds for Datagrams (Craig Partridge, BBN) 45 min.
                  * Pt-Pt Protocol Specs (Russ Hobby, UCDavis) 30 min.
        5:45 pm   RECESS
        7:30 pm   OSI OR (Hagens, UWisc)
 
 
 
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        THURSDAY, JULY 27TH
 
        9:00 am   Opening Plenary and Working Groups
                  * Domain Name System (Mockapetris, USC-ISI)
                  * Open Systems Routing (Lepp, BBN) (For Members Only)
                  * OSPF (Petry, UMD and Moy, Proteon) (12)
                  * TELNET (Borman, Cray)
        12:00     LUNCH
        1:00 pm   Technical Presentations and Network Status Reports
                  * Gateway Congestion Control (Allison Mankin, MITRE)
                  * Network Performance Impact of X Window System
                        Protocol (Ralph Droms, NRI) 45 min.
                  * Adapting the Wideband Satellite Protocols to a
                        Terrestrial T1 Link (Claudio Topolcic, BBN)
                  * IP Option for Crypto Summing (Jeff Schiller, MIT)
                  * High Speed Networking using OSI Protocols (Bob Beach,
                        Ames) 30 min.
                  * Domain Name Status Report (Jose Garcia-Luna or
                        Mary Stahl, SRI) 10 min
                  * Internet Status Report (Zbigniew Opalka, BBN) 10 min.
                  * IP Networking in Europe (Ruediger Volk, Dormund)
        5:45 pm   RECESS
 
        FRIDAY, 28TH JULY
 
        9:00 am   Opening Plenary
        9:15 am   Working Group Reports
                  *  User Services (Bowers, NRI)
                  *  NISI (Bowers and Gross, NRI)
                  *  NOC-Tools (Enger, Contel and Stine, SPARTA)
                  *  USER-DOC (LaQuey, UTexas and Roubicek, BBN)
                  *  Dynamic Host Configuration (Droms, NRI)
                  *  Alert Management (Steinberg, IBM)
                  *  Authentication (Rochlis and Schiller, MIT)
                  *  Open SPF-Based IGP (Moy, Proteon and Petry, UMD)
                  *  Open Systems Routing (Lepp, BBN)
                  *  ST and Connection IP (Toplocic, BBN)
                  *  PT-PT Protocol (Hobby, Davis and Perkins, CMU)
                  *  OSI Interoperability (Callon,DEC and Hagens,UWisc)
                  *  JOMANN (Hares, Merit)
                  *  Telnet (Borman, Cray)
                  *  Interconnectivity (Almes, Rice)
                  *  Domain Name System (Mockapetris, USC-ISI)
                  *  Host Requirements (Braden, ISI)
        12:00 pm   Adjourn
 
        Phill Gross (PGross@NRI.Reston.VA.US)
 
 
 
 
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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------
 
BARRNET
-------
 
     No report received.
 
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
----------------------------
 
     SATNET
 
     This will be the last report for the SATNET as our last site now
     has connectivity again.
 
     The last Satnet site CNUCE has been reconnected to the INTERNET via
     a direct 64 kbit link to the DARPA gateway.
 
     TERRESTRIAL WIDEBAND NETWORK
 
     In early July, we connected the Butterfly gateway at RADC to the
     New York Wideband Packet Switch (WPS).  Throughout the summer, we
     will continue to install WPSs and connect up gateways at user sites
     as power at the POPs and tail circuits between the backbone and the
     gateways become available.
 
     Throughout the month, the backbone was reasonably stable with the
     most notable outages caused by a power outage at NY during a storm,
     and a failure at LA of the switch box used with the dialup modem.
     There were also a couple of problems on the links to the user
     sites.  There was an outage at the DARPA site due to hardware
     problems.  And the link between RADC and the NY WPS was down with a
     CSU/line problem for the last two weeks of the month.
 
     Current sites (going from east to west):
 
       BBN           BBN WPS
       RADC          NY WPS
       DARPA, NRL    Washington WPS
       ISI           LA WPS
       SRI           SRI WPS
 
     Future installation work will include:
 
        Ft. Monmouth (NY WPS) -- The site at Ft. Monmouth will be
        connected to the NY WPS as soon as the tail circuit is
        available.  We do not yet have a confirmed date for the on-site
 
 
 
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        wiring but the current estimate is for some time in August.
 
        CMU (Pittsburgh WPS) -- Negotiations concerning on campus wiring
        are proceeding, but we do not yet have a confirmed date.  POP
        equipment installation and wiring will be scheduled once the CMU
        circuit is available.
 
        NCSA (Chicago WPS) -- A T1 circuit from the Chicago POP to NCSA,
        Urbana was ordered 6/13.  Circuit and Chicago POP facility
        upgrade are expected to be available in August.  WPS and gateway
        installation plans will be finalized as soon as there is a
        confirmed date for the circuit.
 
     TERRESTRIAL WIDEBAND TELECONFERENCING SYSTEM
 
     There were several impromptu meetings using the Terrestrial
     Wideband TELECONFERENCING system.
 
     Claudio Topolcic, Philippe Park and Charles Lynn attended the IETF
     meeting at Stanford at the end of July.
 
     ISO/OSI MIGRATION
 
     Hardware was delivered and installed at the RSRE gateway (U.K.) to
     connect to a fourth modem line which will support the SHAPE
     Technical Centre Site (Netherlands).  The modem line is expected to
     be operational around the middle of August, 89.
 
     A lightning storm in the RSRE area caused damage to the local phone
     and data system which extended out to 2 of the gateway interfaces.
     The newly installed interface was used along with another spare in
     storage at RSRE to restore service.  Replacements are being sent.
 
     Plans for hardware and connections to a Butterfly gateway at SHAPE
     Technical Centre are proceeding.  The gateway hardware is scheduled
     to be in place before the end of August, ready to connect on the
     modem line to RSRE, and provide Internet access for hosts on a
     local ethernet.
 
     Discussions were held with representatives of TNO-FEL in Holland, a
     lab which is physically next door to SHAPE Technical Centre.  The
     gateway may have a second ethernet interface added to provide
     Internet access to researchers in that lab.
 
     ISODE 5.0 was brought up on two systems at SHAPE Technical Centre,
     so that they may provide some service for interoperation between
     TCP/IP and ISO protocols.  One system may be able to connect from
     the local ethernet to an X.25 public data network.
 
 
 
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     The protocol description language Estelle is being investigated as
     a means of recoding a transport layer converter between TP4 and
     TCP/IP which had been worked out at STC.  A compiler system for
     Estelle was obtained from the NIST.
 
     Bob Hinden (Hinden@BBN.COM)
 
CERFNET
-------
 
     No report received.
 
CICNET
-------
 
     No report received.
 
CORNELL
-------
 
     No report received.
 
ISI
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     INTERNET CONCEPTS PROJECT
 
     Jon Postel attended the Internet Activities Board meeting in
     Boston, MA, 10-13, July, 1989.  Paul Mockapetris attended the
     Stanford IETF July 25-28, chairing the Domain WG and participating
     in the Host Requirements WG.  On July 28, Paul Mockapetris made a
     presentation on the DNS to the Merit/NSFNET Internetworking Seminar
     in Denver.  Joyce Reynolds attended the IETF meeting at Stanford,
     July 24-28, 1989.
 
        One RFC was published this month.
 
        RFC 1107:  Sollins, K., "A Plan for Internet Directory
                   Services", MIT, July 1989.
 
        One article was published:
 
        Gurfield, B., "The Automated Broker a Demonstration of
                   Computerized Commerce", The uSystem Educator,
                   Menlo Park, CA, July 1989.
 
     Ann Westine (Westine.ISI.EDU)
 
 
 
 
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     MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING PROJECT
 
     The first official teleconference since declaring service open
     again on the Terrestrial WBnet was held by Lewis Johnson of ISI and
     colleagues at BBN.  Voice, video and MMConf all worked smoothly.
     Requests to use the facility should be sent to video-conf-
     requests@bbn.com.
 
     PVP, the packet video host, was enhanced to allow a second console
     program to "steal" control.  This will be useful in cases where no
     one is available at the local site to help with a malfunction or
     with debugging.
 
     MMCC, the multimedia conference control program, now allows users
     to control whether or not other sites are allowed to join a
     conference and to restrict remote control of cameras.  It also
     underwent a good degree of surgery this month to integrate it more
     closely with Mbftptool and BBN's MMConf.  MMConf connections may
     now be brought up and shut down automatically as voice and video
     connections come and go.
 
     Likewise, we implemented interprocess communication between MMCC
     and Mbftptool to provide automatic coordination of the parameters
     displayed by the various windows used in a conference.  Each time
     the conference identifier or participant list is changed by MMCC,
     Mbftptool is signalled to re-read the appropriate initialization
     files.  Other features added to Mbftptool include specialized
     distribution modes, default password entry, and improved error
     checking of parameters.
 
     Steve Casner attended the Internet Engineering Task Force meeting
     at Stanford.
 
     Annette DeSchon, Dave Walden, Eve Schooler, Steve Casner
     (deschon@ISI.EDU, djwalden@ISI.EDU, schooler@ISI.EDU,
     casner@ISI.EDU)
 
     FAST PARTS
 
     The FAST project at ISI, an automated broker for the acquisition of
     standard electronic components, has just completed an automated
     connection from its' ORACLE database to a supplier.
 
     A message, such as a quote request or order, is received from a
     user via E-Mail on the INTERNET. The message is read automatically
     into ORACLE. A new message is formulated and sent to a supplier in
     this case utilizing MCI mail.
 
 
 
 
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     Currently a person choses the suppliers. In the near future the
     database will be able to select the suppliers based on the lines
     they handle.
 
     Paula Caruso  (caruso@isi.edu)
 
     Alan Katz gave a talk entitled "Supercomputer Workstation
     Interaction, X is a Good Beginning" at the Fifth Annual Workshop on
     Networking and Supercomputers hosted by the San Diego Supercomputer
     Center in San Diego, CA on July 11-13.  Alan distributed copies of
     the newly released Supercomputer Workstation Communications project
     report which is now available from ISI.
 
     Alan has been studying the CALS data representations and have found
     a source of CALS raster test data (from the CALS Test Network
     people).
 
     Alan Katz (katz@isi.edu)
 
JVNCNET, NORTH EAST RESEARCH REGIONAL NETWORK
---------------------------------------------
 
     No report received.
 
LOS NETTOS
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     ISI has received several queries about back door connectivity to
     Los Nettos through ISI.  We encourage any site considering a back
     door connection, to consider any Los Nettos member as a way to
     become connected.
 
     Danny Cohen and Walt Prue gave a talk on monitoring Los Nettos at
     the San Diego Supercomputer conference July 12.  There seemed to be
     much interest in the subject.  Many networks have a similar need.
 
     A simple SNMP based route tracing tool was built which works in
     areas with a common community read access to the monitoring data.
     It has the ability to show routes in both directions and show
     default routes.  Thanks go to the folks at MIT who developed, and
     made available, the MIT SNMP development kit.
 
     IBM LA Scientific Center will be installed in August.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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     Next month we will work on developing methods for automatically
     monitoring proper routing within and at the boundries of Los
     Nettos/CERFNet using SNMP tools.
 
     Walt Prue (Prue@isi.edu)
 
MERIT/UMNET
-----------
 
     No report received.
 
MIDNET
------
 
     No report received.
 
MIT-LCS
-------
 
     Dave Clark planned and executed the reorganization of the Internet
     Activity Board.
 
     Chuck Davin and Andrew Heybey completed a study of fair-queueing
     gateway algorithm.  A first draft report is now available.
 
     Lixia Zhang completed a PhD thesis arguing the utility of rate-
     based flow control in supporting multiple classes of service and
     controlling congestion.  A technical report based on the thesis
     will be available in a month or so.
 
     Lixia Zhang (Lixia@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU)
 
MITRE Corporation
-----------------
 
     No report received.
 
MRNET
-----
 
     June Events
 
     MRNet continues to provide Internet service to the domestic
     supercomputer industry.  MRNet looks forward to welcoming IBM,
     HP/Apollo, a large piece of Minnesota's Academia, and others to the
     ranks of MRNet in the very near future!
 
 
 
 
 
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     The MRNet Executive Committee met in June to discuss the future of
     MRNet.  MRNet continues to expand and prosper, and it is clear that
     some reorganization of MRNet is required to continue to provide our
     traditionally high quality of Internet service.  More discussions
     are needed.  The June MRNet general meeting was postponed in order
     to resolve issues involving reorganization before presenting them
     to the body.  The next general meeting will be held in August.
 
     MRNet was pleased to assist the Minnesota Private College
     Foundation with their proposal to the NSF for funding NSFNet
     connectivity.  The nine private colleges involved in this proposal
     are key educational institutions in the region.  We look forward to
     a favorable response from the NSF.
 
     The MRNet Technical Committee continues to plan and organize for
     TCP/IP Networking Seminars to be held starting late summer.  These
     seminars are planned to be open to all, and reinforce MRNet's place
     in the Minnesota community as an educational resource and forum for
     computer networking.
 
     Control Data Corporation successfully moved their end of their
     MRNet attachment to a new facility.  The move caused no concerns
     for other MRNet members.
 
     MRNet has received membership inquires from several organizations
     including:
 
             * Secure Computing Technologies Corporation
             * Management Graphics Inc.
             * Minnesota State Universities
             * NCR/Comten
             * IBM-Rochester
 
     by Jeff Wabik (jwabik@msc.umn.edu)
 
     MRNET
 
     July Events
 
     The next MRNet General Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August
     31.  The MRNet Technical Committee will offer an introduction to
     networking with TCP/IP on the same day.
 
     The proposal by the Minnesota Private College Council to connect
     ten private colleges to MRNet will receive NSF funding.  MRNet
     looks forward to providing regional networking and Internet
     services to the private colleges.  The MRNet Technical Committee
     will work with the private colleges to develop TCP/IP expertise.
 
 
 
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     The upcoming networking with TCP/IP seminar is part of this effort.
 
     Negotiations with the University of Minnesota for MRNet to use
     CICnet for Internet access continued.  The U of M is reluctant to
     provide Internet service through CICnet if the separate MRNet line
     to the NSFnet backbone can still be funded through the NSF.  CICnet
     has apparently discussed at length providing Internet access to the
     smaller regional networks such as MRNet.  Neither the U of M nor
     CICnet have estimated the cost to MRNet for Internet access through
     CICnet.
 
     Work continues on hosting the September FARnet meeting in
     Minneapolis.
 
     Control Data Corporation is now using Cisco routers to connect to
     MRNet.  CDC also changed its network address to 129.179.
 
     by Tim Salo (tjs@msc.umn.edu)
 
NCAR/USAN
---------
 
     NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC REASEARCH AND USAN
 
     NCAR has now isolated all gateways on a stub network (192.43.244)
     The current configuration is as follows:
 
     NSFnet NSS   LANL   WESTNET East  NSN  Dept of Commerce  Mexico
         |         |          |         |        |              |
     -------------------------------------------------------------- 192.43.244
                                   |
     128.117 (UCARnet) --- gateway --- 128.116 (all USAN sites)
 
     A satellite link to Mexico is now operational. This link gateways
     nets 132.247 (Red-Academeca de Mexico) and 132.248 (Univesidad
     Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) to the NSFnet backbone. The bandwidth
     is 56Kbits over Vitacom supplied services.
 
     The Penn State Meteorology Department is now a USAN member. They
     have their own net number (192.5.157). This net is announced to the
     NSFnet via JVNC, but all traffic to NCAR is routed over the
     satellite link.  Only when the satellite link is down will traffic
     be routed over the NSFnet.
 
     by Don Morris (morris@ncar.ucar.edu)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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NEW ENGLAND ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK
-----------------------------------------
 
     NEARnet added three new members during July:  Xerox Advanced
     Information Technology, Digital Equipment Corporation and the
     University of New Hampshire.  The link to the Massachusetts
     Microelectronics Center (M2C) was upgraded to T1,making them
     available as a branch site for organizations located in central
     Massachusetts.  Operation of the network continued to be stable.
 
     by John Rugo (jrugo@bbn.com)
 
NNSC, UCAR/BOLT BERANEK and NEWMAN, INC.
----------------------------------------
 
     The NNSC began distributing the Internet Resource Guide during the
     first week of July.  Requests to be on the distribution list should
     go to resource-guide-request@nnsc.nsf.net.  The sixth issue of the
     NSF Network News was published at the end of the month and will be
     distributed through August.  Craig Partridge and Karen Roubicek
     attended the IETF.
 
     by Karen Roubicek (roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net)
 
NORTHWESTNET
------------
 
     No report received.
 
NSF BACKBONE (Merit)
--------------------
 
     NSFNET COMPLETES FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION
 
     July 1989 marked the first anniversary of the re-engineered
     National Science Foundation Network backbone.  Just one year ago
     Merit, IBM, MCI, and the NSFNET mid-level networks were working to
     bring up the new thirteen node, cross-country T1 backbone.  Within
     a month of the NSFNET becoming operational, packet counts increased
     from 95 million (June 1988 on the previous six-node backbone) to
     195 million in August 1989.  Less than one year later (June 1989),
     NSFNET marked another first with a billion-packet month which
     signalled an increase of over 500% in the first year.
 
     Continued growth is assured with the National Science Board's June
     approval of Merit's expansion proposal which will increase NSF
     funding authorization for the backbone by approximately $6 million
     over the remaining years of the agreement and make possible new
 
 
 
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     nodes in the coming year.
 
     "We are proud of the accomplishments of our first year of
     cooperation," said Eric Aupperle, President of Merit.  "Our
     successes have only been possible because of the cooperative
     efforts of everyone involved.  With the committed staffs and
     ongoing research programs of Merit, IBM, and MCI, we expect the
     coming years to be equally exciting".
 
     NSFNET REDESIGN UPDATE
 
     With the completion of the NSFNET redesign, traffic is moving at T1
     rates and the maximum diameter of the network is three (no more
     than three "hops" between any two nodes).  Additionally, each node
     now has multiple T1 circuits that feed into an MCI Digital Cross
     Connect (DXC) site which has been configured to take advantage of
     MCI's Digital Reconfiguration Service (DRS).  The redesign project
     has resulted in an even more robust network which stands ready to
     respond to increased demands for bandwidth and transmission speeds.
 
     CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
 
     During July Merit/NSFNET staff gave several presentations:  Bilal
     Chinoy attended the 5th Annual Conference on Networking and
     Supercomputing in San Diego and spoke on "Performance
     Benchmarking".  At IETF, Elise Gerich co-chaired the Joint
     Monitoring Access for Adjacent Networks meeting with Gene Hastings
     of PSC and also spoke about "State of the NSFNET Backbone".
     Jessica Yu gave a presentation on Border Gateway Protocol at the
     Pacific Networking Workshop and, at the same conference, Hans-
     Werner Braun presented an overview of the NSFNET to an audience
     representing the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
 
     by Patricia G. Smith (patricia_g._smith@um.cc.umich.edu)
 
NTA-RE and NDRE
---------------
 
 
     1.   NDRE
 
          Tor Gjertsen from NDRE attended for the first time an ICB
          meeting, at Malvern. Participations in future meetings will
          probably alternate between Tor Gjertsen and Anton Leere
          (possibly also a third person), all working in data
          communications area.
 
 
 
 
 
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          They have among other things assisted in the specification and
          procurement of the Norwegian Defence Digital Network, NDDN,
          which is under implementation, and partly operational. NDDN
          includes voice and data services (X.21 & X.25) in addition to
          an X.400-based military message system.
 
     2.   The requirements for a tactical communications network, based
          on packet radios in the VHF-band, has been worked out for the
          Norwegian army. This has led to the specifications for a new
          generation of radios.  Examinations of existing radioes have
          shown that frequence hoppers are not suitable for data
          transmissions. NDRE developed a prototype radio system and
          performed a set of successful field trials with it.  The radio
          system utilizes narrow band direct sequence spread spectrum
          and can handle both voice and data.
 
          Based on the experiences from this project, the Norwegian army
          has prepared a request for quotation for the next generation
          of a unified tactical communication system. The tactical
          system will be interfaced with the digital backbone network of
          the defence (NDDN).
 
     3.   Studies and testbed activities on distributed databases have
          been initiated recently, for application in military command
          and control systems.
 
     4.   NDRE takes active part in the standardisation work within NATO
          to adapt the OSI-architecture to military applications.
 
          Tor Gjertsen (sg9%dione.ndre.uninett@tor.nta.no)
 
          NRA-RD
 
     5.   A packet-switched satellite network project is finally under
          way.  The primary purpose is to establish an experimental
          testbed with three ground stations to interconnect local area
          networks. It will utilize Norwegian-made antennas and RF-
          parts, butterfly equipment for the nodes and gateways and
          burst modems from SPL in Cambridge England. The FEC interface
          between the butterfly node and the modem will be developed in
          Norweay, later also burst modems. The maximum bandwidth will
          be 2 Mb/s.
 
          BBN will assist us in the necessary modifications of the
          butterfly equipment, both software and hardware, to fit our
          needs. We are aiming at having the testbed operational in the
          beginning of next year.
 
 
 
 
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          The testbed will be used for demonstrations in cooperation
          with potential future customers and for optimization. The
          optimization will include studies of traffic patterns and
          access methods, development of a suitable network interface
          and a network management facility. After a reasonable test
          period the network will hopefully go commercial.
 
     6.   Three alternative path are now operational between the Nordic
          countries and the US:
 
              -  64 kb/s line from NORSAR, Kjeller Norway, to CSS,
                 Washington DC
              -  9.6 kb/s line from NTA-RD to RSRE
              -  64 kb/s line from Stockholm to JvNC, Princeton
 
          The line from Stockholm to JvNC is accessible for academic
          traffic from all Nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway and
          Denmark, later probably also Iceland)
 
          This explosion in the utilization of TCP/IP in the Nordic
          countries is causing headache among the academic
          communications research people, since they all have been
          working along the ISO-line.
 
     7.   A time server is under development. It will utilize a Cecium
          clock and the Loran-C system to maintain UTC time. Part of the
          work will be performed in cooperation with Dave Mills.
 
     8.   My working situation has changed since April 1. From having a
          part-time teaching job at the university department at Kjeller
          (part of the University of Oslo), I am now fully employed
          there with a part-time job at NTA-RD. This will last for a few
          years, during which I have absence of leave from NTA-RD.
 
          Paal Spilling (paal@tor.nta.no)
 
NYSERNET
--------
 
     No report received.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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OARNET
------
 
     No report received.
 
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
-------------------------------
 
     PSC now has fully redundant internal and external network
     connectivity.  No single gateway or router failure will compromise
     access to PSC's production systems from the national Internet.
     Only media failures immediately adjacent to systems or remote
     campuses will still cause loss-of-service.
 
     Mellon Institute, where PSC communications equipment is located,
     suffered a major air conditioning outage the week of July 4.  To
     reduce heat load all redundant connectivity was shutdown, reducing
     PSCnet to a simple spanning tree.  There were only transient
     disruption to PSC users.
 
     PSC now carries almost none of the NSF to ARPA traffic, now that
     the direct NSFnet to ARPAnet gateway at NASA Ames is up.
 
     New campuses connected via PREPnet and PSCnet include Swarthmore,
     UNISYS (Paoli PA), Transarc and NASA Lewis CRAYNET.  Penn State
     University is now using PREPnet as their primary path to the
     NSFnet.
 
     Matt Mathis  (mathis@fornax.ece.cmu.edu)
 
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
------------------------------
 
     SDSC experienced 3 power failures in the span of 4 days during the
     month of July. The failures occurred on Jul 15, 16, and 18. SDSC
     was unavailable on July15th from 17:00 PDT to 19:00 PDT.  Also, on
     July 16th SDSC was unavailable from8:00 PDT to approximately 10:00
     PDT.  Both of these outages were attributed to squirrels climbing
     on the SDG&E power lines. On July 18th, SDSC was unavailablefrom
     12:30 PDT until 14:15 PDT.  The outage was caused by crane knocking
     down SDG&E power lines in the vicinity of SDSC.
 
     The EN641 from Network Systems was installed on the SDSC Ethernet
     and has been used in the testing UNICOS on the CRAY XMP. It is
     currently using a subnet of SDSC's Class B address - 132.249.
 
     SDSC is now provide primary domain name service for AGI.ORG -
     Agouron Institute and USD.EDU - University of San Diego. Both of
 
 
 
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     these sites are connected to SDSC via CERFnet.
 
     by Susie Arnold (susie@sds.sdsc.edu)
 
SESQUINET
---------
 
     No report received.
 
SRI
----
 
     DDN NIC
 
     Our staff members participated in several working groups of the
     IETF at Stanford this month.  At an afternoon technical session of
     the IETF, Mark Lottor and Mary Stahl presented statistics on the
     domain name system.  Information about entities registered with the
     DDN NIC as well as statistics gathered by querying all known
     cooperating domain servers was discussed.
 
     There are now a total of 1,725 government-sponsored connected IP
     networks and 377 Autonomous Systems registered.  For domain
     registration, we've reached a milestone.  There are now a total of
     1,025 domains registered; 41 of these are top-level domains and 984
     are registered at the second-level.
 
     As announced in DDN Management Bulletin 61, issued in July, the
     hostname SRI-NIC.ARPA will be changed on August 6th, 1989 to
     NIC.DDN.MIL.  The old hostname will be retained as a nickname for
     at least one year in the host tables and domain name system.
 
     We have also a correction for our last month's report.  The first
     item of that report somehow got garbled.  It should read:
 
      > The ARPA -> MIL name transition is proceeding on schedule.  So far
      > we have completed the process for renaming more than 1,100 hosts
      > on net 26 to the MIL domain".
 
     Mary Stahl (Stahl@NIC.DDN.MIL)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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     Internet Research
 
     Our effort in the design and development of the Research Internet
     Gateway (RIG) continues this month.  A design review took place at
     RADC on July 18th.  Taking advantage of its neighboring location, a
     number of us attended IETF at Stanford.
 
     Zaw-Sing Su (ZSu@sri.com)
 
SURANET
-------
 
     No report received.
 
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK
------------------------------
 
     No report received.
 
UCL
----
 
     Infrastructure:
 
     A lot of time was spent this month looking at the interesting
     routes that are evolving in the outer reaches of the Internet, such
     as Canada, Australia, France and Japan.
 
     A Unix Device Driver for our primary rate ISDN board has been
     written, and is being tested. Some on board call control/routing
     code has also been written.
 
     John Crowcroft  (jon@CS.UCL.AC.UK)
 
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
----------------------
 
 
     1.   Paul Schragger is working on schemes to reduce the mean
          routing reservation delay for our gigabit network effort. Mike
          Minnich is experimenting with modifications to the Jain-
          Ramakrishnan (fair share) algorithm for distributed control.
          Mike Davis is working on network monitoring issues with the
          goal of applying expert-system techniques to existing
          monitoring tools. Dave Mills is working on routing,
          authentication and high-speed routing. Paul Schragger and Dave
          Mills attended the IAB meeting at BBN on 11-13 July.
 
 
 
 
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     2.   Incidents of wild route thrashing in the Internet continue to
          occur at the level of several a week. The evidence is from a
          few to several dozen ICMP time-exceeded messages received in
          response to Network Time Protocol (NTP) transmissions lasting
          from minutes to hours. The interesting fact is that so many
          different networks, gateways and systems are involved and
          suggests that interdomain routes are oscillating wildly as
          various EGP gateways "count to infinity" following a gateway
          failure. Here are two typical samples involving ARPANET, BBN,
          DEC, JvNC, MILNET, NSF, SURA, UNIMLB and WIDEBAND facilities.
          They were reported by a UDel Fuzzball and show the
          destination, times and gateways which returned ICMP time-
          exceeded messages.
 
          16.1.0.4 (DEC-INTERNET Palo Alto): 6 August 11:25:15-15:48:06
          (23 messages)
 
          10.2.0.5, 10.3.0.111, 10.3.0.5, 10.4.0.51, 10.4.0.51,
          10.4.0.51, 128.89.0.1, 131.186.18.0, 131.186.18.0,
          131.186.47.0, 192.41.177.90, 192.52.195.7, 192.52.71.2,
          26.20.0.17, 46.0.0.6, 46.4.0.13.
 
          128.250.1.21 (UNIMLB Australia): 6 August 12:58:27-14:35:20
          (52 messages)
 
          10.1.0.28, 10.3.0.111, 10.3.0.5, 10.4.0.51, 10.6.0.20,
          128.121.54.72, 128.89.0.1, 131.186.23.0, 192.52.71.3,
          26.1.0.16, 26.1.0.49, 26.20.0.16, 26.20.0.17, 46.0.0.6,
          46.1.0.3, 46.3.0.8, 46.4.0.13.
 
          It is not the intent of this report to call attention to these
          particular events, but rather to observe that these kinds of
          events are difficult to detect using separate intradomain
          monitoring facilities and suggest that continuous, non-
          intrusive, interdomain soundings such as NTP may be one of the
          most effective early- warning detectors.
 
     3.   New NTP sites have come online in Finland, Sweden and United
          Kingdom. New features were added to the Fuzzball code to
          provide detailed performance reports for use in network
          monitoring and path analysis. The new NTP control-message
          facility was debugged in implementations at U Toronto, MIT and
          the Fuzzballs. Construction of two precision frequency
          standards is nearing completion.
 
          Dave Mills  (Mills@UDEL.EDU)
 
 
 
 
 
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN/NCSANET
--------------------------------------------------
 
     Purdue University has installed a T1 connection to NCSAnet which
     will replace their current ARPANET connectivity.
 
     by Charlie Catlett (catlett@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
 
WESTNET
--------
 
 
     1.   The Westnet Steering Committee Meeting will be held August 11,
          1989, from 10:30 AM until 4:30 PM at the University of Denver.
          Detailed directions have been electronically mailed to all
          Westnet Steering Committee Members.  The main topic to be
          addresses will be the plan for the decommissioning of Westnet
          after government FY '90, and the partitioning of xirxuit costs
          among Westnet participating institutions.
 
     2.   Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho to become connected
          during the month of July.  This has resulted in a minor
          topological change in the circuits in Idaho.
 
          by Pat Burns (pburns@csupwb.colostate.edu)
             Carol Ward (cward@spot.colorado.edu)