From rare-wg3-usis-request@mailbase.ac.uk Fri May 29 15:58:15 1992 Return-Path: Received: from dxmint.cern.ch by nxoc01.cern.ch (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NeXT-2.0) id AA29530; Fri, 29 May 92 15:58:05 GMT+0200 Received: by dxmint.cern.ch (dxcern) (5.57/3.14) id AA10251; Fri, 29 May 92 15:56:54 +0200 Date: 29 May 92 15:00 +0200 From: Anders Gillner Sender: rare-wg3-usis-request@mailbase.ac.uk To: rare-wg3-usis@newcastle.ac.uk Cc: helpdesk@concise.level-7.co.uk, jkrey@isi.edu Reply-To: Anders Gillner Message-Id: <199205291300.AA26153(a)sunic2.sunet.se> Subject: Newsletter 4-5/92 Status: RO The very first RARE WG-ISUS Newsletter (4+5/92) Ok, I am sorry, You have been waiting too long and I ought to fell ashamed and all that, but here I am again after Innsbruck and every- thing. Those not present in Innsbruck might wonder about the header, but that is what we are today, RARE Working Group Information Services and User Support. Jill is chairing, and Erik(which by the way is Erik:-)) is "godfathering" from the RTC. He better behave, otherwise we will shoot his cloud down :-). The last day of the conference it was decided that we should merge with the EARN-info group, which we did, and we hope that only good things will come out of that. It was also discussed in the RIPE community to merge in the RIPE-info group, but I do not think that anything was decided. I guess Jill will follow with a lot more detail, as she usually does. The RTR 1 showed up in the participant bags (a nice one), as well as a document called "The state of the Union". The latter can be seen on the sunic gopher divided into countries, and will soon be followed by RTR 1 divided in the same way, and of course any other information about your network that you are willing to provide me with. ARCHIE There is an article in the March edition of NSF Network News about archie , giving some new contact addresses to the McGill Archie Group: Comments, bugreports etc -> archie-l@cs.mcgill.ca Additions and corrections-> archie-admin@cs.mcgill.ca to the present database For those of you, not familiar with archie: telnet to nic.funet.fi, login as archie simple help is available. ---------- SMALL NEWS ---------- HYPER-G Florian Schnabel from Austria demonstrated their new information server in Innsbruck, a very potent thing really, could talk to almost everything, gopher and WWW, could show used links, could show commands in different laguages, could take uploads from personal computers and convert file formats. Florian, I just can not wait until you put that up for ftp ! And I hope that you notify this list when you do ! "How Did We Get 727.000 Hosts ?" Article in ConneXions May 1992 by April Marine (vol. 6 No. 5) Summary: January 91 376.000 nodes January 92 727.000 nodes NETF MEETING IN OCTOBER There will probably be a pre-seminar the day before about networked information services the day before. Write to me later on this issue SUPERCOMPUTING -92 Annual high performance computing conference will be held in Minneapolis 16-20 of November this year, and some workshops will be held there. Examples : "The Network is the Computer", K-12 Education and advanced Computing, NREN usage, etc.... For further info write to susanc@ncar.ucar.edu (Susan Cross) --------------------------------------------------------- That`s all I have this time, Below follows some history about NORDUnet, and a nice diagram showing the Iceland link upgrade :-). Some of the links (including that to London) are operational when this is written. Bye for now, and see you in Berlin (or Pisa or whatever !) regards/awg NORDUnet link upgrades ---------------------- Upgrade history Denmark Norway Finland Iceland Amsterdam London US ----------------------------------------------------------------- 88 64K 64K 64K 56K 890104 64K 890127 X.25 900724 9.6K 900814 64K 910108 128K 910312 128K 910315 128K 910405 192K 910727 192K 910912 256K 911004 128K 920102 256K 920108 256K 920123 256K 920331 256K 920406 768K 920504 512K 920507 56K ----------------------------------------------------------------- Planned and ordered upgrades during 1992 Current Upgrade Delivery -------------------------------------------------------- Amsterdam 256K 512K 920617 Poland 9.6K 64K 9204 done Estonia - 64K 9204 done London - 256K 9205 -------------------------------------------------------- Links to Poland and Estonia are now established but do not currently carry production traffic. The major problem with Estonia is that the top level domain for EE has not yet been registered by the NIC and thus names and numbers cannot be mapped in a proper way. The new link to Poland will be spilt into a dedicated 9.6 X.25 circuit, a dedicated 9.6k BSC/EARN circuit until something like VMNET could be use, and the rest for pure IP. The Ebone link to London will hopefully be in production during next week. History of significant events 9204 ================================== 920403 Ebone/Stockholm starts to be implemented. EBS1 and EBS4(scan-gw) up and running. 920409 The new 768K US link up and running stable. 920410 First conntact established via the 64K satelite link between Stockholm and Tallinn (Estonia). 920428 EBS3 for the Nordic carriers connection to Ebone up and running. One of the more desperatly needed upgrades done was the upgrade from 9.6Kbps to 56Kbps of the link to Iceland. 64K is currently not available on this satellite link to Iceland. 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