1. TERENA and European NRENs News
1.1.1. TERENA General News (GA, TA)
1.1.2. TERENA WG and TF News
1.1.3. TERENA Webserver News
Bandwidth Boost to JANET's Transatlantic Link
http://www.ja.net/press_release/us_supply.html
NORDUnetUpgrades in the Eastern connectivity
Nov 10th 1998
NORDUnet provides internet connectivity for several research networks
in the Eastern Europe also. There has been some upgrades and Lithuania
is now connected at 1,5 Mbit/s, Estonia at 2 Mbit/s, Ukraine at 384 Kbit/s,
Russia (St. Petersburg) at 4Mbit/s and Poland at 7 Mbit/s. Please refer
to the Connectivity map and Network Statistics for further information
on the state of these connections.
The Research and Academic Network in Poland (NASK) has commissioned
a new Warsaw - Stockholm terrestrial 155 Mb/s Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM) link.
http://www.nask.pl/
http://www.nask.pl/english/co_nowego_eng.html
NREN’s News pages
UKERNA News
http://www.ja.net/documents/UKERNA_News/index.htmlUKERNA Quarterly Reports to the JANET Community
http://www.ja.net/documents/quarterly.htmlUKERNA Announcements
http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/announcements/announcements.htmlJANET Announcements
http://www.ja.net/press_release/press.htmlNeues im DFN-WWW-Server (German)
http://www.dfn.de/neues/Pressemitteilungen und Publikationen
http://www.dfn.de/presse/SURFnet Nieuws (SNN)
http://www.surfnet.nl/surfnet-nieuwsdienst.html
http://nieuws.surfnet.nl/nieuws/NORDUnet News and Announcements
http://www.nordu.net/news/NASK News
http://www.nask.pl/english/co_nowego_eng.htmlItalian National Research Council (CNR) News
http://www.cnr.it/ENG/NEWS/events_eng.htmlDifusi?n de Actividades de RedIRIS
http://www.rediris.es/rediris/difusion/Gaceta RedIRIS
http://www.rediris.es/rediris/difusion/gaceta/index.es.html
Bolet?n de RedIRIS:
http://www.rediris.es/rediris/boletin/index.htmlSWITCH Bulletin
http://www.switch.ch/bulletin/News from DAREnet
http://www.darenet.dk/eng/katalog.cgi?informationNews from FSK (Ministry of Research and Information Technology)
http://www.fsk.dk/seneste-uk.html
Dag til Dag Nyheder
http://www.uvm.dk/seneste.htmDaily News Bulletin BELNET
http://www.belnet.be/new/bulletin.htmlCESNet News
http://www.cesnet.cz/allmess.aspARNES News and Events
http://www.arnes.si/news-events.html
1.3. The Works of DANTE (bi-monthly news)
1.4. Security Services (JANET-CERT, EuroCERT)
JANET-CERT Monthly Reports
http://www.ja.net/CERT/JANET-CERT/monthly_reports.html
During the third July-September 1998 JANET-CERT received 580 incident
reports; a 74 per cent increase from the previous quarter. This dramatic
increase in the number of incidents reported is the result of the release
of a tool that makes it trivial to probe thousands of machines for a wide
variety of vulnerabilities. This tool, - 'mscan' - has been used to make
attacks on numerous systems.
These attacks use well known vulnerabilities all of which have solutions.
Further information about the 'mscan' tool and
the associated solutions can be found on the JANET WWW server at:
http://www.ja.net/CERT/JANET-CERT/mscan.html
Fall Joint NLANR/Internet2 Techs Workshop
1-4 November 1998, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.internet2.edu/html/joint_techs_workshop.html
DSI - Distributed Storage Infrastructure.
A goal of Internet2 is to enable and demonstrate enhanced research,
education and other services (e.g., health care, environmental monitoring)
by taking advantage of "virtual proximity" created by an advanced communications
infrastructure. The Distributed Storage Infrastructure (DSI) project led
by Micah Beck and Terry Moore of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at
the University of Tennessee with help from Bert Dempsey of the the University
of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science is an important
component in reaching this goal.
http://www.internet2.edu/dsi/
DVN-Digital Video Network. The Internet2 Digital Video Network
(I2-DVN) will establish a national, higher education video network service
to provide capabilities to support scalable and easy-to-use applications
to deliver live or stored streaming and interactive high-quality digital
video.
http://www.internet2.edu/dvn/
Internet2 News Update
Internet2 Press Releases
http://www.internet2.edu/html/i2_press_releases.html
CA*Net 2 News archive
http://www.canet2.net/c2news.htm
Qbone. An Interdomain Testbed for Differentiated Services
http://www.internet2.edu/qos/qbone/
http://www.internet2.edu/qos/
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless
of disability is an essential aspect." -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director
and inventor of the World Wide Web November 12, 1998: WAI Authoring Tool
Guidelines publishes first public WAI AU Working Draft.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Internet Scout Project Report
http://www.internic.net/scout-report/
Released November 25, 1998: Memorandum of Understanding Between
the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/icann-memorandum.htm
Information on Management of Internet Names and Addresses (Comment
Period is closed).
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainhome.htm
November 23th, 1998: "ICANN Announces Changes, Requests DNS Transition
Begin"
http://www.icann.org/contents-pr23nov98.html
Transmittal Letter to U.S. Department of Commerce, November 23, 1998
http://www.icann.org/letter-pr23nov98.html
ICANN Bylaws (As Revised)
http://www.icann.org/bylaws-pr23nov98.html
Articles of Incorporation (As Revised)
http://www.icann.org/articles-pr23nov98.html
The NECTAR Information Update
http://www.nectar.org/update/index.htm
European Journal of Engineering for Information Society Applications
Volume 1, Issue 1, September 1998
http://www.nectar.org/journal/index.htm
FLUIDS Technology Bulletins
http://www.nectar.org/fluids/bulletin/index.htm
AESOPIAN Best Practices Electronic News Report
http://www.nectar.org/aesopian/index.htm
Best Practices in ICT
Volume 1, number 6, October 1998
AESOPIAN has created a WWW repository of best practices for managers
of telematics, i.e. ICT based projects and software tools which enable
evaluation and improvement of projects’ current practices through benchmarking
with similar projects.
http://www.nectar.org/aesopian/journal6.htm
Telematics Applications Programme: Education and Training News
http://www2.echo.lu/telematics/education/en/news/main1.html
6th Telematics for Education and Training Concertation Meeting,
held jointly with Educational Multimedia Taskforce in 19-20 November 1998
http://www.concord.cscdc.be/meetings/education+training_6th/index.htm
Web-based training solutions
Education is the key to a motivated and loyal workforce, but it is
the first to go in a budget crisis. Rescue your training programs from
the chopping block by moving them online. Comparison of six solutions from
Allen Communication, Asymetrix, Docent, Macromedia, MicroMedium, WBT Systems.s
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=38674
Virtual Universities Report Robust Enrollments for Distance-Education
Courses
Administrators at some virtual universities, bolstered by their first-semester
enrollment figures, are optimistic about the growing popularity of distance
education, especially among non-traditional students.
http://chronicle.com/free/98/11/98111901t.htm
Worldwide ACM International Collegiate Computer Contest sponsored
by IBM
Nearly 4,000 top computer science and engineering students worldwide
have begun competing in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
IBM is again sponsoring the contest to attract the best and brightest students
to the industry. Regional contests culminate with the World Finals on 8
April 1999 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
http://www.ibm.com/software/news/sw/a36a/
4. Internet Technology News and Standardisation
New RFCs
RFC 2440: OpenPGP Message Format. J. Callas, L. Donnerhacke, H. Finney, R. Thayer
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2440.txtRFC 2445: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2445.txtRFC 2458: Toward the PSTN/Internet Inter-Networking -- Pre-PINT Implementations
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2458.txtRFC 2401: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2401.txtRFC 2411: IP Security Document Roadmap
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2411.txtRFC 2408: Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2408.txtRFC 2409: The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2409.txt
The IESG has approved publication of the following Internet-Drafts
as Proposed Standards:
Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4
and IPv6 Headers <draft-ietf-diffserv-header-04.txt>
SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS <draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-10.txt>
Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts <draft-freed-gatesec-03.txt>
Message Submission <draft-gellens-submit-13.txt>
IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks <draft-ietf-ion-ipv6-02.txt>
IPv6 over ATM Networks <draft-ietf-ion-ipv6-atm-03.txt>
HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV' <draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-10.txt>
The IESG has approved the Internet Drafts as an Informational RFC
Language Tagging in Unicode Plain Text <draft-whistler-plane14-00.txt>
An Architecture for Differentiated Services <draft-ietf-diffserv-arch-02.txt>
New Internet-Drafts is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories
(some of 561 submitted to IETF 43 in Orlando).
The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-good-ldap-ldif-01.txtUser-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-snmpv3-usm-v2-02.txtThe TEXT/PLAIN FORMAT Parameter
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gellens-format-01.txtNeda's Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery (EMSD)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rfced-info-banan-00.txtAnti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lindberg-anti-spam-mta-06.txtMedia Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-huitema-MGCP-v0r1-01.txtInternationalized Uniform Resource Identifiers (IURI)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-i18n-03.txtUTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-utf16-00.txtThe Internet and the Millenium Problem (Year 2000)
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-2000-issue-04.txtIP Multicast Applications: Challenges and Solutions
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-quinn-multicast-apps-00.txtDAV Searching and Locating
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reddy-dasl-protocol-03.txtAn Expedited Forwarding PHB
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-diffserv-phb-ef-01.txtBylaws for a Protocol Support Organization
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-poisson-pso-bl-01.txtLDP Specification
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-02.txtHTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-10.txtAn API for Service Location
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-svrloc-api-07.txtReport on the 1998 IAB Routing Workshop
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-rtr-workshop-00.txtThe Case for IPv6
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iab-case-for-ipv6-03.txtService Templates and service: Schemes
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-svrloc-service-scheme-13.txtService Location Protocol, Version 2
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-v2-11.txtOn-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) for Ad-Hoc Networks
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gerla-manet-odmrp-00.txtDifferentiated Service Management Information Base using SMIv2
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-pan-diffserv-mib-00.txtMPLS using ATM VC Switching
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-atm-01.txtSecure, Remote Access over the Internet using IPSec
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gupta-ipsec-remote-access-01.txtRouting of Multimedia Connections when Interworking with PSTN, ATM, and IP Networks
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ash-itu-sg2-qos-routing-00.txtInternet Telephony Gateway Location Service Protocol
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-agapi-ini-gwloc-00.txtBorder Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idmr-gum-04.txtA Framework for Use of RSVP with Diff-serv Networks
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-diffserv-rsvp-01.txtOngoing TCP Research Related to Satellites
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tcpsat-res-issues-05.txtCOPS Usage for Differentiated Services
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-cops-ds-01.txtAd Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-manet-aodv-02.txtSupporting Service Level Agreements using Differentiated Services
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-verma-diffserv-ntimplem-00.txtCryptographic Message Syntax
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-cms-09.txtInternet Printing Protocol/1.0: Implementer's Guide
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipp-implementers-guide-00.txtUsers' Security Handbook
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ssh-users-10.txtUse of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-fr-03.txtClient-Cache Communication
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-melve-clientcache-com-00.txtInter Cache Communication Protocols
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-melve-intercache-comproto-00.txtThe Architecture of the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP)
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-find-cip-arch-02.txtMIME Object Definitions for the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP)
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-find-cip-mime-03.txtLDAP Replication Architecture
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-merrells-ldup-model-01.txtThe Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-03.txtUsing RPSL in Practice
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rps-appl-rpsl-03.txtPolicy Framework Core Information Model
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-policy-core-schema-00.txtThe COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-cops-03.txtMobility Support in IPv6
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-07.txtBGP Security Analysis
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murphy-bgp-secr-02.txtInternet Message Format Standard
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-06.txtSPKI Certificate Theory
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-spki-cert-theory-04.txtDAV Searching and Locating
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reddy-dasl-protocol-04.txtEfficiently transporting ad-carrying web pages
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gupta-efficient-ad-00.txtRequirements of Diff-serv Boundary Routers
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bernet-diffedge-01.txtSecurity Mechanisms for the Internet
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-secmech-00.txtDON'T SPEW - A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*)
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-run-spew-07.txtHypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txtA Two-Tier Resource Management Model for Differentiated Services Networks
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rotzy-2-tier-management-00.txtLDAP Schema for Internet Mail
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-srivastava-ldap-mail-00.txt
4.2. Standardisation in Telecommunications
and IT (ISO, ITU, CEN/ISSS, EEMA)
ITU Newsroom
http://www.itu.org/newsroom/index.html
CEN News
http://www.cenorm.be/News/NEWs.htm
CEN/ISSS Newsletter October 1998
Geographic information
Hospital procurement
Electronic commerce – Sanitary ware etc
Other news from CEN/ISSS (Information Society Standardization System)
http://www.cenorm.be/News/Newsletter/Oct98News.htm
CEN Strategy: 2010
http://www.cenorm.be/News/Strategy/Stragegy.htm
TC 304 Information and Communication Technologies - European
Localization Requirements.
Last TC Meeting was in Brussels, 23-26 November 1998
http://www.stri.is/TC304/default.html
Testing, Certification and Safety issues in Information & Communications
Technologies
10-11 December 1998. Luxembourg, Inter-Continental Hotel
http://www.cenorm.be/isss/ECITC/EUROCONTROL/home.htm
Multimedia over the Internet gets a boost
Record breaking progress in the standardization of multimedia communications
over the Internet has been made in recent months by Study Group 16. The
work of the ITU in IP-based standards has been recognized by the Plenipotentiary
Conference of the ITU which took place in Minneapolis last month.
Ten new Recommendations extending the use of the H.323 standard on
IP (Internet Protocol) based networks have been approved in the last few
months. The group has also approved two new Recommendations for audiovisual
communications over ATM networks.
ITU/98-32, 1 December 1998
http://www.itu.org/newsroom/press/releases/1998/98-32.html
UMTS FORUM RECOGNIZES ITU'S VITAL ROLE IN 3G SUCCESS:
ITU Task Group presents progress on assessing technology proposals
for third generation radio interface Issued simultaneously by the ITU and
the UMTS Forum St-Helier, Jersey (Channel Islands) – Key players from the
mobile industry around the world met in Jersey, Channel Islands, 9-20 November
1998 and attended a two day workshop associated with the 15th meeting of
Task Group 8/1 of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The
Task Group – responsible for third generation (3G) mobile systems – considered
various issues such as the development of key radio specifications and
additional spectrum for 3G mobile systems, global circulation of terminals,
etc. At the workshop – supported by the UMTS Forum – the ITU's Task Group
8/1 presented its ongoing work in determining the key characteristics of
the radio interface(s) for "IMT-2000" (International Mobile Telecommunications
2000).
ITU/98-31, 17 November 1998
http://www.itu.org/newsroom/press/releases/1998/98-31.html
Major step towards the Global Information Society: New Standards
for Multi-Megabit/s Network Access adopted including G.Lite. 29 October
1998
http://www.itu.org/newsroom/press/releases/1998/NP-4.html
Overview paper of various QoS strategies
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~xiaoxipe
ITU/98-30, 6 November 1998
Minneapolis Conference Gives Way to Increased Rights for Industry The
decisions of the Conference aimed a maintaining a pre-eminent role for
the ITU in the world marketplace, in everyone's interest.
http://www.itu.org/newsroom/press/releases/1998/98-30.html
LEVEL 3 AND BELLCORE MERGE VOICE OVER IP PROTOCOL PROPOSALS
Level 3 Communications and Bellcore will merge their Voice over IP
proposals into a common specification to be called the Media Gateway Control
Protocol (MGCP). It will be available without a fee to service providers
and hardware and software vendors. MGCP is designed for external control
and management of "media gateways" (such as voice over IP gateways, voice
over ATM gateways, modem banks, cable modems, set-top boxes, soft PBXs
and circuit cross connects) using software "call agents" or media gateway
controllers. A draft of the MGCP specification has been submitted to the
SS7-Internet mailing list of the IETF and to ETSI's Telecommunications
& Internet Protocol Harmonization Over Networks (ETSI TIPHON) working
group. Previously, Level 3 had led a consortium developing an Internet
Protocol Device Control (IPDC) specification; Bellcore and Cisco Systems
were developing a Simple Gateway Control Protocol (SGCP). Both efforts
are now merged into MGCP.
Level 3, November 16, 1998
http://www.Level3.com/company/nov1698.html
A Clever New Way to Search?
IBM has developed a new search engine process that the company says
will blend the speed and comprehension of an automated search engine with
the discerning results of a human-generated index.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/16494.html
Big names submit XMI standard
A group of software vendors led by IBM, Oracle, and Unisys wants to
make it easier for development teams to work together on the Internet.
IBM and gang this week presented a proposal to the Object Management Group,
an object technology standards body, to make their XML Metadata Interchange
Format specification, or XMI, the standard method in which object data
is exchanged over the Internet.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28682,00.html
Virus Thrives on HTML
A new demonstration virus is the first to exploit the language of Web
pages. Observers say it's a new frontier for malicious computer code.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/16206.html
Juno wins patent for PC banner ad
A technology from Juno Online Services that can display ads on a user's
PC even if it isn't connected to the Internet has been awarded a patent
and may be licensed to other online firms.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=36442
Cisco Systems Opens Cisco IOS Web Cache Communication Protocol
November 16, 1998 - Demonstrating its leadership in caching technology
and its ongoing commitment to opening protocols for industry-wide adoption,
Cisco Systems today announced it will license its Cisco IOS® software
Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) specification to other cache vendors.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/november98/17.html
New Security Products was released SHADOW: FREE SOFTWARE FOR INTRUSION DETECTION by SANS (http://www.sans.org/digest/july98.htm#SHADOW) and Adaptive Network Security (ANS) Modules (http://ansa.iss.net/modules.html)
SHADOW: FREE SOFTWARE FOR INTRUSION DETECTION by SANS -
http://www.sans.org/digest/july98.htm#SHADOW
SHADOW stand for SANS's Heuristic Analysis system for Defensive Online
Warfare. SHADOW's primary requirement is to detect as many attacks as possible,
as easily and efficiently as possible, make it easy to report the attacks
to CIRTs, and support analysis of the attacks to tune defenses. Much more
info available at http://www.nswc.navy.mil/ISSEC/CID.
You may get the SHADOW documentation by emailing info@sans.org with
subject "SHADOW description." You can later download the SHADOW software
and provide feedback to the SANS Institute on its operation and any problems
you found.
Adaptive Network Security (ANS) Modules
ANS Modules enable the interoperability between ANS products and the
traditional network and security infrastructure. ANS Modules are software
development kits (SDKs) engineered by ISS to provide ANSA (Adaptive Network
Security Alliance) partners with the necessary software and documentation
to integrate adaptive security functionality with their products. ANS Modules
will allow for updates, reconfigurations, and policy enforcement to network
components such as routers and switches, enterprise system management frameworks,
as well as security products such as firewalls, virtual private networks
(VPNs), anti-virus/malicious code software, and public key infrastructure
(PKI).
http://ansa.iss.net/modules.html
ANSA, The Adaptive Network Security Alliance was formed October
21, 1998 at NETWORLD+INTEROP in Atlanta, GA. ANSA is an open, technology-focused
partnership program initiated by ISS and over 40 leading partners. The
goal of ANSA is to deliver the technology needed to create interoperability
between adaptive network security products and traditional security and
network infrastructure products.
http://ansa.iss.net/
Complete collection of network Security Tools can be found at
http://www.fedcirc.gov/tools.html
ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/tech_tips/security_tools
Open-Source Java at Last?
Sun Microsystems is planning to relinquish its stranglehold on the
Java programming language. The company will announce a new, more open version
of its platform at the Java Internet Commerce Expo on 8 December.
Sun wants to make it easier for developers to improve upon the Java
source code, Baratz said, "But at the same time, we need to ensure we maintain
cross-platform compatibility." Sun promised to submit Java to the International
Organization for Standardization for ratification nearly a year ago, but
it has made no progress.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/16499.html
New Components Available for VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition
http://www.ibm.com/java/news/news147.html
IBM WebSphere Studio V1.0
http://www.ibm.com/java/news/news141.html
A new trial copy of Studio is now available.
http://www.software.ibm.com/webservers/studio/
IBM Java page News
http://www.ibm.com/java/news/
5. Internet and IT Industry News
5.1. Companies, Telecommunications, Infrastructure
White House Unveils E-commerce Plans
The new goals include pushing companies to work with consumer and privacy
advocates, developing guidelines that ensure shoppers have the same protections
in "virtual malls as they now get in regular malls,"
The president said that the administration will work with other nations
to develop laws protecting consumers and also will encourage the e-commerce
and Internet industries to continue to self-regulate. The Internet should
be largely free of taxes and government regulations, the president and
Vice President Al Gore both said in remarks Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/12/cyber/articles/01magaziner.html
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=39095
Dept. of Defense to establish network defense task force
The Defense Department next month plans to establish a Joint Task Force
for Computer Network Defense to protect DOD's command and control networks
from hackers and foreign intelligence services.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=36344
The European Commission has given its green light to the restructuring
plans of Inmarsat, the major international
mobile satellite operator. Inmarsat was established in 1979 as an intergovernmental
treaty organisation and has over 80
member countries. The restructuring would transform Inmarsat into a
public company in which member countries would
become shareholders. It is envisaged that Inmarsat would launch a public
offering of shares (IPO) within two years of
the restructuring.
http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/press/press86.html
AOL-Netscape-Sun: What the deal means to you
AOL-NETSCAPE CHANNEL Survey shows deal will make AOL top Web starting
point, consumer group targets Netscape-AOL deal, AOL: King of the ISPs?,
AOL to maintain browser choice, AOL-Netscape deal seen as Java boost, plus
more AOL-Netscape merger news.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=39109
Cisco Introduces NetRanger Intrusion Detection Solution
November 10, 1998 - Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking
for the Internet, announced today the availability of the Cisco NetRanger™
intrusion detection system.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/november98/12.html
Microsoft jumps into wireless world
The software giant announced plans with Qualcomm earlier this week
to implement a series of wireless services using its own back-end and consumer-oriented
software technology in a new venture called Wireless Knowledge.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C28771.html?dd.ne.tx.ts3.1113
Microsoft hits embedded market
Microsoft has long hinted it might jump into embedded systems software,
but that flirtation has now become more of a reality, potentially shaking
up a market largely comprising small and unknown players.
At an embedded systems trade show today in San Jose, Microsoft announced
Windows NT Embedded 4.0, and will detail its strategy to adapt its corporate-use
Windows NT operating system for "embedded" settings such as point-of-sale
devices, office and industrial automation, and even as the underlying software
for networking equipment. The embedded version of NT is slated to enter
beta testing in the first quarter of next year, according to Microsoft.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C28180%2C00.html?dd.ne.tx.fs10.1102
In more Comdex-related news, one hot topic of conversation was Microsoft
and Sun battling it out in the embedded OS market. What was said about
expectations for Java and WinCE in this regard?
http://www.sunworld.com/swol-11-1998/swol-11-comdex.html?1120a
Excite Connects with British Telecom
British Telecommunication's Internet unit will purchase 50 percent
of Excite Inc.'s United Kingdom subsidiary for $10 million. BT's Net service
is about two years old (http://guest.btinternet.com).
Excite has similar working arrangements with partners in Australia, Japan
and Italy.
The Internet Daily: Internet Industry News [Wednesday - 11/25/98]
MCI WorldCom CEO sees 'silicon cockroaches'
People think they're wired now, but they haven't seen anything yet.
Just wait until the world is populated with "silicon cockroaches," wireless
devices that can communicate with one another and the Internet, said John
Sidgmore, vice chairman and CEO of MCI WorldCom Inc.
http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?special_id=1&allowFeedback=false&return=%2fcgi%2dbin%2fspecial2%2epl%3fspecial_id%3d1&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ecomputerworld%2ecom%2fhome%2fnews%2ensf%2fall%2f9811194sidgm
Netscape Pioneer to Invest in Smart VCR
Will Take Stake in Replay Networks, a Custom TV Start-Up Marc Andreessen,
who founded Netscape along with Jim Clark in 1995, will announce that he
is investing in Replay Networks Inc., a small Silicon Valley start-up company
and will join its board. "ReplayTV will do for TV what the browser did
for the Internet," said Andreessen, who was a part of the team at the University
of Illinois that developed the technology on which Netscape was founded.
"It's the browser for TV." While WebTV tries to integrate the Internet
with television, Replay, he said, "is an effort to enhance the TV experience
first and foremost."
http://www.replaytv.com/inThePress.html
Mozilla.org: We Are Not Netscape
Tuesday One of the coordinators of the Mozilla open-source browser
project sounds off on the AOL-Netscape merger. By Chris Oakes.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16477.html
Yahoo opened a huge online mall with offerings from more than
2,700 independent stores, while a market research study predicted that
e-commerce will soon outstrip portal sites' advertising revenues.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C28895%2C00.html?dd.ne.tx.wr
Mecklermedia Acquires Three Web Sites
Mecklermedia Corp. (MECK) expanded its stable of Web sites by announcing
three new members of its network: shareware distributor Jumbo (http://www.jumbo.com),
streaming media news site JustSmil, (http://www.justsmil.com),
and news link aggregator NewsLinx (http://www.newslinx.com).
Netscape Buys Community Directory
http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,2577,00.html?04
The Japanese telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
said it has launched a nation-wide corporate
Internet service in the USA, Arcstar Internet. The service is
provided by ntta.com, a subsidiary of NTT America.
Arcstar has about 200 access points and serves a majority of the main
metropolitan areas in the USA. Internet and
e-mail roaming between the USA and Japan is to be proposed in the near
future.
http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/press/press86.html
Cisco News Releases
http://www.cisco.com/public/Corp_root.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/
IBM* e-business and Software News Alert on the Web
http://www.ibm.com/software/news-alert/
HP Press Releases
http://www.hp.com/pressrel/
ISP TEAM: Cisco, maker of roughly 80 percent of the hardware carrying Internet traffic, is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard on a new breed of open Internet platforms to enable ISPs to build next-generation Internet telephony applications. The companies would not comment on specific products, but plan to introduce a spate of new offerings in the first quarter of 1999. Cisco and HP estimate the market for IP services to be $25 billion today, a figure that will grow two to three times by the millennium.
IBM WebSphere Studio Acquires New Technology for Team Collaboration
Wallop Software's Build-IT** product will be in the next release of
IBM WebSphere Studio*, a set of Web site development and management tools
for the WebSphere* Application Server family. With this new technology,
teams can collaborate to assemble and manage content in new ways when creating
powerful Web sites for e-business.
http://www.ibm.com/software/news/sw/3fab/
NEC makes IPv6 translator freely available
TOKYO - NEC is offering free of charge the source code for software
that enables existing hardware to connect to networks running a future
version of IP.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=38984
Microsoft tries to counter Sun enterprise integration with Jini
Microsoft is working on technology to challenge Jini, Sun's distributed
computing technology designed to tie together the upcoming generation of
smart devices ranging from smart phones to video cameras to printers.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=38930
Sun ports JDK 1.2 to Linux in push for ubiquitous Java
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?98112.ecsunjava2.htm
Top secret chip less secret now
Transmeta, the highly secretive, well-funded Silicon Valley chip start-up,
may be offering the first glimpses of its well-guarded microprocessor design.
The company recently received a patent for certain portions of the
chip design and in the process may be revealing a broader picture of what
the chip does. In short, it is a novel design that appears to be extremely
fast and can potentially run all Windows software as well as other technologies
including Java.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C28737.html?dd.ne.tx.ts1.1113
The ultra-secret Silicon Valley start-up, Transmeta, is inadvertently
clearing some of the mystery surrounding its new chip. The patent is revealing
a chip that runs Intel and Windows, only much faster than anything prior.
Experts speculate that the microprocessor is reverse engineered from alien
technology.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C28737.html?dd.ne.tx.ts1.1113
Aplio/Phone plugs into your phone line and lets you talk over
the Internet for about 95 percent less than normal phone costs.
Assuming that you have an Internet service provider, the only thing
that separates you from making long-distance phone calls over the Internet
for free is the $199 price tag on the Aplio/Phone. Note: You don't need
a PC. The Aplio/Phone is a small black box about 5-by-5-by 2.5 inches that's
somewhat stylish. Inside is a modem, a DSP for voice compression/decompression,
and a full-duplex speaker--which comes in handy whether or not you're using
the Internet.
http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,8665,00.html
IBM expands file sharing tool
IBM will begin selling a version of a program that lets Unix computers
share files for the Linux and Windows NT platforms beginning December 1.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C29273%2C00.html?dd.ne.tx.fs10.1125
IBM readies file system software for Linux
Seeing a rise in demand for Linux among corporate customers, IBM's
Transarc subsidiary is preparing to release versions of its enterprise
file system software for the open-source Unix variant.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=38492
HP, Oracle to link management tools
Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are working together to build a bridge that
will provide some interoperability between its respective management environments,
HP OpenView and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=38494
Samsung announces high-capacity floppy
Samsung has announced a 123MB floppy drive format that it says will
be cheaper than Imation's SuperDisk drive and faster than any competing
high-capacity floppy drive on the market.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=37531
Inktomi: Searching for AOL
Online monolith America Online signs up Inktomi to provide search capabilities
to ICQ, the instant messaging service that AOL purchased in June.
MCI rolls out DSL services
MCI WorldCom will begin offering Internet access in select U.S. cities
based on DSL technology by the end of the year, the company announced.
Free registration required to access this site
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=37362
Iridium Beeps Around the World
The first of a new breed of low-earth-orbit satellite phone companies
offers global paging and messaging.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/16316.html
LUCENT INTRODUCES SONET/SDH CHIPS FOR SIMPLIFIED DATA LINK (SDL)
Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group introduced new SONET/SDH
ICs that transmit data using multiple network protocols, including ATM,
packet-over-SONET, point-to-point protocol (PPP), high-level data link
control (HDLC) and simplified data link (SDL), which provides direct data-over-fiber
operation. The DETROIT devices operate at OC3, OC12 and OC48. Lucent said
the new chips would provide a true packet-over-fiber solution via SDL.
The chips would also simplify equipment design by enabling a single switch/router
line card to support multiple protocols.
Lucent Technologies, November 10, 1998
http://www.lucent.com/press/1198/981109.mea.html
Lucent Invests in Wireless Chips
Spying sizeable revenue in digital wireless voice and data, Lucent
invests in a manufacturer of wireless communications chips and software.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16233.html
Hewlett-Packard plans to integrate a set of its voice services software
with Lucent's carrier tools. The agreement does not extend as far as
HP's recent agreement with Cisco, but does echo previously announced alliances
with other communications firms: Nortel Networks, Ericsson, and Nokia.
http://www.hp.com/pressrel/nov98/17nov98.htm
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C28891%2C00.html?dd.ne.tx.wr
Linux prepares for the intellectual-property offensive
Patents may be the ground on which the open source battle is won or
lost.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=36494
Microbrowser Battle Brewing
Wednesday Microsoft and an industry group are developing wireless communication
technologies for mobile devices that are -- for the moment -- complementary.
But the groups could very soon butt heads.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16196.html
5.3. Internet and IT Market Trends
Amazon.com Adds Videos, Gifts
Confirming expectations it would range beyond bookselling, Amazon.com
expanded its e-commerce offerings Tuesday to include a wide selection of
videos and DVDs, as well as gifts. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/gifts/gifts.html/002-2977398-5559641
Personal electronics, video games, games, and puzzles and toys are
among the items offered on the site. Consistent with Amazon's (AMZN) personalization
strategy, the site also offers a feature called Gift Matcher, which makes
recommendations from among 60 categories of special interest. The video
and DVD e-tailing section offers best sellers at 30 percent off suggested
retail pricing.
http://www5.mercurycenter.com/business/top/002253.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/11/biztech/articles/17amazon.html
Home users want faster Net
When it comes to Internet access, a growing number of home PC users
are feeling the need for speed, but are having a difficult time getting
their fix.
According to a study released today by the Yankee Group, nearly two-thirds
of PC-owning households in the United States are interested in faster Internet
access. However, with few consumers having access to such a service today,
cable and telephone companies are challenged to take this opportunity to
grow business.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C28448%2C00.html?dd.ne.tx.fs5.1106
BT's profits up, but says U.K. economy is slowing
British Telecommunications announced strong profits and increased revenue
in the second quarter of its fiscal year, despite what it says is evidence
of a slowing U.K. economy.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=36496
Internet Retail Will Be Worth $13 Billion
The Boston Consulting Group estimated Wednesday online retailers' revenue
in 1998 will be greater than $13 billion, as much as twice previous projections.
He said the $13 billion figure, from an analysis of 127 online retailers,
is about one percent of total retail sales for North America. "The sector
turned out to be much bigger than we expected," agreed BCG senior vice
president David Pecaut, who oversaw the study. "Secondly, I think a lot
of traditional retailers had been pretending this was a small niche phenomenon
or would go away and not be that important. I think they are recognizing
it is happening now," he told CBS.Marketwatch.com. The study was a joint
project between BCG and Shop.org, the online retailers association based
in Silver Spring, Md.
6. Legal and Social Issues of Internet/IS
6.1. Legal Issues (Merges, DOJ news, Crypto, Tax)
New White House Tech Chief Named
Commerce Department lawyer Elliot Maxwell will become a key Internet
advisor to the Clinton administration, succeeding Ira Magaziner who will
resign by the end of the year. As special advisor to the Secretary of Commerce,
Maxwell will coordinate the White House's position on areas such as privacy,
export controls, domain names, Internet taxes, standards, and digital signatures.
When Magaziner is gone, the NTIA will no doubt play a bigger role in
hammering out an agreement over online privacy and overseeing the hand-off
of the domain name system. If they stick to their posts through the year
2000, Commerce Secretary William Daley, Irving, and Becky Burr, associate
administrator of the NTIA, all will continue to be point people on the
nation's e-commerce polices.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16340.html
The European Commission has announced that the European Union Directive
on the protection of personal data
(95/46/EC) entered force on 25 October 1998. The Directive establishes
a clear and stable Europe-wide regulatory
framework ensuring both a high level of privacy protection for individuals
as well as the free movement of personal data
in the Internal Market. The Directive ensures that personal data are
only transferred to third countries where continued
protection is guaranteed.
http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/press/press86.html
During the past 12 months, AOEMA has been sponsoring the creation of
a legal database with information on the legal status of electronic
commerce within each economy in Asia-Pasific region. It also includes
some comments on the European laws. This database is now on the open Internet
for all to see. It is located at
http://www.bakerinfo.com/apec
The Finnish government decided on "Guidelines concerning the national
cryptography policy and statements on the use of cryptographic products".
(October 12,1998)
http://www.vn.fi/lm/telecom/sisallys.htm
European Cryptography Resources webpage
http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~avs/eu-crypto.html
http://www.iki.fi/avs/eu-crypto.html
World Cryptography Survey is available at
http://www.gilc.org/crypto/crypto-survey.html
Crypto Law Survey by Bert-Jaap Koops
Updated by December 2, 1998
http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm
China May End Telecom Monopoly
Beijing is accelerating a plan to break up state-owned China Telecom
to boost competition, the China Daily Business Weekly reported Sunday.
The report hinted the move may eventually open the door to foreign companies.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16522.html
DOD lends Russia a hand with nukes.
Working closely with the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense, the
U.S. Defense Department recently completed work on an IT-powered facility
that is designed to help predict and assess the impact of nuclear disasters.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=38970
Report says Europe must boost IT skills
If Europe is to benefit from the job-creating capacity of electronic
commerce, it must improve the skills and technical literacy of its population,
the European Commission warned in a report.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=38936
Overview of Canadian Government's Information Highway strategy
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/iip/HIIP-Seminar.html
WIPO and Electronic Commerce
WIPO Internet domain name process
Regional consultation meetings and international conference on intellectual
property and electronic commerce
WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
http://www.wipo.org/eng/internet/ecommerc/index.htm
6.3. Spam and Content Abuse problems
7. Conferences, Workshops, Meetings
December 1 & 2, 1998 the MIT Industrial Liaison Program will present
the first conference in it's 1998-1999 Series on Technology and the Corporation.
The Internet: Next Generation & Beyond
1998 Information Technology Conference
http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/non_member/conferences/ITagenda.html
Law in the Information Society. Fifth International Conference organized
by the Institute for Legal Documentation of CNR, 2-5 December 1998, CNR-IDG,
Firenze
http://www.idg.fi.cnr.it/convegno98/announce.htm
The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) will host a two-day conference titled "1998 Networks
for People: Society and Information Infrastructure – The Next Generation"
on December 8-9, 1998 in Washington, DC.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/netpeop111098.htm