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  1. The Internet Passport: Northwestnet's Guide to Our World Online by Jonathan Kochmer, 1992-12
  2. Internet Passport: The Northwestnet's Guide to Our World Online by David F. W. Robison, Jonathan Kochmer, 1995-01
  3. NorthWestNet NUSIRG Internet Guide
  4. NorthWestNet NUSIRG Internet Guide
  5. NorthWestNet user services Internet resource guide (NUSIRG), adapted for use by OARnet / Jonanthan [sic] Kochmer ; adaptations by Alison Brown by Jonathan Kochmer, 1992
  6. Internet Passport: The Northwestnets Guide to Our World Online
  7. NorthWestNet user services Internet resource guide (NUSIRG) by Jonathan Kochmer, 1991

61. Int-3def
NorthWestNet is an example of an RSP that connects directly to an NSP. Exhibit 32shows NorthWestNet's backbone and Exhibit 3-3 shows CERFnet's backbone.
http://www.ncs.gov/n5_hp/html/int-3def.html
3. INTERNET DEFINITION
At the highest level, today's Internet consists of multiple national and regional Internet Service Providers (ISP) and interconnection points where the ISPs meet and exchange traffic. This infrastructure is similar to that of the old NSFNET, which consisted of a three-tier structure: Backbone network Regional networks Local/campus networks. On the NSFNET, regional networks would aggregate their traffic and "hand it off" to the NSFNET backbone. The regional networks comprised multiple local business and campus networks. Although there were many regional and local networks, there was only one backbone network. As mentioned in Section 2, the NSFNET has been decommissioned. In its place are multiple nationwide networks, which are similar to the NSFNET backbone network. Regional networks still aggregate their traffic and hand it off to the nationwide backbone network to which they are connected. Interexchange points (IXP) are located around the country where traffic is exchanged between national and regional ISPs. Peering agreements are used between the ISPs connected at an IXP to determine how traffic is routed. These service providers and interexchange centers are the main components of the U.S. Internet. This section will describe different elements of the Internet architecture and the different routing protocols used on today's Internet. 3. 1 INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS

62. Matrix News Book Reviews
of the reviews. NorthWestNet User Services Internet Resources Guide,by NorthWestNet, reviewed by John S. Quarterman in MN 201.
http://www.mids.org/reviews/
Selected Book Reviews from Matrix News
Reproduced here with the permission of the authors of the reviews.

63. Dev/real - Programers Resource
from FOLDOC Free Online Dictionary of Computing NorthWestNet (NWNET) Kochmer,J., and NorthWestNet, The Internet Passport NorthWestNets Guide to Our World
http://www.devreal.net/words/n/NorthWestNet.html

Programs

Documents

Newsletter

Tips/Tweaks
...
News/Forums

browse words by letter
a
b c d ... z
or search search words
from: FOLDOC Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
NorthWestNet (NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
browse words by letter a b c d ... z or search search words home programs tips,tricks,tweaks ... get involved

64. 24 Hour History For NorthWestNet
Packet loss in the last 24 hours. dbaker@neosoft.com. % Packet Loss.0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,19, 20, 21, 22, 23.
http://www.neosoft.com/internetwindow/historyhtml/192.220.250.7.html
Packet loss in the last 24 hours
dbaker@neosoft.com
% Packet Loss
NeoSoft, Inc Daniel Baker NeoSoft Internet Window

65. Lane Education Network
On 1 May we upgraded the connection from the UO campus network to NorthWestNet fromT1 to dual T1, and made this dualT1 connection available to all LEN sites.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~jqj/LEN/LEN_7-15-95.html
University of Oregon
Lane Education Network
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program
Award Number 41-40-94029
Quarterly Technical Report
Summary
The main activities of the Lane Education Network development team during this quarter of operations included establishment of an Internet connection for the metropolitan-area network connecting the partners, deployment of the public access facility in the Eugene Public Library, and continuation of several collaborations and on-line resources that depend on the availability of the network infrastructure. In addition to a general survey of the network, individual progress reports from several of the participants are attached below. URL:http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/LEN/LEN_7-15-95.html
Goals and Objectives
The Lane Education Network is a consortium of educational, governmental, health care, industry, and civic groups who are collaborating to develop innovative and effective uses of multimedia technology in education. Our goal is to develop and evaluate a wide variety of applications that use networked computers to provide life-long learning opportunities throughout our community. In pursuing this goal, we hope to both enhance the educational opportunities in our own community and to provide experience and guidance to other communities who seek to implement similar networks.
Achievements and Milestones
In the evaluation plan submitted in December, we presented the following milestones relevant to this quarter's activities:

66. J. Q. Johnson
or wide area network to include a multiprotocol campus backbone network, connectionsto national and regional networks including NorthWestNet, OSSHEnet, and
http://www.uoregon.edu/~jqj/cv.html
J. Q. Johnson
Personal
Address: 2000 University St., Eugene OR 97403.
Telephone: 541-346-1746 (work), 541-346-3485 (FAX).
Electronic mail: jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/

General: Born May 25, 1951, New York, NY. Married, 3 children.
Employment
9/94-date
Manager of Special Projects, Networking and Communication Systems, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 (while on sabbatical from the University of Oregon). I designed the Stanford FDDI backbone network, participated in design and implementation of network management systems and in a successful network management research proposal to DEC, and redesigned SUNET and BARRNET network operations. During this period I also authored and taught cisco Systems' network management course and contributed to the North-West Academic Computing Consortium's 5 year strategic plan for NorthWestNet. Manager, Computing Facilities, Computer Science Dept., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14853. Under my direction we established a significant experimental research facility, including 8 Unix minicomputers and mainframes, 160 workstations, a large network, and assorted other hardwarea factor of 30 growth in less than 3 years. I was responsible for facilities management, for a technical support staff of 8, and for management of a $3.5 million NSF CER grant. I also served as co-principal investigator of a $1.5 million Xerox University Grant Program grant, and taught CS712, Symbolic Programming, a graduate course in advanced Lisp and AI tools. I was involved in the design of a replicated NFS distributed file system, a new campus telephone system, Cornell ARPAnet and NSFnet links, and the campus network (a PROTEON PROnet backbone tieing together Ethernet, PROnet, and other local networks).

67. Network Engineering - Internet Connectivity
In 1987, a group of Universities in the northwest began the NorthWestNet projectto provide NSFNet (Internet) access for all members of the group.
http://www.net.oregonstate.edu/netbackbone/isp.html

Home

NET Services

(E-Mail, Lists, OSUETS, Flexnet)
Network Status

(Outages, Announcements)
(Modem, FTP, Router stats)
(OSU AUP, Domain Names)
NET Staff

Search NET:
Milne 213 Oregon State Univ. Corvallis, OR 97331
Network Backbone - Internet Connectivity
OSU began its association with the Internet in 1986 as a participant in the University Satellite Network (USAN) project managed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder Colorado. At that time the national backbone was NSFNet, and our connection was at 56Kb/sec. In 1987, a group of Universities in the northwest began the NorthWestNet project to provide NSFNet (Internet) access for all members of the group. OSU was a charter member of NorthWestNet. Our NorthWestNet connection was initially 56Kb/sec, but was subsequently upgraded to 1.5Mb/sec. OSU outgrew its 1.5Mb/sec connection and moved to two 1.5Mb/sec connections from MCI. We soon outgrew that also. Currently our internet connection is via NERO . This service is shared with other OSSHE institutions, State Government, and K-12. NERO provides redundant connections to the internet backbone with a total bandwidth of more than 150Mb/sec. Oregon State University Information Services Network Engineering Net Webmaster ... O.S.U.

68. RFC 2007
covered? 4. Updating information 5. Network Training Materials InternetPassport NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online . 5 The
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2007.html
Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 2007
FYI: 29
Category: Informational
J. Foster
University of Newcastle
M. Isaacs
University of Glasgow
M. Prior
connect.com.au pty ltd
October 1996 Page 1
Catalogue of Network Training Materials
Produced as a collaborative effort by the Joint IETF/TERENA(RARE) Network Training Materials - Working Group (TRAINMAT)
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
The purpose of this document is to provide a catalogue of quality Network Training Materials for use by Internet trainers in training their users. By providing such a collection of pointers to useful resources, it is hoped that trainers will be relieved of much of the load of producing current training materials.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. How the information was collected 3. What is covered? 4. Updating information ... 5. Network Training Materials Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online . 5 The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Surfing the Internet A Guide to Electronic Mail Course Notes and Exercises: Networked Information Services 1: Janet SURFnet Guide 94/95 A Cruise of the Internet Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated . . .

69. Literatura
Chester, Pennsylvania Widener University, styczeñ 1992. KochmerJ. NorthWestNet User Services Internet Resource Guide. Bellevue
http://www.biz.net.pl/iso/publ/intcomp/literat.htm
Spis tre¶ci Rozdzia³ 6 / Literatura / Dodatek. Zasoby sieci Internet Dodatek do wydania polskiego / Koniec
Literatura
Adams R., Reid B. USENET Readership Summary Report for March 1992 . Internet Society News, Reston, Virginia: Internet Society, wiosna 1992, vol. 1, nr 2, s. 40-41. Barlow J. P. Crime and Puzzlement: Desperados of the DataSphere . Whole Earth Review, Sausalito, California: POINT, jesieñ 1990, s. 45-57. Barron B. UNT's Accessing On-Line Bibliographic Databases . Denton, Texas: University of North Texas, 24 kwietnia 1992. Berners-Lee T. A Summary of the WorldWideWeb System . ConneXions: The Interoperability Report, Mountain View, California: Interop Company, lipiec 1992, vol. 6, nr 7, s. 26-27. Berners-Lee T., Cailliau R., Groff J-F., Pollermann B. World-Wide Web: The Information Universe . Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy, Westport, Connecticut: Meckler Corporation, wiosna 1992, vol. 2, nr 1, s. 52-58. Bonine J. E. Internet and Environmental Law . Internet Society News, Reston, Virginia: Internet Society, zima 1992, vol. 1, nr 1, s. 26-27. Bromberg C.

70. Untitled
1994. Osborne McGrawHill. - The Internet Passport NorthWestNet's Guide to the WorldOnline. Kochmer, Jonathan and NorthWestNet. NorthWestNet (206-562-3000).
http://bilbo.bio.purdue.edu/www-cyanosite/aqbiolist.html

71. RFC1983: Internet Users' Glossary - Annex A
NWNET, Kochmer, Jonathan, and NorthWestNet, The Internet Passport NorthWestNetsGuide to Our World Online , NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
http://www.y-adagio.com/public/standards/tr_interm_1983/rfc1983-annexa.htm
•‘®‘A@ŽQl•¶Œ£ References
BIG-LAN "BIG-LAN Frequently Asked Questions Memo", BIG-LAN DIGEST V4:I8, February 14, 1992. COMER Comer, Douglas, "Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols and Architecture", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1991. Malkin, G., A. Marine, "FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions", RFC 1325 (FYI 4), Xylogics, SRI, May 1992. HACKER "THIS IS THE JARGON FILE", Version 2.9.8, January 1992. HPCC "Grand Challenges 1993: High Performance Computing and Communications", Committee on Physical, Mathmatical and Engineering Sciences of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology. MALAMUD Malamud, Carl, "Analyzing Sun Networks", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY, 1992. NNSC "NNSC's Hypercard Tour of the Internet". LAQUEY LaQuey, Tracy, with Jeanne C. Ryer, "The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1992. NWNET Kochmer, Jonathan, and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992. Jacobsen, O., D. Lynch, "A Glossary of Networking Terms", RFC 1208, Interop, Inc., March 1991.

72. Cni-announce: CoREN And MCI Join Forces On National Information Infrastructure
CoREN is a newly formed organization founded by eight regional networks (BARRNet,CICNet, MIDnet, NEARnet, NorthWestNet, NYSERNet, SURAnet, and WestNet
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-announce/1993/0028.html
ARL EDUCAUSE C oalition for N etworked I nformation To Advance Scholarship
and Intellectual Productivity
CoREN and MCI join forces on National Information Infrastructure
Paul Evan Peters paul@cni.org
Tue, 1 Jun 93 8:11:34 EDT
paul@cni.org paul@cni.org glee@cic.net ... 0003514430@mcimail.com

73. FoRK Archive One More For Rob (Keith Also)
Host Administrator NorthWestNet Network Operations Center NWNETNOC domainmaster@NWNET.=NET (206) 685-4444. Domain Server. Record last updated on 08-Mar-97.
http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/jun98/0168.html

74. UK IPv6 Resource Centre
RIPng, IPv6 in IPv4, 128.223.222.11 6bonegw.uoregon.edu, 192.220.249.249nwnet-6bone-gw.nwnet.net, NorthWestNet, BGP4+, IPv6 in IPv4,
http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/6Bone/Whois/UO.html
UK IPv6 Resource Centre Lancaster University Computing Department
This table is generated from the new IPv6 whois registry at whois.6bone.net
Select destination site name for its registry entry.
Selecting a flag shows sites within that country.
Last updated Tue Apr 1 04:05:14 GMT 2003
ipv6-site UO origin UONET descr University of Oregon, Eugene, OR USA location 44.061241 N 123.155525 W Estimated country US - UNITED STATES prefix
Aggregatable Global Unicast Address
TLA-ID: 0x1ffe, Sub-TLA: 0x2a0 6Bone
UO
application ping 6bone-gw.uoregon.edu tunnels type source dest dest site dest prefix protocol comment IPv6 in IPv4
6bone-gw.uoregon.edu
ispy.cisco.com CISCO
IPv6 in IPv4
6bone-gw.uoregon.edu sandbox.ep.net ISI IPv6 in IPv4 6bone-gw.uoregon.edu 6bone.chicago.cic.net CICNET IPv6 in IPv4 6bone-gw.uoregon.edu ipv6.merit.edu MERIT RIPng IPv6 in IPv4 6bone-gw.uoregon.edu networks.cs.Colorado.EDU CU-BOULDER RIPng IPv6 in IPv4 6bone-gw.uoregon.edu nwnet-6bone-gw.nwnet.net NORTHWESTNET IPv6 in IPv4 6bone-gw.uoregon.edu v6-gw.sms.fi SMS IPv6 in IPv4 6bone-gw.uoregon.edu 6r1.doc.london.pipex.net

75. WWW-VRML 1994: Re: Help
The Internet Passport NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online by Jonathan Kochmerand NorthWestNet. published by NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA. 1993. 516 pp.
http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-vrml.1994/0614.html
Re: help
Neophytos Iacovou ( iacovou@arcwelder.micro.umn.edu
Fri, 23 Sep 1994 10:03:08 -0500 (CDT)
Go with a smile... writes:
Here's some general information about gopher. The software is available via
anonymous ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu.
Suggested Books
There is a chapter about Gopher in each of the suggested books. These
books are also good guides to the Internet.
"The Whole INTERNET User's Guide and Catalog"
by Ed Krol
ISBN: 1-56592-025-2.
"The Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online" by Jonathan Kochmer and NorthWestNet. published by: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA. 1993. 516 pp. ISBN: 0-9635281-0-6. Contact info: passport@nwnet.net, or (206) 562-3000 "Internet: Getting Started" by April Marine, Susan Kirkpatrick, Vivian Neou, Carol Ward published by: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1993. ISBN: 0-13-327933-2 General Information Internet Gopher distributed document search and retrieval system Microcomputer and Workstation Networks Center University of Minnesota What is internet Gopher?

76. Title: Regional Consortiums: The Northwest Experience
The regional network gradually came to be known as NorthWestNet. Asthe network evolved, NorthWestNet became heavily involved in
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cnc9732/cnc9732.html
This paper was presented at the 1997 CAUSE annual conference and is part of the conference proceedings, "The Information Profession and the Information Professional," published online by CAUSE. The paper content is the intellectual property of the author. Permission to print out copies of this paper is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for commercial advantage and the source is acknowledged. To copy or disseminate otherwise, or to republish in any form, print or electronic, requires written permission from the author and CAUSE. For further information, contact CAUSE at 303-449-4430 or send e-mail to info@cause.org Regional Consortiums: the Northwest Experience Bob Gillespie, Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC), Bellevue, WA Keiko Pitter, Willamette University and NorthWest Higher Education Academic Technologies (NWHEAT), Salem, OR Tom Aldrich, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA Abstract: In the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) and NorthWest Higher Education Academic Technologies (NWHEAT) have served valuable, but different roles and have worked with different constituents. NWACC serves a large and diverse audience of colleges and universities, and works with a formal structure, bylaws, dues, and steering committees. NWHEAT arose to serve a small group of colleges and operates informally. This session will explore how to start a consortium and the advantages and disadvantages of each model, focusing on benefits to individual members, degree of formality and structure, methods of communication, and accomplishments to date. The session will also cover efforts to tie the two groups together while maintaining their separate mission, and future plans for collaboration between the groups

77. Web-based Textbook
material. The material included cases, readings, pointers to the onlineedition of NorthWestNet's Internet Passport, and assignments.
http://www.som.uaf.edu/ffjal/papers/Dsci/DS-text.html
STUDENT REACTIONS TO A WORLD WIDE WEB-BASED TEXTBOOK:
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Lisa M. Lehman,
Assistant Professor of Information Science,
Rasmuson Library,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA,
lisal@muskox.alaska.edu John A. Lehman,
Professor of Accounting and Information Systems,
Professor of International Business
School of Management,
University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA, ffjal@aurora.alaska.edu
ABSTRACT
The paper describes the use of World Wide Web-based textbook for a required MBA course covering business information sources offered in the School of Management of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It raises theoretical questions about the which text models are most suitable for organization of such materials. Preliminary practical results are that students' reaction to the use of www-based materials is in part a function of currency, and in part a function of whether the materials were designed to take advantage of HTML, or whether they were simply translated from printed form. Preliminary theoretical results are that stream based and shallow hierarchical object based text models do not work well with the new medium. Unresolved questions revolve around which object model for hypertexts provides sufficient value to overcome the disadvantages of screen-based reading.
Subject areas:
Authors' Vitae
Lisa M. Lehman is Assistant Professor of Information Science at Rasmuson Library, the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks Alaska. Her AMLS is from the University of Michigan. She has had ten papers published, primarily on the use of technology in Information Science.

78. 6bone.mail-1996-12: RIPE-NCC Routing Registry
NorthWestNet now has a 6Bone tunnel thanks to Stephen Stuart at DEC.I'd like to add our entry to the RIPENCC 6bone Registry but
http://dict.regex.info/ipv6/6bone/6bone.mail-1996-12/0019.html
RIPE-NCC routing registry
From: Doug Junkins ( junkins@nwnet.net
Date: Fri Dec 06 1996 - 11:17:51 PST NorthWestNet now has a 6Bone tunnel thanks to Stephen Stuart at DEC. I'd
like to add our entry to the RIPE-NCC 6bone Registry but I need the group
and gpass strings for the FTP server. For those interested, here's our
entry:
site: NorthWestNet
location: Bellevue, Washington, USA
loc-string: 47 35 2n 122 8 2w 5m
prefix: 5F02:AD00:C050:0D00/64
ping: 5F02:AD00:C050:0D00:0001:0800:207F:049D
tunnel: 192.80.13.59 204.123.2.236 Digital-CA junkins@nwnet.net status: operational remarks: Sun Ultra1 running IPv6 for Solaris Release 5.0 changed: junkins@nwnet.net source: RIPE - Doug junkins@nwnet.net This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4

79. 6bone.mail-1997-04: Re: Attachment Point To 6bone
Doug. / Douglas A. Junkins Network Engineering \ / Network Engineer NorthWestNet\ \ junkins@nwnet.net Bellevue, Washington, USA / \ +1206-649-7419 /.
http://dict.regex.info/ipv6/6bone/6bone.mail-1997-04/0064.html
Re: Attachment point to 6bone
From: Doug Junkins ( junkins@nwnet.net
Date: Sat Apr 26 1997 - 10:32:48 PDT We're working with Daniel and his network adminstrator to set up a tunnel.
- Doug
junkins@nwnet.net

On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Bob Fink wrote:
dchiu@cs.ubc.ca

junkins@nwnet.net

junkins@nwnet.net

junkins@nwnet.net

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Mon Mar 31 2003 - 01:00:51 PST

80. C.W. Post Library Internet Bibliography
Reference Department Reserve. Internet Passport NorthWestNet's Guide to Our WorldOnline / Jonathan Kochmer and NorthWestNet. Bellevue, WA NorthWestNet, 1993.
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/internet.htm
Internet Bibliography Beginners' Guides
Directories

Research Methods

Web Page Design
...
Software and Technology

Originally compiled by Nancy Moore, May 1994 (last revised by Robert Delaney, February 2000)
B EGINNERS' G UIDES The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet / Peter Kent. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha Books, 1994. Reference Department Reserve Crossing the Internet Threshold : an instructional handbook / Roy Tennant; John Ober; and Anne G. Lipow. Library Solutions Press, 1993. Reference Department Reserve
Brief descriptions of various tools and resources. Intended as a workbook for Internet training. Getting online : a friendly guide for teachers, students, and parents. [Washington, D.C.? : Dept. of Education, 1997?]. Gov. ED 1.308:T 22/4/997 Internet 101 : A College Student's Guide / Alfred Glossbrenner. Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 1995. Reference Department Reserve The Internet for Dummies / John R. Levine and Carol Baroudi. IDG Books Worldwide, 1993. Reference Department Reserve
The authors suggest using this book whenever you can't figure out what to do. Sections on common Internet mistakes, shortcuts and problems. Useful, comprehensive, and amusing.

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