MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (March 20, 1995) -- Netscape Communications Corporation today announced that a number of industry-leading companies and organizations
are supporting the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol for Internet security. Apple Computer, Inc., Bank of America, ConnectSoft, Delphi Internet Services Corporation,
Digital Equipment Corporation, First Data Corporation, IBM, MarketNet, MasterCard International Inc., MCI Communications Corp., Microsoft Corporation, Novell, Inc.,
Open Market, Prodigy, Silicon Graphics, Inc., StarNine, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Visa International, and Wells Fargo are among companies backing SSL.
The Postal Service plans to work with on-line service providers and software companies to integrate the service into commonly used applications, such as Lotus/ cc:Mail
and Microsoft Mail, as well as e-mail over the Internet. The services currently are being tested by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Social Security
Administration will begin a pilot program in December. Reisner said the services would be commercially available in March 1996.
This is a paper concerned with applications of the National Information Infrastructure for the management of electric power supply, distribution, and use.
The paper was prepared for inclusion in a collection of similar papers, entitled The Information Infrastructure: Reaching Society's Goals issued by the Committee on
Applications and Technologies of the Federal Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF).
This web page is concerned with RINs (Real-time Information Networks) for electric power marketing (trading). FERC (Federal Energy Resource Commission) is
responsible for regulating interstate wholesale power sales in the United States. They have proposed to create a competitive market for wholesale power.
A market leader in the development and integration of real-time power control systems for the North American electric utility industry, Cegelec ESCA was founded 15
years ago. Since then, we have set the pace for change in the industry. "ESCA" was the first to build power control systems with field-tested compatible product suites,
enabling us to change the way we and our customers plan, develop, install, and maintain energy management systems.
Please visit the Imaging and Distributed Group Home Page
Please visit the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Home Page
This work was done as part of the research program of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Information and Computing Sciences Division, Stewart Loken, Division Director (scloken@lbl.gov), Imaging and Distributed Computing Group, W.E. Johnston, Group Leader (wejohnston@lbl.gov).
Our core program is supported by the United States Department
of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Computation and Technology Research , Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division, of the U. S. Department of Energy under contract No.
DE-AC03-76SF00098 with the University of California.
This page is located at http://www-itg.lbl.gov/~johnston/EDM/FERC-NOPRA.html and was last updated Tuesday, 13-Jan-1998 20:46:41 PST.
4.0 Potentially Related Practice, Standards, and Work-in-Progress
4.1 Internet draft standards and IETF Working Groups
Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet. The IETF is a large open international community of
network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any
interested individual.
Applications Area
+ Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid)
+ Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards (drums)
+ HyperText Markup Language (html)
+ HyperText Transfer Protocol (http)
+ Integrated Directory Services (ids)
+ MIME - X.400 Gateway (mixer)
+ MIME Content-Type for SGML Documents (mimesgml)
+ Mail Extensions (mailext)
+ Notifications and Acknowledgements Requirements (notary)
+ Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail (receipt)
IP: Next Generation Area
+ Address Autoconfiguration (addrconf)
+ IPNG (ipngwg)
+ New Generation Transition (ngtrans)
Internet Area
+ DNS IXFR, Notification, and Dynamic Update (dnsind)
+ Dynamic Host Configuration (dhc)
+ IP Over AppleTalk (appleip)
+ IP Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ipatm)
+ IPv6 MIB (ipv6mib)
+ Internet Stream Protocol V2 (st2)
+ MessageWay (msgway)
+ Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions (pppext)
+ Service Location Protocol (svrloc)
Network Management Area
+ 100VG-AnyLAN MIB (vgmib)
+ AToM MIB (atommib)
+ DS1/DS3 MIB (trunkmib)
+ Data Link Switching MIB (dlswmib)
+ IEEE 802.3 Hub MIB (hubmib)
+ ISDN MIB (isdnmib)
+ Interfaces MIB (ifmib)
+ Remote Network Monitoring (rmonmib)
+ SNA DLC Services MIB (snadlc)
+ SNA NAU Services MIB (snanau)
+ SNMP Version 2 (snmpv2)
Operational Requirements Area
+ Benchmarking Methodology (bmwg)
+ CIDR Deployment (cidrd)
+ G and R for Security Incident Processing (grip)
+ Generic Internet Service Description (gisd)
+ Network Status Reports (netstat)
+ RWhois Operational Development (rwhois)
+ Routing Policy System (rps)
Routing Area
+ IP Routing for Wireless/Mobile Hosts (mobileip)
+ IS-IS for IP Internets (isis)
+ Inter-Domain Multicast Routing (idmr)
+ Inter-Domain Routing (idr)
+ Multicast Extensions to OSPF (mospf)
+ New Internet Routing and Addressing Architecture (nimrod)
+ Open Shortest Path First IGP (ospf)
+ Routing Information Protocol (rip)
+ Routing over Large Clouds (rolc)
+ Source Demand Routing (sdr)
Security Area
+ Authenticated Firewall Traversal (aft)
+ Common Authentication Technology (cat)
+ Domain Name System Security (dnssec)
+ IP Security Protocol (ipsec)
+ One Time Password Authentication (otp)
+ Privacy-Enhanced Electronic Mail (pem)
+ Trusted Network File Systems (tnfs)
+ Web Transaction Security (wts)
Transport Area
+ Audio/Video Transport (avt)
+ Integrated Services (intserv)
+ Multiparty Multimedia Session Control (mmusic)
+ ONC Remote Procedure Call (oncrpc)
+ Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (rsvp)
+ TCP Large Windows (tcplw)
User Services Area
+ Humanities and Arts (harts)
+ Internet School Networking (isn)
+ Internet User Glossary (userglos)
+ Network Training Materials (trainmat)
+ Responsible Use of the Network (run)
+ Site Security Handbook (ssh)
+ User Services (uswg)
+ Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (wnils)
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a set of protocols for conducting
highly structured inter-organization exchanges, such as for making
purchases. The working group will produce specifications for the use
of EDI standards over the Internet, with an initial focus on the
transport of EDI via Internet e-mail. The EDI community is large,
diverse and well-established. This working group effort is explicitly
NOT intending to specify or modify any of the details of EDI protocols
themselves. Instead, it will focus on the requirements for proper
carriage of EDI over the Internet, attending only to issues of
encapsulation, addressing, security and the like.
Management information is viewed as a collection of managed objects,
residing in a virtual information store, termed the Management
Information Base (MIB). Collections of related objects are defined in
MIB modules. These modules are written using a subset of OSI's Abstract
Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
The SMI is divided into three parts: module definitions, object
definitions, and, trap definitions.
(1) Module definitions are used when describing information modules.
An ASN.1 macro, MODULE-IDENTITY, is used to concisely convey the
semantics of an information module.
(2) Object definitions are used when describing managed objects. An
ASN.1 macro, OBJECT-TYPE, is used to concisely convey the syntax
and semantics of a managed object.
(3) Notification definitions are used when describing unsolicited
transmissions of management information. An ASN.1 macro,
NOTIFICATION-TYPE, is used to concisely convey the syntax and
semantics of a notification.
The Internet is becoming an increasingly commercial arena in which
information is being bought and sold and payments are rendered for
goods and services to be delivered outside of the Internet. Thus
far, the protocols and format used for such payments have been ad hoc
and proprietary.
This draft proposes a uniform application level syntax to support
such commerce. Specific specifications are given for how this syntax
fits into the World Wide Web, FTP, Telnet, and SMTP.
This memo describes a protocol for adding integrity assurance to
files that are distributed across the Internet. This protocol is
intended for the distribution of software, data, documents, and any
other file that is subject to malicious modification. The protocol
described here is intended to provide assurances of integrity and
time. A trusted third party is required.
The goal of the Web Transaction Security Working Group is to develop requirements and a specification for the provision of security services to Web transaction, e.g.,
transactions using HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP). This work will proceed in parallel to and independently of the development of non-security features in the HTTP
Working Group. The working group will prepare two documents for submission as Internet Drafts; an HTTP Security Requirements Specification, and an HTTP Security
Protocol Specification. The latter will be submitted as a Standards Track RFC.
4.2 Related Electronic Commerce Activites
WWW-based realtime stock and securities trading.
The Lombard Investment Center is designed to provide you with real-time, accurate information for the active management of your account.
Functionality includes:
CommerceNet is a not-for-profit 501c(6) mutual benefit corporation which is conducting the first large-scale market trial of
technologies and business processes to support electronic commerce via the Internet.
Information on CommerceNet
- Navigating the CommerceNet Server
Learn how to find, search, and navigate through the CommerceNet
WWW server.
- About CommerceNet
Learn about CommerceNet - what it hopes to accomplish; how it
works; how it is organized; how to reach us; and how to join.
- Participating in CommerceNet
Learn how to become a CommerceNet participant and the benefits
of being one.
- CommerceNet Information and Resources
CommerceNet resources including working group updates and pilot
projects' status.
- CommerceNet RFPs
Requests for Proposals for efforts supporting Internet-based
electronic commerce.
- Electronic Commerce Information
Information, news, and events regarding electronic commerce
- CommerceNet Examples and Demos
Visual examples and demonstrations to help you understand
CommerceNet and possible participant services.
- World-Wide Web Resources
4.3 Other Related Information
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