changed, including CIA, Department of Justice, Air Force

     MCI upgrades Internet backbone adding ~13,000 ports, bringing the
     effective speed from 155Mbps to 622Mbps.

     The Internet Ad Hoc Committee announces plans to add 7 new generic
     Top Level Domains (gTLD): .firm, .store, .web, .arts, .rec, .info,
     registrars worldwide.

     A malicious cancelbot is released on USENET wiping out more than
     25,000 messages.

     The WWW browser war, fought primarily between Netscape and
     Microsoft, has rushed in a new age in software development, whereby
     new releases are made quarterly with the help of Internet users
     eager to test upcoming (beta) versions.

     Restrictions on Internet use around the world:
        - China: requires users and ISPs to register with the police
        - Germany: cuts off access to some newsgroups carried on
          Compuserve
        - Saudi Arabia: confines Internet access to universities and
          hospitals
        - Singapore: requires political and religious content providers
          to register with the state
        - New Zealand: classifies computer disks as "publications" that
          can be censored and seized
        - source: Human Rights Watch

     vBNS additions: Baylor College of Medicine, Georgia Tech, Iowa
     State Univ, Ohio State Univ, Old Dominion Univ, Univ of CA, Univ of
     CO, Univ of Chicago, Univ of IL, Univ of MN, Univ of PA, Univ of
     TX, Rice Univ

     CERT advisories: 27, reports: 2573







 
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     Country domains registered: Qatar (QA), Vientiane (LA), Djibouti
     (DJ), Niger (NE), Central African Republic (CF), Mauretania (MF),
     Oman (OM), Norfolk Island (NF), Tuvalu (TV), French Polynesia (PF),
     Syria (SY), Aruba (AW), Cambodia (KH), French Guiana (GF), Eritrea
     (ER), Cape Verde (CV), Burundi (BI), Benin (BJ) Bosnia-Hercegovina
     (BA), Andorra (AD), Guadeloupe (GP), Guernsey (GG), Isle of Man
     (IM), Jersey (JE), Lao (LA), Maldives (MV), Marshall Islands (MH),
     Mauritania (MR), Northern Mariana Islands (MP), Rwanda (RW), Togo
     (TG), Yemen (YE), Zaire (ZR)

     Technologies of the Year: Search engines, JAVA, Internet Phone
     Emerging Technologies: Virtual environments (VRML), Collaborative
     tools, Internet appliance (Network Computer)

1997
     2000th RFC: "Internet Official Protocol Standards"

     71,618 mailing lists registered at Liszt, a mailing list directory

     The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is established to
     handle administration and registration of IP numbers to the
     geographical areas currently handled by Network Solutions
     (InterNIC), starting March 1998.

     Early in the morning of 17 July, human error at Network Solutions
     causes the DNS table for .com and .net domains to become corrupted,
     making millions of systems unreachable.

     Longest hostname registered with InterNIC:
     CHALLENGER.MED.SYNAPSE.UAH.UALBERTA.CA

     101,803 Name Servers in whois database

     CERT advisories thus far: 23

     Country domains registered: Falkland Islands (FK), East Timor (TP),
     Congo (CG), Christmas Island (CX), Gambia (GM), Guinea-Bissau (GW),
     Haiti (HT), Iraq (IQ), Lybia (LY), Malawi (MW), Martinique (MQ),
     Montserrat (MS), Myanmar (MM), French Reunion Island (RE),
     Seychelles (SC), Sierra Leone (SL), Sudan (SD), Turkmenistan (TM),
     Turks and Caicos Islands (TC), British Virgin Islands (VG)

     Technologies of the Year: Push, Multicasting Emerging Technologies:
     Push, Streaming Media [:twc:]

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