CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Joyce Reynolds/ISI
Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG)
The meeting opened with introductions and affiliations of each of the
User Services Working Group (USWG) participants. Since this was the
first IETF outside of the United States, we had increased global
attendance from people representing countries in Scandinavia and Europe
(including Corsica), Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, and
the US.
Joyce Reynolds reported on the IETF User Services Area activities
including: working groups coming to closure and new working groups
starting up, new publications, and current user services related
Internet-Drafts postings.
Joyce also mentioned that the e-mail correspondence list for this
working group has a new home. The ``us-wg'' e-mail lists have moved
from nnsc.nsf.net. Refer to the USWG charter for the new addresses.
Joyce thanked NEARnet, and in particular, Corinne Carroll, Nina Mecht,
and Cyndi Mills for their continued assistance and support in
maintaining this e-mail list on behalf of the USWG members.
One working group completed it task and came to closure: NOCTools2
(Robert Enger, Chair).
New FYI RFC publications since the last IETF:
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| FYI 21 |RFC 1491`|`A Survey of Advanced Usages of X.500'' J|uly 1993 |
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| FYI 2 |RFC 1470`|`FYI on a Network Management Tool Catalog: J|une 1993 |
| | |Tools for Monitoring and Debugging TCP/IP | |
| | |Internets and Interconnected Devices'' | |
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| FYI 20 |RFC 1462`|`FYI on ``What is the Internet?'' M|ay 1993 |
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| FYI 19 |RFC 1463`|`FYI on Introducing the Internet---A Short M|ay 1993 |
| | |Bibliography of Introductory Internetworking | |
| | |Readings'' | |
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|_FYI_18_|RFC_1392`|`Internet_Users'_Glossary''________________J|anuary_1993_|
Current User Services Area related Internet-Draft postings include:
draft-ietf-isn-faq-00.txt
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draft-ietf-ids-pilots-00.txt
draft-ietf-iafa-howftp-00.txt
draft-ietf-ids-x500-survey-02.txt
draft-ietf-iiir-html-00.txt, ps
draft-ietf-nisi-nics-00.txt
Other User Services Area related draft postings include:
FYI 4, RFC 1325, ``FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to
Commonly asked ``New Internet User'' Questions'' has been
updated and is now under review. It may be obtained via
anonymous FTP from: naic.nasa.gov as files/fyi4-june93.txt.
April Marine led a review/discussion on the FYI RFC update; FYI 4 ``FYI
on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked ``New Internet
User'' Questions'', (Also RFC 1325), May 1992.
Bill Manning (Rice University) brought up a discussion on how to
``empower'' users to utilize and document tools. He also commented to
the group that there seems to be missing from the FYI RFC publications a
series of notes that tries to address the manners and morals of the
collective body. Another topic that may need to be worked on in this
forum is how to deal with the basics (e.g., How do ``I'' get attached?).
After some discussion by the participants, Joyce Reynolds, Jodi Chu, and
Bill volunteered to take this discussion off-line, review Bill's
comments and come back to the USWG with proposed projects.
Cyndi Mills talked briefly about the shutdown of BBN's NNSC site. The
services formerly provided by the NNSC have been transferred to a new
Network Information Services Management team, collectively known as the
InterNIC (the Internet Network Information Center). The NNSC
Info-Server has been shut down, and anonymous FTP to nnsc.nsf.net has
been discontinued.
David Sitman, EARN (European Academic and Research Network)
representative, presented a discussion and review of EARN's ``Guide to
Network Resource Tools'' in preparation for submission to the RFC Editor
for FYI RFC publication.
The ``Guide to Network Resource Tools'' is available via Listserv in
plain text and PostScript versions. Send mail to LISTSERV@EARNCC.BITNET
and include the line, GET NETTOOLS MEMO, for the plain text version, or
GET NETTOOLS PS, for the PostScript version. The guide should now be
available from ripe.net for access via FTP, gopher, WAIS and WWW (at
ftp.ripe.net, gopher.ripe.net, wais.ripe.net, etc.)
Jill Foster presented an update on RARE activities, including a report
on the RARE Information Services/User Support Working Group (ISUS)
activities. ISUS is broken down into several sub-areas: Network User
Support, Asynchronous Group Communication, and Networked Information
Retrieval and Services Liaison. ISUS Task Forces are being set up to
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cover the main tasks outlined in the workplan. This includes the
following task forces:
o User Documentation
o Document Delivery
o Networked Information Retrieval (joint RARE/IETF/CNI endeavor)
o Coordination of Networked Information Retrieval Services
o Maintenance and Gathering of Information on Networks and Networked
Resources
o UNITE ``Total Solution'' User Interface
o RARE Technical Report 1
o Training
o Publicity and Awareness (joint RARE/IETF working group)
o Support for Special Interest Communities
o Automatic Mailing List Servers
o Multimedia Information Services
Attendees
Matti Aarnio mea@nic.nordu.net
James Allard jallard@microsoft.com
Kursat Cagiltay kursat@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr
Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Henry Clark henryc@oar.net
Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com
Reinhard Doelz embnet@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Klaus Fueller klausf@osgo.ks.he.schule.de
Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
Ben Geerlings ben.geerlings@surfnet.nl
Anders Gillner awg@sunet.se
Judith Grass grass@cnri.reston.va.us
Maria Heijne maria.heijne@surfnet.nl
Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu
Nandor Horvath horvath@sztaki.hu
Per Jacobsen p.h.jacobsen@usit.uio.no
Ola Johansson ojn@tip.net
Peter Koch pk@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
John Lindsay lindsay@kingston.ac.uk
Anne Lord anne@ripe.net
Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com
Bill Manning bmanning@rice.edu
April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
Chip Matthes chip@delphi.com
Cynthia Mills cmills@bbn.com
Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net
Jun Murai jun@wide.ad.jp
Lisa Nielsen lisa@hawaii.edu
Lars-Gunnar Olsson Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se
Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
Ulla Sandberg ulla@kiera.ericsson.se
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Tibor Schonfeld tibor@qsun.att.com
Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsipo.nasa.gov
David Sitman a79vm.tau.ac.il
Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
Milan Sova sova@feld.cvut.cz
Bert Stals bert.stals@surfnet.nl
Erdal Taner erdal@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr
Fumio Teraoka tera@csl.sony.co.jp
Marc van der Noordaa noordaa@rare.nl
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