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- This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/13/92
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- IETF Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (IAFA) Minutes
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- Co-Chairs: Peter Deutsch March 18, 1992
- Alan Emtage
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- 1) The Minutes of the previous meeting in Santa Fe were reviewed and
- accepted and the agenda for the current meeting was approved.
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- 2) The group considered the question of whether a User Document for
- Anonymous FTP was still needed, given the publication of several new
- user guides in recent months. The general consensus was that it was
- since there is no current Internet RFC (FYI) covering the topic.
- April Marine (april@nisc.sri.com), Ellen Hoffman (ellen@merit.edu) and
- John Curran (jcurran@nnsc.nsf.net) have agreed to continue working on
- this document.
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- 3) A detailed discussion of the Site Administrator's Document draft was
- held and its general ideas and focus approved. The following points
- were made:
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- - The additional information for the archive suggested in the
- documentation should not reside in fixed locations. While recognizing
- that this places additional burdens on the information tool designers,
- it was thought that having fixed locations for this information would
- reduce its usability. Files with special names should be able to be
- deposited at any place in the archive and be retrieved for their
- information.
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- - Some mechanism for a Time To Live (TTL) should be associated with
- the additional information being asked for in the archives to help
- control the problem of outdated information.
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- - Investigations should be made into Universal Document Serial Numbers
- and Universal Document Identifiers and contact maintained with those
- working on these in the IRTF and other IETF areas.
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- - A section should be included describing and summarizing existing
- projects which would be of use to site administrators, however care
- must be taken not endorse any specific project as "required".
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- - Contact should be made and maintained with those doing work in this
- area: OSI (X.500) and CNI projects. The OSI document "Representing
- Public Archives in the Directory" was mentioned as one source of
- information for IAFA. It was recognized that the Library community is
- also very much involved in similar work.
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- - Facilities should be included for the case where multiple logical
- archives are being maintained on one physical archive.
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- - Possibility for a "Quality of Service" index to be included in the
- additional information. Problems with this were also noted since we do
- not want to be seen to be "endorsing" specific archives, but an
- approach that rates archives as "hobby", "official regional or
- midlevel archive", "university campus-wide archive" etc. may be of use.
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- - A cross reference mechanism should be included for users to locate
- other related information.
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- - Security concerns about the current draft were raised by CERT
- representatives. It was agreed that the authors should work with CERT
- in resolving these concerns.
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- It was agreed that the authors would work to incorporate these changes
- and submit a follow-up draft to the IAFA mailing list as soon as possible.
- No new business was presented.
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- Mailing List: iafa@cc.mcgill.ca
- Administrative Contact: iafa-request@cc.mcgill.ca
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