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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Alan Emtage/Bunyip and Peter Deutsch/Bunyip
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- Minutes of the Internet Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group (IAFA)
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- 1. The Minutes of the Boston meeting were accepted as read.
- 2. A draft of April Marine's IAFA User's Document was reviewed. There
- was some discussion about the need for coordinating changes to this
- document if IAFA were to close, which led in turn to a discussion
- about whether such additional work should be done through IAFA or
- returned to the Use Services Working Group. It was decided that it
- was not desirable to continue IAFA if its principal work on the
- IAFA documents was completed. it was agreed that if it was decided
- by the end of the meeting that IAFA's primary work on the Site
- Administrators' documents is done, then future editing of the User
- Document should be done in the User Services Working Group at the
- next IETF.
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- 3. A final discussion was made on the two part Site Administrator's
- Draft Documents. A number of minor changes were proposed,
- including the need to spell out that such template items as Mailing
- List support free form text, that server types can include LISTSERV
- or MAILBASE and that mailing lists can be OPEN, CLOSED or PRIVATE.
- It was also agreed that we should include a specific citation of
- the privacy and accuracy policies RFC in these documents.
- It was agreed that we should have an ``X-field'' to allow users to
- add experimental fields. These could be ignored by automatic
- indexing software or treated as they saw fit. It was also
- suggested that we include a ``See-Also'' field.
- It was also agreed that we could beef up the ``reasonable
- practices'' field in the documents to include more specific
- recommendations about what a new site administrator should know
- about running a site. Examples suggested include:
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- o Use descriptive filenames on newly created files
- o Don't arbitrarily change filenames copied from other sites
- o Update README files regularly, to ensure users get current (and
- valid) information.
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- Alan Emtage will coordinate making these last recommended changes
- in the final draft and circulate to the list as soon as possible.
- Once this is done, the two drafts will be submitted to the RFC
- editor for advancement to draft status.
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- 4. Some discussion was held about coordinating the implementation of
- IAFA templates across the Internet. Volunteers were sought to help
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- coordinate an ``implementation phase'' in which sites were
- encouraged to install IAFA templates describing their anonymous FTP
- archive's contents.
- Several possible avenues for promoting the use of the IAFA
- templates were suggested, including approaching the moderators of
- appropriate source-distribution Usenet newsgroups, plus the
- moderators of prominent archive sites, to persuade them to request
- the use of IAFA templates for future submissions. In addition, it
- was agreed that those involved in the implementation phase should
- coordinate closely with those working on other projects or
- information delivery schemes, including Gopher, TopNode and others.
- Several people volunteered to help with a cataloging effort and
- once the final editing copy goes to draft status a mailing list
- will be set up at bunyip.com to coordinate the authoring and
- caching of completed templates for the most popular packages
- already on the net. Volunteers to work on this effort will be
- sought both through the IAFA Working Group and throughs such
- avenues as comp.archives.admin and other archive-related
- newsgroups.
- The following have volunteered their sites to act as repositories
- for completed templates:
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- o Paul Holbrook (holbrook@cic.net)
- o Laura Kelleher (lak@merit.edu)
- o Mitra (mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us)
- o Simon Spero (ses@sunsite.unc.edu)
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- 5. New Business: The possibility for liaison work with other groups
- was discussed briefly (including the new IIIR, NIR, URI Working
- Groups at the IETF and the library community through such efforts
- as TopNode, etc.) but it was agreed that IAFA has already
- fulfilled its Charter and should leave such work to other working
- groups. Given the successful completion of the Site Administration
- documents, it was voted to close the Working Group after this
- meeting. The mailing list and archive will continue while the
- documents advance through the draft stage and the Co-Chairs will
- help coordinate the implementation recommendations outlined above.
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- Attendees
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- Brian Bataille bataillebc@afotec.af.mil
- Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- David Conklin conklin@jvnc.net
- Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net
- Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com
- Alan Emtage bajan@bunyip.com
- Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
- Jim Fullton jim_fullton@unc.edu
- Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
- Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com
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- Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
- Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
- Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu
- J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net
- Lenore Jackson jackson@nsipo.nasa.gov
- Laura Kelleher lak@merit.edu
- Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu
- John Kunze jak@violet.berkeley.edu
- Edward Levinson levinson@pica.army.mil
- E. Paul Love loveep@sdsc.edu
- Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com
- Janet Marcisak jlm@ftp.com
- Michael Mealling michael@fantasy.gatech.edu
- Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us
- Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net
- Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
- Pete Percival percival@indiana.edu
- Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
- Mel Pleasant pleasant@hardees.rutgers.edu
- Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
- Bradley Rhoades bdrhoades@mail.mmmg.com
- Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
- Anthony Rutkowski amr@sprint.com
- Jane Smith jds@jazz.concert.net
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Joo Young Song jysong@ring.kotel.co.kr
- Simon Spero simon_spero@unc.edu
- Janet Vratny janet@apple.com
- Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
- Moira West mjw@cert.org
- Evan Wetstone evan@rice.edu
- William Yurcik yurcik@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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