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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Joyce K. Reynolds/Information Sciences Institute
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- Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG)
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- Reports on IETF User Services Area activities and progress of USWG
- projects since the Toronto IETF were presented by Joyce Reynolds.
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- The USERDOC2 Working Group has closed down. Three new working groups
- have been formed: Responsible Use of the Network (RUN), Site Security
- Handbook (SSH) (SEC/USV Area effort), and Quality of Information
- Services (QUIS) (APP/USV Area and TERENA ISUS Working Group co-effort).
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- Four FYI RFC documents have been published since the Toronto IETF:
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- ___________________________________________________________________________
- || FYI 27 |RFC 1713 |``Tools for DNS debugging'' |November 1994 ||
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- || FYI 26 |RFC 1709 |``K-12 Internetworking Guidelines'' |November 1994 ||
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- || FYI 25 |RFC 1689 |``A Status Report on Networked |August 1994 ||
- || | |Information Retrieval: Tools and | ||
- || | |Groups'' (Also, RTR 13) | ||
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- || FYI 17 |RFC 1718 |``The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New |November 1994 ||
- || | |Attendees of the Internet Engineering | ||
- || | |Task Force'' | ||
- ||________|_________|______________________________________|______________||
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- Reports on International Liaison Groups were presented.
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- Network Services Conference
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- A brief report on on EARN's Network Services Conference (NSC) held in
- London, England, 28-30 November 1994 was discussed. NSC plenaries
- included World Wide Web, Publishing on the Net, and School Networking.
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- RARE + EARN = TERENA
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- Joyce announced the recent merger between RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la
- Recherche Europeenne) and EARN (European Academic Research Network).
- The new organization is called TERENA (Trans-European Research and
- Academic Networking Association). The two RARE and EARN staffs will be
- merged into one staff centrally located in Amsterdam. Assets of RARE
- and EARN will migrate to TERENA. TERENA's ``governing body'' is called
- the ``General Assembly.'' It is made up of representatives of the
- members of TERENA. The new president of TERENA is Frode Greisen (DK).
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- The TERENA ISUS meetings were held in at the end of the NSC conference
- in London. At this meeting, EARNINFO ``officially'' merged with RARE
- ISUS and these groups now operate as the TERENA ISUS Working Group.
- Jill Foster gave an overview, status update, and implications for the
- TERENA ISUS Working Group report regarding the RARE-EARN merger. The
- current, new and proposed task forces within the ISUS Working Group were
- discussed. Two new task forces in the ISUS Working Group include TIP
- (Tools for Information Providers) and QUIS (Quality of Information
- Services).
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- As a result of the RARE/EARN merger, the new TERENA Technical Committee
- will be going over the role of each of the working groups. Jill and
- Joyce both voiced that the IETF USV Area and the TERENA ISUS Working
- Group will continue to liase as they have in the past.
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- USV-TV
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- There has not been much accomplished on this subjuct since Toronto. The
- major concern when contacting sites from the technical community is the
- stress on the already overloaded bandwidth. The ``surges'' of users
- coming on to the MBone was particularly a concern.
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- Joyce is continuing to discuss with experts what we can do with USV-TV.
- Also, Mark Prior and Jill, co-chairs of the TRAINMAT Working Group, are
- exploring ideas on how to broadcast training over the net.
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- HTMLing FYI RFCs
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- Progress has been made in the HTMLing of the FYI RFC series of notes.
- Janet L. Marcisak is almost finished with her endeavors at FTP Software.
- April Marine and Carol Ward are working on some HTMLing of FYI RFCs at
- NASA. Glee Cady of NetCom voiced that her site could contribute, also.
- Establishing a central site to house these FYI RFC HTMLs is being worked
- on by Joyce.
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- There was a brief discussion about FYI RFC translations from English
- into other languages. Joyce stated that for some time now, many
- countries have been translating FYI RFCs into their native language.
- She also mentioned that the RFC Editor is keen to have folks contribute
- their translations to the RFC repositories. If interested parties
- submit their FYI RFC translations to the rfc-editor@isi.edu, the RFC
- Editor can announce their availability to the RFC repositories and the
- community.
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- USV-WEB
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- Susan Calcari presented an update and discussion on the USV-WEB that she
- and the InterNIC are assisting the USWG with. Folks who volunteered at
- the Toronto IETF to continue the USV-WEB work with Susan, April, and
- Joyce include: Sally Hambridge, Barbara Jennings, Suzanne Smith, Terry
- Kuny, David Sitman, and Jodi Chu. There was not much progress to report
- from the committee. However, Susan reported on where items currently
- stand:
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- 1. The address for the page is: http://www.internic.net/usv-web.
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- 2. The page has been improved since Toronto to be a series of links,
- the first to the brief ``About the IETF US Area,'' with a return
- arrow back to the USV-Web home page. Then all the working groups
- are listed, with a link to the CNRI page for that working group.
- There is also a link to the chart of working groups, chairs, and
- lists.
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- 3. Items suggested in Toronto which have been completed are:
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- o Menus instead of long text entry on the home page.
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- o Updated look and feel -- similar to InfoGuide homepage, with
- colored markers and return arrows.
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- o Links to CNRI pages for each working group -- the CNRI pages
- had been completed immediately before the Toronto IETF.
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- 4. Items we discussed in Toronto in addition to the basic improvements
- we have already made here, are:
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- o Add a `welcome' page or link, which tells folks more about how
- the work of the IETF User Services Working Groups affect them,
- and why they might want to participate.
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- o Add a few nice graphics.
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- o Possibly add photos and/or an audio message from Joyce.
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- Discussion with USWGers on the USV-WEB effort included a suggestion that
- the USV-WEB home page should be made up of menus, instead of long text.
- Jill suggested that USV-WEB pages should have a page of each working
- group in the USV area. This is what is being done with the TERENA ISUS
- Web efforts.
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- Susan mentioned the work that the InterNIC has been doing on their
- Starter Kit which is currently called Briefcase. This topic was
- discussed further in the NISI Working Group. (Susan's slide
- presentation in both the USWG and NISI sessions are included in these
- proceedings for further information.)
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- UserDoc2 Working Group Documents - Unfinished Business
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- Lenore Jackson led a discussion on what to do with the bibliography the
- UserDoc2 Working Group did not complete. General consensus of the USWG
- is that there is no need to keep working on an updated FYI RFC
- bibliography when there are so many high quality bibliographies now
- available on-line for the community. A suggestion was taken that a
- small document could be produced replacing the outdated FYI RFC. This
- will be an annotated replacement, with pointers to the best
- bibliographic documentation for users to consult. Joyce will work on
- this document.
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