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- User Services Working Group Minutes
- IETF - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Monday, June 24th, 1300-1500
- Chair: Joyce K. Reynolds/ISI (jkrey@isi.edu)
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-
- Joyce Reynolds opened the session by providing a brief overview of,
- "What is the USWG?". Joyce also presented a report on IETF User
- Services Area activities, which included USV Area Working Group
- Status and related USV Area I-Ds. There are currently eight active
- working groups in this area. Six working groups met at this IETF. Two
- active working groups have completed their goals and are in process of
- shutting down.
-
- The following are the current USV Area related documents in process:
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- draft-ietf-userglos-glossary2-01.txt - Approved by IESG for
- publication
- draft-ietf-trainmat-catalogue-06.txt - Approved by IESG for
- publication
- draft-ietf-ssh-handbook-03.txt
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-
- A pointer was provided on a multilingual users glossary:
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- http://wwli.com/translation/netglos/netglos.html
-
-
- David Hartland, convenor of TERENA's ISUS (Information Services
- and User Support) provided an overview and report of their meeting,
- which was held in Budapest, Hungary. Their email list is: wg-
- isus@terena.nl. David also provided a pointer for further information
- on TERENA and the ISUS meeting minutes:
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- http://www.terena.nl
-
-
- The rest of the session focussed on the future vision and strategic intent
- of the USV Area in the IETF for the next two years. The group
- concluded that it shall continue to:
-
- - liase with TERENA ISUS,
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- - update certain selected FYI RFCs,
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- - continue to provide documentation for developing
- countries, and
-
- - liase with other IETF areas.
-
- Joyce reported on the IESG retreat that was held last April. She gave a
- presentation about the USV Area to the other Area Directors and the
- IETF Chair. She spoke about the continuing need for USV to intertwine
- with other IETF areas.
-
- So far, the results are that the Applications Area Directors (Harald
- Alvestrand and Keith Moore) are very interested in continuing to work
- with USV. The two ADs will work with Joyce on new USV/APPs
- working group tasks.
-
- Allison Mankin, co-AD of IPNG and AD of Transport is very interested
- in working with the USV area. Pat Smith (Merit) volunteered to
- attend working groups in Allison's areas and to report back to Joyce on
- what could be developed between the two groups. Pat and Allison will
- also coordinate between each other on potential working group
- endeavors.
-
- The Operations and Security area directors were reminded that we
- need to continue to liase like we have in the past.
-
- The "strategic intent" issue of this area is still being worked on, and
- should be completed by the December IETF in San Jose. There was quite
- a lively discussion during the session on where to steer the area in new
- directions. There were three issues of discussion that seemed to emerge
- with the most interest.
-
- Martyne Hallgren (Cornell) started off the discussion with the USWG
- on how we could research and develop a model to describe user needs
- and behavior. Then when these descriptive models have been
- determined, seek out technical solutions, if possible, to support
- problems. Michael Hrybyk (UBC) suggested that this group may want
- to standardize and enhance trouble ticket systems, which he felt was
- sorely needed. George Munroe (UNITE) contributed his ideas of
- integrating existing tools and inspiring network users to support each
- other using the mailing list approach. This is an endeavor that George
- and his UNITE (User Network Interface to Everything) team has been
- working on within TERENA's ISUS. Also, there is keen interest by
- ISUS to develop this concept further.
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- Joyce, Martyne, Michael, George, and other interested parties will
- continue to pursue the above topics, and should have a report on
- progress for the USWG session at the next IETF in December.
-