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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Joan Gargano/University of California, Davis
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- Minutes of the WHOIS and Network Information Lookup Service Working
- Group (WNILS)
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- The minutes of July 13, 1993 were unanimously approved without changes.
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- Status of the WHOIS++ Architecture
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- Peter Deutsch presented several additions required to the protocol:
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- o Inclusion of MIME
- o Remove the counters for the number of responses in short responses
- o Boolean searching
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- There was some discussion on the current use of WHOIS++ for URN to URL
- conversions as part of the URI Working Group activities. Peter Deutsch
- described the use of domain name service to find a top level WHOIS++
- server for URN information. It was agreed that this work is helpful to
- the development of WHOIS++, but unless this work affects the WHOIS++
- protocol specifications, further discussions will continue within the
- other working groups.
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- Status of the Distributed WHOIS++ Model - Centroids
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- Chris Weider described changes to the document.
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- o An X-hierarchy field to provide metainformation for intelligent
- traversing of the index service has been added to provide topology,
- geographical and administrative values. Further extensions are
- needed.
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- o A mechanism has been added for weighting information for
- attributes.
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- o Identifiers at the start and end of attribute information have been
- added.
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- o There is now a way to signify any field or any value in a field in
- a centroid change report.
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- o A field has been added to designate case sensitivity of string
- values.
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- o Simon Spero described the mechanism for searching a centroid tree
- from the bottom, up.
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- o Features that are still needed include:
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- - Need pointers that get from a top level centroid to the bottom
- levels, bypassing intermediate centroids.
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- - Replication supported by the ability to pass over the entire
- contents of a centroid, rather than a subset.
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- Status of WHOIS++ Clients
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- Jim Fullton mentioned the use of WHOIS++ in support of networked
- information retrieval, and the type of client development that is
- occurring as part of other application development. He recommended that
- the description of clients focus on the work in these areas rather than
- white pages interfaces. Some discussion followed regarding the
- continuing need for WHOIS++ as a white pages service.
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- Status of Recommended Modifications to the WHOIS Protocol
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- Joan Gargano introduced that this document is available as an
- Internet-Draft and has not been modified for six months. Final
- submission as an Informational item was delayed pending stabilization of
- the architecture document. It does not appear it will require further
- modification due to protocol development. Discussion focused on the
- final status of this paper.
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- Discussion of WHOIS++ Implementations
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- The following implementations are available:
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- o Alan Emtage's implementation
- Alan Emtage bajan@bunyip.com
- FTP: ftp.ucdavis.edu: /dist/bunyip-whois++-1.0a.tar.Z
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- o DUA Interface using LDAP
- Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
- FTP: ftp.adelaide.edu.au: /pub/whois/whois++beta.tar.Z
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- o PERL and dbm
- Rickard Schoultz schoultz@sunet.se
- FTP: othello.admin.kth.se: /pub/schoultz/kth-whois++-1.1a.tar.Z
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- o PERL 4.036 on SunOS 4.1.xxx
- Martin Hamilton m.t.hamilton@lut.ac.uk
- FTP: genie.lut.ac.uk: /lut-whois++-alpha.tar.Z
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- There are a few terminal based clients available. Chris Weider offered
- to compile a list of clients and servers and post them to the ietf-wnils
- mailing list. There is still a need for graphical user interfaces to
- WHOIS++ as a directory service to provide wide scale testing.
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- Update of Goals and Milestones
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- The following goals need revision:
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- o 7/31/93 - Submit the WHOIS and Network Information Lookup Service
- Recommendations document as an Internet-Draft.
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- o 7/31/93 - Submit the WHOIS++ protocol document as an
- Internet-Draft.
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- o 7/31/93 - Submit the ``Architecture of the WHOIS++ Index Service''
- document as a revised Internet-Draft.
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- It was decided that all three of the working papers will be completed
- and submitted as Proposed Standards. Protocol work will be frozen for
- six months to allow for software development. In the meantime the
- working group will discuss the future direction of WNILS. Areas for
- discussion include:
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- o Developing a role for WHOIS++ as a directory service, potentially
- including work on data elements.
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- o Continued work on WHOIS++ as a component of other network
- information retrieval tools.
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- o Closing the working group after completion of the work on the
- current protocols.
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- Attendees
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- Farhad Anklesaria fxa@boombox.micro.umn.edu
- Jules Aronson aronson@nlm.nih.gov
- Sepideh Boroumand sepi@aol.com
- Randy Bush randy@psg.com
- Brian Capouch brian@saintjoe.edu
- C. Allan Cargille allan.cargille@cs.wisc.edu
- Hallie Carlson hallie@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
- Ann Cooper cooper@isi.edu
- Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com
- Alan Emtage bajan@bunyip.com
- Qin Fang qin_fang@unc.edu
- Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
- Jim Fullton fullton@cnidr.org
- Kevin Gamiel kgamiel@cnidr.org
- Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
- Judith Grass grass@cnri.reston.va.us
- Deborah Hamilton debbieh@internic.net
- Roland Hedberg Roland.Hedberg@rc.tudelft.nl
- Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
- Richard Huber rvh@ds.internic.net
- Byonghak Kim bhkim@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr
- Mark Kosters markk@internic.net
- John Kunze jak@violet.berkeley.edu
- Dave Livingston squirrel@vnet.net
- Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu
- April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
- Mark McCahill mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
- Michael McLay mclay@eeel.nist.gov
- Michael Mealling michael.mealling@oit.gatech.edu
- Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu
- Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
- Lars-Gunnar Olsson Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se
- Scott Paisley paisley@central.bldrdoc.gov
- Rakesh Patel rapatel@pilot.njin.net
- Pete Percival percival@indiana.edu
- Cecilia Preston cpreston@info.berkeley.edu
- Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
- Srinivas Sataluri sri@internic.net
- Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu
- Rickard Schoultz schoultz@sunet.se
- Martin Schulman schulman@smtp.sprint.com
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Simon Spero ses@unc.edu
- Margaret St. Pierre saint@wais.com
- Craig Summerhill craig@cni.org
- Anthony Valle valle@huntsville.sparta.com
- William Weems wweens@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu
- Chris Weider clw@bunyip.com
- Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov
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