User Services Area

Director(s):


   o Joyce Reynolds:  jkrey@isi.edu


Area Summary reported by Joyce Reyolds/ISI

Eight Working Groups met at the IETF in Santa Fe:

Directory Information Services Infrastructure (disi),
Chair - Christopher Weider

DISI is a Working Group that provides a forum to define user
requirements in X.500.  It is an offshoot of the OSI Directory Services
Group and is a combined effort of the User Services Area and the OSI
Integration Area of the IETF.


   o Paper 1, ``Executive Summary'' (Weider, Reynolds, Heker).  Defines
     issues DISI should be working on.  This current draft has been
     revised twice since the Atlanta IETF. It is ready for Internet
     Draft submission, and on to FYI RFC publication.
   o Paper 2, ``Survey'' (Lang, Wright).  This document will undergo one
     last modification before publication.  Additional DUAs were added
     that were inadvertently left out, as well as additional
     submissions.  This document will be reissued as an Internet Draft,
     then submitted to the RFC Editor for FYI RFC publication.


Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (iafa), Chair - Peter Deutsch and
Alan Emtage

This is a new Working Group which met for the first time in Santa Fe.
It is chartered to define a set of recommended standard procedures for
the access and administration of anonymous FTP archive sites on the
Internet.

IAFA attendees agreed on the Charter.  Discussion then focused on two
documents this group intends to produce:


   o ``Anonymous FTP Site Administrator's Guide''
   o ``Anonymous FTP User's Guide''


The contents of these two documents were discussed, as well as a
discussion on new technology issues.  Newer technology issues were
tabled for further discussion at a later date.

John Curran (BBN), Ellen Hoffman (Merit), and April Marine (SRI)
volunteered to work on the ``Anonymous FTP User's Guide'' document.

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Internet School Networking (isn), Chair - John Clement, Art St.  George,
and Connie Stout

This is a new Working Group which met for the first time in Santa Fe.
It is chartered to facilitate the connection of the United States' K-12
(Kindergarten-12th Grade) schools, public and private, to the Internet,
and school networking in general.

ISN's session gathered educators and Internet folks together.  This
meeting primarily focused on going over and refining the Charter, the
goals and projected milestones.

Network Information Services Infrastructure (nisi), Chair - April Marine
and Patricia Smith

Dana Sitzler has resigned as co-Chair of NISI. April Marine has accepted
the co-Chair position.  Patricia Smith will remain as co-Chair.

The final review of this group's Internet Draft, ``Building a Network
Information Services Infrastructure'' was discussed.  Inclusion of a
security ``verification'' section in the document has been placed and
agreed upon.

Continued discussion on where this group should go from here - there was
justification of additional action items/tasks that fall in NISI's
realm.

NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions (noctools2), Chair - Robert Enger and
Darren Kinley

Gary Malkin has resigned as co-Chair to work with Tracy LaQuey Parker on
the User-Glossary document.  Darren Kinley has accepted the co-Chair
position.  Robert Enger will remain as co-Chair.

The ``Son of NOCTools'' Working Group is updating and revising their
catalog to assist network managers in the selection and acquisition of
diagnostic and analytic tools for TCP/IP Internets.

This Group has ``one last call'' out for submissions, and is continuing
to accept additional ``vendor gathering'' for one more month.  The
document will be submitted as an Internet Draft, then on to the RFC
Editor for FYI RFC publication.

User Documentation (userdoc), Chair - Ellen Hoffman and Lenore Jackson

The Userdoc Working Group will be preparing a revised bibliography of
on-line and hard copy documents, reference materials, and training tools
addressing general networking information and how to use the Internet.
The target audience includes those individuals who provide services to
end users and end users themselves.

(See the USWG minutes below for further information on this Group's
current progress.)


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User Glossary (userglos), Chair - Gary Malkin and Tracy LaQuey Parker

Karen Roubicek has resigned as co-Chair of UserGloss.  Gary Malkin has
accepted the co-Chair position.  Tracy LaQuey Parker will remain as
co-Chair.

The Userglos Working Group met and decided on the document format and
updated goals and milestones.  A draft document will be ready for review
at the next IETF in San Diego.  A review and final draft will be
presented at the IETF in Boston.  The final document will be published
shortly after the Boston IETF.

User Services Working Group (uswg), Chair - Joyce K. Reynolds

The User Services Working Group provides a regular forum for people
interested in all user services to identify and initiate projects
designed to improve the quality of information available to end-users of
the Internet.

Agenda items included:


   o Report on the RARE WG3 meetings held in Zurich, Switzerland.
     Reported by Joyce K. Reynolds.

   o SIGUCCS draft - Presented by Martyne Hallgren.  Written by ACM
     Siguccs Networking Taskforce.  Document title - ``Connecting to the
     Internet - what connecting institutions should anticipate'',

   o Revision of Userdoc Working Group - Presented by Lenore Jackson and
     Ellen Hoffman, Userdoc co-Chairs.  Discussion focused on the
     revision of its Charter, objectives, future goals, and establishing
     procedures on updating the bibliography.

   o QUAIL - presented by Gary Malkin.  Gary Malkin and April Marine
     held a brief discussion with the uswg on the updating of the
     ``Questions and Answers for New Internet Users''.



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