CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Dana Sitzler/Merit

NISI Minutes

Agenda


   o Review Draft Document
   o Discuss NIC Forum
   o Discuss Next Steps


The meeting began with a review of the draft document.  The goal is to
submit the document to the RFC editor prior to tne next IETF meeting in
July.  The following revisions were suggested and will be made prior to
submission:


  1. Acknowledge the need for the registration function -- but do not
     include as a NIC requirement for all NICs.  Treat as a special NIC
     function.
  2. NIC accountability information should include:

       o time stamp
       o revision number
       o if NIC produced, should indicate in doc
       o info source is optional in file -- NIC should have contact
         information but it does not necessarily have to go in the file

  3. The document should include examples of the nic@domain naming
     convention.  Examples should indicate what user can expect if:

       o there is one nic at the domain and
       o there are multiple nics at the domain

  4. The NIC forum will be open to all NIC personnel.  NIC profile
     information collected will be kept online as a resource and also
     included in the Internet Resource Guide.
  5. Document language should be revised to be more inclusive of
     international and peer network structures.  The document currently
     assumes the hierarchical structure of NSFNET. An attempt will be
     made to make such references more generic so they apply to other
     structures.
  6. The document should acknowledge the relationship between NICs and
     NOCs



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The majority of the meeting was spent discussing these document
revisions.  We also got into a lively discussion about whether this
document addressed the needs of a network information services
infrastructure.  It was acknowledged that this document is only a first
step in the process -- an attempt to start the processing of setting NIC
conventions.  We also discussed the upcoming NSFNET User Services
solicitation.

The other Agenda items were discussed briefly.  The NIC forum will be
implemented at Merit and all NICs will be encouraged to participate.
Time ran out before the group could discuss what the nisi group should
do next.  This topic will be discussed on the mailing list.

Attendees

Kathy Atnip              kathy@wugate.wustl.edu
Richard Bowles           bowles@stsci.edu
Sean Donelan             sean@dra.com
Elizabeth Feinler
Douglas Gale             dgale@note.nsf.gov
Fred Gray                fred@homer.msfc.nasa.gov
Keith Hacke              hacke@informatics.wustl.edu
Martyne Hallgren         martyne@theory.tn.cornell.edu
Ajay Kachrani            kachrani@regent.enet.dec.com
Darren Kinley            kinley@crim.ca
Tracy LaQuey Parker      tracy@utexas.edu
Ruth Lang                rlang@nisc.sri.com
Gary Malkin              gmalkin@ftp.com
Robert Morgan            morgan@jessica.stanford.edu
Joyce Reynolds           jkrey@isi.edu
Karen Roubicek           roubicek@bbn.com
Allen Sturtevant         sturtevant@ccc.nmfecc.gov
Joanie Thompson          joanie@nsipo.nasa.gov
Chris Weider             clw@merit.edu
Wengyik Yeong            yeongw@psi.com



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