This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/20/92

                   User Services Working Group Minutes
                            IETF - San Diego
                   Monday, March 16th, 9:30am - 12N
                   Chair: Joyce K. Reynolds/ISI (jkrey@isi.edu)


The User-Doc2 Working Group took up about half of the USWG session in
their discussions.  They met during the USWG session as we had time
constraint problems.  User-Doc2 is chaired by Ellen Hoffman and Lenore
Jackson.  User-Doc's original bibliography was published in August of
1990.  It is sorely out of date.  This is the new revised working
group.  It has a revised charter.  Items discussed included what items
should included in the outdated document, and what items should be
deleted in revising the bibliography.

We also had a two reports, one on the RIPE meetings in Amsterdam in
January, and the FARNET meeting in February.  RIPE was originally
chartered as a technical community.  They have realized that user
services is now something very important they should focus on,
especially with East Central Europe and what is going on in Russia
right now in user service needs.  They have now just formed a User
Information Services Working Group in the RIPE community.  The FARNET
meeting focussed on, "Hardening of the Interim NREN".  FARNET meeting
participants that were at the USWG session were asked to briefly
describe the meeting in their own words.  

We also had round table discussions on how to connect to the Internet.
There are already efforts going on in producing documentation on "How
to Connect to the Internet", including ACM SIGUCCS and the SRI NISC.

ISOC has tasked the USWG to look upon ISOC Secretariat training
programs.  General consensus is that ISOC should poll the regionals,
and draw on already existing resources.  We also discussed DNS
cookbooks and other types of topics the User Services Area could do in
the future.  

Peter Deutsch volunteered to produce an "Internet Quick and Dirty"
document on descriptions of each network service with pointers on
where to obtain additional information.  Pat Smith, Cyndi Mills, Dan
Matzke, Ellen Hoffman, Anders Gilner, April Marine, Jill Foster and
Joyce Reynolds volunteered to assist Peter in writing this document.
This project will be developed within the USWG.

Included in the USWG announcements were User Services Area FYI RFC
publications since the Santa Fe IETF:

        Lang, R., and R. Wright, "A Catalog of Available X.500
        Implementations", FYI 11, RFC 1292, January 1992.
	(A product of the DISI Working Group.)

        Sitzler, D., Smith, P., and A. Marine, "Building a Network
        Information Services Infrastructure", FYI 12, RFC 1302,
        February 1992.  (A product of the NISI Working Group.)

        Weider, C., and J. Reynolds, "Executive Introduction to
        Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol", FYI 13,
        RFC 1308, March 1992.  (A product of the DISI Working Group.)

        Weider, C., Reynolds, J., and S. Heker, "Technical Overview of
        Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol", FYI 14, RFC
        1309, March 1992.  (A product of the DISI Working Group.)