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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Dana Sitzler/ University of Michigan
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- Minutes:
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- The meeting began with some general guidelines as a framework for
- thinking about creating a network information services infrastructure.
- These 'guidelines' are listed below:
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- --Think future Try not to limit our thinking to the current operations;
- think toward the NREN --Information Services=User Services Terminology
- doesn't matter; how are we going to provide the information and services
- that network users need --Not just backbone NICs Our discussions must
- account for any center providing support to users -- this includes
- organizational NICs (campus) --Users: Novice to Expert We must
- accommodate a large variance in user knowledge, experience and comfort
- with networking --Be Aware Many on-going activities are related to this
- effort such as -User Connectivity WG -Distributed File Systems -NREN
- activity -Directory Services -Database Services
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- The meeting proceeded with a review of the draft charter. The
- objectives of the charter basically address three phases: Where are we;
- How do we work together to help users; How do we do it electronically.
- The charter of the working group is provided below:
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- Once the charter was approved, the group started brainstorming
- information to complete the first objective. The first objective deals
- with the current state of information services and will serve as a base
- to build on. The topics of discussion were:
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- o what information is available now
- o how is information accessed
- o what information formats are available
- o what kinds of services are NICs offering
- o who are NICs serving
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- The group then discussed other projects on-going in the internet
- community which we need more information about. These projects include
- directory services projects, library activity, work in distributed file
- systems, etc. Assignments were made for group members to find out
- information about these various projects.
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- Action Items:
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- Draft 'where are we' paper Sitzler
- Send FARNET info gathering survey to group Roubicek
- Investigate NYSERNet Directory Services Pilot Sturteuant
- Investigate Andrew Project Moore
- Investigate NFS Sturteuant
- Investigate Mercury Project Roubicek
- Investigate PSI Z39.50 Pilot Hallgren
- Investigate ISODE Sturteuant
- Investigate Database systems (info servers) Stahl
- Investigate Remote access DB systems Carpenter
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- People investigating other projects will attempt to find out an overview
- of how the system works, how it's used, what material it will handle,
- mechanisms for access, what the user interface is like, and how
- 'exploitable' it is.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Marc-Andre Pepin pepin@crim.ca
- Glee Cady ghc@merit.edu
- Jeffrey Carpenter jjc@unix.cis.pitt.edu
- Martyne Hallgren martyne@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
- Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu
- Tracy Laquey tracy@emx.utexas.edu
- Marilyn Martin martin@cdnnet.ca
- Berlin Moore prepnet@andrew.cmu.edu
- Joyce Reynolds jkrey@venera.isi.edu
- Karen Roubicek roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net
- Pat Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Mary Stahl stahl@nisc.sri.com
- Allen Sturtevant sturtevant@ccc.nmfecc.gov
- John Wobus jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu
- Aileen Yuan aileen@gateway.mitre.org
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