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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Dana Sitzler/Merit
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- NISI Minutes
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- Agenda
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- o Review Activities
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- - Draft document available
- - NSF nic solicitation
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- o Review Draft
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- - Security issues
- - Information obligations
- - Other issues
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- o Implementing Doc Suggestions
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- - Standard address (nic@domain)
- - Info validity suggestions
- - Nic-forum
- - Nic profiles
- - Discussion list
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- o What's Next
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- - Publish and disband
- - Continue?
- * X.500
- * Archives
- * User interface recommendations
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- Discussion:
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- 1. Review Activities
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- A document from this Working Group has been submitted as an Internet
- Draft. The draft document was used by NSF as one of the `inputs' in
- preparing the NSFNET NIC solicitation.
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- 2. Review Draft
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- The Working Group reviewed the draft document. We focused on the areas
- of where internet community members expressed concern either via email
- (as a result of the draft being available as a i-d) or in person during
- the Working Group. The following list outlines the group consensus
- which will be incorporated into the document.
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- 2.1 Security Issues
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- There were some concerns expressed by the security area about the proper
- role for NICs in this area. The Working Group came up with a list of
- functions which it felt a NIC should deal with. This list will be
- shared with the Security Area Director and some agreement reached before
- these changes will be made in the document.
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- To deal with security issues, a NIC:
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- o Should be aware of security-related information/Educate users about
- security issues.
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- o Should be aware of security advisories.
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- o May serve as the first point of contact for an end-user and should
- know how to refer/escalate, etc.
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- o Should provide `new' users with information about security such as
- referring to the Site Security HB.
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- o Should establish procedures for dealing with security `emergencies'
- through coordination with NOCs.
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- o Can provide pointers to `security' software such as PC virus
- disinfectant sw.
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- o Should be aware of and refer users (if appropriate) to security
- organizations such as CERT.
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- 2.2 Personal/Organizational Information
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- The Working Group discussed the responsibilities and obligations of a
- NIC in providing personal or organizational information to the general
- public. We had a rather long and interesting discussion of this topic.
- We talked about the need to differentiate between different types of
- information, privacy issues, the expense involved with information
- collection and verification, and the trade-offs of having the info vs.
- having `correct' info.
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- In terms of dealing with personal or organizational information, we
- decided to provide a mechanism to inform the information provider about
- what info is needed, what it will be used for, and if it will be made
- widely available. Here's what we came up with:
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- o When collecting personal/organizational information, NICs should
- provide a form which includes a `disclosure statement'.
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- o The `disclosure statement' should include:
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- - What information is needed?
- - What it will be used for?
- - The consequences of supplying the information?
- - How widely available (and which info; some pieces may be made
- more widely available than other pieces?
- * Procedure for updating/correcting/disputing.
- * Frequency of update.
- * How to return the form (receipt of form w/requested
- information would be considered an acknowledgement that the
- info supplier agrees to the terms stated in the `disclosure
- statement'.
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- o NICs should have a defined mechanism in place to update information
- collected @ some time frame.
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- o The date of last update/verification should be included with the
- information made available to others in the network community.
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- o NICs should understand and respect `levels of security' for
- information -- if info should not be widely available to the
- public, steps should be taken to make sure that the info is not
- accessible by anyone.
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- 2.3 Other Issues:
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- o NICs have different audiences -- emphasize in document the idea of
- working with other NICs (in terms of referring to another NIC if
- appropriate) and strengthen the idea of a `primary' audience for a
- NIC which may have been funded by a specific group for a specific
- purpose
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- o Increase examples in section outlining current NIC services. For
- example, examples of archives, a specific online service, etc.
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- o Some discussion of recommending in document a common address for
- NIC ftp servers -- lots of discussion here; no real consensus --
- folks with strong opinions about this may want to lobby to continue
- this discussion until some agreement can be made.
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- o Need to add section numbers.
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- o Shorten history section - does not add to document.
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- 3 Implementing Draft Suggestions
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- 3.1 Standard Email Address
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- The group had no problem with this recommendation. It was stressed that
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- NIC people involved with this Working Group have to start the process of
- implementing this -- and informing users about it.
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- 3.2 Info Validity Check Info
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- Much of this discussion was covered in the previous section dealing with
- personal/organizational information. The basic suggestion to have all
- information include a contact (which may be the NIC) and some indication
- of the last verification
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- 3.3 nic-forum
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- The group discussed the two components of the nic forum; the nic
- profiles and the discussion list. The nic profile information sheet was
- discussed and it was recommended that this sheet be made more `user
- friendly!'. At present the profile sheet reflects the naming
- conventions necessary for X.500 but not the ones common to all of us
- human creatures. The profile sheet will be changed.
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- There was quite a bit of discussion about the discussion list aspect of
- the nic forum. Who is the audience? Is it an open list? Should it be
- moderated? Etc. A consensus was not reached on these issues. This
- meeting was the first time the actual implementation of this suggestion
- was discussed. The group agreed to continue discussion on the NISI
- mailing list.
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- 4 What's Next?
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- The group discussed the possibilities for the next step for NISI. The
- following ideas were generated:
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- o Explore privacy issues.
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- o Develop an international profile database
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- o Develop an appropriate use document which addresses issues like
- privacy, how to use services, starting `unsolicited stuff', etc.
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- o Define mechanisms for the exchange of information between groups
- such as nics and nocs.
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- o Access mechanisms; X.500, Z.39.50.
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- o Define requirements for user interface.
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- o Archive
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- o New user nethelp system - start nethelp pilot.
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- o Expand ideas presented in existing document including how nics and
- nocs interact; maintaining referral information; defining core
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- information at nic.
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- The general consensus was that the last item on this list was probably
- an appropriate next step.
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- 5 ACTIONS
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- o Update document.
- o Review RARE Working Group profile.
- o Discuss and agree to nic profile info and form (Sept).
- o Discuss with USWG Chair -- NISI next step (given list above).
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- Attendees
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- James Conklin conklin@bitnic.educom.edu
- John Curran jcurran@bbn.com
- Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgillica
- Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
- Maria Gallagher maria@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
- Arlene Getchell getchell@nersc.gov
- Joe Godsil jgodsil@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Jack Hahn hahn@sura.net
- Martyne Hallgren martyne@theory.tn.cornell.edu
- Ittai Hershman ittai@nis.ans.net
- Ellen Hoffman esh@merit.edu
- J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net
- Darren Kinley kinley@crim.ca
- Christopher Kolb kolb@psi.com
- Dale Land land@lanl.gov
- Ruth Lang rlang@nisc.sri.com
- Brian Lev lev@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Peter Liebscher plieb@sura.net
- Daniel Long long@nic.near.net
- April Marine april@nisc.sri.com
- Karen McKelvey karen@cerf.net
- Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu
- Marsha Perrott mlp@andrew.cmu.edu
- Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
- Timothy Salo tjs@msc.edu
- Tom Sandoski tom@concert.net
- Dana Sitzler dds@merit.edu
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Ronald Tencati tencati@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Theodore Tso tytso@mit.edu
- Rudiger Volk rv@informatik.uni-dortmund.de
- Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
- Wengyik Yeong yeongw@psi.com
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