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- Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/2/92
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Pat Smith/Merit
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- Minutes of the Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group
- (NISI)
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- Thirty-Three people attended the NISI session. April Marine (co-Chair)
- was unable to attend.
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- Agenda
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- 1. nic-profiles
- 2. net-help, immediate and future
- 3. Future of NISI.
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- Nic-profiles
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- History: the nic-profiles concept was conceived at the St. Louis
- meeting in March 1991. The idea behind nic-profiles is to obtain and
- maintain key pieces of information about NICs around the world that will
- be easily accessible to all the NICs.
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- A mail server is in place to add/modify/retrieve nic-profiles
- information. Send to x500test@merit.edu and put ``help'' in the subj:
- field to receive further information.
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- This project is now an action item at the top of the NISI priority list.
- The near-term goal is to have information on as many NICs as possible by
- the March IETF.
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- Suggestions were made that we make every effort to utilize any
- collections of information that may already exist and that we try to
- approach the ``right'' people when attempting to obtain this information
- so that the request doesn't get tossed in the black hole.
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- Three volunteers, Charlotte Mooers (NNSC/BBN), Marsha Perrott (PREPnet)
- and Bill Yurcik (NASA) will work with Pat Smith (Merit) on proactive
- outreach to discover as many NICs as possible, group them in some
- logical way, and then proceed with making the contacts to interest them
- in filling out a template and submitting it to nic-profiles
- electronically.
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- Net-help
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- Current plans. Extensive discussion took place regarding how we are
- going to keep net-help as simple as possible. A sampling of
- questions/comments:
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- o Where will the information coming from?
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- o The contents of the help screen should be managed locally. Each
- site should be able to control where they send their users.
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- o How ``smart'' will net help be?
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- o What about dial-ins where the IP is dynamically assigned?
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- After discussion of these and other points, Ed Kroll volunteered to
- write an ``implementation requirements'' brief document as a starting
- point. Ed will send his draft out to the list. The plan is that we
- will hack on it at the next meeting and, hopefully, come up with
- agreed-upon written requirements which we can then use to work with the
- applications folks and work toward a feasible implementation plan.
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- The other very brief paper will summarize the nethelp plan as it stands
- now, including the screen that was agreed on at the July '92 meeting.
- Jack Hahn (SURAnet) volunteered to write this one.
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- There was some further discussion on how nethelp will be enhanced in the
- future. Future of NISI
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- Again there was a short of period of discussion regarding the future of
- NISI. The Group consensus is that NISI is needed and will continue as a
- viable Working Group.
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- Attendees
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- Steve Bucey sabucey@ns.pacbell.com
- Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu
- Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net
- Tim Dixon dixon@rare.nl
- Greg Dobrich gdobrich@nalusda.gov
- Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov
- Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
- Jack Hahn hahn@sura.net
- Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com
- Alf Hansen Alf.Hansen@delab.sintef.no
- Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
- Masaki Hirabaru hi@nic.ad.jp
- Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu
- Laura Kelleher lak@merit.edu
- Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu
- Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com
- Janet Marcisak jlm@ftp.com
- Bob McCollum bobm@nic.ddn.mil
- Michael Mealling michael@fantasy.gatech.edu
- Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us
- Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net
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- Pete Percival percival@indiana.edu
- Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
- Joseph Ramus ramus@nersc.gov
- Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
- Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
- Jane Smith jds@jazz.concert.net
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Janet Vratny janet@apple.com
- Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
- Scott Williamson scottw@nic.ddn.mil
- William Yurcik yurcik@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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