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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Tracy LaQuey
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- AGENDA
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- 1. Review Charter, Objectives, Timeframe
- 2. Review last meeting's action items
- 3. Review draft and make comments
- 4. Discuss RFC situation
- 5. Discuss review process, researching for entries
- 6. Discuss format
- 7. Determine what's next, for example, distribution and updating
- 8. Determine action items for the next meeting
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- MINUTES
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- The meeting began with a review of the charter of the USER-DOC Working
- Group. To summarize, the purpose of the group is to prepare a
- bibliography of online and hardcopy documents, reference materials, and
- training tools addressing general networking information and ``how to
- use the Internet''. End users and people who help end users are the
- targeted audience. The group has been collecting documents since the
- first USWG meeting in Texas and have described some broad categories to
- cover. It was decided at the IETF meeting at Stanford to have a rough
- draft ready by this meeting.
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- Last meeting's action items were reviewed. They were:
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- o Write up and pass out questionnaire at Plenary Session: Enger,
- Roubicek, Bowers
- This questionnaire was written up and passed out at the
- Stanford meeting.
- o Develop Template (LaQuey, Marine, Redfield, Roubicek)
- Karen Roubicek made up a template which was reviewed by the
- mailing list. She then sent it out to several mailing
- lists and USENET groups.
- o Define set of key RFCs (Reynolds)
- Joyce Reynolds put together a ``Basic Beige'' list of
- RFC's.
- o Research Andrew system and Federal databases (Breeden)
- o Find information SOCRATES project (Breeden)
- Laura Breeden did not attend this meeting, so we heard no
- report on these two items.
- o Choose set of mailing lists (Roubicek, Bowers)
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- Mailing lists, groups, newsletters and other methods of
- distribution were discussed at the Stanford meeting by a
- full meeting of the User Services group.
- o Liaison with library community (Roubicek)
- Since we don't really have a final draft, we are waiting
- before we do this.
- o Schedule distribution meeting (Bowers)
- A joint meeting with the NOCTOOLS WG chaired by Martyne was
- held at Stanford.
- o Write article about bibliography for ConneXions soliciting info
- (Perillo)
- We did not write an article between the Stanford and Hawaii
- meeting, but Ole has us scheduled for helping him with an
- article for the December ConneXions issue.
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- The rough draft in reference format was passed out to all members
- attending and the entries and categories were discussed. It was
- suggested that we include an entry that describes the format of online
- documents (ASCII, PostScript, etc.) The following categories were
- discussed and added to the scope of the bibliography: Glossaries,
- Marketing Materials, Pointers to NICs, Pointers to Maps (this was
- actually added at the last meeting but no entries were put into the
- rough draft), and pointers to bulletins (like DDN Security and CERT).
- The marketing materials will help those users who need to show the value
- of networks, and procedures for getting connected. Some specific
- suggestions were made for additional entries (the ACM article on
- security and ethics, FRICC documents - OSTP report and online Gore Bill,
- NREN document). Elizabeth Redfield had sent a suggestion that OSI
- documents be included, so we decided to include general documents on OSI
- protocols and tutorials. It was decided that we should also add an
- introduction and short explanations on networks.
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- Tracy presented a sample format for the bibliography - using keywords to
- group similar documents. Dave Crocker pointed out the annoyance of
- having to flip back and forth from an index to the body of the text. He
- suggested using more detailed key information that will give a better
- idea of what the documents are about.
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- Tracy passed out a letter sent by Elizabeth Redfield concerning some
- bibliographic issues and additional fields. We decided that the format
- board would review this message and report on it at the next meeting.
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- Inclusion of RFCs was discussed. We don't want to have any political
- problems with including certain RFCs and excluding others. Joyce
- Reynolds is going to get some feedback from Jon Postel and Vint Cerf
- about her ``Basic Beige RFCs'' list. It was decided to go ahead and
- include this list, though.
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- Since a lot of entries are incomplete and questionable, we decided that
- our editorial and research boards should go over all of the entries.
- The editorial board will decide if an entry should be included while the
- research board will work on incomplete entries. The chair of the
- editorial board is Karen Bowers. Members include Tracy LaQuey, Francine
- Perillo, Joyce Reynolds, April Marine and Jon Pugh. The Research
- committee now includes the NIC, Jon Pugh, Martyne Hallgren, Dana
- Sitzler, Karen Roubicek, Tracy LaQuey and Roxanne Streeter.Since the
- format of the final bibliography is still not decided, several members
- decided to discuss those issues. The ``Formatting Board'' is Karen B.
- and Mary Stahl, with help from Dana Sitzer, Karen R. and Laura Breeden.
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- We will update the bibliography annually. If the group is not actively
- in session with the IETF, then we will reconvene for some period of
- time. The draft is still located and available via anonymous ftp on
- emx.utexas.edu in the directory ``user.wg'', file ``bibliography''.
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- The following action items were assigned:
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- o Karen Bowers will schedule a videoteleconference for the Editorial
- Board the week of November 13. The board will look over the
- existing draft and make changes.
- o Joyce Reynolds is proposing an F.Y.I. series of notes, allied to
- the RFC's, but providing information about who does what on the
- Internet. (For example, Joyce thought that the bibliography would
- be a good F.Y.I. document.)
- o We will have a final rough draft sent out electronically by January
- 16. We will schedule a full day (preferably the first day of the
- next IETF meeting in Florida) to go over it.
- o The Research Board will find more documents and complete existing
- entries.
- o The Format Board will review Elizabeth Redfield's bibliographic
- suggestions.
- o We will follow up existing connections in the Library community.
- o Ole, Tracy and Joyce will work on an article for ConneXions.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Armstrong, Karen
- Bowers, Karen
- Choy, Joseph H.
- Crocker, Dave
- Enger, Robert M.
- Hallgren, Martyne M.
- Jacobsen, Ole
- LaQuey, Tracy L.
- Moore, Berlin
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- Reynolds, Joyce K.
- Roubicek, Karen
- Sitzler, Dana
- Stahl, Mary
- Streeter, Roxanne
- Wintringham, Dan
- Yuan, Aileen
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