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Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/27
CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Joan Gargano/UCDavis
Minutes of the Directory Resources Engineering Group BOF (DREGS)
I. Introductions
Joyce Reynolds opened the session with an overview of how this session
was initiated. A notice was recently posted that the whois protocol has
been accepted as an Internet Standard. This prompted Russ Hobby, Area
Director for Applications, to ask the Internet community for examples of
working whois services. A list of about 80 servers was generated.
Staff at the University of California, Davis looked at each of these
servers and produced a working paper describing valuable new features
found in these servers and additions to the protocol that would enhance
its usefulness.
II. Review of Current Whois Servers
A brief review of current whois servers and valuable features was
presented, based upon the discussion paper. Topics included:
o Hostnames used for whois service for a domain
o Review of information content
o Review of information display
o Review of help responses
o Definition of desired information content
- People
- Machines
- Domains
- Services
III. Review/Discussion of Draft Working Group Charter
A lengthy discussion followed regarding the role of the whois Working
Group in relation to the X.500 Directory Services Working Group.
Several members of the Group felt no further work on the whois protocol
should be done as it would detract from work on the X.500 Directory
Service. In rebuttal, several members of the Group felt there was a
role for whois, especially since there are many working servers, and
this effort would add value to an existing standard protocol. It was
argued that it was consistent with IETF philosophy to allow the
development of more than one protocol to perform similar services and to
let the Internet community choose which one to use.
Joyce Reynolds brought the focus of the Group back to the issue of the
Working Group Gharter and how the whois work would proceed. Members of
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the Group originally objecting to continued work on whois, agreed with
the Charter presented at the meeting if ``Directory Services'' was
removed from the Working Group name. The Working Group name was changed
to ``Whois and Network Information Lookup Services'' and the Charter was
approved for forwarding to the User Services Area.
Attendees
George Brett ghb@jazz.concert.net
Cyrus Chow cchow@orion.arc.nasa.gov
Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Curtis Cox ccox@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil
Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgill.ca
Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Cliff Frost cliff@cmsa.berkeley.edu
Maria Gallagher maria@nsipo.nasa.gov
Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org
Arlene Getchell getchell@nersc.gov
Steve Hardcastle-Kille s.kille@isode.com
Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu
Tim Howes Tim.Howes@umich.edu.
Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr
Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu
Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com
April Marine april@nisc.sri.com
Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
Eric Nowak nowak@ans.net
Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
Sheri Repucci smr@merit.edu
Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com
Srinivas Sataluri sri@qsun.att.com
Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu
Jane Smith jds@jazz.concert.net
Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu
Marten Terpstra terpstra@ripe.net
Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
Moira West mjw@cert.org
Scott Williamson scottw@nic.ddn.mil
Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com
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