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User Services Area
Director(s):
o Joyce Reynolds: jkrey@isi.edu
Area Summary reported by Joyce Reyolds/ISI
Eight working groups in the User Services Area of the IETF met in San
Diego. Two of the eight are newly formed working groups: Internet
School Networking (ISN) and Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (IAFA).
Below is a summary of ISI's User Services IETF activities.
Directory Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (DISI)
The DISI Working Group, Chaired by Christopher Weider was established to
provide a forum for defining user requirements in X.500. It is an
offshoot of the OSI Directory Services Group and is a combined effort of
the User Services Area and the OSI Integration Area of the IETF. Three
papers were published as FYI RFCs:
o Lang, R., and R. Wright, ``A Catalog of Available X.500
Implementations'', FYI 11, RFC 1292, January 1992.
o Weider, C., and J. Reynolds, ``Executive Introduction to Directory
Services Using the X.500 Protocol'', FYI 13, RFC 1308, March 1992.
o Weider, C., Reynolds, J., and S. Heker, ``Technical Overview of
Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol'', FYI 14, RFC 1309,
March 1992.
In DISI's Charter, they had some additional documentation they wanted to
produce. There was a discussion of what other documents to write in
addition to those that are listed in the charter. There were five
different topics presented by Working Group attendees. An advanced
usages document, how to get registered, where do I belong, how to keep
your X.500 up to date, your directory up to date, a pilot project
catalogue and a DSA setup guide.
The general consensus was an ``advanced usages'' draft, a ``how to get
registered'' document and a ``where do I belong'' draft would be the
next endeavors that they would like to do. Second in priority would be
the ``pilot project catalogue'' document. Writing assignments and
volunteers were tasked to go off and create drafts before the next IETF
in Boston.
Internet Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group (IAFA)
This Group is Chaired by Peter Deutsch and Alan Emtage. This is a new
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Working Group which met for the second time in San Diego.
The IAFA Group is chartered to define a set of recommended standard
procedures for the access and administration of anonymous FTP archive
sites on the Internet.
The IAFA Working Group brought in a rough draft of a guide to FTP site
administration which had been worked on via electronic mail in the last
few months. This is what this Working Group primarily focussed on
during their session. Discussion included data formatting issues and
FTP extensions, caching, mirroring, redundancy and resources.
Internet School Networking Working Group (ISN)
The ISN Working Group is Chaired by John Clement, Art St. George, and
Connie Stout. This is also a new Working Group which met for the second
time in San Diego.
The Internet School Networking Working Group is chartered to facilitate
the connection of the United States' K-12 (Kindergarten-12th Grade)
schools, public and private, to the Internet, and school networking in
general.
ISN's session gathers educators and Internet folks together. ISN also
had a rough working draft. The draft presents multi-generic
connectivity models for schools. Their focus is primarily on IP
connectivity. ISN's document and intent is not to recommend to schools
any one model, but to present various suggestions and various models for
school systems to look at. Then the school systems can take these
models, choose one for their needs, their students' needs, and also how
much they have in their budgets to contribute to equipment and software.
Internet User Glossary Working Group (USERGLOS)
USERGlOS is Chaired by Gary Malkin and Tracy LaQuey Parker. The
USERGLOS Working Group is chartered to create an Internet specific
glossary of networking terms and acronyms for the Internet community.
A draft document was ready for review at this session. USERGLOS had a
two marathon sessions, one in the morning, and since they were going so
well, they took a break and came back from 4:00 to 6:00 and continued to
work on the glossary. This Group got an enormous amount accomplished in
one day and those participants are to be commended for their stamina!
They specifically worked on finding Internet specific terms that are
needed in this glossary and weeded out a lot of words that were not
pertinent.
Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (NISI)
This Group is exploring the requirements for common, shared
Internet-wide network information services. The goal is to develop an
understanding for what is required to implement an information services
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``infrastructure'' for the Internet. One paper was published as an FYI
RFC:
o Sitzler, D., Smith, P., and A. Marine, ``Building a Network
Information Services Infrastructure, FYI 12, RFC 1302, February
1992.
NISI's session focused on discussing what more there is to do. The NISI
chairs feel that there's a lot more that they could contribute and they
did not necessarily did not want to go dormant and come back out at a
later time. The two topics that emerged were nethelp and a list of
services. The two groups were tasked with volunteers, about five or six
in each group, that are going to discuss what they need to develop in
these two areas before the next IETF.
NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions Working Group (NOCTOOL2)
NOCTOOL2, is Chaired by Robert Enger and Darren Kinley. The ``Son of
NOCTools'' Working Group are updating and revising their catalog to
assist network managers in the selection and acquisition of diagnostic
and analytic tools for TCP/IP Internets.
The NOCTOOL2 Working Group has been a little slow in getting the entries
in. Entries are continuing to slowly arrive, but Bob and Darren are
going to push hard on final document compilation and completion for an
Internet-Draft. Bob and Darren have pledged to get a document out in
the next two months.
User Documents Revisions Working Group (USERDOC2)
USERDOC2, chaired by Ellen Hoffman and Lenore Jackson. The User-Doc
Working Group is preparing a revised bibliography of on-line and hard
copy documents, reference materials, and training tools addressing
general networking information and how to use the Internet. The target
audience includes those individuals who provide services to end users
and end users themselves.
USERDOC's original bibliography was published in August of 1990. It is
sorely out of date. This is the new revised Working Group. It has a
revised charter. They met during the User Services Working Group
session as they had time constraint problems. Items discussed included
what items should included in the outdated document, and what items
should be deleted in revising the bibliography.
User Services Working Group (USWG)
The USWG Group is Chaired by Joyce K. Reynolds. USWG provides a regular
forum for people interested in all user services to identify and
initiate projects designed to improve the quality of information
available to end-users of the Internet.
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User-Doc Working Group took up about half the session in their
discussions. We also had a two reports, one on the RIPE meetings in
Amsterdam in January, and the FARNET meeting in February. RIPE was
originally chartered as a technical community. They have realized that
user services is now something very important they should focus on,
especially with East Central Europe and what is going on in Russia right
now in user service needs. They have now just formed a User Information
Services Working Group in the RIPE community. The FARNET meeting
focussed on, ``Hardening of the Interim NREN''. FARNET meeting
participants that were at the USWG session were asked to briefly
describe the meeting in their own words. We also had round table
discussions on how to connect to the Internet. ISOC has tasked the USWG
to look upon ISOC Secretariat training programs. We also discussed DNS
cookbooks and other types of topics the User Services Area could do in
the future.
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