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Editor's Note: These minutes have not been edited.
Humanities and Arts WG (HARTS) session chaired by Janet Max.
This HARTS session focused on the final review of the Internet-Draft,
draft-ietf-harts-guide-01.txt, "Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center
Stage on the Internet". The attendees reviewed each section of the
document, and identified any gaps or omissions.
Janet Max will update this draft, with the drop deadline of May 30.
After that date, a new version will be posted as an updated I-D in the
Internet-Drafts repository. The HARTS group will have a final review
before the document is sent to the IESG for approval.
The meeting of the HARTS working group was called to order with a very
small attendance. The document on which we've been working is being
obsoleted by books and periodicals as we speak, and we have decided to
lower our expectations and get it to RFC while it can still have a
useful life. Therefore, many of the more ambitious sections are being
removed with hearty agreement from the group.
We reviewed the document, currently Internet-Draft,
draft-ietf-harts-guide-01.txt, "Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center
Stage on the Internet", section by section, identifying items to be
removed, items to be added, and volunteers. We also identified a few
major unresolved issues, which follow.
Issues which required resolution included where we could and could not
mention trademarked names in the document, where and how to discuss
viruses, what really goes in the "resources" section for this
document, and what really belongs in the glossary, if anything.
We agreed that we need some sort of glossary in this document. We
will be adding to it many terms which are not found in standard
dictionaries, due to their being very Internet specific, but it will
be kept brief, and will include a pointer to the Internet Users
Glossary document.
We agreed not to use trade names except in section 4.3 where we list
platforms and operating systems, such as Microsoft and Apple.
We found that sections 2.4 and 2.6 were somewhat redundant, and will
be moving the "sharing" part of 2.4 to 2.6 (reworded where necessary)
and changing 2.4 to simply Collaborating, while adding more about
networked projects.
We found many typos which will be fixed but need not be mentioned
here. Everyone is encouraged to send in any typos found anyway so
that we don't miss any.
Sepi has volunteered to add to sections 3.1.3 on Local Newsgroups,
3.2.1 on Webchat, and 3.2.3 on CUSEEME video-conferencing.
For section 3.3.2 I will add an explanation of why Magellan's search
hit numbers are so different from the others. (When you do a
this+that search on Magellan, it looks for all instances of This AND
all instances of That rather than the standard response of Only
documents which contain both This AND That.)
The part of Section 4 which describes a URL will be rolled into
section 1.3 where we define URLs.
The first two paragraphs of section 4.1 Getting Started, relate to
creating content and therefore belong in Section 5 Creating Content.
(We also need to have defined IETF prior to that section.) Also,
references to specific magazines will be removed and generalized,
and we will be adding an addendum providing a large listing of
generally available magazines.
In section 4.2, the IANA will be defined and its subsection delineated.
In section 4.3, reference will be made to the section on viruses.
In section 4.4, Scanners, Recorders, and Encoders will be moved to
section 5.
In section 5.2 we'll need to define and describe a Thumbnail, as well
as discussing "grain" and "pixelation" as they apply to images.
Section 5.6 Content Design Issues will focus on making your content
more available to the masses with regard to # of pixels/colors, tool
friendliness, and kid friendly content (which will also reference
Section 6).
Section 5.7 Publicizing Your Work will focus on advertizing on the net
and refer to Sally's Ad-Netiquette doc.
Section 6 Issues and Challanges needs to be written into something
that is specifically vague with many loud suggestions that people seek
more current help in this area. We will also reference all relevant
IETF documents throughout the section.
When the document is nearer to completion, we will find all words
which are still not adequately defined where used in the document, and
provide brief definitions in Section 7 Glossary, which will also point
to the User's Glossary document.
Before submitting to the RFC editor I will need to ensure that the
information provided in the Appendices is not already obsolete, and
that every instance of reference to the Internet is capitalized.
Notice will be sent to the harts list requesting assistance on missing
information with a deadline of May 31st, after which time I will be
finishing the document for submission to the RFC editor for
publication prior to the next meeting.
Having concluded the mission of the charter of this group, the Harts
working group will then close.