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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Alan Emtage/Bunyip and Peter Deutsch/Bunyip
Minutes of the Internet Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group (IAFA)
1. The Minutes of the Boston meeting were accepted as read.
2. A draft of April Marine's IAFA User's Document was reviewed. There
was some discussion about the need for coordinating changes to this
document if IAFA were to close, which led in turn to a discussion
about whether such additional work should be done through IAFA or
returned to the Use Services Working Group. It was decided that it
was not desirable to continue IAFA if its principal work on the
IAFA documents was completed. it was agreed that if it was decided
by the end of the meeting that IAFA's primary work on the Site
Administrators' documents is done, then future editing of the User
Document should be done in the User Services Working Group at the
next IETF.
3. A final discussion was made on the two part Site Administrator's
Draft Documents. A number of minor changes were proposed,
including the need to spell out that such template items as Mailing
List support free form text, that server types can include LISTSERV
or MAILBASE and that mailing lists can be OPEN, CLOSED or PRIVATE.
It was also agreed that we should include a specific citation of
the privacy and accuracy policies RFC in these documents.
It was agreed that we should have an ``X-field'' to allow users to
add experimental fields. These could be ignored by automatic
indexing software or treated as they saw fit. It was also
suggested that we include a ``See-Also'' field.
It was also agreed that we could beef up the ``reasonable
practices'' field in the documents to include more specific
recommendations about what a new site administrator should know
about running a site. Examples suggested include:
o Use descriptive filenames on newly created files
o Don't arbitrarily change filenames copied from other sites
o Update README files regularly, to ensure users get current (and
valid) information.
Alan Emtage will coordinate making these last recommended changes
in the final draft and circulate to the list as soon as possible.
Once this is done, the two drafts will be submitted to the RFC
editor for advancement to draft status.
4. Some discussion was held about coordinating the implementation of
IAFA templates across the Internet. Volunteers were sought to help
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coordinate an ``implementation phase'' in which sites were
encouraged to install IAFA templates describing their anonymous FTP
archive's contents.
Several possible avenues for promoting the use of the IAFA
templates were suggested, including approaching the moderators of
appropriate source-distribution Usenet newsgroups, plus the
moderators of prominent archive sites, to persuade them to request
the use of IAFA templates for future submissions. In addition, it
was agreed that those involved in the implementation phase should
coordinate closely with those working on other projects or
information delivery schemes, including Gopher, TopNode and others.
Several people volunteered to help with a cataloging effort and
once the final editing copy goes to draft status a mailing list
will be set up at bunyip.com to coordinate the authoring and
caching of completed templates for the most popular packages
already on the net. Volunteers to work on this effort will be
sought both through the IAFA Working Group and throughs such
avenues as comp.archives.admin and other archive-related
newsgroups.
The following have volunteered their sites to act as repositories
for completed templates:
o Paul Holbrook (holbrook@cic.net)
o Laura Kelleher (lak@merit.edu)
o Mitra (mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us)
o Simon Spero (ses@sunsite.unc.edu)
5. New Business: The possibility for liaison work with other groups
was discussed briefly (including the new IIIR, NIR, URI Working
Groups at the IETF and the library community through such efforts
as TopNode, etc.) but it was agreed that IAFA has already
fulfilled its Charter and should leave such work to other working
groups. Given the successful completion of the Site Administration
documents, it was voted to close the Working Group after this
meeting. The mailing list and archive will continue while the
documents advance through the draft stage and the Co-Chairs will
help coordinate the implementation recommendations outlined above.
Attendees
Brian Bataille bataillebc@afotec.af.mil
Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
David Conklin conklin@jvnc.net
Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net
Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com
Alan Emtage bajan@bunyip.com
Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Jim Fullton jim_fullton@unc.edu
Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com
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Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu
J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net
Lenore Jackson jackson@nsipo.nasa.gov
Laura Kelleher lak@merit.edu
Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu
John Kunze jak@violet.berkeley.edu
Edward Levinson levinson@pica.army.mil
E. Paul Love loveep@sdsc.edu
Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com
Janet Marcisak jlm@ftp.com
Michael Mealling michael@fantasy.gatech.edu
Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us
Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net
Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
Pete Percival percival@indiana.edu
Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
Mel Pleasant pleasant@hardees.rutgers.edu
Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
Bradley Rhoades bdrhoades@mail.mmmg.com
Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
Anthony Rutkowski amr@sprint.com
Jane Smith jds@jazz.concert.net
Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
Joo Young Song jysong@ring.kotel.co.kr
Simon Spero simon_spero@unc.edu
Janet Vratny janet@apple.com
Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
Moira West mjw@cert.org
Evan Wetstone evan@rice.edu
William Yurcik yurcik@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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