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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Jennifer Sellers/NASA NREN
Minutes of the Internet School Networking Working Group (ISN)
These minutes are based on notes taken by Jodi Chu during the meeting.
Agenda
The meeting agenda was approved as follows:
o AUP Document Status
o Stages of Connectivity Document Status
o K-12 Internetworking Guidelines Document Status
o Connection Provider Document Status
o K-12 Directory Database
o Future Direction of ISN
o Any Other Business
Because of time limits of some of the document authors, the chair did
not adhere to the order of the agenda.
``K-12 Internetworking Guidelines''
The document entitled ``K-12 Internetworking Guide'' by Joan Gargano and
David Wasley can be found in the IETF repositories (ds.internic.net,
etc.) as internet-drafts/draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide.01.txt and
internet-drafts/draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide.01.ps. Consensus was reached
at the Seattle meeting in March that the document is good as it stands.
Since there were no objections to any of the changes made in the
interim, it will be submitted for FYI/RFC status. It was also noted
that the California Department of Education guide, upon which this
shorter document is based, is located at goldmine.cde.ca.gov.
``Acceptable Use Policy Definition''
A short document by Bill Manning on creating an Acceptable Use Policy
can be found in the IETF repositories as
internet-drafts/isn/draft-ietf-isn-aup.01.txt. The author indicated
that after the document went out for an IESG Last Call, some
modifications might be needed. Options were to define the target
audience as the educational community and leave the CoVis AUP in as a
sample in the appendix, or to define the target audience as a more
general one and leave out the CoVis example as well as publish the
document in a different working group. The decision was to leave in the
CoVis example and sent the document up for FYI/RFC status from the ISN
Working Group.
``Stages of Connectivity for Schools''
A document entitled ``Stages of Connectivity for Schools'' by Bob
Carlitz and Gene Hastings was discussed. The authors have been asked if
they would be willing to publish the document as an FYI/RFC, and the
group is waiting to hear their decision. If this document is not
published as an FYI/RFC memo, ISN will refer to the document and will
not write another to satisfy the milestone which it was to fulfill.
The K-12 Directory Database Project
April Marine led a discussion of the K-12 Directory Database project.
She began by reminding the group that this was a White Pages type of
project to collect contact and other information (name, address, e-mail,
subject taught, age of students, etc.) on educators and educational
projects who use the Internet. Whatever system is used needs to be low
maintenance, as automated as possible, and must address issues of
privacy. The work of ISN was to define the requirements for
implementation then advocate for a group in the Internet community to
develop the database system, make the database available, and maintain
it.
Since Seattle, a group of ISNers has defined the fields of information
that should be included in such a database. CNIDR is doing some work in
the area of WHOIS++ and volunteered in Seattle to create an initial,
centralized database and begin seeding the effort, with the idea that it
will eventually need to be distributed over more than one server. CREN
volunteered to do basically the same thing using X.500 as the
implementation. InterNIC Directory Services said at the Seattle meeting
that they would be willing to assist with initially setting up an X.500
server of less than 50 entries, a standing offer to the Internet
community, and assist others in setting up and maintaining their own
servers. Susan Calcari, InterNIC Information Services, will check on
and report to the list the status of the three efforts and what exactly
each provider is willing to do. We also need to identify if the
Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) is able to do anything towards
maintenance of the database or any other aspect of the effort. It was
noted that it may be possible to submit an unsolicited proposal to NSF
for funding to support this effort. The group agreed that the document
expected to satisfy the milestone created for this effort would be one
that discusses the database and tells people how to access it, use it,
and enter their information into it, and that this can only be written
when an initial implementation is complete.
The milestone to write a document on connecting educational sites
directed at connection providers was modified to state that the goal
will be not a document but an electronic repository of existing useful
documents.
Future Direction of ISN and Any Other Business
In discussing the future of ISN, the general consensus of the group was
that the working group should continue. ISN is a valuable forum to
discuss K-12 connectivity problems/issues and to interact with the
engineering community. The following were identified as potential
projects: to assist with the creation of an information clearinghouse
of K-12 Internet education projects; at meetings, allow time for
tutorials on the various projects represented; assist with the creation
of Web pages for K-12 projects, developing a template for consistent
look and information of the pages; and assist with dissemination of
provider and vendor information that has an educational focus, with
providers maintaining their own information. As a side note, an
educator hired by NASA is collecting information on special connectivity
deals available to educators. If anyone in the IETF community has a
special connectivity program for educators, please send e-mail to
fuzzy@quest.arc.nasa.gov.
The NASA NAIC's guide can be used as a model for information delivery.
The guide was produced for the NASA Science Internet community to assist
them with answering the ``now what do I do once I'm connected?''
question. The guide can be accessed via the WorldWide Web; the URL is
http://naic.nasa.gov/naic/guide.
For those new to the K-12 community, it was suggested that they
subscribe to the Consortium for School Networking discussion list
(listproc@yukon.cren.org, subject cosndisc) as well as to the ISN list.
By the next meeting (in December in San Jose, California), the group
should set up the template for the directory database, define the
process for information collection, draft a Web page to begin the
clearinghouse project, delineate and begin next steps in setting up the
clearinghouse, and set up the Web-accessible repository to take the
place of the connection provider document. The chair will submit a
revised charter to reflect the latest progress.