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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by April Marine/NASA NAIC
Minutes of the Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group
(NISI)
Introductions
Taking advantage of our first meeting in Europe, we took some time to
introduce ourselves. The chairs were very happy that the group included
so many new faces. In fact, the whole meeting benefited from the new
perspectives brought by our European and other non-American
participants.
Document Discussions
NISI had one Internet-Draft and one document proposal to discuss, and
these discussions took up the bulk of the meeting.
o ``Current NIC Interrelationships''
The current Internet-Draft aims to capture how the many different
types of NICs currently interrelate. A draft drawing that breezed
by the earlier discussion in Columbus, Ohio, brought forth much
more discussion in Amsterdam. It was finally decided to modify the
draft in a couple of ways. First, the one ``generic'' picture
currently included will be scrapped in favor of at least three
pictures depicting actual examples, each representing a different
region, e.g. Europe, the US, and the Pacific Rim. Other areas are
welcome, but were not initially discussed. Plus, a deeper
discussion of the various roles different organizations acting as
NICs play will be included. Other minor editorial suggestions were
also made.
o Paper on Coordinating Handoff of User Problems Between NICs
The next document proposed was for recommendations regarding how to
coordinate interaction between NICs when a user query requires the
services of more than one organization. This also engendered an
interesting discussion, with some feeling that as the net becomes
more commercialized, ``customer service'' segments of it will
interact less and less. So, it was agreed that the thrust of the
document would be toward making recommendations as to how NICs
would interact with each other i.e., leave the NIC-to-end-user
interaction to each NIC. NICs would be encouraged to follow such
recommendations as they choose. NISI recognizes that we can't tell
the NICs what to do, only make suggestions.
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Other Items
Pat announced that the NIC profile information is now available via
gopher. While it is now much easier to view the NIC information, we
need to consider other means of keeping the information current. Pat
will talk further with the InterNIC about this. Pushpendra Mohta of the
InterNIC agreed to follow up with Pat.
A suggestion was made to have a mailing list where NIC people could
exchange e-mail on various problems. We have such a list, called
nic-forum@merit.edu. We decided to try to jump-start discussion on the
list. In addition, perhaps the InterNIC could mention the mailing list
at their ``NIC Fest'' coming up.
The problem of getting people to register IN-ADDR information once they
have a net number assigned was mentioned. Ellen Hoffman said that some
discussion of that could fit into the ``How to Connect'' document that
the USERDOC2 Working Group will be working on.
Wrap Up
The meeting concluded with the chairs promising to solicit input,
especially drawings of NIC relationships, from the attendees.
Attendees
Matti Aarnio mea@nic.nordu.net
Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Henry Clark henryc@oar.net
David Conrad davidc@iij.ad.jp
Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Osten Franberg euaokf@eua.ericsson.se
Ben Geerlings ben.geerlings@surfnet.nl
Marcel Graf graf%dhdibm1.bitnet@vm.gmd.de
Maria Heijne maria.heijne@surfnet.nl
Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu
Per Jacobsen p.h.jacobsen@usit.uio.no
Xander Jansen xander.jansen@surfnet.nl
Brewster Kahle Brewster@wais.com
Lothar Klein lothar.klein@gmd.de
Steen Linden steen.linden@uni-c.dk
John Lindsay lindsay@kingston.ac.uk
Anne Lord anne@ripe.net
Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com
April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
Brian May Brian.May@mel.dit.csiro.au
Peter Merdian merdian@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net
Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
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Juergen Rauschenbach jrau@dfn.de
Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
Ulla Sandberg ulla@kiera.ericsson.se
Srinivas Sataluri sri@internic.net
Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsipo.nasa.gov
Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
Marc van der Noordaa noordaa@rare.nl
Ruediger Volk rv@informatik.uni-dortmund.de
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