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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Joyce K. Reynolds/Information Sciences Institute
Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG)
A report on IETF User Services Area activities opened the USWG session
on Monday, 3 April. Joyce K. Reynolds (ISI) provided a report on the
IETF USV Area presentations at the Interop+Networld95 convention in Las
Vegas, Nevada in March and at the RIPE meetings in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands last January.
Global Liaison Group Activities
Reports on related global liaison group activities included Jill Foster
(University of Newcastle upon Tyne) providing a report on current TERENA
(Trans European Research and Education Network Association) ISUS
(Information Services and User Support) proposals and activities.
(Jill's slide presentation is included in these proceedings for further
information.) Joyce reported the RIPE's NIDUS (Network Information
Discovery and User Services) working group has shutdown as of the last
RIPE meeting. Joyce will continue to provide RIPE IETF User Services
Area liaison reports to the RIPE plenaries in the future.
INET95 ``User Track'' Conference Sessions
The INET95 ``User Track'' conference sessions have been finalized and
were presented to the USWG members. The User Track co-chairs are
Shigeki Goto (NTT) and Joyce K. Reynolds (ISI). The track sessions
include Community Networking, Museums, Enterprise Networking, Public
Health/Medicine, Progress in Networked Information Discovery and
Retrieval Technologies Panel, and User Needs/Problems. INET95 will be
meeting the week of 26 June in Honolulu, Hawaii.
USWG Projects
Progress/Discussion of USWG projects included the USV-WEB (by Debbie
Hamilton (InterNIC)). (Debbie's slide presentation is included in these
proceedings for further information.) The USV-WEB page has been moved
from the is.internic.net server to the rs.internic.net server due to the
shutdown of the Information Services side of the InterNIC at General
Atomics. Susan Calcari, Debbie Hamilton, and Mark Kosters have been
working with Joyce in setting up the USV-WEB page at its new home and
continuing to add and update it per the USWG project plans.
The HTMLing of the FYI RFC series of notes project has been completed by
Janet L. Marcisak (FTP Software). Janet provided a pointer for USWGers
to take a look at the format and provide comments:
http://www.ftp.com/home/techsup/fyi-index.html, fyi1.html - fyi26.html
The RFC Editor will provide a permanent and central home for the HTMLed
FYI RFCs, and will coordinate with Janet on moving the documents from
FTP Software to ISI.
In regards the USV-TV project, there has been no substantial progress on
this topic, but Joyce will continue to work on getting a time slot
allocated on the MBONE to experiment with broadcasting training and
getting the word out about the USV Area of the IETF over the MBONE.
Updates of FYI RFC Documents
In the last 30 minutes of the session, there was discussion on updates
of two FYI RFC documents: FYI 16, RFC 1359 (``Connecting to the
Internet: What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate'') and FYI 3,
RFC 1175 (``FYI on Where to Start: A Bibliography of Internetworking
Information''). Martyne Hallgren (Cornell), who could not attend the
Danvers IETF, was interested in USWGer's thoughts on the update and
international expansion of the information contained in FYI 16. She
also has been receiving a number of e-mail messages requesting an
updated version of this FYI RFC. The USWG attendees seemed to feel that
this would be a good idea. Joyce will contact Martyne about the
discussion of this document in the USWG session and the suggested input
on updating it.
Discussion turned to updating FYI 3. At the last meeting of the USWG in
San Jose, the general consensus of this group was that there is no need
to keep working on an updated version of this bibliography, when there
are so many high quality bibliographies now available on-line for the
community. A suggestion was taken that a small document could be
produced replacing the outdated FYI RFC. This will be an annotated
replacement, with pointers to the best bibliographic documentation for
users to consult. In following up on this decision, Joyce requested the
attendees at the Danvers IETF to provide her with candidates of
bibliographic references that could replace FYI 3.