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  3. N-1-2-040.51  The User Services Area of the Internet Engineering Task
  4. Force (IETF) by Joyce K. Reynolds*, <jkrey@isi.edu>
  5.  
  6.  
  7. The actual projects of the User Services Area are handled by the
  8. creation of Working Groups.  There are currently eight working groups
  9. in this area.  All of them held sessions at the IETF in San Diego,
  10. California, March 16-20, 1992.  Two of the eight are newly formed
  11. working groups: Internet School Networking and Internet Anonymous FTP
  12. Archives.
  13.  
  14.              IETF User Services Area Working Groups
  15.  
  16.  
  17. Directory Information Services Infrastructure (DISI).  DISI is
  18. chartered to facilitate deployment of X.500 Directory Services on the
  19. Internet, by producing "Administrator's Guides".
  20.  
  21. Internet Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group (IAFA).  IAFA is
  22. chartered to define a set of recommended standard procedures for the
  23. access and administration of anonymous ftp archive sites on the
  24. Internet.
  25.  
  26. Internet School Networking (ISN).  ISN is chartered to facilitate the
  27. connection of the United States' K-12 (Kindergarten-12th Grade)
  28. schools, public and private, to promote school networking in general.
  29.  
  30. Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI).  NISI is exploring
  31. the requirements for common, shared Internet-wide network information
  32. services.  The goal is to develop an understanding for what is
  33. required to implement an information services "infrastructure" for the
  34. Internet.
  35.  
  36. NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions Working Group (NOCTOOL2).  "Son of
  37. NOCTools" is updating and revising their catalog to assist network
  38. managers in the selection and acquisition of diagnostic and analytic
  39. tools for TCP/IP Internets.
  40.  
  41. User Documentation (USERDOC2).  UserDoc2 is preparing a revised
  42. bibliography of on-line and hard copy documents/reference materials/
  43. training tools addressing general networking information and how to
  44. use the Internet.  (Target audience: those individuals who provide
  45. services to end users and end users themselves.)
  46.  
  47. User Glossary (USERGLOSS).  User-Gloss is chartered to create an
  48. Internet glossary of networking terms and acronyms for the Internet
  49. community.
  50.  
  51. User Services (USWG).  The User Services Working Group provides a
  52. regular forum for people interested in all user services to identify
  53. and initiate projects designed to improve the quality of information
  54. available to end-users of the Internet.
  55.  
  56.  
  57.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  58.       |    WG          Chair(s)        Mailing List              |
  59.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  60.       |                                                           |
  61.       | DISI          Chris Weider      disi@merit.edu            |
  62.       |                                                           |
  63.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  64.       |                                                           |
  65.       |    IAFA          Peter Deutsch     iafa@cc.mcgill.ca         |
  66.       |               Alan Emtage                                 |
  67.       |                                                           |
  68.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  69.       |                                                           |
  70.       |    ISN           John Clement      isn-wg@bitnic.educom.edu  |
  71.       |               Art St. George                              |
  72.       |               Connie Stout                                |
  73.       |                                                           |
  74.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  75.       |                                                           |
  76.       |    NISI          April Marine      nisi@merit.edu            |
  77.       |               Pat Smith                                   |
  78.       |                                                           |
  79.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  80.       |                                                           |
  81.       |    NOCTOOL2      Robert Enger      noctools@merit.edu        |
  82.       |               Darren Kinley                               |
  83.       |                                                           |
  84.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  85.       |                                                           |
  86.       | USERDOC2      Ellen Hoffman     userdoc@merit.edu         |
  87.       |               Lenore Jackson                              |
  88.       |                                                           |
  89.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  90.       |                                                           |
  91.       |    USERGLOSS     Gary Malkin       usergloss@xylogics.com    |
  92.       |               Tracy LaQuey Parker                         |
  93.       |                                                           |
  94.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  95.       |                                                           |
  96.       |    USWG          Joyce K. Reynolds us-wg@nnsc.nsf.net        |
  97.       |                                                           |
  98.       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
  99.  
  100.  
  101. New FYI RFCs published since the last issue:
  102.  
  103.  
  104.     FYI 14  "Technical Overview of Directory Services Using 
  105.             the X.500 Protocol", (Also RFC 1309), March 1992.
  106.  
  107.     FYI 13  "Executive Introduction to Directory Services Using 
  108.             the X.500 Protocol", (Also RFC 1308), March 1992.
  109.  
  110.     FYI 12  "Building a Network Information Services Infrastructure",
  111.             (Also RFC 1302), February 1992.
  112.  
  113.     FYI 11  "A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations", 
  114.             (Also RFC 1292), January 1992.
  115.  
  116.     FYI 10  "There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching for 
  117.             Treasure in all the Wrong Places", (Also RFC 1290),
  118.             December 1991.
  119.  
  120. Details on obtaining FYI RFCs via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by
  121. sending an EMAIL message to "rfc-info@ISI.EDU" with the message body
  122. "help: ways_to_get_rfcs".  For example:
  123.  
  124.         To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU
  125.         Subject: getting rfcs
  126.  
  127.         help: ways_to_get_rfcs
  128.  
  129.  
  130. * Member of the Technical Staff, Information Sciences Institute,
  131. University of Southern California
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