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- On Line IETF Information
-
- The Internet Engineering Task Force maintains up-to-date, on-line
- information on all its activities. This information is available via
- FTP and Email file servers. Procedures for retrieving the information
- are described below.
-
- The IETF Directory
-
- Below is a list of the files available in the IETF Directory and a
- short synopsis of what each file contains.
-
- Files prefixed with a 0 contain information about upcoming meetings.
- Files prefixed with a 1 contain general information about the IETF.
- Working Group charters and minutes are in sub-directories under the
- working group acronym. Retrieve and view the 1wg-summary.txt file for
- a list of working groups and their acronym.
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- FILE NAME
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- 0tao.txt This file contains ``A Guide for New Attendees
- of the Internet Engineering Task Force'',
- RFC1391.
-
- 0mtg-agenda.txt The current Agenda for the upcoming IETF
- meeting, containing scheduled working group
- meetings, Technical Presentations and Network
- Status Reports.
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- 0mtg-at-a-glance.txt The announcement for the upcoming IETF meeting,
- containing specific information on the
- date/location of the meeting, hotel/airline
- arrangements, meeting site accommodations and
- meeting costs.
-
- 0mtg-rsvp.txt A standardized RSVP form to notify the
- Secretariat of your plans to attend the
- upcoming IETF meeting.
-
- 0mtg-sites.txt Current and future meeting dates and sites for
- IETF meetings.
-
- 1id-guidelines.txt Instructions for authors of Internet-Drafts.
-
- 1ietf-description.txt A short description of the IETF, the IESG and
- how to participate.
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- 1wg-summary.txt A listing of all current working groups, the
- working group Chairs and their email addresses,
- working group mailing list addresses, and where
- applicable, documentation produced. This file
- also contains the standard acronym for the
- working groups by which the IETF and
- Internet-Drafts Directories are keyed.
-
- 1wg-charters.txt A single file containing an abbreviated version
- of all the current working group charters.
-
-
- Working groups have individual directories dedicated to their
- particular activities. The directories contain the charters and
- meeting minutes for the group.
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- Minutes of Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions and area summaries of the
- IETF meetings are grouped into directories by meeting. The directory
- names are of the form YYmmm, i.e. 92mar for the reports of the March
- 1992 meeting. These directories do not include the minutes of the
- working group meetings.
-
- When using FTP, the ``cd'' and ``dir'' commands will permit you to
- review what working group files are available and the specific naming
- scheme to use for a successful anonymous ftp request.
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- The Internet-Drafts Directory
-
- The Internet-Drafts Directory has been installed to make available,
- for review and comment, draft documents that will be submitted
- ultimately to the IAB and the RFC Editor to be considered for
- publishing as RFC's. These documents are indexed in the file
- 1id-abstracts.txt in the Internet-Drafts Directory. Comments are
- welcome and should be addressed to the responsible person(s) whose
- name and email address are listed on the first page of the respective
- draft.
-
- FILE NAME
-
- 1id-abstracts.txt This file lists the current Internet-Drafts and
- their pathnames.
-
- 1id-index.txt This file contains an abreviated listing of
- Internet Drafts. This contains only the document
- title, the filename and the posting date.
-
- For more information on writing and installing an Internet-Draft, see
- the file 1id-guidelines in the ietf directory, ``Guidelines to Authors
- of Internet-Drafts''.
-
- The IESG Directory
-
- The IESG directory contains the minutes of IESG meetings and regularly
- updates status report on protocols in the standards track.
-
-
- FILE NAME
-
- 1protocol_actions.txt This file contains a list of protocols
- currently under consideration by the IESG.
-
- 1old_standards.txt This file contains a list of Proposed and Draft
- Standards elegible for advancement.
-
- The minutes are contained in files named with the pattern:
-
- iesg.YY-MM-DD
- i.e.
- iesg.92-11-10
-
- for the minutes of the meeting held on November 10th, 1992.
-
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- FTP Access
-
- IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites.
-
- East Coast (US) Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10)
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- West Coast (US) Address: ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22)
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- Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17)
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- Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)
-
- The Internet-Drafts on this machine are stored in Unix compressed
- form (.Z).
-
-
- To retrieve this information via FTP, establish an anonymous FTP
- connection, then Login with username ``anonymous''. Use your email
- address as the password. When logged in, change to the directory of
- your choice with one of the following commands:
-
- cd ietf
- cd internet-drafts
-
-
- Individual files can then be retrieved using the GET command:
-
- get 1wg-summary.txt
- get 822ext/822ext-charter.txt
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- Email Access
-
- Internet-Drafts are available by mail server from nisc.sri.com. To
- retreive a file mail a request:
-
- To: mail-server@nisc.sri.com
- Subject: Anything you want
-
-
- In the body put a command of the form:
- send internet-drafts/1id-abstracts.txt
- send ietf/1wg-summary.txt
- send ietf/822ext/822ext-minutes-91jul.txt
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