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- User Services Area
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- Director(s):
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- o Joyce Reynolds: jkrey@isi.edu
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- Area Summary reported by Joyce Reyolds/ISI
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- Three new Working Groups met at the IETF in St. Louis:
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- o Directory Information Services (pilot) Infrastructure Working Group
- (DISI), Chaired by Chris Weider.
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- o Internet User Glossary Working Group (userglos) Chaired by Karen
- Roubicek and Tracy LaQuey Parker
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- o NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions Working Group (noctool2) Chaired by
- Robert Enger and Gary Malkin
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- Working Group Reports
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- DISI - Chaired by Chris Weider
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- DISI is chartered to facilitate the deployment in the Internet of
- Directory Services based on implementations of the X.500 standards. It
- will facilitate this deployment by producing informational RFCs intended
- to serve as a Directory Services ``Administrator's Guide''. These RFCs
- will relate the current usage and scope of the X.500 standard and
- Directory Services in North America and the world, and will contain
- information on the procurement, installation, and operation of various
- implementations of the X.500 standard. As the various implementations
- of the X.500 standard work equally well over TCP/IP and CLNP, the DISI
- working group shall not mandate specific implementations or transport
- protocols.
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- DISI is an offshoot of the OSI Directory Services group and is a
- combined effort of the User Services Area and the OSI Integration Area
- of the IETF.
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- NISI - Chaired by Dana Sitzler and Patricia Smith
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- The ``Building a Network Information Services Infrastructure'' draft
- document was expanded to more accurately define and describe a NIC, with
- the ultimate goal intended to make it easier for users to get
- information from NICs. The current Working Group draft was gone over
- with the NISI members, with the intent to install it as an
- Internet-Draft after the St. Louis IETF.
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- NOCTOOL2 - Chaired by Robert Enger and Gary Malkin
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- A new Charter is in place. The ``Son of NOCTools'' Working Group is
- currently in process of updating and revising their catalog to assist
- network managers in the selection and acquisition of diagnostic and
- analytic tools for TCP/IP Internets.
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- USERGLOS - Chaired by Karen Roubicek and Tracy LaQuey Parker
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- The User-Gloss Working Group is chartered to create an Internet glossary
- of networking terms and acronyms for the Internet community. At this
- meeting the working group went over and amended the charter, defined the
- criteria for glossary terms, reviewed existing glossaries, discussed
- glossary format, and discussed and defined processes for drafting,
- editing and group review.
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- SSPHWG - Chaired by J. Paul Holbrook and Joyce K. Reynolds
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- Please consult the Security Area Director's report for information on
- this group's current progress. The SSPHWG is a combined effort of the
- Security and User Services Area of the IETF.
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- USWG - Chaired by Joyce K. Reynolds
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- Agenda items included:
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- o QUAIL - presented by Gary Malkin
- Gary led a brief discussion of the two currently issued Quail
- documents, and requested additional volunteers to continue to help
- monitor the mailing lists, and to contribute to future updates of
- Quail.
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- o DISI(-SpresentedebyeChrisaWeiderbove working group report.)
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- o The USWG published two documents:
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- - Malkin, G., and A. Marine, ``FYI on Questions and Answers -
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- Answers to Commonly asked `New Internet User' Questions'', FYI
- 4, RFC 1206.
- - Malkin, G., Marine A., and J. Reynolds, ``FYI on Questions and
- Answers - Answers to Commonly asked `Experienced Internet User'
- Questions'', FYI 7, RFC 1207.
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- Announcement
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- The User Services Area of the Internet Engineering Steering
- Group (IESG), has established a User Services Area Council
- (USAC) to promote and encourage creative exchange of
- international user service needs and concepts. Constructive
- input from various national and international user services
- organizations for the purpose of not duplicating each
- organization's efforts is also encouraged. USAC will be
- responsible for researching and defining short term and long
- term user services needs and coordinating developments in
- finding solutions.
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- The primary responsibilities of USAC members are to actively
- provide input for the current and future developments of user
- services concerns. This forum will conduct meetings in
- conjunction with the IETF plenaries. Primary interaction among
- members will take place via electronic mail. The User Services
- Area Director of the IESG chairs the USAC. Current membership
- includes representation from Australia, Canada, Europe, Israel
- and Japan.
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