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User Services Area
Director(s):
o Joyce Reynolds: jkrey@isi.edu
Area Summary reported by Joyce Reyolds/ISI
Three new Working Groups met at the IETF in St. Louis:
o Directory Information Services (pilot) Infrastructure Working Group
(DISI), Chaired by Chris Weider.
o Internet User Glossary Working Group (userglos) Chaired by Karen
Roubicek and Tracy LaQuey Parker
o NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions Working Group (noctool2) Chaired by
Robert Enger and Gary Malkin
Working Group Reports
DISI - Chaired by Chris Weider
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.
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.
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.
NOCTOOL2 - Chaired by Robert Enger and Gary Malkin
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.
USERGLOS - Chaired by Karen Roubicek and Tracy LaQuey Parker
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.
SSPHWG - Chaired by J. Paul Holbrook and Joyce K. Reynolds
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.
USWG - Chaired by Joyce K. Reynolds
Agenda items included:
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.
o DISI(-SpresentedebyeChrisaWeiderbove working group report.)
o The USWG published two documents:
- 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.
Announcement
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.
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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