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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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- Eight working groups in the User Services Area of the IETF met in San
- Diego. Two of the eight are newly formed working groups: Internet
- School Networking (ISN) and Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (IAFA).
- Below is a summary of ISI's User Services IETF activities.
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- Directory Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (DISI)
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- The DISI Working Group, Chaired by Christopher Weider was established to
- provide a forum for defining user requirements in X.500. It 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. Three
- papers were published as FYI RFCs:
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- o Lang, R., and R. Wright, ``A Catalog of Available X.500
- Implementations'', FYI 11, RFC 1292, January 1992.
- o Weider, C., and J. Reynolds, ``Executive Introduction to Directory
- Services Using the X.500 Protocol'', FYI 13, RFC 1308, March 1992.
- o Weider, C., Reynolds, J., and S. Heker, ``Technical Overview of
- Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol'', FYI 14, RFC 1309,
- March 1992.
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- In DISI's Charter, they had some additional documentation they wanted to
- produce. There was a discussion of what other documents to write in
- addition to those that are listed in the charter. There were five
- different topics presented by Working Group attendees. An advanced
- usages document, how to get registered, where do I belong, how to keep
- your X.500 up to date, your directory up to date, a pilot project
- catalogue and a DSA setup guide.
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- The general consensus was an ``advanced usages'' draft, a ``how to get
- registered'' document and a ``where do I belong'' draft would be the
- next endeavors that they would like to do. Second in priority would be
- the ``pilot project catalogue'' document. Writing assignments and
- volunteers were tasked to go off and create drafts before the next IETF
- in Boston.
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- Internet Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group (IAFA)
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- This Group is Chaired by Peter Deutsch and Alan Emtage. This is a new
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- Working Group which met for the second time in San Diego.
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- The IAFA Group is chartered to define a set of recommended standard
- procedures for the access and administration of anonymous FTP archive
- sites on the Internet.
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- The IAFA Working Group brought in a rough draft of a guide to FTP site
- administration which had been worked on via electronic mail in the last
- few months. This is what this Working Group primarily focussed on
- during their session. Discussion included data formatting issues and
- FTP extensions, caching, mirroring, redundancy and resources.
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- Internet School Networking Working Group (ISN)
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- The ISN Working Group is Chaired by John Clement, Art St. George, and
- Connie Stout. This is also a new Working Group which met for the second
- time in San Diego.
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- The Internet School Networking Working Group is chartered to facilitate
- the connection of the United States' K-12 (Kindergarten-12th Grade)
- schools, public and private, to the Internet, and school networking in
- general.
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- ISN's session gathers educators and Internet folks together. ISN also
- had a rough working draft. The draft presents multi-generic
- connectivity models for schools. Their focus is primarily on IP
- connectivity. ISN's document and intent is not to recommend to schools
- any one model, but to present various suggestions and various models for
- school systems to look at. Then the school systems can take these
- models, choose one for their needs, their students' needs, and also how
- much they have in their budgets to contribute to equipment and software.
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- Internet User Glossary Working Group (USERGLOS)
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- USERGlOS is Chaired by Gary Malkin and Tracy LaQuey Parker. The
- USERGLOS Working Group is chartered to create an Internet specific
- glossary of networking terms and acronyms for the Internet community.
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- A draft document was ready for review at this session. USERGLOS had a
- two marathon sessions, one in the morning, and since they were going so
- well, they took a break and came back from 4:00 to 6:00 and continued to
- work on the glossary. This Group got an enormous amount accomplished in
- one day and those participants are to be commended for their stamina!
- They specifically worked on finding Internet specific terms that are
- needed in this glossary and weeded out a lot of words that were not
- pertinent.
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- Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (NISI)
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- This Group is exploring the requirements for common, shared
- Internet-wide network information services. The goal is to develop an
- understanding for what is required to implement an information services
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- ``infrastructure'' for the Internet. One paper was published as an FYI
- RFC:
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- o Sitzler, D., Smith, P., and A. Marine, ``Building a Network
- Information Services Infrastructure, FYI 12, RFC 1302, February
- 1992.
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- NISI's session focused on discussing what more there is to do. The NISI
- chairs feel that there's a lot more that they could contribute and they
- did not necessarily did not want to go dormant and come back out at a
- later time. The two topics that emerged were nethelp and a list of
- services. The two groups were tasked with volunteers, about five or six
- in each group, that are going to discuss what they need to develop in
- these two areas before the next IETF.
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- NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions Working Group (NOCTOOL2)
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- NOCTOOL2, is Chaired by Robert Enger and Darren Kinley. The ``Son of
- NOCTools'' Working Group are 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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- The NOCTOOL2 Working Group has been a little slow in getting the entries
- in. Entries are continuing to slowly arrive, but Bob and Darren are
- going to push hard on final document compilation and completion for an
- Internet-Draft. Bob and Darren have pledged to get a document out in
- the next two months.
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- User Documents Revisions Working Group (USERDOC2)
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- USERDOC2, chaired by Ellen Hoffman and Lenore Jackson. The User-Doc
- Working Group is preparing a revised bibliography of on-line and hard
- copy documents, reference materials, and training tools addressing
- general networking information and how to use the Internet. The target
- audience includes those individuals who provide services to end users
- and end users themselves.
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- USERDOC's original bibliography was published in August of 1990. It is
- sorely out of date. This is the new revised Working Group. It has a
- revised charter. They met during the User Services Working Group
- session as they had time constraint problems. Items discussed included
- what items should included in the outdated document, and what items
- should be deleted in revising the bibliography.
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- User Services Working Group (USWG)
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- The USWG Group is Chaired by Joyce K. Reynolds. USWG provides a regular
- forum for people interested in all user services to identify and
- initiate projects designed to improve the quality of information
- available to end-users of the Internet.
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- User-Doc Working Group took up about half the session in their
- discussions. We also had a two reports, one on the RIPE meetings in
- Amsterdam in January, and the FARNET meeting in February. RIPE was
- originally chartered as a technical community. They have realized that
- user services is now something very important they should focus on,
- especially with East Central Europe and what is going on in Russia right
- now in user service needs. They have now just formed a User Information
- Services Working Group in the RIPE community. The FARNET meeting
- focussed on, ``Hardening of the Interim NREN''. FARNET meeting
- participants that were at the USWG session were asked to briefly
- describe the meeting in their own words. We also had round table
- discussions on how to connect to the Internet. ISOC has tasked the USWG
- to look upon ISOC Secretariat training programs. We also discussed DNS
- cookbooks and other types of topics the User Services Area could do in
- the future.
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