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- Editor's note: Minutes received 4/8/93. These minutes have not been edited
- and the attendee list has not been appended.
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- Reported by Chris Weider
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- Minutes from the IIIR meeting in Columbus, OH, March 29, 1993
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- Agenda:
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- 1: Introduction and correction of minutes from last meeting
- 2: Resource Transponders
- 3: Vision of Integrated Information Services document
- 4: Start work on Taxonomy document
- 5: Internet Information Framework
- 6: AOB
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- 1: There were no corrections offered to the minutes from Washington.
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- 2: Chris Weider discussed his Resource Transponder internet draft.
- Scott Kaplan of FTP mentioned that a similar concept was already
- under development in the Service Location Protocol working group for
- modems and other hardware; Weider agreed to look at the SLP stuff to
- see if there was any synergy.
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- 3: Peter Deutsch presented the Vision of Integrated Information Services
- document that he and Chris Weider had developed. It was mentioned that
- this architecture provides a trivial level of interoperability between
- currently deployed services, and can provide a foundation for
- integrating new services. Also, in the discussions of the 'Axioms of
- Information Services', an axiom was added by the group: "Users want to
- have the ability to look under the hood".
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- 4: The taxonomy document's contents were discussed; it was finally settled that
- it would categorize the various available tools by functionality (along
- several different schemes) and would point out gaps in the current tool
- mix in light of the architecture provided in the Vision document.
- Although there was not a universal consensus that such a document was
- needed, there was a rough consensus that such a document could teach us
- a lot about what tools we have and what tools we need. Peter Deutsch and
- Chris Weider volunteered to take a first cut at the paper for Amsterdam.
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- 5: Chris Weider discussed the Internet Information Framework developed by
- the IESG and several working group chairs. This framework lays out the
- administrative structure for working groups working in the information
- services area. In particular, a new working group will not be formed for
- every information services protocol developed; instead IIIR will take
- the responsibility of documenting new and existing protocols and shepherding
- their standardization. Examples of the protocols IIIR will cover include
- GOPHER (RFC 1436), World Wide Web, and Z39.50. As there are active
- communities for these protocols, IIIR will simply help the standardization
- process and may also serve as a mediator if many incompatible versions
- of the same base protocol appear. For those new protocols which are
- needed by the integration effort or are identified in the taxonomy paper,
- IIIR will work with the IESG to determine if a new working group should
- be formed or if the work can be done in IIIR.
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- 6: There was no other business.
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