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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Dana Sitzler/ University of Michigan
Minutes:
The meeting began with some general guidelines as a framework for
thinking about creating a network information services infrastructure.
These 'guidelines' are listed below:
--Think future Try not to limit our thinking to the current operations;
think toward the NREN --Information Services=User Services Terminology
doesn't matter; how are we going to provide the information and services
that network users need --Not just backbone NICs Our discussions must
account for any center providing support to users -- this includes
organizational NICs (campus) --Users: Novice to Expert We must
accommodate a large variance in user knowledge, experience and comfort
with networking --Be Aware Many on-going activities are related to this
effort such as -User Connectivity WG -Distributed File Systems -NREN
activity -Directory Services -Database Services
The meeting proceeded with a review of the draft charter. The
objectives of the charter basically address three phases: Where are we;
How do we work together to help users; How do we do it electronically.
The charter of the working group is provided below:
Once the charter was approved, the group started brainstorming
information to complete the first objective. The first objective deals
with the current state of information services and will serve as a base
to build on. The topics of discussion were:
o what information is available now
o how is information accessed
o what information formats are available
o what kinds of services are NICs offering
o who are NICs serving
The group then discussed other projects on-going in the internet
community which we need more information about. These projects include
directory services projects, library activity, work in distributed file
systems, etc. Assignments were made for group members to find out
information about these various projects.
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Action Items:
Draft 'where are we' paper Sitzler
Send FARNET info gathering survey to group Roubicek
Investigate NYSERNet Directory Services Pilot Sturteuant
Investigate Andrew Project Moore
Investigate NFS Sturteuant
Investigate Mercury Project Roubicek
Investigate PSI Z39.50 Pilot Hallgren
Investigate ISODE Sturteuant
Investigate Database systems (info servers) Stahl
Investigate Remote access DB systems Carpenter
People investigating other projects will attempt to find out an overview
of how the system works, how it's used, what material it will handle,
mechanisms for access, what the user interface is like, and how
'exploitable' it is.
ATTENDEES
Marc-Andre Pepin pepin@crim.ca
Glee Cady ghc@merit.edu
Jeffrey Carpenter jjc@unix.cis.pitt.edu
Martyne Hallgren martyne@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu
Tracy Laquey tracy@emx.utexas.edu
Marilyn Martin martin@cdnnet.ca
Berlin Moore prepnet@andrew.cmu.edu
Joyce Reynolds jkrey@venera.isi.edu
Karen Roubicek roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net
Pat Smith psmith@merit.edu
Mary Stahl stahl@nisc.sri.com
Allen Sturtevant sturtevant@ccc.nmfecc.gov
John Wobus jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu
Aileen Yuan aileen@gateway.mitre.org
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