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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Darren Kinley/CRIM
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- Minutes of the NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions Working Group (NOCtool2)
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- Agenda
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- The NOCtool2 Working Group met at the 22nd IETF in Santa Fe. The
- meeting served primarily to report on the revision of the RFC 1147/FYI
- 2, and again served as a forum for discussion of the ``living
- documents'' problem. The agenda was as follows,
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- o Working Group Co-Chair shuffling
- o Current status
- o NOCtools' resolution of the ``living documents'' problem
- o Planned wrap up of revision process
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- Discussions
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- Co-Chair Shuffling The replacement of Gary Malkin by Darren Kinley
- during the month of October was announced. Thanks
- to Gary for his efforts.
- Current status Enger, Kinley, and Malkin each fumbled putting
- things behind schedule. After much whining,
- pleading, and shaming their lives were spared.
- Schedules have been revised.
- Revised Schedules Internet-Draft to be prepared for the month of
- February, its availability (including TOC) widely
- announced, late submissions to be included as
- required, and finally document to be submitted to
- the RFC editor. The delay from announcement as ID
- to submission to the RFC editor will depend on the
- number of late entries received, the feedback from
- the community, and will be left to the discretion
- of the RFC editors.
- ``Living Documents'' Technical and philosophical aspects of this
- problem were discussed extensively. Everyone
- agreed that ``high-tech'' solutions were still not
- available nor would they be in the very near
- future. The group decided to schedule a BOF on
- this topic at the upcoming IETF in San Diego.
- Two sets of mechanisms and procedures to aid in the
- maintenance and distribution of this document were
- put forward, improved, and adopted by the group.
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- 1. Anonymous FTP retrieval with automated email
- submission.
- The official/edited document will be made
- available via anonymous FTP as well as an
- automated electronic distribution tool
- (listserv) as a whole or in pieces. Entries
- can be submitted via electronic mail and made
- immediately available in an unofficial/unedited
- portion of the distribution. An editor will
- occasionally verify these last entries and
- include them in the official document.
- Possible homes might include Merit or
- Washington University.
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- 2. Usenet news.
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- A news hierarchy similar to this was discussed.
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- alt.noctools.announce (moderated) A small
- number of entries will be posted daily so that
- during a month the entire document will be
- posted once.
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- alt.noctools.wanted (unmoderated) Questions of
- the nature ``I'm looking for...'' will be
- posted to this group.
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- alt.noctools.new (unmoderated) New tools can be
- announced here. A Gateway between this group
- and the automated email submission address
- should be put in place.
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- alt.noctools.bugs (unmoderated) Any patchs to
- tools can be posted here. Hopefully, they will
- also be sent to the tool creator.
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- alt.noctools.d (unmoderated) General
- discussion.
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- Resources needed to support some of these
- functions could be located very near to the FTP
- retrieval and automated submissions service.
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- Other Items
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- o The majority of cases are handled in current the plan, but what
- about the small number of sites without even UUCP access?
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- o BOF on ``living documents'' problem.
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- Action Items
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- Robert Enger, Darren Kinley: Contact remaining people with entries,
- continue to solicit and accept new entries, prepare draft document.
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- Joyce Reynolds: Consider funding for maintenance of ``living
- documents'' problem vis-a-vis the Internet Society.
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- Darren Kinley, Joyce Reynolds: Compile list where NOCtools catalog
- availability announcement will get the widest possible distribution.
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- Robert Enger, Darren Kinley, Chris Myers, Mike Patton: Properly define
- Usenet newsgroups to be created and write charters for these groups as
- required.
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- Chris Myers: Make a home for anonymous FTP and automated electronic
- submissions and distribution tool.
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