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- Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/21/92
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Dan Long/BBN
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- Minutes of the User Connectivity Working Group (UCP)
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- The User Connectivity Problems Working Group met for one session this
- time.
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- The Group had previously defined a data structure that would enable
- Trouble Ticket handoffs between NOCs. Paul Zawada had written an
- ASN.1-like description of the fields in this data structure.
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- Kaj Tesink drafted a document describing how some handoff fields could
- be represented in electronic mail messages. The Group discussed this
- and agreed that the document needs to be revised to reflect more of the
- previously-defined handoff fields. The goal is to allow trouble tickets
- to be mailed between NOCs both with and without internal trouble ticket
- systems. The format should be simple enough to enable humans to enter
- the data and yet regular enough to permit parsing. Paul and Kaj will
- work on this and get it out as an Internet-Draft. At that time, several
- groups agreed to experiment with the exchange format and to create a
- template to facilitate manual participation.
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- The UCP Internet-Draft on a Trouble Ticket Tracking System, originally
- written by Matt Mathis, had been discussed and revised heavily by the
- Group and it has now expired. Dan Long has volunteered to draft a new
- version which reflects the current consensus of the Group. This will
- also be published as an Internet-Draft.
-
- The Group also discussed the current status of various
- publicly-available internal Trouble Ticket systems:
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- o CONCERT Trouble Ticket System, ftp.concert.net:dist/tickets/* (uses
- publicly-available database package).
- o Help Desk Management System, ftp.delmarva.com:pub/hdms/HDMS.tar.Z
- (requires Unify database package).
- o JVNC's NETLOG Trouble Ticket System,
- ftp.jvnc.net:pub/netlog-tt.tar.Z (requires no database package).
- o NEARnet Trouble Ticket System, nic.near.net:
- pub/nearnet-ticket-system-v1.3.tar (requires Informix database
- package).
- o UCP will meet again at the next IETF and plans to have new drafts
- to discuss before then.
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- Attendees
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- Vikas Aggarwal vikas@jvnc.net
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- David Conklin conklin@jvnc.net
- Tom Easterday tom@cic.net
- Richard Fisher rfisher@cdhf1.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Elise Gerich epg@merit.edu
- Eugene Hastings hastings@psc.edu
- Michael Laufer mlaufer@bbn.com
- Tony Li tli@cisco.com
- Olli-Pekka Lintula olli-pekka.lintula@ntc.nokia.com
- Daniel Long long@nic.near.net
- Kim Long klong@sura.net
- Tom Sandoski tom@concert.net
- Kaj Tesink kaj@cc.bellcore.com
- Jack Waters waters@sura.net
- Chris Wheeler cwheeler@cac.washington.edu
- Linda Winkler lwinkler@anl.gov
- Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com
- Paul Zawada Zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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