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- Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/27
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Ellen Hoffman/Merit and Lenore Jackson/NASA
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- Minutes of the User Documents Revisions Working Group (USERDOC2)
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- Review of Previous Session
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- The Group reviewed the discussion of the San Diego IETF meeting held
- during the USWG meeting to issue two documents. This includes producing
- a new, short, 2-pager aimed specifically at novice users, and a revision
- of the longer bibliography to update RFC 1175.
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- Status of Documents
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- Two documents were distributed. The first, a draft of the proposed
- short bibliography was distributed as well as a list of proposed
- additions to the long bibliography.
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- Review of New Short Bibliography
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- A number of changes were suggested for the draft novice user
- bibliography. There was some discussion that there is no single, brief
- (2-3 page) description of the Internet, and it was agreed that this
- should be further discussed at the USWG. One book was added to the list,
- some reorganization was proposed, and it was agreed there should be a
- line to encourage users who needed more information to contact their
- local network provider. It was also agreed not to add how-tos about
- applications like mail or FTP.
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- A focus of the discussion is how new users, who may not have a
- connection or may not know how to get materials on the net, could find
- on-line documents and whether there should be more instructions about
- FTP, WAIS, Gopher, etc. The Group accepted a proposal to have a single
- directory with all the on-line materials which several NICs would agree
- to mirror, and when possible, have these accessible through other tools
- such as WAIS, Gopher, and Archie. This directory could also be updated
- as new resources are added. While this was agreed to as a short-term
- solution that could be implemented immediately, it was also recognized
- that this was not an ideal longer term solution. The Group agreed to go
- ahead so the material would at least be available soon using existing
- mechanisms.
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- Merit volunteered to create a ``master'' directory on nis.nsf.net and
- seven other NICs volunteered to create ``mirror'' directories. These
- include ftp.nis.sri.com, nnsc.nsf.net, ftp.concert.net, paccom?,
- nic.ddn.mil, nic.mr.net, and ftp.jvnc.net. Merit will also set up its
- mail server to send out a generalized ``help'' file for those who want
- more information on getting the on-line documents and using retrieval
- tools to help keep the bibliography short.
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- Review of Proposed Additions to Longer Bibliography
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- The list of proposed additions was briefly discussed. It was agreed
- that the bibliography needed to reflect the world-wide Internet and
- should not focus on NREN and other U.S. policy papers or controversies.
- Volunteers were recruited to help write abstracts for the new entries.
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- Review of Action Items
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- All attendees will be automatically added to the mailing list. A
- revised short bibliography will be sent out within two weeks, and if
- there are no major objections, it will be sent to the RFC editor. The
- long list additions will be sent out and the Group will recommend
- additions. The goal is a draft with all additions for review at the
- next IETF. Merit will put up a directory and work with the volunteer
- mirror sites to implement the on-line sources.
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- Attendees
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- Vikas Aggarwal aggarwal@nisc.jvnc.net
- George Brett ghb@jazz.concert.net
- Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- Alan Clegg abc@concert.net
- Daniel Dern ddern@world.std.com
- Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgill.ca
- Alan Emtage bajan@cc.mcgill.ca
- Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
- Maria Gallagher maria@nsipo.nasa.gov
- Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
- Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu
- Lenore Jackson jackson@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu
- Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu
- Andrew Maffei arm@aqua.whoi.edu
- April Marine april@nisc.sri.com
- Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net
- Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
- Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
- Bradley Rhoades
- Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com
- Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu
- Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Jane Smith jds@jazz.concert.net
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
- Moira West mjw@cert.org
- Scott Williamson scottw@nic.ddn.mil
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