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- Report submitted after the cut-off for inclusion in the Proceedings
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Minutes of the User Document Revisions Working Group (USERDOC2)
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- Review of activities to date:
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- Lenore Jackson opened the working group with a review of the charter
- and the mailing lists: to subscribe, send to
- user-doc-request@merit.edu. Ellen Hoffman reported on the status of
- the short bibliography, which is up as an Internet draft. She also
- noted that the group had developed a new archive, "Introducing the
- Internet," which has now been deployed at four U.S. sites since the
- previous meeting.
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- Short document:
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- The short bibliography can be obtained in the Internet draft directory
- for anonymous FTP as draft-ietf-userdoc2-fyi-novice-01.txt. The
- working group reviewed the draft, made several minor changes which
- will be incorporated after the meeting and, after one more review by
- email, it will be sent on for FYI status. Hoffman will make the
- changes. The issues of maintenance and adding new materials was also
- discussed.
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- Introducing the Internet archive
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- Merit is housing the primary archive, which collects materials of
- particular help to novice users in a single directory for easy access.
- Three other sites are mirroring this archive. To find out more, send
- an email message to nis- info@nic.merit.edu with the following text:
- send access.guide. This is a short document that describes what is in
- the archive and how to get it via email, anonymous FTP, WAIS, Gopher,
- and even dialup access for those not connected to the Internet.
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- Hoffman noted that to date, no sites outside the U.S. had expressed an
- interest in being a listed repository for the archive. Jill Foster
- said she would check to see what might be possible in Europe.
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- Long bibliography
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- The older UserDoc bibliography (RFC 1175) was reviewed as a
- preliminary step to having a revised document for the next IETF. One
- issue noted was that the document should focus primarily on
- documentation so that areas such as proliferating conferences would be
- excluded in the next edition. The proposed revisions will be further
- discussed on the mailing list before the next IETF.
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- Miscellaneous
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- A short discussion occurred on needs for end user documentation. It
- was noted that the Introducing the Internet archive was a good step
- towards this, but more work remained to be done. A proposal was
- introduced by Jill Foster that the User-Doc group be the focus in the
- User Services for such general documentation, since it was confusing
- to have it spread over several groups. This change will need to be
- further discussed with Joyce Reynolds.
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- Attendees
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- Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net
- Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov
- Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
- Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com
- Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
- Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu
- Lenore Jackson jackson@nsipo.nasa.gov
- Laura Kelleher lak@merit.edu
- Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu
- Janet Marcisak jlm@ftp.com
- Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Janet Vratny janet@apple.com
- William Yurcik yurcik@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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