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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Tracy LaQuey Parker/UTexas
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- USERGLOSS Minutes
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- Status Update
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- Chairpersons Karen Roubicek / roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net
- Tracy LaQuey Parker / tracy@utexas.edu
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- Date of Last Meeting St. Louis IETF / 11 March 1991
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- Date of Next Meeting Atlanta IETF / August 1991
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- Pending/New Objectives Compile list of terms, acronyms and
- definitions from existing sources. Will
- then edit this list.
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- Progress to Date Have compiled a list of existing glossaries
- to use as a base.
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- Agenda
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- o Review Charter
- o Define Criteria for Glossary Terms
- o Review Existing Glossaries
- o Discuss Glossary format
- o Discuss online version
- o Establish processes for drafting, editing, and group review
- o Review proposed milestones and adjust
- o List action items for summer IETF and next 4 months
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- This was the first official full meeting of the USERGLOSS Working Group.
- The meeting began with a review of the Charter. To summarize, the
- objective of this group is to create a glossary of networking terms and
- acronyms for the Internet community. There was some discussion about
- creating another glossary when several already exist, and one has been
- published as RFC 1208 (Glossary of Networking Terms). However, the
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- general feeling was that there is no complete glossary that truly
- represents the Internet community.
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- The criteria for selection of glossary terms was discussed. Because we
- don't have anything to work with yet, we decided to postpone this step
- until the next meeting. There was some discussion on how to decide
- which organizations would be included as entries. The general consensus
- was to admit all organizations that directly support the Internet. Some
- criteria that was suggested included, federal agencies; companies who
- have contracts in support of government or networking (such as ISI,
- SRI); state, regional, and midlevel networks; backbone networks;
- non-profit organizations; Internet specific organizations (IAB, IESG).
- We will not include names of universities or companies.
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- Other issues were brought up. Should we limit the glossary to the
- Internet community? It was decided that the glossary should reflect our
- perspective FROM the Internet community. The scope of the glossary will
- include IETF terms and terms used in required RFC's. The audience for
- this FYI will be the broad range of Internet users.
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- We reviewed a list of existing glossaries. After looking at this list
- Ole Jacobsen observed that ``There are too many words here.'' The list
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- o Networking.terms found on nsipo.arc.nasa.gov in pub directory.
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- o The glossary in RFC 1206, ``Answers to Commonly asked `New Internet
- User' Questions''.
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- o RFC 1208, ``A Glossary of Networking Terms''.
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- o Glossary in the NNSC Internet Tour.
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- o Glossary from ``Analyzing Sun Networks'' by Carl Malamud.
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- o Glossaries from other textbooks, such as Comer's TCP/IP and Rose'
- books.
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- o Hacker's Dictionary.
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- o NCAR's Glossary.
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- We then talked about the format of the glossary. It will be ascii text.
- For now, Tracy will keep the glossary in a standard format that can be
- converted to what we decide on later. A suggested format was:
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- term/acronym/expansion | Definition (1,2,3...) | source of
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- Indexes will be defined later. These were suggested:
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- o Protocol
- o Acronym
- o Operating networks
- o Organizations
- o Government
- o International
- o Level (new user, etc.).
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- The online draft version will be kept on a host at the University of
- Texas. Tracy will announce where it is to the Usergloss mailing list.
- It was mentioned that we should think about generating several forms of
- the glossary - a short form and an expanded form.
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- Next on the agenda was the editing process. It was decided that the
- approach will be to create a ``big bucket'' of existing online
- glossaries (and include attributions when appropriate). An editing
- committee, consisting of Gary Malkin, Tracy LaQuey Parker, Karen
- Roubicek, and Carl Malamud, will edit this ``bucket'' and suggest
- additions and deletions. Two people that volunteered at the Boulder
- IETF who were not present at this meeting are Marilyn Martin and Allen
- Apt.
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- The following editing steps were suggested (these are also our proposed
- milestones):
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- Step 1 Compile from existing sources. Remove duplicates and
- definitions that don't apply. Complete by August 1991
- Step 2 Submit for group review. Resolve any conflicts. Add
- new terms. Refine indexes. To be done at August IETF.
- Step 3 Assign indexes/classify terms. August - September 1991
- Step 4 Group Review October - November 1991
- Step 5 Submit as Internet Draft December 1991
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- And finally, we made a list of action items:
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- o Gary Malkin will update and provide for archiving of the mailing
- list.
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- o Tracy LaQuey Parker will find a host machine for the glossary and
- announce it to the mailing list.
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- o Karen Roubicek will follow up on the two people on the editorial
- board who were not present at this meeting.
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- o Someone needs to research the ``Hacker's Dictionary.''
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- o Karen will contact Don Morris about the NCAR glossary.
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- o Gary Malkin will send the online glossary from RFC 1206 to Tracy.
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- o Accomplish Step 1 defined above (editorial board will divide up
- these tasks).
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- Attendees
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- Robert Enger enger@seka.scc.com
- Douglas Gale dgale@note.nsf.gov
- Sergio Heker heker@jvnc.net
- Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu
- Shelly Knueven shelly@wugate.wustl.edu
- Tracy LaQuey Parker tracy@utexas.edu
- Steven Lendt network@zeus.unomaha.edu
- Carl Malamud carl@malamud.com
- Gary Malkin gmalkin@ftp.com
- Joyce Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
- Karen Roubicek roubicek@bbn.com
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Joanie Thompson joanie@nsipo.nasa.gov
- John Wobus jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu
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