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- This is a rough draft only - Megan 04/07/92
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Gary Malkin/Xylogics and Tracy LaQuey Parker/UTexas
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- USERGLOS Minutes
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- Status Update
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- Chairpersons Tracy LaQuey Parker / tracy@utexas.edu
- Gary Scott Malkin / gmalkin@xylogics.com
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- Mailing List usergloss(-request)@xylogics.com
- Glossary Archive ftp.utexas.edu in directory usergloss
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- Date of Last meeting San Diego IETF / March 17, 1992
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- Date of next meeting Boston IETF / July 1992
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- Progress Usergloss met twice at this IETF.
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- Having compiled a very large glossary from many
- sources, we removed those entries which we
- decided were either too general or too esoteric
- for the intended audience of the glossary.
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- Milestones:
- Boston Final review of glossary. The object will be to
- ensure that the entries are catagorized properly
- in the index.
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- within month Submit to RFC editor
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- Agenda
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- 1) Review WG Description, Goals and Milestones
- 2) Progress to Date
- a) Collected a list of glossaries to use as a base
- b) Editorial committee has edited and merged these
- glossaries
- 3) Review the document we now have
- 4) Weeding-out Process (which definitions should be excluded?)
- 5) Refining the indexes/categories
- 6) Final format of the document
- a) review format proposed at last meeting
- b) what to do about the indexes
- 7) Assign New Tasks
- a) Editing draft
- b) Writing/researching better definitions
- c) Searching for definitions we've left out.
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- We started with some discussion about copyright issues. We
- believe that definitions are not copyrighted (except by the
- creater of a word). We will be giving credit to the sources
- of the definitions.
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- We spent considerable time determining what our audience was
- so that we could decide which words were too generic for an
- Internet specific glossary and which words were too esoteric
- for a general audience. We sort of decided that the glossary
- was not for extreme beginners and that an effort to create
- a comprehensive dictionary should be undertaken in the future.
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- The remainder of the first session, and all of the second
- session, was devoted to pruning the glossary. We removed
- 351 entries from the original 1247 and added 10. We still
- need to resolve the duplicates (by merging them together).
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- Agenda items 5-7 will be done over email before the next
- IETF meeting in Boston.
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