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- This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/20/92
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- User Services Working Group Minutes
- IETF - San Diego
- Monday, March 16th, 9:30am - 12N
- Chair: Joyce K. Reynolds/ISI (jkrey@isi.edu)
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- The User-Doc2 Working Group took up about half of the USWG session in
- their discussions. They met during the USWG session as we had time
- constraint problems. User-Doc2 is chaired by Ellen Hoffman and Lenore
- Jackson. User-Doc's original bibliography was published in August of
- 1990. It is sorely out of date. This is the new revised working
- group. It has a revised charter. Items discussed included what items
- should included in the outdated document, and what items should be
- deleted in revising the bibliography.
-
- We also had a two reports, one on the RIPE meetings in Amsterdam in
- January, and the FARNET meeting in February. RIPE was originally
- chartered as a technical community. They have realized that user
- services is now something very important they should focus on,
- especially with East Central Europe and what is going on in Russia
- right now in user service needs. They have now just formed a User
- Information Services Working Group in the RIPE community. The FARNET
- meeting focussed on, "Hardening of the Interim NREN". FARNET meeting
- participants that were at the USWG session were asked to briefly
- describe the meeting in their own words.
-
- We also had round table discussions on how to connect to the Internet.
- There are already efforts going on in producing documentation on "How
- to Connect to the Internet", including ACM SIGUCCS and the SRI NISC.
-
- ISOC has tasked the USWG to look upon ISOC Secretariat training
- programs. General consensus is that ISOC should poll the regionals,
- and draw on already existing resources. We also discussed DNS
- cookbooks and other types of topics the User Services Area could do in
- the future.
-
- Peter Deutsch volunteered to produce an "Internet Quick and Dirty"
- document on descriptions of each network service with pointers on
- where to obtain additional information. Pat Smith, Cyndi Mills, Dan
- Matzke, Ellen Hoffman, Anders Gilner, April Marine, Jill Foster and
- Joyce Reynolds volunteered to assist Peter in writing this document.
- This project will be developed within the USWG.
-
- Included in the USWG announcements were User Services Area FYI RFC
- publications since the Santa Fe IETF:
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- Lang, R., and R. Wright, "A Catalog of Available X.500
- Implementations", FYI 11, RFC 1292, January 1992.
- (A product of the DISI Working Group.)
-
- Sitzler, D., Smith, P., and A. Marine, "Building a Network
- Information Services Infrastructure", FYI 12, RFC 1302,
- February 1992. (A product of the NISI Working Group.)
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- Weider, C., and J. Reynolds, "Executive Introduction to
- Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol", FYI 13,
- RFC 1308, March 1992. (A product of the DISI Working Group.)
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- Weider, C., Reynolds, J., and S. Heker, "Technical Overview of
- Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol", FYI 14, RFC
- 1309, March 1992. (A product of the DISI Working Group.)
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