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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Joyce Reynolds/ISI
Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG)
Joyce Reynolds reported on the IETF User Services Area activities
including: working groups coming to closure and new working groups
starting up, new publications, and current user services related
Internet-Drafts postings.
Working Groups coming to closure include:
o Directory Information Services Infrastructure (DISI)
o NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions (NOCTool2)
o Internet User Glossary (USERGLOS)
New working groups initiating their first sessions at this IETF include:
o Training Materials (TRAINMAT), and
o Integrated Directory Services (IDS).
New FYI RFC publications since the last IETF are:
o FYI 18 ``Internet Users' Glossary'', (Also RFC 1392), January 1993.
o FYI 17 ``The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the
Internet Engineering Task Force'', (Also RFC 1391), January 1993.
Discussion also focused on the ``new NICs'' (i.e., the InterNIC and the
proposed/experimental APNIC - Asia/Pacific NIC).
Jill Foster presented an update on RARE activities, including a report
on the RARE Information Services/User Support (ISUS) activities. The
ISUS Working Group is broken down into several sub-areas: Network User
Support, Asynchronous Group Communication, and Networked Information
Retrieval and Services Liaison. WG-ISUS Task Forces are being set up to
cover the main tasks outlined in the Workplan. The following task
forces are proposed (and many have started work):
o User Documentation
o Document Delivery
o Networked Information Retrieval (joint RARE/IETF/CNI endeavor)
o Coordination of Networked Information Retrieval Services
o Maintenance and gathering of information on networks and networked
resources.
o UNITE ``Total Solution'' User Interface
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o RARE Technical Report 1
o Training, Publicity and Awareness (joint RARE/IETF Working Group)
o Support for Special Interest Communities
o Automatic Mailing List Servers
o Multi Media Information Services
Susan Calcari presented a talk on the new InterNIC. The InterNIC
information services include: Network Solutions provides the
registration services, AT&T provides the Directory and Database
Services, and General Atomics provides the information services. NIS
Fests and NIS manifests are planned. The InterNIC reference desk will
be open from 5am to 7pm Pacific time. For more information on
information services send email to: info@internic.net, Database and
Directory Services: admin@ds.internic.net, and for Internet Registry
services, hostmaster@internic.net.
Gary Malkin led a session on two FYI RFC updates:
o FYI 7 ``FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked
``Experienced Internet User'' Questions'', (Also RFC1207), February
1991.
o FYI 4 ``FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked
``New Internet User'' Questions'', (Also RFC1325), May 1992.
Attendees
Jules Aronson aronson@nlm.nih.gov
Robert Beer r-beer@onu.edu
Susan Calcari calcaris@cerf.net
Corinne Carroll ccarroll@bbn.com
Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Al Costanzo al@akc.com
Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net
Mark Davis-Craig mad@merit.edu
Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com
Robert Enger enger@reston.ans.net
Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Marcello Frutig frutig@rnp.impa.br
Gwen Funchess funchess@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Maria Gallagher maria@nsipo.nasa.gov
Greg Gicale gicale@ohio.gov
Martyne Hallgren martyne@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu
Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com
Susan Harris srh@umich.edu
Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu
Alton Hoover hoover@ans.net
Susan Horvath shorvath@merit.edu
Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu
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Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu
Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com
Janet L. Marcisak jlm@ftp.com
April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
Jerry Martin jerry+@osu.edu
Cynthia Mills cmills@bbn.com
Jim Naro jnaro@nic.near.net
Bill Norton wbn@merit.edu
Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsipo.nasa.gov
Karen Shay kshay@cs.cmu.edu
Charlie Smith crsmith@osvi.edu
Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
Ruediger Volk rv@informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Janet Vratny janet@apple.com
William Yurcik yurcik@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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