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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Joyce Reynolds/ISI
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- Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG)
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- 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.
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- Working Groups coming to closure include:
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- o Directory Information Services Infrastructure (DISI)
- o NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions (NOCTool2)
- o Internet User Glossary (USERGLOS)
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- New working groups initiating their first sessions at this IETF include:
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- o Training Materials (TRAINMAT), and
- o Integrated Directory Services (IDS).
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- New FYI RFC publications since the last IETF are:
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- 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.
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- Discussion also focused on the ``new NICs'' (i.e., the InterNIC and the
- proposed/experimental APNIC - Asia/Pacific NIC).
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- 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):
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- 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
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- 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.
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- Gary Malkin led a session on two FYI RFC updates:
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- o FYI 7 ``FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked
- ``Experienced Internet User'' Questions'', (Also RFC1207), February
- 1991.
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- o FYI 4 ``FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked
- ``New Internet User'' Questions'', (Also RFC1325), May 1992.
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- Attendees
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- 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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