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N-1-2-040.51 The User Services Area of the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF) by Joyce K. Reynolds*, <jkrey@isi.edu>
The actual projects of the User Services Area are handled by the
creation of Working Groups. There are currently eight working groups
in this area. All of them held sessions at the IETF in San Diego,
California, March 16-20, 1992. Two of the eight are newly formed
working groups: Internet School Networking and Internet Anonymous FTP
Archives.
IETF User Services Area Working Groups
Directory Information Services Infrastructure (DISI). DISI is
chartered to facilitate deployment of X.500 Directory Services on the
Internet, by producing "Administrator's Guides".
Internet Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group (IAFA). IAFA is
chartered to define a set of recommended standard procedures for the
access and administration of anonymous ftp archive sites on the
Internet.
Internet School Networking (ISN). ISN is chartered to facilitate the
connection of the United States' K-12 (Kindergarten-12th Grade)
schools, public and private, to promote school networking in general.
Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI). NISI is exploring
the requirements for common, shared Internet-wide network information
services. The goal is to develop an understanding for what is
required to implement an information services "infrastructure" for the
Internet.
NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions Working Group (NOCTOOL2). "Son of
NOCTools" is updating and revising their catalog to assist network
managers in the selection and acquisition of diagnostic and analytic
tools for TCP/IP Internets.
User Documentation (USERDOC2). UserDoc2 is preparing a revised
bibliography of on-line and hard copy documents/reference materials/
training tools addressing general networking information and how to
use the Internet. (Target audience: those individuals who provide
services to end users and end users themselves.)
User Glossary (USERGLOSS). User-Gloss is chartered to create an
Internet glossary of networking terms and acronyms for the Internet
community.
User Services (USWG). The User Services Working Group provides a
regular forum for people interested in all user services to identify
and initiate projects designed to improve the quality of information
available to end-users of the Internet.
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| WG Chair(s) Mailing List |
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| DISI Chris Weider disi@merit.edu |
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| IAFA Peter Deutsch iafa@cc.mcgill.ca |
| Alan Emtage |
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| ISN John Clement isn-wg@bitnic.educom.edu |
| Art St. George |
| Connie Stout |
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+-----------------------------------------------------------+
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| NISI April Marine nisi@merit.edu |
| Pat Smith |
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+-----------------------------------------------------------+
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| NOCTOOL2 Robert Enger noctools@merit.edu |
| Darren Kinley |
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+-----------------------------------------------------------+
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| USERDOC2 Ellen Hoffman userdoc@merit.edu |
| Lenore Jackson |
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+-----------------------------------------------------------+
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| USERGLOSS Gary Malkin usergloss@xylogics.com |
| Tracy LaQuey Parker |
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+-----------------------------------------------------------+
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| USWG Joyce K. Reynolds us-wg@nnsc.nsf.net |
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New FYI RFCs published since the last issue:
FYI 14 "Technical Overview of Directory Services Using
the X.500 Protocol", (Also RFC 1309), March 1992.
FYI 13 "Executive Introduction to Directory Services Using
the X.500 Protocol", (Also RFC 1308), March 1992.
FYI 12 "Building a Network Information Services Infrastructure",
(Also RFC 1302), February 1992.
FYI 11 "A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations",
(Also RFC 1292), January 1992.
FYI 10 "There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching for
Treasure in all the Wrong Places", (Also RFC 1290),
December 1991.
Details on obtaining FYI RFCs via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by
sending an EMAIL message to "rfc-info@ISI.EDU" with the message body
"help: ways_to_get_rfcs". For example:
To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU
Subject: getting rfcs
help: ways_to_get_rfcs
* Member of the Technical Staff, Information Sciences Institute,
University of Southern California