CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Chris Weider/Merit Minutes of the Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR) Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Brief overview of Charter, Milestones, and Goals 3. Tim Howes, University of Michigan 4. Peter Deutsch, Bunyip Inc. 5. Jim Fullton, University of North Carolina 6. Open discussion of Charter, Goals, etc. 7. Assignment of Papers 8. Bar. Introduction This was the first meeting of the IIIR Working Group. There are a growing number of ``information services'' popping up on the Internet, all of which have their own clients, servers, paradigms, etc. It is the Chair's opinion, that it is time to start trying to tie them together to provide a ``virtually unified'' information service to the end user. Minutes After a brief overview of the Charter, the Group heard from Tim, Peter, and Jim, each of whom have experience in integrating various information services together. Each of them was asked to speak for a bit on what they had done to tie resources together, and then to share their views on what needed to be done next. The Group then discussed the Charter. Most people felt that it was not terribly useful for the Working Group to get into the business of specifying gateway protocols, and that it was too early to attempt some of the other milestones, such as common exchange formats and query routing protocols. However, after an hour of wrangling back and forth, agreement was reach, that it would be useful at this time to start work on two documents, one to provide a vision of the future for Internet information services in 1995, and the second to build a taxonomy of currently available information service tools. The first document would allow the Group to define a shared vision of information services, to which the Group could start integration of existing resources. The second document would allow us to determine which conceptual tools we currently had to start building our future vision, and determine which tools need to be developed to allow integration of all the information resources. 1 These two papers will be assigned on the mailing list, so that everyone who wishes to contribute may. The Charter will also be revised to reflect these new goals, and will be published to the list by the end of 1992. Comments on these Minutes may be posted to the mailing list for this Group, iiir@merit.edu. Attendees George Brett George.Brett@cnidr.org J. Nevil Brownlee nevil@aukuni.ac.uz Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net John Curran jcurran@bbn.com Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com Alan Emtage bajan@bunyip.com Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk Jim Fullton jim_fullton@unc.edu Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu Thomas Hacker hacker@citi.umich.edu Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net Nat Howard nrh@bellcore.com Tim Howes tim@umich.edu. Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl Dan Magorian magorian@ni.umd.edu Janet Marcisak jlm@ftp.com Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu Jim Perchik perchik@athena.mit.edu Pete Percival percival@indiana.edu Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Bradley Rhoades bdrhoades@mail.mmmg.com Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu Jane Smith jds@jazz.concert.net Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu Simon Spero simon_spero@unc.edu Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com 2