This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/20/92 User Services Working Group Minutes IETF - San Diego Monday, March 16th, 9:30am - 12N Chair: Joyce K. Reynolds/ISI (jkrey@isi.edu) 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 It is sorely out of date.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 Items discussed included what items should included in the outdated document, and what items should be deleted in revising the bibliography.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: 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.) 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.) 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.)