CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Joyce Reynolds/ISI Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG) The meeting opened with introductions and affiliations of each of the User Services Working Group (USWG) participants. Since this was the first IETF outside of the United States, we had increased global attendance from people representing countries in Scandinavia and Europe (including Corsica), Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, and the US. 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. Joyce also mentioned that the e-mail correspondence list for this working group has a new home. The ``us-wg'' e-mail lists have moved from nnsc.nsf.net. Refer to the USWG charter for the new addresses. Joyce thanked NEARnet, and in particular, Corinne Carroll, Nina Mecht, and Cyndi Mills for their continued assistance and support in maintaining this e-mail list on behalf of the USWG members. One working group completed it task and came to closure: NOCTools2 (Robert Enger, Chair). New FYI RFC publications since the last IETF: ____________________________________________________________________________ | FYI 21 |RFC 1491`|`A Survey of Advanced Usages of X.500'' J|uly 1993 | | | | | | | FYI 2 |RFC 1470`|`FYI on a Network Management Tool Catalog: J|une 1993 | | | |Tools for Monitoring and Debugging TCP/IP | | | | |Internets and Interconnected Devices'' | | | | | | | | FYI 20 |RFC 1462`|`FYI on ``What is the Internet?'' M|ay 1993 | | | | | | | FYI 19 |RFC 1463`|`FYI on Introducing the Internet---A Short M|ay 1993 | | | |Bibliography of Introductory Internetworking | | | | |Readings'' | | | | | | | |_FYI_18_|RFC_1392`|`Internet_Users'_Glossary''________________J|anuary_1993_| Current User Services Area related Internet-Draft postings include: draft-ietf-isn-faq-00.txt 1 draft-ietf-ids-pilots-00.txt draft-ietf-iafa-howftp-00.txt draft-ietf-ids-x500-survey-02.txt draft-ietf-iiir-html-00.txt, ps draft-ietf-nisi-nics-00.txt Other User Services Area related draft postings include: FYI 4, RFC 1325, ``FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked ``New Internet User'' Questions'' has been updated and is now under review. It may be obtained via anonymous FTP from: naic.nasa.gov as files/fyi4-june93.txt. April Marine led a review/discussion on the FYI RFC update; FYI 4 ``FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked ``New Internet User'' Questions'', (Also RFC 1325), May 1992. Bill Manning (Rice University) brought up a discussion on how to ``empower'' users to utilize and document tools. He also commented to the group that there seems to be missing from the FYI RFC publications a series of notes that tries to address the manners and morals of the collective body. Another topic that may need to be worked on in this forum is how to deal with the basics (e.g., How do ``I'' get attached?). After some discussion by the participants, Joyce Reynolds, Jodi Chu, and Bill volunteered to take this discussion off-line, review Bill's comments and come back to the USWG with proposed projects. Cyndi Mills talked briefly about the shutdown of BBN's NNSC site. The services formerly provided by the NNSC have been transferred to a new Network Information Services Management team, collectively known as the InterNIC (the Internet Network Information Center). The NNSC Info-Server has been shut down, and anonymous FTP to nnsc.nsf.net has been discontinued. David Sitman, EARN (European Academic and Research Network) representative, presented a discussion and review of EARN's ``Guide to Network Resource Tools'' in preparation for submission to the RFC Editor for FYI RFC publication. The ``Guide to Network Resource Tools'' is available via Listserv in plain text and PostScript versions. Send mail to LISTSERV@EARNCC.BITNET and include the line, GET NETTOOLS MEMO, for the plain text version, or GET NETTOOLS PS, for the PostScript version. The guide should now be available from ripe.net for access via FTP, gopher, WAIS and WWW (at ftp.ripe.net, gopher.ripe.net, wais.ripe.net, etc.) Jill Foster presented an update on RARE activities, including a report on the RARE Information Services/User Support Working Group (ISUS) activities. ISUS is broken down into several sub-areas: Network User Support, Asynchronous Group Communication, and Networked Information Retrieval and Services Liaison. ISUS Task Forces are being set up to 2 cover the main tasks outlined in the workplan. This includes the following task forces: 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 o RARE Technical Report 1 o Training o Publicity and Awareness (joint RARE/IETF working group) o Support for Special Interest Communities o Automatic Mailing List Servers o Multimedia Information Services Attendees Matti Aarnio mea@nic.nordu.net James Allard jallard@microsoft.com Kursat Cagiltay kursat@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Henry Clark henryc@oar.net Peter Deutsch peterd@bunyip.com Reinhard Doelz embnet@comp.bioz.unibas.ch Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk Klaus Fueller klausf@osgo.ks.he.schule.de Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu Ben Geerlings ben.geerlings@surfnet.nl Anders Gillner awg@sunet.se Judith Grass grass@cnri.reston.va.us Maria Heijne maria.heijne@surfnet.nl Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu Nandor Horvath horvath@sztaki.hu Per Jacobsen p.h.jacobsen@usit.uio.no Ola Johansson ojn@tip.net Peter Koch pk@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de John Lindsay lindsay@kingston.ac.uk Anne Lord anne@ripe.net Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com Bill Manning bmanning@rice.edu April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov Chip Matthes chip@delphi.com Cynthia Mills cmills@bbn.com Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net Jun Murai jun@wide.ad.jp Lisa Nielsen lisa@hawaii.edu Lars-Gunnar Olsson Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Ulla Sandberg ulla@kiera.ericsson.se 3 Tibor Schonfeld tibor@qsun.att.com Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsipo.nasa.gov David Sitman a79vm.tau.ac.il Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Milan Sova sova@feld.cvut.cz Bert Stals bert.stals@surfnet.nl Erdal Taner erdal@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr Fumio Teraoka tera@csl.sony.co.jp Marc van der Noordaa noordaa@rare.nl 4