USWG/DISI minutes - St. Louis

jkrey@ISI.EDU Wed, 27 March 1991 15:42 UTC

Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 07:41:43 -0800
From: jkrey@ISI.EDU
Posted-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 07:41:43 PST
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Subject: USWG/DISI minutes - St. Louis
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		   User Services Working Group Report
   			    IETF - St Louis
		   Monday, March 10th - 1:30pm - 3:30pm
		   Chair: Joyce K. Reynolds/ISI (jkrey@isi.edu)


	Announcements:

	      -New Working Group - Internet User Glossary (USER-GLOSS)
	      -New Working Group - "Son of NOCTOOLS" (NOCTOOL2) 
	      -New Working Group - Directory Information Services
				   Infrastructure (DISI)

              -Q/A for New Internet Users - published (RFC 1206, FYI 4)
              -Q/A for Experienced Internet Users - 
				            published (RFC 1207, FYI 7)

	      -SSPHWG - met Tuesday afternoon, 3/12, 1:30pm-3:30pm
              -NISI  - met Wednesday afternoon, 3/13, 1:30pm-3:30pm


	Discussions/Reports:
	

		QUAIL - presented by: Gary Malkin 
			
			Gary led a brief discussion of the two
			currently issued Quail documents, and
			requested additional volunteers to 
			continue to help monitor the mailing lists, and 
			to contribute to future updates of Quail.


		DISI - presented by: Chris Weider

			The rest of the USWG session was devoted
			to the new working group, DISI.  Chris Weider
			led the session, which included discussion
			on the current charter, current deployment
			and players, available implementations, 
			documents to be produced, and how this group
			segues into User Services activities.

			1) In reviewing the current charter,
			suggestions were made to change the last
			paragraph to include "maintenance", and
			in the 2nd paragraph, change "building"
			to "providing" information.


			2) Chris will amend the charter, and send out
			a new one for approval.  The "combined
			efforts" of the OSI Integration Area and the
			User Services Area was discussed, as was
			what the current deployment of DSAs are.  There
			are curretnly more than 200 DSAs in 20
			countries!  


			3) What organizations are currently building
			infrastructure?  The FOX project at ISI,
			Merit, PSI, and SRI.  In Europe, PARADISE.
			Quipu - Part of the ISODE, IAN at UBC, 
			NIST (not fully functional yet).


			4) Documents to be produced by DISI.

			Vol. 1 - Advantage Document; What should I do
			it,, even if I know what it is??

			Vol. 2 - Implementation Document; rapidly
			changing.  Would provide current
			implementation & interoperability profiles.

			Vol. 3 - Advanced usages document/administrators
 			guide (~1 year life span).


			5) Writing Assignments

			Vol. 1 - Chirs Weider, Sergio Heker
				 and Joyce Reynolds

			Vol. 2 - Ruth Lang and Russ Wright

			Vol. 3 - Assignments will be made at the
				 next IETF in Atlanta.

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