NIR Report Update time

Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk Fri, 12 March 1993 16:19 UTC

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 15:11:13 +0000
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From: Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Subject: NIR Report Update time
To: nir@cc.mcgill.ca
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 I've just emailed the following to the new nir list.  There are still
 some people who haven't subscribed to it yet.  I'd be grateful if you
 would subscribe as soon as possible (assuming you wish to continue in
 these discussions).

 Thanks - Jill

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Date:     Fri, 12 Mar 93  15:08:27 GMT
>From:    Jill.Foster @ newcastle.ac.uk
Subject:  NIR Report Update time
To:       nir @ mailbase.ac.uk

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                 Time to Update the NIR Report!!
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 The IETF/RARE/CNI Networked Information Retrieval (NIR) Working Group
 has collected together information about networked information
 retrieval tools, their developers and other interested organisations
 working in this area.

 The current version (November '92) of this draft "Consumer Report" may
 be retrieved by anonymous ftp from:

           mailbase.ac.uk

  file:    /pub/nir/consumer.report

 This report is being built up bit by bit.  The next stage is to look
 at doing some objective "evaluation" of the various tools.  (Which
 supports what etc.)  Are there any volunteers to work on this?

 Meanwhile it is time to update the various sections of the report to
 form a current "snapshot" on the activities in the area of networked
 information retrieval (NIR).  I would like to have these updated ready
 for circulation before the March IETF meeting (starts 29th March).

 I will email the authors of the various sections of the report, to
 update their sections and return them to me by Thursday 18th March if
 at all possible.  (I'll be emailing them their current entry).

 The NIR tools and groups included in the current report are given
 below.  I'd welcome suggestions for others to be included.  (Veronica
 and XMosaic are obvious ommissions.)

 NIR Tools:

      Alex
      archie
      gopher
      Hyper-G
      Hytelnet
      Netfind
      Prospero
      Soft Pages
      WAIS
      WHOIS
      World Wide Web
      X.500 

 Groups:

      CNI             CNI-arch
                      Top node
                      Directory
                      WAIS Support Centre

      IETF            IAFA WG
                      OSI-DS WG
                      NISI WG
                      URL WG
                      URI WG
                      IIIS WG
                      WNILS
                      NIR-WG    joint IETF/RARE WG 

      OCLC            USMARC WG

      RARE            ISUS WG   joint NIR task force with IETF

      SR-NETT Group   Nordic SR-project

 Thanks very much for your help with this.

 Best wishes - Jill

 Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk (NIR-WG co-chair).

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