User Services Area Director(s): o Joyce Reynolds: jkrey@isi.edu Area Summary reported by Joyce Reyolds/ISI Three new Working Groups met at the IETF in St. Louis: o Directory Information Services (pilot) Infrastructure Working Group (DISI), Chaired by Chris Weider. o Internet User Glossary Working Group (userglos) Chaired by Karen Roubicek and Tracy LaQuey Parker o NOC-Tool Catalogue Revisions Working Group (noctool2) Chaired by Robert Enger and Gary Malkin Working Group Reports DISI - Chaired by Chris Weider DISI is chartered to facilitate the deployment in the Internet of Directory Services based on implementations of the X.500 standards. It will facilitate this deployment by producing informational RFCs intended to serve as a Directory Services ``Administrator's Guide''. These RFCs will relate the current usage and scope of the X.500 standard and Directory Services in North America and the world, and will contain information on the procurement, installation, and operation of various implementations of the X.500 standard. As the various implementations of the X.500 standard work equally well over TCP/IP and CLNP, the DISI working group shall not mandate specific implementations or transport protocols. DISI is an offshoot of the OSI Directory Services group and is a combined effort of the User Services Area and the OSI Integration Area of the IETF. NISI - Chaired by Dana Sitzler and Patricia Smith 1 The ``Building a Network Information Services Infrastructure'' draft document was expanded to more accurately define and describe a NIC, with the ultimate goal intended to make it easier for users to get information from NICs. The current Working Group draft was gone over with the NISI members, with the intent to install it as an Internet-Draft after the St. Louis IETF. NOCTOOL2 - Chaired by Robert Enger and Gary Malkin A new Charter is in place. The ``Son of NOCTools'' Working Group is currently in process of updating and revising their catalog to assist network managers in the selection and acquisition of diagnostic and analytic tools for TCP/IP Internets. USERGLOS - Chaired by Karen Roubicek and Tracy LaQuey Parker The User-Gloss Working Group is chartered to create an Internet glossary of networking terms and acronyms for the Internet community. At this meeting the working group went over and amended the charter, defined the criteria for glossary terms, reviewed existing glossaries, discussed glossary format, and discussed and defined processes for drafting, editing and group review. SSPHWG - Chaired by J. Paul Holbrook and Joyce K. Reynolds Please consult the Security Area Director's report for information on this group's current progress. The SSPHWG is a combined effort of the Security and User Services Area of the IETF. USWG - Chaired by Joyce K. Reynolds Agenda items included: o 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. o DISI(-SpresentedebyeChrisaWeiderbove working group report.) o The USWG published two documents: - Malkin, G., and A. Marine, ``FYI on Questions and Answers - 2 Answers to Commonly asked `New Internet User' Questions'', FYI 4, RFC 1206. - Malkin, G., Marine A., and J. Reynolds, ``FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly asked `Experienced Internet User' Questions'', FYI 7, RFC 1207. Announcement The User Services Area of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), has established a User Services Area Council (USAC) to promote and encourage creative exchange of international user service needs and concepts. Constructive input from various national and international user services organizations for the purpose of not duplicating each organization's efforts is also encouraged. USAC will be responsible for researching and defining short term and long term user services needs and coordinating developments in finding solutions. The primary responsibilities of USAC members are to actively provide input for the current and future developments of user services concerns. This forum will conduct meetings in conjunction with the IETF plenaries. Primary interaction among members will take place via electronic mail. The User Services Area Director of the IESG chairs the USAC. Current membership includes representation from Australia, Canada, Europe, Israel and Japan. 3