CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Joyce Reynolds/ISI Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG) Announcements o New Working Group - Internet School Networking (ISN) o New Working Group - Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (IAFA) o New Working Group - User-Doc Revised - DISI - met Monday afternoon - 4:00-6:00pm - NISI - met Tuesday morning, 9:30-12:00N - ISN - met Tuesday afternoon, 1:30-3:30pm - IAFA - met Tuesday afternoon, 4:00-6:00pm - User-Gloss - met Wednesday afternoon, 1:30-3:30pm - NOCTools - meets Wednesday evening, 7:00-10:00pm Discussions/Reports 1. Report on the RARE WG3 meetings held in Zurich, Switzerland. Reported by Joyce K. Reynolds. The RARE WG3 USIS Working Group and the IETF User Services Working Group are working in parallel. Jill Foster, Chair of USIS, concurs. The RARE WG3 Working Group provides first level services to end users. The IETF User Services Working Group have traditionally provided second level services (i.e., providing documentation to people who provide services to end users). RARE WG3 will continue to provide first level services, while IETF User Services will provide ``information packets'' and other user services documentation. RARE will delegate their members to actively work on IETF working groups. 2. Revision of User-Doc Working Group - Presented by Lenore Jackson & Ellen Hoffman, User-Doc Co-chairs. Discussion focused on the revision of its charter, establishing procedures on updating the bibliography, additional objectives, and future goals. 3. QUAIL - presented by Gary Malkin. Brief discussion and comments of an updated Quail document for ``new Internet users''. The updating of this document is necessary due to the transition of DDN NIC services from SRI to GSI. The current structure/formatting of the document was also discussed. 4. SIGUCCS draft - Martyne Hallgren. Written by ACM Siguccs Networking Taskforce. Martyne's taskforce intends to submit this draft into the 1 ``Internet-Drafts'' process, with the end result being an FYI/RFC. She brought this document into the USWG forum for comments and feedback. Document title - ``Connecting to the Internet - what connecting institutions should anticipate'' Abstract: This memo outlines the major issues an institution should consider in the decision and implementation of a campus connection to the Internet. The list of issues is not exhaustive but rather this document should alert decision makers to major concerns to be addressed in the critical phases of an institution's full participation in the Internet community. Martyne received positive comments on this draft. This draft is akin to the "INCH" task on the USWG list of "things to do". Attendees Robert Blokzijl K13@nikhef.nl Vinton Cerf vcerf@nri.reston.va.us Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgill.ca Alan Emtage bajan@cc.mcgill.ca Robert Enger enger@seka.scc.com Hans Eriksson hans@sics.se John Gong jgong@us.oracle.com Martyne Hallgren martyne@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu Ellen Hoffman esh@merit.edu J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net Alton Hoover hoover@nis.ans.net Geoff Huston g.huston@aarnet.edu.au Lenore Jackson jackson@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu Scott Kaplan scott@ftp.com Darren Kinley kinley@crim.ca Carol Lambert cjlx@cornella.cit.cornell.edu Ruth Lang rlang@nisc.sri.com Peter Liebscher plieb@sura.net Gary Malkin gmalkin@ftp.com April Marine april@nisc.sri.com Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu Joyce Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com Tom Sandoski tom@concert.net Dana Sitzler dds@merit.edu Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Joanie Thompson joanie@nsipo.nasa.gov Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Wengyik Yeong yeongw@psi.com 2