Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/27 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Joan Gargano/UCDavis Minutes of the Directory Resources Engineering Group BOF (DREGS) I. Introductions Joyce Reynolds opened the session with an overview of how this session was initiated. A notice was recently posted that the whois protocol has been accepted as an Internet Standard. This prompted Russ Hobby, Area Director for Applications, to ask the Internet community for examples of working whois services. A list of about 80 servers was generated. Staff at the University of California, Davis looked at each of these servers and produced a working paper describing valuable new features found in these servers and additions to the protocol that would enhance its usefulness. II. Review of Current Whois Servers A brief review of current whois servers and valuable features was presented, based upon the discussion paper. Topics included: o Hostnames used for whois service for a domain o Review of information content o Review of information display o Review of help responses o Definition of desired information content - People - Machines - Domains - Services III. Review/Discussion of Draft Working Group Charter A lengthy discussion followed regarding the role of the whois Working Group in relation to the X.500 Directory Services Working Group. Several members of the Group felt no further work on the whois protocol should be done as it would detract from work on the X.500 Directory Service. In rebuttal, several members of the Group felt there was a role for whois, especially since there are many working servers, and this effort would add value to an existing standard protocol. It was argued that it was consistent with IETF philosophy to allow the development of more than one protocol to perform similar services and to let the Internet community choose which one to use. Joyce Reynolds brought the focus of the Group back to the issue of the Working Group Gharter and how the whois work would proceed. Members of 1 the Group originally objecting to continued work on whois, agreed with the Charter presented at the meeting if ``Directory Services'' was removed from the Working Group name. The Working Group name was changed to ``Whois and Network Information Lookup Services'' and the Charter was approved for forwarding to the User Services Area. Attendees George Brett ghb@jazz.concert.net Cyrus Chow cchow@orion.arc.nasa.gov Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Curtis Cox ccox@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgill.ca Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk Cliff Frost cliff@cmsa.berkeley.edu Maria Gallagher maria@nsipo.nasa.gov Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org Arlene Getchell getchell@nersc.gov Steve Hardcastle-Kille s.kille@isode.com Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu Tim Howes Tim.Howes@umich.edu. Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com April Marine april@nisc.sri.com Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu Eric Nowak nowak@ans.net Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au Sheri Repucci smr@merit.edu Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com Srinivas Sataluri sri@qsun.att.com Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu Jane Smith jds@jazz.concert.net Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu Marten Terpstra terpstra@ripe.net Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Moira West mjw@cert.org Scott Williamson scottw@nic.ddn.mil Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com 2