User Services Area Director: o Joyce K. Reynolds: jkrey@isi.edu Area Summary reported by Joyce Reyolds/Information Sciences Institute Eight active working groups and one BOF (ARTS) were held in the User Services Area (USV) of the IETF in Danvers, Massachusetts. The Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet BOF (ARTS) The group identified three goals to be pursued as a working group. The first goal is development of a FAQ regarding value and role of the arts in the Internet. Tasks for this include development of a document summarizing current issues regarding the arts community Internet with an accompanying survey designed to identify needs and concerns from the arts and humanities community. Survey results will be used to develop the FAQ. The second goal is to define tools for artists' organizations on the Internet which will focus on creating, viewing and storage formats for arts humanities resources. This will include contributions regarding text, sound, still and motion images. It will address different operating systems, a glossary of basic terminology, and a bibliography. The third goal is to further define issues surrounding copyright and intellectual property, funding, and other support for arts humanities participation and any other needs identified by the survey. A draft of the summary document and survey will be prepared and presented at the next IETF meeting in Stockholm. Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS) The main aim of this meeting was to focus on the existing charter to either assign timescales to work items or to drop them. Work on the X.500 implementations catalogue is progressing and a version will be available on the Web by May. The WHOIS++ catalogue has been promised for April. A number of items were deemed beyond their sell-by date and have been dropped. A decision will be made on whether to pursue the privacy and legal issues in the next month and a revised charter will be circulated to the mailing list for comment and discussion. It was suggested that the following new items be added to the list of work items: o CCSO system documentation o CCSO to X.500 gateway o Core Internet X.500 schema o Evaluation of existing directory services with reference to WHIP All work items have been assigned and timescales have been agreed. The liaison reports indicated progress in the current directory service pilot projects. Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR) With the resignation of both chairs (Kevin Gamiel at the San Jose IETF and Chris Weider at the Danvers IETF), the IIIR Working Group has formally closed. The only outstanding item, draft-ietf-iiir-publishing-03.txt, will be moved into another appropriate group. Internet School Networking Working Group (ISN) The first few minutes of the session was spent having everyone introduce themselves and describe their interests in K-12 networking. Next on the agenda was the status and discussion of the document repository project. The webserver is located at http://www.lloyd.com and is ready to house documents or pointers to documents which will be of use to schools getting connected. Two documents were identified by the group to be included in the repository: Hastings and Carlitz's ``Stages of Internet Connectivity for School Networking'' and the US DOE survey on telecommunications for K-12 schools. The group also noted that the inclusion of a gopher and e-mail server with search capabilities would be useful. A draft FYI RFC announcing and describing the repository will be written by the Stockholm IETF. Additionally, it was noted that a review of the COSN gopher to avoid duplication of efforts should be done. The next item on the agenda was the status and discussion of the K-12 white pages project. Since the last IETF, no progress has been made. There was some discussion as to the scope of the project -- whether it should be a combined people and project directory or if it should be two projects. That question would be put forth to educators at the Wednesday evening session. A list of data elements will be circulated on the mailing list for feedback and then forwarded to InterNIC directory services to determine if the fields can be mapped to X.500. Additionally, the group will investigate using the existing directory services for K-12 projects by first reviewing the current directory service template. The next item on the agenda was the update of RFC 1578 (FYI 22). It was mentioned that the document should reference the Hastings and Carlitz's document ``Stages of Internet Connectivity for School Networking'' and that definitions for connectivity types should be added. Any other feedback would be welcomed by Jennifer Sellers and Julie Robichaux. A draft revision will be completed by the Stockholm IETF. The charter will be updated to reflect the completion of several milestones and the inclusion of a few new ones. Lastly, the group drafted an agenda for Wednesday night's session with local educators. The second meeting of the ISN Working Group was convened with local educators invited to attend and give their feedback on current ISN projects. The first few minutes was spent in the traditional ISN tradition -- going around the room and having each attendee introduce themselves and describe their interest in ISN. Joyce Reynolds then gave a general overview of the IETF organization and, specifically, the USV area of the IETF. Next on the agenda, the co-chairs gave short descriptions of the current ISN projects: the document repository, people/project directory and update of FYI 22. This was followed by more detailed discussion of each project which gave the attendees an opportunity to comment and provide input on the various projects. The group had several comments on the update of FYI 22. There was a significant discussion that the FYI should ``give realistic expectations'' of the Internet (busy hosts/networks, unable to locate host, etc.). Questions along the lines of: ``Why can't I get to X?'' and ``What am I doing wrong?'' should be added. The group also strongly recommended that a section on the Web needs to be included. The groups' comments on the document repository project reiterated the need to have the information available via gopher and e-mail (in addition to WWW) and to have the documents searchable. Discussions on the directory project were focused around the question: Which of the two would be more useful - a ``people'' directory or a ``project'' directory? The general consensus of the group was a ``project'' directory. The group also started identifying data elements of the project directory. The complete list will be circulated back to the group for comments. Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (NISI) Due to travel schedule conflicts for the working group chair, NISI did not meet in Danvers. This working group will meet at the Stockholm IETF this coming July 1995. Network Training Materials Working Group (TRAINMAT) The key items to be discussed were the catalogue of network training materials, review of available training materials, and using the network to deliver training. Discussion of the catalogue included extensive review of the template fields: addition of new fields, changing the names of existing fields, and categorization standards for various fields like country and languages. The group reached consensus on the proposed field changes and additions. The entries in the catalogue needed to be reviewed for quality and currency. Several people volunteered to review ``chunks'' of the catalogue. Summaries will be sent to the list. The group did note that many templates were not completely filled out and pointed out the need for an automated template verification process -- upon submission, the template would be scanned automatically to ensure that key fields are completed. Additionally, it was noted that ``searchable'' fields should have the contents of it ordered with the most significant bit of information first followed by the next most significant bit of info (i.e., last name, first name). The Catalogue of Training Materials is available via the Web from: o University of Adelaide http://coolabah.itd.adelaide.edu.au/TrainMat/catalogue.html o MidNet http://www.mid.net/TRAINMAT It was noted that pointers to the catalogue should be created from the USV-Web. The last item on the agenda was general discussion on using the network to deliver training. Several people mentioned using the Web to deliver training which illustrated the need to to have ``states'' incorporated into the httpd protocol. Additionally, Jill is working on having PowerPoint registered as a MIME file type. Jill also mentioned that Joyce has been working on getting a time slot allocated on the MBONE to experiment with broadcasting training over the MBONE. Details of the various projects will be posted in the TRAINMAT Working Group minutes. Responsible Use of the Network Working Group (RUN) The RUN Working Group met to review the first pass draft of the Netiquette Guide. There were a few general format comments followed by a complete review of the two sections of the draft which had been posted to the group's discussion list. The group then worked on the Introduction and Information Services sections in real-time. Participants came up with enough material that the new draft (which should be ready later this month) may be posted as an Internet-Draft. After a round of review by e-mail, there should be approval of the final Internet-Draft in Stockholm. Site Security Handbook Working Group (SSH) The SSH Working Group met twice during this IETF. During these two meetings, the group agreed on a detailed outline for the system/network administrators document. The group also reviewed material developed by several people and then worked on describing the content for the remaining sections. The group plans to have an Internet-Draft by May 1, and a second one before the Stockholm IETF meeting. All in all, the two working group sessions were very productive. Uniform Resource Identifiers Working Group (URI) Two URI Working Group sessions were held in Danvers. Session one included a presentation on URAs (Uniform Resource Agents), and a round robin URN-Fest to summarize current proposed URN schemes. Session two initiated reviews and attendee feedback of the following URI Internet Drafts: draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-06.txt draft-ietf-ietf-uri-url-irp-02.txt draft-ietf-uri-url-finger-02.txt draft-ietf-uri-url-mailserver-01.txt URC Scenarios and Requirements were presented for discussion by Ron Daniel and Michael Mealling. The authors are seeking feedback concerning the minor modifications made of the draft document. The remainder of this session was devoted to continued discussion of five proposed URL schemes and associated issues. A URN Scheme Bake Off is proposed for the Stockholm IETF (or failing that, the Dallas IETF). User Services Working Group (USWG) Opening introductions of USWG attendees and a report on IETF User Services Area activities initiated this session. Joyce Reynolds provided a report on the IETF USV Area presentations at the Interop+Networld95 convention in Las Vegas, Nevada in March and at the RIPE meetings in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last January. Jill Foster provided a liaison report on current TERENA ISUS proposals and activities. The INET95 ``User Track'' conference sessions have been finalized and were presented to the USWG members. INET95 will be meeting the week of June 26th in Honolulu, Hawaii. Progress/Discussion of USWG projects included the USV-WEB (by Debbie Hamilton, InterNIC), USV-HTML (by Janet L. Marcisak, FTP Software), and by JKRey regarding USV-TV. In the last 30 minutes of the session, there was discussion on updates of two FYI RFC documents: o FYI 16, RFC 1359 -- ``Connecting to the Internet: What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate'' o FYI 3, RFC 1175 -- ``FYI on Where to Start: A Bibliography of Internetworking Information''