CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Gary Malkin/FTP Software and Bob Enger/Contel NOCtools2 Minutes Agenda o Suggested format changes o Suggested augmentations (indexes, charts, etc) o Updating entries o On-going maintainance o Locating worker bees (appointing volunteers) Discussions Format changes everybody seemed happy with the current format so it was decided to leave it as it is. Augmentations if there is always a postscript version, we should have a nice cross-reference chart for keywords and tools. This was discussed in NOCtools originally. Updating existing entries it was decided that the contacts for the entries in the current catalog will be contacted for updates. In the future, all entries will have a "last updated" timestamp. Entries which are not updated by the contacts within some (to be determined) time, will be deleted. Updates must be submitted as whole replacements for entries. Requests to modify an entry will be refused (too much overhead). Adding new entries we will send mail to ietf, tcp-ip, pc-ip and snmp mailing lists announcing the re-opening of the catalog. Other announcement possibilities are ConneXions and trade magazines (which didn't work too well last time). Additionally, it was decided to poll the user community (rather than just vendors) to ask what tools they 1 use often (NB: care must be taken to avoid words like "recommended"). On-going maintainance this is a topic which plagues the User Services Working Group since many documents are ``living documents''. Various suggestions, such as on-line databases, were discussed; however, no consensus was reached. Other Items o The Charter needs to be tweeked to be NOCtool2. o Contact John Wobus about big-lan mailing list. o Contact Don Morris about grad student tools. o Cliff Newman suggested Prospero for remote access. o Is ODA useful? o Check in with Network Distributed Database Working Group. o Jim Sheridan suggests dial-up modem to upload new entries. Action Items Bob Enger divide current catalog among himself, Gary Malkin and Darren Kinley to get tool updates Gary Malkin compose user community poll and send to NOCtools list for refinement Attendees Steve Bostock steveb@novell.com Richard Bowles bowles@stsci.edu Fred Engel engel@concord.com Robert Enger enger@seka.scc.com Bill Fardy fardy@ctron.com Douglas Gale dgale@note.nsf.gov Shawn Gallagher gallagher@quiver.enet.dec.com Keith Hacke hacke@informatics.wustl.edu Mike Janson mjanson@mot.com Kenneth Key key@cs.utk.gdy Darren Kinley kinley@crim.ca Cheryl Krupczak clefor@secola.columbia.ncr.com 2 Gary Malkin gmalkin@ftp.com Joyce Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Ron Roberts roberts@jessica.stanford.edu Kary Robertson kr@concord.com.kr Karen Roubicek roubicek@bbn.com Jonathan Saperia saperia@decwrl.enet.dec.com Jim Sheridan jsherida@ibm.com Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Michael Stanton "usermas@lncc.bitnet" Shujiuan Wang swang@ibm.com Daniel Weidman weidman@wudos2.wustl.edu Wing Fai Wong wfwong@malta.sbi.com 3