Editor's note: These minutes have not been edited. Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 13:00:58 -1000 From: Jodi-Ann Ito Subject: ISN2 BOF Minutes ISN2 BOF Minutes December 4, 1995 - 7:30pm Dallas, Texas The ISN2 BOF was convened at 7:30pm by co-chair Jodi Ito. The purpose of the BOF was to invite local educators to attend and provide input into ISN projects and how ISN can better help the education community. Co-chair, Jennifer Sellers held an interim ISN meeting at Tel-Ed in Ft. Lauderdale the previous week and was unable to attend this IETF. After introductions, Joyce Reynolds gave a short overview of the IETF, User Services Area, and RFC/FYI document series. Attendees provided several suggestions to better publicize the works of the ISN: publish articles in educators' and librarians' magazines and journals, send announcements to lists and newsletters, and ask ISPs, NICs and regional education labs to point to the on-line FYI documents. Following the agenda, a brief description of the document repository was given and the attendees were asked to review it and submit their comments and any additional documents to the list. Copies of the update to FYI 22 - FAQ for Schools were distributed and the attendees were asked to review it and submit their comments to the authors - Jennifer Sellers (sellers@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov) and Julie Robichaux (julie@bbnplanet.com). The question: "how can ISN help educators within the IETF framework?" was posed to the group. Several suggestions were made: support/advocate use of the Internet for business applications for schools like purchasing, student records/tracking, etc., print business case studies - cost-savings success stories, collect "success" and "real-life" stories and have them searchable. Sepi Boroumand introduced the idea of creating a document targeted for those interested in starting a help desk. General consensus around the room indicated a need for a document like this. Information that would be useful to the education community is a description of the support process and costs involved. It would also be useful to include a sample job description or qualifications for a support position like this. The document should also state how it would be different from an ISP's help desk and why it would be useful to the school community. As there as no additional business, the meeting was concluded around 9:30pm.