CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Kevin Gamiel/MCNC - CNIDR Minutes of the Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR) Agenda o Approval of Minutes o Agenda Revisions o Status of Drafts o Integrated Information Architecture Work o IAB Retreat Report o IAFA into IIIR o CNI NIDR Paper Discussion o Gordon Irlam Architecture Ideas o HTTP BOF o Charter Revisions Summary There were approximately one hundred participants, half of which indicated they were newcomers. Following a brief introduction to IIIR, Chris Weider discussed the current status of current IIIR documents. ``Z39.50 Over TCP/IP'' by Cliff Lynch, ``A Vision of an Integrated Internet'' by Chris Weider and Peter Deutsch as well as ``Resource Transponders'' by Chris Weider have all been approved and were sent to the RFC Editor as Informational RFCs following the last IETF meeting in Toronto. They are predicted to be published by the end of the calendar year by the RFC Editor. An informal report on the IAB workshop that took place in the Washington DC area in the fall was presented in three sections. ``Caching and Replication'' by Tim Berners-Lee and Mike Schwartz, ``Security and Authentication'' by Karen Sollins and ``Searching'' by Chris Weider. The members of the retreat broke down the architectural problems as they saw them into several general categories. There will be a formal white paper describing the outcome of the retreat published in early spring and will be presented to the IIIR mailing list. Tim Berners-Lee listed the requirements established by the ``Caching and Replication'' group as quality of service, e.g. synchronization and consistency, central management capable, optimized, adaptive, replicate executable objects and hooks for billing, accounting and logging. Karen presented a graphical model of a security and authentication subsystem consisting in part of an object manager, caching services, indexing services and others. The full IAB report will cover more details on the security and authentication issues as well as the searching issues. Cliff Lynch discussed a paper on NIDR that he, Cecilia Preston, Craig Summerhill and Avra Michelson are working on as part of a CNI initiative. The paper will focus on historical perspectives concerning information discovery and retrieval but will spend much focus on new trends and in particular, the use of meta-data in modern information systems. A first draft of this document is due at the spring CNI meeting. Gordon Irlam gave a presentation on his vision of an Internet information architecture. Simon Spero reminded the group of the first HTTP BOF to be held within the IETF. HTTP was first discussed, as was HTML, in the IIIR forum. The remaining time was spent discussing the future of the IIIR Working Group. Consensus was reached that the working group should continue but with perhaps a more general scope than traditional working groups. Hence, the charter is being rewritten by the chairs and area directors to reflect this consensus.