Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/30 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by George Brett/MCNC Minutes of the Networked Information Retrieval BOF (NIR) Introductions It was agreed that the mailing list, nir@cc.mcgill.ca, that was set up by Peter Deutsch would continue to be used by the NIR Working Group and that all names on the roster would be added to that list. Administrative Business - Discussion of Charter We discussed the elements of the Charter necessary to develop this BOF into for a Working Group. The draft of the Charter has been posted to the NIR mailing list. The goals and objectives are still up for discussion. Other items of discussion from the floor included the frequency of publications, future definition of networked information retrieval standards, and scope of the documents produced by the NIR Working Group. Updates from Brett & Foster Jill Foster and George Brett presented information about projects that they are working on. Jill described the RARE Information Services and User Support Working Group. George spoke about the Coalition for Networked Information Directories and Networked Resources Services Working Group and the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval. Contact Jill or George at their email addresses if you would like more information about these projects. Scope of topic The scope of the topic was addressed during the discussion on the Charter, so not much more was said at this time. Templates A majority of the session was spent talking about the two templates that will be used to gather information about networked information retrieval applications and about organizations which are working on projects related to NIR. The draft copies of the templates have been posted to the NIR mailing list and are available at the archive kept there (pub/mailing-lists/nir at archives.cc.mcgill.ca). We welcome comments and suggestions about the templates, but do plan to begin implementing them before the November 1992 IETF meeting. 1 Attendees George Abe abe@infonet.com Ed Albrigo ealbrigo@cos.com George Brett ghb@jazz.concert.net Mitchell Charity mcharity@lcs.mit.edu Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Alan Clegg abc@concert.net Richard Colella colella@osi.ncsl.nist.gov Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgill.ca Alan Emtage bajan@cc.mcgill.ca Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk Jim Fullton jim_fullton@unc.edu Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu Martyne Hallgren martyne@mitchell.cit.cornell.edu Alf Hansen Alf.Hansen@delab.sintef.no Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net Tim Howes Tim.Howes@umich.edu. Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl David Katinsky dmk@rutgers.edu John Klensin klensin@infoods.mit.edu Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager@switch.ch Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu April Marine april@nisc.sri.com Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu Rakesh Patel rapatel@hardees.rutgers.edu Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu Mel Pleasant pleasant@cs.rutgers.edu Sheri Repucci smr@merit.edu Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com Srinivas Sataluri sri@qsun.att.com Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu Vincent Sgro sgro@cs.rutgers.edu Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Simon Spero ses@cmns.think.com Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com 2