CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Joyce Reynolds/Information Sciences Institute Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG) This USWG session was multicast for the first time for those folks who were unable to attend the Houston IETF. Joyce Reynolds provided a report on IETF User Services Area activities, including working groups coming to closure and new working groups starting up, new publications, and current user services related Internet-Drafts postings. New FYI RFC publications since the last IETF: ____________________________________________________________________________ | FYI 21 | RFC 1491 |``A Survey of Advanced Usages of X.500'' | July 1993 | | | | | | | FYI 17 | RFC 1539 |``The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New | October 1993 | | | |Attendees of the Internet Engineering | | |________|__________|Task Force''_____________________________|______________| User Services Area Internet-Drafts posted since the last IETF: draft-ietf-isn-faq-01.txt draft-ietf-ids-pilots-00.txt draft-ietf-iafa-howftp-00.txt draft-ietf-ids-x500-survey-02.txt draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt, ps draft-ietf-nisi-nics-00.txt draft-ietf-uri-resource-names-01.txt Gary Malkin briefly discussed the ``DAWG'' (Distribution and Announcement Working Group) idea that has been sitting on the USWG's backburner for awhile. A BOF will be held at the next IETF to see if there is further interest in this topic. Ann Cooper led a presentation and discussion on the US Domain. Ann and Jon Postel fielded a ``questions and answers'' session on this topic. (Note: Ann's slides follow these minutes.) Jill Foster and Joyce Reynolds reported on the RARE ISUS meetings and the EARN Network Services Conference held in Warsaw, Poland, in which they participated. Jill announced the INET94/JENC5 Call For Papers---User Information Track to the USWG. Jill was asked to run this track, and asked Joyce if she would be co-track leader. There was continued discussion from the Amsterdam IETF on Bill Manning's thoughts about how to ``empower'' users to utilize and document tools. The concept about the development of a series of notes that will address the manners and morals of the collective body was addressed. Another topic that was discussed was how to deal with the basics (e.g., How do ``I'' get attached?). It was deemed more appropriate to address these topics in the USERDOC2 Working Group and/or in additional IETF User Services Area working groups. At the next USWG session during the Seattle IETF, we will be holding the USWG sessions at the very first part of the week and will continue to multicast the session for those who do not have travel funding to attend the USWG. Joyce has already spoken to Megan Walnut about the scheduling of the this group. The USWG also will be discussing what other avenues that this group can undertake, along with what we have already been doing very successfully :-). GOLD STARS FOR EVERYONE! Attendees Farhad Anklesaria fxa@boombox.micro.umn.edu Jules Aronson aronson@nlm.nih.gov Sepideh Boroumand sepi@aol.com Susan Calcari calcaris@internic.net Hallie Carlson hallie@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov Henry Clark henryc@oar.net Alan Clegg abc@concert.net Ann Cooper cooper@isi.edu Avri Doria avri@locus.com Sallie Fellows sallie@ed.unh.edu Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk Kevin Gamiel kgamiel@cnidr.org Judith Grass grass@cnri.reston.va.us Martyne Hallgren martyne@mitchell.cit.cornell.edu Deborah Hamilton debbieh@internic.net Roland Hedberg Roland.Hedberg@rc.tudelft.nl Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu Melanie Humphrey msh@uiuc.edu Brendan Kehoe brendan@zen.org Mark Kosters markk@internic.net Ben Levy seven@ftp.com Dave Livingston squirrel@vnet.net Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov Mark McCahill mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu Michael Mealling michael.mealling@oit.gatech.edu Lars-Gunnar Olsson Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se Scott Paisley paisley@central.bldrdoc.gov Marsha Perrott perrott@prep.net David Piscitello wk04464@worldlink.com Jon Postel postel@isi.edu Cecilia Preston cpreston@info.berkeley.edu Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Rickard Schoultz schoultz@sunet.se Martin Schulman schulman@smtp.sprint.com Jennifer Sellers sellers@quest.arc.nasa.gov Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Milan Sova sova@feld.cvut.cz Taehwan Weon weon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr Scott Williamson scottw@nic.ddn.mil