CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Kevin Gamiel/MCNC - CNIDR Minutes of the Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR) Z39.50 Over TCP/IP Clifford Lynch discussed his paper on using the Z39.50 Search and Retrieve protocol directly over TCP as opposed to OSI. The paper was introduced in Amsterdam by Jim Fullton. Members of the group requested that the paper be resubmitted to the list for further review. The paper will be submitted as a candidate for an Informational RFC. WAIS and Z39.50 Margaret St. Pierre discussed the Internet-Draft ``WAIS over Z39.50 1988.'' The document was submitted to the IIIR list on October 27, 1993 for review. It is being considered as an Informational RFC profiling the use of Z39.50 version 1988 by the traditional WAIS protocol. The document is meant to be an overview of current implementation rather than a rigorous technical specification. It addresses such issues as the history of the WAIS protocol as well as assumptions made by the WAIS community. The group offered no additions or corrections to the document. Quality Assurance With the growing numbers of commercial products based on protocols such as Gopher, the need for quality assurance has increased. Quality assurance in this context addresses such issues as invalid pointers to data objects, interoperability among the current information systems and the ability to contact information maintenance personnel. A mailing list has been established named quality@sunsite.unc.edu. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@sunsite.unc.edu with ``subscribe quality '' in the text. If activity on this list is substantial, the group will consider moving activity into IIIR in Seattle. An informal BOF on quality assurance was held by Mitra following this IIIR meeting. The notes from that BOF will be posted to the IIIR list. Format Types Registry The idea of a data types registry was discussed in Amsterdam. Greg Vaudreuil agreed to write a document on using the MIME content type registry in Amsterdam, but that document was never posted to the IIIR list. Area Director John Klensin indicated that the document had been denied by the IESG based on the fact that it undermined an existing RFC. During the second IIIR meeting, Jon Postel announced that a solution would be worked out to allow assignment of a wide variety of new types to the MIME specification. This might include such things as registering a 'Application' type and allowing registry of additional subtypes under this. The discussion will be taken to the list. The Vision Document The Vision document was approved for progression as an Informational RFC after appropriate text was added to make it clear that the IIIR Working Group believed this to be a valid vision of the future but that this was not the consensus of all members of the group. Chris Weider stated that the appropriate text would be added and the document would be moved on. Resource Transponders The Resource Transponder document was approved for moving to Informational RFC following the same pattern as the Vision document. Again Chris stated that the appropriate text would be added and the document would be moved on. HTML/HTTP This topic was deferred to the list due to the absence of Tim Berners-Lee. Horton Hears a WHOIS This presentation had been given in the WHOIS and Network Information Lookup Service Working Group (WNILS) meeting to substantially the same audience, and Simon Spero graciously waived it in IIIR to allow more time for other items. Thanks, Simon! Gopher0 After some discussion, an acceptable compromise was reached to clear up minor problems in RFC 1436. These changes will be made and the RFC resubmitted. Data Elements The non-existent Data Elements Working Group reported that the effort to define standard data elements for networked objects was unsuccessful. The work to define standard templates will be done in a different working group. That particular working group has not yet been created, and needs to fit in with the reorganization of the directory services working groups planned for the Directory Services Directorate. More discussion will be taken to the list. Attendees Farhad Anklesaria fxa@boombox.micro.umn.edu Jules Aronson aronson@nlm.nih.gov Anders Baardsgaard anders@cc.uit.no Sepideh Boroumand sepi@aol.com Luc Boulianne lucb@cs.mcgill.ca Ronald Broersma ron@nosc.mil Randy Bush randy@psg.com Susan Calcari calcaris@internic.net Hallie Carlson hallie@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov David Crocker dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu Walt Drummond drummond@noc.rutgers.edu Alan Emtage bajan@bunyip.com Qin Fang qin_fang@unc.edu Carlos Fernandez carlos@plk.af.mil Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk Paul Francis Francis@thumper.bellcore.com Kevin Gamiel kgamiel@cnidr.org Arlene Getchell getchell@es.net Mei-Jean Goh goh@mpr.ca Judith Grass grass@cnri.reston.va.us Deborah Hamilton debbieh@internic.net Roland Hedberg Roland.Hedberg@rc.tudelft.nl Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Richard Huber rvh@ds.internic.net Brendan Kehoe brendan@zen.org Byonghak Kim bhkim@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr Jim Knowles jknowles@binky.arc.nasa.gov Mark Kosters markk@internic.net John Kunze jak@violet.berkeley.edu Paul Lambert paul_lambert@email.mot.com Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org Edward Levinson elevinson@accurate.com Ben Levy seven@ftp.com Dave Livingston squirrel@vnet.net Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov Jim Martin jim@noc.rutgers.edu Chip Matthes chip@delphi.com Mark McCahill mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu Wayne McDilda wayne@dir.texas.gov Michael McLay mclay@eeel.nist.gov Michael Mealling michael.mealling@oit.gatech.edu Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu Lars-Gunnar Olsson Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se Scott Paisley paisley@central.bldrdoc.gov Pete Percival percival@indiana.edu Marsha Perrott perrott@prep.net Karen Petraska-Veum karen.veum@gsfc.nasa.gov Cecilia Preston cpreston@info.berkeley.edu Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Steven Richardson sjr@merit.edu Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu Rickard Schoultz schoultz@sunet.se Martin Schulman schulman@smtp.sprint.com Henning Schulzrinne hgs@research.att.com Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Suzanne Smith smith@es.net Karen Sollins sollins@lcs.mit.edu Milan Sova sova@feld.cvut.cz Simon Spero ses@unc.edu Margaret St. Pierre saint@wais.com Craig Summerhill craig@cni.org Raymond Vega rvega@cicese.mx Janet Vratny janet@apple.com Chris Weider clw@bunyip.com Taehwan Weon weon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr Brien Wheeler blw@mitre.org Jackie Wilson Jackie.Wilson@msfc.nasa.gov