CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Darren Kinley/CRIM

NOCtools2 Minutes


Agenda

The NOCtool2 Working Group held a relatively short meeting at the 21st
IETF in Atlanta.  The meeting served mostly to report on the revision of
RFC 1147/FYI 2, as well as to discuss the maintenance of ``living
documents''.  On the agenda,


   o Summary of Working Group charter by Gary Malkin
   o Status of the document revision process by Gary Malkin
   o Discussion of how to best complete the revision process
   o Discussion of on-going maintenance for ``living documents''



Discussions

Deadlines and Schedules     The official deadline for catalog
                        submissions will be one month before the next
                        IETF, leaving almost a month to prepare a draft
                        document.  Following an editing session in
                        Santa Fe the document will be put up as ID, and
                        after a period of two months will be either
                        reviewed and remain ID for another two month
                        period, or be submitted to the RFC editor.
Living Documents        The group still hasn't made much headway on how
                        to deal with this complex problem.  Realizing
                        that we are probably not best suited to solve
                        this problem ourselves, we are beginning to
                        look to the IETF and beyond for some input.
Funding                 The issue of funding for a project in which the
                        ``living documents'' problem would be addressed
                        was raised.  Much discussion about requirements
                        for funding, IETF policy, and obligations to
                        funding agencies ensued.  Nothing has been
                        decided, the idea remains under consideration.
Santa Fe Meeting        Draft document editing session and revisit the
                        ``living documents'' problem.



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Other Items


   o Contact the Help Desk mailing list.
   o Find alternative ways for submitting entries (i.e., kermit).
   o Will we apply ``diff''s?


Action Items

Robert Enger, Darren Kinley and Gary Malkin Contact remaining people
with entries, continue to solicit and accept new entries, prepare draft
document for Santa Fe meeting.

Joyce Reynolds Make available guidelines for solicitation of funds to
interested persons.

Gary Malkin Consider funding for maintenance of ``living documents''
problem vis-a-vis the Internet Society.

Joyce Reynolds Make initial contact with the applications area director
concerning the maintenance of ``living documents'' and consider a joint
meeting with appropriate Working Groups.


Attendees

Henry Clark              henryc@oar.net
Robert Enger             enger@seka.scc.com
Shari Galitzer           shari@gateway.mitre.org
Kenneth Goodwin          goodwin@psc.edu
Jack Hahn                hahn@sura.net
Darren Kinley            kinley@crim.ca
Peter Liebscher          plieb@sura.net
Gary Malkin              gmalkin@ftp.com
April Marine             april@nisc.sri.com
Marsha Perrott           mlp@andrew.cmu.edu
Joyce K. Reynolds        jkrey@isi.edu
Ron Roberts              roberts@jessica.stanford.edu
Kary Robertson           kr@concord.com
Tom Sandoski             tom@concert.net



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