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Reported by John Veizades/Apple

Resource Location BOF Minutes

At the Boulder IETF meeting a group got together for an informal Birds
of a Feather session to discuss the issue of finding resources in an
internetworked environment.  John Veizades from Apple and Steve Deering
from Xerox lead the meeting.

The meeting included a presentation of work in progress at the
University of Colorado, Boulder.  Michael Schwartz presented work he has
done on the location of personal information in an interneted
environment.  Paper describing his work can be found on
latour.colorado.edu in the directory /pub/RD.Papers/.

Ralph Droms talked about his work on the Knowbot services.

John Veizades gave a description of two protocols that are used for the
finding of arbitrary services in an interneted environment:


   o Name Binding Protocol used by the AppleTalk protocol family to find
     services.
   o Network Binding Protocol which is part of the Xerox Network System
     (XNS) protocol family.


The group came to the conclusion that a Working Group should be formed
to look into resource and service location metaphors.

Although the Chair is still to be determined, an interest list will be
formed and an announcement of the interest list and the Working Group
Charter is forthcoming.

Attendees

Steve Alexander          stevea@i88.isc.com
Scott Bradner            sob@harvard.edu
Theodore Brunner         tob@thumper.bellcore.com
Randy Butler             rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Vinton Cerf              vcerf@NRI.Reston.VA.US

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Steve Deering            deering@xerox.com
Ralph Droms              droms@bucknell.edu
Peter Ford               peter@lanl.gov
Karen Frisa              karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu
Debbie Futcher           dfutche@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Douglas Kerr             dougk@wc.novell.com
Steve Kille              S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Holly Knight             holly@apple.com
Joshua Littlefield       josh@cayman.com
John Lunny               jlunny@twg.com
Tony Mason               mason+@transarc.com
Donna McMaster           mcmaster@davidsys.com
Greg Minshall            minshall@wc.novell.com
Lynn Monsanto            monsanto@sun.com
Jim Reinstedler          jimr@ub.com
Joel Replogle            replogle@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Robert Reschly           reschly@brl.mil
Kary Robertson
Michael Schwartz         schwartz@boulder.colorado.edu
Karen Sollins            sollins@lcs.mit.edu
Glenn Trewitt            trewitt@nsl.pa.dec.com
John Veizades            veizades@apple.com
Steven Waldbusser        waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu
Carol Ward               cward@spot.colorado.edu
David Wood               dcmwood@spot.colorado.edu



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