CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Joyce K. Reynolds/Information Sciences Institute Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG) A report on IETF User Services Area activities opened the USWG session on Monday, 3 April. Joyce K. Reynolds (ISI) provided a report on the IETF USV Area presentations at the Interop+Networld95 convention in Las Vegas, Nevada in March and at the RIPE meetings in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last January. Global Liaison Group Activities Reports on related global liaison group activities included Jill Foster (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) providing a report on current TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Network Association) ISUS (Information Services and User Support) proposals and activities. (Jill's slide presentation is included in these proceedings for further information.) Joyce reported the RIPE's NIDUS (Network Information Discovery and User Services) working group has shutdown as of the last RIPE meeting. Joyce will continue to provide RIPE IETF User Services Area liaison reports to the RIPE plenaries in the future. INET95 ``User Track'' Conference Sessions The INET95 ``User Track'' conference sessions have been finalized and were presented to the USWG members. The User Track co-chairs are Shigeki Goto (NTT) and Joyce K. Reynolds (ISI). The track sessions include Community Networking, Museums, Enterprise Networking, Public Health/Medicine, Progress in Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Technologies Panel, and User Needs/Problems. INET95 will be meeting the week of 26 June in Honolulu, Hawaii. USWG Projects Progress/Discussion of USWG projects included the USV-WEB (by Debbie Hamilton (InterNIC)). (Debbie's slide presentation is included in these proceedings for further information.) The USV-WEB page has been moved from the is.internic.net server to the rs.internic.net server due to the shutdown of the Information Services side of the InterNIC at General Atomics. Susan Calcari, Debbie Hamilton, and Mark Kosters have been working with Joyce in setting up the USV-WEB page at its new home and continuing to add and update it per the USWG project plans. The HTMLing of the FYI RFC series of notes project has been completed by Janet L. Marcisak (FTP Software). Janet provided a pointer for USWGers to take a look at the format and provide comments: http://www.ftp.com/home/techsup/fyi-index.html, fyi1.html - fyi26.html The RFC Editor will provide a permanent and central home for the HTMLed FYI RFCs, and will coordinate with Janet on moving the documents from FTP Software to ISI. In regards the USV-TV project, there has been no substantial progress on this topic, but Joyce will continue to work on getting a time slot allocated on the MBONE to experiment with broadcasting training and getting the word out about the USV Area of the IETF over the MBONE. Updates of FYI RFC Documents In the last 30 minutes of the session, there was discussion on updates of two FYI RFC documents: FYI 16, RFC 1359 (``Connecting to the Internet: What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate'') and FYI 3, RFC 1175 (``FYI on Where to Start: A Bibliography of Internetworking Information''). Martyne Hallgren (Cornell), who could not attend the Danvers IETF, was interested in USWGer's thoughts on the update and international expansion of the information contained in FYI 16. She also has been receiving a number of e-mail messages requesting an updated version of this FYI RFC. The USWG attendees seemed to feel that this would be a good idea. Joyce will contact Martyne about the discussion of this document in the USWG session and the suggested input on updating it. Discussion turned to updating FYI 3. At the last meeting of the USWG in San Jose, the general consensus of this group was that there is no need to keep working on an updated version of this bibliography, when there are so many high quality bibliographies now available on-line for the community. A suggestion was taken that a small document could be produced replacing the outdated FYI RFC. This will be an annotated replacement, with pointers to the best bibliographic documentation for users to consult. In following up on this decision, Joyce requested the attendees at the Danvers IETF to provide her with candidates of bibliographic references that could replace FYI 3.