CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Joyce K. Reynolds/Information Sciences Institute

Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG)


Report on User Services Area Activities

The USWG session opened with a report on IETF User Services Area
activities.  Two new working groups have been established since the
Danvers IETF, HARTS and USERGLOS. Two working groups were shut down in
Danvers, QUIS and IIIR. Related USV Area Internet-Drafts that have been
issued recently are products of the RUN, SSH, and TRAINMAT Working
Groups.  A Read the Label BOF (RTL), chaired by Vint Cerf, was held in
the USV Area in Stockholm.


Liaison Reports

David Hartland provided a liaison report on the TERENA ISUS meeting held
on Sunday, 16 July.  Other reports were presented on additional related
global liaison group activities and international conferences, including
the IESG and USV Area Presentations at the RIPE meeting plenary, the
annual JENC (Joint European Networking Conference), the ISOC Workshop
for Developing Countries, and the INET95 Conference.


USWG Projects

Progress/discussion of USWG projects was next on the USWG's agenda.
They included the USV-WEB, USV-HTML, and USV-TV.


   o USV-WEB

     Updates/deletions to the USV-WEB have been made.  These can be
     found at:

     http://rs.internic.net/usv-index.html.

     Very special thanks to the following InterNIC folks for their
     continued support and work on this endeavor:  Stan Borinski
     (Webmaster), Mark Kosters, Debbie Hamilton, and Susan Calcari.

   o USV-HTML

     The HTMLing of FYI RFCs has been completed and the documents have
     been placed by the RFC Editor in ISI's FYI RFC repository.  They
     can be found at:

     http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/fyi/fyi-index.html.

     [Note:  New HTML updates have been received by the RFC Editor to
     amend to the above pointer.  The RFC Editor will add those as soon
     as they return to the office, about one week after the Stockholm
     IETF.]

     Janet Marcisak of FTP Software is to be congratulated for all of
     her work in the HTMLing of these FYI RFCs.  Without her efforts,
     this project would not have become a reality for the USV Area of
     the IETF. Thank you JML, from all of us in USV!

     The following folks at ISI are also to be commended in assisting
     the USV Area Director in the effort of moving the documents over to
     the ISI site, and setting up the WEB links:  Jon Postel and Suzanne
     Woolf of Div7, and Tom Nelson in the ISI Action Office.

   o USV-TV

     There was nothing new to report with the USV-TV project.  It has
     been a frustrating endeavor so far.  After some round table
     discussion, it was suggested that a new committee be formed to kick
     start this particular project.  The following people volunteered to
     work with JKRey in the next few months:  Jill Foster, April Marine,
     Jodi Ito, Bob Enger, Mark Prior, Dirk van Gulik, and Pien Voortman.


Status of The NISI Working Group

In the last 15 minutes of the session, April Marine reported on the
current status of the NISI Working Group.  NISI has just one item left
on its plate and then it will probably close down.  There is one
Internet-Draft that the group needs to produce, if not in the NISI
forum, perhaps as a project in the USWG.

Meanwhile, the InterNIC (Debbie Hamilton) has set up a test version of
NISI's NIC Locator Data.  It lives at:
http://ds0.internic.net/ds/niclocate.html.  For discussion of NISI
related items or queries, send mail to:  nisi@merit.edu.  To subscribe:
nisi-request@merit.edu.