User Services Area Director: o Joyce K. Reynolds: jkrey@isi.edu Area Summary reported by Joyce Reyolds/Information Sciences Institute Nine active working groups and two BOFs (ARTS and RWHOIS) were held in the User Services Area (USV) of the IETF in San Jose, California. Two new working groups met for the first time: Site Security Handbook (SSH) and Responsible Use of the Network (RUN). The Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet BOF (ARTS) Scott Stoner and Susan Siegfried welcomed participants (about 60 persons), outlined the agenda, and asked each person to introduce themselves and their interest in the arts on the Internet. Susan Siegfried summarized two recent national reports (distributed to BOF participants) that address issues identified at the previous BOF session: ``Arts, Humanities, and Culture on the NII,'' report of the Information Infrastructure Task Force Committee on Applications and Technology, NIST, U.S. Department of Commerce and ``Humanities and Arts on the Information Highways,'' report developed by The Getty Art History Information Program, The American Council of Learned Societies, and The Coalition for Networked Information (the reports were also made available to IETF participants at the distribution table by the IETF registration desk). The remainder of the session was devoted to reviewing and clarifying the mission and goals for a proposed IETF Arts and Humanities Working Group, after which participants agreed that such a proposal should indeed be presented to the IESG. Further details of the discussion will be included in the BOF minutes, however, there was consensus that the mission of the working group would be to draw upon the expertise of IETF members to define and promote an arts and humanities-based infrastructure that would enable users to 1) contribute as well as locate information, and 2) create and/or present visual and performing arts work over the Internet. The means to do this will also be defined as goals in the proposal. Co-coordinators Stoner and Siegfried will develop a draft proposal for review and approval by Joyce Reynolds, the USV Area Director (to be completed by the end of February). Reynolds will present the proposal for review and approval by the IESG prior to the next IETF meeting in April 1995. Referral Whois BOF (RWHOIS) A brief overview of RWhois was presented to the group, followed by a discussion of secondary and on-line editing mechanisms. Further discussion ensued on server functionality regarding boolean and partial match support. It was agreed to drop this requirement from the RWhois specification and make it optional. At the conclusion of the meeting, a consensus was reached to generate a charter and request to become a working group under the Operations Area of the IETF to document and plan the roll out of RWhois in the delegated Internet registry environment. Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS) The Internet X.500 Schema Task Force will operate as per the ``to be published'' RFC and is ready to accept schema updates. The X.500 Production Directory Service Internet-Draft will be progressed to an Informational RFC and a Last Call will be sent to the mailing list. There was a lively discussion on the Informational Privacy Model with a number of actions to be continued on the mailing list. Liaison reports were received from DANTE, PSI, NADF, The Long Bud Project, WHOIS++, and AARNET. Technical presentations were given on the Harvest and Nomenclator projects and the working group resolved to discuss possible applications of these technologies for the white-pages problem. Chris Apple, Todd Bernard, and Ken Rossen have volunteered to take on the project for producing and maintaining the X.500 Implementations Catalog in HTML. Chris Weider volunteered to create the WHOIS++ Implementations Catalog in HTML. These catalogs will be held by InterNIC Directory and Database Services. Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR) There were approximately one hundred participants, half of which indicated they were newcomers. Following a brief introduction to IIIR, Chris Weider discussed the current status of current IIIR documents. ``Z39.50 Over TCP/IP'' by Cliff Lynch, ``A Vision of an Integrated Internet'' by Chris Weider and Peter Deutsch as well as ``Resource Transponders'' by Chris Weider have all been approved and sent to the RFC Editor as Informational RFCs. They are predicted to be published by the end of the calendar year by the RFC Editor. An informal report on the IAB workshop was presented in three sections: ``Caching and Replication'' by Tim Berners-Lee and Mike Schwartz, ``Security and Authentication'' by Karen Sollins and ``Searching'' by Chris Weider. Cliff Lynch discussed a paper on NIDR that he, Cecilia Preston, Craig Summerhill and Avra Michelson are working on as part of a CNI initiative. Gorden Irwal gave a presentation on his vision of an Internet information architecture. The remaining time was spent discussing the future of the IIIR working group. Consensus was reached that the working group should continue but with perhaps a more general scope than traditional working groups. Hence, the charter is being rewritten by the chairs to reflect this consensus. Internet School Networking Working Group (ISN) The first part of the meeting was spent reviewing the charter, goals, and milestones for those that were new to the ISN group. An invitation had been extended to K-12 educators to attend this ISN Working Group, and there were quite a few in attendance. Jennifer noted that the goals and milestones will need to be updated before the next IETF in Danvers, MA. She also noted that FYI22 , FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked ``Primary and Secondary School Internet User'' Questions, will need updating. Jennifer announced that she will be stepping down as ISN chair after this meeting. Jodi Chu will be taking over in March 95. Current status of the group's goals and milestones are as follows: March 94 goals have been met by the release of draft-ietf-isn-expectations-00.txt, ``Ways to Define User Expectations'' and the publication of RFC 1709 ``K-12 Internetworking Guidelines.'' July 94 goals (K-12 White Pages project) have been met by defining information fields needed in the database. InterNIC Directory Services offered to host the data in an X.500 directory. CNIDR offered to host the data in WHOIS++. There was much discussion as to whether or not the database should be an X.500 directory. It was decided that a committee would work with the InterNIC Directory Services group to determine the feasibility of such an implementation. Ed Klein from SURANet will create a Web form for data submission. Susan Calcari reported that CNIDR is currently working on the WHOIS++ proof-of-concept project. March 95 goals (Document Repository Project) are to write a set of two documents: guidelines for connection providers and guidelines for educational sites. A review of existing documents show that there are adequate guidelines already written. Therefore, the goal needs to be modified to create a repository of documents or pointers to existing documents instead of writing new documents. Brian Lloyd offered to house the documents. Sepi Boroumand offered to maintain the currency of the repository. The remaining time was spent by having the attendees give brief descriptions about their interests/projects regarding the K-12 community. A list of FTP, Web and Gopher URLs for information on the various projects will be sent to the mailing list. Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (NISI) The InterNIC updated the group on the NIC Locator service and the new InterNIC Briefcase. The group discussed the current Internet-Draft ``Network Information Center Guidelines,'' deciding which sections should be cut. It was decided that once the current Internet-Draft was submitted to the RFC Editor, that the group would probably close down, but not before the members on the mailing list and the Area Director got their two cents in regarding such a decision. Responsible Use of the Network Working Group (RUN) The RUN working group met for the first time in San Jose. They agreed on an outline for the Netiquette Guide the group will produce. They agreed to drop the requirement that the bibliography become an Internet-Draft. They then took a bibliography posted to the list and split it among attendees who will report what each source says as each section is discussed on the list. There will be an Internet-Draft of the guide by the Danvers meeting. Site Security Handbook Working Group (SSH) The group decided to create the Site Security Handbook for System and Network Administrators first and when that's well on its way, to begin the creation of a Site Security Handbook for Users. During this working group session, the group assigned people to review chapters of the current RFC 1244. A list was then created of topics to be included in the new document and writing assignments given for those topic areas. The group plans to have an Internet-Draft available by the next IETF meeting in Danvers. Network Training Materials Working Group (TRAINMAT) The TRAINMAT Working Group discussed the draft catalogue of network training materials. This contains nearly 100 entries entered by a world-wide set of volunteers using the TRAINMAT template which was based on the IAFA recommendations. The templates had either been completed and submitted via e-mail or added using the forms interface on Mark Prior's HTML version of the catalogue at the University of Adelaide. The problems of using the IAFA style template were discussed as were the individual attributes and the range of their values. A set of broad categories for the entries was drawn up. The next stage is to reduce the catalogue down by about half and to ensure the materials remaining are judged to be ``quality'' materials by the working group. A start was made on this at the meeting. Mark Handley from UCL gave a presentation on using network video-conferencing for training. He gave some existing examples of teaching of surgery over an ATM video-conferencing network in the UK, and of pilot demos to surgeons using the MBONE. In his opinion, the MBONE is still too fragile for ``prime time'' training. He also described CUSeeMe and the current efforts to integrate this with MBONE. Trainers need to start doing small scale experiments to become comfortable with the technology. Jill Foster reported on the progress with registering Powerpoint as an IETF-type, and closed the meeting with the usual round table update on network training activities. Uniform Resource Identifiers Working Group (URI) The URI group made good progress since the last meeting in work on the mailing list and outside IETF meetings in splitting the URC document into a ``requirements and scenarios'' document and a ``proposed specification.'' Discussion was vigorous and very useful; the URC documents are expected to undergo major rewrite soon because of it. Similarly, various URN proposals were discussed and differences aired; the proposals are still being tested by their respective proponents. On the URL front, progress was made on the relative URL specification, and discussed a proposed Z39.50 URL. User Services Working Group (USWG) Joyce Reynolds presented reports on IETF User Services Area activities and progress of USWG projects since the Toronto IETF. This included the closure of the User Documents Revisions Working Group (USERDOC2). Current FYI RFC publications included: FYI 26, ``K-12 Internetworking Guidelines,'' and FYI 25, ``A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups.'' Joyce also reported on the RARE and EARN merger, now called TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Network Association), and a brief update on EARN's Network Services Conference in London, 28-30 November. Jill Foster presented an update on the TERENA ISUS Working Group and its current task forces and proposals. Susan Calcari presented an update and discussion on the USV-WEB that she and the InterNIC are assisting the USWG with. Lenore Jackson assisted the USWG Chair with a report and discussion on unfinished business with USERDOC2 documentation.