Editor's note : These minutes have not been edited. User Services Working Group Minutes IETF - Los Angeles, California Monday, March 4th, 1300-1500 Chair: Joyce K. Reynolds/ISI (jkrey@isi.edu) Joyce Reynolds opened the session by providing a brief overview of, "What is the USWG?" to the first time attendees. Next, attendees introduced themselves to the group and briefly explained their interest in the USV Area. A report on IETF User Services Area activities was presented by Joyce, which included USV Area Working Group Status and related USV Area I-Ds. There are currently eight active working groups in this area. All of them held one or more sessions at the Los Angeles IETF. The USWG email list has moved: uswg@isi.edu. To subscribe: uswg-request@isi.edu. The Humanities and Arts WG (HARTS) has a new working group chair: Janet Max. Susan Siegfried resigned due to a job change. Scott Stoner will continue to co-chair. Jennifer Sellers has resigned as co-chair of the Internet School Networking (ISN) WG. Sepi Boroumand will be replacing her. Jodi Ito will continue to co-chair. The following are the current USV Area related documents in process: draft-ietf-isn-faq-02.txt - Approved by IESG for publication 27 Feb 96 draft-ietf-ssh-handbook-01.txt draft-ietf-trainmat-catalogue-05.txt draft-ietf-userglos-glossary2-00.txt Mr. Rafael Fernandez-Calvo, a member of ISOC and chair of the Organizing Committee of the Spanish Chapter of ISOC provided a pointer to a Spanish translation of the FYI RFC, "Internet Users' Glossary" for the IETF user services community and the RFC Editor: http://www.ati.es/PUBLICACIONES/novatica/1994/jul-ago/glosario.html Tom Newell (InterNIC Liaison) presented an update on the USV-Web page, and an update on new InterNIC projects. Joyce is tasked to provide additions/updates to the USV-Web page and will work with Tom on this endeavor. Meanwhile, Tom welcomed additional input and comments from the USWG. Tom gave the current pointer to the USV-Web page: http://rs.internic.net/support/uswg Tom mentioned a new effort underway with the ALA (American Library Association) and the InterNIC. This is a project about Internet trainers, modular training formats and development of related programs. It is still in development, but if you would like updates or additional information, contact: tomn@internic.net. At the Dallas IETF, the USWG requested that the NIC Locator database be demolished. Debbie Hamilton (InterNIC Directory and Database Services Support) proceeded with the request. The demolition was completed the week of 11 December 95. Jill Foster (University of Newcastle, Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk) presented a report on related global liaison group activities of TERENA's Information Services and User Support (ISUS) group. EC 4th Framework - Scimitar - Standards input/output Desire - SURFnet - coordinating with approximately 26 European partners and associates. NCL: Training Element Improved tools for access to networked information (caching, indexing, security, information providers) UK: eLib - electronic libraries program - electronic journals - copyright - digitization - information gateways (sosig, omni, etc.) For further information on eLib: http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/intro.html For further information on the Netskills project: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/ Discussion/Participation of USWG projects were next on the agenda. USWG project focus was placed on updates to FYI 7 "FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked "Experienced Internet User" Questions", (Also RFC 1207), February 1991, and FYI 4 "FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions", (Also RFC 1594), March 1994. A brief discussion was held in regards to the future vision of the USV Area in the IETF for the next two years, and potential candidates for the USV Area Director position in 1998.