CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Joyce K. Reynolds MINUTES Announcements_ Steve Crocker (TIS), IETF Security Area Director and Rich Pethia (CERT) briefly presented to the USWG new plans for a Security WG, chaired by Rich. Steve and Rich discussed possible activities to be pursued jointly by the USWG and the new Security WG. The USWG will work with Steve and Rich in whatever endeavors they feel we could make contributions. The NISI WG has been reinstated per Craig Partridge, our Area Director. The new Chair will be Dana Sitzler, MERIT. RFC:_F.Y.I._Series_of_Notes_ The USWG progressed further on this topic from the last IETF meeting in Hawaii. There are five points that are now considered "well known" and define the initial plan for the information series: o F.Y.I. is part of the RFC series of notes. o Expansion of the "Status of this Memo" section will further depict the inclusion of F.Y.I. in the RFC scheme. o Documents for F.Y.I. consideration will be submitted to USWG for review and approval via the RFC Editor. o RFC: F.Y.I. is a NEW process, starting in 1990. o Previously published "informational" RFCs will be gathered up in an F.Y.I. RFC that points to the old RFCs, "capturing" the history of informational RFCs prior to 1990. Repository for F.Y.I. Memos will be in parallel with the current repository for RFCs. The F.Y.I. Memos will have their own separate index. This will be organized further with the RFC Editor. The premier of the F.Y.I. Memos will be an RFC: F.Y.I. entitled, "F.Y.I. on F.Y.I." in the same spirit of RFC 1111, "Request for Comments on Request for Comments". Discussion of F.Y.I. topics: o F.Y.I. RFC o NOCTools Catalog o User-Doc Bibliography o Q/A results (quarterly publication) (aka commonly asked questions and answers) o Other concepts/ideas from USWGers: - How to Connect to the Internet (general procedures) 1 - Connection Checklist (technical considerations) - Network Information and Information Services Currently Available ACM_Conference_Paper_Participation_ Deadline for paper submission: 5-March-90. Contributors include: NNSC - Internet Resource Guide, ISI - Request for Comments Documents, ISI/NNSC - Internet Monthly Report and CNRI - Video Teleconferencing. A tentative working group has been proposed to our Area Director - DAWG: Distribution and Announcement Working Group, to be chaired by Robert Enger and assisted by Karen Bowers. Its intent: o recommend procedures on how to get information out. o use existing methods and begin to address long term distribution methods. o Note: this will be a follow-on effort of the Distribution and Announcement session facilitated by Martyne Hallgren at the Stanford IETF. Current avenues to "get the word out" should include: o The Internet Numbers and Assigned Numbers Process and RFCs o "Hello" New User Text Servers o Vendor Packages to Be Distributed with Hardware/Software The concept of designing "Intro Packages" for new Internet users was discussed at great length. The purpose of publishing "Intro Packages" is to determine what information new users need immediately when they begin their connection to or begin to use the Internet. Research will be done and reported at the next IETF on: o what the information is going to be o what already exists o what needs to be written Mary Stahl, Pat Smith, and Karen Roubicek volunteered to research and report. Q/A_List_ The Q/A mailing lists/box will be set up at Proteon and maintained by Gary Malkin. They will include: quail: This is a discussion mailing list. Its primary use is for pre-release (to the USWG) review of the Q/A FYIs. 2 quail-request: This is how you join the quail mailing list. The USWG members will not be added by default (except those which have already volunteered to monitor mailing lists). quail-box: This is where the questions (and hopefully answers) will be forwarded-and-stored. It is not necessary to be on the quail mailing list to forward to the quail-box. Electronic mailing lists will be monitored for pertinent questions. James Van Bokkelen, Berlin Moore, Gary Malkin, and Joyce Reynolds voluteered to monitor particular lists. Any USWGer who routinely reads public mailing lists should keep an eye out for the types of questions relevant to the Q/A list, and is encouraged to contribute their findings. We are specifically looking for commonly asked, or significant questions. Gary Malkin will send a message to the USWG mailing list with further details, once the mailing lists are set up. It is projected that approximate every three months, an F.Y.I. RFC will be published with the Q/A results. User-Doc_Bibliography_Update_ Karen Roubicek briefly presented the User-Doc's current work and the status of their Bibliography. 3 ATTENDEES Armstrong, Karen armstrong@sds.sdsc.edu Bennett, Derek xndmis14@servax.bitnet Bowers, Karen L. kbowers@nri.reston.va.us Crocker, Steve crocker@tis.com Enger, Robert M. enger@sccgate.scc.com Fidler, Mike ts0026@ohstvma.ircc.ohio-state.edu Finkelson, Dale dmf@westie.unl.edu Hallgren, Martyne martyne@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Jacobsen, Ole ole@csli.stanford.edu Malkin, Gary gmalkin@proteon.com Moore, Berlin prepnet@andrew.cmu.edu Morris, Don morris@ucar.edu Oattes, Lee oattes@utcs.utoronto.ca Pace, Donald pace@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu Perkins, Dave dave_perkins@3com.com Pokorney, Dave poke@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Robertson, Jim jar@bridge2.3com.com Roubicek, Karen roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net Sheridan, Jim jsherida@ibm.com Shue, Chi chi@osf.org Smith, Pat psmith@merit.edu Stahl, Mary stahl@nisc.sri.com Stine, Bob stine@sparta.com Sturtevant, Allen sturtevant@ccc.nmfecc.gov Van Bokkelen, James jbvb@ftp.com Van Wyk, Ken krvw@sei.cmu.edu Ward, Carol cward@spot.colorado.edu Wobus, John jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu Woodburn, Robert woody@saic.com Yuan, Aileen aileen@gateway.mitre.org Zimmerman, David Paul dpz@convex.com 4