CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by John Veizades/Apple Resource Location BOF Minutes At the Boulder IETF meeting a group got together for an informal Birds of a Feather session to discuss the issue of finding resources in an internetworked environment. John Veizades from Apple and Steve Deering from Xerox lead the meeting. The meeting included a presentation of work in progress at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Michael Schwartz presented work he has done on the location of personal information in an interneted environment. Paper describing his work can be found on latour.colorado.edu in the directory /pub/RD.Papers/. Ralph Droms talked about his work on the Knowbot services. John Veizades gave a description of two protocols that are used for the finding of arbitrary services in an interneted environment: o Name Binding Protocol used by the AppleTalk protocol family to find services. o Network Binding Protocol which is part of the Xerox Network System (XNS) protocol family. The group came to the conclusion that a Working Group should be formed to look into resource and service location metaphors. Although the Chair is still to be determined, an interest list will be formed and an announcement of the interest list and the Working Group Charter is forthcoming. Attendees Steve Alexander stevea@i88.isc.com Scott Bradner sob@harvard.edu Theodore Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com Randy Butler rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu Vinton Cerf vcerf@NRI.Reston.VA.US 1 Steve Deering deering@xerox.com Ralph Droms droms@bucknell.edu Peter Ford peter@lanl.gov Karen Frisa karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu Debbie Futcher dfutche@relay.nswc.navy.mil Douglas Kerr dougk@wc.novell.com Steve Kille S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk Holly Knight holly@apple.com Joshua Littlefield josh@cayman.com John Lunny jlunny@twg.com Tony Mason mason+@transarc.com Donna McMaster mcmaster@davidsys.com Greg Minshall minshall@wc.novell.com Lynn Monsanto monsanto@sun.com Jim Reinstedler jimr@ub.com Joel Replogle replogle@ncsa.uiuc.edu Robert Reschly reschly@brl.mil Kary Robertson Michael Schwartz schwartz@boulder.colorado.edu Karen Sollins sollins@lcs.mit.edu Glenn Trewitt trewitt@nsl.pa.dec.com John Veizades veizades@apple.com Steven Waldbusser waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu Carol Ward cward@spot.colorado.edu David Wood dcmwood@spot.colorado.edu 2