CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Jodi Ito/University of Hawaii Minutes of the Network Training Materials Working Group (TRAINMAT) The TRAINMAT Working Group met once at the Danvers IETF on Thursday, 6 April. The key items to be discussed were the catalogue of network training materials, review of available training materials, and using the network to deliver training. The Catalogue of Network Training Materials Discussion of the catalogue included review of the IAFA fields: addition of new fields, changing the names of existing fields, and categorization standards for various fields like country and languages. The group agreed on the addition of the following fields: audience: General User | Administrator | audience-level: Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced handle: (automatically included for any TRAINMAT submission) Discussion regarding ``audience-level'' noted that general guidelines should be provided to assist the submitter with proper categorization (i.e. give general prerequisites to help with classification) Discussion regarding the ``categories'' field resulted in the division of training materials into 2 high-level categories: Documentation and Training Materials. The ``Documentation'' level was further subdivided into 3 areas: User Guides, Resource Guides, and Trainer/Instructor Guides. The ``Training Materials'' level was subdivided into: Presentation Materials (including speaker notes), Workshop exercises (including lab configuration information and the actual workshop exercises), and Self-paced Materials. There was not much discussion on the country-codes and languages field except to note that UK might be used for United Kingdom as opposed to GB for Great Britain and noted the differences between American-English and English-English. Debbie Hamilton from DS InterNIC offered to make the ISO country code table available publicly. The group agreed with the current keywords for the cost field and that the field ``organization-location'' should be changed to ``organization-address'' and the ``file-format'' should be changed to ``content-type'' and use the MIME standards. The entries in the catalogue need to be reviewed for quality and currency. Several people volunteered to review ``chunks'' of the catalogue. Summaries will be sent to the list. The group did note that many templates were not completely filled out and pointed out the need for an automated template verification process -- upon submission, the template would be scanned automatically to ensure that key fields are completed. Additionally, it was noted that ``searchable'' fields should have their contents ordered with the most significant bit of information first followed by the next most significant bit of info (i.e., last name, first name). Volunteers to review entries are: o Julie Robichaux: ``chunk'' 10 o Janet Vratny: #9 o Debbie Hamilton: #4 o Ed Klein: #5 o Jim McKinna: #3 o Linda Place: #8 o Sally Hambridge: consistency meter The Catalogue of Training Materials is available via the Web from the University of Adelaide: http://coolabah.itd.adelaide.edu.au/TrainMat/catalogue.html It was noted that pointers to the catalogue should be created from the USV-Web. People from MidNet have put up a searchable version of the catalogue: http://www.mid.net/TRAINMAT Using The Network To Deliver Training The last item on the agenda was general discussion on using the network to deliver training. Several people mentioned using the Web to deliver training which illustrated the need to to have ``states'' incorporated into the http protocol. Additionally, Jill is working on having PowerPoint registered as a MIME content type. Jill also mentioned that Joyce has been working on getting a time slot allocated on the MBONE to experiment with broadcasting training over the MBONE.