CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Ellen Hoffman/Merit Minutes of the User Documents Revisions Working Group (USERDOC2) Introduction The Group's Charter was described and mailing addresses were reviewed. Subscriptions to the mailing list should now be sent to user-doc-request@merit.edu. Bibliography for New Users Completed The final version of the short bibliography was distributed. This has been submitted to the Area Director as the first step in finalizing it as an FYI RFC. The on-line documents listed in the soon-to-be FYI are all collected in an archive available from four servers on the Internet for anonymous FTP called ``Introducing the Internet.'' Two sites have email servers (nic.merit.edu and nisc.sri.com). Gopher and WAIS servers are available at Merit. Four additional sites expressed interest in mirroring the archive. The documents can also be reached via dialup services at Merit for those with a modem and communications software. For more information, send an email message to nis-info@merit.edu with the text: send access.guide. To provide an ongoing source of information about new documents for the FYI, a file will be kept in the ``Introducing the Internet'' archive listing new materials aimed at beginning Internet users. The Working Group recommends updating the FYI itself in a year. First Draft of Comprehensive Bibliography Distributed A nine-page draft bibliography was distributed as a first step in updating RFC1175. The Group discussed goals and directions for the document. The Group agreed that the new bibliography would supplement, rather than obsolete, the existing RFC. It will cover hardcopy and on-line documents about the Internet from 1990-93. With nine pages in a very incomplete listing, it was also agreed that abstracts for all listings would make the bibliography too long, so some form of keywords would be developed to help provide content information. The Group agreed to work on developing the list on-line through the mailing list, and to try to have a final version for approval at the July meeting. A suggestion was made to develop an on-line version that would allow navigation to each of the electronic documents, and it was agreed this would be discussed at the next meeting. There was also interest in having a document that could have ``icons'' that would make it easy to identify different subject areas. Creating a tool useful to 1 librarians was another area of interest. A previous bibliography done by OCLC was presented as a possible source tool. Input was solicited on corrections and additions to the document. A revised version will be submitted as an Internet-Draft and Working Group members were asked to send suggestions to the mailing list or authors. Revised Goals and Directions A brief discussion was held of new and future projects for the Working Group. A possible FYI aimed at those who are not yet connected, which had been mentioned in the earlier User Services Working Group meeting, was suggested as a project. With the Group having taken on introductory materials as part of the short bibliography, it was agreed that this was a reasonable project. A couple of authors said they had already written materials on this and offered to send them to the mailing list for consideration. There was continued interest in creating a ``living document'' to keep the bibliographies updated, and a locator resource for documentation on the Internet. More work will be done on these topics on the mailing list. Attendees Robert Beer r-beer@onu.edu Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net Brent Curtiss bcurtiss@magnuss.ocs.ohio-state.edu Martyne Hallgren martyne@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com Susan Harris srh@umich.edu Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu Susan Horvath shorvath@merit.edu Lenore Jackson jackson@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov Erik Jul jul@oclc.org Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov Jerry Martin jerry+@osu.edu Bruce Nelson bnelson@novell.com Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsipo.nasa.gov Charlie Smith crsmith@osvi.edu Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Craig Todd ctodd@desire.wright.edu William Yurcik yurcik@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov 2