Editor's Note: Minutes received 8/04 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Joyce K. Reynolds/ISI Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG) The NOCTools2 Working Group session took 15 minutes of the USWG session to discuss their progress. They needed to meet in this slot, due to time constraints. Darren Kinley has resigned as co-Chair of NOCTools2 due to lack of funding money to continue to attend IETFs. Robert Enger will carry on as Working Group Chair. Additional volunteers were enlisted to help Robert Enger complete the updated NOCTools catalog. Joyce Reynolds will rewrite the introduction. Charlotte Mooers will assist in updating the indices. Robert Enger will keep pursuing and collecting the vendor updates. Kim Long volunteered to assist in additional collecting of information. There are also plans to incorporate the collected information into WAIS. Daniel Dern presented a talk on his book in progress, ``Internet Guide for New Users'' (McGraw/Hill Publishers). This discussion included what Dan is doing, the perception of some of the need of these types of books, and other similar activities (e.g., Zen, EFF, SRI NISC, SIGUCCS, etc.). Discussion also focused on publishers and contracts, and authors' rights. Daniel provided additional pointers for authors via what he has learned from his experience. There is an estimated six books that will be published by the end of this year focusing on users and the Internet. Ed Krol is also working on a book and he passed around a draft copy of his work for USWG attendees to comment. Ed's book is due to be published by the end of this year. The second chapter of Ed's book, entitled, ``What is the Internet?'' seemed to Ellen Hoffman and other USWGers a good start for new users. Ed made mention that the User Services Area of the IETF may use this chapter for FYI RFC publication if he can obtain approval by his publisher. Ellen Hoffman and Ed Krol will work together on this endeavor. Jill Foster provided an update on RARE activities, including a report on the RARE Information Services/User Services (ISUS) activities. She talked about the European Information Service - CONCISE, and how this effort is expanding (e.g., there are new people teaching new users to use the networks). The RARE Status Report has been published, which includes contributions from eighteen countries. This report is available in hardcopy, or on-line. Jill announced to the USWG the NSC'92, The Network Services Conference 1992, November 3-5, 1992, which is being organized in Pisa, Italy this fall by EARN in cooperation with EUnet, NORDUnet, RIPE and RARE. Peter Deutsch led a discussion on a USWG project in development currently called, ``An Internet Quick and Dirty''. It is intended to be a short document on descriptions of each network service with pointers on where to obtain additional information. At the San Diego IETF, Peter volunteered to produce this document with the assistance of: Pat Smith, 1 Cyndi Mills, Dan Matzke, Ellen Hoffman, Anders Gilner, April Marine, Jill Foster and Joyce Reynolds. This project will continue to be developed within the USWG and will interact with the Network Information Retrieval Working Group that is currently in formation. Ideas and thoughts on forming a Working Group on training materials and having the endeavor be a joint effort between RARE & IETF was discussed. The USWG decided that a BOF at the next IETF in Washington, D.C. would be a good start to pursue this topic. Jill Foster and Ellen Hoffman volunteered to co-Chair the BOF. Paul Holbrook briefly discussed the CICNet Resources Guide that has just been published. Attendees George Abe abe@infonet.com George Brett ghb@jazz.concert.net Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Henry Clark henryc@oar.net Alan Clegg abc@concert.net James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu Daniel Dern ddern@world.std.com Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgill.ca Alan Emtage bajan@cc.mcgill.ca Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk Jim Fullton jim_fullton@unc.edu Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu Martyne Hallgren martyne@mitchell.cit.cornell.edu Alf Hansen Alf.Hansen@delab.sintef.no Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager@switch.ch Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu Kim Long klong@sura.net Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com April Marine april@nisc.sri.com Cyndi Mills cmills@nnsc.nsf.net Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net Hank Nussbacher hank@vm.tau.ac.il Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu Michael Powell mdpowel@pacbell.com Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Bradley Rhoades bdrhoades@mmc.mmmg.com Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com Srinivas Sataluri sri@qsun.att.com Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov 2 Jane Smith jds@jazz.concert.net Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Marten Terpstra terpstra@ripe.net Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Scott Williamson scottw@nic.ddn.mil Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com Fred Ziegler ziegler@aspentec.com 3