Minutes of the User Services Working Group (USWG) IETF - Minneapolis, MN - March 1999 Recorded by April Marine. The heart of the USWG agenda consisted of the following: o USV Area Update o TERENA Update o Update of FYI 1 o Update of FYI 4 USV Area Update April Marine provided an overview and update of activities in the Area as a whole. The SSH group has shut down after successfully publishing the User's Security Handbook (RFC 2504, FYI 34). The RUN working group has its "Don't Spew" document before the IESG. This is draft-ietf-run-spew-08.txt that advises people not to spam; it is being revised to address some IESG comments. It has another document on its charter dealing with responsible advertising on the net, which just enlisted some new editors, so should be moving ahead. USV has two BOFs meeting in Minneapolis, which were introduced. The WEIRD BOF deals with putting new user/IETF newbie information up on the web. The FYIUP group will be updating some FYI documents. TERENA Update Yuri Demchenko provided an update regarding the activities of TERENA, the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association. He gave highlights of three activities. 1. A new Info-gateway Handbook is available at http://www.desire.org/ 2. He outlined the schedule for a revision of the GNRT (Guide to Network Resource Tools). Writing should be finished April 15; the review panel should be done by April 30; and it should be in bookshops in September. This is a document that is available online and published by Addison Wesley Longman. New features include sections on search engines and web publishing. 3. The CHIP pilot project may evolve into a more permanent service. The project aims to provide easy access to information about current R&D projects on Internet technologies and services. The current database contains information about more than 130 projects. In order to ascertain whether this should become a more operational information service, CHIP is taking a survey. The CHIP pages are available at http://www.terena.nl/chip/ and the questionnaire is available at http://www.terena.nl/chip/chip-q.html. Update of FYI 1 This was a discussion of draft-ietf-uswg-fyi1-00.txt, which itself was an update to a previous draft that would explain which FYI documents were considered out of date. Most of the discussion regarding the text of the document dated from Orlando, so there was little controversy at this meeting. This doc is essentially ready at this level, but should be held to move forward with the update of FYI 4. Update of FYI 4 Ray Plzak led the discussion of the latest draft of FYI 4. This was a substantive discussion of the draft, which has progressed significantly. Suggestions were made to re-order some sections of the document and volunteers were volunteered to rewrite some sections. These included: April rewrite 2.3, Phil to rewrite 2.4, Gary to add a section regarding addresses and URLs and Ray to add references. There were other comments on wording and such. The following schedule was worked out: April 9: rewrites, new paragraphs and comments to the list April 16: comments on above to list May 7: Ray to issue a new ID May 21: comments to list on new draft and hopefully from there up to the IESG for review... Sitting here writing the minutes one day before they are due and one week before the first date on this list, this now seems rather ambitious. However, I think we have divided the work nicely so that small chunks were handed out and these goals can be met.