CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by April Marine/NASA NAIC Minutes of the Network Information Services Infrastructure Working Group (NISI) Thanks to Marsha Perrott for providing the notes from which these minutes are derived. The NISI Working Group enjoyed a record number of participants. We had many non-US participants, and participants from a wide variety of organizations. Pat Smith is stepping down as co-chair of NISI due to increasing responsibilities at Merit. Her leadership has been greatly appreciated and will be sorely missed. She received thanks from the working group and her co-chair. NIC Profile Information Debbie Hamilton of the DS InterNIC reported on the transition of the NIC profile information, listing points of contact for approximately 75 NICs, from an X.500 database at Merit to a site provided by the InterNIC. Some discussion took place regarding the preferred format and access methods for the information, and volunteers for helping to flesh out presentation and updating were taken. The hope is to have the new version on-line by the Toronto IETF. The ``worker bees'' are Debbie Hamilton, Susan Calcari, Marsha Perrott, April Marine, and Joyce K. Reynolds. NIC Relationships Document The ever-pending ``NIC Relationships'' document was deemed too complicated and perspective-specific to be worth any more effort, so the group voted to kill it. NIC Guidelines Document Some discussion took place regarding the ``Network Information Center Guidelines'' document and whether it fulfilled the gap of updating RFC 1302. It was decided that it was worth being an Informational RFC, but the question of whether it updated RFC 1302 was moot as if it did not, probably no one was going to update RFC 1302 anyway. This question will be taken up between the chair and the area director. (Subsequent discussion between April and Joyce resulted in the decision that the document will indeed be offered as an update to RFC 1302. April will format it as an RFC and submit it.) Several people offered to comment on the document and help make a subsequent version better. (April is not sure if this document can be modified, or if there will have to be a separate document or addendum from the group. She will check.) The ``worker bees'' are Jill Hanson, Randy Conrad, Ann Cooper, Susan Calcari, Debbie Hamilton, Suzanne Smith, Jodi Chu, and Marsha Perrott (also thanks to Jill Foster for her comments). Outreach The group finished up with an interesting discussion of outreach and trying to define user needs (customer needs assessment). It was decided to try to actually telephone contacts in the NIC profiles list, which would have the double advantage of working on updating the information and finding out if there were any needs NISI should be addressing. Volunteers were recruited to figure out what the group would like to know and to do the calling. This effort will form the basis of deciding future NISI tasks, if any. The ``worker bees'' are Susan Calcari, Barbara Jennings, Jodi Chu, Janet Marcisak, and April Marine. Attendees John Beck jbeck@cup.hp.com Jim Binkley jrb@cs.pdx.edu Sepideh Boroumand sepideh@jacks.gsfc.nasa.gov Luc Boulianne lucb@bunyip.com Mic Bowman Lloyd Brodsky lbrodsky@rocksolid.com Susan Calcari susanc@internic.net Rong Chang rong@watson.ibm.com Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu David Conrad davidc@iij.ad.jp Ann Cooper cooper@isi.edu Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net Dante Delucia dante@usc.edu Ian Duncan id@cc.mcgill.ca Sheryl Erez erez@cac.washington.edu. Jan Eveleth eveleth@nwnet.net Richard Everman reverman@ka.reg.uci.edu Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk Lois Frampton frampton@mitre.org Judith Grass grass@cnri.reston.va.us Martyne Hallgren mh16@cornell.edu Sally Hambridge sallyh@ludwig.intel.com Deborah Hamilton debbieh@internic.net Jill Hanson jhanson@wsipc.wednet.edu Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu Marco Hernandez marco@cren.net Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu Alex Hopmann alex.hopmann@resnova.com John Houlker j.houlker@waikato.ac.nz Barbara Jennings bjjenni@sandia.gov Michael Kogut kogut@cc.bellcore.com Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com Janet L. Marcisak jlm@ftp.com April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov James McKinney jmck@americast.com Michael McLay mclay@eeel.nist.gov David Miller dlm@cac.washington.edu Paul-Andre Pays pays@faugeres.inria.fr Jason Perreault jason@synoptics.com Marsha Perrott perrott@prep.net Thomas Powell sestrada@aldea.com Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Francois Robitaille francois.robitaille@crim.ca Henry Sinnreich hsinnreich@mcimail.com Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Suzanne Smith smith@es.net Milan Sova sova@feld.cvut.cz David Staudt dstaudt@nsf.gov Einar Stefferud stef@nma.com Peter Sylvester peter.sylvester@inria.fr Phil Trubey ptrubey@netcom.com Phil Wintering pvw@americast.com Philip Wood cpw@lanl.gov