INTERIM MEETING REPORT Reported by Jennifer Sellers, NASA IITA/Sterling Software Minutes of the Internet School Networking Working Group (ISN) We discovered at the beginning of the meeting, as we were waiting for more of a crowd to show, that the ISN meeting had been listed in the Tel-Ed program as "by invitation only"! This was a big disappointment and probably accounted for the poor turn-out. We followed the agenda for the entire meeting. The first item was for participants to introduce themselves and tell briefly what their interest in attending ISN was. User Services Area Director Joyce Reynolds gave an overview of the IETF and the User Services Area and answered questions from the audience. ISN Co-chair Jennifer Sellers described the ISN repository and invited people to email their submissions to the list, then she spoke briefly about the update of FYI22 and asked for people to review the Internet- Draft themselves and solicit reviews from others. The final discussion was around the question, "How can ISN help educators within the IETF framework?" The clearest answer was to publish all the good work that is being done and make sure it is widely disseminated. The general consensus was that ISN's work is little- known by the community it targets. Two specific suggestions were to get articles printed in educational (print) journals, newsletters, and magazines; and to hand out information, including ISN documents, at education conferences such as Tel-Ed. It was also noted that better use could be made of announcing ISN documents and the ISN repository on educational mail lists. There was no other business, so the meeting was adjourned. CURRENT MEETING REPORT Reported by Jodi-Ann Ito, University of Hawaii Minutes of the Internet School Networking Working Group (ISN) The ISN Working Group was convened at 1pm by Jodi Ito, co-chair. Jennifer Sellers, co-chair, held an interim meeting at Tel-Ed in Ft. Lauderdale the previous week and was unable to attend this IETF. There were no changes to the published agenda so introductions were the first order of business. The revised ISN charter was reviewed and the date for the FYI RFC describing the document repository was set for Mar. 96. There was some discussion regarding how to better disseminate the work of the ISN and User Services area of the IETF. Some suggestions were to have them located in Compuserv's forum, Cisco's education archives, and ISOC's K-12 page. Next the FYI 22 update was discussed and several attendees had some suggestions: o explain the differences between on-line services like AOL and Compuserv and the Internet o talk about some of the technical security considerations like firewalls; talk about security policy issues such as access control management and password revocations; maybe give some examples of security policies o include questions to ask ISPs like how many modems do you have, what is your user to modem ratio?, what are your "tech support/help desk" hours? What kind of connection do you have to the Internet? The document will be submitted to the IESG soon for publication as an RFC. The ISN document repository will be moving to Merit and the new location and move details will be posted to the mailing list. The FYI document describing the repository will be done by March 1996. The directory of educational projects idea was re-visited and revitalized. Rough consensus was reached on the basic fields of the directory and the general scope of the project. Richard Perlman volunteered to design the prototype. The data elements will be posted to the list for discussion. After substantial discussion among the group, it was agreed that it would be a 3 month experimental project. April Marine vounteered that someone from NASA would monitor the submission during the experimental period. A status report would be provided to the group in March and the final analysis done in June. Sepi Boroumand continued the discussion on her idea for a "how to create a help desk" paper. The attendees had many suggestions and comments and Sepi will continue the discussion on-line. The meeting finally adjourned at 3:10pm