CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Gary Malkin/FTP Software

USERGLOSS Minutes

Agenda


   o Review of the previous meeting
   o Setting milestones for Glossary completion
   o Discussion of glossary format
   o Determination of Editorial Board
   o Worker Bee assignments


Since Usergloss did not meet in Atlanta, this was the second meeting of
the Working Group.  The objectives of the Working Group remain unchanged
since it's inception, the creation of a glossary of networking terms and
acronyms for the Internet community.

The primary sources for the glossary are existing glossaries.  They are:
Carl Malamud's online, all inclusive glossary; the glossary from FYI 4
(RFC 1206); Ole Jacobson's Interop glossary; and NCAR's online glossary.
Additional sources may be NASA's online glossary and the Internet Tour
glossary.

The introduction will include a section which describes how to get more
information.  It will mention the FYI series and the Official Standards
RFC.

The entries will be organized in alphabetical order (case insensitive).
Acronyms will be listed independently of the descriptive text.  For
example:



IANA - see Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
...
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
<descriptive text>



The document will be available in ASCII format.  In addition, it may be
made available in PostScript, Hypertext or Websters formats.  Additional
format availability is dependent upon User Services Working Group
resources.

Some index categories have been tentatively identified.  They are:
applications, protocols, Internet organizations, networks (e.g.,
mid-level networks), and address types (e.g., internet address).  It is
possible that a glossary entry may appear in multiple categories.

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The editorial board has the following members:  Tracy LaQuey Parker,
Gary Malkin, Carl Malamud, Karen Roubicek, Peter Liebscher, April
Marine, and Laura Bollettino.

Attendees

Martyne Hallgren         martyne@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu
Ellen Hoffman            esh@merit.edu
Edward Krol              e-krol@uiuc.edu
Peter Liebscher          plieb@sura.net
Gary Malkin              gmalkin@ftp.com
April Marine             april@nisc.sri.com
Michael Patton           map@lcs.mit.edu
Joyce Reynolds           jkrey@isi.edu
Karen Roubicek           roubicek@faxon.com



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