Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/30
CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by George Brett/MCNC
Minutes of the Networked Information Retrieval BOF (NIR)
Introductions
It was agreed that the mailing list, nir@cc.mcgill.ca, that was set up
by Peter Deutsch would continue to be used by the NIR Working Group and
that all names on the roster would be added to that list.
Administrative Business - Discussion of Charter
We discussed the elements of the Charter necessary to develop this BOF
into for a Working Group. The draft of the Charter has been posted to
the NIR mailing list. The goals and objectives are still up for
discussion.
Other items of discussion from the floor included the frequency of
publications, future definition of networked information retrieval
standards, and scope of the documents produced by the NIR Working Group.
Updates from Brett & Foster
Jill Foster and George Brett presented information about projects that
they are working on. Jill described the RARE Information Services and
User Support Working Group. George spoke about the Coalition for
Networked Information Directories and Networked Resources Services
Working Group and the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery
and Retrieval. Contact Jill or George at their email addresses if you
would like more information about these projects.
Scope of topic
The scope of the topic was addressed during the discussion on the
Charter, so not much more was said at this time.
Templates
A majority of the session was spent talking about the two templates that
will be used to gather information about networked information retrieval
applications and about organizations which are working on projects
related to NIR. The draft copies of the templates have been posted to
the NIR mailing list and are available at the archive kept there
(pub/mailing-lists/nir at archives.cc.mcgill.ca). We welcome comments
and suggestions about the templates, but do plan to begin implementing
them before the November 1992 IETF meeting.
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Attendees
George Abe abe@infonet.com
Ed Albrigo ealbrigo@cos.com
George Brett ghb@jazz.concert.net
Mitchell Charity mcharity@lcs.mit.edu
Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Alan Clegg abc@concert.net
Richard Colella colella@osi.ncsl.nist.gov
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
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Ellen Hoffman ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu
J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net
Tim Howes Tim.Howes@umich.edu.
Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl
David Katinsky dmk@rutgers.edu
John Klensin klensin@infoods.mit.edu
Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr
Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org
Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager@switch.ch
Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu
April Marine april@nisc.sri.com
Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net
Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu
Rakesh Patel rapatel@hardees.rutgers.edu
Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu
Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
Mel Pleasant pleasant@cs.rutgers.edu
Sheri Repucci smr@merit.edu
Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch
Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com
Srinivas Sataluri sri@qsun.att.com
Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu
Vincent Sgro sgro@cs.rutgers.edu
Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu
Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
Simon Spero ses@cmns.think.com
Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com
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