RFC 1689
A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups
Pages: 226
FYI 25
FYI 25
Part 5 of 7 – Pages 130 to 159
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Date template updated or checked: 1st March, 1994
By: Name: Craig A. Summerhill
Email address: craig@cni.org
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NIR Group Name: Directories and Information Resource
Services Working Group
Sponsoring Organisation: Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Working subgroups:
Name of subgroup: TopNode Management Team
Mailinglist-Address: cni-directories@cni.org
Description of main group:
This group recognizes the need for open systems, standards, and
therefore, interoperable products and services based upon a
distributed architecture of servers that draw upon a common or at
least comparable set of data elements. It is creating a (printed
and networked) directory of directories and resource information
services that provide qualitative (consumer) as well as descriptive
information. The group supports the Library of Congress effort to
enhance the MARC formats to account for the cataloging requirements of
networked resources and services, and the National Science Foundation
effort to procure a new NSFNet Network Information Center.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: George Brett
Email address: George.Brett@cnidr.org
Postal Address:
Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
Center for Communications at MCNC
PO Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2889
USA
Telephone: +1-919-248-1499
Fax: +1-919-248-1101
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Name: Peggy Seiden
Email address: pseiden@skidmore.edu
Postal Address: Scribner Library
Skidmore College
North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Telephone: +1-518-584-5000 ext. 2126
Fax:
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Date template updated or checked: 1st March, 1994
By: Name: Craig A. Summerhill
Email address: craig@cni.org
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NIR Group Name: TopNode for Networked Information Resources,
Services, and Tools
Sponsoring Organisation: Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Directories and Information Resource
Services Working Group
Working subgroups:
Name of subgroup:
Mailinglist-Address:
Description of main group:
(from ARL Newsletter #164 -- September 9, 1992)
The Coalition's TopNode Project is creating a directory of
directories, catalogs and aids of networked information resources,
services and tools. The project is intended to facilitate the
network navigational duties, responsibilities and tasks of staff
in libraries, computer centers, networking offices and other
similar operations. The primary product of the TopNode project
will be a set of records describing these networked information
resources, records that can be loaded into a wide range of
database management systems.
Based on their response to a Call for Statements of Interest and
Experience, Indiana University and Merit Network, Inc. were
chosen to lead the development effort on the Coalition TopNode
project. Pete Percival, Manager, Academic Information Environment
at Indiana University and Craig Summerhill, Coalition Systems
Coordinator, have completed the design for the database structure
which is being built on the Coalition's Internet fileserver using
BRS/SEARCH. Based on earlier work of the leaders of the
Directories and Resource Information Services Working Group,
George Brett II of the University of North Carolina General
Administration and Peggy Seiden of Skidmore College Library,
Percival and Summerhill have developed a data structure that they
believe to be both flexible and responsive to the needs of the
many interested parties who have been consulted.
Under the direction of Gary Charbonneau of the Indiana University
Libraries, records are being created and prepared for loading. A
thesaurus of added descriptor terms is being maintained. As of
mid-August 1992, close to 200 records had been verified and had
received descriptive cataloging.
When the database is complete, libraries will be alerted and
encouraged to mount the TopNode records into their online
catalogs. Records will be available from the Coalition. In
addition, MERIT will use the TopNode database in an experiment to
test the viability of the X.500 directory format standard for
providing yellow pages-type services (e.g., with subject access).
After its initial release, the database will be maintained by
Indiana University libraries on the Coalition server; BRS has
assisted in the development of procedures for online data entry.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Pete Percival
Email address: percival@indiana.edu
Postal Address: Indiana State University
Telephone: +1-812-855-9146
Fax: +1-812-855-0299
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Name: Craig Summerhill
Email address: craig@cni.org
Postal Address: Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Cricle, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
USA
Telephone: +1-202-296-5098
Fax: +1-202-872-0884
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Name: Gary Charbonneau
Email address: charbonn@indiana.edu
Postal Address: Indiana University
Telephone:
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Official Publications:
Status Report - TopNode Directory of Directories. Pete Percival.
Presented at Coalition's 1992 Fall Task Force meeting, Landsdowne VA
site: gopher.cni.org/ Coalition FTP archives / Coalition Projects /
TopNode / *
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Bibliography: None
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Other Information:
The Coalition has an alpha implementation of Topnode setup using the
BRS/SEARCH full text information retrieval software. This database
was created during the data element definition portion of the project,
so the data may not be of production-level service quality.
URL:telnet://brsuser
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CNIDR
Date template updated or checked: 1st March, 1994
By: Name: Jane Smith
Email address: Jane.Smith@cnidr.org
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NIR Group Name: Clearinghouse for Networked Information
Discovery and Retrieval
Sponsoring Organisation: National Science Foundation,
Center for Communications at MCNC
Working subgroups:
Name of subgroup:
Mailinglist-Address:
Description of main group:
Several user-friendly client-server software tools have been
developed recently for locating and retrieving information
published on computer platforms reachable over wide-area data
communications networks like the Internet. Among them, freeWAIS
(freely available wide-area information system), the Internet
Gopher, archie, and the WorldWide Web (WWW) have become popular.
freeWAIS, archie, and Gopher indicate where information of
interest is likely to reside and then assist the user in locating
specific information. WWW permits a user to thread a path through
the network by selecting tagged hypertext items.
While focused on the evolution of wide-area information retrieval
systems, the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery
and Retrieval (CNIDR) works closely with developers of other
tools toward providing compatibility, consistency, and, to the
extent possible, convergence of the tools.
Specific activities are to provide a central focus and forum for
networked information discovery and retrieval (NIDR) tools and to
minimize the divergence of individual implementations by
providing a repository for the collection, evaluation, and
distribution of protocol-compliant releases and enhanced
versions.
CNIDR participates in standards and policy associations such as
the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Coalition for
Networked Information, with the goal of increasing consensus
among developers and exploring appropriate uses of networked
information. CNIDR also actively promotes the use of networked
information discovery and retrieval tools at many national and
international conferences to inform and educate implementors and
end users.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: George Brett
Email address: George.Brett@cnidr.org
Postal Address:
Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
(CNIDR)
Center for Communications at MCNC
PO Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2889 USA
Telephone: +1-919-248-1886
Fax: +1-919-248-1101
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Name: Jane Smith
Email address: Jane.Smith@cnidr.org
Postal Address:
Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
(CNIDR)
Center for Communications at MCNC
PO Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2889 USA
Telephone: +1-919-248-9213
Fax: +1-919-248-1101
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Name: Jim Fullton
Email address: Jim.Fullton@cnidr.org
Postal Address:
Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
(CNIDR)
Center for Communications at MCNC
PO Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2889 USA
Telephone: +1-919-248-9247
Fax: +1-919-248-1101
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IETF Groups
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the protocol
engineering, development and standardisation arm of the Internet. It
has grown to be a large open international community of network
designers, operators, vendors and researchers concerned with the
evolution of the Internet protocol architecture and the smooth
operation of the Internet.
IETF Information including RFCs and Internet Drafts is available by
anonymous FTP from several sites.
East Coast (US) Address: ds.internic.net
West Coast (US) Address: ftp.isi.edu
Europe Address: nic.nordu.net
Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au
(The Internet-Drafts on this machine are stored in Unix
compressed form (.Z).)
In addition the information is available via gopher from
cnri.reston.va.us under the menu item "Internet Society".
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IDS
Date template updated or checked: 21 October, 1993
By: Name: Chris Weider
Email address: clw@bunyip.com
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NIR Group Name: Integrated Directory Services (IDS)
Sponsoring Organisation: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Working subgroups: NONE
Description of main group:
The Integrated Directory Services Working Group (IDS) is chartered to
facilitate the integration and interoperability of current and future
directory services into a unified directory service. This work will
unite directory services based on a heterogeneous set of directory
services protocols (X.500, WHOIS++, etc.). In addition to specifying
technical requirements for the integration, the IDS group will also
contribute to the administrative and maintenance issues of directory
service offerings by publishing guidelines on directory data
integrity, maintenance, security, and privacy and legal issues for
users and administrators of directories.
Membership is open, and is not limited to IETF attendees. A full
charter for this group is available for anonymous FTP from
ds.internic.net as ids-charter.txt in directory ietf/ids.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Chris Weider, Chair
Email address: clw@bunyip.com
Postal Address: 2001 South Huron Parkway 12
Ann Arbor
Michigan
48104, USA
Telephone: +1-313-971-2223
Fax: +1-313-971-2223
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Site: ds.internic.net or any Internet Draft Server (see
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Directory: internet-drafts. All IDS document file names start
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Bibliography:
Document Title: FYI 11, RFC 1292, "Catalog of Available X.500
Implementations", R. Lang, R. Wright.
Location details: Available for anonymous FTP from
Site: ds.internic.net
Full file name: RFC-1292.txt
An update of this document is in preparation:
Document Title: "A Revised Catalog of Available X.500
Implementations", A. Getchell, S. Sataluri.
Location details: Available for anonymous FTP from
Site: ds.internic.net
Full file name: draft-ietf-ids-catalog-00.txt
Document Title: FYI 21, RFC 1491, "A Survey of Advanced Usages of
X.500", C. Weider, R. Wright.
Location details: Available for anonymous FTP from
Site: ds.internic.net
Full file name: RFC-1491.txt
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IIIR
Date template updated or checked: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Chris Weider
Email address: clw@bunyip.com
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NIR Group Name: Integration of Internet Information Resources (IIIR)
Sponsoring Organisation: Internet Engineering Task Forces (IETF)
Working subgroups: None
Description of main group:
The IIIR group was chartered in September 1992 to facilitate
interoperability between and integration of the various Internet
information services (Archie, Gopher, WAIS, etc.), just as the IETF
was founded to facilitate the integration of various LANs running
different protocols. It will develop, specify, and align protocols to
integrate the services into a single "virtually unified information
service" (VUIS).
Also, where necessary for interoperability, IIIR will create
technical documentation for protocols used for information services
in the internet.
Membership is open, and is not limited to IETF attendees. A full
charter for this group is available via anonymous FTP from
ds.internic.net as ietf/iiir/iiir-charter.txt
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Chris Weider, Chair
Email address: clw@bunyip.com
Postal Address: 2001 South Huron Parkway 12
Ann Arbor
Michigan
48104
USA
Telephone: +1-313-971-2223
Fax: +1-313-971-2223
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Address: iiir@merit.edu
Administration: iiir-request@merit.edu
Archive: Anonymous FTP, iiir/archive
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Document Archive:
Location details:
Site: ds.internic.net or any Internet Draft Server (see sub-section
entitled IETF groups).
Directory: internet-drafts
All IIIR document file names start with the string 'draft-ietf-iiir-'
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Official Publications: None.
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Bibliography:
Weider, Chris, and Peter Deutsch, 'A vision of an integrated Internet
information service', Internet Draft, March 1993. Available as
draft-ietf-iiir-vision-00.txt from any Internet Draft server.
Weider, Chris, 'Resource Transponders', Internet Draft, March 1993.
Available as draft-ietf-iiir-transponder-00.txt from any Internet
Draft server.
Ankelesaria, et al, 'The Internet Gopher Protocol', RFC 1436, March
1993. Available from any RFC repository.
Berners-Lee, Tim. 'Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)', Internet Draft,
March 1993. Available as draft-ietf-iiir-html-00.ps from any Internet
Draft server.
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NIR
Date template updated or checked: 1st March, 1994
By: Name: Jill Foster
Email address: Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
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NIR Group Name: Networked Information Retrieval Working Group (NIR-WG)
Sponsoring Organisation: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and
RARE (Association of European Research Networks)
Working subgroups: None
Description of main group:
There are many organizations and associations that have begun to
focus on the proliferating resources and tools for networked
information retrieval (NIR). The Networked Information Retrieval
Group will be a cooperative effort of three major players in the
field of NIR: IETF, RARE, and the Coalition for Networked Information
(CNI) specifically tasked to collect and disseminate information
about the tools and to discuss and encourage cooperative development
of current and future tools such as the archie servers, the Wide Area
Information Servers (WAIS), the Internet Gopher, and the WorldWide
Web (WWW).
The NIR Working Group intends to increase the useful base of
information about networked information retrieval (NIR) tools, their
developers, interested organizations, and other activities that
relate to the production, dissemination, and support of NIR tools.
Membership is open and is not limited to attendees of the quarterly
IETF meetings; the mailing list is open to all. The NIR-WG charter
is available via anonymous ftp from the various IETF repositories as
nir-charter.txt.
Goals:
To disseminate information about NIR tools and those groups working
on them. The information in the NIR Status report will be updated
and new entries added as appropriate once per year. This report will
be submitted as an RFC.
Current work includes discussing the criteria for evaluating the
major NIR tools available.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Jill Foster
Email address: Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Postal Address: Computing Service
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
U.K.
Telephone: +44-91-222-8250
Fax: +44-91-222-8765
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Name: Kevin Gamiel
Email address: kevin.gamiel@cnidr.org
Postal Address:
Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
Center for Communications - MCNC
PO Box 12889 3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2889
U.S.A.
Telephone: +1-919-248-1886
Fax: +1-919-248-1101
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Address: nir@mailbase.ac.uk
Administration: Auto subscriptions to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
"subscribe nir firstname lastname"
Human admin to: nir-request@mailbase.ac.uk
Description:
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NISI
Date template updated or checked: 1st March, 1994
By: Name: April Marine
Email address: april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
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NIR Group name: Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI)
Working Group
Sponsoring Organisation: IETF
Description of main group:
The NISI Working Group will explore the requirements for common,
shared Internet-wide network information services. The goal is to
develop an understanding for what is required to implement an
information services "infrastructure" for the Internet. Membership
is open. Charter is online in the various IETF repositories as
nisi-charter.txt.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: April Marine
Email address: april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
Postal Address: Network Applications and Information Center
NASA Ames Research Center
M/S 204-14
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
USA
Telephone: +1-415-604-0762
Fax: +1-415-604-0978
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Mailing Lists:
Address: nisi@merit.edu
Administration: nisi-request@merit.edu
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OSI-DS
Date template updated or checked: 24 February, 1994
By: Name: Chris Weider
Email address: clw@bunyip.com
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NIR Group Name: OSI Directory Services (OSI-DS)
Sponsoring Organisation: Internet Engineering Task Forces (IETF)
Working subgroups: NONE
Description of main group:
The OSI-DS group's mission is to enable building a global Directory
Service based on X.500 and to facilitate its deployment on the
Internet. The primary focus is on developing agreements and
technical specifications needed to make this happen. The WG will not
be directly concerned with piloting and service activities, but will
liaise with such activities.
Membership is open, and is not limited to IETF attendees. A full
charter for this group is available for anonymous FTP from
ds.internic.net as ietf/osids/osids-charter.txt
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Steve Kille, Chair
Email address: kille@isode.com
Postal Address: ISODE Consortium
P.O. Box 505
SW11 1DX London
England
Telephone: +44-71-223-4062
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Mailing Lists:
Address: ietf-osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Administration: ietf-osi-ds-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk Archive: Anonymous FTP, bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Document Archive: Location details: Site: bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk Directory:/osi-ds Site: ds.internic.net Directory: /ietf/osids ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Official Publications: None. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography: The COSINE and Internet X.500 Schema, P. Barker, S. Kille, RFC-1274. Replication and Distributed Operations Extensions to Provide an Internet Directory Usign X.500, S. Hardcastle-Kille, RFC-1276 Requirements to provide an Internet Directory using X.500. S. Hardcastle-Kille, RFC-1275 A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, S. Hardcastle-Kille et al, RFC-1340 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
URI
Date template updated or checked: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Chris Weider
Email address: clw@bunyip.com
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NIR Group Name: Uniform Resource Identifiers (uri)
Sponsoring Organisation: Internet Engineering Task Forces (IETF)
Working subgroups: NONE
Description of main group:
The Uniform Resource Identifiers Archives Working Group is chartered
to define a set of standards for the encoding of system independent
Resource Location and Identification information for the use of
Internet information services. There are three classes of
information being standardized in this group:
1) Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), which specify a standardized
method for encoding location and access information to
resources across multiple information systems,
2) Uniform Resource Names (URNs), which specify a standardized
method for encoding a unique resource identifier for a given
content, and
3) Uniform Resource Citations (URCs), which specify a
standardized method for encoding information about a given
instantiation of a content.
The URLs allow an information service to give a user access and
location information for a resource. The URN allows an information
service to determine if the contents of two information resources are
the same or not. The URC allows an information service to select
which of a number of different encodings of a resource are
appropriate for a given user's retrieval capabilities, and may
contain such things as file size and compression techniques.
Membership is open, and is not limited to IETF attendees. A full
charter for this group is available for anonymous FTP from
ds.internic.net as /ietf/uri/uri-charter.txt
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Jim Fullton, co-chair
Email address: fullton@concert.net
Postal Address: Center for Communications
P.O. Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park
North Carolina 27709-2889
Telephone: +1-919-248-1499
Fax: +1-919-248-1101
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Name: Alan Emtage, co-chair
Email address: bajan@bunyip.com
Postal Address: Bunyip Information Systems, Inc.
266 Blvd. Neptune
Dorval QUEBEC H9S 2L4 CANADA
Telephone: +1-514-875-8611
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Mailing Lists:
Address: uri@bunyip.com
Administration: uri-request@bunyip.com
Archive: archives.cc.mcgill.ca:~/pub/uri-archive
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Document Archive:
Location details:
Site: ds.internic.net
Directory: internet-drafts. All documents will start with the
string draft-ietf-uri.
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WNILS
Date template updated or checked: 28 February, 1994
By: Name: Joan Gargano
Email address: jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
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NIR Group Name: Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS)
Sponsoring Organisation: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Working subgroups:
Name of subgroup:
Mailinglist-Address: ietf-wnils@ucdavis.edu
Description of main group:
This description is the current WNILS-WG charter.
The Network Information Center (NIC) maintains the central NICNAME
database and server, defined in RFC 954, providing online look-up of
individuals, network organizations, key nodes, and other information
of interest to those who use the Internet. Other distributed
directory information servers and information retrieval tools have
been developed and it is anticipated more will be created. Many
sites now maintain local directory servers with information about
individuals, departments and services at that specific site.
Typically these directory servers are network accessible. Because
these servers are local, there are now wide variations in the type of
data stored, access methods, search schemes, and user interfaces.
The purpose of the Whois and Network Information Lookup Service
(WNILS) working group is to expand and define the standard for WHOIS
services, to resolve issues associated with the variations in access
and to promote a consistent and predictable service across the
network.
Goals and Milestones:
Done Review and approve the charter making any changes deemed
necessary. Examine the particular functional needs for
expanded whois directory service. Begin work on a framework
for recommendations. Assign writing assignments for first
draft of document.
12/1/93 Submit the Whois and Network Information Lookup Service
Recommendations document to the IESG as an Internet Draft.
12/1/93 Submit the WHOIS++ protocol document to the IESG as an
Internet Draft.
12/1/93 Submit the "Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service"
document to the IESG as a revised Internet Draft.
12/1/93 Freeze all work on the Internet Drafts for 6 months for
software development.
Membership is open to attendees of the quarterly IETF meetings; the
mailing list is open to all. The WNILS-WG charter can be obtained via
anonymous ftp from the Document Archive sites listed in the Networked
Information Retrieval Working Group (WNILS-WG) template.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Joan Gargano
Email address: jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
Postal Address: Distributed Computing Analysis and Support (DCAS)
Information Technology
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Fax: +1-916-752-9158
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