CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Chris Weider/ISI Minutes of the Directory Information Services Infrastructure (DISI) The Agenda was as follows: 1. Discussion and possible modification of Atlanta Minutes. 2. Ruth and Russ's document, mention work done and final form as the paper should be out as an I-D and started up the track. 3. Chris, Joyce, and Sergio's paper. This has been revised twice since Atlanta, and is on its (I hope) last round of reviews. It will be posted to the list no later than Wednesday, Nov 13, in whatever form it has then. Please read it and come prepared to discuss.... 4. Discussion of and possible assignment of the ``How to join a pilot'' paper. 5. Discussion of and possible assignment of the ``How to set up a DSA'' paper. 6. Future Work??? How it went: 1. We discussed the Atlanta Minutes and Chris W. gave an outline of the changes proposed to the Minutes. Those Minutes have now been modified. 2. Ruth and Russ's document was discussed next. They mentioned that they had made the changes which had been suggested at Atlanta, and it was noted by Joyce Reynolds that Jon Postel was eager to see this paper advanced to RFC status as soon as possible. Several modifications/additions were also discussed. Chris Weider wanted to know why the authors did not flesh out entries which had no information provided by the authors but which DISI would be able to supply the relevant information; Ruth mentioned that DISI should not be responsible for any information in the document; that it should all come from the individual authors. Richard Collela mentioned wanting to see some type of benchmarking information in this document, but after Richard, Ruth, Christian Huitema, and Sue Hares discussed it, it was decided that there should eventually be a benchmarking document produced. It was also decided to ask Ruth and Russ to add a ``date of last update'' field to each entry, to let the reader determine how recent the information is. 3. Chris, Joyce, and Sergio's document was discussed next. Many people had not yet had a chance to read it, but those who did had several comments. The final upshot was that the people who read it 1 thought that it should focus less on technical details and more on ``What can it do for me??''. Chris pointed out that the focus on technical details was mandated to some extent by the necessity of explaining what makes X.500 so powerful, but agreed that the focus should and would be shifted. 4. Chris started discussion of the ``How to join a pilot'' and ``How to set up a DSA'' papers. Several people were of the opinion that there should also be a ``X.500 Case Studies'' paper written to show people how to set up and use X.500, and illustrate some of the stumbling points in the deployment. After discussion of all three papers, (in addition to the paper which had been mentioned on benchmarking), Ruth Lang mentioned that she thought that we should not assign any more papers at this time, and that she would take an action item to get the European versions of these papers and post summaries to the list. The group seemed to agree with this sentiment, and that's where matters stood at the end of the meeting. Any comments or additions welcome. Attendees William Biagi bbiagi@cos.com Robert Blokzijl K13@nikhef.nl Steve Bostock steveb@novell.com Cyrus Chow cchow@ames.arc.nasa.gov Richard Colella colella@osi.ncsl.nist.gov Robert Cooney cooney@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil John Demco demco@cs.ubc.ca Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgill.ca Alan Emtage bajan@cc.mcgill.ca Robert Enger enger@seka.scc.com Michael Erlinger mike@jarthur.claremout.edu Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org Martyne Hallgren martyne@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu Susan Hares skh@merit.edu Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Alton Hoover hoover@nis.ans.net Christian Huitema christian.huitema@sophia.inria.fr Lenore Jackson jackson@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov Darren Kinley kinley@crim.ca Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu Ruth Lang rlang@nisc.sri.com Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org Peter Liebscher plieb@sura.net April Marine april@nisc.sri.com Glenn Michel gym@lanl.gov Robert Purvy bpurvy@us.oracle.com Joyce Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com Dana Sitzler dds@merit.edu 2 Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Joanie Thompson joanie@nsipo.nasa.gov Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov Sze-Ying Wuu syww@thumper.bellcore.com Wengyik Yeong yeongw@psi.com 3