This is a rough draft only - Megan 04/07/92 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Gary Malkin/Xylogics and Tracy LaQuey Parker/UTexas USERGLOS Minutes Status Update Chairpersons Tracy LaQuey Parker / tracy@utexas.edu Gary Scott Malkin / gmalkin@xylogics.com Mailing List usergloss(-request)@xylogics.com Glossary Archive ftp.utexas.edu in directory usergloss Date of Last meeting San Diego IETF / March 17, 1992 Date of next meeting Boston IETF / July 1992 Progress Usergloss met twice at this IETF. Having compiled a very large glossary from many sources, we removed those entries which we decided were either too general or too esoteric for the intended audience of the glossary. Milestones: Boston Final review of glossary. The object will be to ensure that the entries are catagorized properly in the index. within month Submit to RFC editor Agenda 1) Review WG Description, Goals and Milestones 2) Progress to Date a) Collected a list of glossaries to use as a base b) Editorial committee has edited and merged these glossaries 3) Review the document we now have 4) Weeding-out Process (which definitions should be excluded?) 5) Refining the indexes/categories 6) Final format of the document a) review format proposed at last meeting b) what to do about the indexes 7) Assign New Tasks a) Editing draft b) Writing/researching better definitions c) Searching for definitions we've left out. We started with some discussion about copyright issues. We believe that definitions are not copyrighted (except by the creater of a word). We will be giving credit to the sources of the definitions. We spent considerable time determining what our audience was so that we could decide which words were too generic for an Internet specific glossary and which words were too esoteric for a general audience. We sort of decided that the glossary was not for extreme beginners and that an effort to create a comprehensive dictionary should be undertaken in the future. The remainder of the first session, and all of the second session, was devoted to pruning the glossary. We removed 351 entries from the original 1247 and added 10. We still need to resolve the duplicates (by merging them together). Agenda items 5-7 will be done over email before the next IETF meeting in Boston.