CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Joan Gargano/University of California, Davis Minutes of the WHOIS and Network Information Lookup Service Working Group (WNILS) Status of the WHOIS++ Internet-Drafts Two of the documents are ready for submission as RFCs with the recommendation of Proposed Standard status, ``Recommended Modifications to the WHOIS Protocol'' by Joan Gargano and Ken Weiss, and ``The Distributed WHOIS++ Model - Centroids'' by Chris Weider and Simon Spero. The WHOIS++ Architecture paper by Peter Deutsch has been updated by Rickard Schoultz and Patrik Faltstrom. This paper will be submitted to the mailing list for review. Upon approval, this paper will be submitted as an RFC and recommended as a Proposed Standard. Overview of the WHOIS++ Architecture Document Rickard Schoultz and Patrik Faltstrom provided an overview of the revisions they made to the WHOIS++ Architecture document based on implementation experience. They reported that they have five WHOIS++ servers with centroids running in Sweden. Summary of proposed changes to the WHOIS++ Architecture document: o Server now only sends either FULL or SUMMARY as default. ABRIDGED is only sent on clients' explicit demand. o Introduced MAXFULL constraint for limiting the number of matches when a server sends a SUMMARY. o ABRIDGED is no longer required to include the attribute value that caused the match. o Support was added for MIME response format. o POINTER replaced with SERVERS-TO-ASK. o New BNF. o POLLED-BY and POLLED-FOR is required. o Removed search specifier ATTRIBUTE. No more ATTRIBUTE=x;VALUE=y. o VALUE search specifier now made default (as opposed to SEARCH-ALL). o Section on optional commands removed. We need those commands, but we have to put more work into them. Moved that to a companion paper. o Only kept the PASSWORD authentication method. o Banner messages now required from server. o Timeout constraint not changeable by client. o Removed all short-form of search term specifiers except `!' (handle). o Described numeric response messages. o All search responses must include starting and ending system message. Search response is made optional. o Language specified by two-letter ISO language code. o Language's primary use is for fuzzy matching. System responses in other languages moved to client. o Added leading substring (LSTRING) as search constraint value. o LSTRING required, SUBSTRING now optional. o OUTCHARSET removed. o Clarification on which constraints are global/local. o Introduced boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, and (). o Redefined DESCRIBE and HELP. o Cleanup and rewriting. Working Group Status A new organization within the IETF has been formed to deal with directory service issues. As a result, a new working group has been proposed, Access and Synchronization of the Internet Directories (ASID), to work on directory service protocol issues. It was recommended, and agreed, that the WNILS Working Group should conclude, and all future work should be performed within ASID. All activities related to closing down WNILS will occur via electronic mail and should be complete by the next IETF meeting. Attendees John Beck jbeck@cup.hp.com Alexis Bor bora@ct.si.cs.boeing.com Luc Boulianne lucb@bunyip.com Mic Bowman C. Allan Cargille allan.cargille@cs.wisc.edu Michael Carroll br.mjc@rlg.stanford.edu Cyrus Chow cchow@ames.arc.nasa.gov Richard Everman reverman@ka.reg.uci.edu Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk Kevin Gamiel kgamiel@cnidr.org Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu Judith Grass grass@cnri.reston.va.us Darren Hardy hardy@cs.colorado.edu Roland Hedberg Roland.Hedberg@umdac.umu.se Tim Howes tim@umich.edu Richard Huber rvh@ds.internic.net Neil Katin katin@eng.sun.com Jim Knowles jknowles@binky.arc.nasa.gov Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org Larry Masinter masinter@parc.xerox.com Chip Matthes chip@delphi.com James McKinney jmck@americast.com Linda Millington l.millington@noc.ulcc.ac.uk Paul-Andre Pays pays@faugeres.inria.fr Pete Percival percival@indiana.edu Karen Petraska-Veum karen.veum@gsfc.nasa.gov Jon Postel postel@isi.edu Thomas Powell sestrada@aldea.com Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au Rickard Schoultz schoultz@sunet.se Michael Schwartz schwartz@cs.colorado.edu Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu Suzanne Smith smith@es.net Karen Sollins sollins@lcs.mit.edu David Staudt dstaudt@nsf.gov Peter Sylvester peter.sylvester@inria.fr Dave Thompson davet@ncsa.uiuc.edu Aleks Totic atotic@ncsa.uiuc.edu Ruediger Volk rv@informatik.uni-dortmund.de Chris Weider clw@bunyip.com