CURRENT MEETING REPORT

Internet School Networking 2 BOF (ISN2)


Reported by Jodi-Ann Ito, University of Hawaii


The ISN2 BOF was convened at 7:30pm by co-chair Jodi Ito.  The
purpose of the BOF was to invite local educators to attend and provide
input into ISN projects and how ISN can better help the education
community.  Co-chair, Jennifer Sellers held an interim ISN meeting at
Tel-Ed in Ft. Lauderdale the previous week and was unable to attend
this IETF.

After introductions, Joyce Reynolds gave a short overview of the IETF,
User Services Area, and RFC/FYI document series.  Attendees provided
several suggestions to better publicize the works of the ISN: publish
articles in educators' and librarians' magazines and journals, send
announcements to lists and newsletters,  and ask ISPs, NICs and regional
education labs to point to the on-line FYI documents.

Following the agenda, a brief description of the document repository
was given and the attendees were asked to review it and submit their
comments and any additional documents to the list.

Copies of the update to FYI 22-FAQ for Schools were distributed and
the attendees were asked to review it and submit their comments to the
authors-Jennifer Sellers <[email protected]> and
Julie Robichaux <[email protected]>.

The question: "how can ISN help educators within the IETF
framework?" was posed to the group.  Several suggestions were made:
support/advocate use of the Internet for business applications for
schools like purchasing, student records/tracking, etc.,  print business
case studies-cost-savings success stories, collect "success" and "real-life"
stories and have them searchable.

Sepi Boroumand introduced the idea of creating a document targeted for
those interested in starting a help desk.  General consensus around the
room indicated a need for a document like this.  Information that would
be useful to the education community is a description of the support
process and costs involved.  It would also be useful to include a sample
job description or qualifications for a support position like this. The
document should also state how it would be different from an ISP's help
desk and why it would be useful to the school community.

As there as no additional business, the meeting was concluded around
9:30pm.