This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/13/92

IETF             Internet Anonymous FTP Archives (IAFA)           Minutes



Co-Chairs:  Peter Deutsch                                   March 18, 1992
           Alan Emtage



1) The Minutes of the previous meeting in Santa Fe were reviewed and
  accepted and the agenda for the current meeting was approved.

2) The group considered the question of whether a User Document for
  Anonymous FTP was still needed, given the publication of several new
  user guides in recent months. The general consensus was that it was
  since there is no current Internet RFC (FYI) covering the topic.
  April Marine ([email protected]), Ellen Hoffman ([email protected]) and
  John Curran ([email protected]) have agreed to continue working on
  this document.

3) A detailed discussion of the Site Administrator's Document draft was
  held and its general ideas and focus approved. The following points
  were made:

- The additional information for the archive suggested in the
  documentation should not reside in fixed locations. While recognizing
  that this places additional burdens on the information tool designers,
  it was thought that having fixed locations for this information would
  reduce its usability. Files with special names should be able to be
  deposited at any place in the archive and be retrieved for their
  information.

- Some mechanism for a Time To Live (TTL) should be associated with
  the additional information being asked for in the archives to help
  control the problem of outdated information.

- Investigations should be made into Universal Document Serial Numbers
  and Universal Document Identifiers and contact maintained with those
  working on these in the IRTF and other IETF areas.

- A section should be included describing and summarizing existing
  projects which would be of use to site administrators, however care
  must be taken not endorse any specific project as "required".

- Contact should be made and maintained with those doing work in this
  area: OSI (X.500) and CNI projects. The OSI document "Representing
  Public Archives in the Directory" was mentioned as one source of
  information for IAFA. It was recognized that the Library community is
  also very much involved in similar work.

- Facilities should be included for the case where multiple logical
  archives are being maintained on one physical archive.

- Possibility for a "Quality of Service" index to be included in the
  additional information. Problems with this were also noted since we do
  not want to be seen to be "endorsing" specific archives, but an
  approach that rates archives as "hobby", "official regional or
  midlevel archive", "university campus-wide archive" etc. may be of use.

- A cross reference mechanism should be included for users to locate
  other related information.

- Security concerns about the current draft were raised by CERT
 representatives. It was agreed that the authors should work with CERT
 in resolving these concerns.

It was agreed that the authors would work to incorporate these changes
and submit a follow-up draft to the IAFA mailing list as soon as possible.
No new business was presented.


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