Minutes of the Responsible Use of the Network Working Group (RUN)
Agenda
o Administrivia
o Go over bibliography
o Decide on outline for Netiquette Guide
o Split the bibliography among volunteers
o Summarize
Once the administrative details had been taken care of, the group had to
determine if the bibliography, little more than a list, should be
formatted and submitted as an Internet-Draft. It was decided that there
are enough bibliographies available and that this list should only be
used for internal purposes (i.e., as references for the material to be
included in the Netiquette Guide).
Strawman Outline
Sally presented a strawman outline for the guide. Many additions were
made during the discussions. The current draft outline is as follows:
I. General/Intro
A. Intent of the document
B. General guidelines for all users (don't waste other peoples
time, bandwidth, disk space, etc.)
C. Pointers to places where new people are welcome
II. One-to-One Communication (e-mail, talk)
A. General guidelines
1. respect copyrighted material
2. messages are not secure
B. User Issues
1. send administrivia to -request address
2. don't shout
C. Administrator Issues
1. keep the list clean (remove bouncing addresses)
2. handle requests in a timely fashion
III. One-to-Many communication (newsgroup/mailing list posting, MUD,
IRC)
A. General guidelines
1. do not repost other peoples' messages without permission
2. lurk before you leap
B. User Issues
C. Administrator Issues
IV. Information Services (Gopher, WAIS, WWW, Archie, anon FTP, FSP)
A. General Guidelines
1. no dumping
2. don't maintain unused connections
B. User Issues
C. Administrator Issues
1. provide pointers to FAQs and archives
2. keep directory structures simple
3. keep filenames simple (acceptable to most file systems)
Some additional issues, to be placed in the outline above, are:
advertising, chain letters, abusive or unsolicited communication,
prurient/harassing, accountability, inappropriate, resource abuse.
Volunteers
The bibliography has been divided as follows (by numbers):
1 - Steve Campbell 2 - Peter Berger
3 - Barbara Jennings 4 - Tod McQuillin
5 - jlm@ftp 6 - Gary Malkin
7 - Ed Klein 8 - Sally Hambridge
9 - Jodie 10 - dropped from list
11 - Marsha Perrott 12 - Sally Hambridge
13 - Luc 14 - Alisa Hata
15 - dropped from list 16 - dropped from list
17 - Sepi B 18 - Barbara Jennings
19 - Jodie 20 - dropped from list
21 - Sue Smith 22 - Nevil Brownlee
23 - Sue Smith 24 - Sally Hambridge
25 - Sepi B 26 - Sally Hambridge
27 - Marsha Perrott 28 - Luc
29 - Peter Berger 30 - dropped from list
31 - jlm@ftp
