CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Ellen Hoffman/Merit

Minutes of the User Documents Revisions Working Group (USERDOC2)

A small, but dedicated group attended the USERDOC2 session---the last of
the User Services groups to meet in Seattle.

A revision of FYI 3 was distributed, and was generally approved by the
group with some minor revisions.  The document, available as an
Internet-Draft (draft-ietf-userdoc2-fyi-biblio-00.txt), will be
corrected and reviewed one more time on the user-doc mailing list.  Any
additions or corrections should be sent to Ellen Hoffman within the next
two weeks, then a final version will be posted and sent on through the
official FYI process.  The new bibliography focuses on in-print books
and on-line sources, as the number of articles in periodicals makes it
difficult to develop the kind of comprehensive bibliography done in
early 1990.

As soon as FYI 3 is completed, a revision of the short bibliography for
novices, FYI 19, will be developed as well to reflect the many new
sources of material that have become available since last year.
Volunteers were requested to help narrow down the long list in the draft
of FYI 3 so that a shorter bibliography can be produced.  The goal is to
have FYI 19 revised and completed by the next IETF.

The future of the working group, already raised in the earlier USWG
session, was again discussed.  Plans are to conclude the USERDOC2
Working Group after the next IETF, when both FYIs 3 and 19 will be
completed.  Future revisions of these documents are recommended as a
yearly exercise, but it was generally agreed that in the future this
could be accomplished within USWG rather than creating a new working
group.


Attendees

Sepideh Boroumand        sepideh@jacks.gsfc.nasa.gov
Susan Calcari            susanc@internic.net
Jodi-Ann Chu             jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Jill Foster              Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Sally Hambridge          sallyh@ludwig.intel.com
Ellen Hoffman            ellen@merit.edu
Lenore Jackson           jackson@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
Marsha Perrott           perrott@prep.net
Joyce K. Reynolds        jkrey@isi.edu
Patricia Smith           psmith@merit.edu
Phil Wintering           pvw@americast.com