CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Robert Stine/SPARTA and Robert Enger/Contel

MINUTES

At this meeting, Bob Stine briefed the working group on the status of
the NOCTools Catalog, and identified several issues concerning
dissemination of the catalog, and production of the second edition.

Representatives of Sun Microsystems objected to the text of the YP/DNS
discussion in the tutorial section.  While they offered to assist in the
re-write, time constraints resulted in Bob Stine doing the job alone.

The catalog will be published as an RFC in early March.  The delay is to
allow the draft to remain frozen, though subject to critique, for a
respectable period of time.  During this period, typos and other minor
glitches will be quietly corrected.

Among the issues for the second edition are a few improvements to the
tool description format, refinement of keywords, and improved record
keeping on both entry sources and the solicitations that have been made
for catalog submissions.  Representatives from CMU have requested that
some of their catalog entries be updated; new text is expected from them
for the second edition.

Following the meeting, Steve Crocker, Dave Crocker, and co-chairs Bob
Enger and Bob Stine decided that responsibility for disseminating the
catalog could be assumed by DAWG, and that production of a new catalog
could be handled by a new working group, when needed.  At the closing
plenary, Dave Crocker (head of the IETF Network Management Area),
announced the disbanding of the NOCTools Working Group.  In short, we
declared victory and quit.  Bob Stine will remain as the interim editor,
until the formation of a working group to produce the second edition of
the catalog.



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ATTENDEES

    Armstrong, Karen                 armstrong@sds.sdsc.edu
    Aronson, Cathy                   cja@merit.edu
    Bowers, Karen L.                 kbowers@nri.reston.va.us
    Brunner, Ted                     tob@thumper.bellcore.com
    Crocker, Dave                    dcrocker@nsl.dec.com
    Enger, Robert                    enger@sccgate.scc.com
    Gerich, Elise                    epg@merit.edu
    Hahn, Jack                      hahn@umd5.umd.edu
    Hays, Ken                       hays@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
    Jordt, Dan                      danj@cac.washington.edu
    Malkin, Gary                     gmalkin@proteon.com
    Moore, Berlin                    prepnet@andrew.cmu.edu
    Morris, Don                     morris@ucar.edu
    Pace, Donald                     pace@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
    Pokorney, Dave                   poke@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
    Reynolds, Joyce                  jkrey@venera.isi.edu
    Roubicek, Karen                  roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net
    Saperia, Jon                     saperia%tcpjon@decwrl.dec.com
    Smith, Pat                      psmith@merit.edu
    St.  Johns, Mike                 stjohns@umd5.umd.edu
    Stahl, Mary                     stahl@nisc.sri.com
    Throop, Dean                     throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
    Waldbusser, Steve                sw01@andrew.cmu.edu
    Ward, Carol                     cward@spot.colorado.edu
    Wobus, John M.                   jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu
    Yuan, Aileen                     aileen@gateway.mitre.org
    Zimmerman, David                 dpz@convex.com



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