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 <sellers@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> and 
Julie Robichaux <julie@bbnplanet.com>.

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.