Minutes of the Internet School Networking WG (ISN) at the 39th IETF Tuesday, August 12, 1997, Munich, Germany The ISN WG was called to order by Sepideh Boroumand cochair of ISN at 1 p.m. The following agenda was approved by attendees. 1) Introductions 2) Intro to school networking in Germany - K. Fueller 3) Help Desk Document 4) Common Pitfalls Outline 5) AOB Attendees were invited to introduce themselves and briefly describe their interests in ISN. Next, Mr. K. Fueller made a presentation on school networking in Germany. He gave the group information on the efforts being made and the problems facing the schools. Mr. Fueller, also shared with the group the technical solution for his school. A Linux based software was written for schools and freely available. The software works easily with Microsoft OS, OS/2, Mac and Unix. It is menu driven and easy to use. For example, it can add groups of students at a time with a single operation. The software acts as a local file and print server. It is also possible to use it for mail, news, ftp and as an http proxy server. German schools have also worked with ISPs, some Universities and Freenets to make the schule.de domain address available to the schools. Next the group worked on the Help Desk document and it was finalized. Initially, there were questions on the usefulness of the document. Time did not allow for the Common Pitfalls document. Two secondary school level students shared their experiences on being on the Net and told the group of their connectivity and activities on the Net. They use the Net for academic activities as well as for personal interests. They were both very happy about having connectivity to the Net and proud of it being an ISDN connection. Meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m. From - Wed Sep 17 16:27:53 1997 Received: from ietf.org by ietf.org id aa26269; 15 Sep 97 22:32 EDT Received: from Portal.East.saic.com by ietf.org id aa26265; 15 Sep 97 22:32 EDT Return-Path: Received: from mclmx.mail.saic.com by portal.east.saic.com via smtpd (for ietf.org [132.151.1.19]) with SMTP; 16 Sep 1997 02:32:25 UT Received: from mcl-its-exig01.mail.saic.com by mclmx.mail.saic.com; Mon, 15 Sep 97 22:32:28 -0400 Received: by mcl-its-exig01.mail.saic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:54:54 -0400 Message-ID: <11DEBAD8FCE0D01186FF0000F8052A0120BA3B@NET_SOL_EX01> Sender:minutes-request@ietf.org From: "Boroumand, Sepideh" To: "'minutes@ietf.org.'" Cc: "'jodi@hawaii.edu'" , "'jkrey@isi.edu'" , "'sepideh@internic.net'" Subject: ISN WG Minutes for the 39th IETF Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:58:38 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Status: X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 Minutes of the Internet School Networking WG (ISN) at the 39th IETF Tuesday, August 12, 1997, Munich, Germany The ISN WG was called to order by Sepideh Boroumand cochair of ISN at 1 p.m. The following agenda was approved by attendees. 1) Introductions 2) Intro to school networking in Germany - K. Fueller 3) Help Desk Document 4) Common Pitfalls Outline 5) AOB Attendees were invited to introduce themselves and briefly describe their interests in ISN. Next, Mr. K. Fueller made a presentation on school networking in Germany. He gave the group information on the efforts being made and the problems facing the schools. Mr. Fueller, also shared with the group the technical solution for his school. A Linux based software was written for schools and freely available. The software works easily with Microsoft OS, OS/2, Mac and Unix. It is menu driven and easy to use. For example, it can add groups of students at a time with a single operation. The software acts as a local file and print server. It is also possible to use it for mail, news, ftp and as an http proxy server. German schools have also worked with ISPs, some Universities and Freenets to make the schule.de domain address available to the schools. Next the group worked on the Help Desk document and it was finalized. Initially, there were questions on the usefulness of the document. Time did not allow for the Common Pitfalls document. Two secondary school level students shared their experiences on being on the Net and told the group of their connectivity and activities on the Net. They use the Net for academic activities as well as for personal interests. They were both very happy about having connectivity to the Net and proud of it being an ISDN connection. Meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m.