CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Chris Weider/Bunyip Information Systems Minutes of the Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR) Agenda o Approve Minutes o Status of the Vision Document o Status of the Transponder Document o Z39.50 over TCP/IP o Integrated Information Architecture Work o HTTP Status o IAB Architecture Workshop o Charter Revision Status of the Vision and Transponder Documents A paragraph stating that this was not the official view of the working group was added to both documents. They are now free to move to RFC status. Z39.50 over TCP/IP There were no comments on the Z39.50 document. It now needs to be moved to Informational RFC status. Integrated Information Architecture Work Mitra gave a report on the information architecture work that he, Karen Sollins, Larry Masinter, Keith Moore, Chris Weider, and others have been working on over the past four months. The basic view is that a set of functional modules required by all Internet information services will be defined, and then the required functionality for those modules will be developed. The modules identified so far are: o Retrieval o Gateways o URN ! URC resolution o Update modules o Service location o Caching/replication o Security and authentication o Charging, payment, and accounting o Presentation o Search o Feature definitions or `dictionary' More work will be done on this architecture, and it will be presented at the IAB Architecture Workshop in October (see below). Brief reports were solicited from attendees of the WWW meeting in Geneva and the GopherCon in Minneapolis to determine if there was anything which would affect the architectural discussions. Tim Berners-Lee mentioned that there was work in four areas which might have some bearing: o Server technology: NCSA is working on load handling and load sharing tools for WWW; this will need to be incorporated into the architecture. o New tools for navigation: Spiders, which are automatic Web traversers, and new tools for indexing the Web. o HTML: HTML+ will contain additional features for table generation and for the specification of mathematical equations o Virtual Reality: Several virtual reality researchers are pressing for HTML extensions to support the use of the Web in virtual reality. Mitra gave the report for GopherCon. The focus on future Gopher development is to allow Gopher to easily serve large-scale collections of data without having to rewrite the data extensively as one would have to do with HTML. Gopher is also focusing on a more object-oriented data model, to allow object overlays and `hot maps' in Gopher. Gofer (with an `f') is a protocol being developed outside the University of Minnesota arena which is attempting to get more rapid incorporation of desired features into the basic Gopher protocol. They are focusing on security features and on data updates via the protocol. There is also a new gopher-HTTP daemon, which is an HTTP server which uses Gopher data structures. IAB Architecture Workshop Erik Huizer mentioned that the IAB was sponsoring an invitation-only workshop to work on an integrated Internet information architecture. A request for white papers has already gone out to the IETF list and several others, and Erik asked that IIIR solicit paragraphs on the work in progress from communities outside the traditional IETF scope, and that they develop a basic set of vocabulary definitions to enhance the utility of the meeting. Cecilia Preston volunteered to start work on the vocabulary list which was developed during the meeting, and several people have agreed to contact various organizations: Shamrock Coalition Larry Masinter Document Enabled Network Larry Masinter Lotus Notes Karen Sollins SIGIR Cliff Lynch EDI Chris Weider Digital Libraries '94 Cliff Lynch, Judith Grass Commerce Net No volunteers CUPID No volunteers CORBA No volunteers NASA's EOS DIS Kevin Gamiel Solicitations should be made by 15 August. The white papers from these organizations should be submitted by 10 September. Charter Revision The charter has been rewritten to reflect IIIR's focus on architectural issues; specific milestones have been installed for this work.