Internet School Networking (isn)
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Charter
Last Modified: 09/08/1998
Current Status: Concluded Working Group
Chair(s):
Jodi Ito <jodi@hawaii.edu>
User Services Area Director(s):
April Marine <april.marine@nominum.com>
User Services Area Advisor:
April Marine <april.marine@nominum.com>
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Description of Working Group:
The Internet School Networking Working Group is chartered to address
issues related to the connection of primary and secondary schools
worldwide to the Internet. The key audiences include network service
providers and educational policy makers responsible for network access
and use. The key areas of focus for this group are advocacy and
articulation.
1. Advocacy. The ISN Working Group will facilitate dialog between the
primary and secondary education community and the Internet
engineering community in order to identify and fulfill the needs of
the primary and secondary school community.
2. Articulation. Informed by the group's experience, and with input
from other IETF working groups, the ISN Working Group will
articulate solutions to the challenges a school may experience in
seeking and gaining a connection to the Internet, as well as the
benefits of such a connection. Advantages to Internet connectivity
may be articulated by means of pointers to such services as user
interfaces, directories, organizations, and training programs, as
well as to other resources. Articulation will most often be in the
form of periodic documents that address key issues of interest to
the school networking community. Representative issues to be
addressed by the group include connectivity models, educational
directories, and acceptable use policies.
Goals and Milestones:
Done Release as an FYI RFC a general document that gives
guidance in how to connect to the Internet. Included as an
appendix will be models for connectivity that may be of
particular interest to schools. This is a joint activity
with the User Documents Revisions Working Group.
Done Release as an FYI RFC a short document that gives guidance
to schools in setting an Acceptable Use Policy.
Done Define the information to be included in an online database
of educational people involved in networking, recommend a
process for collecting and updating the data, and
coordinate with a directory services provider to implement
the database. Results will be published in an FYI RFC.
NOV 95 With a ISP, establish a repository of documents to help
schools and service providers in getting schools online,
and prepare an RFC FYI which describes the location,
nature, general contents, and host to contribute to the
repository.
MAR 96 Work with ISP to establish a directory of educational
projects, and issue an FYI RFC document which describes the
location, nature, general contents, mode of access, and how
to contribute to the directory.
MAR 96 Issue an update to RFC1578/FYI22, ``FYI on Questions and
Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked `Primary and Secondary
School Internet User' Questions'' and submit to IESG.
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC1578 I FEB 94 FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly
Asked ``Primary and Secondary School Internet User''
Questions
RFC1709 I DEC 94 K-12 Internetworking Guidelines
RFC1746 I DEC 94 Ways to Define User Expectations
RFC1941 I MAY 96 Frequently Asked Questions for Schools