Internet School Networking (isn) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 37th IETF Meeting in San Jose. It
may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working
group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working
groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.
Chair(s)
- Jodi Ito <jodi@hawaii.edu>
- Sepideh Boroumand <Sepideh.Boroumand@gsfc.nasa.gov>
User Services Area Director(s):
- Joyce Reynolds <jkrey@isi.edu>
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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 short document that gives guidance to schools in setting an Acceptable Use Policy.
- 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
- 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.
No Current Internet-Drafts
Request for Comments