CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Arthur St. George/U New Mexico Minutes of the Internet School Networking Working Group (ISN) The Internet School Networking Working Group is chartered to facilitate the use of the Internet by United States' K-12 (Kindergarten-12th Grade) schools, public and private, and school networking in general. It is critically important to establish guidelines for the integration of K-12 educational networking into the Internet. The Working Group's first priority will be to establish connectivity models, including costs, for distribution to all parties concerned with connection of K-12 schools to the Internet. This Working Group will also provide guidelines to technical solutions for other support services such as directories, online and hotline help, specialized training programs and collaborative projects with instructional and curriculum groups, disciplinary groups and post-secondary institutions. In pursuit of these goals, the Working Group will work closely with other organizations such as the Consortium for School Networking, and the Coalition for Networked Information. Finally, the Working Group will act as technical consultant to K-12 organizations and groups seeking connection and access to the Internet. While we agreed that the first task for the Working Group was to produce a document which outlined multiple connectivity models for K-12 connection to the Internet, we also briefly discussed one other project which should be raised, that is the user interface document. The idea here is to discuss and come to agreement on what would constitute standards for K-12 interface(s) to the Internet. These run the gamut from e-mail to bulletin boards. Competing with this project for number 2 priority status is an RFC which provides the 25 most commonly asked questions about K-12 connection to and use of the Internet. Attendees Joe Blackmon blackmon@ncsa.uiuc.edu Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgill.ca Alan Emtage bajan@cc.mcgill.ca Jack Hahn hahn@sura.net Martyne Hallgren martyne@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu Jeff Hayward j.hayward@utexas.edu Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu J. Paul Holbrook holbrook@cic.net Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu Kenneth Klingenstein kjk@spot.colorado.edu David Korns David_Korns@auo.mts.dec.com Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu Ruth Lang rlang@nisc.sri.com Peter Liebscher plieb@sura.net Gary Malkin gmalkin@ftp.com 1 April Marine april@nisc.sri.com Frederick Mueller fmueller@telebit.com Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu Joyce Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu Karen Roubicek roubicek@faxon.com Miguel Sasson sasson@xylogics.com William Schrader wls@psi.com Dana Sitzler dds@merit.edu Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Arthur St. George stgeorge@bootes.unm.edu Joanie Thompson joanie@nsipo.nasa.gov Andrew Veitch aveitch@bbn.com David Wasley dlw@berkeley.edu Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Jonathan Wenocur jhw@shiva.com 2