Internet School Networking (isn)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     Jennifer Sellers <sellers@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov>
     Jodi Ito <jodi@hawaii.edu>
 
 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.                                             

   Mar 95 Write a set of two documents, one aimed at connection providers and 
          the other aimed at educational sites, providing guidelines for 
          bringing educational sites online. Included will be a broad 
          definition of connection providers. Interim milestones: 3/94 complete
          outline; 7/94 first draft; 3/95 review completed.                    

   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