Transcript IETF Working Group

Terri Peters
Internet School
Networking
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General Description
• The Internet School Networking Group,
ISN, was formed to address the diverse
problems that primary and secondary
schools may face in getting connected
to the Internet and those problems that
they may run into after they are
connected.
• The ISN provides a link between the
schools and the Internet engineering
community in order to fulfill the needs
of the schools.
• The ISN also gives guidance, via
documents, to the schools on problems
they are experiencing with getting
connected to the Internet.
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For More Information:
• www.ietf.org/html.charters/
isn-charter.html
• To subscribe to the ISN mailing list,
send an e-mail to:
[email protected]
In the body of the message:
subscribe isn-wg Your_Email
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Finished Work
• RFC that gives directions on how to
connect to the Internet. This was a
joint project with the User Documents
Revisions Working Group.
• RFC that advises about an “Acceptable
Use Policy” (information about the
availability of materials on the
Internet & the advisability of protecting
children from gaining access to certain
sites, e-mail privacy issues, and many
other issues like these)
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Finished Work (Continued)
• Set up a form that will be used in an
on-line database that includes
information on people involved in
education that are also involved in
networking. Defined a process of
collecting and updating the information.
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RFC Description
RFC 1709:
(K-12 Internetworking Guidelines)
• intended to provide a technical direction
for schools which have traditionally not
had technical staff available to provide
internetworking services
• Lists advantages of using TCP/IP in a
school-wide network (eg. simplicity,
flexibility, and compatibility)
• Suggestions for building a network in
a school:
1) integrate existing computers
into the network
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RFC 1709 Continued
2) create a LAN within each building or
cluster of buildings, place at least one
server within each LAN and connect the
LAN to a central area such as the district
office
3) use ethernet when possible since it is
faster and relatively cheap to implement
4) recommended topology is a star
5) recommended wiring is UTP; have a
qualified data wiring contractor do this
and have him wire every possible place
that a computer might go in the future;
may want to consider installing RG-59
coaxial cable for future use with video
signals
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RFC 1709 Continued
6) acquire Internet services through the
most economical and reliable service
in your area (DUH!)
7) and the list of suggestions goes on and
on for 25 pages
• Basically, this document was written for
someone with at least a basic knowledge
of networking. So, while the document is
pretty thorough about its suggestions on
how to set up a network, the average “Joe”
shouldn’t be handed this document and
be expected to come up with a working
network on his own.
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Goals for the future
• With an ISP, establish several documents
that will help schools get online.
• Establish a directory of educational
projects and issue an RFC with important
information on how to use and contribute
to this directory.
• Issue an update to a previous RFC that
answered several of the most commonly
asked “primary and secondary
school internet user questions”.
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Current Internet Drafts
• At this time the ISN does not have
any current Internet Drafts that they
are working on.
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41st IETF Meeting
• The 41st IETF Meeting is
scheduled to meet March 29April 3, 1998 in Los Angeles,
CA.
• The ISN will not be meeting at
the 41st IETF meeting.
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