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