IETF Working Group

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IETF Working Group
CSCI 344 Spring 1998
Presentation
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
• listmanager_at_nasa.gov
• 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
• shouldnt 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
  29-April 3, 1998 in Los Angeles, CA.
• The ISN will not be meeting at the 41st IETF
  meeting.