1. TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related Activity IETF49, San Diego IETF User Services WG Yuri Demchenko, TERENA demchenko@terena.nl

2. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_2 Outlines GNRT at TERENA TIUG – GNRT Edition of Yr2001  User issues at TNC2001 TERENA Conference  Multilingual/i18n issues in TERENA Technical Programme  Portal Coordination Workshop

3. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_3 TERENA Guide to Network Resource Tools http://www.terena.nl/gnrt/  User Overview  World Wide Web  Web Searching (including SE, Subject Gateways)  Specialist Tools (Directory, etc.)  Group Communication  Providing Information  Security  Other Tools (FTP, Gopher) Printed by AWL/Pearson Education - October 1999 “INTERNET User's Guide to Network Resource Tools. 2000 Edition ”

4. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_4 GNRT Mirror sites Croatia - http://www.carnet.hr/vodic/gnrt// Greece - http://www.grnet.gr/gnrt/ Italy - http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/net/gnrt/ FYRo Macedonia - http://ii.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/ Sweden - http://www.student.uu.se/gnrt/ GNRT Section at TERENA website http://www.terena.nl/gnrt/ is the most popular –More than 50% of all web traffic, e.g. http://www.terena.nl/stats/usage_200011.html

5. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_5 GNRT - Next Edition Yr2001 Revision, Extensions and Updates  Change name to TIUG – TERENA Internet Users Guide to Tools and Services – still TBD  User Overview -> Introduction  How to use the Guide  Responsible use of network (Netiquette, Spam, E-mail viruses etc.)  Web Searching  SE and Subject Gateways update  Special purposes SE and Portals extended  FTP Search and Image Search  Specialist Tools  Directory/LDAP technologies update

6. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_6 GNRT - Next Edition Yr2001 Revision, Extensions and Updates  Group Communication  E-Mail, Mailing Lists sections – rewritten  Streaming technologies  Providing Information  Metadata/RDF and XML  Java/Interactive Web Tools  FTP  Security  Update Security Tools  Add about CSIRT services

7. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_7 Other User Services TERENA Activity  User issues at TNC2001 TERENA Conference  Advanced Networking Applications for Gigabit Networks  Technological aspects mostly  Multilingual/i18n issues in TERENA Technical Programme  Portal Coordination Workshop  To coordinate Portal oriented projects at NRENs

8. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_8 TERENA Networking Conference TNC2001 Antalya, Turkey, 14-17 May 2001 Main topics  Advanced Networks  Networking Technology  Middleware and Security  Advanced Services  Advanced Applications  The Last Mile  Research and Education Networking in the Mediterranean Region

9. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_9 Multilingual/i18n issues in TERENA Technical Programme WG-i18n concluded in 1998 There are many talks to re-start ML/i18n activity at TTP –Or make ML/i18n as a requirement to all other areas in TTP Current status –Mailing list is alive – wg-i18n@terena.nl, archive – http://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind0011&L=wg-i18n –Webpage on Multilingual Support in Internet/IT Applications at http://www.terena.nl/multiling/ –Special pages European Multilingual Requirements http://www.terena.nl/multiling/euroml/index.html and test pages http://www.terena.nl/multiling/euroml/testpages.html

10. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_10 Portal Coordination Workshop February 15, 2001, Amsterdam Follow-on activity of previous TERENA projects: –CHIC on Cooperative Indexing –Clearing House for Internet related Project in Europe –REsearch Indexing Service for European NRENs (REIS)  Assist in the dissemination of information in a multi-lingual environment using multilingual indexing system and cross-language searching  To facilitate development of new technologies, standardisation and cooperation framework for European A&R community  Current webpage - http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/

11. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_11 Portal Coordination Workshop – February 15, 2001, Amsterdam Main topics – Providing Services for Professional Community Portal related projects in NRENs (including Portal, Search and Indexing Service examples) Special Portal services for professional scientific, research and education communities Portal(s) as an element of building cooperative environment for information and experience exchange in Europe Cooperation and collaboration in building cross-border portal information services - best of practice, common approach, standards and technologies

12. USWG, IETF49, San DiegoTERENA Update IETF49Slide_12 Portal Coordination Workshop – February 15, 2001, Amsterdam Main topics – Technological Issues Search and Indexing Techniques (relevant searching, adaptive searching, cooperative resource discovery, cross-searching automatic indexes and SBIG) Metadata and XML/RDF (semantic web and web-of-trust, trusted metadata environment) Information Quality and Quality ranking Image and Multimedia searching and metadata for multimedia information Cross-language searching (internationalisation and multilingual issues in indexing and searching) Electronic/virtual communities (Instant messaging, virtual and persistent presence, trusted communities) -- Legal issues and privacy --