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+Network Working Group                               J. Iseli (MITRE-TIP)
+Request for Comments: 584                          D. Crocker (UCLA-NMC)
+NIC 19025 and 20049                                  N. Neigus (BBN-NET)
+USING Note 6                                             6 November 1973
+Categories: Users
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+            Charter for Arpanet Users Interest Working Group
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+Background
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+   The ARPANET Users Interest Working Group (NIC Ident = USING) was
+   formed at a meeting of 15 network people on May 23, 1973 in an
+   attempt to improve the Network user's working environment. USING will
+   attempt to represent the interests and needs of users in the Network
+   community, so as to increase awareness of user requirements and
+   encourage better provision of the neeed services. The group believes
+   that the network is moving beyond a concentration of resources in
+   self-perpetuating research and development; the Network is becoming a
+   service and its viability as such is dependent on user satisfaction.
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+   A second group, the ARPANET Users Group (NIC Ident = USERS) is
+   organized as a forum for users to express their desires and
+   complaints. Acting as a steering committee and lobby for this group,
+   USING will forward their ideas to the appropriate centers.
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+Membership
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+   Group membership, in USING, is open to individuals interested in
+   working to improve Network user support and able and willing to make
+   meaningful contributions to USING's activities.
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+   Membership, in USERS, is open to any interested person.
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+Scope
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+   USING has set as its scope those facets of Network activity that
+   affect the provision of services to users. This includes the
+   availability of resources, their reliability and ease of use.
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+Goals
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+   USING's overall goal is to ensure that the ARPANET becomes a coherent
+   system in which users can regulate their own working environment
+   according to their level of experience and the degree of transparency
+   (of specific system idiosyncrasies) they desire.  System resources
+   should be self-documenting, and all levels of assistance (on- and
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+NWG/RFC# 584                             JI DHC NJN 5-NOV073 20:44 20049
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+   off-line) should be available, again, to be regulated by the user.
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+   Short Term Objectives, for the initial 6-12 months
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+    1. Specification of a user-level Common Command Language (CCL);
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+    2. Specification of a Network Editor for CCL;
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+    3. Further definition and focusing of User Issues;
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+    4. Encouraging establishment of a User's consulting service;
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+    5. Publication of a New-Users Handbook.
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+    Long Term Activities
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+    1. Monitor and/or provide impetus for user-oriented Network
+       development efforts, including resource directories, tutorials
+       [static and dynamic], training courses and referral services;
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+    2. Provide mechanisms to encourage, analyze, and respond to user
+       feedback;
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+    3. Develop profile information relative to users' requirements,
+       types, usage attributes, and affiliations;
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+    4. Stimulate mechanisms to facilitate entry of new users to the
+       ARPANET;
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+    5. Sponsor user seminars and encourage formation of viable user
+       working groups where appropriate.
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+       [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
+       [ into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with    ]
+       [ support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp.            10/99 ]
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