7.1.99

PROPOSED MINUTES

IN ATTENDANCE

Bob Echelmeir

Howard Harbison

Jim Harrington

Neal McBurnett nealmcb@bell-labs.com

John Pope jwpope@rmi.net

Brenda Ruth

Ernie Stiltner

Jim Waterman

Jim Yonan jim@ntlp.com

Accepted previous meeting minutes

Update Previous Action Items 6.3.99

1. NEAL - FAQ / Review of Jim Ws document is coming

2. BRENDA - Featured Nonprofit on the Home Page (Like a site of the month, may be an incentive for nonprofits to give, future will be an automated list of featured nonprofits that automaticly getchanged on the home page)

3. NEAL & JIM W - Will ask for board help at the next board meeting to take on the task of framing a fundraising request letter to BCN nonprofit users and encouraging them to be a part of the BCN community by including BCNs logo and link to the BCN home page on their organizations website.

4. JIM H. - Will write a volunteer descriotion and coordinate the task of collecting the URL addresses and contact information for every nonprofit BCN hosts.

5. JIM W - Will send Jim H. and Paul T. a DIPP listing of all the URLs in its database DONE!!

6. PAUL T.- Will use the DIPP URL information to search for other sites on BCN using a program that maps out the BCN site hierarchy. He is encouraged to do this one center at a time initially. He and JimW. very busy with Basin will get back to this

7. NEAL, JIM W, JOHN P. & ERNIE - Will assess how bad of a problem are CGI scripts on BCN server. John P will be looking at logs on CGI scripts after his one week vacation. Brenda gave him access on BCN.

E-commerce update

8. JIM H will ask Steve O. ,Ken F. and as last resort Jim W. to work on an E-Commerce proposal to take online donations for BCN Essentially all may serve as TAC legwork persons for E-Commerce proposal to the board

1. Domain Name Policy

UPDATE

- Neal

- Jim W.

no change

2. ISP's & Domain Name Redirects

DECISION & GROUP WORK

-Brenda

BCN and its clients are moving ahead with redirects

we will only do HTML redirects not SMTP or others.

Those services will be provided by the ISP providing the domain name

redirect and hosting if at all.

September School is at Indras net, Indra net wanted an IP address

IHAD is at Rockynet (Mike Lewinskii BCN volunteer and Paul Macka)

Swinginaction at JimYonans due to Indras net wanting to charge anr requiring BCN to give an IP address

BCN should provide only initial conversation or the following documents for Domain name issues and nothing more. We tell people BCN wants no part of hosting domain names but here is where you can
find out about how to get your name hosted and redirected to a BCN web page

SO YOU WANT A DOMAIN?

Paragraph to describe it

(BCN does not do this but others do and this is how they can do it our way)

PLEASE ALLOW TWO WEEKS FOR THE PROCES

STEP ONE - See if the domain name is available and cost to acquire and register

STEP TWO - If you want to pursue options check out BCNs approved ISP domain name host & redirect providers

xwebco/ rockynet IT I OK

IF XWEBCO IS THE ONLY ONE ON THE LIST AS LONG AS PROCESS EXISTS WHERE OTHERS CAN JOIN

Indra??
Yonan

If you have a server and want to provide redirects to BCN pages check out

QUALIFICATIONs to be an approved ISP domain name host and redirect provider

MODEL HOW IT CAN BE DONE

CONCERNS were raised about how to deal with older browsers that can not be redirectedinternet explorer 2, mosiac, Netscape 2 WEBCO has proposed doing an index page from which olderbrowsers can get to where they want to go