RFC 1862 (rfc1862) - Page 2 of 27
Report of the IAB Workshop on Internet Information Infrastructure, October 12-14, 1994
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RFC 1862 IAB Workshop Report November 1995 gopher, the World Wide Web, naming, WAIS, searching, indexing, and library services. The IAB explicitly tried to balance the number of attendees from each area of expertise. Logistics limited the attendance to about 35, which unfortunately meant that many highly qualified experts were omitted from the invitation list. The objectives of the workshop were to explore the architecture of "information" applications on the Internet, to provide the IESG with a solid set of recommendations for further work, and to provide a place for communication between the communities of people associated with the lower and upper layers of the Internet protocol suite, as well as allow experience to be exchanged between the communities. The 34 attendees divided into three "breakout groups" which met for the second half of the first day and the entire second day. Each group wrote a report of its activities. The reports are contained in this document, in addition to a set of specific recommendations to the IESG and IETF community. 2. Summary Although there were some disagreements between the groups on specific functionalities for architectural components, there was broad agreement on the general shape of an information architecture and on general principles for constructing the architecture. The discussions of the architecture generalized a number of concepts that are currently used in deployed systems such as the World Wide Web, but the main thrust was to define general architectural components rather than focus on current technologies. Research recommendations include: - increased focus on a general caching and replication architecture - a rapid deployment of name resolution services, and - the articulation of a common security architecture for information applications. Procedural recommendations for forwarding this work in the IETF include: - making common identifiers such as the IANA assigned numbers available in an on-line database - tightening the requirements on Proposed Standards to insure that they adequately address security McCahill, et al Informational
