CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by David Crocker/Silicon Graphics Minutes of the Structured Text Interchange Format BOF (STIF) STIF is a proposal for a syntax to permit text-based specification of labeled and hierachically-structured data. It tries to serve the dual goal of information interchange and easy human specification. Personal Contact Information (PCI) is a related specification which uses STIF for encoding business-card (Rolodex) descriptions. The Amsterdam BOF was held to discuss IETF interest in pursuing such work. Two Internet-Drafts have been posted. The BOF consisted mostly of discussion about the nature of STIF and PCI, with some useful technical comments offered by the audience, as well as the beginnings of a debate about the alternatives. There is clear interest in this realm of work. The Application Area Directors have expressed interest in pursuing only one out of several alternatives, and discussions about the alternatives have begun. Attendees Chris Adie C.J.Adie@edinburgh.ac.uk Steve Alexander stevea@lachman.com Carsten Bormann cabo@cs.tu-berlin.de David Crocker dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu Judith Grass grass@cnri.reston.va.us Gerd Holzhauer Holzhauer1@applelink.apple.com Per Jacobsen p.h.jacobsen@usit.uio.no Brewster Kahle Brewster@wais.com Neil Katin katin@eng.sun.com Jim Knowles jknowles@binky.arc.nasa.gov Pekka Kytolaakso pekka.kytolaakso@csc.fi Eliot Lear lear@sgi.com Steen Linden steen.linden@uni-c.dk John Lindsay lindsay@kingston.ac.uk Kent Malave kent@bach.austin.ibm.com Brian May Brian.May@mel.dit.csiro.au Michael Patton map@bbn.com Luc Rooijakkers lwj@cs.kun.nl David Sitman a79vm.tau.ac.il Simon Spero simon_spero@unc.edu Gregory Vaudreuil gvaudre@cnri.reston.va.us 1