Held at
Sam and Carol Coleman's House, Reno Nevada
April 28-30, 1999
Evening Out at Cafe Soliel
IEEE Sponsor, Merritt Jones
SSSWG Chair, Jack Cole
MMS Editors, Geoff Peck (principal), Curtis Anderson
MSSRM Editor, Sam Coleman
1244.1 Architecture/Data Model (Geoff Peck (principal), Curtis Anderson, Joel Williams,
Murali Sathyanarayana editors)
1244.2 Session Security, Authentication, and Initialization Protocol (Jan Klier, editor)
1244.3 Media Management Protocol (Murali Sathyanarayana, editor)
1244.4 Drive Management Protocol (Joel Williams, editor)
1244.5 Library Management Protocol (Joel Williams, editor)
ATTENDANCE (9). Curtis Anderson SGI curtis@sgi.com Jack Cole ARL jack.cole@ieee.org Sam Coleman retired available on request R. Troy Eberlein LEGATO teberlein@legato.com Bruce Haddon SUN bkh@spot.colorado.edu Tony Houdeshell ADIC tony.houdeshell@adic.com Geoff Peck Peck Labs, Inc. geoff@peck.com Murali Sathyanarayana SGI murali@engr.sgi.com Joel Williams SES joelw@ses-inc.com
THANKS. Sam and Carol Coleman have a set a new standard for settings in which SSSWG has held meetings, and the group is extremely grateful for the donation of such beautiful meeting space as well as for the work that Carol and Sam put into hosting the meeting. The group also enjoyed an evening of hospitality at Geoff's residence in Truckee, as well as having benefited from his donation of the use of flipcharts/whiteboards, laptop, and networking items.
ADMINISTRATIVE. The meeting began at 9:30am on Wednesday with attendance and registration. No changes to the March meeting minutes from San Diego were proposed, so the minutes were accepted as submitted. The proposed agenda was discussed and modified by an evolutionary process throughout the meeting. The meeting ended at 6pm Friday.
DISCUSSION. This has been one of the most productive meetings ever held by SSSWG, and that is reflected in progress made in the drafts. The primary purpose of the meeting this week was to examine new versions of the Architecture and MMP drafts, and again sort issues into these categories: those needing to be addressed before the drafts are balloted, those which will be addressed in future versions of the standards, and those for which work is not contemplated. Specific issues raised by Murali were addressed, and these issues along with group comments were circulated by Geoff to the SSSWG internal email reflector. Remaining issues with the Blind Robot proposal were resolved, and many well-known areas were revisited, including conformance clauses, security, and registries. It is planned that final work on the five drafts will be completed before the May 25th meeting, with the May meeting serving as a final review before balloting.
Next Meeting. May 25-26, 199, Boulder, Colorado.
Future Meetings. Since SSSWG is approaching balloting of drafts, meetings are being held more frequently than usual. As a consequence, dates and locations of regular "future" meetings are difficult to predict. "Next meeting" is being determined at the time of each meeting.