Held at
Legato, Palo Alto, California, USA
August 10-11, 1999
Evening Out at MacArthur
Park
Guests: Holly Anderson, Gloria Kreitman
IEEE Sponsor, Merritt Jones
SSSWG Chair, Jack Cole
MMS Editor, Geoff Peck
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 (12). Curtis Anderson SGI curtis@sgi.com Brian Berg Berg Software Design bberg@bswd.com Jack Cole ARL jack.cole@ieee.org Don Doerner SUTMYN dd@sutmyn.com Troy Eberlein LEGATO teberlein@legato.com Bruce Haddon SUN bruce.haddon@sun.com Dixon Hutchinson EXABYTE hutch@exabyte.com Stuart Kreitman LEGATO skreitman@legato.com Geoff Peck Peck Labs, Inc. geoff@peck.com Alan Rollow Compaq alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com Murali Sathyanarayana Network Appliances murali@netapp.com Joel Williams SES joelw@ses-inc.com
New participants were welcomed, and thanks given to Legato for hosting this meeting. Adminitrivia was cared for by approving the last meeting minutes; discussing and adjusting the agenda for this meeting; and registering attendees.
A brief recap of the meeting in July in Boulder with members of SNIA and DMTF was given, along with a description of the consortia SNIA and DMTF and the industry efforts in developing WBEM, CIM, and Microsoft's WMI. It was learned that Michael Thatcher/Microsoft replaces Andrea Westerinen as the DMTF chair for CIM.
Also briefly discussed was the upcoming transition in SSSWG sponsorship. Details are available from the SSSWG chair.
Future work after MMS .1 to .5 was discussed, with the next five MMS standards, Data Mover, scope of SSSWG's charter, the desire for a MSSRM version 6 being considered.
The schedule for the upcoming balloting was examined and updated. Various members present promised to promote registration so that the standards will be considered by a representative ballot pool.
Status of the present set of five drafts was reviewed. The consensus is that the drafts are pretty close to completion, but that there is a small set of persistently incomplete portions primarily having to do with writing examples and some input to the Architecture which is needed from editors of .2 to .5.
Geoff
and Murali brought revised drafts of the Architecture and MMP documents,
respectively, to the meeting. Change pages to the MMP, MMP model diagram
were discussed as well as privileged-based constraints, derived constraints
A long disussion was held concerning failure
response mode and Murali’s MMP suggestion to use datahandles
The
overall result of this discussion was to clarify and document present features
of the MMS drafts without making major changes. The behavior of
datahandles, for example, was
heuristics, now is a test of control
Bruce and Murali profitably discussed sort orders in MMP.
And
the things we owe Geoff for the Architecture document (mostly nits) were
itemized: writing
examples
Geoff stated the need for a reading of all five drafts to re-synchronize them. Don and Brian offered to do this since they each possess a fresh perspective on the drafts. Joel volunteered Hari for this reading as well.
A
renewed discussion about the case of tokens was pursued with the conclusion
being that it will be stated
Don was invited to present virtual tape system ideas to the group, and this was accomplished through numerous small meetings.
Everyone
was reminded that the March Mass Storage conference deadline is Friday August 13th
Next Meeting. September 21-22, 1999, Santa Fe, NM at the Hotel St. Francis. Geoff has to attend the scalable I/O conference in Santa Fe later in the week, and it is hoped that the geographic location of the meeting may entice participants to discuss Data Mover. This meeting will be used primarily for closure on the five drafts before handing PDF files of them over to IEEE for balloting.
No future teleconferences were scheduled, although they will certainly be held.
Future Meetings. We expect to hold one additional meeting this year in November or December depending on the progress of balloting.