Minutes of the IEEE SSSWG Meeting Held December 1-3, 1999
Held at the
Higher Education and Advanced Technology (HEAT) Center, Aberdeen, MD
Sponsored by the
U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Major Shared Resource Center
for High Performance Computing
Evening Out at the
Bayard House (www.bayardhouse.com), Chesapeake City, MD
IEEE Sponsor, Jack Cole
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 (6). Curtis Anderson SGI curtis@sgi.com Jack Cole ARL jack.cole@ieee.org Ben Kobler NASA/GSFC kobler@gsfc.nasa.gov Stuart Kreitman Legato skreitman@legato.com Geoff Peck Peck Labs, Inc. geoff@peck.com Alan Rollow Compaq alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Minutes from the meeting in Santa Fe were approved. The agenda for
this meeting and the timeline for balloting were reviewed.
REMINDER!
NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies/
IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
March 2000 in College Park, Maryland
http://esdis-it.gsfc.nasa.gov/MSST/
Ben Kobler, Program Chair
We met for two long days and one regular day:
Dec 1 8:30am 8:45pm
Dec 2 8:30am 6:30pm (Dinner 7:30pm 9:30pm)
Dec 3 8:30 4pm
The beginning discussion concerned status of the ballot group, and what work would be accomplished after the first five Media Management System
(MMS) standards.
Fifty-one individuals indicated interest in balloting the MMS standards, and as of this meeting roughly thirty returned their invitations and
were found to be eligible. It is believed that some of the remaining are waiting for Standards Association membership confirmation, and those
will be contacted soonest to get them to respond to their invitations by email.
The present plan is to close the balloting group and finish tweaking the five drafts by Friday, December 10th. Balloting will begin Friday the
10th or as soon as practical after that.
The discussion about follow on work considered these six authorized projects:
Interoperability Protocols
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1244.6 Media Manager Interchange Protocol (MMIP)
1244.7 Media Manager Control Interface Protocol (MMCIP)
Programming and Command Line Interfaces
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1244.8 C Language Procedural Interface
1244.9 User Mount Commands
1244.10 Standard Administrative and Operational Commands
Data Transfer Protocol
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1244.11 Media Data Mover
The group believes that 1244.6 can be completed in 2-3 weeks, 30 pages of writing, and an additional 20
pages of XML DTD. Stuart volunteered toserve as editor of 1244.8 starting with Paul Lockwoods work in this
area. The projects 1244.7 and 1244.11 were deemed too complex to grapple immediately. Project 1244.9 (user mount commands) will be accomplished
for UNIX only, and will permit scripting. Project 1244.10 will be presented as a trial use standard only. In fact, discussion entertained
the idea that all three of the Programming and Command Line Interfaces should be trial use standards.
The group read through 1244.1. Some changes were made. A group walk through of MMP and SSAIP, with Alan editing MMP, Geoff editing SSAIP was
accomplished.
At the end of the meeting, some slight work remained for Architecture. The data model portion was thoroughly reviewed, and errors corrected.
Alan made many changes for readability to MMP, and left with many more
to complete. Geoff will complete final tweaks to Architecture and his readability review of SSAIP by December 11. The DMP and LMP drafts will
go out as they are.
A discussion about credits to put at top of documents was held, with Geoff submitting a draft to Jack, who will consider this in writing the
credits.
The next meeting will be held in February, probably in California. Work at that meeting will focus on responses to balloters comments and
beginning work on the next standards.
Next Meeting. Not firm, yet. See below.
Future Meetings. It is likely that a meeting will be scheduled for February 7-9, 2000 somewhere within driving distance of San Jose International Airport. And a meeting is being planned for May 2-4, 2000 in/near Reno, NV.