Minutes of the IEEE SSSWG Meeting Held February 8-10,
2000
Held at the
Legato's Sunnyvale, CA location
Evening Out at the
Chantilly II, Redwood City,
CA
IEEE Sponsor and SSSWG Chair, Jack Cole
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 (8). Curtis Anderson SGI curtis@sgi.com Jack Cole ARL jack.cole@ieee.org Troy Eberlein Legato troy@legato.com Stuart Kreitman Legato skreitman@legato.com Geoff Peck Peck Labs, Inc. geoff@peck.com Alan Rollow Compaq alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com Joel Williams SES joelw@ses-inc.com
THANKS. Legato provided meeting space, catering, and many other services to enable SSSWG's meeting. Geoff Peck provided ISP access and the necessary equipment for attendees to share a dialup connection to the internet.
Minutes from the meeting in Aberdeen, MD were reviewed and approved. The agenda for this meeting was reviewed and modified accordingly.
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
The group discussed future meetings versus teleconferences, and it was decided
that a near-future meeting is needed. But that an effort would be made to
hold 90-minute teleconferences monthly or more often as needed. And
face-to-face meeting will be reduced to four times per year instead of the
current six or seven.
Future work will include revisions to the first five standards
(1244.1-1244.5, see http://www.ssswg.org/pars.html)
and work on these remaining MMS standards:
Interoperability Protocols
1244.6 Media Manager Interchange Protocol (MMIP)
Programming and Command Line Interfaces (Trial Use Standards)
1244.8 C Language Procedural Interface (Stuart)
1244.9 User Mount Commands
1244.10 Standard Administrative and Operational Commands
Too Difficult to Grapple Immediately
1244.7 Media Manager Control Interface Protocol (MMCIP)
1244.11 Media Data Mover
In addition three new projects (1563.1-1563.3) for tape standards will be
advanced (again, see the URL above).
This meeting was spent developing responses to the roughly two hundred comments made by balloters in the balloting held December 15, 1999 through January 14, 2000 on the first five Media Management System (MMS) standards. A review with responses was accomplished for nearly all comments through three grueling days by WG members listed above. Joel kept a running account of the responses, and will mail them to Jack for inclusion in the five packages which must be received by IEEE on or before February 18th for approval in March. It was the consensus of the participants that an all out effort be made to meet that deadline.
On Wednesday morning (the 8th), Jack, Curtis, and Troy attended the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Storage Media Library (SML) working group to continue the ongoing collaboration between the two groups.
Next Meeting. The next meeting may be held April 3-5, between Reno, NV and Mt. Rose.
Future Meetings. Meetings have not been scheduled, yet, beyond April 2000. Stay tuned.