SSSWG - Last Meeting Minutes
The IEEE Storage System Standards Working Group (SSSWG), Project 1244
MEETING MINUTES for January 1996
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The IEEE SSSWG bimonthly meeting began at 8:30 am Tuesday January 16,
1996 at IBM/Tucson as arranged by Eric Stouffer, and ended at 4:30 pm
Thursday, January 18, 1996. A tour of the IBM Magstar robotics
development laboratory and a Wednesday evening out at El Charro's
restaurant in downtown Tucson were included in the arrangements made by
Eric.
Meeting Outline
1.0 Opening Remarks, Introductions
2.0 Document Distribution
3.0 Tutorial for New Participants
4.0 Approval of Agenda
5.0 API Development
5.1 Informational Presentation of inchoate ROBOTICS PAR
5.2 Review of PVL API draft
5.3 Review of PVR API draft
5.4 Identification of Inconsistencies Between PVL and PVR drafts
6.0 New Business
7.0 Review of Action Items
8.0 Future Meeting Schedule
9.0 Adjournment
Minutes
1.0 Opening Remarks, Introductions
Five new participants were introduced and welcomed. A brief description
of the SSSWG was presented. While copies of the PVR API documents were
made, Rich Wrenn presented tutorials on PVL and PVR for the
benefit of new members.
2.0 Document Distribution
Copies of the PVR rationale, the 1993 proposal for a PVR component to
the model, and a draft of the PVR API were distributed. Versions of
these and the latest PVR draft will be placed on the SSSWG web page
(http://www.arl.mil/IEEE/ssswg.html).
3.0 Tutorial for New Participants
Once documents were distributed, Rich Wrenn's tutorial continued with
the PVR documents as references in hand.
4.0 Approval of Agenda
The proposed meeting agenda was presented to those in attendance with
unanimous approval.
5.0 API Development
5.1 Informational Presentation of inchoate ROBOTICS PAR
Hamid made a 30-minute presentation of the status of the HP-proposed PAR
regarding an API for robotic device interface. The scope of this
proposed PAR remains unclear to SSSWG members, and to a degree, to HP.
HP intends to perform some rudimentary research on their proposal to set
the scope of the PAR (Process Action Request, a precursor to development
of a standard). Stay tuned.
5.2 Review of PVL API draft
Carl Braganza presented the PVL draft API along with Joel Williams.
5.2 Review of PVR API draft
Although the current, best copy of the PVR API draft was not on hand,
Rich Wrenn presented a detailed discussion of the PVR API.
5.3 Identification of Inconsistencies Between PVL and PVR drafts
No separate discussion was held, but inconsistencies were identified
during the presentations of the PVR and PVL. One of the major issues
raised concerned the lack of a management API, and the degree to which
the PVL and PVR APIs incorporate management features.
6.0 New Business
New items of business raised for discussion between meetings and action
at the next meeting included:
SSSWG Elections;
chairperson for the PVL group;
length of the SSSWG meeting (proposal to drop Friday morning
portion).
7.0 Review of Action Items
Minutes from the last meeting were not yet available, so only new action
items were discussed. These include:
7.1 Refinement of the PVL API draft (Carl and Joel).
7.2 Refinement of the PVR API draft (Dave Skinner and Rich Wrenn).
7.3 Updating the WEB page with copies of the refined drafts (Jack).
7.4 Addressing the issues raised by Mike Refi and Denise Wright
concerning the treatment of scratch volumes by the PVR in tape stackers
versus tape random access magazines (Carl, Joel, Rich, Mike, Denise,
Dixon).
7.5 Development of the scope of the ROBOTICS PAR (Hamid).
7.6 Arrangements for the March and May meetings (Dixon, Jack).
7.7 Determination of the status of other APIs such as MVR (Jack).
8.0 Future Meeting Schedule
The next two meetings are scheduled as follows:
March 19-22, 1996 - Boulder, CO
Host: Exabyte/Dixon Hutchinson
May 7-10, 1996 - Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
Host: Army Research Lab/Jack Cole
Note that discussion is underway about dropping the Friday morning
portion of the meeting, so these dates may be changed by dropping March
22 and May 10.
9.0 Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 pm Thursday, January 18, 1996 with
thanks to Eric and Lucy, Eric's secretary for their efforts in hosting the
meeting.
List of Attendees:
Arun Bali arun@netcom.com CompuCounsel, Inc
Carl Braganza carl@acsc.com ACSC, Inc
Jack Cole cole@arl.mil Army Research Lab
Anat Gafni gafni@acsc.com ACSC, Inc
Marty Gray mgray@ovrland.com Overland Data
Dixon Hutchinson hutch@exabyte.com Exabyte Corp
Merritt Jones merritt@mitre.org The MITRE Corp
Mike Refi mrefi@arcada.com Arcada Software
Eric Stouffer stouffer@vnet.ibm.com IBM/Tucson
Hamid Vazire vazire@cup.hp.com Hewlett-Packard
Joel Williams jwilliam@mitre.org The MITRE Corp
Rich Wrenn wrenn@cookie.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp
Denise Wright dwright@arcada.com Arcada Software
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