SSSWG
July 1998 Minutes
Preliminary
Meeting
Minutes for July 1998
IEEE Storage Systems Standards Working Group (P1244)
Held at the Advanced
Digital Information Corporation
Rockhopper Room, Redmond, WA, July 14-16, 1998
Evening Out at the Third Floor Fish Cafe, Kirkland, WA
IEEE Sponsor, Merritt Jones
SSSWG Chair, Jack Cole
MSSRM Technical Editor, Sam Coleman
MMS Technical Editor, Geoff Peck
1244.1 Architecture/Data Model
editor: Geoff Peck (Architecture),
Curtis Anderson (Data Model)
1244.2 Session Security, Authentication,
and Initialization Protocol
editor: Jan Klier
1244.3 Media Management Protocol
editor: Lai Fong Ho
(with Murali Sathyanarayana)
1244.4 Drive Management Protocol
1244.5 Library Management Protocol
editor: Joel Williams
ATTENDANCE (16).
Curtis Anderson SGI curtis@sgi.com
Jack Cole ARL jack.cole@ieee.org
Sam Coleman LLNL scoleman@llnl.gov
Varghese Devassy COMMVAULT vcd@commvault.com
Mark Epstein SELF marke@midgard.net
Greg Grant LEGATO ggrant@legato.com
Lai Fong Ho LEGATO lho@legato.com
Tony Houdeshell EMASS tonyh@emass.com
Jan Klier HP jan_klier@hp.com
John Merrill NCAR jhm@ucar.edu
Jonathan Otis ADIC jonathano@adic.com
Geoff Peck QUANTUM geoff@peck.com,
geoff.peck@quantum.com
Alan Rollow COMPAQ alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Murali Sathyanarayana SGI murali@engr.sgi.com
Joel Williams SES joelw@ses-inc.com
Bob Wu COMMVAULT rwu@commvault.com
- THANKS.
- The Advanced
Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) was very gracious
in providing the working group with meeting space;
catering; copying; dinner arrangements at the Fish Cafe;
phone and internet connectivity; an LCD projector; and an
introduction to their products during a tour of ADIC's
assembly area. Thanks to Jonathan for taking time out of
his schedule to arrange and host this meeting.
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- Thanks, too, to
Geoff for taking detailed notes on discussions and to Jan
for managing the Thursday portion of the meeting.
And despite family obligations, illness, and the press of
other work, WG members carved out time to work on the
draft standards.
- ADMINISTRATIVE.
- The meeting began
at 8:30am Tuesday with attendance and registration. The
proposed Agenda for this meeting and the Minutes from the
March meeting in Milpitas were accepted. This meeting
ended around noon on Thursday.
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- SIGNIFICANT
ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE LAST MEETING.
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- Prior to
this meeting editors for SSAIP, LMP, and DMP
revised and published new versions of their
documents to WG members. Teleconferences were
held to surface WG reviewers' questions about
these new drafts, and the major unsettled
questions were held for closure at this meeting.
- At this
meeting, consensus was reached on the
authentication mechanism to be used in SSAIP, and
on how errors are reported. In-meeting reviews of
the Data Model, LMP, and MMP were completed to
identify problems, missing parts.
- Progress
was reviewed and a quick determination made that
the work remaining is too great to complete the
drafts in time to get five standards balloted and
approved in 1998.
The immediate goal now is to complete development
of the five drafts sometime before (optimal) or
during (marginal) November to achieve approved
and published standards in Spring 1999.
A meeting of a handful of WG members may be held
in August somewhere in the Washington, D.C. area
in addition to the regular meeting in September.
Before the September meeting efforts will be
increased to accomplish more work by fax, email,
and teleconference. The next two regular meetings
will be used as much as possible for closure of
business conducted between meetings rather than
for reviewing drafts. And agreed upon advance
agenda will be followed closely.
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- BALLOTING
-
- Those in
attendance were reminded of the need to be IEEE
'Standards Association' (SA) members in one
flavor or another (regular, affiliate, etc) in
time to serve as balloters of the standards SSSWG
is developing.
- A web page
will be established at http://www.ssswg.org to
help collect suggestions for candidate balloters
of the MMS standards. The purpose of the page is
to help Merritt identify candidates, and help
those suggesting candidates avoid making
duplicate suggestions.
- ACTION ITEMS.
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- Produce a
revised draft of SSAIP a week or two after the
meeting (Jan).
- Reach
consensus shortly after this meeting about
assignment of work editing MMP. (Lai Fong,
Murali, Geoff, Jack)
- Before the
end of August, fix MMP problems, fill in gaps
using the comments list generated Thursday. (Lai
Fong, Murali)
- Revise and
fill in missing portions of Arch/DM docs by end
of August (Arch: Geoff, DM: Curtis).
- Revise LMP
using the comments from this meeting's review,
and DMP based on earlier reviews and comments on
the other documents by end of August. (Joel)
- When
available, send revised documents to Jack and
Geoff for inclusion in the membersonly web page,
and initiate teleconferences with reviewers a few
days afterwards (All Editors).
- In a week
or two after the meeting, display/maintain ballot
pool candidate list at www.ssswg.org (Jack).
- As soon as
possible, get IEEE to change names of
"Official Reporters" for PARs to those
of the editors for the drafts. (Jack, Merritt).
- By end of
August establish informal registries for the DM
and work on ways to specify conformance (Jack).
- Begin now
to form a pool of balloters. (Merritt)
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- REVIEWERS
INVITED.
Reviewers are
encouraged to contact Jack or Geoff for access to the draft standards.
Attendance at meetings is not required
to review drafts.-
- Next Meeting. September 15-17, 1998, SES, Greenbelt, MD (Joel Williams)
- Future Meetings.
- Nov 15-17, 1998 Casa Marina Hotel, Key West, FL
Starts at Noon on Sunday with catered lunch.
Need notice
soonest
of intent to attend because of reserved hotel resources.
Send email to Jack.Cole@IEEE.Org
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