SSSWG - March 1997 Minutes

March 1997 Minutes of the
IEEE Storage Systems Standards Working Group (Project 1244)
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   Meeting at Boulder Courtyard
   Boulder, Colorado, March 25-26, 1997

   Arranged by Dixon Hutchinson, EXABYTE
   
   Chair:  Jack Cole,    Model Editor:  Sam Coleman
   Documents Custodian & MCS Chair: Dixon Hutchinson
   Archivist:  Bill Wolfe, NASA/Langley Research Center


Attendance.
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   Curtis Anderson    SGI            curtis@sgi.com
   Jack Cole          ARL            cole@arl.mil
   Sam Coleman        LLNL           scoleman@llnl.gov
   Brian Dodd         EASTMAN        brian@avail.com
   Bruce Haddon       REDCAPE        bruce.haddon@redcape.com
   Mike Hardy         SGI            mhardy@engr.sgi.com
   Dixon Hutchinson   EXABYTE        hutch@exabyte.com
   Merritt Jones      MITRE          merritt@mitre.org
   John Merrill       NCAR           jhm@ncar.ucar.edu
   Geoff Peck         SGI            geoff@sgi.com
   Dave Skinner       REDCAPE        dave.skinner@redcape.com
   Joel Williams      SES            joel.williams@ses-inc.com
   Rich Wrenn         DEC            wrenn@cookie.enet.dec.com

Administrative.
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The meeting began at 8:30 am with the usual business of attendance and
registration. Minutes from the Cupertino meeting in November were read
and approved, as was the modified agenda for this meeting.


General
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Discussion continued from the previous meeting on OpenVault
architecture and MCS.

Geoff Peck was 'volunteered' to work on renaming and redefining
components of OpenVault and the MSSRM to come to a common set of terms,
objects.  This is more ambitious an undertaking than the time before
meetings permits.

A motion was made to state by resolution the direction that SSSWG is
taking in merging ideas from OpenVault with MSSSRM.  That motion was
incompletely worded, and Jack said he would work on revising it with
Joel, who made the motion.

Dixon and Alan (not an attendee) of DEC would work on definition of an
API for MCS.  Dixon will provide further detail for inclusion in the
minutes.

Joel volunteered to write a description of the MOVER requirements.

The SSSWG enjoyed several demos, including that of the DEC MRDU, SGI's
OpenVault, and Redcape's management software.  Redcape held a reception for SSSWG at its offices in Boulder.

OpenVault open issues ... Curtis Anderson to provide for the minutes.

Jack spoke about the NIST Advanced Technology Program, and interest was
expressed.

Also mentioned was the need to revise and renew all the SSSWG PARs
(except for MCS).  But this has to wait a little for the re-scoping of
the MSSRM components and terms.


Next Meeting.
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   May 13-15, 1997 at SGI Facililties in Mt. View, CA


Future Meetings.
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   15-17 July		Breckenridge, CO/Rich Wrenn & Dixon Hutchinson
   10-12 September	Portland, OR (Timberline Lodge)/Jack