Minutes of the IEEE SSSWG Meeting
Held March 14-16, 2000
Hosted By
Compaq, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Evening Out at the
Blue Star Restaurant
Rich Wrenn, Guest
Joel Williams, Presiding
Alan Rollow, Recording Secretary
Jack Cole, IEEE Sponsor and
SSSWG Chair
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 Turbolinux canderson@turbolinux.com Bruce Haddon Consultant bkh@spot.colorado.edu Jan Klier HP jan_klier@hp.com Geoff Peck Peck Labs, Inc. geoff@peck.com Alan Rollow Compaq alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com Joel Williams SES joelw@ses-inc.com
Acknowledgement: SSSWG is grateful to COMPAQ for resources provided to enable this meeting.
Minutes from the previous meeting held in Sunnyvale, California were reviewed and approved. The agenda for this meeting was reviewed and modified accordingly.
This meeting was used to accomplish additional work in making editorial changes to the five draft standards. A proposed revision of 1244.2 (SSAIP) was developed.
Wording for the "introduction" to the 1244.1-1244.5 draft standards was developed and unanimously approved by the attendees of this meeting. That wording is appended to these minutes.
Significant discussion was held for both days of
the meeting on 1244.2. Jan Klier, the 1244.2 editor, was absent
for the second day. The group present felt that .2 had
significant shortcomings in readability and in defining key elements of the protocol. Significant debate over whether to
create a new standard using TLS or leverage work already done
resulted in a decision by those present to go with existing
technology.
Next Meeting. May 30th through June 1st in Washington, D.C.
Future Meetings. July in San Francisco Bay Area; September in Boulder, Colorado. Exact dates tbd.
Appended "Introduction"
(This introduction is not part of IEEE P1244.1, Standard for the IEEE Media Management System (MMS) Architecture.)
The IEEE Storage Systems Standards Working Group (SSSWG) was started in 1990 to develop a guide for storage systems design. During the period 1990-1994, five versions of the Mass Storage Systems Reference Model (MSSRM) were developed. The final MSSRM is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ssswg.org. The MSSRM influenced the design of a number of storage systems products, including HPSS.
In 1995, Silicon Graphics began work on a distributed media management system that would become the OpenVault™ product. SGI realized that such a system would be much more valuable if it was available not only on SGI systems, but on those of its competitors. To succeed in this goal, it would have to be an open system, and ideally a standard. In November of 1996, SGI gave a presentation on the OpenVault technology to the IEEE Storage Systems Standards Working Group. In early 1997, the members of the working group and SGI began to take the OpenVault system and improve it to form the standard in its present form.
At Silicon Graphics, Geoffrey Peck developed the initial system concept and architecture, and managed the project for its first several years. Curtis Anderson, Mark Epstein, and Murali Sathyanarana were key contributors to the design of the system and the languages that are reflected in the IEEE MMS standards. Mr. Anderson remained with and managed the OpenVault project at SGI until early 2000, by which time it had been released open source form in its third version. Legato Systems was an early licensee of OpenVault, and has successfully marketed it as a product under the trade name SmartMedia™.
The IEEE Media Management System should be viewed as a significant refinement and extension of the OpenVault product. Both the IEEE MMS standards and OpenVault were strongly influenced by key members of the IEEE working group, especially including Curtis Anderson, Sam Coleman, Mark Epstein, Bruce Haddon, Dixon Hutchinson, Jan Klier, Stuart Kreitman, Paul Lockwood, Geoffrey Peck, Alan Rollow, Murali Sathyanarana, and Joel Williams. Robert Clark, Troy Eberlein, and Mike Hardy provided key marketing insights, both for fitting in to the complex, existing world and in marketing the standards approach.
John L. (“Jack”) Cole as chairman and Merritt Jones as sponsor kept the entire process moving and navigated around innumerable hurdles.
At the time this standard was completed, the P1244 working
group had the following voting membership:
Curtis Anderson
John L. Cole (“Jack”), Chair (1996-), Sponsor (1999-)
Sam Coleman*
R. Troy Eberlein
Bruce K. Haddon
T. Dixon Hutchinson
Merritt E. Jones, Sponsor (1993-1999)*
Jan Klier
Stuart Kreitman
Paul Lockwood
John Merrill
Geoffrey G. Peck
Alan Rollow
Murali Sathyanarana
Joel N. Williams*
* denotes a charter members of the SSSWG.
Balloters:
To be supplied by IEEE.
Editors (secondary editors listed roughly in order of contribution):
P1244.1 - Media Management System (MMS) Architecture
Architecture
Geoffrey G. Peck (Primary)
Curtis Anderson
Data Model
Murali Sathyanarayana (Primary)
Curtis Anderson, Joel Williams, Dixon Hutchinson, Alan Rollow
P1244.2 - Session Security, Authentication, Initialization Protocol (SSAIP)
Jan Klier
P1244.3 - Media Management Protocol (MMP)
Murali Sathyanarayana (Primary)
Curtis Anderson, Joel Williams, Dixon Hutchinson, Alan Rollow
P1244.4 - Drive Management Protocol (DMP)
Joel Williams (Primary), Murali Sathyanarayana
P1244.5 - Library Management Protocol (LMP)
Joel Williams (Primary), Murali Sathyanarayana