SSSWG
May 1998 Minutes
Preliminary Meeting Minutes for May 1998
IEEE Storage Systems Standards Working Group (P1244)
Held at the Quantum Corporation
Building 16, Momentum Room, Milpitas, California, May 12-14, 1998
Evening Out Held at the Lion & Compass, Sunnyvale,CA
IEEE Sponsor Merritt Jones
SSSWG Chair Jack Cole
MSSRM Technical Editor Sam Coleman
MMS Technical Editor Geoff Peck
Attendance (19).
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Curtis Anderson SGI curtis@sgi.com
Carl Braganza VERITAS carl@veritas.com
Jack Cole ARL jack.cole@ieee.org
Gad Dafni VERITAS dafni@veritas.com
Greg Grant LEGATO ggrant@legato.com
Vicki Grey LEGATO vgrey@legato.com
Bruce Haddon REDCAPE bkh@spot.colorado.edu
Dixon Hutchinson EXABYTE hutch@exabyte.com
Merritt Jones MITRE merritt@mitre.org
Jan Klier HP jan_klier@hp.com
Paul Lockwood LEGATO plock@legato.com
Kati Nelson LEGATO knelson@legato.com
Geoff Peck QUANTUM geoff@peck.com
geoff.peck@quantum.com
David Richey QUANTUM drichey@qntm.com
Murali Sathyanarayana SGI murali@engr.sgi.com
Eric Stouffer IBM stouffer@us.ibm.com
Tom Weimer VERITAS tom@veritas.com
Joel Williams SES joelw@ses-inc.com
Rod Van Meter QUANTUM rodney.vanmeter@qntm.com
rdv@alumni.caltech.edu
THANKS.
Many thanks to the Quantum Corporation for providing meeting space
for our group, and catering and office support as well. Special thanks
to Geoff Peck for making the arrangements.
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 Boulder were accepted. This meeting ended at noon on
Thursday.
SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
1. Established a schedule for the first three weeks of June 98 in which
assigned editors and reviewers will internally publish revised
drafts of the first five Media Management System (MMS) standards
and hold teleconference reviews of the drafts;
2. Decided that internationalization of these standards
is needed at the outset;
3. And Decided how to effect internationlization.
IEEE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE.
In order to assure that SSSWG members may participate in balloting of
the MMS Standards, an effort was made to complete and submit IEEE
membership applications for attendees not already IEEE members.
BALLOT POOL.
Group members were interested in making recommendations of
individuals who would be well-qualified ballot pool members in the
upcoming ballot of the MMS standards. A list of such candidates was
constructed at the meeting, and will be displayed at
http:///www.ssswg.org. Anyone inspecting the list may suggest
candidates to be added to the list by contacting the SSSWG Chair.
Authority and responsibility for establishing the balloting pool and
inviting balloting group members rests with the IEEE Sponsor for SSSWG
(Merritt).
TIMELINE to Standards in 1998.
The five standards for the Media Management System (MMS)
we are trying to complete this year are:
1244.1 - MMS Architecture and Data Model
1244.2 - MMS Session Security, Authentication, and Initialization Protocol
1244.3 - MMS Media Management Protocol
1244.4 - Drive Management Protocol
1244.5 - Library Management Protocol.
Working the schedule backwards from completion to present:
January 1999 -> IEEE Editorial Review before Publication
mid-December 1998 -> IEEE Computer Society Standards Activity Board
meets, reviews the balloting process, the
PARs versus standards, the coordination efforts,
and approves balloted standards.
end of October 1998 -> The SSSWG Sponsor Transmits Balloted Standards
to the IEEE.
October 1998 -> Balloted Standards Are Recirculated As Needed
September 1998 -> Standards Are Balloted
August 1998 -> SSSWG Presents Finished Draft Standards to Sponsor
July 1998 -> SSSWG Completes Drafts and As Much Review As Possible
June 1998 -> SSSWG Completes Internal Drafting of Standards
JUNE 98 SCHEDULE, EDITORS & REVIEWERS.
For the first three weeks of June, revised versions of all five
draft standards will be published to a small number of mandatory
reviewers and others within the WG, and a teleconference of the
reviewers will be held each Thursday for the three weeks.
The list of editors, reviewers, and standards versus weeks is as follows:
1244.1 Geoff Peck Editor, publish June 1, Teleconference June 4
Rod - Man-On-The-Street (MOTS) Reviewer
Greg - General Reviewer
Jack, Curtis, Murali - Mandatory Reviewers
1244.3 Greg Grant Editor, publish June 8, Teleconference June 11
Dixon, Joel - General Reviewers
Jack, Curtis, Murali - Mandatory Reviewers
1244.2 Jan Klier Editor
1244.4 Joel Williams Editor
1244.5 Joel Williams Editor
publish June 15, Teleconference June 18
Jack, Curtis, Murali - Mandatory Reviewers
By July 9th revisions and reviews subsequent to those above will be
completed so that a whole-group review may be accomplished at the July
14th meeting in Redmond.
INTERNATIONALIZATION.
On Tuesday, the Group spent a few hours discussing how much effort
might have to be spent on internationalization of these standards now
in order to avoid difficult or impossible introduction of this aspect
later. A teleconference was arranged for Wednesday with Bruce to take
advantange of his expertise in this area. All of Wednesday after the
teleconference was spent in discussion of an array of possible actions
to embrace internationalization and the effects on error messages. A set
of decisions was made by consensus of the group which will allow the MMS
standards to proceed in development while embracing internationalization
without severe impact on changes to the standards. One key decision in
this set is that UTF-8 will be used as the transformation format of
Unicode.
A set of slides from a talk given by Bruce in May 97 on
internationalization may be viewed at http://www.redcape.com/i18n/.
And there are excellent references for UTF-8 at
ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2044.txt
http://prominence.com/books/net/cd/html/utf.html
and elsewhere.
Thursday was spent reviewing the two days of the meeting and catching
up on areas otherwise missed. Paul raised several questions which
caused discussion about MMP detachment of sessions (and attaching,
reclaiming resources, possible denial of services, effects during
presence of active command/quiescent periods, etc.). Failover is
'supported' for detachment, but attachment is not. Curtis raised a
question of style desired for attribute names, which are presently
like "LIBRARY.'Library Name'". It was decided that the new style
will be "library.library_name" (C language style).
Jack resurfaced an old proposal to grant voting status based on
contributions by individuals who are unable to attend two meetings a
year. The proposal was generally accepted, and it was decided that the
SSSWG Chair should consider each case individually. The policy which
will be published is that such status will be granted on the decision of
the Chair, but that each person qualifying as voter in this way must
physically attend at least one of the previous six meetings. Under
these guidelines, it was deemed that Bruce be counted as present at this
meeting for purposes of voting.
ACTION ITEMS:
1. Revise and internally publish 1244.1 on or about June 1 (Geoff).
2. Revise and internally publish 1244.3 on or about June 8 (Greg).
3. Revise and internally publish 1244.2 on or about June 15 (Curtis).
4. Revise and internally publish 1244.4,5 on or about June 15 (Joel).
5. Review drafts and participate in teleconferences on June 4, 11, and 18
(Jack, Curtis, Murali).
6. Review 1244.3 draft and participate in teleconference on June 11
(Dixon and Joel).
7. Serve as 'man-on-the-street' reviewer of drafts as available (Rod).
8. Change the data model style to that of C language (Curtis).
9. Display/maintain ballot pool candidate list at www.ssswg.org (Jack).
10. Submit an extended abstract for MMS Tutorial at SC98 (Geoff).
11. Answer NesCom questions about PARs (Jack, Merritt).
12. Get IEEE guidance on establishing registries and
specifying conformance testing (Jack).
Next Meeting.
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July 14-16, 1998, ADIC, Redmond, WA (Jonathon Otis)
Future Meetings.
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Sept 15-17, 1998 Maryland (Jack Cole/ARL)
Nov 9, 1998 MMS Tutorial at Supercomputing '98, Orlando, FL
Nov 15-17, 1998 Casa Marina Hotel, Key West, FL (Starts Sunday at noon)
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