Held at
Exabyte Corporation, Boulder, Colorado
May 25-26, 1999
Evening Out at Greenbriar
Guests: Mike Hardy, Jenny Hutchinson, Toula Merrill
IEEE Sponsor, Merritt Jones
SSSWG Chair, Jack Cole
MMS Editor, Geoff Peck
MSSRM Editor, Sam Coleman
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 (8). Curtis Anderson SGI curtis@sgi.com Jack Cole ARL jack.cole@ieee.org Dixon Hutchinson EXABYTE hutch@exabyte.com John Merrill NCAR jhm@ucar.edu Geoff Peck Peck Labs, Inc. geoff@peck.com Alan Rollow Compaq alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com Murali Sathyanarayana SGI murali@engr.sgi.com Joel Williams SES joelw@ses-inc.com
THANKS. Dixon
Hutchinson and Exabyte Corporation hosted this
meeting, providing SSSWG with meeting space
and a wide range of support. Craig Reed gave the WG a tour of Exabyte's
NetStorM facility.
ADMINISTRATIVE. The meeting began at 8:30am on Tuesday with attendance and registration. No changes to the April meeting minutes from Reno were proposed, so the minutes were accepted as submitted. The proposed agenda for this meeting was simply to conclude development of the five drafts. The meeting ended Wednesday afternoon.
DISCUSSION. The SSSWG held one group teleconference two weeks prior to this meeting, and Joel and Murali exchanged ideas by telephone afterwards, leading to a great deal of development in the DMP and LMP drafts. Murali sent out revised drafts of MMP, DMP, and LMP shortly before the meeting. A new version of the Architecture draft was provided by Geoff, and this draft was reviewed, further developed during the meeting. The Group agreed to a self-imposed deadline of June 14th to complete all draft development prior to balloting the first five standards. The lengthy IEEE balloting process was discussed. Ideas were explored by phone with the IEEE Balloting Service during the meeting to discover ways of expediting the balloting through electronic communications rather than paper and the US Post Office.
Next Meeting. No firm dates and location were decided, but dates in July (19-21) and locations in or near Silicon Valley were discussed. Remains TBD.
Future Meetings. Dates and locations of regular future meetings are difficult to predict at this point, with each "Next meeting" being determined at the time of each prior meeting. When work begins in earnest on the next five MMS standards, Data Mover, and Version 6 of the Mass Storage System Reference Model (MSSRM), a regular meeting schedule will result.