November 1998 Minutes

IEEE Storage System Standards Working Group (P1244)


Held at  Casa Marina Hotel
November 15-18, 1998 Key West, FL

Evening Out at the Rooftop Restaurant
(links to group photos will appear here later)
 

IEEE Sponsor, Merritt Jones
SSSWG Chair, Jack Cole
MMS Technical Editor, Geoff Peck
MSSRM Editor, Sam Coleman

1244.1 Architecture/Data Model (Geoff Peck, editor)
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 (15).

Curtis Anderson         SGI               curtis@sgi.com
Jack Cole               ARL               jack.cole@ieee.org
Sam Coleman		LLNL              scoleman@llnl.gov
Troy Eberlein		LEGATO            teberlein@legato.com
Vicki Grey              LEGATO            vgrey@legato.com
Bruce Haddon		SUN               bkh@spot.colorado.edu
Lai Fong Ho             LEGATO            lho@legato.com
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
Geoff Peck              QUANTUM (Cons.)   geoff@peck.com
Murali Sathyanarayana   SGI               murali@engr.sgi.com
Joel Williams           SES               joelw@ses-inc.com
Bob Wu			COMMVAULT         rwu@commvault.com

THANKS.

Through Dixon Hutchinson, Exabyte Corporation provided SSSWG with the use of their LCD Projector, at significant savings to SSSWG over the cost of a rental.

ADMINISTRATIVE.

The meeting began at noon on Sunday with attendance and registration. Minutes from the September meeting in Greenbelt were accepted, as was the proposed Agenda with modifications. Arrangements were made with the hotel to meet during the evening so that the group could enjoy sunset breaks, but the group instead worked in a windowless room through sunsets into each evening. The meeting ended Wednesday afternoon.

BALLOTING.

Everyone was reminded of the need to be IEEE Standards Association (SA) members based on one flavor or another (regular, affiliate, etc) of IEEE membership in time to serve as balloters of the standards being developed.

DISCUSSION.

After discussion of individual schedules for the week, hotel arrangements for evening meetings, and reviewing the status of the five working drafts (some with sub-documents), a time line for getting balloted draft standards to the IEEE Standards Board (StB) by February 5, 1999 was established.  The same basic schedule shifted forwarded slightly can be used to meet the subsequent StB deadline (May 7, 1999).  Standards will be published in summer or fall of 1999 depending on which deadline is met.

The status of documents was reviewed to modify the agenda:

Additionally, Bruce Haddon stated a desire to discuss the work of SNIA, DMTF on the Common Information Model (CIM) as it might relate to MMS (or vice versa).

The agenda suggested by the document status review was accomplished.  The Group was very interested in fitting MMS to CIM after hearing Bruce's presentation.  Multi-mount without deadlock versus reservations was discussed, characterized by  expressions that reservations 'pessimized' while multi-mount optimized and contrasting deadlock detection/curing  with avoidance.

ACTION ITEMS.

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.  January 19-22, 1999 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO.

We will gather at 8:30am on Tuesday, January 19th, and begin each day at 9:00am, end each day around 6pm.  Normally meetings are held for 2.5 days, but this meeting schedule is for 3.5 days, with the meeting ending at noon Friday (22nd).

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