SSSWG - September 1997 Minutes

September 1997 Minutes of the
IEEE Storage Systems Standards Working Group (Project 1244)
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   Meeting at Timberline Lodge
   Timberline Lodge, OR September 10-12, 1997


   Chair:  Jack Cole
   IEEE Sponsor:  Merritt Jones
   Model Editor:  Sam Coleman
   Documents Custodian & MCS Chair: Dixon Hutchinson
   Archivist:  Bill Wolfe, NASA/Langley Research Center

Attendance (11)
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   Curtis Anderson      SGI             curtis@sgi.com
   Paul Borrill         QUANTUM         pborrill@qntm.com
   Carl Braganza        VERITAS         carl@veritas.com
   Jack Cole            ARL             cole@arl.mil
   Sam Coleman          LLNL            scoleman@llnl.gov
   Mark Epstein         Consultant      marke@midgard.net
   Merritt Jones        MITRE           merritt@mitre.org
   Geoff Peck           QUANTUM         geoff@sgi.com
   Alan Rollow          DEC             alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
   Tom Weimer           VERITAS         tom@veritas.com
   Joel Williams        SES             joel.williams@ses-inc.com

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


General
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Media Management System (MMS) DRAFT Requirements

   A great deal of time was spent reviewing, revising this draft with
real time editing being accomplished by Geoff.  The points of contention
are captured in this draft as well as the changes agreed to at the
meeting.  The WG decided that it prefers to continue revision of the
draft between meetings, and not to release the draft generally for
review at this time.  The current draft version is 2.4.

TIMELINE FOR MMS

   The Group decided that the target date for producing a standard to
submit to the IEEE balloting process is one year.  That is, by end of
the September 1988 meeting, or sooner, the SSSWG will submit a standard
based on the MMS requirements to the IEEE.  At Paul's suggestion,
intermediate goals and targets will be established to ensure meeting
this timeline.  More than half of the attendees made expressions of
committment to expanding the energy necessary to meet this target.

   Goal -
     Produce a concrete standard for the IEEE Media Management System

   Schedule -
     September, 1998 -
         Draft standards complete, begin standards adoption process.
     September, 1999 -
         Standard adopted.

   Workers/Leaders for development of portions of MMS:

   System Requirements                     Sam, (Carl?)
   Overall Architecture                    Geoff
   Data Model                              Curtis, Geoff
   Languages Overview                      Mark, Joel
   Client and Administration Language      Mark, Joel
   Device and Library Languages            Mark, Joel

NEW SSSWG WEB SITE, REFLECTORS

   The SSSWG will pay for registration of a domain name for itself and
establish a web site independent of any organization.  The current array
of email reflectors and ftp sites will consolidated at the same server
pair.  Hopefully this all will be accomplished in the space of a few
months.

MCS DRAFT STANDARD

   Less than an afternoon was spent discussing the MCS standard, an,
again, Geoff made real time edits to the current MCS draft.  This draft
will be placed on an ftp site for public input.

PARS

   The MMS draft is complete enough to be able to write the scope of one
or more PAR.

Next Meeting.
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11-13 November 1997, Hotel St. Francis, Santa Fe, NM
http://www.arl.mil/IEEE/next_meeting_arrangements.html

Future Meetings.
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  JANUARY 13-15, 1998   HOTEL    Reno, NV (Geoff Peck) -OR- Long Beach, CA
    MARCH 10-12, 1998   HOSTED   Boulder, CO (John Merrill/NCAR)
      MAY 12-14, 1998   HOTEL    Florida
     JULY 14-16, 1998   HOSTED   Redmond, WA (Jonathon Otis/ADIC)