Held at Systems Engineering and Security,
Inc.
September 15-17, 1998 Greenbelt, Maryland
Evening Out at the Marrakesh Restaurant
New York Avenue, Washington, D.C.
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 (17). Scott Allen STK scott_allen@stortek.com Curtis Anderson SGI curtis@sgi.com Jack Cole ARL jack.cole@ieee.org Vicki Grey LEGATO vgrey@legato.com Lai Fong Ho LEGATO lho@legato.com Dixon Hutchinson EXABYTE hutch@exabyte.com Tony Houdeshell EMASS tonyh@emass.com Merritt Jones MITRE merritt@mitre.org Jan Klier HP jan_klier@hp.com Ben Kobler NASA ben.kobler@gsfc.nasa.gov Paul Lockwood LEGATO plock@legato.com Kati Nelson LEGATO knelson@legato.com Geoff Peck QUANTUM (Cons.) geoff@peck.com, Alan Rollow COMPAQ alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com Murali Sathyanarayana SGI murali@engr.sgi.com Michael Walker EMC walker_michael@isus.emc.com Joel Williams SES joelw@ses-inc.com
THANKS.
ADMINISTRATIVE.
The meeting began at 8:30am Tuesday with attendance and registration. Minutes from the July meeting in Redmond were accepted, as was the proposed Agenda with modifications. An additional evening meeting was held, and the general meeting ended around noon on Thursday.BALLOTING.
Those in attendance were 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.
Our initial intention was to follow the process begun at the end of the July meeting. That is, of quickly reviewing documents for deficiencies and building lists of deficiencies for later corrective work, rather than attempting to address completely all deficiencies in real time.
We modified this approach with very positive effect. Instead of a detailed, document-by-document review, we began the review with the least-developed document, and allowed the review to suggest major areas needing work in all the Media Management System (MMS) drafts.
So the review began with the Library Management Protocol (LMP) draft, and resulted in a "parking lot" of areas most needing work. This prioritized list ("1"= highest priority) was:
Priority Completed Topic[1] [?] blind robots - label processing helper apps - protein robots subsumed[2] [X] drive cleaning [3] [X] magazines/cartridge groups [3] [X] cartridge orientation [3] [ ] reservations [3] [ ] eject and openport commands (ill-defined) move vs mount cases of more than one port [4] [X] port to drive opts
We constrained ourselves to consideration of minimal change solutions, and we avoided unnecessary feature creep. Delaying draft completion by embracing new features without significantly benefiting the value of resulting standards could not be accepted.
The need to deal with blind robots was deemed to be sufficiently high to warrant the extra (and significant) work to modify the drafts. Blind robots were discussed, progress was made, but the discussion was incomplete by the end of the meeting.
Adding functionality for orienting optical media was addressed because a modest, but significant benefit could be achieved with only modest work to include the change. This discussion was completed.
No progress was made on reservations, although there is a standing proposal, and after the meeting offline discussions will be held.
Although not an area of active development at the moment, "Mover" was briefly discussed in regard to the possibility of two flavors: one which would use only mandatory IEEE labeling and another which would handle legacy tapes.
Discussing "drive cleaning" resulted in new commands being added to the Drive Management Protocol (DMP), and a description of cleaning being added to Architecture. No changes will result to the Media Management Protocol (MMP) since only a simple mount of a cartridge with type "clean" will be required.
A slight change in the authentication protocol of the "Session Security, Authentication, Initialization Protocol" (SSAIP) was adopted after brief discussion (change suggested by Ken Renard/ARL in a teleconference before the meeting).
Several who attended stated their satisfaction with the degree to which discussions were focused and productive, reflecting the common goal of all present to produce reasonable standards within a self-imposed deadline (next spring).
The current schedule is to finish drafts by the end of the November meeting. It was agreed to add a day to that meeting, so that it will be 3.5 days long. December and January will be used for balloting, and balloted drafts will be submitted to IEEE on or before February 9th, 1999.
ACTION ITEMS. Editors Develop drafts Everyone Help develop balloter list Joel Reformat Data Model tables Paul Supply training diagrams clarifying MMS Murali Put MMP list of errors in appendix Scott Provide Curtis with ideas about reservations Merritt Invite balloters Curtis Provide Joel with Openvault error conditions Vicki Provide Geoff with words for Architecture abstract & scope Dixon Arrange January meeting in Colorado Jack Arrange March meeting San Diego, add day to November meeting Geoff Arrange May meeting in Phoenix
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.
Starts at Noon on Sunday with catered lunch,
ends by 6pm Wednesday (3.5 day meeting). Thursday, October 15th is the cut off date for the block of rooms held for the "IEEE SSSWG" at Casa Marina. Room rates are $160/night for Standard Ocean View Room (recently renovated) or Island View Suites. Call (800)626-0777 for reservations.Future Meetings.