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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Daisy Shen/IBM
NetData Minutes
This was the second meeting of the Working Group Chaired by Daisy Shen.
The meeting Agenda is shown below:
o Review the Charter.
o Give the History of the SQL Access Group.
o Presentation of the Draft.
o Discussion of the Draft and Problems That are Related to the
Subject.
o Discussion of the Effort of Other Vendors and OSF Related to the
Subject.
o Future Work.
Reviewed the Charter
All the members felt that we met the Charter and the Milestones on
schedule as of June 1991.
History of the SQL Access Group
All the members agreed that the SQL Access group doesn't seem to be
willing to work with us. The SQL Access group gave us a two-page
document which is useless. Although, our group and the SQL Access group
seem to have some similar interests, we are solving the problem via
TCP/IP while they use the ISO standard. Actually those two have
different goals.
Presentation and Discussion of the Draft and Related Problems
The first draft was presented for those who had not read it or had
questions. There were some issues discussed and solved.
o SQL statements
The protocol works with both SQL static and dynamic statements.
o Transport means
Our protocol will apply to both TCP and UDP. It is one of the
parameters that users have to specify. The default value is TCP.
o Data conversion
The header information along with data will be treated as a string
by RPC/XDR and the protocol will use ASN format which is an IOS
standard to represent the reply data.
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o Security
Kerberos is not required. Users can have options to use or not to
use Kerberos. For those machines who don't have Kerberos, the
protocol will provide security which relies on uid and gid.
Authentication will be done on the RPC level.
o RPC
Before there is a standard RPC, the protocol will work with all
versions of RPC. However, all members of NETDATA believe that we
should start an RPC Working Group standardizing RPC, especially a
secured RPC.
The Network Management Operational Statistics Working Group had some
discussion on database issues. We should let them know that our group
is working on the problem. It would be nice if they could tell us their
requirements. Perhaps, we can help them solve their problem.
Discussion of the Effort of Other Vendors and OSF Related to the Subject
We could not find any more information on the effort of other vendors
and OSF. We will continue to search.
Future Work
o Update the first draft and make it a protocol only.
o Create a new draft for the structure and implementation issues.
o Get a better understanding on ASN.1.
o Get more familiar with ISO standard.
o Look into SQL statement's additional negotiation options.
o Look into starting an RPC Working Group.
o Connect the Network Management Operational Statistics Working
Group.
o Find volunteers to do the second version of the implementation.
Attendees
Chi Chu chi@sparta.com
John Cook cook@chipcom.com
Bill Fardy fardy@ctron.com
Shari Galitzer shari@gateway.mitre.org
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Mike Janson mjanson@mot.com
Vincent Lau vincent.lau@eng.sun.com
Louis Leon osll@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu
Leo McLaughlin ljm@wco.ftp.com
Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu
Geir Pedersen geir.pedersen@use.uio.no
Daisy Shen daisy@watson.ibm.com
Erik Sherk sherk@nmc.cit.cornell.edu
Anil Singhal
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David Waitzman djw@bbn.com
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