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Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/7/92
CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Scott Newman/DEC
Minutes of the Network Database Working Group (NETDATA)
The NETDATA Working Group met for a single session at the November IETF
meeting. The meeting was lightly attended, but the interest level was
high among most of the attendees. The meeting was chaired by Scott
Newman because the regular Chair, Daisy Shen, could not attend.
The entire meeting was spent discussing the approach of The SQL Access
Group to remote database access. Scott presented a very quick overview
of The SQL Access Group and its efforts. A more technical discussion
was facilitated by a longer presentation that provided a more detailed
description of ISO RDA, the SQL Access subset and extensions to RDA and
SQL Access' approach to using RDA on an IP-based network. (Copies of
these presentations are available in Postscript format, and they are
expected to appear in the IETF proceedings).
In general, the participants were very supportive of the SQL Access
approach. The most significant issues and comments were as follows:
o Currently, none of the specifications required to implement the SQL
Access approach are available on-line. SQL Access references
X/Open and ISO documents, so the issue is somewhat involved. It is
important to address this issue, in order to make the
specifications accessible on-line for the Internet community.
o As discussed last month, additional work is required in the area of
security. There are several potential ways to address enhancements
in this area.
o No one was concerned that the SQL Access approach for mapping to
TCP/IP used a direct mapping approach, instead of using RFC 1006.
In fact, several participants much preferred the simplicity of the
direct mapping approach. There was general feedback that RFC 1006
was not seeing a lot of action at this point in time.
In summary, there is one logistical/legal issue with regard to getting
the required specifications on-line, and there was one
technical/requirements issue in the area of enhancing security. The
Group felt that they would prefer to base their work on SQL Access' work
because it has the support of many more companies and organizations than
the existing netdata approach, and the specifications are mature.
However, it unanimously agreed that due to the meeting's light
attendance, and the absence of the regular Chair, there should be
further discussion over e-mail. A decision on whether to continue with
the existing approach or begin adapting the SQL Access work should be
made via e-mail, prior to the next meeting.
The following action items resulted from the meeting:
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o Scott and Russ are to arrange for Russ to address the SQL Access
Board of Directors (i.e., the managers' meeting) in early 1993.
o Scott will write-up his notes that compare the existing netdata
approach with the SQL Access approach. This write-up will be
posted to the NETDATA list.
Attendees
Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
Bryan Beecher bryan@umich.edu
Letha Dugas 4371362@mcimail.com
Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
Scott Newman newman@broke.enet.dec.com
Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu
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