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Editor's Note: Minutes received 8/3
CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Jim Quigley/Hewlett-Packard
Minutes of the XWindows over OSI and Skinny Stack BOF (THINOSI)
Jim Quigley of Hewlett-Packard gave an hour plus presentation on the OSI
Basic Communication aspects of OSI, aka ``skinny stack.'' Quigley also
discussed the University of London's prototype of X over an OSI ``skinny
stack'' (Xosi) including performance data. Xosi is part of the ANSI
standard for X that is also included in the U.S. IGOS (Industry and
Government Open System -- formerly GOSIP) requirements.
The group attending the BOF generally accepted Quigley's premise that
most [if not all] potential OSI applications only have the basic
communication requirements of connect/disconnect and send/receive. Such
applications only require an OSI ``skinny stack'' such as that defined
for Xosi. Besides the specification of OSI skinny stacks, the critical
need is the specification of OSI 7-layer ``skinny'' APIs.
The Group agreed that Peter Furniss and Steve Hardcastle-Kille should be
requested to do a Simple OSI Stack (SOS) versus OSI skinny stack
comparison. The results would be published to the Skinny Stack BOF
mailing list.
The consensus of the Group was to pursue the formation of a working
group for the specification of APIs for an OSI skinny stack.
Jim Quigley was instructed to ask OSI Area Directors Dave Piscitello and
Eric Huizer how to start such a working group on XTI and SOCKETS APIs
for an OSI skinny stack.
It was agreed that Jim Quigley should get on the next IETF: technical
presentation to discuss the requirements and potential of OSI skinny
stacks and APIs.
Attendees
Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
C. Allan Cargille cargille@cs.wisc.edu
Cyrus Chow cchow@orion.arc.nasa.gov
Richard Colella colella@osi.ncsl.nist.gov
Richard desJardins desjardi@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov
Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org
Kevin Jordan kej@udev.cdc.com
Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
James Quigley Jim_Quigley%YD@hp6600.desk.hp.com
David Reiser dsr@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com
William Warner warner@ohio.gov
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