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- Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/31
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Urs Eppenberger/SWITCH and Kevin Jordan/CDC
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- Minutes of the MHS-DS Working Group (MHSDS)
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- Agenda
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- o Revision of the Charter
- o Status of the Documents
- o Review of the Documents
- o AOB
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- The Minutes of the last MHS-DS meeting in Innsbruck, Austria were
- approved.
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- Charter
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- The revision and progression of SHKs documents have highest priority.
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- The Charter will be revised to include the following new items:
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- o Study the support of X.400 communities without directory access,
- and define requirements for tools which:
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- - Extract info from the DIT into files.
- - Upload info from files into DIT.
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- o Identify additional information possibly needed to facilitate MHS
- management (beyond what is already defined in the Internet Drafts)
- and define where and how to place it in the DIT. (Note: it may be
- the case that no additional information is needed, at least in the
- short to medium term). Jim Romaguera volunteered to work on this
- item.
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- o The Group will coordinate a pilot and document the results.
- Experience from the piloting activity may necessitate changes in
- the MHS-DS specifications. Also, guidelines for deployment and
- tuning may result.
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- Status of the Documents
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- The following papers have been updated by SHK and were submitted to the
- RFC Editor as Internet Drafts:
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- 1. Representing Tables and Subtrees in the Directory.
- 2. Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the Directory Information
- Tree.
- 3. MHS use of Directory to support MHS Routing.
- 4. Use of the Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822
- Addresses.
- 5. MHS use of the Directory to support distribution lists.
- 6. A simple profile for MHS use of Directory.
- 7. Use of the Directory to support routing for RFC 822 and related
- protocols.
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- What needs still to be done:
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- o ASN.1 definitions in some of the documents.
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- o Routing algorithm in pseudo code. Perl code in beta status
- available from HTA. It's well suited for sanity checking of the
- algorithms since the code is executable
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- o A short overview paper is needed, KEJ volunteered to write it.
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- o Content conversion issues to be taken out of the routing document
- [3] and moved into a separate document.
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- o Notes on expected performance [3].
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- o Section on acknowledgements.
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- o References section.
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- o Section defining regular expressions (used in routing filters) [3].
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- o A table of MTA attributes and how they affect routing [3].
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- The next public release of PP will include the functionality defined in
- the minimum profile [6]. Quipu in ISODE 8.0 includes most of the
- objects defined in [1]-[7]. PP and Quipu will provide enough
- functionality to start a pilot. The restriction of supporting the open
- tree only may limit the scale of the pilot.
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- X-Tel got a contract from the European Commission for the project
- EXPLODE. Consequently, most functionality defined in [5] will be
- implemented in PP.
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- Review of the Documents
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- The documents [1]-[6] were thoroughly reviewed (page by page).
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- Editorial changes were pointed out for the documents [1], [2] and [4].
- SHK will update the documents. The MHS-DS Working Group proposes to
- submit these documents as Experimental Standards. Experience gained
- through the pilot may lead to document updates. After gaining
- experience via piloting, the documents will be revised, then the next
- goal will be to submit them as proposed standards.
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- [5] This document was discussed quite thoroughly at the meeting. As a
- result, additional needed functionality and DL policies were identified.
- A new version will be distributed and discussed at the next meeting.
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- [3] Some of the algorithms are changed.
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- The location of the open tree under O=Internet was discussed. The
- conclusion was to keep the open tree under the root of the DIT root, as
- originally proposed. It has been pointed out that [3] defines only a
- framework for using X.500 for X.400 routing. MHS communities will need
- to specify in more detail how the routing must be organised. It is a
- task of the pilot to study these issues.
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- SHK will update [3] and resubmit it as an Internet Draft.
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- [6] Did not get significant changes. Since it is tightly coupled with
- [3], it will also be updated and resubmitted as an Internet Draft.
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- [7] Will be discussed at the next meeting.
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- AOB
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- Next meeting: 25th IETF, November 16-20, 1992, Washington, D.C.
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- Action List
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- Kevin Jordan To revise the Charter.
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- To write an overview paper.
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- Urs Eppenberger To write the Minutes.
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- Harald Alvestrand To provide pseudo code.
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- Jim Romaguera To write a document on possible additional
- objects and attributes needed in the framework
- of MHS management.
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- Steve Hardcastle-Kille To make editorial changes to the documents
- [1], [2] and [4] and submit them as
- Experimental Standards.
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- To revise documents [3] and [5] and distribute
- them to the list in time for the next meeting.
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- To create an additional document on content
- conversion and access units.
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- Everybody to study the revised documents and contribute comments.
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- Attendees
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- Ed Albrigo ealbrigo@cos.com
- Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- C. Allan Cargille cargille@cs.wisc.edu
- James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu
- Curtis Cox ccox@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil
- Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch
- Ray Freiwirth 5242391@mcimail.com
- Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org
- Tony Genovese genovese@nersc.gov
- Arlene Getchell getchell@nersc.gov
- Alf Hansen Alf.Hansen@delab.sintef.no
- Steve Hardcastle-Kille s.kille@isode.com
- John Hawthorne johnh@tigger.rl.af.mil
- Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl
- Takashi Ikemoto tikemoto@xerox.com
- Kevin Jordan kej@udev.cdc.com
- Todd Kaehler kaehler@zk3.dec.com
- Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@der.edf.fr
- Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager@switch.ch
- Eric Nowak nowak@ans.net
- Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch
- Einar Stefferud stefisoc@nma.com=
- Panos-Gavriil Tsigaridas tsigaridas@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de
- Brien Wheeler blw@mitre.org
- Peter Williams p.williams@uk.ac.ucl.cs
- Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov
- Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com
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