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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Daisy Shen/IBM
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- NetData Minutes
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- This was the second meeting of the Working Group Chaired by Daisy Shen.
- The meeting Agenda is shown below:
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- 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.
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- Reviewed the Charter
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- All the members felt that we met the Charter and the Milestones on
- schedule as of June 1991.
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- History of the SQL Access Group
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- 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.
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- Presentation and Discussion of the Draft and Related Problems
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- The first draft was presented for those who had not read it or had
- questions. There were some issues discussed and solved.
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- o SQL statements
- The protocol works with both SQL static and dynamic statements.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Discussion of the Effort of Other Vendors and OSF Related to the Subject
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- We could not find any more information on the effort of other vendors
- and OSF. We will continue to search.
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- Future Work
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- 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.
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- Attendees
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- 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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