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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Daisy Shen/IBM
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- Network Database Minutes
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- This is a new Working Group Chaired by Daisy Shen. The first meeting
- consisted of discussing the Charter, defining the scope and preparing
- for the next meeting.
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- All attendees agreed upon the Charter; although there was no discusson
- regarding the schedule and the milestones. Those items will be
- discussed at the next meeting.
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- Define the Scope
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- 1. It will be built as a client/server model which will be called a
- database requester/server.
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- 2. RPC will be used on top of TCP/IP as the communication vehicle.
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- 3. We will define the concept of the Unit of Work.
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- 4. We will do data conversion.
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- 5. Security:
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- o Use Kerberos for authentication
- o Let each database system handle its own security.
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- 6. If the server has more than one database, we require that the
- databases be homogeneous.
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- Work to Be Done
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- Before the next meeting, we will find out:
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- o The effort of the OSI/RDA group related to this subject.
- o The effort of the OSF group related to this subject.
- o The effort of other vendors related to this subject.
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- o Advertising this Working Group.
- o A first draft will be written.
- Attendees
- David Benton benton@bio.nlm.nih.gov
- Richard Bowles bowles@stsci.edu
- Robert Enger enger@seka.scc.com
- Elizabeth Feinler
- Charles Fineberg fineberg@wums2.wustl.edu
- Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
- Mike Janson mjanson@mot.com
- Greg Minshall minshall@wc.novell.com
- Joel Replogle replogle@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Paul Selkirk paul@ftp.com
- Daisy Shen daisy@watson.ibm.com
- Jim Sheridan jsherida@ibm.com
- Wing Fai Wong wfwong@malta.sbi.com
- Wengyik Yeong yeongw@psi.com
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