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- Network Working Group P. M. Karp - MITRE
- Request for Comments #173 D. B. McKay - IBM
- NIC 6795 4 June 1971
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- Categories: D.4, D.7
- Obsoletes: None
- Updates: None
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- Network Data Management Committee Meeting Announcement
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- The data management discussions at the recent NWG meeting resulted in
- the formation of a Network Data Management Committee to be chaired by
- Doug McKay, IBM. The purpose of the committee, as stated in RFC 146,
- is:
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- (a) to classify the issues involved and to propose
- various approaches;
- (b) to integrate the hitherto independent network
- activities that address problems in the area of data
- sharing; and
- (c) to set up and coordinate appropriate experiments
- to test the services developed and to evaluate
- alternative approaches.
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- An informal meeting was held Wednesday morning, 19 May to estab- lish an
- approach for achieving the above objectives. The attendees were:
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- Peggy Karp MITRE
- Doug McKay IBM
- Tom O'Sullivan Raytheon
- Ari Ollikainin UCLA
- Dr. Larry Roberts ARPA
- Dick Winter CCA
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- Due to an overlap with a file transfer committee meeting, membership of
- the data management committee was not established.
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- A decision was made to hold a data management meeting at CCA in
- Cambridge prior to the next general NWG meeting. The structure and
- format of the meeting will be similar to that of the network graphics
- meeting (RFC 87); that is, the price of admission for an organization is
- a working paper on one or more of the areas chosen for discussion,
- accompanied by an oral presentation.
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- The meeting will provide an opportunity for varying viewpoints on
- network data sharing to be expressed. The essential issues will be
- educed, thus fulfilling the committee's objective (a). Compre- hensive
- plans for attaining objectives (b) and (c) can then be established. We
- expect that responsibilities for carrying out objectives (b) and (c)
- will be assumed by interested committee members.
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- One of the original objectives of the meeting was to elicit comments on
- the data language for the data computer, following a presentation of
- design specifications by CCA. Due to a change in scheduling at CCA,
- they will discuss the facilities to be provided by the data computer
- rather than language itself. Therefore meeting participants will have
- an opportunity to provide input to the language design which will be
- specifically directed at provision of the facilities.
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- Some suggested topics for position papers are:
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- (a) philosophical discussion on computer network
- data sharing;
- (b) syntactic and semantic considerations for data
- description and access languages;
- (c) approaches for the integration of data handling
- services already available;
- (d) experimentation methodology for evaluating
- alternative data sharing techniques;
- (e) information content and structure of a network
- data directory; and
- (f) operational or control protocol.
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- Any or all of the above topics can be addressed in a single paper.
- Other ideas for position paper topics can be gleaned from RFC #s 144 and
- 146. Many of the comments made at the data management session, 18 May,
- at the NWG meeting (RFC 164, pp. 26-29) can be expanded and expounded
- upon.
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- Position papers should be submitted ti Doug McKay by 16 July (received
- no later than 19 July). A meeting agenda, copies of all submitted
- papers, and a background bibliography will be distributed to all
- participants by 23 July. The meeting will be held at CCA, 565
- Technology Square, Cambridge, Mass. from 2 August until 4 August. All
- participants should contact Marty Ginsberg, CCA (617-491-3670) by 16
- July for hotel reservations.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by Simone Demmel 5/97 ]
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