Addendum 12/2/1991

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Chris Weider, Chair
DISI

CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Chris Weider/Merit Network

DISI Minutes

A list of attendees follows the minutes.

The Agenda, as stated at the beginning of the meeting, was as follows:


 1. Charter Issues
 2. Scope of DISI
 3. Paper 1 (Weider, Reynolds, Heker)
 4. Paper 2 (Lang, Wright)
 5. Third paper assignment
 6. Transition to Ops group


The way it went:


 1. Chris W. mentioned that the charter had been revised as recommended
    in St.  Louis.

 2. A freewheeling discussion about the scope of DISI then ensued.
    Chris W. asked Steve Kille to speak a bit about the chartered
    purpose of OSI-DS, and then asked the crowd if there were any areas
    which needed attention which were not being covered by either DISI
    or OSI-DS. The general consensus was that there was as yet no
    justification for spinning off an operations group.  Thus, this
    covered both items 2 and 6.

 3. Paper 1 was then mentioned.  Chris W. stated that the paper would
    be withdrawn for revisions, as the paper tended to blur the
    distinction between the X.500 standard and the Quipu implementation
    of that standard.  Chris promised that a revised version of the
    paper would be out in several weeks.

 4. Paper 2 was then mentioned.  The group publicly thanked Russ Wright
    and Ruth Lang for all the work they'd done on the paper.  Several
    people then mentioned that there were some DUAs which did not
    appear in the paper, and Russ and Ruth stated that they would
    include them. Also, the following suggested changes were agreed to
    and will be make by Russ and Ruth given the cooperation of the
    associated authors.

    a) Create a separate disclaimer section noting author (not DISI or
       editor) responsibility for implementation descriptions.

    b) Interoperability section should be modified to focus on
       interoperability at protocol level.

    c) Add a Connectivity Status section that describes which pilots
       the implementation is associated with and lists the number of
       participating sites. Steve Hardcastle-Kille volunteered to
       provide a description of this section's intent.

    The group agreed that after an email review of the updated document,
    that it should be progressed to FYI/RFC status. As an additional action
    item, Kevin Mills volunteered to pursue the availability of a list
    of implementations kept by the NIST.

 5. Discussion then turned to the third paper.  Many people felt that
    there were some other papers which needed to be assigned before the
    `Advanced Usages' paper; one which was agreed upon was a paper 2.5,
    a `How to get Connected' paper.  Erik Heizer stated that he would
    post references to the available PARADISE documents which could
    be used as a springboard for writing the paper, a 'How to join a pilot'
    paper, and a 'How to set up a DSA' paper.

 6. Point 6 was covered in the discussion of point 2.

 Other stuff that came up: Bill Manning (Rice) raised the topic of storage
 and retrieval of DNS information. Discussion on this topic was deferred
 to the list.

 The subject of how to  transition to X.500 from a non-X.500 environment
 was raised and also deferred to the list.

 Steve Hotz (ISI) suggested that DISI identify ways that users would want
 to access data, i.e. a Directory 'wish list'. It was suggested that this
 information form the basis for a document, and serve as informational
 feedback to OSI-DS.
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Attendees

William Biagi            [email protected]
David Brent              [email protected]
Randy Butler             [email protected]
Chi Chu                  [email protected]
John Curran              [email protected]
Peter Deutsch            [email protected]
Alan Emtage              [email protected]
Robert Enger             [email protected]
Urs Eppenberger          [email protected]
Jill Foster              [email protected]
Arlene Getchell          [email protected]
Jack Hahn                [email protected]
Steve Hardcastle-Kille   [email protected]
Ittai Hershman           [email protected]
Ellen Hoffman            [email protected]
Steven Hotz              [email protected]
Tim Howes                [email protected].
Erik Huizer              [email protected]
Lenore Jackson           [email protected]
Mark Knopper             [email protected]
Ruth Lang                [email protected]
Louis Leon               [email protected]
Brian Lev                [email protected]
Peter Liebscher          [email protected]
Bill Manning             [email protected]
April Marine             [email protected]
Clifford Neuman          [email protected]
Marsha Perrott           [email protected]
Mel Pleasant             [email protected]
A. Minick Rushton        [email protected]
Tom Sandoski             [email protected]
Dana Sitzler             [email protected]
Patricia Smith           [email protected]
Subu Subramanian         [email protected]
Chris Weider             [email protected]
Russ Wright              [email protected]
Wengyik Yeong            [email protected]



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