Addendum 12/2/1991 Please note that these minutes have been updated since the Proceedings were published. Additional information required these changes. 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 Chris W. stated that the paper would be withdrawn for revisions, as the paper tended to blur the distinction between the X.500 standard and the Quipu implementation of that standard.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. 1 Attendees William Biagi bbiagi@cos.com David Brent brent@CDNnet.ca Randy Butler rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu Chi Chu chi@sparta.com John Curran jcurran@bbn.com Peter Deutsch peterd@cc.mcgillica Alan Emtage bajan@cc.mcgill.ca Robert Enger enger@seka.scc.com Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch Jill Foster jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk Arlene Getchell getchell@nersc.gov Jack Hahn hahn@umd5.umd.edu Steve Hardcastle-Kille S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk Ittai Hershman ittai@nis.ans.net Ellen Hoffman esh@merit.edu Steven Hotz hotz@isi.edu Tim Howes Tim.Howes@umich.edu. Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl Lenore Jackson jackson@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov Mark Knopper mak@merit.edu Ruth Lang rlang@nisc.sri.com Louis Leon osll@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu Brian Lev lev@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov Peter Liebscher plieb@sura.net Bill Manning bmanning@rice.edu April Marine april@nisc.sri.com Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu Mel Pleasant pleasant@hardees.rutgers.edu A. Minick Rushton rushton@stsci.edu Tom Sandoski tom@concert.net Dana Sitzler dds@merit.edu Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu Subu Subramanian subu@qsun.att.com Chris Weider clw@merit.edu Russ Wright wright@lbl.gov Wengyik Yeong yeongw@psi.com 2