- The data management discussions at the recent NWG meeting resulted in
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- the formation of a Network Data Management Committee to be chaired by
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- Doug McKay, IBM. The purpose of the committee, as stated in RFC 146,
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- 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.
- An informal meeting was held Wednesday morning, 19 May to estab- lish an
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- 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
- Due to an overlap with a file transfer committee meeting, membership of
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- the data management committee was not established.
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- A decision was made to hold a data management meeting at CCA in
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- Cambridge prior to the next general NWG meeting. The structure and
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- format of the meeting will be similar to that of the network graphics
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- meeting (RFC 87); that is, the price of admission for an organization is
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- a working paper on one or more of the areas chosen for discussion,
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- accompanied by an oral presentation.
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- network data sharing to be expressed. The essential issues will be
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- educed, thus fulfilling the committee's objective (a). Compre- hensive
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- plans for attaining objectives (b) and (c) can then be established. We
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- expect that responsibilities for carrying out objectives (b) and (c)
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- will be assumed by interested committee members.
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- One of the original objectives of the meeting was to elicit comments on
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- the data language for the data computer, following a presentation of
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- design specifications by CCA. Due to a change in scheduling at CCA,
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- they will discuss the facilities to be provided by the data computer
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- rather than language itself. Therefore meeting participants will have
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- an opportunity to provide input to the language design which will be
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- specifically directed at provision of the facilities.
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Some suggested topics for position papers are:
(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.
- Any or all of the above topics can be addressed in a single paper.
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- Other ideas for position paper topics can be gleaned from RFC #s 144 and
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- 146. Many of the comments made at the data management session, 18 May,
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- at the NWG meeting (RFC 164, pp. 26-29) can be expanded and expounded
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- upon.
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- Position papers should be submitted ti Doug McKay by 16 July (received
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- no later than 19 July). A meeting agenda, copies of all submitted
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- papers, and a background bibliography will be distributed to all
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- participants by 23 July. The meeting will be held at CCA, 565
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- Technology Square, Cambridge, Mass. from 2 August until 4 August. All
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- participants should contact Marty Ginsberg, CCA (617-491-3670) by 16
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- 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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