Editor's Note: Minutes Received 7/24 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Daisy Shen/IBM Minutes of the Network Database Working Group (NETDATA) The Netdata Working Group, Chaired by Daisy Shen met in Boston. The Working Group met on Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon. Both sessions were well attended. The purpose of these sessions was to revise the current Internet Drafts and discuss other vendors' efforts. During the first session, Daisy Shen presented the first half of Netdata Internet Drafts in details, and led the discussion on various issues that are related to the netdata drafts. Netdata members made some changes on the drafts. Daisy Shen will revise the drafts according to the suggestions. It will be reflected in the next version. Scott Newman presented a high level view of the effort of SQL Access Group's work. During the second session, Daisy Shen finished presenting the drafts and did a demo which was implemented according to the drafts. Both John Wagner and Hank Nussbacher volunteered to go over the current drafts and make them look more like Internet drafts. Members have set a criteria for the protocol. They are 1. Standard SQL 2. Local & remote transparency 3. Security 4. Authentication 5. Data Compression 6. Specification Completeness 7. Integrity 8. Recovery Due to the limited time during the meeting sessions, all members agreed to have discussion over the netdata mailing list. The topics are:. o Unit of work. o Security for data. o Mapping. o Pros and cons of Netdata's drafts and the SQL Access Group's work. o What's missing. o Standardize error messages. o Adapt the pros and put them together. o Any issue related to Network Database. o Join meetings between IETF and the SQL Access Group. Attendees 1 ^L John Batzer Joel Berson berson@brake.enet.dec.com Atul Garg agarg@synoptics.com Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Scott Newman newman@broke.enet.dec.com Hank Nussbacher hank@vm.tau.ac.il Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu Vincent Sgro sgro@cs.rutgers.edu Daisy Shen daisy@watson.ibm.com Henry Sinnreich hsinnreich@mcimail.com Chuck Townsend townsend@ctron.com John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu John Wagner jwagner@princeton.edu 2 ~ ~