CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Daisy Shen/IBM NetData Minutes This was the second meeting of the Working Group Chaired by Daisy Shen. The meeting Agenda is shown below: o Review the Charter. o Give the History of the SQL Access Group. o Presentation of the Draft. o Discussion of the Draft and Problems That are Related to the Subject. o Discussion of the Effort of Other Vendors and OSF Related to the Subject. o Future Work. Reviewed the Charter All the members felt that we met the Charter and the Milestones on schedule as of June 1991. History of the SQL Access Group All the members agreed that the SQL Access group doesn't seem to be willing to work with us. The SQL Access group gave us a two-page document which is useless. Although, our group and the SQL Access group seem to have some similar interests, we are solving the problem via TCP/IP while they use the ISO standard. Actually those two have different goals. Presentation and Discussion of the Draft and Related Problems The first draft was presented for those who had not read it or had questions. There were some issues discussed and solved. o SQL statements The protocol works with both SQL static and dynamic statements. o Transport means Our protocol will apply to both TCP and UDP. It is one of the parameters that users have to specify. The default value is TCP. o Data conversion The header information along with data will be treated as a string by RPC/XDR and the protocol will use ASN format which is an IOS standard to represent the reply data. 1 o Security Kerberos is not required. Users can have options to use or not to use Kerberos. For those machines who don't have Kerberos, the protocol will provide security which relies on uid and gid. Authentication will be done on the RPC level. o RPC Before there is a standard RPC, the protocol will work with all versions of RPC. However, all members of NETDATA believe that we should start an RPC Working Group standardizing RPC, especially a secured RPC. The Network Management Operational Statistics Working Group had some discussion on database issues. We should let them know that our group is working on the problem. It would be nice if they could tell us their requirements. Perhaps, we can help them solve their problem. Discussion of the Effort of Other Vendors and OSF Related to the Subject We could not find any more information on the effort of other vendors and OSF. We will continue to search. Future Work o Update the first draft and make it a protocol only. o Create a new draft for the structure and implementation issues. o Get a better understanding on ASN.1. o Get more familiar with ISO standard. o Look into SQL statement's additional negotiation options. o Look into starting an RPC Working Group. o Connect the Network Management Operational Statistics Working Group. o Find volunteers to do the second version of the implementation. Attendees Chi Chu chi@sparta.com John Cook cook@chipcom.com Bill Fardy fardy@ctron.com Shari Galitzer shari@gateway.mitre.org Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Mike Janson mjanson@mot.com Vincent Lau vincent.lau@eng.sun.com Louis Leon osll@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu Leo McLaughlin ljm@wco.ftp.com Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu Geir Pedersen geir.pedersen@use.uio.no Daisy Shen daisy@watson.ibm.com Erik Sherk sherk@nmc.cit.cornell.edu Anil Singhal 2 David Waitzman djw@bbn.com 3