Interconnect Software Consorium Socket API Extensions Working Group.
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Meeting:
	Tuesday 6th August 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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Attendees:
	David Edmondson, Sun
	Jeremy Harris, Sun
	Vish Subramanian, HP
	Jeff Messing, IBM
	Louis Laborde, HP

Apologies:
	Juliana Hsu, IBM

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Agenda:

1. Agenda bashing.
   None.

2. Review action items.
   dme falls at the first.

3. Approve Last Minutes.
   Approved.
  
4. Open issues on requirements voting.

   A6.2: HP modified vote to N, hence the result is N.
   A6.3: Sun modified vote to N, hence the result is N.

   A discussion about the behaviour of the various cancel operations
   ensued:
	* a cancel operation will fail only if it is the act of
   	  cancelling that has failed (resource starvation, etc),
   	  rather than if any of the individual cancellation operations
   	  would fail (due to early completion).
	* Louis pointed out that there are TOE implementations that
	  don't permit buffers posted for receive to be recovered
	  (i.e. cancelled).  In this case, cancelled operations will
	  not complete until the buffer is used or the socket is
	  closed.
	* A discussion about the semantics of "cancel all outstanding
	  requests on an fd" led to the conclusion that there is not
	  clear understanding about the results of the vote in
	  sections C3.1 and C7.  dme to write up a statement of the
	  current position for confirmation by the group.

   ACTION: dme: write up a clarification of the result of the vote means.
   
   A9.6.3.1: is a 2, on the basis that A9 is a 2.

   A19.1: IBM votes N, hence the result is N.

   M5.2: Fujitsu clarification resulted in a vote of 1, hence the
   result is 1.

   O1.11: IBM votes 1, hence the result is 1.

   02: Discussion about using the event queues to implement the same
   functionality.  Jeff offered to write a sketch of the O2 API in
   otrder that the group can contrast it with using event queues.

   ACTION: Jeff: write a sketch of the O2 API.

5. Louis' API strawman proposal.

   No time !

6. AOB

   dme on holiday from 2002-08-12 through 2002-08-30.
   
   Near term schedule:
      Thursday meeting (2002-08-08): discuss the API proposal.
      Tuesday meeting  (2002-08-13): discuss the API proposal.
      
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Outstanding Actions:

2002-04-18/02 dme.
	Draft a paper describing why a unified socket/file IO API
	would be useful.

2002-08-06/01 dme.
	Produce a clarification on the results of the C3.1 and C7
	vote.

2002-08-06/02 Jeff.
	Write a sketch of the O2 API.

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Next Meeting:
	Thursday 8th August 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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