Interconnect Software Consorium Socket API Extensions Working Group.
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Meeting:
	Tuesday 8th October 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
	Jeff Messing, IBM
	Vish Subramanian, HP
	Louis Laborde, HP
	John Kasperski, IBM
	Annie Foong, Intel

	Satya Sharma, IBM
	Juliana Hsu, IBM

Apologies:
	Masanori Itoh, Fujitsu

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Agenda:

1. Agenda bashing.
   schedule discussion.
   sendfile/recvfile file descriptor discussion.
   API 0.3.

2. Review action items.
   See below.

3. Approve Last Minutes.
   Last two sets approved.

4. Schedule:
   * 17th October to agree the requirements spec to the steering
     committee.
   * 7th November draft API to the steering committee.

   Introduction:

   dme: sendfile, introduction
   vish: event queues
   Jeff: memory registration, async IO

   dme todo list.

5. sendfile/recvfile file descriptor discussion.
   fd indicates event queue.

6. API 0.3.

   Questions from Louis' recent 0.3 API:

 *  - should we keep only the common stuff outside the union in exs_event_t ?
 *    In which case, only evt_type should remain since, for example,
      evt_status is not applicable to poll events.

      Jeremy, Jeff: should remain common.
      Vish: not strong opinion.  {type, status} outside.

      A discussion about the use of a union followed.  There was no
      clear consensus, so we should discuss on the mailing list.

   Ran out of time.

   * correlator in the exs_event.
     qmodify() correlator valid for poll and connin.

   

7. AOB

Future Topics:

       * Continue API 0.3 review.
       * sendfile/recvfile file descriptors discussion.

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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.

	Kick David.

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

	Pending clarification of the event queue <-> socket binding
	scope.

2002-09-26/02 Louis.
	Draft an update to the API to separate the sendfile and
	recvfile cases.

	Done.

2002-10-01/01 dme.
	Produce a list of 'todo' items for the requirements
	specification.

2002-10-01/02 dme.
	Update the requirements specification to conform with recent
	agreements.

2002-10-01/03 Louis.
	Update the draft API in line with recent discussions.

	Done.

2002-10-03/01 dme.
	Shared memory flag: add to the requirements specification and
	draft API.

2002-10-03/02 dme.
	Sendfile/recvfile: draft an update to the requirements
	specification to include the opinion at the meeting.

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Next Meeting:
	Thursday 3rd October 2002
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		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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