Interconnect Software Consorium Socket API Extensions Working Group.
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Meeting:
	Thursday 18th April 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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	Conference ID:                    3378790

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Attendees:

	David Edmondson, Sun
	Jeremy Harris, Sun
	Vish Subramanian, HP
	Jeff Messing, IBM
	Annie Foong, Intel
	Bob Tiesberg, Compaq
	Masanori Itoh, Fujitsu
	Juliana Hsu, IBM
	John Kasperski, IBM
	Satya Sharma, IBM
	Louis Laborde, HP
	Jack McCann, Compaq
	Carl Hensler, Sun

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Agenda:

1. Agenda bashing.
   None.

2. Comments on status report for the Steering Committee (dme).

   Satya suggested that things that have been discussed and
   deliberately removed from the scope of the group should be noted.

   SCTP extensions were brought up as something that should probably
   be incorporated.  dme will act as editor for a fourth requirements
   section that will cover API expansion not covered by the other
   three areas.  Current this comprises:
	 * SCTP extensions,
	 * sendfile,
	 * explicit RDMA operations.

3. Report from Steering Committee meeting of 2002-04-17 (Satya).

   Satya used the proposed status report to report at the steering
   committee meeting.  Expanding scope to discuss file IO was
   discussed.  SC was interested, the working group is asked to
   produce a white paper to describe the issues.

	   - why POSIX async io is not appropriate for network
	     applications,
	   - why a unified network/file IO API would be useful.

	   ACTION Satya: take Vish's issue list and draft something
		  for part 1.
	   ACTION dme: draft something for part 2.

   Completion notification requirement is shared with Transport API
   working group.  The Transport group is referring to DAT (DAPL)
   requirements, which indicate that there should be a unified
   mechanism for all notifications (i.e. not just for the specific
   API).  The SC recommended, and the two working groups agreed, that
   they should meet sometime soon after May 3rd, when the respective
   requirements documents should be nearing completion.

   The SC confirmed dme and Satya as chairs for this working group.

4. Walk through Jeff's Memory Management document (Jeff).

   See mail thread for details of the conversation that took place
   during this section.

5. AOB.

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Outstanding Actions:

2002-04-18/01 Satya.
	Draft a paper describing why the existing POSIX async IO API
	is not suitable for use with sockets.

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

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Next Meeting:
	Thursday 25th April 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

	Toll Free (US & Canada):          1-888-742-8686
	International:                    +1-303-928-2600
	Conference ID:                    3378790

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Contact Details:
	email:	icsc-socketwg@opengroup.org
	web:	http://www.opengroup.org/icsc/member/sockets/