Interconnect Software Consorium Socket API Extensions Working Group.
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Meeting:
	Thursday 16th May 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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Attendees:
	Jeremy Harris, Sun
	Vish Subramanian, HP
	Juliana Hsu, IBM
	David Edmondson, Sun
	Masanori Itoh, Fujitsu
	Satya Sharma, IBM
	Jeff Messing, IBM
	Bob Tiesberg, HP
	Louis Laborde, HP
	John Kasperski, IBM

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Agenda:

1. Agenda bashing.
   No.

2. Review action items.
   dme fails.

3. Clarify ordering requirements (A8).  (Vish)

   For sending data, the group determined that the API would guarantee
   "delivery to the transport" in the order that the API calls were
   made.  The behaviour of the transport is both transport and
   implementation dependent.

   For receiving data, the group determined that the API would
   guarantee that for SOCK_STREAM sockets, the data would be delivered
   in the order in which it was sent.  For SOCK_DGRAM sockets, no
   delivery order is defined.

   When considering the order in which posted buffers are filled, the
   group determined to write a statement indicating that buffers would
   be filled in posted order.

   It should be noted that there was not unanimous agreement on all of
   these issues, in particular the order in which buffers posted for
   receive are filled.

   John raised concerns that we have not specified the interaction of
   interleaved asynchronous and synchronous send operations when
   applied to the same socket.  This will be discussed at a future
   meeting.
   ACTION: John to send out a strawman proposal.

4. Concerns about event queue inheritance.  (Louis)
   No time.

5. Making minutes "public".  (dme)
   No time.  Will cover this in the mailing list.

6. Review work schedule.  (dme)
   No time.  Will cover this in the mailing list.

7. AOB.

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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.

2002-04-25/01 dme.
	Send out voting instructions for Vish's requirements document.

2002-05-20/01 John.
	Send a strawman proposal for async/sync interleave to the
	mailing list.

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Next Meeting:
	Tuesday 21st May 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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