Interconnect Software Consorium Socket API Extensions Working Group.
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Meeting:
	Thursday 27th June 2002
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Attendees: (thanks Jeremy)
	Jeremy Harris, Sun
	Vish Subramanian, HP
	Jeff Messing, IBM
	Juliana Hsu, IBM
	John Kasperski, IBM
	Louis Laborde, HP
	Masanori Itoh, Fujitsu
	David Edmondson, Sun
	Satya Sharma, IBM

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Agenda:

1. Agenda bashing.
   See below.

2. Review action items.
   dme fails on the first.

3. fork().

   The two tables sent out were discussed.

   The first table was considered inadequate, as there were many other
   options and approaches not indicated.

   The second table covers the key issues which need determining in
   the requirements phase.

   Action: dme to add text to the requirements allowing the group to
   vote between the high-level distinctions in table 2.

   The group agreed to leave the detailed decisions (for example,
   which sub-option of options 2 and 3 from Vish's document) to
   later.

4. Approve the requirements document for working group voting.

   Action: dme to add a section on the improved poll() interface.

   With the exception of fork() and poll(), the group agreed that the
   document was ready for voting.

   Action: dme to prepare the voting paperwork and send out.
   
5. Discuss the input from ITWG on event queues, etc.

   Action: Vish to prepare a draft response to the ITWG points.

   It was noted that many of the ITWG concerns surround items which
   are still votable in the SWG requirements document.

   Louis pointed out that callbacks is one key area where the two
   groups differ.  Jeremy had previously asked the group if there was
   interest in an upcall mechanism, but no-one responded.

   The group agreed to leave upcalls out of the document.

6. Formulate a response to the ITWG, including the need for a joint
   meeting to discuss the issues.
   See above.

7. How will we produce the API.

   Louis will send out a strawman proposal based on some work that he
   has been doing.

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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.

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Next Meeting:
	Tuesday 9th July 2002
	20:00GMT (21:00BST, 04:00p EDT, 03:00p CDT, 01:00p PDT,
		 22:00CEST, 05:00JST+) 

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