Subject: DLSw out of hibernation

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 11:11:08 PST

Fellow Data Link Switchers:

Happy new year and welcome back to the Active DLSw email process.

Our new motto:  We'd rather switch than fight!

ACTION ITEMS  -- Please vote and e-mail back to me:

1.  Of the seven SIGlets, which ones should meet at the February 
     meeting and in what order?   (Mark 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.  
     Mark NOT if you think this group should not meet in February.)

2.  We have 8 hours assigned (Wednesday afternoon and Thursday 
     morning).  Assuming a half-hour start-up and half-hour wrap-up, 
     there are seven hours to assign.  How much time do you want 
     assigned to each topic area?  

                  Order 
                (1st,2nd...
                  or NOT)        Hours
Capabilities      ______         _____   
Connect           ______         _____
Flow control      ______         _____
Loop prevention   ______         _____
MIB / NetView     ______         _____
Conformance       ______         _____
Priority/COS      ______         _____

WHAT IS THE PROCESS AND WHAT IS OUR STATUS?

We re preparing to go to Approved Direction (AD) at the February 
meeting.  This means we need all the issues and proposals on the e-
table before the meeting.  At the meeting, we will finalize all decisions 
about base/option sets and about what goes in the first release of the 
standard and what we will postpone for future work.

These decisions will be formalized and incorporated into the existing 
written standard by Alan Bartky, our illustrious Editor, before the 
June meeting.  At the June meeting, we will bicker about what we 
thought we meant when we agreed to something that sure seems 
different in the actual written draft.  We will then agree about how to 
say what we meant.  This will result in Approved Pages (AP).

If his ego survives this process, Alan Bartky will again incorporate 
changes to the standard document to create the Approved Pages 
document.  This will be distributed again before the September 
meeting.  Only editorial/typo changes will be accepted at that point and 
they must be made before the end of the September meeting.  The 
resulting document, with these minor changes, is the standard:  Closed
Pages (CP).

WHAT IS THE FORMAT FOR OUR NEXT MEETING?
We will have all Wednesday afternoon and all Thursday morning for 
our meeting.  It will overlap, I believe, with the HPR tutorial and the 
DLUR tutorial, but not with any other SIG meetings.  We do not intend 
to overlap the technical group meeings.  However, your coordinators 
are currently fighting over how many hours to give each area.  Please 
send in your vote on how to assign hours.

Regards,

Louise Herndon Wells

(Note on motto:  It has been said "never explain a joke."  However, for the
benefit those who had the luck to avoid the old Lucky Strike cigarette 
ads, their slogan of brand loyalty was "We'd rather fight than switch.")

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 19:10:42 EST

Neither I or any one else from Netrix will be able to attend the next
AIW meeting.

Thanks,
Hung.
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Hung Bui                           Internet: [email-masked]
Netrix Corporation                    Phone: +1 703 793 1016
13595 Dulles Technology Drive           Fax: +1 703 713 3805
Herndon Va 22071
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From: Bernard Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 17:03:30 EDT

Dear SIG members,

The vote of BBN for the February SIG meeting is as follows: 

>Capabilities      __3____         ___2__   
>Connect           ___1___         ___3__
>Flow control      ___2___         __2___

 VOTE! Vote on all three questions: If, How long, & When!
  
  ______ No, I want the meeting to only be standards   
         discussions, since we only have 8 hours.
  
  __X___ Yes, I want to see Proteon s presentation.

  If we do decide to have the presentation:
       Keep presentation (incl. Q&A) to: 
       ____  30 minutes
       _____  45 minutes
       __X___  60 minutes

  If we do decide to have the presentation:
       Schedule the presentation:
       __X__  at the beginning
       ____  at the end of the first half-day
       _____  at the beginning of the second half-day
       _____  at the end

Bernie Brady