Subject: AIW4 Minutes

From: "Lee M. Rafalow 919 254-4455, tl 444/4455" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 08:10:05 EDT

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* February AIW minutes

  The fourth APPN Implementers Workshop was held at the Pan Pacific
  Hotel in Anaheim, California on February 16-18, 1994.  39 companies
  were represented at the AIW with over 110 attendees.

  Lee Rafalow opened the meeting reminding attendees that all companies
  wishing to actively participate in the AIW must have signed a
  membership agreement prior to the next AIW meeting in June.

  Rick McGee, Director of Network Systems Architecture at IBM, began by
  sharing his views of the progress made in the AIW, vendor
  participation, APPN implementations and discussed customers' needs
  for APPN and their satisfaction with it.

  Two speakers from the Royal Bank of Canada, Dave Mayhew and Ulrica
  Tam, discussed Royal Bank's computing background and their strategy
  for moving to APPN.  They described the benefits realized from the
  move to APPN, and discussed requirements for APPN in a multivendor
  environment.

  Don Banks presented a technical overview of Tandem's fault-tolerant
  architecture, and how fault-tolerance influences implementation
  of the APPN architecture.  Don also moderated a "birds of a feather"
  session on this subject.

  Tim Huntley presented "3270 Support in an APPN Network", in which he
  compared and contrasted DLUR and APPC3270, and explored scenarios
  under which each might be used.  Dave Bryant presented a tutorial
  on APPN, Marcia Peters gave an HPR tutorial, and Ed Tremblay
  presented an introduction to the DLUR architecture.  Uttam Deedwania
  gave an overview of the NETDA/2 network design tool, and discussed
  how it can aid in Subarea-to-APPN migration.

  The Data Link Switching Related Interest Group met. Activities
  ranged from design discussions to a presentation of Proteon's DLSw
  implementation.  Minutes should be available, soon, on the
  aiw-dlsw mail exploder.

  On the second day, Tim Huntley moderated the APPN Validation BOF,
  where planning was done for the next APPN "connectathon".  During the
  BOF, Burt Gearhart discussed the Base & Option Set Matrix, and
  described updates to the SDTF test suite.  An APPN Validation BOF
  meeting summary has been sent to the aiw-validation mail
  exploder.

  Louise Herndon Wells presented "APPN: Who's Doing What?", in which
  she reported on interviews with more than 50 current and future
  participants in the APPN market.

  Mike Allen moderated the Network Management RIG, which addressed
  several APPN Network Management topics.  Ralph Case chaired the
  APPN Architecture Reference SIG, at which 14 architectural items
  were discussed and procedures reviewed.  A Network Management RIG
  meeting summary has been sent to the aiw-snasnmp mail exploder.
  A meeting summary for the APPN Architecture Reference SIG has been
  sent to the aiw-appn-reference mail exploder.

  Evening sessions on day 2 included the SNA-ASYNC BOF and the DLUS
  BOF. The DLUS BOF met to discuss vendors' requirements for Dependent
  Logical Unit Server and/or related function.

  On the third day, Marcia Peters chaired the HPR SIG and Ed Tremblay
  chaired the DLUR SIG.  These working sessions focused on answering
  questions from the audience, and advancing their respective
  architectures.  A meeting summary for the HPR SIG has been sent
  to the aiw-appnhpr mail exploder, and a summary for the DLUR SIG
  has been sent to the aiw-dlur mail exploder.

  The meeting concluded with SIG/BOF reports and a wrap-up session.

Lee Rafalow & Tom Moore