Subject: Validation BOF notes

From: "Timothy H. Comstock (8-444-4387)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 18:08:21 EDT

Attached are the notes taken from the foils I scribed at today's BOF session.
Please send any comments, corrections, or additions to THIS mail exploder
so that all may see them. I hope to see an ACTIVE forum so that we may
effectively put together a proposal for the NEXT AIW gethering in February 94.

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APPN Implemententers Workshop                     Sheraton Imperial RTP, NC
Notes from AIW Validation BOF                     9/29/93 12:15-1:30 pm

Current APPN Test Specification - Network Node only, and "one-liners"

Document
________
         - minimum to pass

         - base

         - option sets (in a different title or section)

         - flows ?

         - deviations ? (tracked by product)

         - architecture updates (timely)

           .. via INTERNET mail exploder <mailing list - aiw-appn-reference>

           .. architecture reference

           .. formats manual

         - INTEROPERABILITY

           .. with IBM products

           .. with OEM products

           * configuration-related problems ? is this a SIG goal ?

           .. duration of an "interoperability hot-stage" or "connect-a-thon"

GOALS
_____
         - STRUCTURE of how to run tests

         - CRITERIA

         - DYNAMICS

         - WHAT to test with (i.e. VTAM, not OS/2)

           .. (member opportunity - available equipment)

           .. both 2.0 and 2.1 nodes

           .. rigorous and non-rigorous operation

DELIVERABLES?  (and SCHEDULES)
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          +----------+        +----------+        +----------+
          |          |        |          |        |          |
          |          |------->| document |------->| document |
          |          |        | criteria |        | criteria |
          +----------+        +----------+        +----------+

          CONNECTIVITY        CONFORMANCE        INTEROPERABLITY

          <really part of     Burt Gearhart (ACT) Erika Lewis (IBM)
           interoperabllity>  <advocate>          <advocate>
                                       assist in forum

                              < --- possible "siglets" ----- >

TO DO:
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Refine - goals and schedules
Request - SIG status from AIW

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Respectfully Submitted

Tim Comstock
[email-masked]
(919) 254-4387

9/29/93