Subject: Minutes of May CIW Meeting

From: "Richard L. Daugherty ((919) 254-6838)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 95 14:30:28 EDT

Minutes for the CIW meeting of May 5th, 1995 held in San Jose, CA.

Welcome and Administration
   Novell was welcomed as the newest CIW member!
The CIW home page URL was announced.  It is:
http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/app/aiwconf/aiwciw.htm

X/Open Status
   The X/Open CPI-C 2.0 Preliminary Specification has
been published.  It is ISBN 85912-057-1.  IBM will
review and provide a list of differences in it from the
CIW CPI-C 2.0 by the November CIW meeting.

Cancel_Conversation changes
   The proposed changes to add a CM_Cancelled return code and
to relax the requirement that the partner receive a deallocated
abend indication were accepted.  The proposal will be updated
to include additional usage notes for the Wait_For_Conversation and
Wait_For_Completion calls.

Automatic Data Conversion
   The change pages advanced to closed page status.

Accept Specific
   Advanced to CP.  An example "flow" will be added to
show how the changes relate to Specify_Local_TP_Name()

Service TP Names
   Advanced to AP.  All member companies will assess the
likeliness of existing TP Names starting with a single quote.

Return Control Types
   Advanced to CP.

Specify Local Addr/CRM/LU
   Stayed at AD - Frank Chin from Attachmate will provide
the AP proposal.

Conversation Level Callbacks
   Stayed at AD - Ron Sanders from Wall Data will provide the
AP proposal.

ATM
   Much discussion was held on how CPI-C should include access
to new networking function made available with ATM.  The
discussion focused on bandwidth reservation and modification.
Three types of application requirements were identified that
could take advantage of ATM:
1. time critical (video, database updates)
2. predictable response with data of highly variant size
   (web browsing)
3. bursty traffic (data base, file transfer)

   There was general consensus that the CIW should:
A. enhance CPI-C to allow applications with at least the
   above needs to take advantage of ATM services.
B. coordinate with the AIW ATM BOF in determining how to
   connect the application to the underlying services.
A formal liaison relationship will be pursued once both
bodies are at the stage of having actual proposals.
Till then CIW members who also attend the AIW are requested
to assist in ensuring that the CIW is kept informed of the
AIW's progress in this area.

PIP Conformance for LU 6.2
   Advanced to AP.

Conversation Groups
   Work item closed.

Recent APPC Errors
   A recent interoperatibility error dealing with APPC BIND
consistency checks was described.

Publication Plans
   The CIW agreed to a proposed plan to publish a new version
of the CPI-C specification near Year End '95.  The closed pages
review of the final draft will occur at the November CIW.
The new version of CPI-C will be called CPI-C 2.1.
It will include all work items at CP by November.  In addition,
it will include the same editorial/stylistic changes that
IBM made to the CPI-C Reference.  For example, chapter 1-3
rewrite, chapter reordering, CRM checkboxes for each call,
partial table of contents at part boundaries, and the
pseudonym files will not be printed (but will be available
via anonymous ftp on the Internet).

Wrap-up
   Status changes were approved.

   New Items -
      Directory Service Interface -
      Ron Sanders proposed a new work item to address
      directory services interfaces used by CPI-C/APPC.
      It has three main parts:
         1) connecting to a service (related to Set_Partner_ID)
         2) adding/deleting service location information
            in a directory
         3) specific usage of the directory changes being
            proposed to the AIW for registration of non-LU
            resources.
      A new work item has been opened.

      Binary compatibility - Frank Chin to make a
      proposal to the ciw-general mailing list.
      It will cover dll ordinals for the
      Windows environment.

   Next Meetings -
      November '95 - November 3rd, North Raleigh Hilton, Raleigh, NC
      Spring '96 - tbd, West Coast with the AIW.

Rich Daugherty
CIW Chair
[email-masked]