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- Editor's Note: Minutes received 8/3
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Jim Quigley/Hewlett-Packard
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- Minutes of the XWindows over OSI and Skinny Stack BOF (THINOSI)
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- Jim Quigley of Hewlett-Packard gave an hour plus presentation on the OSI
- Basic Communication aspects of OSI, aka ``skinny stack.'' Quigley also
- discussed the University of London's prototype of X over an OSI ``skinny
- stack'' (Xosi) including performance data. Xosi is part of the ANSI
- standard for X that is also included in the U.S. IGOS (Industry and
- Government Open System -- formerly GOSIP) requirements.
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- The group attending the BOF generally accepted Quigley's premise that
- most [if not all] potential OSI applications only have the basic
- communication requirements of connect/disconnect and send/receive. Such
- applications only require an OSI ``skinny stack'' such as that defined
- for Xosi. Besides the specification of OSI skinny stacks, the critical
- need is the specification of OSI 7-layer ``skinny'' APIs.
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- The Group agreed that Peter Furniss and Steve Hardcastle-Kille should be
- requested to do a Simple OSI Stack (SOS) versus OSI skinny stack
- comparison. The results would be published to the Skinny Stack BOF
- mailing list.
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- The consensus of the Group was to pursue the formation of a working
- group for the specification of APIs for an OSI skinny stack.
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- Jim Quigley was instructed to ask OSI Area Directors Dave Piscitello and
- Eric Huizer how to start such a working group on XTI and SOCKETS APIs
- for an OSI skinny stack.
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- It was agreed that Jim Quigley should get on the next IETF: technical
- presentation to discuss the requirements and potential of OSI skinny
- stacks and APIs.
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- Attendees
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- Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- C. Allan Cargille cargille@cs.wisc.edu
- Cyrus Chow cchow@orion.arc.nasa.gov
- Richard Colella colella@osi.ncsl.nist.gov
- Richard desJardins desjardi@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org
- Kevin Jordan kej@udev.cdc.com
- Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
- James Quigley Jim_Quigley%YD@hp6600.desk.hp.com
- David Reiser dsr@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com
- William Warner warner@ohio.gov
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