Discussion

Survey

The survey effort is progressing. Netlogger had potential for collaboration and Chas will talk to Brian. Progress will be tabulated on the private section of of the site.

Scope

Those on the last call agreed on what the scope should be defined as phase 1 of the pilot. Members of the group were asked to review the scope document on the site, as well as to identify people to jump-start the effort. One strategy would be to take solicit funding to tackle the problem from an area where the need is great. I.e. security or network management performance.

The group also agreed on the need to get requirements from middleware people in the trenches. Russ suggested what we take a scenario, work it into the architecture by hands. This would help to ask the question if the initial event record format will be sufficient?

Steve suggested to go for the points of pain. Chas has seen over the last few months that that the middleware folks are in the midst of success and it is hard to get them to contribute because of their workload. It was mentioned that there is an up-swelling of interest from the security community. The community order of interest is security, networking, middleware thus far.

As an action item Chas will send e-mail to Steven and Scott and try to address some of these issues regarding participation from the middleware groups. Mark would like to hear the approach that they'd like some help from. If it's the low-level, that's fine. Mark will also talk to Ken, but it may be good to let Shib cook.

Is there any interest in the directory area or from the people in Wisconsin? Russ asked what's happening with join techs since the performance meeting, especially in terms of Eric Boyd's architecture.

Question for the group, how do we engage more of the community? Nate suggested to mock-up the features and functions. Russ thought a mock-up would take a number of the ideas to the next stage for a more indepth and to clarify some ideas.