MW-E2ED Conference Call
June 4, 2008

**Attending**
Chas DiFatta, Carnegie Mellon University (chair)
Michael Gettes, MIT
Steve Olshansky, Internet2

The group reviewed the manual page for eddygrep, distributed prior to the
meeting. There were a number of minor changes that Chas documented along the
way.

Here is the description of eddygrep:

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Eddygrep searches for tags and their related values of EDDY CER records. It is
implied that the input will be EDDY CERs (Common Event Record) but command line
options allow for other types of EDDY formats. The output is any CER
that matches the given tag=value pairs of a CER. Each tag=value pattern will be
independently applied to the subsequent pattern on the command line.
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Chas mentioned that there are some open source programs that may accomplish some
of the same things that some of the eddygrep options. One or more of those may
be incorporated into eddygrep.

Some of the main functionalities of eddygrep is to output each EDDY event as one
CER per line, formatted in comma-delimited form. EDDY also has a storage
function that compresses the CERs by a factor of 90 percent. An eddygrep
function would allow the searching of these compressed CERs by year, month,
date, hour and minute that the event occurred.

Chas noted that version 2 of EDDY will feature dynamic CERs, which will be
smaller and not require compression for storage.