DCE Agenda
Seattle : March 1997

Plenary

DCE Plenary : Monday a.m.

1. DCE RFC Voting results

The members have voted on the priorities for future DCE work, and a tally of the results will be available at the Seattle meeting. Discussion to follow.

2. ActiveX Core Technologies and DCE Integration (ACD) Project: Dick Mackey

Dick Mackey will provide an update of the ACD project, including a description of the two deliverables scheduled for 1997.

Working Group Detailed Agendas

Object Oriented : Monday p.m.

DCE Objects Task Group

As part of the 17-18 March 1997 DCE Program Group meeting in Seattle, the DCE objects working group will meet on the the agenda:March. Here is afternoon of 17

• Kevin Tyson (Enterprise Engineering Assoc), DCE/CORBA Interworking RFP
  This RFP is available at ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/d ocs/orbos/97-02-03.pdf (172KB) and ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/do cs/orbos/97-02-03.ps (723KB).
• Anne Aldous (IBM), CORBA/DCE Interoperability PST
• Andrew Condon (IONA), Orbix and DCE
• Discussion on ActiveX Core Technologies/DCE (ACD) Project
• Discussion on working group charter (see DCE Objects Task Group Charter).

The three presentations will last about an hour (depends on discussion level); the ACD and charter discussions should last another hour (maybe less).

Dave Skeen
LEXIS-NEXIS
9443 Springboro Pike
Miamisburg, OH 45342
mailto:dls@lexis-nexis.com
(937)865-6800 ext 2895

DFS Task Group : Monday p.m.

1:30-1:45
Decorum Update (Laura Stentz, Transarc)
(includes DFS Client for Windows NT 4.0 and DFS Web Secure announcements)

1:45-2:00
DFS Platform Coverage - Update (Laura Stentz, Transarc)

2:00-2:30
HP's Enterprise File System (Chris Doehlert, Hewlett-Packard)

2:30-2:45
SGI's DFS Implementation (Lynne Johnson or Brian Gaffey, Cray/SGI)

2:45-3:15
DFS Manager Demo - Administration for DFS and DCE (Stan Henderson, Chisholm Technologies)

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:00
DFS Backup - ADSM Implementation (Shyh-Wei Luan, IBM)

4:00-4:30
Deployment of DFS and DCE at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, ESNet and EMSL Update (Troy Thompson, PNNL)

4:30-5:00
Distribution of DFS RFC, Election of new subgroup chair, Wrap-up (Laura Stentz, Mark Sherman)

Performance/Management : Tuesday a.m.

1. Review of November Task Group meeting minutes
2. Discussion of existing performance suites
3. Status of synchronization of performance suites between (short list) of target vendors and users
4. Discussion of next steps for performance efforts
5. Discussion of existing management efforts - interfaces, tools, etc.
6. Discussion of next steps for management efforts

Both performance and management efforts will encourage adoption of Open Group RFC's, proposals, etc., and adoption by the Open Group of nascent efforts in the vendor and user community not yet addressed in those efforts.

Ben Lunzer
Pinnacle Alliance
J P Morgan
60 Wall Street
New York, NY 10260
212-235-0821
lunzer_ben@jpmorgan.com

Naming : Tuesday all day

1. Review of November Task Group meeting minutes
2. Discussion of Naming PST's in progress
   a. LDAP & GDA
   b. LDAP & NSI
3. Discussion of next steps
   a. What other projects need to be initiated to satisfy the priorities set at the November meeting?
   b. Publication of RFC's on LDAP Directory items
   c. Implications for DCE Security and PKI with reference to RFC 98
4. Other related issues

Bill Estrem

DCE Business : Tuesday p.m.

• Review of next steps from Nov. 4/5 meeting 45 minutes
  • Break 15 minutes
• Introduction to 1st Topic 10 minutes
• Review of Objectives 5 minutes
• Background 15 minutes
• Brainstorming 45 minutes
• Next Steps 15 minutes
  • Break 15 minutes
• Introduction to 2nd Topic 10 minutes
• Review of Objectives 5 minutes
• Background 15 minutes
• Brainstorming 45 minutes
• Next Steps 15 minutes
• Review of Parking Lot Items 15 minutes
  • Adjourn

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