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DSM Program Group Meeting

The DSM Program Group will meet on Wednesday and Thursday 28 and 29 April 1998. While this is not a closed meeting it is a working meeting of the group to review progress and status of projects and to plan future projects.

In addition to the review of current projects we will try to provide an overall technology status review of the subject of Service Management with the objective of determining if there is sufficient commonality today that there is any interesting in starting an interest group to define the requirements for possible standards in this area. This is not the first time we have discussed this subject but our objective this time is more specific, to decide if we can DSM can contribute anything within the next year.

The agenda for this meeting is as follows:

Wednesday 28 April 1999

0830 Introduction and review of tasks / Agenda

0900 Update on work of Other Groups involved in Management This will be reports back from representatives of other groups such as DMTF, IETF, SLP, etc.

1000 Service Management - Introduction

1030 Coffee Break

1100 Presentations by the major players in service management today.
The presenters we expect to present include:

HP / Prolin
SYSTAR
The Boeing Company
DMTF SLA Work Group

1230 Lunch

1400 Presentations by the major players in service management today. Continued

1500 Discussion and decisions Here is where we will have to make a decision on the whether the Program Group wants to continue to pursue Service management. If there is sufficient interest, we propose to start a specific Interest Group to develop that interest to a more specific definition of requirements that could lead to standards, etc.
Be prepared to discuss this if you or your company are interested in pursuing this subject in the Program Group.

1530 Coffee Break

1600 Presentation of the Service Location Protocol Standard - Erik Guttman, Sun Microsystems, Chair of the IETF SLP Working Group The Program Group is interested in this technology for two reasons

It will probably have a future impact on Management

We will probably be using it as part of the UMIA standard.

Thursday 29 April 1999

0830 Work group discussions Presentation of the current DSM projects and planning of the directions and support we can give these projects. These projects today include:
JIDM
XSLM
UMIA
Unix CIM development
ARM (just being formed)

Each Group will be expected to give a presentation of:

Goals
Status
Plans
Problems for the project.

1030 Coffee Break

1100 Application Monitoring Interface This session will present an application monitoring technology, complementary to the ARM standard, which is being prepared for a potential Fast-Track submission.

1230 Lunch

1400 Management and
Architecture
Carl Bunje agreed to help us develop a TOGAF approach to management. This will be the discussion of that work.

1530 Coffee Break

1600 Management and
Architecture
Continued

1700 Discussion of new subjects and projects We intend to continue the discussions we started in January 1999 in Santa Clara to establish a more complete future plan.

Last Update: 21 April, 1999
Program Manager: Martin Kirk

Wednesday 28 April 1999
0830	Introduction and review of tasks / Agenda
0900	Update on work of Other Groups involved in Management	This will be reports back from representatives of other groups such as DMTF, IETF, SLP, etc.
1000	Service Management - Introduction
1030 Coffee Break
1100	Presentations by the major players in service management today.	The presenters we expect to present include: HP / Prolin SYSTAR The Boeing Company DMTF SLA Work Group
1230 Lunch
1400	Presentations by the major players in service management today.	Continued
1500	Discussion and decisions	Here is where we will have to make a decision on the whether the Program Group wants to continue to pursue Service management. If there is sufficient interest, we propose to start a specific Interest Group to develop that interest to a more specific definition of requirements that could lead to standards, etc. Be prepared to discuss this if you or your company are interested in pursuing this subject in the Program Group.
1530 Coffee Break
1600	Presentation of the Service Location Protocol Standard - Erik Guttman, Sun Microsystems, Chair of the IETF SLP Working Group	The Program Group is interested in this technology for two reasons It will probably have a future impact on Management We will probably be using it as part of the UMIA standard.

Thursday 29 April 1999
0830	Work group discussions	Presentation of the current DSM projects and planning of the directions and support we can give these projects. These projects today include: JIDM XSLM UMIA Unix CIM development ARM (just being formed) Each Group will be expected to give a presentation of: Goals Status Plans Problems for the project.
1030 Coffee Break
1100	Application Monitoring Interface	This session will present an application monitoring technology, complementary to the ARM standard, which is being prepared for a potential Fast-Track submission.
1230 Lunch
1400	Management and Architecture	Carl Bunje agreed to help us develop a TOGAF approach to management. This will be the discussion of that work.
1530 Coffee Break
1600	Management and Architecture	Continued
1700	Discussion of new subjects and projects	We intend to continue the discussions we started in January 1999 in Santa Clara to establish a more complete future plan.