DCE Program Meeting Agenda

San Diego, California
Wednesday and Thursday, 29-30 April 1998

Updated: 23 April 1998

Wednesday 29 April 1998
The Strategic Position of DCE

Time

Session

Speaker or Chair

08:30 - 09:00

Welcome & DCE Strategic Direction

Eliot Solomon
DCE Program Chair

09:00 - 09:30

Program Status and Reports

  • "Jade II"
    Dave Lounsbury, The Open Group
  • Vertical Industry alliances
    SIMC - Gerry Gebel, Chase Manhattan Bank
    US National Labs - Barry Howard, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  • DCE Customer Forum & Vendor Forum
    Deborah May, The Open Group

Sally Long
DCE Program Manager

09:30 - 10:00

DCE and the IT DialTone Initiative

  • Report from the Architecture Board
  • The proposal for DCE as a strategic program

Eliot Solomon

10:00 - 10:30

Problem Handling: Progress to Date
Update on efforts to develop a central trouble tracking mechanism

Sally Long and
Randall Burris
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:30 - 11:00

Break

 

11:00 - 12:30

Moderated Discussion
The strategic direction for DCE
Priorities for DCE II

  • Small-group discussion
  • Whole-group review

Jodi Smith-Bennett and
Alexandra Martin

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 - 14:30

Research Institute

  • How the Research Institute can aid the projects of DCE users
  • Work at the Research Institute in support of the DCE Program

Paul Dale

14:30 - 15:00

 

 

15:00 - 15:40

Vendor Presentations

  • Digital - K. V. Sastry
    Digital Product Update
  • IBM - Jamil Bissar
    IBM DCE Update

Deborah May
DCE Project Manager

15:40 - 16:10

Break

 

16:10 - 17:00

Vendor Presentations

  • Dascom - Neil Readshaw
    Dascom's work with Jade - A Case Study
  • Gradient - Brian Breton
    Gradient Product Update
 

17:00 - 17:30

Intercell interworking:
Intercell Extension of Trust

  • Business Requirements
    Report from the DCE Forum
  • Proposed models for cross-cell trust
    Report from the DCE Forum

Guest Moderator

17:30 - 18.00

Wrap-up

  • Review results of facilitated discussion
  • New business

Eliot Solomon

 

Thursday 30 April 1998
Cell break! inter-cell, inter-realm, inter-enterprise

08:30 - 10:30

Inter-cell Interworking:
Directory and locator services

  • Jeff Hodges, Stanford University
  • Ed Reed, Novell
  • Ron Williams, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
  • Joyce Etheridge, Microsoft
  • Ellen Stokes, IBM

Ellen Stokes
IBM Corp,
Moderator

10:30 - 10:45

Break

 

10:45 - 11:45

Inter-cell Interworking:
Directory and locator services

  • Roundtable with Audience Participation (Discussions and Q&A)


11:45 - 12:30

Intercell Interworking
Inter- and multi-cell Administration

  • Multi-cell Admin Tools
  • Inter-cell authorization
  • Steve Bergeron, Dascom

Jay Thompson
Unixpros,
Moderator

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:45

Intercell Interworking
Boundary Protections and DCE

  • Peter Dinsmore
    Trusted Information Systems

    "Firewall Technology, DCE Intercell Communication, Possible Solutions"
  • Piers McMahon, The Open Group
    "How PKI can help address issues with Intercell Security"

Marcus Ranum
Network Flight Recorder,
Moderator

15:45 - 16:00

Break

 

16:00 - 17:30

Joint DCE-Security Session

  • DCE - PKI Integration
  • Securities Industry Middleware Council (SIMC)

Dave Hemsath,
IBM

17:30 - 18:00

Wrap up

 

 

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