std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) (10/13/88)
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POSIX System Administration Study Group Meeting
Monterey, California
November 15 - 16, 1988
This meeting will be a follow-up to our Birds-of-a-Feather
meeting in Hawaii (Tuesday evening, 7:30 p.m., Oct 25). The
meeting precedes and is in conjunction with the USENIX
Workshop on Large Installation Systems Administration, in
Monterey, California, November 17-18, 1988.
EVENT_SCHEDULE
The schedules for Tuesday and Wednesday, November 15 - 16,
are the same.
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon - Discussions
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Discussions
REGISTRATION_INFORMATION
Registration will be in the appointed conference room at the
hotel between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. November 15. You are
encouraged to pay by cash (U. S. Dollars Only), credit cards
will not be accepted.
REGISTRATION FEE . . . . $50.00
HOTEL_INFORMATION
The POSIX System Administration Study Group Meeting will be
held at:
Doubletree Hotel -- at Fisherman's Wharf
Two Portola Plaza
Monterey, CA 93940
Telephone (408) 649-4511
TO MAKE YOUR RESERVATION . . . Call the Hotel directly and
ask for the Reservations Desk. Tell reservations that you
are attending the POSIX System Administration Study Group
Meeting being held in conjunction with the USENIX Conference
in order to take advantage of the group rate. You may
guarantee your late arrival with a major credit card.
IMPORTANT: Hotel deadline for making your reservations is
October 24, 1988. Reservation requests after that date will
be accepted on a space available basis. In case the hotel
is full, attendees will be referred to another hotel within
walking distance.
RATE:
$85.00/night - single or double occupancy, for reserved
block of rooms through Oct 24
$95.00/night - corporate rate after Oct 24 or when reserved
block of rooms is exhausted
$105 - $160/night, otherwise
prices plus 10% state & local tax for all prices.
For further information, please contact:
David Hinnant
BNR
P.O. Box 13478
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Telephone (919) 991-8299
FAX (919) 991-7001
October 12, 1988
Proposed Agendas
In Hawaii we will identify potential chapters and bullet
lists of items to consider in each chapter. We will then
attempt to identify those things where there is greatest
consensus and where we can be productive soon. We will look
to defining a portion of work we can accomplish within 2 to
3 years.
In Monterey, we will finish up things left open from Hawaii.
We will move on to create a skeleton document containing
chapter headings and summary descriptions of the
requirements we expect each chapter to meet. We could move
on to consider what features we think would satisfy the
requirements we define. I envision that these discussions
might touch on features from common existing practice.
In Fort Lauderdale; Jan 9 - 13, 1989; we will finish up
things left open from Monterey. By that time we would have
all received a copy of the skeleton document. Proposals for
specific features to satisfy each chapters' requirements
could be presented. I would encourage a continuing
discussion of features from existing practice but proposals
on facilities of any sort germane to identified requirements
would be welcome. I envision that some of the proposals
would address unifying disparate features from existing
practice. A very simple example of this would be a
"setdate" command to provide a standard interface to
existing "date" commands used to set system time.
In Minneapolis/St. Paul; April 24 - 28, 1989; we will finish
up things left open from Fort Lauderdale. I envision that
some proposals at this stage might be for feature interfaces
that are not widely accepted as being common existing
practice. They might include solutions to questions such as
run state management, unified print management, accounting
data collection, performance data collection and system
installation utilities. This is all aiming towards a mock
ballot by April 1990.
I encourage people to bring lap top computers with printers.
Proposals or special wording can be created at the meeting,
then distributed at the meeting thereby condensing turn
around time on reviews and improving the consensus process.
Thank-you,
Steve Carter
Convener, POSIX System Administration
Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 16