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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 15:12:44 EST
From: (Mike Rubinfeld) <miker@mml.ncsl.nist.gov>
Message-Id: <54766.miker@mml.ncsl.nist.gov>
To: rab@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: IEEE CD-ROM Architecture Working Group Meeting Minutes

As they say - better late than never.  Hopefully, if I can do this properly
is the minutes from our first CDARCH Working Group Meeting.  If you have
any questions or points of clarification, please respond ASAP - I will be
on my way to Boulder tomorrow morning.  However, before I go, I will be 
sending the Agenda for the meeting in another E-mail message.  Hope to see
you all in Boulder.


Attachment follows:
                             Minutes for the
         First Session of the CD-ROM Architecture Working Group
                                 CDARCH

Date of Meeting:      August 18-19, 1992
Place of Meeting:     National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
                      Boulder, Colorado

The following individuals attended this meeting:

       Mike Rubinfeld, NIST
       Bonnie Sargent, Consultant
       George Allen, PC Plus
       Jim Moriarity, US Patent Office
       Karen Kaye, NASA
       Denise Debrucq, Scabbard Corporation
       Hank Meyer, Nissei Sanyo
       Steve Law, DoD - Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
       G.A. Redding, Contractor for the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA)
       Tony Lavender, Dataware, Inc.
       Friedolf Smits, Consultant to the IEEE
       Bob Snead, Eastman Kodak
       Scott Elliott, student at the University of Washington

1.     A plenary session was held by the parent Standards Committee on Optical Disks and
       Multimedia Platforms (SCODMP)

2.     Nominations were placed for the positions of Working Group Chair and Working Group
       Recording Secretary.  Votes were then taken with the following results:

3..    Mr. Mike Rubinfeld was elected as Chair of the Working Group, and Ms Bonnie Sargent
       was elected as Recording Secretary.

3.     The meeting began with introductions of  all the participants, including a brief overview
       of their background and the reasons why they are interested in participating in the CD-
       ROM Architecture Working Group.

4.     A presentation by Mike Rubinfeld was then given on a preliminary draft of the CD-ROM
       Architectural Profile.  Included in the presentation were definitions for the Open Systems
       Environment (OSE) Reference Model and the Application Portability Profile (APP).  An
       explanation was given for the difference between reference models and architectural
       profiles.  The "mixed mode" profile for the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office was
       discussed in some detail.

5.     The goals for the working group were discussed including:

       a.      The underlying Project Authorization Request (PAR)
       b.      Definition of terms
       c.      Establishment of a generalized Optical Storage reference model
       d.      The derivation of a more specific CD-ROM profile.
       e.      Full definition of each layer in the profile and what functions should reside in
               each layer.
       f.      A clear understanding of the interfaces between each layer need to be explored
       g.      The formalization of a generalized Reference Model and the establishment of the
               CD-ROM Profile, taking into consideration the nature of "Mixed Mode" data,
               Indexing, data search and retrieval functions, Graphical User Interface, etc.

6.     The overall goal of this Working Group is to establish a standard CD-ROM Profile
       through the consensus of its members and through the balloting process within the IEEE.

7.     Two appointments were made by the Working Group Chair:

       a.      Mr. Friedolf was appointed as Communications officer with an assignment to
               establish an Electronic Mailing Group through the IEEE so that the Working
               Group Members would be able to critique the various drafts submitted
               electronically.  All Working Group members were urged to get Internet Addresses
               in order to facilitate more effective communication amongst the members.

       b.      Ms Denise Debrucq was appointed as Technical Editor for the Working Group.  In
               that capacity, she would be responsible for the final format of the Profile
               Document, and assure that the document is technically correct in terms of logical
               flow, vocabulary usage, consistent other standards documents, etc.

8.     Action Items for the next Working Group meeting:

       a.      Mr. Tony Lavender volunteered to host the next meeting at Dataware, Inc. in
               Boulder, Colorado.  It was also decided that the next meeting would be held on
               January 28 and 29, 1993.

       b.      Definitions for various layers of the profile need to be proposed and reviewed.
               Messrs Rubinfeld, Lavender, Snead and Meyer agreed to work on this effort.

       c.      Mr. Rubinfeld was asked to get copies of the OSE Reference Model and the draft
               APP for the Working Group Members.

9.     The members agreed that the name for this Working Group be established as "CDARCH".
Mike Rubinfeld