Transport protocols and bulk file transfer

[stanislav shalunov <>]

                     Bulk Transport Protocol Call
                      Friday, February 18, 2005

Attendees:
1.      T. Charles Yun
2.      Steven Senger
3.      Larry Dunn
4.      Stanislav Shalunov
5.      Susan Evett 

Call started at 12:01PM US/Eastern.

Agenda
1. Review of previous action items:
2. Joint Techs report.
3. Any new business.

1. Action Items Overview
a.   Stanislav to develop a charter and side materials to request
     Internet2 working group status.  [ETA for charter: 2005-02-25.]
b.   Steven: contact the authors of the SCTP RFC to discuss models of
     partial reliability other than timed reliability.  [Done]
c.   Steven: write up API specification.  [Done]
d.   Larry to more carefully review the Appendix with an aim to
     having concrete suggestions for changes to this section by
     2005-02-16. [Done]
e.   Stanislav to change the title of the document to ``Design Space
     for a Bulk Transport Tool.'' [Done]
f.   Stanislav to change the .pdf in a future version to remove the
     extra-large margins.  [Done]

2. Joint Techs report

Note: 50 copies of the draft report taken to Joint Techs and none
remained after the break on Wednesday morning (last day).
Presentation on transport was well received; the slides are linked off
http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/transport/

3.  New business
Larry suggested that, given the low participation on several calls,
the group make a decision to not have regular calls be canvassed
around the group.

Stanislav asked Steven a question regarding the API -- no extra demux?
No default UDP port?  Stanislav suggested either default port number
is x, and there is extra demux for UDP OR all UDP goes to the UDP port
with no extra demux.  Steven asked if there were problems with
exposing things that might be considered 'private data' in statistics;
Stanislav thought this wouldn't be a problem.  Part of the socket
structure would be a function call.

Steven added a select call and asked for group feedback; it would tell
you if there was data ready on some socket. Discussion of name -- this
will be discussed at later meeting (value of 'x').

ACTION ITEMS FROM THIS CALL:

1. Stanislav to develop a charter and side materials to request
   Internet2 working group status.  [ETA for charter: 2005-02-25.]

2. Stanislav to revise the appendix, based on Larry's comments, and
   verify questions he has over equations in the document (see email).

3. Group to discuss whether weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or 'as-needed'
   calls would best suit the needs of the group and the work to
   complete.

4. Steven to continue working on the API document.

5. Group to discuss name of the tool within the API (tied to project
   name).

Call ended at 12:37PM US/Eastern.

-- 
Stanislav Shalunov              http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/

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