Transport protocols and bulk file transfer

[stanislav shalunov <>]

Attending:

        Larry Dunn
        Yunhong Gu
        Steven Senger
        Stanislav Shalunov
        Martin Swany
        Lisong Xu

Call started at 12:04PM US/Eastern.

Action items from last call:

1. Stanislav to add a milestone to the Charter for December 2005 to
   ``update milestones'' and submit the charter for review by the WG
   panel.  [Done.]

   Submitted, haven't heard back yet.

2. Larry to review current draft to ensure all references to the
   deleted appendix are removed.  [Done.]

   Difficult to say if the 1/p things are overstated now with the
   history of having an appendix, but the immediate references are all
   gone.

3. Group agreed to meet biweekly in the future; because of a conflict
   on March 11, the group agreed to meet on March 4 and biweekly after
   that date.

4. Steven will submit a draft by the middle of next week for group
   feedback (via the mailing list); he will incorporate changes and
   generate another draft by the next call.  [Done.  Changes: error
   recording.]

   Do we want to expose the use of TSC for timing?  That in itself
   should be handled by a separate library.

5. Group to discuss name / value of the tool within the API (tied to
   project name).  [Continued.  On hold.]

6. Gu will collect his 'gotchas' on programming with Windows.

7. Steven will collect his 'gotchas' on programming with Windows.

8. Matt will pursue a contact at Microsoft to help with Windows
   porting.  [Done.]

9. Stanislav will pursue a contact at Microsoft to help with Windows
   porting.  [Blocking on response from Microsoft Research in Redmond.
   If negative, could pursue a lead with Microsoft Asia.]

Action items for next call:

* Stanislav will pursue Internet2 WG status.

* Steven to release a new version of the API document.  [ETA: 2005-03-18.]

  - x_sockerror(LAST_ERROR) for library-specific errors of x_select().

  - Statistics include availability of data.

  - x_socket() to include a last argument of (X_SOCKET *) type for
     applications that want to manage memory allocation or avoid
     malloc(); can be NULL, in which case the library will malloc().

  - Max library datagram size can be large; e.g., an unsigned 32-bit
     quantity.

  - A flag to tell the library whether to set DF or use PMTUD (for
     performance reasons, it might make sense to force local IP
     fragmentation so that the number of context switches is reduced).

  - A way to configure underlying send() size (Gu: Windows
     performance improves when send() size is 1024 bytes).

* Gu will collect his ``gotchas'' on programming with Windows.  [ETA:
  2005-03-18.]

* Steven will collect his ``gotchas'' on programming with Windows.
  [ETA: 2005-03-18.]

* Stanislav will pursue a contact at Microsoft to help with Windows
  porting.  [ETA: 2005-03-18.]

* Group to discuss name / value of the tool within the API (tied to
  project name).  [Continued.  On hold.]


Next call in two weeks' time, 2005-03-18.

Call ended at 12:48PM US/Eastern.

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