POSIX System Administration Study Group Meeting

[Moderator, John S. Quarterman]

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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