February 5, 1998

PLACE:          JEB 13
ATTENDEES:      Professor Junk
                Professor Frincke
                Don Tobin
                Zac Woodall
                Jesse McConnell
                James Cooper
                Jamie Marconi
                Sam Gerlach
TOPIC:          Walk Through Number 1

Agenda
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Introduction
Demonstration
Question/Answer Period

Points brought up
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* Jamie said he feels the process is slow right now due to multiple
connections.  Professor Frincke asked if there was any way to consolidate.
Jamie said when the connections were consolidated in the past, a deadlock
occurred.

* Professor Frincke asked if all peer groups are managed.

* Zac asked what happens when you configure a peer group.  The reply was
that it was like a select that sets up the screen.

* Professor Frincke asked what happens when a peer requests to join a
group.  The manager decides this, but we need a protocol to make this
decision.  A suggestion was that the database should keep track of list of
requests.

* Professor Frincke asked whether a manager was more of a moderator and
suggested that there be a default trust/integrity level set.

* Professor Frincke asked whether a peer could be forced to join a group
by a manager.  She suggested that if this is the case, a default setting
should be set to no cooperation until the peer chooses to change it.

* Professor Junk asked for a closing date on when we could have a proposal
for the interface done by.  February 13 was decided on.  We will give the
proposal to Don Tobin for review.

* Don Tobin wanted to know if we could give a list to select from for
adding members.  Jamie Marconi said he would rather not.  The system will
be set up and decided on ahead of time so the users will have the needed
information.

* Professor Frincke asked how peers get information (i.e. can they pull
information?)  Jamie said the information is stored locally, but the peer
can update.

* Don Tobin pointed out that the semi-colons looked like delimiters and
were a bit deceiving.

* Professor Frincke requested that we change the name of Peer Group
Manager to Peer Group Moderator.

* Don Tobin asked what happened is the moderator fails.  Jamie said the
peer group is gone.

* Professor Frincke asked if it was too early to evaluate the performance
and Jamie said it was.

* Zac asked if the moderator needs to be very large and Jamie said only
for large peer groups.

* It was asked if the hummer is always on the same port.

* Professor Frincke brought up the issue of authentication at certain
points in the interface.