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minutes-20001017.txt

Minutes of Meeting, 17/10/2000 @ 7pm.
Location: 2 Mead Way

Present: ab11, pjm2, tdb1
Absent: ajm4

Initial discussions surrounded the fact that iau wants a
plan from us pretty soon. However, we soon digressed to the 
other things we needed to get working on. These are as 
follows;

- Produce a feature list - re: first minutes
- Produce an "implementation phases" document, based on the
  feature list
- Prepare the above two for review by jc (and iau?)

- Set ourselves some rough milestones (ie. phase 3 by xmas
  etc...)
- With the above in mind produce a plan for the overall
  project and assign initial roles.

- Define the Interfaces of the various server classes
- Define the Protocols for cross-network data

Discussions about all of our limited knowledge of C/C++ put
an end to the plan that one of us could actually write all 
the host programs :)

Some questions and points were raised

- Differences between Solaris SPARC/Intel - will program run
  on both ?
- The "Client Interface" in the server - how much "thinking"
  will it do, and how much will be left to the client. 
  (Thinking about bottlenecks).
- Database, need to get a machine sorted, and pick database.
- Would multicasting work for server to client 
  communications ?

Next the document on the Implementation Phases was drawn up.
It's only provisional at this stage, but gives us some 
initial ideas. It was noted that by using "phases" we can 
have milestones/breaks for testing, documentation
and review. This would ensure that we keep things under 
control, and don't get swamped in code. It was also 
mentioned that using phases would help to keep the whole 
project in sync - ie. the server code would not run off
ahead of the host code.

pjm2 leaves at 7:45pm, whilst ab11 & tdb1 continue with
implementation phases document.

The final Implementation Phases document is seperately
stored.

Meeting is concluded at 8:30pm to watch MIB.