Meeting Notes, October 12th, Iceberg Meeting

October 12, 1998 Iceberg Meeting
Scribe: Ben Zhao

Status:
Kim: concentrating on the SIGMETRICS paper
Helen: working on paper for WMCSA workshop
Dena: modifying TCP to circumvent a bug
Ben + Steve: integrating SDS into the iSpace network for the Thursday milestone, SDS meetings
Giao: confirming NS test data with data from Reiner. Small discrepancies in the output.
Chen-nee: experimenting with NS and dealing with the learning curve. Starting work on the GSM security model.
Bhaskar: working on control path between UPSim and IPPad. Asked Ericsson for a PlusCode expert to come and help with some of the debugging.
Sree: downloaded the H.323 stack and going over the protocol. Starting the security project and dealing with the MASH toolkit. Project: integrating security framework into the MASH toolkit.
Jimmy: also working on same security project as Sree. Modified datapath on BTS to allow multiple calls.
Emre: moving path creation stuff from SIMJA to iSpace. No test numbers for performance yet.
Takagi: early stage of investigation on Bluetooth. Looking at the MAC scheme and the polling scheme. Also reading about NS. Headaches from NS error messages.
Reiner: working with Dena and Kim on SIGMETRICS paper.

Discussion on article in NY Times talking about BillG's memo on the future of Microsoft:

Goals:

To expand Windows dominance up to Mainframe space and down to mini-devices like handhelds as well as household devices
WinCE in direct competition with the Psion group.

We should think of the NINJA/ICEBERG group as working on a communications mechanism for the 21st Century, from everything from desktops to handhelds to all heterogeneous end devices.

Motorola coming tomorrow, yet another demo. Oy vey! Talk at 1pm, 2pm demo, and 2:45 discussion and brainstorming. They should have an interesting reaction to the recent AT&T internet research center announcement. The members of the research center have been announced.

Planning:

Next forcing function is the demo day before the next retreat: Jan 10th

Looking for:

demos
architecture documents:
- One of which should be the profiles, target for MobiCom or SOSP?
- Outline by November 1st
- Draft by December 1st
- Anthony volunteered to be editor-in-chief
videotape?
Publications?

Publication deadlines:

Jan 15th, Mobicom
Jan 29th, SIGCOMM

Services:

Universal inbox on iSpaces / profiles on the XML database
- Bhaskar should be the pushing force on the profile specification
  - Possible proposal by November 1st
- Decent version of the XML database for use with profiles around November 15th
SDS (although mostly there already)
Data over BTS:
- Implementation
- Analysis / NS-bones
- Multitracer NOW writeup
- RLP running November 15th
- Integrating the RLP into BSD kernel by end of year?
Dial-in room control / Authentication
Fax --> Email via DL OCR

OUR NEW MANTRA: communications OS for the 21st Century!! OHHMMMMMMMMMMM.