RFC 173 (rfc173) - Page 1 of 2

Network Data Management Committee Meeting Announcement

Network Working Group                          P. M. Karp - MITRE
Request for Comments #173                      D. B. McKay - IBM
NIC 6795                                       4 June 1971


Categories:  D.4, D.7
Obsoletes:   None
Updates:     None


         Network Data Management Committee Meeting Announcement

The data management discussions at the recent NWG meeting resulted in
the formation of a Network Data Management Committee to be chaired by
Doug McKay, IBM.  The purpose of the committee, as stated in RFC 146,
is:

      (a)  to classify the issues involved and to propose
           various approaches;
      (b)  to integrate the hitherto independent network
           activities that address problems in the area of data
           sharing; and
      (c)  to set up and coordinate appropriate experiments
           to test the services developed and to evaluate
           alternative approaches.

An informal meeting was held Wednesday morning, 19 May to estab- lish an
approach for achieving the above objectives.  The attendees were:

         Peggy Karp           MITRE
         Doug McKay           IBM
         Tom O'Sullivan       Raytheon
         Ari Ollikainin       UCLA
         Dr. Larry Roberts    ARPA
         Dick Winter          CCA

Due to an overlap with a file transfer committee meeting, membership of
the data management committee was not established.

A decision was made to hold a data management meeting at CCA in
Cambridge prior to the next general NWG meeting.  The structure and
format of the meeting will be similar to that of the network graphics
meeting (RFC 87); that is, the price of admission for an organization is
a working paper on one or more of the areas chosen for discussion,
accompanied by an oral presentation.