Data Management Meeting Announcement
An announcement of a February 1972 working meeting to design network protocols for data management.
McKay, D.B., "Data Management Meeting Announcement", RFC 291, DOI 10.17487/RFC0291, January 1972, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc291>.
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series = {Request for Comments},
number = 291,
howpublished = {RFC 291},
publisher = {RFC Editor},
doi = {10.17487/RFC0291},
url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc291},
author = {D.B. McKay},
title = {{Data Management Meeting Announcement}},
pagetotal = 2,
year = 1972,
month = jan,
} RFC text
Network Working Group 14 January 1972
Request for Comments 291 D. B. McKay, IBM
NIC 8301 (Area Code 914)- 945-1159
Categories: A.2, D.4, D.7
Data Management Meeting Announcement
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Mitre will host a Network Data Management Meeting, February 23,
24. As a follow-on from past meetings, the meeting is being held to
accomplish two objectives. As a result of the first data management
meeting in Aug- ust, the general consensus was a need to learn about
applications of net- work data facilities, and how networks will
better help users achieve their objectives. There are several people
that have expressed an inter- est in discussing applications. The
attached schedule is a list of people who have agreed to talk. If
anyone knows of other people interested in discussing applications,
please have them contact me.
Secondly, the meeting will discuss and try to arrive at a
specifica- tion for a network data management protocol. It was
decided that the best way to come up with a design would be to discuss
a tentative written proposal or proposals. I will try and have copies
of a written proposal available to meeting attendees before the
meeting date. I would like to encourage anyone else interested in
submitting a 3rd level protocol for sharing network data to do so.
The protocol design would hopefully achieve the objectives of a
data facility described in stage 2 of RFC-146.
Since the facilities are limited and the second half of the
meeting is to be a working session, it will be necessary to limit the
attendance. First priority will be the people or representatives from
groups that have participated in the past two meetings. I will inform
any other people who contact me of any openings.
All reservations should be made by contacting Mrs. Madeline
Cornell at Mitre, Telephone (Area Code 703) 893-3500 Extension 2395 as
soon as possible.
D. B. McKay
DBM:eb
LIST OF SPEAKERS FOR FEBRUARY 23, 1972
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Captain Roger Moore - U.S.Army R&D Command
Sharing and Accessing of medical files at all specialized locations.
Dr. John Senior - National Medical Board of Examiners
Dr. Senior will discuss their need to access all test results at
the various medical testing centers across the country.
Thomas McCauley* - Hughes Aircraft
Mr. McCauley will discuss applications they are familiar with in
their work at Hughes.
Dick Watson - SRI-NIC
Mr. Watson will discuss the advantages and the feasibility of dis-
tributing parts of NIC through the network.
Undecided as yet - MITRE
A discussion of MITRE's work in designing a system for IRS.
*Tentative.
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§1The Meeting Purpose
MITRE Corporation announced a Network Data Management Meeting to be held February 23-24, 1972. The meeting was a follow-on from an earlier data management session in August 1971 and served two main objectives.
First, it would hear presentations from various organizations about their needs and experience with network data facilities, focusing on real-world applications. Second, it would work toward a specification for a network data management protocol, a third-level protocol enabling sites to share data reliably.
People from different organizations would meet to talk about what they needed for sharing data, and then write down the rules for how to do it.
§2Speakers and Applications
The meeting featured speakers discussing diverse data management applications. Captain Roger Moore discussed medical file sharing for the U.S. Army R&D Command. The National Medical Board of Examiners needed to access test results from testing centers across the country. Hughes Aircraft shared their perspective on practical applications in their operations.
Dick Watson from SRI-NIC discussed the possibility of distributing parts of the Network Information Center itself across the network. These presentations grounded the protocol design discussion in actual user requirements and use cases.
Speakers explained what their organizations needed, like hospitals that wanted to share patient test results across the country.
§3Protocol Design Effort
The second half of the meeting was reserved as a working session for designing the protocol itself. D. B. McKay intended to circulate draft proposals before the meeting to stimulate discussion. He encouraged anyone interested in submitting a protocol design to do so.
Attendance was limited to those who had participated in previous data management meetings, with D. B. McKay managing registrations. Reservations required contacting Mrs. Madeline Cornell at MITRE. The protocol design effort aimed to achieve the objectives outlined in RFC-146 for a network data facility.
Engineers met to draft a protocol specification that all computers could use to share data with each other.