Dear WG list members, attached please find the 2nd draft: Proposed Agenda for the DB-WG Meeting at RIPE #41 in Amsterdam, NL. There is a new item on the draft agenda: DataBase documentation for the "average" user Looking forward to see many of you in Amsterdam a few days from now, Wilfried. ______________________________________________________________________ Proposed Agenda for the Database Working Group Meeting RIPE-41, Jan. 14-18 2002, Amsterdam, NL 1. Draft Thursday, Jan 17th, 2002 09:00-12:30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. Administrative stuff (WW, chair) . volunteering a scribe . circulate list of participants . agenda bashing . status of minutes B. Actions Items . status of actions C. DB update (RIPE NCC, Andrei R.) 10 min . operations report D. DB software developments (RIPE NCC, N.N.) 30 min . bug fixes, re-writes, platform compatibility . meta-data proposal E. DB consistency and Statistics project (RIPE NCC, N.N.) 15 min F. IRT object implementation (RIPE NCC, N.N.) 15 min . implementation report, last-minute adjustments . how to use and promote the new features? G. Universal Whois Project (Andrew Newton, VeriSign App. Res.) 30 min . Needs of addressing information as it relates to domains in whois. . Overview of two technical solutions. . Unification of the addressing and domain databases into a more coherent "strategy". H. DataBase documentation for the "average" user 15 min . requested by Ruediger Volk . problem statement . how to proceed? (task-force to create requirements?) . other approaches to limit confusion at the consumers' end? I. Modification of changed: attribute (tenative) J. "organisation:" Object re-visited (tentative) Y. Input from other WGs . Z. AOB: . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WW, 16-JAN-2002 13:44:46 _________________________________:_____________________________________ Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at UniVie Computer Center - ACOnet : Tel: +43 1 4277 - 140 33 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4277 - 9 140 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : RIPE-DB: WW144, PGP keyID 0xF0ACB369 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~