Informal Technical Meeting on WWW Distributed
Authoring and Versioning
MIT Faculty Club
September 16, 1996
Agenda
9:00 Introductions and Overview
Distributed Authoring
9:15 Overview of Microsoft Distributed Authoring
and Versioning Requirements & Draft of Implementation Ideas
(Goland)
10:15 Short Break
10:25 Overview Presentation of Distributed Authoring
Requirements (Whitehead)
- Discussion of Distributed Authoring Requirements
- Note items which require revision, and agreement on how to revise
- Develop deadline for next revision of requirements
- Desired outcome: consensus on requirements
- Discussion of technical approaches to meet requirements
- Discussion of existing technical approaches
- Assign functionality to packages
- Assign people to develop technical proposals for each package
- Establish deadlines for initial draft of proposals
12Noon Lunch break
1:00 Discussion of Group's Charter (Whitehead)
- Discussion of charter and goals
- Discussion of process for achieving goals
- Revisit action items from San Mateo
Versioning
2:00 Overview Presentation of WWW Versioning Requirements
(Durand)
- Discussion of WWW Versioning Requirements
- Note items which require revision, and agreement on how to revise
- Establish deadlines for next revision, and final revision
- Desired outcome: consensus on requirements so they can be finalized
3:30 Discussion of technical approaches to meet requirements
- Discussion of existing technical approaches
- Subdivide functionality into packages
- Assign people to develop technical proposals for each package
- Establish deadlines for initial draft of proposals
5:30 Meeting Adjourned.