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.