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There were none.
There were none.
From Minutes of 18th April 2001, Item 1.6 - Craig Strachan reported that the porting of the "submit" software suite is still ongoing, and it is hoped that it will be available at all sites by the end of July.
From Minutes of 1st May, 2001, Item 1.6 - Roger Burroughes reported that agreement for the funding of ACL licence purchase had been agreed, but some clarification is still required from AIAI with regard to commercial use.
Paul reported that it was hoped a "production" system would be available by next July. This would use LDAP for name lookups, and use Kerberos for authentication. A variant of the LCFG configuration system will also be used, but this was observed to be the most variable portion of the current specification.
Administration of machines will be hierarchical, but with each site having control of machines on that site.
There will be single, network-accessible home directories, but the network file-system protocol (NFS, AFS, &c) has yet to be agreed.
It was noted that this infrastructure will be made available, but not necessarily implemented, at all sites by July.
Some machines with the new LDAP/Kerberos configuration will shortly be available for experimentation.
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It was also reported that there was an RA post available for DICE research, (although this is officially "GRID" related).A packaged version of the LCFG software is to be made available - initially for Linux only, but other OS support is planned.
Various questions were posed as to what was really required of a Division-wide E-mail service. After general discussion, it was agreed that all students (both undergrad & postgrad) would be moved across to the Student Mail Service operated by EUCS. This would be effective from the next academic year, and would include existing students.
It was agreed that the protocal of choice for accessing student mail would be IMAP, and that POP would be deprecated. It would be up to the site managers to co-ordinate SMS mail reading/sending requirements for the next academic year.
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Other questions remain to be resolved, such as what sort of Directory Services would be provided, how lists would be generated & managed, and what address format(s) would be acceptable.It was agreed that mailing lists should be promoted as self-managed lists, and that each list request must have an associated maintainer to avoid involving COs in day-to-day list management & maintenance.
There was none.
It was agreed that the next meeting should be on Wednesday, 5th September. Venue to be decided.
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