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7 January 1998
ANSA Consortium Confidential
ANSA Technical Board Meeting Agenda for 9th January 1998
Timestamp: 26/10/98 09:25
Chairman: Bill O'Riordan
0930 |
Welcome, apologies Confirmation of Agenda Minutes of Last Meeting and Matters Arising |
0945 |
E2S Final Report - Andrew Herbert |
| The E2S End-to-end
Internet Security Project completed in December with a
successful final review. andrew will give an update on
the revisions made to the E2S Architecture and the set of
electronic commerce demonstrators built by the E2S
partners. The E2S architecture is a public result. |
|
1030 |
FollowMe Architecture - Mike Bursell |
| APM has been defining the overall FollowMe
architecture and produced a first architecture
description. Mike will give a guided tour of the
Architecture. The Architecture is a joint FollowMe Project/ANSA result. |
|
1100 |
Coffee |
1115 |
Mobile Object Workbench - Richard Hayton |
| Mobility features have
been added to FlexiNet to provide a "Mobile Object
Workbench" for the FollowMe project. Richard will
give a description of the engineering detail of the
workbench. This work is a joint FollowMe/ANSA result. |
|
1145 |
Mobile Agent Security - Will Harwood |
| Mobile agents present two
security challenges. Firstly secure communications
between agents, secondly defending agents from tampering
by "hostile" hosts. Will will describe the
initial plans to provide security to FollowMe agents. This work is a joint FollowMe/ANSA result. |
|
1215 |
Declarative Transactions - Douglas Donaldson |
| Douglas will report on
Zihue Wu's progress developing a Declarative Transaction
Framework for FlexiNet and give a demonstration of the
current status. (Zixhue has had to return to China
because of a serious illness in his family). This work is an ANSA result. |
|
1300 |
Lunch |
1345 |
Declarative Binding - Will Harwood, Matthew Faupel |
| Will and Matthew will
report o the status of the FlexiNet work on declarative
binding. Will has developed a binding configuration
language and Matthew has developed FlexiNet mechanisms to
animate the language. This work is an ANSA result. |
|
1445 |
Reflection at Lancaster - Gordon Blair |
| We have invited Gordon Blair to give ANSA sponsors a briefing of current and planned work around the use of reflective techniques and advanced binding models. | |
1545 |
Close |
1600 |
Coffee |