Minute Taker: Lisa Wyatt, EDS
Jeffry Zlonkuriz - Chrysler, Tish Lehman - UM ITD OM Security,Mary A. Bates - UM ITD Security, Matt Laboe - EDS, Bob Babcock - MDEQ,Mark Kolakowski - Deloitte and Touche, Brad Smart - Northern Telecom,Al Johnson - Chrysler, Peter Houston - Transarc, Craig Berkowitz - Transarc,Jeehan Osman - UM ITD security, Joseph L. Gelinas - UM ITD, Nick Frolick-UM ITD,Paul Frisch - EDS, Dave Detlefs - ITD CITI, David Hart - Transarc, Eric Glover- UM GSRA, Kevin Coffman - UM CITI, Doug Engert - Argonne National Lab,Mike Stolarchuck - UM CITI, Andy Adamson - UM CITI, Janani Janakiraman - UM CITI, Sushila Subramanian - Navy Research Labs, Becky Priebe - UM CITI
The agenda of the meeting was as follows:
The next meeting will be held on Thursday, March 14, 1-4pm.The proposed agenda is:
Suggestions or references for speakers/topics would be greatly appreciated!!
There seemed to be more concern about the security of the computing environment rather than just application and network security.
CDE (Common Desktop Environment) has many security problems, worse than rhost and NFS. There was a demonstration of the Web Browser Wafer interface. DCE administration issues were discussed.
ESnet is funded by the DOE Office of Energy Research and interconnects the national laboratories and US universities funded by DOE to conduct energy research.
Authentication research is a product of an Authentication Task Force, comprising the ESCC (ESnet Site Coordinating Committee) and DCCC (Distributed Computing Coordination Committee).
Previous Recommendations
Why OSF/DCE?
Why Combine DCE and K5?
DCE and Kerberos Compatibility
DCE and Kerberos Incompatibilities
Issues to be resolved include missing DCE functionality, local UNIX and cross-cell interoperability, and problems linking Kerberos and DCE routines in the same program.
For final report, reference http://www.es.net/pub/esnet-doc/
auth-and-security/auth-pilot-report.ps
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This is the presentation Peter will give at Decorum in February. The presentation will be available at Transarc's home page, http://www.transarc.com, after the conference. Also reference "Transarc Corporation's Distributed Object Strategy Overview" whitepaper at http://www.transarc.com:80/afs/transarc.com/public/ www/Public/ProdServ/Product/Whitepapers/object/object.html .
Object technology is progressing from presentation logic (GUI's) to data resources. Object-based business logic is beginning to emerge, data resource objects are lagging.
Transarc's focus is on business-critical distributed object technology with transactions, security, and systems administration.
Existing ORB technology has a problem with combing object invocation with security, transactional integrity, and redundant servers.
Encina++ (released with Encina 2.0)
Enables C++ developers to develop applications using a distributed object model with security, and transactions.
TIDL++ compiler generates client and server proxy/support classes and creates skeletons for objects.
Supports allows object factories that enable clients to create, use, then destroy server-based objects.
Unifies exception handling mechanisms of DCE and C++. Encina++ can be integrated with CORBA compliant ORBs to provide security and transactions.
Encina Object Direction
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DCE Users Group of Michigan (DUGM)
Author: Janani Janakiraman
Revised: 06/14/96
URL: http://citi.umich.edu/dugm