documentation/minutes/minutes-20001115.txt

Minutes of meeting 15/11/00 @ 11am
Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room

Present: ab11, ajm4, pjm2, tdb1
Absent: None

Meeting postponed until firealarm finishes. It is noted
that Ash and Paul would have been burnt alive if there 
was a real fire. 

Meeting re-started at 11:20am. 

Discussed the XML packet life problem. This has been
identified as a problem because corba passes references
to objects making it hard to determine when the object
should be distroyed.

Paul begins implementation of a quotes page.

Paul suggests that packets should be stored in a queue
structure, with 2 integers indicating how far through 
the queue each accessing function has got (from the start
of the queue). This should be more efficicent than 
storing flags inside each of the XML packet objects.

Someone needs to find out if you can 'clone' an object
over corba. This would solve a lot of local copy problems.

Discussion of whether UDP packets should be numbered or
timestamped proved controversal. In the end it was decided
that each UDP packet should contain both a Sequence number
and a timestamp (as defined by the host). It is therefore
important that the host's time is setup accurately by the
sysadmin.

Meeting concluded @ 12:40
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1	ab11	1.1	Minutes of meeting 15/11/00 @ 11am
2	ab11	1.2	Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room
3	ab11	1.1
4			Present: ab11, ajm4, pjm2, tdb1
5			Absent: None
6
7			Meeting postponed until firealarm finishes. It is noted
8			that Ash and Paul would have been burnt alive if there
9			was a real fire.
10
11			Meeting re-started at 11:20am.
12
13			Discussed the XML packet life problem. This has been
14			identified as a problem because corba passes references
15			to objects making it hard to determine when the object
16			should be distroyed.
17
18			Paul begins implementation of a quotes page.
19
20			Paul suggests that packets should be stored in a queue
21			structure, with 2 integers indicating how far through
22			the queue each accessing function has got (from the start
23			of the queue). This should be more efficicent than
24			storing flags inside each of the XML packet objects.
25
26			Someone needs to find out if you can 'clone' an object
27			over corba. This would solve a lot of local copy problems.
28
29			Discussion of whether UDP packets should be numbered or
30			timestamped proved controversal. In the end it was decided
31			that each UDP packet should contain both a Sequence number
32			and a timestamp (as defined by the host). It is therefore
33			important that the host's time is setup accurately by the
34			sysadmin.
35
36			Meeting concluded @ 12:40