Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:52:16 -0700
From: | Eric Armstrong |
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Subject: | WBI Transcoding Vector Adds "Guide to Running NICs" |
The remainder of yesterday's meeting was devoted to the "WBI Vector".
Doug started out by offering a new vision. His model system has always been divided into three components:
Along those lines, he proposed building a "Guide to Running NICs" to be monitored/edited by Su-Ling Yee. The idea is that we will add information to this knowledge base, Su-Ling will look for contradictions and prod contributors, and we will grow the knowledge repository's capabilities as we use it for this purpose.
In the latter stages of the meeting, Jack Park gave a report on WBI and drew an example architecture showing how a system would use it. (WBI would reside on a server -- either the target server or an intermediate server -- and do the translations into "referencable form" and manage the user's view selections.)
He also suggested that a possible architecture in the form of a three-tier server:
Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com