The Seattle SAGE Group (SSG)
Seattle based special interest group for system and network administrators.

Meeting Minutes June 12, 1997

What happened?

The meeting was surprisingly low in attendence. However, Leeland reports that a large number of people sent emails and called on the phone doing impersonations of Homer Simpson (aka "Doooa!! I was planning on coming and forgot. Is there going to be a follow up/repeat?")

Well for those who did come Jeff provided an excellent presentation. In fact he even wrote us all a book from "O'Really & Associates", with the cover having a picture of a Rat. For those of you who missed it. Sorry your just going to have to buy it yourself later.

Known Bugs

  • The MBT building doors still lock up at 6pm. This must be. So we will make sure that someone will check the doors regularly (at least every 10 mins) for new attendees.

    • Meeting Highlites

    1) SSG Business
    We have confirmation that Michael Randall will be speaking in the October meeting.

    2) Open floor comments and introductions
    The open floor discussion was based on a possible future presentation on DHCP. The consensus was that DHCP is a security problem. However, we will invite an expert speaker to address the subject.

    3) Presentation by Jeff Welty of Weyrhouser
    "IPv6 Intro & Advances (or Can you get there from here?)"
    I know I usually say this, but, this time it is doubly applicable. It was an extremely well prepared and presented talk on IPv6 and what little is really settled on. Jeff showed a folder 2 feet thick of the specifications, RFCs, and white papers. He also thoughtfully provided them to web site WITH his presentation in html format and ready for adding into the site. (Hint to future speakers.)

    Jeff's Presentation and the technical papers referenced can be located at the URL:
    http://cellworks.washington.edu/sage/1997/06/ipv6_i.html

    OK, OK!! And the Rat Book URL:
    http://cellworks.washington.edu/sage/1997/06/ratbook.html

    4) Closing
    The meeting blew apart on schedule. No closing comments for SSG business.

    5) Dinner
    A small group who wanted to discuss IP and other topics found their way to a nice 24hr Italian restruant in the UW district. (The food was great!) A few (including Leeland) got some good drinks and the conversation flowed well to about 11:30pm. The conversation rotated between various bad examples of things done in the past to examples of how to get an outrageous IP packet constructed.

    The Next Meeting

    The next meeting is scheduled for July 10.

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