[Tinyos-alliance] TinyOS WG 8/1 notes

[David E. Culler]

Alliance Working

David Culler
Ramesh Govindan
Phil Levis
Jack Stankovic

TEP dicussion
  - review of TEP Finalization box and WIKI on www.tinyos.net
  - Model of the TEP
      - (A) introduction with technical detail provided elsewhere
      - (B) self-contained document (more like Posix std)

Ramesh: looking for making it more self contained
  - web pages are ephemeral

Why is it the way it is currently:

source code needs to have extensive documentation (nesDOC)
should this be replicated in the TEP?
  - repetition (e.g., requires STD_CONTROL)
  - consistency (TEPs vs Source code?)
     - MUSTs better the same, but MAYs may differ
  - Time to delivery

Ramesh
  - only need to include interfaces that are introduced by the TEP

DEC
  - utilize CVS to make references persistent

PAL
  - may require our own CVS server

Audience Participation?
  - Ramesh: active small group

Get email out to TinyOS Devel on 101.

How have working groups dealt with TEP finalization
  - 102/103 have tended toward convergence
  - 101 has led to opening of new discussion

PAL: email on 101.

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Chartering working groups
  - Documentation (Informational, Tutorial)
      - lots of effort throughout the community.  Available and 
naturally grass roots
      - outputs: actual documentation
      - does it need a more specific term

  - Storage
      - provide forum for currently active efforts (Blockbooks, etc.)
         - files, blocks, indexes, ...

Should there be a call for participation?
Stakeholders => telecon => formation

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Another substantial reference point for the Alliance: eclipse.org
  - IETF (networking) and OSDL (enterprise linux) provide fairly extreme 
starting points
  - eclipse offers an example that is software focused and has fairly 
broad contribution
  - introduces a family of membership classes that are associated with 
the software process as opposed to the protocol process
  - also presents another candidate source license (EPL)
  - working group page has a resources section is bylaws for these 
organizations


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Actions:
   Push visibitliy of TEP 101 review process
   Finalize SC owner for TEP 102
   TinyOS Alliance BOF at Sensys
   Homework on Eclipse vs IETF models

   No meeting next week