AMG Technical Subcommittee Meeting
    January 21, 1998
      9:30am - 11:30am
   12A Conference Room

Attendance:
Perry Plexico, DCRT
Mark Silverman, NLM
Jed Rifkin, NCI
Jeff Erickson, NHLBI
Charles Tate, NIEHS
Don Preuss, CC
Bill Jones, DCRT
Keith Gorlen, DCRT
Robert Malick, DCRT
Peter Alterman, OD
David Swift, ORS/TCB

* Acting CIO is confident that some money (about $1M) will be allocated for
	some of the proposals for directory and PKI initiatives. Money
	allocation will be held until a CIO can be selected.

* David Swift reported on Telecommunications database.
	* Currently being reengineered.
	* Content discussed; NIH White Pages directory info keyed off of SSN.
	* It could be foreseeable to have individuals change their own
	  info if appropriate security measures are taken.
	* Can be populated with UIDs. SSN allows cross referencing with HRDB.
	* Would like to populate database from other authoritative sources.

* UID/PIN discussion
	* Possibility of seeding PINS from Employee Express database?
	* Possibility of using two pieces of employee specific info to
	  contrive initial PIN setting.

* "NIH Directory Service - Insight, Issues, Next Steps" - Keith Gorlen
	* Business processes used to filter information chaos into a well
	  behaved directory of information.
	* What happens when two different business processes are used?
	* Updating same type of information in two different places
	  * Identify certain databases as authoritative source of certain
	    information.
	  * Reconciling databases into a single database, deferred or immediate

* Minimum schema
	* Management of directory service will be hierarchical and some
	  information cannot be changed by ICDs (e.g., parking ID #s).
	* Define a minimum set of information to have in directory.
	* Primary directory function is to answer "who's at NIH", 
	  "where they are at", and "how to contact", besides its use
	  for PKI and phone book.
	* Three issues
	  * What data is contained?
	  * How to populate the data?
	  * What business processes and rules to be used?
	    (Business processes are needed before data population occurs.)

* Jed Rifkin - Summation of previous Technical Subcommittee meetings,
	assorted committees, and personal opinions
	* Logical Model
	* Physical Model
	* Security Management
	(Will be summarized in the next Directory Strawperson Draft

* Tasks
	* Draft 4 Directory strawperson displaying Jed Rifkin's summation.
	* Start meta directory investigation
	* Minimum schema strawperson listing elements with ownership,
	  type and format indicated. Send suggestions to Keith Gorlen.