IAM
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 Name:           NWAM Phase 1
Submitter:      Renee Danson
Owner:          James Carlson
Interest:
Status:         commitment scheduled 03/18/2009
Comment:        inception held 10/29/2008
Exposure:       open
Comment:

SUMMARY
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A project to simplify and automate basic network configuration.


ISSUES
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 Commitment Review
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 gww-99	Nit, just a reminder that it seem auditing will be needed in
 	netcfgd and likely changes to nwamd.  Please coordinate with
 	the Audit project team.  Some of the requirements are in the
 	process of changing.
 
 djr-1	I concur with jmp0 and I'm afraid that NWAM is going to create a
 	network administration that makes life easier for those that point
 	and click with their mouse and are happy but will cause much
 	consternation if it defaults to on for server installations.
 	Feedback from professional systems administrators has indicated
 	that they dislike for the "lets bury network interface admin in
 	a directory tree under /etc, somewhere" - as Linux does.
 
 djr-2	If I'm doing a jumpstart install today, I can use /etc/hostname.*
 	and friends to deliver files as part of the installation that
 	completely configure my host for the network. If the new default
 	install is with NWAM active and these legacy files are no longer
 	used, how is this not a regression for me? Where will I find
 	documentation on all of this? (Nothing in the materials seems
 	to tell me how to do this?)
 
 djr-3	Why is only /etc/hosts managed by NWAM?
 	Why have the others (services, networks, netmasks, inetd.conf,
 	ntp.conf) been forgotten?
 	Is this proposal complete if it is only managing a few of
 	these files and not all?
 
 seb-2	One current architectural issue with NWAM Phase < 1 is the
 	fact that links that NWAM doesn't support aren't configured
 	at boot time even when the user doesn't want NWAM to touch
 	them.  How does Phase 1 handle that?
 here


VOTE
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Approve -  James Carlson, Gary Winiger, Mark Carlson, Sebastien Roy, Rick
Matthews
Deny - 
Abstain - 
Not Participating (NP) -  Glenn Skinner



THE NEXT STEP
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gww-1 Reminder to contact audit team.
djr-1 "not this project"
djr-2 Nevada (and jumpstart) don't use NWAM by default
djr-3 NTP is a separate issue, and a funding sore point.
  NWAM does have the ability to script other things.
seb-1 should fix VNIC bugs

TCA: fix VNIC bug, and at least make NWAM coexist.
Vote: approve (Gary, Jim, Mark, Seb, Rick)
          Glenn NP, Tim disappeared