Editor's Note: Minutes received 8/3 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Jim Quigley/Hewlett-Packard Minutes of the XWindows over OSI and Skinny Stack BOF (THINOSI) Jim Quigley of Hewlett-Packard gave an hour plus presentation on the OSI Basic Communication aspects of OSI, aka ``skinny stack.'' Quigley also discussed the University of London's prototype of X over an OSI ``skinny stack'' (Xosi) including performance data. Xosi is part of the ANSI standard for X that is also included in the U.S. IGOS (Industry and Government Open System -- formerly GOSIP) requirements. The group attending the BOF generally accepted Quigley's premise that most [if not all] potential OSI applications only have the basic communication requirements of connect/disconnect and send/receive. Such applications only require an OSI ``skinny stack'' such as that defined for Xosi. Besides the specification of OSI skinny stacks, the critical need is the specification of OSI 7-layer ``skinny'' APIs. The Group agreed that Peter Furniss and Steve Hardcastle-Kille should be requested to do a Simple OSI Stack (SOS) versus OSI skinny stack comparison. The results would be published to the Skinny Stack BOF mailing list. The consensus of the Group was to pursue the formation of a working group for the specification of APIs for an OSI skinny stack. Jim Quigley was instructed to ask OSI Area Directors Dave Piscitello and Eric Huizer how to start such a working group on XTI and SOCKETS APIs for an OSI skinny stack. It was agreed that Jim Quigley should get on the next IETF: technical presentation to discuss the requirements and potential of OSI skinny stacks and APIs. Attendees Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no C. Allan Cargille cargille@cs.wisc.edu Cyrus Chow cchow@orion.arc.nasa.gov Richard Colella colella@osi.ncsl.nist.gov Richard desJardins desjardi@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov Jisoo Geiter geiter@gateway.mitre.org Kevin Jordan kej@udev.cdc.com Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au James Quigley Jim_Quigley%YD@hp6600.desk.hp.com David Reiser dsr@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com William Warner warner@ohio.gov 1