From: <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 13:54:30 -0400
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To: sysdev@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: paper available
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copies of

	White Paper on System Administration for IEEE 1003.7

	Susanne W. Smith, John S. Quarterman

	ABSTRACT: The new POSIX committee on System Administration, IEEE
	1003.7, is attemptint to standardize an area in which there is
	little prior art, and no generally accepted solutions to many of
	the known problems.  It is a large area, and one that intersects
	with otherarea such as networking (IEEE 1003.8) and application
	system programming (IEEE 1003.2).  Some of the most applicable
	prior art was not designed for operating system administration,
	but for network administration.  One must be chosen from the
	outset, and the choice will affect everything the committee
	does.

	The UseNIX Association has coordinated the production of this
	White Paper to set forth the basic issues the committee must
	address, to recommend certain choices it will have to make, and
	to outline some of the existing solutions that must be
	considered.

are now available.  usual place.

--dan