Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12/2/96


The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by yonah.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: danw, amu, kretch, yonah, hartmans, daveg, fubob,
		nathanw, sit | fastcart
	Associate members: mhpower, mycroft, eichin, ghudson,
		mcmullan, jemorris, jhawk, jtkohl, srz, marc
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives:  klmitch
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:
	kretch: nothing to report, sir.

Chairman's Report:
	()

Office Report:

	jhawk: steve is broken.  Yet another SGI memory problem?
		Hotline has been notified.

	ghudson:  What about book shelves and chairs?

	kretch:  I will talk to people about them.

MIT Computing Report:

	mhpower: The student services center opened in 3-123.  There
		is an Athena workstation there.  If you want to get
		passwords or extra instances, this would be a good
		target.

	jhawk: Athena lost no disks this week, not even on the server
		nix.

Computer Services:

	ghudson: We got disks; they are being tested on yaz.  They
		will probably go on beacon tonight.

	mhpower: The SIPB news servers try to pgp-verify some control
		messages.  This should help in situations similar to
		the recent attempt to rmgroup news.announce.newgroups.

SIPB Backup Report:

	hartmans: AFS is happening; it may have happened last week.  I
		don't think so, but yonah does.

	nathanw: People should deal with backup tapes after they do
		the backup.

Publications Report:

	jhawk: We are still out of Athena reference cards.

R/O Report:
	()

IAP Report:

	sit: There are two Linux classes listed in the guide.

	kretch: The IAP guide had many interesting breakages.  Some of
		them effect us.

	hartmans: jhawk is listed as teaching one of the Linux
		classes.

CokeComm Report:
	()

Other:

	jhawk:  IETF is next week.  You can probably watch it on the mbone.


Other Other:

	nathanw: The inventor of the board game Clue died two years
		ago.  The company only discovered now.

	marc: Last week many people testified before Congress on
		crypto.  I have a tape.


The meeting was adjourned at 19:37.


	Minutes taken and submitted by hartmans.