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			ASISWG at STARS'92

	ASISWG held a Birds-of-a-Feather session from 7:00-9:00 PM on
Tuesday evening, 8 December 1992.  The title of the session was "The
Evolution of ASIS: Peeking into Ada's Library".  Clyde Roby gave a
short introduction.  There would also be a discussion of the evolution
of ASIS and its use including: the status of ASIS, recent ASISWG
meetings, and practical uses of ASIS with project experiences.  He
showed the same AdaBoard motion slide from Tri-Ada as well as the
ASISWG Charter.

	Jim Bladen of TeleSoft then gave a presentation on ASIS: What
ASIS is, Genesis of ASIS, the TeleSoft Implementation, ASIS is Real.
Jim then presented some success stories: IBM's System/1 Satellite
Communications program, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 program, VSF Ltd,
Odyssey Research Associates, TeleSoft's Distributed Ada Configuration
Tool (TDACT).  He followed this with the historical time-line of ASIS
including STARS involvement in creating an initial ASIS Working Group.

	Mickey White of IBM Boulder described in more detail their
System/1 Satellite Communications System: the Problem, Alternate
Solutions, ASIS as the Solution, How ASIS Works for their application,
Implementation of the Delogger, Lessons Learned.  He went more into
detail on how ASIS works for this application at this BoF than at
Tri-Ada's BoF.

	Discussion followed.

Are System/1's additional interfaces in the updated ASIS?  Mickey sent
a message to the email list requesting to include the attributes they
needed (at least the static ones) in ASIS 1.1.  Dynamic semantics will
be brought up when work begins on ASIS 2.0 for Ada9X.

A lot of people would like a write capability -- ASIS is currently
read-only.

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