Implementers Workgroup Meeting 2017-07-18

The purpose of this Implementers Workgroup meeting is to provide a forum for discussing post-implementation issues and practices related to Direct whether technical, operational, or logistical in nature, including Direct Project specifications and implementation guides, adoption efforts, and innovative uses and deployments. It’s a forum for a peer-to-peer exchange of ideas, thoughts, and practices for project leaders within the Direct community.

1. Logistical Items (Workgroup Lead / Direct Coordinator)

• Workgroup meeting schedule for 2017 has been posted. As usual, any future adjustments will be reflected there.

2. Scheduled Discussion / Updates (All, as/if applicable)

• Implementation Guide for Expressing Context in Direct Messaging
  • Scheduling of Fall Connect-A-Thon
  • Implementation updates and/or questions
  • Useful links
    • "Draft for trial use" published December 2016.
    • Examples of messages expressing context posted June 9.

• "Large" message transport in Direct (ex: transport of large images like DICOM)
  • Discussed an option in last meeting involving message fragmentation and reassembly as defined by RFC 2046.
  • Updates/status on exploring this option (Bruce Schreiber)
    • MaxMD is offering source code suitable for use within the Java RI (two Java RI Maillets) and unit testing data here (download size 44 MB).

3. Roundtable Discussion / Updates – Open (All)

4. Adjourn