Progress on June 5 – June 18 Papers/Articles read:
Plans:
    1. Write out my thought for #2.
    2. More on Douglas' papers. His TAO system and add it as an example of extended event services for CORBA.
    3. Adam’s Internet draft titled ‘Scenarios for an Internet-Scale Event Notification Service (ISENS)’ mentioned about 16 ISENS protocols (new and old). I am to put focus on these protocols.
    4. eager to read AOL instant messaging standard and other five proposals submitted to IETF by June 25.
    5. OMG had a Request for Proposal in 1997 on Notification Services. Found papers collected for this RFP at http://www.omg.org/members/doclist-97.html and search for key word 'Notification'. Skim them.
    6. Started to organize event system types and models, pros and cons, and various considerations.
    7. Skim through all the papers on Adam’s paper/system list. Purpose is that starting with something we can find, we abstract from these papers models of event system, classify systems according to models. For topic lack of resource, keep a re-visit list and re-visit them when finding more sources.
    8. Search from the site normos.org for most recent Internet draft on event notifications.