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Heartbeat #11

From: Team #3 (Dalat, Chris, Shadi, Fritz, and Tyler)
Heartbeat Msg: #11

To: ECE470/CSC402 Instructors
To email: net_heartbeat@renoir.csc.ncsu.edu

Subject: Heartbeat #11 From Team 3

Date: 11/15/02

1. Task Status:

- Done with the second revision of the methodology drafts.
- Done with homework #6. Specific parts were done individually. Chris spent a lot of time putting all of these parts together into the report draft.
- Professor Streck took a brief look over our homework #6 write up and said that it looks OK over all.
- About 60% of the project is done.
- Met on Thursday with Kumar and Ralph on Thursday to go over the second revision.
- We will meet with the mentors again on Tuesday and Thursday of next week to see a demontration and to go over the revised drafts.

Below is the schedule file:
[Schedule]

2. Personnel Status:
Dalat Bui - Lead
Chris Brezovec - Vice Lead
K. Fritz Lehr - Webmaster
Shadi Eskama - Member
Tyler Humprey - Member

3. Risk Status:

Below is the risk table:

Rank Now	Rank History	Loss-Causing Event	Likelihood of the Loss-Causing Event Occuring	Estimated Severity (or Loss)	Current Risk
1	1	Very likely, we're not able to get the badges to access the lab on Centennial campus 24/7, which does not give us flexibility to learn about the AC devices and test the test cases (see the problem section for more info.)	0.95	0.65	0.45
2	2,1,4,3	Some ACs such as Redback SMS 10000, Cisco 10000 and net.com SCREAM are still in the ordering process. They may not be available any time soon.	0.95	0.55	0.40
3	3,3	Many of us have come to the point in the semester where tests and projects are due. Finding time to get to centenial campus and finish up the project is becoming a problem.	0.4	0.65	0.3
4	-	Revising the drafts is getting more technical. Thus we'll have to spend a lot of time "thinking" and reviewing the RFCs, especially at technical sections. Since other classes demand the same amount of work and many of us are under the pressure of finding jobs, this can make the situation become very stressful - hopefully none of us will become crazy by the end of the semester :(	0.2	0.5	0.1

4. Problem List:

- Most of the equipments are unavailable (see section 5 for more details).
- Lab access after work hours and during weekend is not possible (see section 5 for more details.)

5. Any other issues you wish to report, raise, address, ...

We have exchanged several emails with Kumar and Ralph about the availability of the equipments and lab access after work hours. (We would like to be able to access the lab at night and/or during weekends -- all of us have classes during the day at different time that it is only convenient for us to access the lab during weekend or at night -- so that we can write up the test cases and try them out). Through their replies, it is pretty certain that the equipments (such as Cisco 10000, Redback, ...) are not going be here any time soon, and they cannot let us access the lab at the requested hours. Because of these reasons, they suggest that we will just need to concentrate on writing the methodologies, and then writing the test cases and testing them out will be a bonus. They also indicated that they'll be very happy to talk to the Instructor(s) about this problem. Since we don't have many choices, we will just have to do what they suggest. For now, unless we have new directions from our Instructor, we will just concentrate on writing solid methodologies.

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