[Persistence-sig] getting started

[Jeremy Hylton]

It looks like many of the people who expressed interest in the SIG
have subscribed to the list, so we ought to get started.  I think we
should begin with some introductions and a review of the SIG charter.

Introductions: Please tell us about your interest in the persistence
SIG, what personal/professional goals you have for it, and how much
time & energy you have.  (Feel free to lurk if that's your preference.)

Charter: Jim Fulton wrote the SIG charter.  A very brief summary is
that we should:

  - focus on transparency, transactions, and memory-caching issues;

  - put off concurrency control, queries, and constraints;

  - produce PEPs and, if there is consensus, code for the std library.

Does that sound like the right set of initial constraints?  Are there
other issues to consider or avoid?

In the brief discussion on the meta-sig, several related projects were
mentioned.  It would be helpful to capture a brief summary of each on
the SIG web pages.

I'll follow up with my into soon.  

Jeremy