CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Jeff Case/UTenn FDDIMIB Minutes The FDDI MIB Working Group last met on Monday afternoon, March 11, 1991, in St. Louis, Missouri. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Twentieth meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. The Minutes of the previous meeting (Boulder) were adopted as distributed with one correction: the discussion of the decision to forego consideration of the optional variables should read ``... the optional variables might be considered when the document goes from Proposed to Draft.'' The Minutes as originally distributed read ``...Draft to Proposed.'' The meeting began with a status report. As usual, there were several attendees who were new to the Working Group. The goals of the group were reviewed for their benefit. Version 0.9 of ``FDDI Management Information Base'' is nearing completion. Version 0.1 of ``SNMP Trap Definitions for FDDI Management'' is new. There was a brief discussion of the status of various early implementations of previous versions of the draft. The members of the Working Group who also participate in counterpart efforts within ANSI reported on that groups activities and progress. The group is continuing to make progress toward resolving the changes resulting from comments received with the last round of letter ballots and converting the ANSI document to conform with the ISO standard ``SMI'' format known in that community as GDMO. Most of the meeting was spent in detailed discussion of Version 0.9 of the MIB document. The net result was that the editor is to make a number of changes, the most important of which include the following: 1. Fix broken text in the description of the differences between version 0.9 and the previous version (or delete the revision history entirely); 2. Identify the version number of the ANSI SMT document which relates to the MIB document through an appropriate reference; 3. Place the appropriate text found in sister documents (like the dotx series) into Section 5, Overview; 1 4. Investigate renaming fddi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= experimental 8 to snmpFddi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= experimental 8 in the interest of consistency; (Editor's note: this can be done more easily when the subtree gets ``promoted'' to the transmission subtree) 5. Delete all references to the textual convention FddiTimerTwosComplement, replacing all such references to INTEGER; 6. Delete all references to the textual convention FddiTimeStamp, since, due to changes enumerated below, there are no longer any variables which utilize it; 7. Change the naming of several variables in order to obtain consistency -- the first example of that is the name of smtNumber becomes snmpFddiSMTNumber -- all variables will now begin with the prefix snmpFddi; 8. Add new explanatory text to snmpFddiSMTConnectionPolicy; 9. Delete snmpFddiSMTMsgTimeStamp and snmpFddiSMTTransitionTimeStamp and renumber snmpFddiSMTStationAction as a result; 10. Clone some clarifying, explanatory text from snmpFddiMACUpstreamNbr into snmpFddiMACOldUpstreamNbr; 11. Add a new enumeration of unknown(5) to snmpFddiMACDownstreamPORTType; 12. Change snmpFddiMACTMax, snmpFddiMACTMin, and snmpFddiMACTvxValue from read-write to read-only; 13. Delete the second, incorrect MAC from snmpFddiMACFrameMACCondition in two places in the document; 14. Create new variables corresponding to ANSI fddiMACFrameErrorThreshold, fddiMACFrameErrorRatio, and fddiMACUnaDaFlag; 15. Correct the semantics associated with snmpFddiATTACHMENTIMaxExpiration; 16. Define object identifiers for chipset types; and 17. Add several new contributors to the Acknowledgements section. While this list is long, these changes are relatively minor when viewed in the scope of the history of the document. The length is mainly a result of the detailed description of the changes. The most significant change is the deletion of 64 bit counters and the removal of all the 2 associated ugliness. The editor was asked to make a decision and to pen appropriate text if necessary in response to a rather lengthy discussion regarding ``detected'' and ''best effort'' counters. The editor was directed to make the above changes and submit the document for review and comment by the broader community through submission and publication as an Internet Draft. Following a brief period of review and comment to insure that the editor implemented the Working Group's wishes correctly, (e.g., a few weeks), it is the group's desire that unless there is widespread divisive discussion, the document be recommended for publication as an RFC as a Proposed Standard. The Trap document was not discussed due to the lack of available time. The last Agenda item was the status of the variables listed as optional in the ANSI document and therefore not included in the SNMP FDDI MIB document. The Working Group decided in Boulder that the optional variables would not be worked on further and that they would not be published at this time. It was decided that this could be revisited when and if the signals coming from the ANSI community become more clear, perhaps as the document goes from Proposed to Draft. This issue was placed on the Agenda because there were some individuals who disagreed with the result. There was no interest expressed by the attendees in reversing the decision at this time. The current text of the MIB and TRAP documents may be obtained via anonymous ftp as: o anonymous(guest)/pub/fddimib/fddi-mib.txt at cs.utk.edu and o anonymous(guest)/pub/fddimib/trap.txt at cs.utk.edu. Attendees Howard Brown brown@ctron.com Jeffrey Case case@cs.utk.edu Cho Chang chang_c@apollo.hp.com Chris Chiotasso chris@roswell.spartacus.com Paul Ciarfella ciarfella@levers.enet.dec.com Don Coolidge coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com Nabil Damouny Nadya El-Afandi nadya@network.com Joseph Golio golio@cray.com Jeremy Greene greene@coral.com Jim Kinder jdk@fibercom.com 3 Cheryl Krupczak clefor@secola.columbia.ncr.com Then Liu John LoVerso loverso@westford.ccur.com Ron Mackey Keith McCloghrie kzm@hls.com David Perkins dave_perkins@3com.com James Reeves jreeves@synoptics.com Greg Satz satz@cisco.com Dror Shindelman pbrenner@sparta.spartacus.com Kaj Tesink kaj@nvuxr.cc.bellcore.com Dean Throop throop@dg-rtp.dg.com Mike Turico mturico@mot.com Bert Williams bert@mailgate.synnet.com Mark Wood Jeff Young jsy@cray.com 4