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- Ethernet MIB (ethermib)
-
- Charter
-
- Chair(s):
- Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com>
-
- Network Management Area Director(s)
- J.R. Davin <davin@bellcore.com>
-
- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:enet_mib@ftp.com
- To Subscribe: enet_mib-request@ftp.com
- Archive: not available
-
- Status: concluded
-
- Description of Working Group:
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- This Working Group is charged with resolving the outstanding
- conformance issues with the Ethernet MIB in preparation for
- its elevation from Proposed to Draft Standard status.
- Specifically, this Working Group shall:
-
- (1) Develop a document explaining the rationale for assigning
- MANDATORY status to MIB variables which are optional in
- the relevant IEEE 802.3 specification (the technical
- basis for the Internet Ethernet MIB). This shall not be a
- standards-track document.
-
- (2) Develop an implementation report on the Ethernet MIB.
- This report shall cover MIB variables which are
- implemented in both Ethernet interface chips, and in
- software (i.e., drivers), and discuss the issues
- pertaining to both. This report shall also summarize
- field experience with the MIB variables, especially
- concentrating on those variables which are in dispute.
- This document shall not be a standards-track document.
- While the Ethernet MIB is progressing through the
- standardization process, this document shall be
- periodically updated to reflect the latest implementation
- and operational experience.
-
- (3) Work to reconcile the differences regarding MANDATORY and
- OPTIONAL MIB variables with the IEEE 802.3 Management
- Specification.
-
- (4) Extend explicit invitations to the members, reviewers,
- and participants of the IEEE 802.3 committee to
- participate in the Working Group's efforts. This will
- ensure that as much Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 expertise
- as possible is available.
-
- (5) Maintain a liaison with the IEEE 802.3 committee. All
- documents produced by the Working Group will be forwarded
- to the IEEE 802.3 committee for their consideration as
- contributions to their efforts.
-
- (6) Modify the ``grouping'' of variables in the MIB, in the
- light of the implementation and operational experience
- gained, in order to effect the desired conformance
- groupings.
-
- This Working Group is chartered to make only changes to the
- MIB that fall into the following categories:
-
- (1) Division of variables into MIB groups. This may
- necessitate adding or deleting groups and conceptual
- tables and moving variables among said groups and
- conceptual tables. Doing so may require the addition or
- deletion of variables necessary to support the conceptual
- tables (e.g., the ...Table, ...Entry, and ...Index types of
- variables). These changes may be necessary to align
- the MIB with the work of other standards bodies, the
- needs of implementors, and the needs of network managers
- in the Internet.
-
- (2) Changing the conformance requirements of the MIB groups
- in order to align the MIB with the work of other
- standards bodies, the needs of implementors, and the
- needs of network managers in the Internet.
-
- (3) Deleting variables from the MIB on the basis of
- implementation and operational experience showing that
- the variables are either unimplementable or have little
- practical operational value.
-
- The Working Group is explicitly barred from making changes to
- the definition or syntax of objects nor may the Working Group
- add objects to the MIB except as may be required by Point 1
- above.
-
- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Draft Variable Status Rationale document.
-
- Done Develop Implementation Report.
-
-
- Internet-Drafts:
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- No Current Internet drafts.
-
- RFC's:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
- ------- -- ---------- -----------------------------------------
- RFC1369 Oct 92 Implementation Notes and Experience for The Internet
- Ethernet MIB
-
- RFC1398 DS Feb 93 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like
- Interface Types
-