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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Frank Kastenholz/Clearpoint Research Corp
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- Minutes of the Ethernet MIB Working Group (ETHERMIB)
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- The Ethernet MIB Working Group met at the Santa Fe IETF meeting on
- Thursday, November 21, 1991.
-
- The first order of business was to review the administrative issues
- surrounding the Working Group:
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- 1. The charter and the ``Pax Davin'' were reviews and discussed at
- length. The fact that we will strictly adhere to the rules of
- charter and the ``Pax Davin'' was openly discussed and agreed to by
- all present.
-
- 2. The Working Group decided to try to have the documents required by
- the charter ready for publication at the same time as the MIB is
- put forward for Draft Standard status. This would be in about 6
- months. These two documents are:
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- (a) An explanation for the assignment of MANDATORY status to
- optional 802.3 variables, and
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- (b) An implementation report on the MIB variables.
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- (c) A mailing list will need to be created.
- [This has been done -- enet_mib@europa.clearpoint.com.]
-
-
- After discussing administrative issues, the Working Group turned its
- attention to the MIB itself. The following items were discussed (thanks
- to Anil Rijsinghani of DEC for his notes of the meeting). Any changes
- to the MIB will be made to the version to be put forward for DRAFT
- STANDARD status.
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- 1. The Working Group discussed the text in the MIB which allows an
- implementation to return 0 for counters for which the underlying
- events are not counted. It was realized that this wording makes it
- impossible to disambiguate the two cases of not implementing a
- counter and and 0 occurences of the underlying event.
-
- The Working Group discussed the issue and a vote was taken on it.
- The group decided to remove the offending text from the document.
- The Working Group realized that for variables to which this text
- applies, there are four alternatives which should apply:
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- (a) Delete the variable from the MIB entirely as its utility has
- not been demonstrated by wide implementation experience,
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- (b) Move the variable into a separate optional MIB Group,
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- (c) The implementor must figure out some way to support the
- variable, and
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- (d) The implementor would not implement the variable, return
- noSuchName errors whenever the variable is accessed and not
- claim compliance to the MIB.
-
- 2. The possibility of an 802.3 specific (as opposed to DIX Ethernet
- specific or common to both) mib group was discussed. It was
- decided to continue this discussion on the mailing list.
-
- 3. The dot3StatsExcessiveDeferrals object is implemented in only one
- chip out of 14 studied by Anil Rijsinghani. It should either be
- made optional or removed from the MIB. The other mandatory objects
- are implementable with commonly available chips and supporting
- software.
-
- This will be considered for further study on the mailing list.
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- 4. The TDR definition in the MIB is not sufficient, given that IEEE
- 802.3 does not define this object. It does not describe the two
- conditions under which the object is defined, and how to
- distinguish between them (short and open cable faults). Anil
- Rijsinghani will contribute text to clarify this.
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- Attendees
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- Steve Alexander stevea@i88.isc.com
- Miriam Amos Nihart miriam@decwet.zso.dec.com
- James Barnes barnes@xylogics.com
- Steve Bostock steveb@novell.com
- Jack Brown jbrown@huachuca-emh8.army.mil
- Theodore Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com
- Philip Budne phil@shiva.com
- Jeffrey Buffum buffum@vos.stratus.com
- James Codespote jpcodes@tycho.ncsc.mil
- Tracy Cox tacox@sabre.bellcore.com
- Dave Cullerot cullerot@ctron.com
- James Davin jrd@ptt.lcs.mit.edu
- Jeff Erwin
- Bill Fardy fardy@ctron.com
- Shawn Gallagher gallagher@quiver.enet.dec.com
- Greg Hollingsworth gregh@mailer.jhuapl.edu
- William Jackson jackson@manta.nosc.mil
- Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu
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- Ronald Jacoby rj@sgi.com
- Satish Joshi sjoshi@synoptics.com
- Scott Kaplan scott@ftp.com
- Frank Kastenholz kasten@europa.clearpoint.com
- Manu Kaycee kaycee@ctron.com
- Mark Kepke mak@cnd.hp.com
- Yoav Kluger ykluger@fibhaifa.com
- Ron Lau rlau@synoptics.com
- Evan McGinnis bem@3com.com
- Lynn Monsanto monsanto@sun.com
- David Perkins dperkins@synoptics.com
- Anil Rijsinghani anil@levers.enet.dec.com
- M. Richard Rose
- Marshall Rose mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
- Jonathan Saperia saperia@tcpjon.enet.dec.com
- Mark Schaefer schaefer@davidsys.com
- Timon Sloane peernet!timon@uunet.uu.net
- Bob Stewart rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com
- Bruce Taber taber@interlan.com
- Kaj Tesink kaj@nvuxr.cc.bellcore.com
- Dean Throop throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
- Maurice Turcotte dnmrt@interlan.com
- Steven Waldbusser waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu
- Frank Welch
- Jeremy Wilson
- June-Kang Yang natadm!yang@uunet.uu.net
- Wengyik Yeong yeongw@psi.com
- John Ziegler ziegler@artel.com
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