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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Lee LaBarre/MITRE
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- MINUTES
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- The OIM WG met at the Florida IETF meeting for one morning. The meeting
- was primarily for dissemination of information and to seek feedback on
- the OIM activities. Topics discussed were:
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- o CMOT Agreements on CMIS/P IS
- o Interoperability Lab at DEC's NSL
- o Testing of CMOT Implementations
- o The Internet MIB and MIB-II
- o Management Functions for event reporting and logging
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- CMOT Agreements on CMIS/P IS
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- Brian Handspicker provided an overview of the draft agreements for
- amending the CMOT RFC in accordance with the International Standard for
- CMIS and CMIP. The OIM will reference the agreements coming out of the
- OSI Implementors Workshop NMSIG for CMIS and CMIP. We are requesting
- review of those NMSIG agreements so that we may provide input to the
- NMSIG meeting the week of 12 March. Comments should be in to Brian and
- Lee by 6 March. Of course you will need a copy of the agreements to
- comment on. We will send a copy to the distribution list ASAP. It is
- important that these agreements be in final form for the March meeting
- since a request will be made to put them into the OIW stable agreements.
- Once there, they cannot be changed without great difficulty. We need
- stable agreements on which to base stable implementations.
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- The agreements will cover CMIS/P, the underlying services required for
- use with TCP/IP (CMOT) and for use with OSI protocols, and policy on the
- use of associations.
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- Agreements will be developed in two phases: Phase I will include
- agreements on CMIP IS and its use with MIB-I. The current RFC 1095 rules
- for identifying MIB instances will be rertained. Phase II will include
- agreements on the use of the Phase I agreements on CMIP, agreements on
- the use of MIB-II and the OSI SMI, and agreements on the management
- functions. Again we will seek alignment with agreements developed by
- the OIW - where appropriate.
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- Interoperability Lab at NSL
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- Dave Crocker described the NSL Lab that has been set up for the purpose
- of interoperability testing - called OpenLab. The lab will provide
- space, power, air conditioning, etc. only. Access to the lab is
- convenient - no escort is needed. Room is currently available for 5 to
- 10 people to work in the lab. The area can be quickly expanded to
- accomodate 30 - 50 people. The lab will be open on 15 March, but Dave
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- says that anyone wishing to use it before that date may do so by making
- arrangements with him. Currently no charge is required. But that may
- change.
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- Although the lab space is being provided by DEC, DEC will not control or
- oversee the operations of the lab. Security for the lab will be
- provided by a guard who controls access to the facilities by authorized
- individuals.
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- For further information contact Dave Crocker at dcrocker@nsl.dec.com or
- dcrocker@decwrl.dec.com or call (415) 688-6820.
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- Brian Handspicker will be developing a plan for use of the lab to test
- CMOT implementations. The plan will allow for testing of current CMOT
- implementations based on RFC1095 as well as CMIP IS based
- implementations. Contact Brian for more information especially if you
- want to do testing of RFC 1095 implementations. Brian is at
- bd@vines.enet.dec.com.
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- Testing
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- Tom Halcin of HP is developing a test plan for interoperability testing
- of CMOT implementations. Phase I testing will include the MIB I defined
- in RFC 1066, and RFC 1095 CMOT and IS based CMOT. Essential for this
- testing are agreements on marching rules for MIB-I objects, as discussed
- below.
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- MIB
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- Lee LaBarre provided an overview of the OIM MIB-II Internet-Draft which
- is available at the NIC. The draft recasts the proposed MIB-II into the
- OSI SMI in accordance with the ISO DP 10165-4 Guidelines for Managed
- Objects. Attributes are added to align with the ISO requirement to
- assign distinguished attributes to every managed object class.
- Inheritance from the object "top" is specified. SNMP traps are included
- in the MIB as events assigned to specific objects.
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- The OIM MIB-II draft specifies matching rules to each attribute in the
- MIB for the purpose of applying CMIS Filtering. Such specification is
- also required for MIB-I attributes (subset of MIB-II) for the purpose of
- phase I agreements and interoperability testing. Comments are requested
- ASAP on the Matching Rules specified for the MIB-I subset of attributes
- specified in the OIM MIB-II draft. Please send comments to Tom Halcin
- (halcinLee LaBarre (cel@mbunix.mitre.org).
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- Management Functions
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- Lee Labarre has written a tutorial (specification) on event reporting,
- logging, and alarm management functions. It describes the objects
- required by ISO for these functions, and the models by which the
- functions were developed. The Internet Alertman WG effort on event flow
- control is incorporated into the paper. The paper will be submitted as
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