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Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/21/92
INTERIM_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Jeff Case/UTenn
Minutes of the Uninterruptible Power Supply Working Group (UPSMIB)
The UPSMIB Working Group held its first meeting on October 16, 1992 in
Dallas, Texas. This meeting was scheduled, as discussed at the
formulative BOF, to coincide with the NETWORLD trade show held earlier
that same week. This scheduling was at the request of the Working Group
in order to maximize productivity while minimizing impact on travel
budgets.
The meeting began with introductions, circulation of the attendance
sheet, and other administrative matters.
The second portion of the meeting was devoted to data collection. The
attendees were divided into data providers and data collectors.
Approximately one data provider was allocated per vendor represented.
Approximately one data collector was allocated per MIB group. Data was
collected for the cross product of each represented product and each
proposed MIB object class. Each was rated using the following key:
UI: Unimplementable in this product.
SM: Static (constant) determined at time of manufacture.
SC: Static (constant) determined at time of configuration or
via a set request.
SD: Always returns a static constant default value (such as
unknown or noneOfTheBelow).
DR: Can be implemented dynamic read/only, i.e., to reflect
current values of instrumentation in the running system.
DW: Can be implemented dynamic read/write.
NC: No comment -- no data provided.
This data was collected to help assess the implementability of each
object. There were, as anticipated, several side benefits from the
effort.
o First, it provided opportunities for Working Group members to work
together on a shared goal -- it got the members talking to each
other in a non-confrontational setting. As a result, members got
to know one another better.
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o Second, it caused members to consider each MIB variable closely and
uncovered considerable vagueness in the semantic content of many of
the description clauses.
o Third, it identified meta-issues such as the difference between
precision and accuracy. The matrix will be posted to the mailing
list: ups-mib@cs.utk.edu (ups-mib-request@cs.utk.edu for
administrative add/change requests).
The third phase of the meeting was devoted to discussion of the results
of the survey, group by group. The editor was directed to make changes
in the objects in the next draft as a result of these discussions. Not
all groups were discussed owing to the limited time available in a one
day meeting.
The final phase of the meeting was discussion of the future. The Group
elected to not meet at the 25th IETF plenary due to a time conflict with
the COMDEX show. A meeting at the COMDEX show was considered briefly
but the Chair is unable to leave the plenary in order to meet with the
Working Group in another city while the plenary is being held in
Washington. The mailing list will be used to continue discussions and
to decide on the next meeting date(s).
Attendees
Mark Allgeier
John Bell garringer@compuserve.com
Tom Brennan brennan@exide.com
Jeff Case case@cs.utk.edu
Yu Chin 76500.3160@compuserve.com
Roger Draper rdraper@cerf.net
Bill Elliot
Theodore Greene
William Humphreys
Rich Johnson
Steve Loboyko 72360.2436@compuserve.com
Jess Marinez
Lawren Markle
Andrew McCartney
Gary Mook
Bob Nerz
Rod Pullen s.shepard@deltec.com
Doug Rademacher
James Rigney 76500.3160@compuserve.com
Adam Stolinski stolinsk@cerf.net
Grek Wilterdink
Pete Yoest
Brian Young
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