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- Network Management Area
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- Director(s):
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- o James Davin: jrd@ptt.lcs.mit.edu
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- Area Summary reported by James Davin/MIT
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- A number of Working Groups met at the St. Louis IETF meeting. Brief
- summaries of their activities are presented below. More detailed
- accounts are presented in the Minutes for each Working Group.
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- Also, at the St. Louis meeting, the SNMP Network Management Directorate
- met and considered five items of business.
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- 1. The Ethernet-like Interfaces MIB, as amended by the SNMP Working
- Group at St. Louis, was discussed and reviewed positively.
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- 2. The IP over AppleTalk MIB produced by the IP over Appletalk Working
- Group was discussed and reviewed positively.
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- 3. The state of the SMDS Interface Protocol MIB introduced to the SNMP
- Working Group at St. Louis was discussed.
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- 4. The current draft of the OSPF MIB produced by the OSPF Working
- Group was given a preliminary review in anticipation of its
- imminent completion. A list of comments was provided to the
- author.
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- 5. A document describing enhancements to the SNMP administrative model
- to provide better support for security and proxy configurations was
- discussed at length and reviewed positively after amendments
- designed to minimize change to existing infrastructure. The
- updated version of this document was subsequently distributed for
- wider review to the SNMP Security Working Group.
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- Internet Accounting (acct)
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- The Internet Accounting Working Group met at St. Louis and focused on
- definition of MIB objects for the collection of accounting information.
- They also spent some time on minor revisions of the accounting
- architecture document, which will be distributed soon as an Internet
- Draft. The Accounting Working Group is also coordinating with the
- Remote LAN Monitoring and Operational Statistics Working Group to assure
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- Bridge MIB (bridge)
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- The Bridge MIB Working Group met and, with specific amendments,
- recommended their consensus document for consideration as a Proposed
- Standard. One strictly informational question will be resolved via
- electronic mail. The approved Bridge MIB text will be distributed by
- electronic mail for working members to verify the agreed amendments.
- The revised text will be available before the next meeting.
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- During the Bridge MIB Working Group meeting, and also in the IETF
- Plenary session, presentations were made to clarify the IETF policy on
- the translation of network management definitions developed by other
- standards bodies into the SNMP idiom. A letter that addresses the
- particular case of the Bridge MIB effort has been incorporated into the
- Bridge MIB Working Group Minutes. Its three enumerated points capture
- the general policy for ``importing'' MIBs adopted by the IESG.
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- Character MIB (charmib)
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- The Character MIB Working Group met and reviewed the current working
- documents. These were recommended by the Working Group for
- consideration as Proposed Standards with specific amendments. Revised
- text reflecting these amendments will be available soon.
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- FDDI MIB (fddimib)
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- The FDDI MIB Working Group met and accomplished all goals set at its
- previous meeting. Work on defining instrumentation was completed, as
- was work on mapping actions in the ANSI specifications into appropriate
- SNMP MIB objects. The need for 64-bit integer MIB objects was obviated,
- and a document defining two SNMP traps to model FDDI events was
- introduced at this meeting.
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- Management Services Interface (msi)
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- The Management Services Interface Working Group met briefly at the St.
- Louis meeting and adjourned owing to low attendance and the absence of
- key individuals. The Working Group affirmed its decision that the
- interface is only relevant to management stations. Those assembled
- reviewed the list of outstanding issues and found two particularly
- problematic: (a) the translation between the OSI and SNMP information
- models and (b) the tension between the usefulness of an opaquely defined
- interface and the need to offer guidance to implementors.
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- The DECNet Phase IV MIB Working Group made many changes to the current
- document including significant reduction in the number of objects. The
- definition of events was relegated to a distinct document, generic
- portions of the X.25 instrumentation were excised, and the definition of
- conformance groups was revised. The Working Group reached consensus on
- the text as amended. Revised text will be available within four weeks.
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- Remote Lan Monitoring (rlanmib)
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- The Remote LAN Monitoring Working Group met and reviewed most of the
- current draft in detail. A revised draft will be posted to the mailing
- list soon. An interim Working Group meeting will be held in 4--6 weeks
- to continue discussion.
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- SNMP
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- The SNMP Working Group met and considered two documents. The Working
- Group recommended the Ethernet-like Interfaces MIB, with very minor
- amendments, for consideration by the IESG as a Proposed Standard. The
- approved text will be posted to the Working Group mailing list soon
- after the meeting. A document defining a SMDS Interface Protocol MIB
- was introduced to the Working Group in a presentation made by Kaj Tesink
- of Bellcore. The Working Group will consider this document further in
- subsequent meetings.
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