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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Bob Stewart/Xyplex
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- CHARMIB Minutes
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- The Character MIB Working Group held its fourth meeting at the IETF
- meeting in St. Louis. Attendance is falling off a bit as we near
- completion, but we had representatives of several terminal server
- companies and other interested parties. Overall, the meeting showed
- good consensus and resulted in the completion of the business at hand.
- As a result, following edits based on the meeting and a final
- implementation report, we are ready to submit our documents to become
- proposed standards.
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- The following meeting Agenda was presented informally on the Character
- MIB Working Group mailing list before the meeting.
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- Agenda
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- o Discuss the drafts as distributed via the mailing list.
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- - Character MIB
- - RS-232-like MIB
- - Parallel-printer-like MIB
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- o Discuss implementations.
- o Recommend drafts for advancement to proposed standard.
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- The group pointed out minor editorial errors in all three documents.
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- We discussed the necessity of common values for types of hardware flow
- control and decided to let simple practicality win over architectural
- purity, adding values for CTS/RTS and DTR/DSR to the Character MIB flow
- control types.
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- After considerable discussion about including flow-control characters in
- the Character MIB's port character counts, we decided to leave them
- included but qualify the counts to be ``detected'' characters.
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- We discussed and approved the overall changes adding a synchronous group
- to the RS-232 MIB. We decided to differentiate between frames
- short-terminated due to aborts and those interrupted by modem signal
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- changes.
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- We discussed the implementation and operational cost of signal change
- counts in the RS-232 and Parallel MIBs and decided to leave them in
- pending an implementation report.
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- We agreed that all objects with ``Err'' in the name should have ``Errs''
- instead.
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- The only implementation in progress is being done by Xyplex for
- inclusion in a product this year. It is near completion and will
- provide the first implementation test.
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- Pending satisfactory edits and the completed implementation, the group
- agreed to recommend all three documents for advancement as proposed
- standards.
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- Attendees
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- Charles Bazaar bazaar@emulex.com
- Christopher Bucci bucci@pluto.dss.com
- Shawn Gallagher gallagher@quiver.enet.dec.com
- Tom Grant grant@xylogics.com
- Frank Kastenholz kasten@asherah.clearpoint.com
- Kenneth Key key@cs.utk.gdy
- Jim Kinder jdk@fibercom.com
- David Perkins dave\verb+_+perkins@3com.com
- Dean Throop throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
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