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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_



Reported by Jeff Case/UTenn

FDDIMIB Minutes

The FDDI MIB Working Group last met on Monday afternoon, March 11, 1991,
in St.  Louis, Missouri.  The meeting was held in conjunction with the
Twentieth meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

The Minutes of the previous meeting (Boulder) were adopted as
distributed with one correction:  the discussion of the decision to
forego consideration of the optional variables should read ``...  the
optional variables might be considered when the document goes from
Proposed to Draft.''  The Minutes as originally distributed read
``...Draft to Proposed.''

The meeting began with a status report.  As usual, there were several
attendees who were new to the Working Group.  The goals of the group
were reviewed for their benefit.  Version 0.9 of ``FDDI Management
Information Base'' is nearing completion.  Version 0.1 of ``SNMP Trap
Definitions for FDDI Management'' is new.  There was a brief discussion
of the status of various early implementations of previous versions of
the draft.

The members of the Working Group who also participate in counterpart
efforts within ANSI reported on that groups activities and progress.
The group is continuing to make progress toward resolving the changes
resulting from comments received with the last round of letter ballots
and converting the ANSI document to conform with the ISO standard
``SMI'' format known in that community as GDMO.

Most of the meeting was spent in detailed discussion of Version 0.9 of
the MIB document.  The net result was that the editor is to make a
number of changes, the most important of which include the following:


  1. Fix broken text in the description of the differences between
     version 0.9 and the previous version (or delete the revision
     history entirely);

  2. Identify the version number of the ANSI SMT document which relates
     to the MIB document through an appropriate reference;

  3. Place the appropriate text found in sister documents (like the dotx
     series) into Section 5, Overview;

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  4. Investigate renaming fddi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=  experimental 8  to
     snmpFddi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=  experimental 8  in the interest of
     consistency; (Editor's note:  this can be done more easily when the
     subtree gets ``promoted'' to the transmission subtree)

  5. Delete all references to the textual convention
     FddiTimerTwosComplement, replacing all such references to INTEGER;

  6. Delete all references to the textual convention FddiTimeStamp,
     since, due to changes enumerated below, there are no longer any
     variables which utilize it;

  7. Change the naming of several variables in order to obtain
     consistency -- the first example of that is the name of smtNumber
     becomes snmpFddiSMTNumber -- all variables will now begin with the
     prefix snmpFddi;

  8. Add new explanatory text to snmpFddiSMTConnectionPolicy;

  9. Delete snmpFddiSMTMsgTimeStamp and snmpFddiSMTTransitionTimeStamp
     and renumber snmpFddiSMTStationAction as a result;

 10. Clone some clarifying, explanatory text from snmpFddiMACUpstreamNbr
     into snmpFddiMACOldUpstreamNbr;

 11. Add a new enumeration of unknown(5) to
     snmpFddiMACDownstreamPORTType;

 12. Change snmpFddiMACTMax, snmpFddiMACTMin, and snmpFddiMACTvxValue
     from read-write to read-only;

 13. Delete the second, incorrect MAC from snmpFddiMACFrameMACCondition
     in two places in the document;

 14. Create new variables corresponding to ANSI
     fddiMACFrameErrorThreshold, fddiMACFrameErrorRatio, and
     fddiMACUnaDaFlag;

 15. Correct the semantics associated with
     snmpFddiATTACHMENTIMaxExpiration;

 16. Define object identifiers for chipset types; and

 17. Add several new contributors to the Acknowledgements section.


While this list is long, these changes are relatively minor when viewed
in the scope of the history of the document.  The length is mainly a
result of the detailed description of the changes.  The most significant
change is the deletion of 64 bit counters and the removal of all the

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associated ugliness.

The editor was asked to make a decision and to pen appropriate text if
necessary in response to a rather lengthy discussion regarding
``detected'' and ''best effort'' counters.

The editor was directed to make the above changes and submit the
document for review and comment by the broader community through
submission and publication as an Internet Draft.  Following a brief
period of review and comment to insure that the editor implemented the
Working Group's wishes correctly, (e.g., a few weeks), it is the group's
desire that unless there is widespread divisive discussion, the document
be recommended for publication as an RFC as a Proposed Standard.

The Trap document was not discussed due to the lack of available time.

The last Agenda item was the status of the variables listed as optional
in the ANSI document and therefore not included in the SNMP FDDI MIB
document.  The Working Group decided in Boulder that the optional
variables would not be worked on further and that they would not be
published at this time.  It was decided that this could be revisited
when and if the signals coming from the ANSI community become more
clear, perhaps as the document goes from Proposed to Draft.  This issue
was placed on the Agenda because there were some individuals who
disagreed with the result.  There was no interest expressed by the
attendees in reversing the decision at this time.

The current text of the MIB and TRAP documents may be obtained via
anonymous ftp as:

   o  anonymous(guest)/pub/fddimib/fddi-mib.txt at cs.utk.edu and
   o  anonymous(guest)/pub/fddimib/trap.txt at cs.utk.edu.


Attendees

Howard Brown             [e-mail]
Jeffrey Case             [e-mail]
Cho Chang                [e-mail]
Chris Chiotasso          [e-mail]
Paul Ciarfella           [e-mail]
Don Coolidge             [e-mail]
Nabil Damouny
Nadya El-Afandi          [e-mail]
Joseph Golio             [e-mail]
Jeremy Greene            [e-mail]
Jim Kinder               [e-mail]

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Cheryl Krupczak          [e-mail]
Then Liu
John LoVerso             [e-mail]
Ron Mackey
Keith McCloghrie         [e-mail]
David Perkins            [e-mail]
James Reeves             [e-mail]
Greg Satz                [e-mail]
Dror Shindelman          [e-mail]
Kaj Tesink               [e-mail]
Dean Throop              [e-mail]
Mike Turico              [e-mail]
Bert Williams            [e-mail]
Mark Wood
Jeff Young               [e-mail]



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