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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Jim Greuel/ HP
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- Minutes of June 8, 1990
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- Lan Manager MIB I Status:
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- Jim Greuel summarized the current status of the first LAN Manager MIB:
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- An RFC decision on LM MIB I is held up due to 2 issues:
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- o One of the 2 LM MIB subtrees is currently specified to reside under
- the management object id subtree (the same one RFC 1065 -- now some
- other RFC number I can't recall -- resides in). A number of
- individuals within the TCP/IP network management community have
- problems with this.
- o The IAB is concerned about vendor vs IAB control in cases where an
- attempt is being made to publicly define management objects for a
- proprietary service (e.g., LAN Manager).
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- The group addressed the first concern by agreeing to move all LAN
- Manager MIB objects into the experimental branch of the object
- registration tree.
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- Regarding the second item, Dave Crocker, the Network Management Area
- Director for the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), informed us
- that the IAB and IESG are working on operating procedures for public
- standardization efforts that relate to proprietary objects. Ours is not
- the only Working Group that falls into this category, and this is being
- addressed as a general issue, not one solely related to us. It was
- concluded that, until the IAB/IESG works this out, there is not a great
- deal our Working Group can do except operate in as open (and visible) a
- manner as possible. We agreed that the LAN Manager MIB Working Group
- would formally submit to the IAB/IESG, through (Dave Crocker) a request
- that the operating guidelines/criteria for groups such as ours be
- defined, and that RFC status be assigned to LM MIB I as soon as
- possible.
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- Dave also pointed out that ``constituency'' for the Working Group,
- representation from multiple organizations/companies, is an important
- issue (though IAB/IESG has not yet determined what ``adequate''
- constituency is). In addition, it may prove helpful to include in the
- working group minutes a list of companies that have stated an intent to
- release products based on the LM MIB. Working Group members will check
- if their respective companies are in a position to make such a
- statement.
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- Two minor changes to LM MIB I proposed by Dave Perkins and Evan McGinnis
- (in addition to the previously described object ID change) were agreed
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- o Replace the bit field used in svSvcStatus with a table of distinct
- INTEGER objects. This will make it easier for the management
- station to interpret this data
- o Remove the CMOT example. It is based on the old CMOT spec. A CMOT
- example can be included as a second document later if deemed
- necessary.
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- Jim Greuel, the LM MIB I editor, will submit the LM MIB I documents
- (with the appropriate object ID changes) to Marshall Rose for review,
- then to Dave for inclusion in the Internet-Draft directory.
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- Lan Manager MIB II
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- Eric Peterson of Microsoft outlined his ideas for a second LAN Manager
- MIB, based at least in part, on LAN Manager 2.0. He will put together
- an LM MIB II draft defining objects for the following areas:
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- o Additional file/print sharing statistics (supported by LAN Manager
- 1.0 as well as 2.0).
- o LM 2.0 user accounting, including domain information.
- o LM 2.0 fault tolerance.
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- We decided to use the following guidelines in defining LM MIB II:
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- o Define primarily read-only objects, though some writable objects
- will be (cautiously) considered.
- o Restrict the number of objects to less than 200.
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- Eric will post the LM MIB II draft to the mailing list 2-3 weeks before
- the July 31 IETF meeting.
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- Next Meeting
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- We agreed to meet at the next IETF Meeting in Vancouver, BC on July 31 -
- August 3. The group will be updated on LM MIB I status and discuss the
- LM MIB II draft.
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- Attendees
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- Hossein Alaee hossein_alaee@3com.com
- Dave Crocker dcrocker@nsl.dec.com
- Jim Gruel jimg%hpcndpc@hplabs.hp.com
- Dwaine Kinghorn microsoft!dwaink
- Linda Kray
- Chia Chee Kuan kuan@twg.com
- Evan McGinnis sem@bridge2.3com.com
- David Perkins dave_perkins@3com.com
- Eric Peterson
- Jim Reinstedler
- Robert Rench
- Robert Ritz
- Marshall Rose mrose@psi.com
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