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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Oscar Newkerk/ DEC
The MSI working group met to discuss editing issues with the draft API
specification. The following changes were agreed to:
1. The method of passing optional arguments as an array of flags and
pointers will be changed to using explicit parameters in the
procedure calls. This will allow for easier implementations using
RPC.
2. The MSI document will be focused on defining management application
interfaces although it will include the msi_send_reply routine to
allow for replies to confirmed event reports and potential
manager-to-manager communications.
3. The MSI draft will be expanded to include explicit statements about
the services that will be provided to supply consistent service to
the management application independent of the underlying protocol.
This will be provided by adding a section to the document that
specifies explicit mappings from the MSI interfaces to each of the
underlying protocols.
The document will be updated to reflect the results of these decisions
and the new version placed in the internet-drafts directory.
The following are still open issues:
1. Specification of the services needed from an `on line MIB data
service'.
2. Specification of the method for supporting security in the
management operations.
3. Specification of the services needed to translate agent names to
addresses.
4. Bring the event section into alignment with he work in the OIM and
Alertman working groups.
It was agreed that there would be an ad hoc MSI working group meeting
before the IETF meeting in Vancouver to address these open issues. The
meeting will be in Seattle WA at a date to be determined by the working
group through the mailing list.
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ATTENDEES
Hossein Alaee hossein_alaee@3com.com
Douglas Bagnall bagnall_d@apollo.hp.com
Pablo Brenner sparte!pbrenner@uunet
Theodore Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com
Brian Handspicker bd@vines.dec.com
Frank Kastenholtz kasten@interlan.interlan.com
Lee LaBarre cel@mbunix.mitre.org
Greg Minshall minshall@kinetics.kinetics.com
Oscar Newkerk newkerk@decwet.dec.com
David Perkins dave_perkins@3com.com
Michael Reilly reilly@nsl.dec.com
Jonathan Saperia saperia%tcpjon@decwrl.dec.com
Steve Senum sjs@network.com
Jim Sheridan jsherida@ibm.com
Mark Sleeper
Lou Steinberg LOU@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU
Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.hp.com
John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu
David Waitzman djw@bbn.com
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