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- Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/21/92
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- INTERIM_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Jeff Case/UTenn
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- Minutes of the Uninterruptible Power Supply Working Group (UPSMIB)
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- The UPSMIB Working Group held its first meeting on October 16, 1992 in
- Dallas, Texas. This meeting was scheduled, as discussed at the
- formulative BOF, to coincide with the NETWORLD trade show held earlier
- that same week. This scheduling was at the request of the Working Group
- in order to maximize productivity while minimizing impact on travel
- budgets.
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- The meeting began with introductions, circulation of the attendance
- sheet, and other administrative matters.
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- The second portion of the meeting was devoted to data collection. The
- attendees were divided into data providers and data collectors.
- Approximately one data provider was allocated per vendor represented.
- Approximately one data collector was allocated per MIB group. Data was
- collected for the cross product of each represented product and each
- proposed MIB object class. Each was rated using the following key:
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- UI: Unimplementable in this product.
- SM: Static (constant) determined at time of manufacture.
- SC: Static (constant) determined at time of configuration or
- via a set request.
- SD: Always returns a static constant default value (such as
- unknown or noneOfTheBelow).
- DR: Can be implemented dynamic read/only, i.e., to reflect
- current values of instrumentation in the running system.
- DW: Can be implemented dynamic read/write.
- NC: No comment -- no data provided.
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- This data was collected to help assess the implementability of each
- object. There were, as anticipated, several side benefits from the
- effort.
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- o First, it provided opportunities for Working Group members to work
- together on a shared goal -- it got the members talking to each
- other in a non-confrontational setting. As a result, members got
- to know one another better.
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- o Second, it caused members to consider each MIB variable closely and
- uncovered considerable vagueness in the semantic content of many of
- the description clauses.
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- o Third, it identified meta-issues such as the difference between
- precision and accuracy. The matrix will be posted to the mailing
- list: ups-mib@cs.utk.edu (ups-mib-request@cs.utk.edu for
- administrative add/change requests).
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- The third phase of the meeting was devoted to discussion of the results
- of the survey, group by group. The editor was directed to make changes
- in the objects in the next draft as a result of these discussions. Not
- all groups were discussed owing to the limited time available in a one
- day meeting.
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- The final phase of the meeting was discussion of the future. The Group
- elected to not meet at the 25th IETF plenary due to a time conflict with
- the COMDEX show. A meeting at the COMDEX show was considered briefly
- but the Chair is unable to leave the plenary in order to meet with the
- Working Group in another city while the plenary is being held in
- Washington. The mailing list will be used to continue discussions and
- to decide on the next meeting date(s).
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- Attendees
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- Mark Allgeier
- John Bell garringer@compuserve.com
- Tom Brennan brennan@exide.com
- Jeff Case case@cs.utk.edu
- Yu Chin 76500.3160@compuserve.com
- Roger Draper rdraper@cerf.net
- Bill Elliot
- Theodore Greene
- William Humphreys
- Rich Johnson
- Steve Loboyko 72360.2436@compuserve.com
- Jess Marinez
- Lawren Markle
- Andrew McCartney
- Gary Mook
- Bob Nerz
- Rod Pullen s.shepard@deltec.com
- Doug Rademacher
- James Rigney 76500.3160@compuserve.com
- Adam Stolinski stolinsk@cerf.net
- Grek Wilterdink
- Pete Yoest
- Brian Young
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