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- SNMP over a Multi-protocol Internet (mpsnmp)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Theodore Brunner <tob@thumper.bellcore.com>
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- Internet Area Director(s)
- Stev Knowles <stev@ftp.com>
- David Piscitello <dave@mail.bellcore.com>
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- Description of Working Group:
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- Within the SNMP management framework, the philosophy is to place the
- burden of management processing on managers, not on agents. As the
- Internet evolves to accommodate multiple protocol suites, there may be
- SNMP agents in the Internet that do not support the recommended method
- of exchanging SNMP messages using UDP/IP. In these instances, the
- proper model for managing a multiprotocol internet should be that
- agents must only be required to support one method of exchanging SNMP
- messages (i.e., encapsulation of SNMP messages in *one* of the
- protocol suites of the multi-protocol internet), and the managers
- support as many encapsulation methods as needed (potentially, all) to
- communicate with all resources it manages.
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- The SNMP over a Multi-protocol Internet Working Group is chartered to identify
- and provide solutions for communication between SNMP agents and
- managers in those configurations where the recommended method of
- exchanging SNMP messages using UDP/IP cannot be used; i.e., where a
- managed resource supports a single protocol suite that protocol is not
- UDP/IP but another protocol suite of the multi-protocol internet (for
- example, OSI, AppleTalk, or XNS/IPX).
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- Questions to be considered include: What are the appropriate protocol
- suites to consider? What is the appropriate method of encapsulating
- SNMP? What are the addressing considerations for SNMP messages What
- new MIB Modules are required? What (positive) effect can SNMP-based
- management have on resource-sharing among multiple protocols?
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Post an Internet-Draft describing operation of SNMP over OSI.
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- Done Post an Internet-Draft describing operation of SNMP over IPX.
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- Done Post an Internet-Draft describing operation of SNMP over Appletalk.
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- Done Submit a document describing the operation of SNMP over OSI as a
- Proposed Standard.
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- Done Submit a document describing the operation of SNMP over IPX as a
- Proposed Standard.
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- Done Submit a document describing the operation of SNMP over Appletalk
- as a Proposed Standard.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- No Current Internet drafts.
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- Request For Comments:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
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- RFC1418 PS Mar 93 SNMP over OSI
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- RFC1419 PS Mar 93 SNMP over AppleTalk
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- RFC1420 PS Mar 93 SNMP over IPX
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