CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Marshall Rose/PSI
SNMP Minutes
Met jointly with Transmission MIB Working Group.
Administrative:
The group was reminded of the difference between the ``snmp'' and
``snmp-wg'' discussion groups, and urged to use the appropriate list
when sending a message.
Chuck Davin, IETF Area Director for Network Management, announced that
the Transmission MIB Working Group had completed its Charter (producing
several of the MIBs discussed at this meeting) and thanked the group for
its effort. Following this, the Transmission MIB Working Group was
disbanded. Any residual business will be taken on by the SNMP Working
Group.
The group was encouraged to study the SIP MIB, as it will be the first
MIB on the agenda of the next meeting of the SNMP Working Group.
DS1:
There was some discussion on whether the boundary value for the
ds1ValidIntervals should be 0 or 97. The former value was decided.
Consensus: Recommend advancement to proposes standard status.
DS3:
There was some question as to whether a DS3 sendCode existed. If so, it
should be added as a loopback feature in the ds3Loopback object.
However, it was not felt that inclusion of the feature, if it existed,
was necessary to advance this document (the feature could be added at a
later date). As such, Tracy Cox was tasked to determine the existence
of this feature within three weeks. At that time, the document should
advance.
Consensus: Recommend advancement to proposed standard status.
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MIB-II:
The use of the PhysAddress textual convention was clarified.
There was lengthy discussion on the optional use of the
implementation-dependent small positive integer when identifying
instances of the IP address and routing tables (e.g., when two routing
entries have the same destination). After too much discussion, this
feature, introduced in MIB-II, was removed, in effect restoring the
precise identification mechanisms used for these tables in MIB-I. It was
suggested that a future work item would be an ``IP Extensions MIB''
which would provide support for these concepts.
The ipRoutingDiscards object was added, which provides information when
routes are lost due to a lack of buffer space.
The definition of the egpNeighEventTrigger object was clarified.
Consensus: Recommend advancement to draft standard status.
Concise MIB Definitions:
The ``INTEGER OPTIONAL'' magic was removed, to align with the decision
with
MIB-II.
Consensus: Recommend advancement to proposed standard status.
Trap Definitions:
There was discussion as to why this document should be informational
rather than being placed on the standards-track.
Consensus: Recommend publication as informational RFC.
Generic Interface Extensions:
The ifExtensTestUser object was removed as being redundant.
Consensus: Recommend advancement to proposed standard status.
Token Bus MIB:
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No substantive discussion.
Consensus: Recommend advancement to proposed standard status.
Token Ring MIB:
One of the document's three editors publically introduced concerns which
had been thought by the Chair to have been decided some four months
earlier. Due to the lack of time in the meeting (already overtime),
there was no possibility of resolving this at the meeting. The Chair
attempted to resolve this in Open IESG plenary, and was initially
successful. However, the IESG reversed its position the next morning
and remanded the MIB back to the Working Group.
No Consensus: Discuss at later time.
Ether MIB:
There were comments from many parties that this document required
significant re-work. As such, discussion was postponed.
Consensus: Remand document for futher discussion.
Attendees
Anne Ambler anne@spider.co.uk
Karl Auerbach karl@eng.sun.com
Fred Baker fbaker@acc.com
Ken Brinkerhoff
Ronald Broersma ron@nosc.mil
Jack Brown jbrown@huachuca-emh8.army.mil
Theodore Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com
Jeffrey Buffum jbuffum@apollo.hp.com
Jeffrey Case case@cs.utk.edu
Chris Chiotasso chris@roswell.spartacus.com
Paul Ciarfella ciarfella@levers.enet.dec.com
Robert Collet /pn=robert.d.collet/o=us.sprint/admd=telemail/c=us/@sprint.com
Tracy Cox tacox@sabre.bellcore.com
James (Chuck) Davin jrd@ptt.lcs.mit.edu
Kurt Dobbins dobbins@ctron.com
Nadya El-Afandi nadya@network.com
Gary Ellis garye@hpspd.spd.hp.com
Fred Engel
Mike Erlinger mike@mti.com
Richard Fox sytek!rfox@sun.com
Karen Frisa karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu
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Chris Gunner gunner@osicwg.enet.dec.com
Ken Hibbard hibbard@xylogics.com
Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu
Ken Jones uunet!konkord!ksj
Satish Joshi sjoshi@synoptics.com
Frank Kastenholz kasten@interlan.com
Shimshon Kaufman
Jim Kinder jdk@fibercom.com
Alex Koifman akoifman@bbn.com
Christopher Kolb kolb@psi.com
Cheryl Krupczak clefor@secola.columbia.ncr.com
Peter Lin lin@eng.vitalink.com
John Lunny jlunny@twg.com
Carl Malamud carl@malamud.com
Keith McCloghrie kzm@hls.com
Donna McMaster mcmaster@davidsys.com
Lynn Monsanto monsanto@sun.com
David Perkins dave_perkins@3com.com
Jim Reinstedler jimr@ub.com
Anil Rijsinghani anil@levers.enet.dec.com
Kary Robertson
Marshall Rose mrose@psi.com
L. Michael Sabo dockmaster.ncs.mil
Jon Saperia saperia@tcpjon.enet.dec.com
John Seligson farcomp!johnsel@apple.com
Sam Sjogren sjogren@tgv.com
Mark Sleeper mws@sparta.com
Lance Sprung
Michael St. Johns stjohns@umd5.umd.edu
Bob Stewart rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com
Emil Sturniolo
Kaj Tesink
Dean Throop throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
William Townsend townsend@xylogics.com
Maurice Turcotte dnmrt@rm1.uucp
Kannan Varadhan kannan@oar.net
Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.cup.hp.com
Warren Vik wmv@i88.isc.com
David Waitzman djw@bbn.com
Steven Waldbusser waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu
Dan Wintringham danw@osc.edu
David Wood dcmwood@spot.colorado.edu
Fei Xu fei@tdd.sj.nec.com
Jeff Young jsy@cray.com
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