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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Steve Kille/ISODE
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- Minutes of the SNMP Application Management BOF (SAM)
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- The key result of the SAM BOF was to propose the establishment of a new
- IETF working group, Mail and Directory Management (MADMAN).
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- Background
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- The BOF was called by Steve Kille, for the following reasons:
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- o A belief that this area was of general interest, and merited an
- activity of IETF standardisation.
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- o A specification produced by Steve Kille, Dave Partain, Thomas
- Lenggenhager, and Wengyik Yeong, was submitted as input to the
- meeting and had been implemented by the ISODE Consortium.
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- o Knowledge that at least three other firms had implemented
- equivalent functionality.
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- The goals of the BOF were to determine if there was sufficient interest
- to establish a working group on this topic and to produce IETF
- specifications.
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- Related Activity
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- This activity cuts across many of the IETF areas. The following Working
- Groups were identified as being relevant.
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- o X.400 Operations
- o IFIP 6.5 on Email Management
- o Host Resources MIB
- o DNS MIB
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- Subsequent to the meeting, Steve Kille obtained a copy of the CDC MIB,
- which can be made available to anyone interested.
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- Discussion
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- Attendees described their positions and reasons for attending. There
- was a clear and strong view that this area was important, and should be
- established as a new working group, independent of those listed above.
- There was overlap with the DNSMIB, but the level of detail precluded
- extending it to the broader goals discussed here. The Email Management
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- Working Group was working with a similar area, but had much broader and
- longer term goals. Specific points agreed on direction:
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- o That this area was of substantialinterest.
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- o The MIB(s) should be small and focussed.
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- o Time scales should be as short as possible, as there was a clear
- operational need. All documents should be finalised by July 1993.
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- o MIBs should support both OSI and TCP/IP applications.
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- o Care should be taken to avoid OSI terminology, as this may alienate
- parts of the IETF community that are OSI-hostile.
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- o The SAM proposal should be used as a basis, but be split into three
- documents.
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- o The Working Group should be in the Applications Area.
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- It as agreed that the following documents were targets, based on the SAM
- proposal. Editor in brackets:
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- o ``NetworkServices MonitoringMIB'' (Ned Freed)
- o ``MailMonitoring MIB''(Ned Freed)
- o ``DirectoryMonitoring MIB''(Steve Kille)
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- There were two detailed technical discussions worth reporting. Ned
- noted that there needed to be a more general ``channel''model, as the
- per-MTA monitoring would be difficult for some MTAs to support. He
- proposed a number of detailed changes, and would handle adding these.
- The issue of message store was considerd. Steve Kille suggested that
- this would be a necessary extension to the basicwork to be handled by
- this Group. Some concern was expressed about privacy issues. Marshall
- Rose said that this should not prevent the MIB from being specified.
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- Action Items
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- Steve Kille Write Minutes.
- Update document 3.
- Draft Charter.
- Ned Freed Update documents 1 and 2.
- Establish Mailing List and Archive.
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- CD/DP/EH Create MADMAN Working Group.
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- Attendees
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- Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- David Arneson arneson@ctron.com
- J. Nevil Brownlee nevil@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz
- Theodore Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com
- Stephen Bush sfb@ncoast.org
- Cathy Cunningham cmc@microcom.com
- Cynthia Della Torre cindy@gateway.mitre.org
- Hans Eriksson hans@sics.se
- Daniel Fauvarque dfauvarq@france.sun.com
- Ned Freed ned@innosoft.com
- Ella Gardner epg@gateway.mitre.org
- Michel Guittet guittet1@applelink.apple.com
- John Hawthorne johnh@tigger.rl.af.mil
- Gerd Holzhauer holzhauer1@applelink.apple.com
- Marko Kaittola Marko.Kaittola@funet.fi
- Steve Kille S.Kille@isode.com
- Sylvain Langlois Sylvain.Langlois@exp.edf.fr
- Edward Levinson levinson@pica.army.mil
- Rina Nathaniel rina!rnd!rndi@uunet.uu.net
- Rakesh Patel patel@noc.rutgers.edu
- Michael Patton map@bbn.com
- David Perkins dperkins@synoptics.com
- Karen Petraska-Veum karen@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov
- David Piscitello dave@mail.bellcore.com
- Kary Robertson kr@concord.com
- Marshall Rose mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
- Jon Saperia saperia@lkg.dec.com
- Michael Sapich sapich@conware.de
- Dallas Scott scott@fluky.mitre.org
- Chris Shaw cshaw@banyan.com
- Timon Sloane timon@timon.com
- Einar Stefferud stef@nma.com
- Panos-Gavriil Tsigaridas Tsigaridas@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de
- Cathy Wittbrodt cjw@barrnet.net
- Honda Wu honda@nat.com
- Peter Yee yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
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