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- Network Management Area
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- Director(s):
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- o Marshall Rose: mrose.iesg@dbc.mtview.ca.us
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- Area Summary reported by Marshall Rose/Dover Beach Consulting
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- IFIP Electronic Mail Management BOF (EMAILMGT)
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- Harald Alvestrand presented his document defining an e-mail management
- model. There is an obvious need for a common language to be used
- between negotiating parties, e.g., Internet mail manager or GO-MHS
- managers who talk to PTTs or commercial partners. It is also necessary
- to have management tools for monitoring, controlling, and planning
- changes in a Mail Responsibility area. By having a precise model,
- relationships between the MTA manager, user and e-mail system customer
- will be more clear. Harald will finalize his paper by adding functions
- that need monitoring and control, as well as examples for the
- sendmail-based systems and circulate his next version of the document in
- the IFIP-EMAILMGT distribution list. After comments from the list
- members the document will be submitted as an RFC for the Houston
- meeting.
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- ATM MIB Working Group (ATOMMIB)
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- The ATOMMIB Working Group met to discuss the status of the work on ATM
- and SONET MIBs. The ATM work took up most of the meeting time.
- Compatibility with the ILMI MIB of the ATM Forum was an important issue.
- In addition, the working group did a detailed review of the proposed ATM
- MIB. As a result, a new version will be posted as an Internet-Draft.
- Some issues were deferred to the mailing list. The SONET MIB work is
- rather mature. Some minor changes were agreed to. One issue was
- deferred to the mailing list. A new version will be posted.
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- Frame Relay Service MIB Working Group (FRNETMIB)
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- The FRNETMIB Working group met twice at the 27th IETF. Items discussed
- were Kenneth Rodemann's SMA draft (which received general support),
- Kenneth's proposed VC-Table contained in the SMA draft (which, after
- being converted to a ``flow'' table received general support) and the
- current draft of the MIB (which received general support and a variety
- of changes). The FRNETMIB Working Group will continue work on both the
- FRS MIB and the SMA document with the goal of completing both by the
- December 1993 date of the original charter. The ``flow'' table work
- will be moved to the IFMIB Working Group. A revised draft of the FRS
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- MIB (in SNMPv2 format) will be posted to the Internet-Draft directory
- prior to INTEROP in August.
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- Interfaces MIB Working Group (IFMIB)
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- The IFMIB Working Group met twice. The interfaces evolution draft was
- discussed in detail. Issues in the June 1 version were considered
- first---none were contentious.
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- 1. Consideration was given to replacing certain objects in the old
- interfaces group: ifOutQlen, ifType and ifSpecific. Proposals
- will be made to the mailing list.
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- 2. 64-bit counters were discussed. It was resolved that only packet
- and octet counters would be 64 bits, and the conformance groups
- were changed.
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- 3. The RFC 1229 additions were discussed. Some objects were deleted,
- some were not. Retained were ifPromiscuous, a modified
- ifTestTable, and the ifRcvTable.
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- Modem Management Working Group (MODEMMGT)
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- The meeting was attended by some 20 individuals representing SNMP
- network management vendors, modem manufacturers, the IETF Network
- Management Area Directorate, and a few users. We spent the bulk of the
- time discussing 5 significant architectural issues.
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- Good progress was made in resolving these points. We are hoping the
- group can produce an Internet-Draft near the end of July. The long-term
- goal of the group is to agree on the details of a written draft by the
- end of the year.
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- SNA NAU Services MIB Working Group (SNANAU)
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- The group reviewed the issues related to the current draft of the SNANAU
- MIB. Following is the list of specific results:
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- o A number of decisions have been reached concerning modifications of
- the MIB draft in preparation to release it as an Internet-Draft.
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- o There are some points which have to be discussed and agreed upon
- with the SNADLC Working Group. They will be contacted via e-mail
- after the IETF.
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- o Dave Perkins has been asked to clarify two problems related to
- SNMPv1-v2 migration (row creation) and the use of the new ``if''
- group.
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- o We decided to suggest a supplemental working group meeting during
- one of the popular SNA implementors workshops (sometime in
- September). The idea is to provide another opportunity for people
- who already declared their interest or who are potentially
- interested in this effort to review the MIB draft and become
- involved in further work.
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- Token Ring Remote Monitoring Working Group (TRMON)
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- A final call was made for comments on the TRMON document. The comments
- received were incorporated into the next draft, which is available as an
- Internet-Draft. This document was also forwarded to the Network
- Management Area Director with a recommendation that it become the TRMON
- Proposed Standard. The Network Management Area Directorate (NMDIR) has
- started looking at the document and one of their action items is to
- ensure that there are no conflicts with the Token Ring MIB. Once NMDIR
- is satisfied with the document, it will be forward to the IESG.
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- The IEEE 802.5 committee is working on a new draft. Draft four should
- be available in September of 1993, with a conclusion of the process
- scheduled for March of 1994.
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- Once TRMON is released as a proposed standard, the TRMON Working Group
- will be disbanded and the RMON Working Group reformed for consideration
- of RFC 1271 advancement. A strawman charter was presented. It was
- decided that the date for working group recommendation should be March
- of 1994.
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