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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Oscar Newkerk/ DEC
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- The MSI working group met to discuss editing issues with the draft API
- specification. The following changes were agreed to:
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- 1. The method of passing optional arguments as an array of flags and
- pointers will be changed to using explicit parameters in the
- procedure calls. This will allow for easier implementations using
- RPC.
- 2. The MSI document will be focused on defining management application
- interfaces although it will include the msi_send_reply routine to
- allow for replies to confirmed event reports and potential
- manager-to-manager communications.
- 3. The MSI draft will be expanded to include explicit statements about
- the services that will be provided to supply consistent service to
- the management application independent of the underlying protocol.
- This will be provided by adding a section to the document that
- specifies explicit mappings from the MSI interfaces to each of the
- underlying protocols.
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- The document will be updated to reflect the results of these decisions
- and the new version placed in the internet-drafts directory.
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- The following are still open issues:
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- 1. Specification of the services needed from an `on line MIB data
- service'.
- 2. Specification of the method for supporting security in the
- management operations.
- 3. Specification of the services needed to translate agent names to
- addresses.
- 4. Bring the event section into alignment with he work in the OIM and
- Alertman working groups.
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- It was agreed that there would be an ad hoc MSI working group meeting
- before the IETF meeting in Vancouver to address these open issues. The
- meeting will be in Seattle WA at a date to be determined by the working
- group through the mailing list.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Hossein Alaee hossein_alaee@3com.com
- Douglas Bagnall bagnall_d@apollo.hp.com
- Pablo Brenner sparte!pbrenner@uunet
- Theodore Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com
- Brian Handspicker bd@vines.dec.com
- Frank Kastenholtz kasten@interlan.interlan.com
- Lee LaBarre cel@mbunix.mitre.org
- Greg Minshall minshall@kinetics.kinetics.com
- Oscar Newkerk newkerk@decwet.dec.com
- David Perkins dave_perkins@3com.com
- Michael Reilly reilly@nsl.dec.com
- Jonathan Saperia saperia%tcpjon@decwrl.dec.com
- Steve Senum sjs@network.com
- Jim Sheridan jsherida@ibm.com
- Mark Sleeper
- Lou Steinberg LOU@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU
- Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.hp.com
- John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu
- David Waitzman djw@bbn.com
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