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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Sudhanshu Verma/HP
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- MSI Minutes
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- The MSI Working Group meeting was rescheduled from Tuesday (3/12)
- afternoon to Monday (3/11) evening. This time clashed with the IETF
- dinner at the St. Louis zoo. The meeting was attended by only seven
- people, and was adjourned early for a lack of a quorum.
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- The issues raised at the last meeting were reiterated. These issues are
- summarized below.
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- o On-line MIB database and the need for both GDMO and SNMP MIB
- definitions.
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- o Lack of any implementation suggestions or hints in the MSI
- document. The MSI draft wants the implementors of the MSI API to
- support features such as translation between SNMP and CMIP and
- scoping, but does not provide ideas on how to implement this. This
- has hindered adoption of the API.
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- o Lack of an SNMP API. Some attendees at the last meeting wanted
- support of an SNMP-oriented API.
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- The thorniest issue deals with the issue of translation between the two
- different SMIs (GDMO and IETF). Based on RFC1109 the IAB has decided
- that there was no requirement for compatibility between SNMP and OSI
- network management. This causes the task of the translation between the
- two SMIs to be done on a case by case basis; it will be difficult, if
- not impossible to have automated conversion between the two.
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- The future of the group was also discussed briefly. One option is to
- work with the IAB and the Network Management Directorate to resolve any
- pending issues. Another option is to disband the group due to the lack
- of significant progress. The next Working Group meeting will need to
- evaluate the situation and make recommendations.
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- The meeting was adjourned after about 30 minutes due to a lack of a
- quorum.
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- The issue of MIB translation was raised by Sudhanshu Verma with the
- Chair of the Network Management Area, Chuck Davin. He suggested that
- there was little that could be done to change RFC 1109 at this point and
- that we should attempt to work in that framework. The difficulty of
- defining translation rules to achieve automated translation was
- reinforced. At the next meeting the Working Group will have to decide
- its future direction and plans.
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- Attendees
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- Steve Bostock steveb@novell.com
- Howard Brown brown@ctron.com
- Shawn Gallagher gallagher@quiver.enet.dec.com
- Ron Mackey
- Ron Poppen-Chambers rpc@hpcnd.cnd.hp.com
- Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.cup.hp.com
- Mark Wood
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