CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Jeff Case/University of Tennessee

Minutes of the FDDI MIB Working Group (FDDIMIB)

The status of the current MIB Internet-Draft was discussed.  It is
progressing through the Last Call, Directorate review, and IESG review
with few comments, none of which are substantive; all are editorial in
nature.  If all continues as anticipated, the document will soon become
an RFC with Proposed Standard status.

RFC 1285 will continue to be a Proposed Standard for management of ANSI
6.2 based FDDI network devices; the new RFC will be for the management
of ANSI 7.x based FDDI network devices.  RFC 1285 will expire at some
point in the future but does not need to be dealt with at this time.

The majority of the (short) meeting time was devoted to consideration of
the trap document.  In a repetition of history (Atlanta IETF, July 30,
1991), the net result was that there is no need for a trap document.
One reason for this is the observation that the Alarms group of the RMON
MIB can be implemented in the RMON device and thereby provide all of the
functions of all of the event notifications contained in the ANSI
document.  The working group decided at the Columbus IETF meeting that
there would need to be standard mechanisms for enabling, disabling, and
rate controlling any traps to be generated.  Since the RMON MIB provides
all of these capabilities and is already progressing on the standards
track, the group concluded that there is no need for additional work on
traps.

Consequently, having concluded its charter, the work of the group is
finished.  Members should anticipate the working group going dormant in
the near future, to be re-chartered when there are new work items.


Attendees

David Arneson            arneson@ctron.com
Jeff Case                case@cs.utk.edu
Chris Chiotasso          chris@andr.ub.com
David Engel              david@ods.com
Phil Irey                pirey@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Ron Mackey               rem@dsiinc.com
Carl Madison             carl@startek.com
David Perkins            dperkins@synoptics.com
James Reeves             jreeves@synoptics.com
Marshall Rose            mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
Jean-Bernard Schmitt     jbs@vnet.ibm.com



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