Network Management Area Directorate Open Meeting Reported by Marshall Rose/Dover Beach Consulting First Session The 29 March meeting was divided into two hours of presentation and discussion on SNMP multiplexing. Three people had prepared presentations, with 40 minutes allocated to each: to speak and answer questions. The time remaining was spent on presentations and discussions on topics other than SNMP security. Bert Wijnen and Glenn Waters discussed DPI version 2.0 (defined in RFC 1592). Both enhancements and fixes to DPI v 1.0 were discussed. Although the original DPI specification (RFC 1228) contained a description of an API and protocol, the current specification discusses only the protocol; however, an API implementation is available via anonymous FTP on software.watson.ibm.com in /public/dpi. There is a mailing list for discussion: snmpdpi@watson.ibm.com. Bert also made a brief presentation of a MIB module for extensible agents, which is independent of the extensibility technology. Aleksey Romanov discussed the Open Agent Architecture version 0.2. The specification (which is available via anonymous FTP on ftp.uu.net in tmp/openagent.txt) describes an API used between a master agent and one or more MIB-servers which are implemented as shared libraries within a single process. Jeff Case discussed EMANATE, which has a system-independent/dependent architecture. The system-independent API will be published in a forthcoming document, whilst publication of the system-dependent APIs is left to the individual platform vendors. The EMANATE architecture is based on an asynchronous message passing paradigm. There was considerable interest in some sort of IETF standardization of either an agent extensibility protocol or API or both. The area director re-iterated a policy that this was inappropriate for the IETF, and suggested that members of the community who felt otherwise should either appeal to the IESG or find some other vendor-neutral forum. Next, Chris Wellens described the first SNMP Testing Summit held earlier this year and outlined plans for the second Summit to be held between 27 June and 1 July in San Jose. At this second summit, new tests will be added for SNMPv2, MIB-II instrumentation testing, RMON instrumentation testing, and more manager testing. A test specification will be available on 18 April. Interested parties should send a note to snmp-test-request@netcom.com to be added to the general discussion list. Bill Norton suggested that an Informational RFC be published to illuminate the most commonly discussed SNMP technical issues. Second Session The 30 March meeting was divided into two hours of presentation and discussion on SNMP security. One person had prepared a presentation. The time remaining was spent on presentations and discussions on any topic. Steve Waldbusser discussed a proposal (described in three Internet-Drafts) for simplifying the deployment of products which implement SNMPv2 security by allowing a network operator to provide a user/secret pair to a management application which then automatically derives the SNMPv2 knowledge necessary for secure communications. No changes to SNMPv2 security are required, rather the proposal defines a deployment convention layered on top of the existing SNMPv2 mechanisms. The Security area will be asked to perform a review of the proposal to ensure that SNMPv2 security is not weakened. In the interim, interoperability experience will be gained and reported. Finally, Aleksey Romanov suggested that future work in the area might focus on a protocol for communication between intra-NMS components. Attendees Nashwa Abdel-Baki nashwa@frcu.eun.eg Edward Alcoff oldera@nat.com Steve Alexander stevea@lachman.com Michael Allen moallen@vnet.ibm.com David Arneson arneson@ctron.com Bashir Ashrafi bashraf@chipcom.com Karl Auerbach auerbach@ssds.com Fred Baker fbaker@acc.com Jim Barnes barnes@xylogics.com Virinder Batra batra@vnet.ibm.com Gerard Berthet gerard@indetech.com Andy Bierman abierman@synoptics.com Uri Blumenthal uri@watson.ibm.com Tony Bogovic tjb@bellcore.com Michael Brescia brescia@bbn.com David Bridgham dab@epilogue.com David Brower daveb@ingres.com J. Nevil Brownlee nevil@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz Theodore Brunner ted.brunner@tek.com Carter Bullard wcb@cert.org Jeff Case case@snmp.com Paul Chang pchangmac@asante.com David Chen dchen@vnet.ibm.com Chris Chiotasso chris@lightstream.com Paul Ciarfella ciarfella@took.lkg.dec.com Frank Ciotti frankc@telxon.com Bobby Clay clay@pscni.nasa.gov Charles Combs 0003647213@mcimail.com Richard Cornetti cornetti@wg.com Hugo da Cruz hac@3com.com Glen Daniels gub@elf.com Russell Dietz Russell_Dietz@mcimail.com Bob Downs bdowns@combinet.com David Engel david@ods.com Michael Erlinger mike@jarthur.claremont.edu Louis Fernandez lff@sequent.com Robert Fink rlfink@lbl.gov John Flick johnf@hprnljf.rose.hp.com James Galvin galvin@tis.com Christine Gressley gressley@uiuc.edu Walter Guilarte guilarte@wg.com Stuart Hale stu_hale@vnet.ibm.com Daniel Hansen danh@ngc.com Duane Harkness duaneh@atc.boeing.com Rebecca Higgins rebeccah@wrq.com Jeff Hodges hodges@jessica.stanford.edu Mike Holloway mikeh@newbridge.com John Hopprich hopprich@davidsys.com Jeff Hughes jeff@col.hp.com Jeff Johnson jjohnson@cisco.com Merike Kaeo mkaeo@cisco.com Hiroshi Kawazoe kawazoe@trl.ibm.co.jp Manu Kaycee kaycee_m@timeplex.com Mark Kepke mak@aiinet.com Paul Kingsley pmk@hpcsos.col.hp.com Andrew Knutsen andrewk@sco.com Richard Kooijman r.kooijman@et.tudelft.nl Deirdre Kostick dck2@mail.bellcore.com Cheryl Krupczak cheryl@empiretech.com William Kwan kwan@crosscomm.com Welson Lin welsonl@nat.com Faye Ly fly@synoptics.com Carl Madison carl@zeus.st.3com.com Glenn Mansfield glenn@aic.co.jp J. Scott Marcus smarcus@bbn.com Marilyn Martin martin@netcom.ubc.ca Keith McCloghrie kzm@cisco.com Evan McGinnis bem@3com.com Dwayne McIntosh mcintosh@sleepy.ns.us.boeing.com Jim McQuaid mcquaid@wg.com Daniel McRobb dwm@noc.ans.net David Meldrum meldrum@sybase.com Scott Mordock mordock@cisco.com Bob Morgan morgan@networking.stanford.edu Kim Morla kmorla@pucp.edu.pe Robert Natale natale@acec.com Rina Nathaniel rina@rnd-gate.rad.co.il Ngoc-Lan Nguyen lnguyen@icp.net Bill Norton wbn@merit.edu Brian O'Keefe bok@cnd.hp.com Donald Pace pace@cntfl.com Andrew Pearson pearson@snmp.com Les Pennington les@cac.washington.edu David Perkins dperkins@synoptics.com Jason Perreault jason@synoptics.com Randy Presuhn randy@peer.com Robert Purvy bpurvy@us.oracle.com Venkat Rangan venkat.rangan@nashua.hp.com James Reeves jreeves@synoptics.com Kenneth Rehbehn kjr@netrix.com Daniel Richard daniele@icon.qc.ca Kenneth Rodemann krr@qsun.att.com Aleksey Romanov ralex@world.std.com Dan Romascanu dan@lannet.com Marshall T. Rose mrose.iesg@dbc.mtview.ca.us Shawn Routhier sar@epilogue.com Michal Rozenthal michal@fibronics.co.il William Salkewicz bsalkewi@wellfleet.com Blair Sanders bbs@sanders.itg.ti.com Jon Saperia saperia@zko.dec.com Michael Scanlon scanlon@ftp.com Timon Sloane timon@timonware.com Jay Smith jaysmith@us.oracle.com Robert Snyder snyder@cisco.com Michael Sorsen c02420MS@wuvmd.wustl.edu Ira Steckler isteckle@chipcom.com Bob Stewart rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com Mark Swanson marks@ngc.com Richard Sweatt rsweatt@synoptics.com Kaj Tesink kaj@cc.bellcore.com Maurice Turcotte mturc@atlanta.nsc.com Willem van der Scheun scheun@sara.nl Gregory Vaudreuil g.vaudreuil@octel.com Raymond Vega rvega@cicese.mx William Wagner dpi@world.std.com Steven Waldbusser swol@andrew.cmu.edu David Walters walters@wg.com Glenn Waters gwaters@bnr.ca Chris Wellens chrisw@netcom.com Bert Wijnen wijnen@vnet.ibm.com Peter Wilson peter_wilson@3mail.3com.com Stan Wong swong@vnet.ibm.com Jeff Yarnell jeffya@protools.com Kiho Yum kxy@nsd.3com.com