CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Jeff Case/UTenn Minutes of the FDDI MIB Working Group (FDDIMIB) The meeting was called to order the Chair, Jeff Case. Twenty-one members, plus the Chair were present. The Working Group endorsed the selection of a new editor, Anil Rijsinghami, who will assist Jeff Case. After introductions the proposed Agenda was approved and a Secretary, Jack Brown, was selected. There were no new issues on the mailing list. Jim Reeves brought up the problem of the 7.3 SMT prefix. o No one in the foreign community would understand. o A new prefix needed to be selected that would not conflict with the present naming of RFC 1285 and ANSI X3T9.5 . Action Item: Direct the editor to replace SMT 7.3 with FDDI MIB. Ron Macken had three editorial issues on the draft. Editor's Note (md): A detailed listing of the editorial issues and other proposed modifications is available via ftp under fddimib-minutes-93mar.txt. Refer to Section 1.2 of the Proceedings for retrieval instructions. 1. Page 26 and 27. MAC returning ``0''. Question: Should we add an additional sentence to return ``0'' -if not applicable or no index? Ron Jacoby though(t) making a ``0'' in SNMP is making an optional variable which is not too good. It is hard to implement, don't do it. Marshall Rose was concerned a ``0'' meaning two things provides ambiguity. Marshall also thought it was not too hard to implement the way it was. There were two proposals: 1. Ron Jacoby - ``Leave the intent the same but make minor changes in text to clarify''. 2. Ronald Macken - ``Add a sentence to return'' ``0'' if not applicable or no index. The Group consensus was to: --Change 1 in Syntax to ``0'' --If there is no value in the index return ``0'' (Ronald Macken was happy and removed his proposal.) 1 2. Page 30 - word spelled wrong - address 3. Page 43-44 - change from milliseconds to nanoseconds Jim Reeves brought up the point that the station ID is confusing. Should we clear it up here or align with ANSI? The Group agreed that after ``station'' add ``i.e., SMT entity''. Jeff Case brought up the following: 1. Page 17 - SMT configuration policy would always return a ``0'' value. 2. Page 23 - bad value error is version 1 dependent. Should we change to - out of range value (protocol independent)? Dan Romascanu thought more descriptive text is needed relating to SNMP Version 1 to SNMP Version 2. The Group decided towards protocol independent. (The same problem also appears on page 58.) 3. Page 29 - clarify where the MAC address is found or would it be better to simply state the address? The Group agreed that the address should be stated here. Marshall Rose assumed the duties as Chair at 10:25 a.m. Marshall continued with Jeff's concerns. 4. Page 58 - ``Hardware Present'' implied ``implementation specific''. The Group consensus was to change the wording to: ``If value is false, (it) is handled in the manner as specified in 6.4.4. If not present, return no such or return a value.'' (Similar text also on Page 36, and pages 48, 49 - ``for ports'' By Group consensus: Action Item - Ask the editor to make the changes to the document as agreed by the Group here. Place the new draft on Internet for comment and then submit forward. Also agreed was that Version 2 issues be separate. Traps Five conditions are implementable. Four events suspect are implementable. EV overflow - might be important, but not enough information is available to implement. There was a discussion on whether there should be separate Trap Tables. Marshall Rose thought the tables should be second MIB in the original 2 document. There was no final decision but a strawman indicated that five members definitely want a trap document. No one definitely did not. Ron Macken took the Action Item to produce a strawman document with the following instructions: o A simpler, more concise strawman document with traps stands a better chance. o Leave the MIB the way it is now so the MIB will work with SNMP Version 1 besides SNMP Version 2. o Leave traps out. The next Working Group meeting will be planned for the Amsterdam IETF Meeting to handle the Trap document and V2 compliance issues unless everything gets pushed back on the mailing list. Friday would be the best day. NOTE: Ron Macken has a working implementation of the MIB with the 6.2 draft. Attendees Michael Anello mike@xlnt.com David Battle battle@cs.utk.edu Jeffrey Berk berk@ctron.com John Boatright bryan_boatright@ksc.nasa.gov Caralyn Brown cbrown@wellfleet.com Jack Brown jbrown@huachuca-emh8.army.mil Jeff Case case@cs.utk.edu Anthony Chow chow_a@wwtc.timeplex.com David Engel david@ods.com Wayne Foco foco@ralvm6.vnet.ibm.com Paul Franchois paulf@bldrdoc.gov Kenneth Giusti kgiusti.chipcom.com John Hopprich hopprich@davidsys.com Ronald Jacoby rj@sgi.com Merike Kaeo merike@alw.nih.gov Kenneth Key key@cs.utk.edu Evan McGinnis bem@3com.com Rina Nathaniel rina!rnd!rndi@uunet.uu.net Dan Romascanu dan@lannet.com Marshall Rose mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us Steve Suzuki suzu@fet.com 3