Network Management Area Director: o Deirdre C. Kostick: kostick@qsun.att.com Area Summary reported by Deirdre C. Kostick/AT&T Bell Labs Six active working groups, one BOF, and an Open Meeting were held in the Network Management Area during the Stockholm, Sweden IETF meeting. Network Management Area Open Meeting (NMAREA) Agenda items for Wednesday's meeting included: o IETF Network Management Area Highlights -- Deirdre Kostick, Network Management Area Director, reviewed the status of work efforts in the Network Management Area, including active working groups, working groups eligible to reactivate, and pending working group requests. o SNMPv2 Working Group Status Report -- Bob Stewart, SNMPv2 Working Group chair, reviewed the status of the SNMPv2 Working Group and the current schedule. o SNMPv2 Working Group Proposal Summaries -- Bert Wijnen, Uri Blumenthal, and Keith McCloghrie. The Network Management Area Director had invited SNMPv2 Working Group participants that had indicated an intent to make a proposal, to make brief informational presentations on their proposals. Since this was not an SNMPv2 Working Group meeting and not all participants with proposals were available, there was no discussion of the proposals during the meeting, per the direction of the Area Director. o General SNMP Issues -- David Perkins presented his views on SNMPv2. Entity MIB BOF (ENTMIB) Two presentations were made during the Entity MIB BOF: one discussed the motivation and potential requirements which an Entity MIB would address; the second discussed a proposed solution in terms of a specific MIB. The discussions delved into the details of the specific requirements and the proposed solution. The conclusion was that there is community interest in working on standardizing such a MIB, and that the Network Management Area Director should be requested to establish a working group with this goal. Note: The Area Director approved formation of this working group, and will forward the request to the IESG upon receipt of a draft charter. AToM MIB Working Group (ATOMMIB) The AToM MIB Working Group met to review the current Supplemental ATM MIB Internet-Draft and resolve open issues. Also discussed was the ATM Textual Conventions MIB which has been drafted and posted. Seven implementation reports were presented on the current AToM MIB, RFC 1695. After completion of the supplemental ATM MIB, the working group will use this implementation feedback towards consideration of elevation of RFC 1695 to Draft Standard. DS1/DS3 MIB Working Group (TRUNKMIB) The Trunk MIB Working Group met to discuss implementation experience with RFCs 1406/1407, comments on the list, and the applicability of RFC 1573. There were 16 small issues, which were dealt with readily. One large issue dealt with the Totals Table; in proxy situations, there are conditions where it might not adequately represent the device being managed. This will be discussed on the list, and may result in explanatory text or the deprecation of the table. Another dealt with the Fractional Table; RFC 1573's Stack Table offers a replacement that may be more easily understood and dealt with. Coupled with needs for circuit (DS0) configuration, James Watt took an action to talk with several vendors and make a concrete proposal. IEEE 802.3 Hub MIB Working Group (HUBMIB) The Working Group reviewed implementation experience for RFC 1516 and RFC 1514. The consensus of the participants was that the majority of the objects were useful for management of 802.3 repeaters; however, there are problems with the indexation used in RFC 1516. For example, participants identified the need to support multiple repeaters and implementations of repeaters in modular or stackable hubs with several segments. Jeff Johnson presented a proposal for a ``Generic/Real Hub'' MIB model that would correct the indexing problem. The Working Group decided to incorporate this work in their modelling efforts. Interfaces MIB Working Group (IFMIB) The Interfaces MIB Working Group reviewed implementation experience and issues related to RFC 1573. ISDN MIB Working Group (ISDNMIB) The ISDN MIB Working Group is currently working on an ISDN MIB and a Call Control (or ``Dial'') MIB. Several issues with the application of the Interfaces MIB, RFC 1573, for modelling the stack/layering for ISDN interfaces were resolved. The PRI-related objects of the ISDN MIB will be coordinated with the DS1 MIB (RFC 1406) objects. Remote Network Monitoring Working Group (RMONMIB) The RMON Working Group met to finalize details to the RMON-2 MIB specification under development. Several open issues were identified and discussed. The set of RMON-2 deliverables will consist of two documents: o RMON-2 MIB -- RMON-1 additions, RMON-2 objects, RMON Probe Configuration; will be structured as 3 MIBs within one document. o Protocol Directory Identifiers -- protocolDirID octet string values; also contains other protocolDirectory fields for `well-known' protocols. Discussion topics: o Protocol Directory Definition Document o Filter and Channel Extensions o Textual Conventions fixup o Rationale Statements o RMON-1 Additions o Counting `other' packets o DataSource table o Performance Metrics table for Application Matrix o Conformance statements o Switch monitoring o alMatrixTopN table broken o Conversation buddies in *Matrix tables o BOOTP Mode in Config MIB o Counting error packets o protocolDirectory lastChanged mechanism o Agent behavior when control entries deleted o TimeFilter TC clarification