>Minutes of the ADSL BOF Held December 10th at the 40th IETF Washington > >The following are the associated notes and outcomes: > >The ADSL BOF was held to determine interest in establishing a WG to >standardize MIBs for ADSL and to bring visibility to specific protocol >issues being encountered by the high speed access community. > >Dave Allan presented an overview of ADSL technology (see attached >slides). Gigi Karmous-Edwards outlined the management issues. Discussion >ensued. A requirement for a line MIB (pre-existing work from the ADSL >Forum is proposed as a starting point) and a CPE MIB (new work) was >discussed. The chief focus of the discussions was a clarification on >what was required of the CPE MIB. This was clarified as a "device MIB" >similar to what is being addressed in IPCDN WG. Some clarification was >required in that the access provider and the service provider would have >separate management domains. It was pointed out that a MIB was >relatively non-contentious and chartering a WG to "fast track" such a >MIB was a small thing. > >Dave Allan raised protocol issues w.r.t. high speed connections for home >LANs and extending the IP service set that can be delivered with PPP >over ATM. The absence of 802.1p/q solutions in the home among the list >suggested was questioned. It was proposed that the extensions to the >service set be addressed by Internet Drafts such that the proposals >could be more successfully critiqued. > >The BOF wound up with agreement that a group could be chartered to >define the MIB and there was interest and willing bodies to do so. For further information: Dave Allan, dallan@nortel.ca (613)763-6362 Gigi Karmous-Edwards GiGi.Karmous-Edwards@pulse.com (919)513-1494