The Host Resources MIB Working Group is chartered to produce exactly one document that defines SNMP MIB objects that instrument characteristics common to all Internet hosts. The goal of this work is to address the urgent operational need in the Internet community for management of host systems. Owing to this urgency, the working group will focus exclusively on the alignment of existing MIB technology in order to achieve common solutions in a timely manner. For purposes of this effort, the term ``Internet host'' is construed to mean any computer that communicates with other similar computers attached to the Internet and that is directly used by one or more human beings. Although the work of the group does not necessarily apply to devices whose primary function is communications services (e.g., terminal servers, routers, bridges, monitoring equipment), such relevance is not explicitly precluded. The single MIB produced shall instrument attributes common to all Internet hosts including, for example, both personal computers and systems that run variants of Unix. The methodology of this working group is to focus entirely on the alignment of existing, enterprise-specific MIBs for SNMP that are relevant to its task. The group will work towards its goal by distillation and generalization of these existing MIBs into a single, common MIB definition. Owing to the urgent operational need for managing host systems, this effort will not be comprehensive in scope. Rather, the MIB produced by this group will be confined to critical information about hardware and software configuration, processor and memory use, and data storage capacities, backup, and use. Owing to the lack of a well-understood and accepted architecture, the working group will not address in any way, mechanisms that could be used to monitor or control the use of licensed software products. All definitions produced by the group will be consistent with the SNMP network management framework and all other Internet-standard MIBs for SNMP. Wherever possible, the definitions produced will make use of or align with relevant work in progress with chartered working groups of the IETF. Also, wherever possible, the working group will take into consideration pre-existing, stable work produced by other, accredited standards bodies.