Network Management Area Director(s): o James Davin: jrd@ptt.lcs.mit.edu Area Summary reported by James Davin/MIT A number of Working Groups met at the St. Louis IETF meeting. Brief summaries of their activities are presented below. More detailed accounts are presented in the Minutes for each Working Group. Also, at the St. Louis meeting, the SNMP Network Management Directorate met and considered five items of business. 1. The Ethernet-like Interfaces MIB, as amended by the SNMP Working Group at St. Louis, was discussed and reviewed positively. 2. The IP over AppleTalk MIB produced by the IP over Appletalk Working Group was discussed and reviewed positively. 3. The state of the SMDS Interface Protocol MIB introduced to the SNMP Working Group at St. Louis was discussed. 4. The current draft of the OSPF MIB produced by the OSPF Working Group was given a preliminary review in anticipation of its imminent completion. A list of comments was provided to the author. 5. A document describing enhancements to the SNMP administrative model to provide better support for security and proxy configurations was discussed at length and reviewed positively after amendments designed to minimize change to existing infrastructure. The updated version of this document was subsequently distributed for wider review to the SNMP Security Working Group. Internet Accounting (acct) The Internet Accounting Working Group met at St. Louis and focused on definition of MIB objects for the collection of accounting information. They also spent some time on minor revisions of the accounting architecture document, which will be distributed soon as an Internet Draft. The Accounting Working Group is also coordinating with the Remote LAN Monitoring and Operational Statistics Working Group to assure 1 that no redundant MIB instrumentation is defined. 2 Bridge MIB (bridge) The Bridge MIB Working Group met and, with specific amendments, recommended their consensus document for consideration as a Proposed Standard. One strictly informational question will be resolved via electronic mail. The approved Bridge MIB text will be distributed by electronic mail for working members to verify the agreed amendments. The revised text will be available before the next meeting. During the Bridge MIB Working Group meeting, and also in the IETF Plenary session, presentations were made to clarify the IETF policy on the translation of network management definitions developed by other standards bodies into the SNMP idiom. A letter that addresses the particular case of the Bridge MIB effort has been incorporated into the Bridge MIB Working Group Minutes. Its three enumerated points capture the general policy for ``importing'' MIBs adopted by the IESG. Character MIB (charmib) The Character MIB Working Group met and reviewed the current working documents. These were recommended by the Working Group for consideration as Proposed Standards with specific amendments. Revised text reflecting these amendments will be available soon. FDDI MIB (fddimib) The FDDI MIB Working Group met and accomplished all goals set at its previous meeting. Work on defining instrumentation was completed, as was work on mapping actions in the ANSI specifications into appropriate SNMP MIB objects. The need for 64-bit integer MIB objects was obviated, and a document defining two SNMP traps to model FDDI events was introduced at this meeting. Management Services Interface (msi) The Management Services Interface Working Group met briefly at the St. Louis meeting and adjourned owing to low attendance and the absence of key individuals. The Working Group affirmed its decision that the interface is only relevant to management stations. Those assembled reviewed the list of outstanding issues and found two particularly problematic: (a) the translation between the OSI and SNMP information models and (b) the tension between the usefulness of an opaquely defined interface and the need to offer guidance to implementors. DECNet Phase IV MIB (decnetiv) 3 The DECNet Phase IV MIB Working Group made many changes to the current document including significant reduction in the number of objects. The definition of events was relegated to a distinct document, generic portions of the X.25 instrumentation were excised, and the definition of conformance groups was revised. The Working Group reached consensus on the text as amended. Revised text will be available within four weeks. Remote Lan Monitoring (rlanmib) The Remote LAN Monitoring Working Group met and reviewed most of the current draft in detail. A revised draft will be posted to the mailing list soon. An interim Working Group meeting will be held in 4--6 weeks to continue discussion. SNMP The SNMP Working Group met and considered two documents. The Working Group recommended the Ethernet-like Interfaces MIB, with very minor amendments, for consideration by the IESG as a Proposed Standard. The approved text will be posted to the Working Group mailing list soon after the meeting. A document defining a SMDS Interface Protocol MIB was introduced to the Working Group in a presentation made by Kaj Tesink of Bellcore. The Working Group will consider this document further in subsequent meetings. 4