Management Services Interface (msi) ----------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 07/27/1997 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Sudhanshu Verma Oscar Newkerk Network Management Area Director(s): Deirdre Kostick Network Management Area Advisor: Deirdre Kostick Mailing Lists: General Discussion:msiwg@decwrl.dec.com To Subscribe: msiwg-request@decwrl.dec.com Archive: Description of Working Group: The objective of the Management Services Interface Working Group is to define a management services interface by which management applications may obtain access to a heterogeneous, multi-vendor, multi-protocol set of manageable objects. The service interface is intended to support management protocols and models defined by industry and international standards bodies. As this is an Internet Engineering Task Force Working Group, the natural focus is on current and future network management protocols and models used in the Internet. However, the interface being defined is expected to be sufficiently flexible and extensible to allow support for other protocols and other classes of manageable objects. The anticipated list of protocols includes Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), OSI Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP), CMIP Over TCP (CMOT), Manufacturing Automation Protocol and Technical Office Protocol CMIP (MAP/TOP CMIP) and Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Goals and Milestones: Done Initial version of the Internet Draft placed in the Internet-Drafts directory Done Revised version of the draft from editing meetings placed in the Internet-Drafts directory AUG 90 Initial implementation of the prototype available for test. Done Revised draft based on the implementation experience submitted to the RFC editor. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: None to date.