CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Oscar Newkerk/DEC MINUTES A proposed draft API was presented by Oscar Newkerk followed by a question and answer session. Issues raised during the presentation were: There seems to be a requirement for a set of services that are not addressed by the draft. This set was referred to as "MIB Services" and characterized as providing online access to the object and attribute definitions in the MIB documents. It was felt that this type of information would be required to allow the API to translate an operation against an object in a MIB into the appropriate parameters for the protocol that was being used to encode the operation. This work will be evaluated by the MSI working group either for inclusion in the API draft or as a separate document. There is a section in the draft API document that deals with alert handling services. This needs to be evaluated in light of the output from the Alertman working group. The draft API will be reformatted and submitted to the internet-drafts directory as an Internet draft, with the addition of a note that it is an interim draft and will be reworked by the MSI working group. There were two other people at the meeting that expressed interest in working on the editing of the draft API. These were Sudhanshu Verma/HP and Dave Perkins/3COM. An editing meeting will be arranged for sometime early in March 1990. In addition, Sudhanshu Verma volunteered to become the co-chair for the MSI working group. 1 ATTENDEES Engineer, Hunaid hunaid@opus.cray.com Froyd, Stan sfroyd@salt.acc.com Glappa, Adrianne no email Handspicker, Brian D. bd@vines.dec.com Hunter, Steven hunter@ccc.mfecc.arpa Hytry, Tom tlh@iwlcs.att.com Mills, Cyndi cmills@bbn.com Minshall, Greg minshall@kinetics.kinetics.com Perkins, Dave dave_perkins@3com.com Robertson, Jim jar@bridge2.3com.com Saperia, Jon saperia%tcpjon@decwrl.dec.com Stine, Bob stine@sparta.com Verma, Sudhanshu verma@hpindbu.hp.com Waldbusser, Steve sw01@andrew.cmu.edu Woodburn, Robert woody@saic.com Yasaki, Brian bky@twg.com 2