CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Oscar Newkerk/DEC MSI Minutes The Management Services Interface Working Group met to discuss the latest revision of the draft API document. The following actions were taken. o The section on authentication information (Section B.4) was modified to indicate that the authentication information should be passed as an AVL instead of the previously indicated C structure. o The rough outline of an interoperability statement. This statement will document the requirement that implementations of MSI behave the same regardless of the underlying protocol. o The Interoperability statement effort produced an issue that must be addressed in order for an implementation of the MSI API to function. In order for an implementation of MSI to behave the same regardless of the protocol, the MIB for new classes must be defined in both SNMP terms and OIM terms. This requires that objects and events be documented in the current template format as well as the ISO GDMO format. Without this information, it is impossible for an MSI implementation to `translate' a management request into both an SNMP PDU and a CMOT PDU. There was no resolution of this issue, but it was agreed that it should also be raised in the OIM Working Group meeting the next day and raised to the Network Management Area Chair. Comments on the API draft from the UBC meeting will be incorporated in the next revision of the draft. Attendees Stephen Adams decwrl::"adams@zeppo" Amatzia Ben Artzi Roger Boehner Roger.Boehner@StPaul.NCR.COM Jeffrey Buffum jbuffum@apollo.hp.com Stanley Froyd sfroyd@salt.acc.com Satish Joshi sjoshi@mvis1.synoptics.com Jay Kadambi jayk@iwlcs.att.com Lynn Monsanto Oscar Newkerk newkerk@decwet.dec.com Bill Nowicki \> \verb nowic* *ki@sun.com = James Reeves jreeves@synoptics.com Jim Reinstedler jimr@ub.com Raphael Renous Jim Sheridan jsherida@ibm.com Cheng Song song@ibm.com Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.cup.hp.com 1 Denis Yaro DYARO@SUN.COM 2