CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Oscar Newkerk/ DEC The MSI working group met to discuss editing issues with the draft API specification. The following changes were agreed to: 1. The method of passing optional arguments as an array of flags and pointers will be changed to using explicit parameters in the procedure calls. This will allow for easier implementations using RPC. 2. The MSI document will be focused on defining management application interfaces although it will include the msi_send_reply routine to allow for replies to confirmed event reports and potential manager-to-manager communications. 3. The MSI draft will be expanded to include explicit statements about the services that will be provided to supply consistent service to the management application independent of the underlying protocol. This will be provided by adding a section to the document that specifies explicit mappings from the MSI interfaces to each of the underlying protocols. The document will be updated to reflect the results of these decisions and the new version placed in the internet-drafts directory. The following are still open issues: 1. Specification of the services needed from an `on line MIB data service'. 2. Specification of the method for supporting security in the management operations. 3. Specification of the services needed to translate agent names to addresses. 4. Bring the event section into alignment with he work in the OIM and Alertman working groups. It was agreed that there would be an ad hoc MSI working group meeting before the IETF meeting in Vancouver to address these open issues. The meeting will be in Seattle WA at a date to be determined by the working group through the mailing list. 1 ATTENDEES Hossein Alaee hossein_alaee@3com.com Douglas Bagnall bagnall_d@apollo.hp.com Pablo Brenner sparte!pbrenner@uunet Theodore Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com Brian Handspicker bd@vines.dec.com Frank Kastenholtz kasten@interlan.interlan.com Lee LaBarre cel@mbunix.mitre.org Greg Minshall minshall@kinetics.kinetics.com Oscar Newkerk newkerk@decwet.dec.com David Perkins dave_perkins@3com.com Michael Reilly reilly@nsl.dec.com Jonathan Saperia saperia%tcpjon@decwrl.dec.com Steve Senum sjs@network.com Jim Sheridan jsherida@ibm.com Mark Sleeper Lou Steinberg LOU@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.hp.com John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu David Waitzman djw@bbn.com 2