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*
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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

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Denis Yaro           DYARO@SUN.COM



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