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.



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   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



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