Re: Working Group Status

[Guenter Roeck <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

> 
> I am concerned about the possibility of the chassis mib dropping on 
> the floor since this mib was used as one of the arguments for
> dropping the repeater ID object from the hubmib.
> 
> Is this really a possibility ?  If so, how are we to manage (in a standard
> way), multiple repeaters per agent ?
> 
This matter about dropping the chassis MIB concerns us quite a bit as well.
We mostly waited for the MIB going to Draft/Proposed Standard to
start implementing it in one of our systems. Actually, the implementation
work will start in July, since we don't want to wait any longer.

Since we will need such a kind of MIB, dropping the chassis MIB would
actually mean for us to just use it in our enterprise tree.

As for the current state of the MIB - the MIB does quite exactly what we
want it to do (to give information about a chassis, and to manage
the modules not using the chassis MIB, but using the SNMP agents on
each module).
 
> *** Call for Consensus ***
> 
> Assuming that we have a relatively up-to-date draft, I propose that we drop it
> in the laps of the Network Management Area Director and his Directorate.  They
> may a) pass it on as a Proposed Standard, b) extend our charter, pick a chair
> that will actually help, and ask that it be improved in specific ways, c)
> terminate the working group, or d) do something else they think of.

I strongly vote for a) after correcting any syntactical bugs in the MIB
decription. I think this would be MUCH better than dropping the whole thing.
If it might be necessary to add something at a later point - there is
always a MIB-II...


Guenter

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