Minutes of the Trunk MIB Working Group Meeting

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

The Trunk MIB Working Group met for 24 minutes, 8 of which were spent
waiting for certain key players to arrive. It was one of the more efficient
meetings on record.

Status of outstanding work:

The DS0, DS1, and DS3 MIBs have cleared last call, and are awaiting a
ballot to be submitted. Advancement of DS0 to Proposed Standard is not
deemed problematic, but at this time no responses to the call for
implementations have been received indicating implementation of the Far End
groups of DS1 or DS3. Advancement of DS1 and DS3 to Draft Standard is
therefore stalled until the chair can either demonstrate two interoperable
implementations of the far end groups or convince the editor to remove them
from the MIB.

Affected documents:
        draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds3-mib-04.txt
        draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds1-mib-05.txt
        draft-ietf-trunkmib-dds-mib-01.txt

Simple translation: Nexen and AD&C Kentrox have not replied to the call for
implementations. The chair would appreciate responses from them and any
other implementors of the MIBs, especially those implementing the far end
groups. This will permit him to forward the ballot to the NM AD.

Status of work in progress.

DDS MIB: the draft has expired, the author of the draft has moved to
another company, and appears to be no longer interested in the work. James
Watt will check with other DDS manufacturers to find if there exist other
interested parties to continue it. Failing that, the MIB is dead.

Supplemental DS1 MIB: At the Montreal IETF, James Watt suggested to the
author of the Supplemental DS1 MIB that rather than publish it, the working
group should use the DISMAN work. Since then, two implementations of the
current draft have been done, whose implementors tell the MIB's author that
the approach is viable, and a DS3 clone has been designed and mailed to the
working group mailing list. The chair of DISMAN, who attended the Trunk MIB
meeting, indicates that DISMAN has not advanced far enough for Trunk MIB to
depend on it at this time. Hearing the recommendation of the chair of
DISMAN, and in consultation with the Supplemental DS1 MIB's author, James
dropped his objection. Therefore, the assembled working group members have
instructed the author of Supplemental DS1 MIB to follow the original model
at this time.

Rumi S. Gonda has cloned the MIB for DS3; the chair will ask Rumi to post
that as an Internet Draft, and contact Kaj Tesink asking him to similarly
clone the MIB for SONET. These three MIBs will be advanced together to the
IESG.