Re: Anyone there?

[[e-mail] (Maria Greene)]

>>>>> "C" == C Adam Stolinski <[e-mail]> writes:

    C> Hi Maria, Bonne Chance!  Welcome to the WG.

Thanks, Adam.

    C> If there are any changes to be made to RFC 1628 (other than
    C> status) the WG must be aware of the new final Power Device
    C> Class (PDC) specification of the USB consortium.  Myself,
    C> D.Lallement (tech editor), Doug Raudemacher, and others of the
    C> UPS industry worked over the past two years to develop the PDC
    C> specification, which became final in Jan'98.  The URL for the
    C> document is at http://www.teleport.com/~usb/data/pdcv10.pdf

I'm hoping to take a closer look at this today. Sounds like the IETF
was asleep at the switch, so another body ran with it. How wide was
the industry participation in the development of this?  How many
vendors do you expect to implement it? Was there any opposition to
contents? (I'm trying to gauge how closely the process resembled the
IETF process.)

    C> This spec uses the same objects as in RFC 1628, to preserve the
    C> work done by UPS mfgrs on SNMP, and adds some not addressed in
    C> RFC 1628 (electrical switches).  It also uses the same objects
    C> for batteries as in the Smart Battery Spec (Intel & Duracell)
    C> currently used by the O/S in notebooks.

Do you (and others in the WG) think these extensions should "adopted"
by the IETF? (Would your customers like there to be an RFC associated
with the new objects?) A possibility is to take the MIB from this
document as a starting point, make any changes required by the group
(including pending edits from the last WG meeting), and produce a new
Proposed doc. We would, of course, try to keep the changes minimal to
keep the two documents aligned.

    C> In the interest of common open-standard, I would not want any
    C> changes in RFC 1628 that would create incompatibilities with
    C> the PDC 1.0.

    C> That said, I am willing to participate in any WG activity that
    C> the WG, or the IETF, needs to continue the UPS MIB spec
    C> availability.

    C> Best Regards, Adam Stolinski, MGE UPS Systems

Thanks for your input,
    Maria