larry@pdn.UUCP (Larry Swift) (07/09/88)
Can someone from one of these groups explain the organizational
relationship, sponsorship, membership, reporting relationship,
liasons with other standards organizations, and any other info
that might be useful for someone or some organiztion desiring to
stay up-to-date, obtain documentation, and possibly work his/her
way into a participating role?
Larry Swift UUCP: {peora,uunet}!pdn!larry
Paradyne Corp., LF-207 Phone: (813) 530-8605
P. O. Box 2826
Largo, FL, 34649-9981 She's old and she's creaky, but she holds!LYNCH@A.ISI.EDU (Dan Lynch) (07/15/88)
Larry, The NETMAN geneology is as follows: NETMAN is a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). (The IETF is one of a dozen or so Task Forces of the Internet Activities Board (IAB) and is concerned with near term issues of the entire suite of protocols surrounding TCP/IP.) (The IAB is the governing body of technical researchers and implementors that guides research and approves all standards effortsfor the Internet suite of protocols.) Membership of the NETMAN group is open to all who are interested in developing networkmanagement protocols for TCP/IP networks that use the OSI network management framework. (The basic rationale is that someday we will have to manage both styles of network entities, so we may as well do one that encompasses both suites.) The actual membership of the NETMAN group is about 25 organizations, mostly vendors, but some big users also. The group has been meeting for over a year by now and has developed a large amou8nt of documentation. It is planning a demonstration of its progress to date in late September of this year. The chair of the NETMAN group is Lee LaBarre of Mitre Corp. Net address is cel@mitre-bedford.arpa . This is a very short summary of what NETMAN is and where it fits. Further information can be found in the monthly newsletter ConneXions. Specifically: "The Network Managment Working Group", Amatzia Ben-Artzi, November, 1987. "An Overview of the IAB", Jon Postel, December, 1987. "Network Management Standards", Vint Cerf, June, 1988. Also, RFC 1052, "IAB Recommendations for the Development of Internet Network Managment Standards" is excellent reading on this subject. Hope this helps you. In short, the work in this field is being done by numerous people who are working very hard to make it possible to successfully run large networks. Dan -------