craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge) (07/08/88)
As many of you know, two working groups of the Internet Engineering Task
Force have been working madly to finalize documents describing proposed
standards for network management in TCP-IP networks. These efforts are
a result of the recommendations in RFC 1052.
This note is to let you know that one of these two working groups,
the Management Information Base (MIB) Working Group, is about to report
two documents to the RFC editor. The first document describes the
structure of management information, how management data is structured
and represented in the MIB. The second document describes the required
management instrumentation of a TCP-IP system. It is expected that
these documents will eventually become Internet standards.
We are currently in the last stages of the comment period on the
documents. Comments can be sent to me (as WG chair) until *Wednesday
July 13th.* For those people interested in reviewing the documents, they
are available on-line by anonymous FTP:
Structure of Management Information:
at SRI-NIC.arpa: <ietf>idea0023-00.txt
Management Information Base
at NNSC.NSF.NET: pub/idea0024-01.txt
*PLEASE NOTE* that at this stage in the comment period we are only accepting
comments which help us clarify definitions. Unless you believe we have made
a truly gross technical error please do not suggest that we add additional
instrumentation or restructure the MIB.
Craig Partridge
Chair IETF MIB Working Group