CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Oscar Newkerk/ DEC

The MSI working group met to discuss editing issues with the draft API
specification.  The following changes were agreed to:


  1. The method of passing optional arguments as an array of flags and
     pointers will be changed to using explicit parameters in the
     procedure calls.  This will allow for easier implementations using
     RPC.
  2. The MSI document will be focused on defining management application
     interfaces although it will include the msi_send_reply routine to
     allow for replies to confirmed event reports and potential
     manager-to-manager communications.
  3. The MSI draft will be expanded to include explicit statements about
     the services that will be provided to supply consistent service to
     the management application independent of the underlying protocol.
     This will be provided by adding a section to the document that
     specifies explicit mappings from the MSI interfaces to each of the
     underlying protocols.


The document will be updated to reflect the results of these decisions
and the new version placed in the internet-drafts directory.

The following are still open issues:


  1. Specification of the services needed from an `on line MIB data
     service'.
  2. Specification of the method for supporting security in the
     management operations.
  3. Specification of the services needed to translate agent names to
     addresses.
  4. Bring the event section into alignment with he work in the OIM and
     Alertman working groups.


It was agreed that there would be an ad hoc MSI working group meeting
before the IETF meeting in Vancouver to address these open issues.  The
meeting will be in Seattle WA at a date to be determined by the working
group through the mailing list.



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    Hossein Alaee             hossein_alaee@3com.com
    Douglas Bagnall           bagnall_d@apollo.hp.com
    Pablo Brenner             sparte!pbrenner@uunet
    Theodore Brunner          tob@thumper.bellcore.com
    Brian Handspicker         bd@vines.dec.com
    Frank Kastenholtz         kasten@interlan.interlan.com
    Lee LaBarre               cel@mbunix.mitre.org
    Greg Minshall             minshall@kinetics.kinetics.com
    Oscar Newkerk             newkerk@decwet.dec.com
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    Mark Sleeper
    Lou Steinberg             LOU@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU
    Sudhanshu Verma           verma@hpindbu.hp.com
    John Vollbrecht           jrv@merit.edu
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