Network Management Area Open Meeting (NMAREA) Reported by Deirdre Kostick/AT&T Bell Labs The Network Management Area Open meeting topics included: o General Network Management Area status report o SNMPv2 Working Group status report o General SNMP issues o Introduction of the new Network Management Area Director Network Management Area Status Report Marshall T. Rose presented the Network Management Area status report. The report covered the status of current MIBs, guidance on use of the SNMPv2 SMI, SNMP agent extensibility issues, and a brief summary of Network Management Area working group status. SNMPv2 Working Group Status Report Bob Stewart, SNMPv2 Working Group Chair, presented a status report on the SNMPv2 efforts. Bob summarized the major changes to the SNMPv2 specification that are under consideration by the working group. Bob also proposed a migration path for the set of SNMPv2 documents. Bob requested that members of the community identify their implementation commitments. The following members committed to implementation of the current set of SNMPv2 specifications by 15 May 1995: o Manager side -- M. Rose o Agent -- D. Arneson, Cabletron o Both (manager and agent) -- S. Waldbusser o Agent -- Bert Wijnen, IBM Research o Both (manager and agent) -- J. Case, SNMP Research New IETF Network Management Area Director The final agenda item was the peaceful transfer of power to the new IETF Network Management Area Director, Deirdre Kostick. The new area director was given the IESG target T-shirt; the former area director received an SNMP (Simply Not My Problem) shirt.