CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Cyndi Mills/BBN Minutes of the Internet Accounting Working Group (ACCT) Document Status o Internet Accounting Background: published as an RFC in November 1991. o Internet Accounting Architecture: needs some clarification, otherwise it is ready for security review and publication as an RFC. o Internet Accounting MIB: simplifications needed, not ready for publication as MIB yet. The University of Auckland is implementing the MIB and will report on their progress at the next IETF. Nevil Brownlee submitted several suggested modifications which require clarification on the mailing list. It was agreed that the MIB will be published as an Experimental MIB in the hope that network management protocols will improve sufficiently in the next year to provide a better basis for a standard accounting MIB. In particular, bulk transfer and the reporting of data in traps are desirable. A second implementation is needed. It was suggested that we solicit support from FARNET, publish an article in the Simple Times, and give a plenary technical presentation at the next IETF. Semyan Dukach of MIT gave a brief presentation on has work on application-level billing protocols. Future Direction The Internet Accounting Working Group plans to hold its last active meeting in November, since with the publication of the three documents it has fulfilled its Charter. At that meeting the final recommendation to the IESG for the status (e.g., Draft Standard or Experimental) of the architecture and the MIB will be made. Any further activity after that will take place on the mailing list. Possible future directions for future working groups include: o Implementor's Working Group to improve SNMP MIB. o SMP and/or SNMP over TCP/IP implementation. o Application-level accounting extensions. 1 o Exploration of Tariffs for the Internet. Attendees George Abe abe@infonet.com Steve Bostock steveb@novell.com Scott Cossette sdc@concord.com Fred Engel engel@concord.com Michael Erlinger mike@lexcel.com Kathryn Fuller kathryn@codex.com Owen Gallagher oweng@jjmhome.uucp Pria Graves priag@nsd.3com.com J. Scott Marcus smarcus@bbn.com John McKenna mckenna@ralvm12.vnet.ibm.com Cyndi Mills cmills@nnsc.nsf.net Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu Bob Page bob.page@eng.sun.com John Payne jop@wang.com David Perkins dperkins@synoptics.com Ed Reeder EREEDER@ralvm12.vnet.ibm.com Kary Robertson kr@concord.com Allan Rubens acr@merit.edu Gregory Ruth gruth@bbn.com Michael Sapich sapich@conware.de Robert Shirey shirey@mitre.org Chris Thomas chris_thomas@ccm.hf.intel.com Curtis Villamizar curtis@ans.net John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu 2