Ethernet MIB (ethermib) ----------------------- Charter Last Modified: 1997-07-27 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Frank Kastenholz Network Management Area Director(s): Deirdre Kostick Network Management Area Advisor: Deirdre Kostick Mailing Lists: General Discussion:enet_mib@ftp.com To Subscribe: enet_mib-request@ftp.com Archive: not available Description of Working Group: This Working Group is charged with resolving the outstanding conformance issues with the Ethernet MIB in preparation for its elevation from Proposed to Draft Standard status. Specifically, this Working Group shall: (1) Develop a document explaining the rationale for assigning MANDATORY status to MIB variables which are optional in the relevant IEEE 802.3 specification (the technical basis for the Internet Ethernet MIB). This shall not be a standards-track document. (2) Develop an implementation report on the Ethernet MIB. This report shall cover MIB variables which are implemented in both Ethernet interface chips, and in software (i.e., drivers), and discuss the issues pertaining to both. This report shall also summarize field experience with the MIB variables, especially concentrating on those variables which are in dispute. This document shall not be a standards-track document. While the Ethernet MIB is progressing through the standardization process, this document shall be periodically updated to reflect the latest implementation and operational experience. (3) Work to reconcile the differences regarding MANDATORY and OPTIONAL MIB variables with the IEEE 802.3 Management Specification. (4) Extend explicit invitations to the members, reviewers, and participants of the IEEE 802.3 committee to participate in the Working Group's efforts. This will ensure that as much Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 expertise as possible is available. (5) Maintain a liaison with the IEEE 802.3 committee. All documents produced by the Working Group will be forwarded to the IEEE 802.3 committee for their consideration as contributions to their efforts. (6) Modify the ``grouping'' of variables in the MIB, in the light of the implementation and operational experience gained, in order to effect the desired conformance groupings. This Working Group is chartered to make only changes to the MIB that fall into the following categories: (1) Division of variables into MIB groups. This may necessitate adding or deleting groups and conceptual tables and moving variables among said groups and conceptual tables. Doing so may require the addition or deletion of variables necessary to support the conceptual tables (e.g., the ...Table, ...Entry, and ...Index types of variables). These changes may be necessary to align the MIB with the work of other standards bodies, the needs of implementors, and the needs of network managers in the Internet. (2) Changing the conformance requirements of the MIB groups in order to align the MIB with the work of other standards bodies, the needs of implementors, and the needs of network managers in the Internet. (3) Deleting variables from the MIB on the basis of implementation and operational experience showing that the variables are either unimplementable or have little practical operational value. The Working Group is explicitly barred from making changes to the definition or syntax of objects nor may the Working Group add objects to the MIB except as may be required by Point 1 above. Goals and Milestones: Done Draft Variable Status Rationale document. Done Develop Implementation Report. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC1369 I OCT 92 Implementation Notes and Experience for The Internet Ethernet MIB RFC1398 DS JAN 93 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types