CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Marshall Rose/Dover Beach Consulting Minutes of the NM Area Directorate BOF (NMAREA) The area director announced that an open meeting for the Network Management Area would be a regular event at each meeting of the IETF. These meetings will consist of an area status report and presentations/discussion on a specific topic of interest to the community. The area status report is attached. However, two items require specific exposition: 1. Due to a lack of senior technical resources in the Network Management Area, the area director is imposing a moratorium on new working groups for the remainder of calendar year 1993. At the beginning of next year, the area director will evaluate whether the resources exist to allow the formation of new working groups. Although there is much interest in the Network Management Area, the number of volunteers with senior experience in SNMP philosophy and design is quite limited. Many of these volunteers are overloaded in terms of working group chair or working group consultant positions. As such, the area director is unable to allocate resources for new working groups---indeed, some existing working groups are suffering as a result. 2. E-mail to the area director should be addressed as mrose.iesg@dbc.mtview.ca.us in order to distinguish between the non-area director and area director roles held by the area director. In other words, people wanting to talk to the area director should send e-mail to mrose.iesg; people wanting to talk to Marshall Rose (Theorist, Implementor, and Agent Provacateur) should send mail to mrose. Area Status Report The topic for this open meeting of the Network Management Area was ``SNMPv2 implementation and deployment issues.'' Keith McCloghrie made a presentation on his Internet-Draft ``Algorithms for Automating Administration in SNMPv2 Managers,'' which reports on one possible implementation strategy. Steve Waldbusser discussed the current work on the SNMP implementation: an implementation strategy for an ultra-fast MIB compiler, and a TCL-based API for SNMP management applications. He also asked if there would be interest in a CMU-hosted SNMPv2 interoperability testing event 1 during either September or October. Some interest was expressed. Jeff Case reported on SNMPv2 and RMON demonstrations at ISINM 1993, held in April. Seven vendors demonstrated interoperability of a variety of SNMPv2 features including manager-to-manager. Of particular interest was the performance boost when using get-bulk. He also discussed implementation experience with the automatic clock synchronization facilities for multi-threaded management applications. Dave Perkins reported informal research experience with SNMPv2 with respect to size and performance. Finally, there was general discussion on get-bulk performance and caching strategy. The area director concluded the meeting by asking the attendees to be ever mindful of SNMPv2 implementation and deployment experiences so that they can contribute to the SNMPv2 evaluation process. 2