CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Oscar Newkerk/DEC MSI Minutes The following issues were discussed at the MSI Working Group session. o Online MIB Database and the Need for both GDMO and SNMP MIB Definitions: The group discussed the requirement for an online MIB database that would be needed to support the translation of MSI requests and replies to and from protocol specific formats. It was decided that the MSI document would make an explicit statement about the types of services that would be required from such a database, but would not attempt to fully define an interface to the data. In addition, the issue with the need for both GDMO and SNMP versions of MIBs was discussed and also raised at the OIM meeting. It was decided that the Chairs of the OIM and MSI Working Groups would raise this as an issue with the Network Area Chair. o Access Control Change: The format of the access control parameter was changed to be an AVL and the decision on the contents of the parameter was defined until the proposals for SNMP and CMOT authentication are stable. Once these methods are stable, then the contents of the access control parameter for each protocol will be the subject of separate implementors agreements and will not be included directly in the MSI document. o Add ASN.1 Encodings for the MSI Parameters: Oscar Newkerk agreed to add an appendix to the MSI document that will define that ASN.1 structures and the object identifiers needed by the MSI. Attendees Jeffrey Buffum jbuffum@apollo.hp.com Shimshon Kaufman John Lunny jlunny@twg.com Lynn Monsanto monsanto@sun.com Oscar Newkerk newkerk@decwet.enet.dec.com John Nunneley john_nunneley@touch.com Jim Reinstedler jimr@ub.com Kary Robertson L. Michael Sabo dockmaster.ncs.mil Mark Sleeper mws@sparta.com Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.cup.hp.com 1 David Waitzman djw@bbn.com 2