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Ethernet MIB (ethermib)
Charter
Status: Concluded February, 1993
Chair(s):
Frank Kastenholz
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.
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