Management Services Interface (msi) 




Charter



Status: Concluded August, 1991 







Chair(s):







 Oscar Newkerk 



 Sudhanshu Verma 







Description of Working Group:



The objective of the Management Services Interface Working Group is to



define a management services interface by which management



applications may obtain access to a heterogeneous, multi-vendor,



multi-protocol set of manageable objects.







The service interface is intended to support management protocols and



models defined by industry and international standards bodies.  As



this is an Internet Engineering Task Force Working Group, the natural



focus is on current and future network management protocols and models



used in the Internet.  However, the interface being defined is



expected to be sufficiently flexible and extensible to allow support



for other protocols and other classes of manageable objects.  The



anticipated list of protocols includes Simple Network Management



Protocol (SNMP), OSI Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP),



CMIP Over TCP (CMOT), Manufacturing Automation Protocol and Technical



Office Protocol CMIP (MAP/TOP CMIP) and Remote Procedure Call (RPC).