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NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 52nd IETF Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah USA. It may now be out-of-date. Last Modified: 04-Dec-01
The technology specification will consist of:
o (mandatory) a platform-independent protocol which supports intra-agent communication within a device or local area network;
o (optional) a MIB module, which, when implemented by a master-agent, allows an SNMP-based management application to monitor and control the intra-agent communication service; and,
o (optional) a programmatic interface to the services offered by that protocol.
The working group is explicitly directed to develop a solution which is adequate to achieve transparency with respect to whether a SNMP request is processed by a master-agent and/or one or more sub-agents; simultaneously, the working group is further directed to use good engineering judgement is developing an approach with the smallest reasonable "footprint" to achieve intra-agent communication. As a consequence, if the working group may choose to avoid complete transparency, if, at its discretion, this proves too costly. In this case, the working group should document its decision for this engineering trade-off.
Although the working group will solicit existing specifications and experience in this area, it will produce a vendor-neutral technology specification.
Done |    | Publication of AgentX protocol specification as Proposed |
Done |    | Publication of AgentX MIB specification as a Proposed Standard |
Done |    | Implementation reports formally solicited |
Done |    | Interoperability reports formally solicited |
Done |    | Implementation and interoperability reports summarized (by WG Chair) and assessed via WG e-mail discussion |
Done |    | All open issues resolved |
Done |    | Modifications (if any) to documents (RFC2741 and RFC2742) completed |
Done |    | Decision to advance or recycle made by WG and handed off to IESGfor action |
Done |    | Request for advancement of RFC 2741 and 2742 made to IESG |
Jan 02 |    | Shutdown WG or re-charter |
RFC | Status | Title |
RFC2741 | PS | Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol |
RFC2742 | PS | Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents |