Agenda Item:	6.1
Source:	Motorola 
Title:	IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) activities report
Document for:	Information

Extracts from recent IETF meeting reports (source Motorola)

Meeting 42    August 1998
The O&M meetings were usually packed, with attendance ranging from about 30 to 200+ participants. The participants were for the most part observers, with active participation, in terms of proposals and comments, coming from up to ten participants. Cisco is heavily represented in most O&M meetings. Other active companies include BMC, IBM, SNMP Research.

O&M Working Groups
--- SNMP v3 ---

--- Entity MIB ---

--- Event Notification BOF ---

--- Real-Time Traffic Flow Measurement ---

--- Physical Topology MIB ---

--- Operations & Management open area meeting ---

--- SMI (Structure of Management Information) v2 BOF ---
--- AgentX  ---
--- Distributed Management ---

Meeting 43 December 1998
- New work in Network Management BOF:

This was a packed meeting with close to 300 participants. There were ten presentations, on proposals for future work. The intent was just to present the initiatives - deciding which ones to pursue will be made in the coming months. 

Presentations in the BOF provided proposals for:
-	Standardizing performance and reliability metrics (K. Schohl, Auto. Industry Action Group).
-	Providing end-to-end service management: QoS, security, response time MIB, traceroute functionality (T. Davis, Boeing).
-	Persistence in SNMPv3 tables needs to be resolved, and the implementation approach for bulk transfer needs to be decided upon (B. Stewart, Cisco).
-	Tools for MIB development, and time-stamping of events (J. Schoenwaelder).
-	Make the Winsnmp API v.2 (www.winsnmp.com) an Informational RFC, and have it support SNMP v.3 (B. Natale, Ace Comm)
-	Standardize application performance metrics (J. McQuaid, Net Scout Systems).
-	Standardize the information in automated problem reporting. Resolve issues with scalability, privacy, and report destinations (D. Thaler, Microsoft).
-	Provide a framework for policy definition (J. Ionanidis, E. Allison).

Meeting 44 March 1999
- The IETF has completed work on the specification of SNMP v.3 and SMI
v.2. Both are now draft standards (the next level after proposed
standard).

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- There are presently about 50 new MIBs in the queue to be reviewed.
- The 'nasreq' (network access server) working group has presently two
drafts on two possible models to use.
- The 'ngtrans' (next generation transition) working group wants to
foster the deployment of IPv6 and is using the 6bone testbed network
which consists of over 320 networks.
- There seems to be a disconnect between operator needs and work in the
IETF: operators want products to be shipped as soon as possible based on
IETF standards, and have end-to-end management capabilities. Some of the
working groups are not progressing fast enough in the eyes of some
operators.
- The IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) has two research groups that
provide guidance on future direction of O&M work in the IETF: the
Services Management group and the Network Management group.