Evolution of SNMP (eos)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2002-06-24

Current Status: Active Working Group

Chair(s):
    Glenn Waters  <[email protected]>
    Dale Francisco  <[email protected]>

Operations and Management Area Director(s):
    Randy Bush  <[email protected]>
    Bert Wijnen  <[email protected]>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:
    Bert Wijnen  <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group:

A small number of enhancements to the SNMP protocol would provide a
substantial improvement to the protocol in terms of utility and
efficiency. The enhancements must fall within the existing SNMP
architecture as defined in RFC 2571. The intent of the working group is
to focus on enhancements that may be easily defined and implemented
which should then promote rapid acceptance and deployment. New protocol
operations are within the realm of acceptable enhancements that may be
defined.

The initial work items include:

- A standards-track document defining the mechanism by which the
 capabilities of a SNMP entity may be determined. This document should
 also define the interoperability requirements of the SNMP protocol
 when extensions are present and when they are absent;

- A standards-track document defining a mechanism for efficient
 retrieval, creation, and deletion of rows in tables;

- A standards-track document defining a mechanism used to delete an
 entire subtree of managed object instances. This could, for example,
 be used to remove all information related to a particular username in
 the SNMP administrative framework;

- A standards-track document defining a mechanism to provide for
 compression of object identifiers to remove as much redundant
 information as possible in the payload of the SNMP message; and,

- A standards-track document defining a mechanism for bulk transfer of
 SNMP data.

Some of the documents may be combined if the working group so decides.

No additional work items may be taken on by the working group until
this
initial set of work is close to completion. Additional work will have
to
be approved by the IESG and the IAB.

Goals and Milestones:

  Feb 01       Working group chartered

  Feb 01       First revisions of the documents

  Apr 01       Second revisions of the documents

  Jun 01       Third revisions of the documents

  Sep 01       Last set of revisions of all documents

  Sep 01       WG Last Call for all documents and submit then to AD for
               consideration as Proposed Standard

  Oct 01       Shutdown or re-charter


Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
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Apr 01 Aug 02   <draft-ietf-eos-snmpxproto-mib-03.txt>
               SNMP Extended Protocol MIB

Jul 01 Mar 02   <draft-ietf-eos-snmp-bulkdata-01.txt>
               SNMP Bulk Data Transfer Extensions

Request For Comments:

 None to date.

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