Internet and Management Support for Storage (imss)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2008-03-18

Current Status: Active Working Group

Chair(s):
    David Black  <[email protected]>

Operations and Management Area Director(s):
    Dan Romascanu  <[email protected]>
    Ronald Bonica  <[email protected]>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:
    Dan Romascanu  <[email protected]>

Technical Advisor(s):
    Keith McCloghrie  <[email protected]>
    Margaret Wasserman  <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group:

Fibre Channel is a high speed network technology primarily used for
storage networking (i.e., Storage Area Networks [SANs]). Two
important aspects of Fibre Channel interact with the Internet:
       - Fibre Channel can encapsulate and carry IP protocol traffic
       - Fibre Channel devices can be managed via SNMP

The Internet and Management Support for Storage WG (imss) is chartered
to address two areas, specifically:
       - IPv4 over Fibre Channel has been specified in RFC 2625. A
         corresponding specification for IPv6 is needed.
       - An initial Fibre Channel Management MIB has been developed by
         the IP Storage (ips) WG; extensions are needed to encompass
         management of additional aspects of Fibre Channel, such
         as zoning.

In the future, other storage related MIBs for other storage transports
such as INCITS T10 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or SCSI command specific
MIBs may be proposed. This group would work with the appropriate
technical committee(s) in a manner similar to that described for
INCITS
T11 below.

As Fibre Channel standardization is handled by the INCITS T11 Technical
Committee (http://www.t11.org), a close working relationship with T11
is essential to the WG's success. In particular:
      - The IPv6 over Fibre Channel specification will be based on
        draft-desanti-ipv6-over-fibre-channel-02.txt. This draft
        was originally developed within a T11 study group and T11
        has officially recommended this draft to the IETF.
      - The WG will not standardize management of Fibre Channel
        features ahead of their incorporation into appropriate T11
        Fibre Channel standards.
      - The WG will work closely with T11, specifically Task Group
        T11.5, on the functionality and structure of the MIBs it
        develops for management of Fibre Channel.

In addition to working closely with the INCITS T11 Technical
Committee,
this Working Group will work closely with IETF IPv6 Working Group as
appropriate. In particular, the IPv6 Working Group will be kept
informed on the progress and status of the IPv6 over Fibre Channel
specification. The IMSS Working Group Last Call announcement will be
cross-posted to the IPv6 WG mailing list.

Goals and Milestones:

  Done         Submit IPv6 over Fibre Channel draft to IESG for consideration
               as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit Fibre Channel Fabric Address Manager MIB to IESG for
               consideration as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit Fibre Channel Name Server MIB to IESG for consideration
               as Proposed Standard

  Done         Work with T11.5 to determine what additional MIB modules are
               needed

  Done         Submit Routing Information, FSPF and Virtual Fabrics MIBs to
               IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit Fibre Channel Zone Server, RSCN, and Fabric
               Configuration Server MIBs to IESG for consideration as Proposed
               Standard

  Done         Review working group charter and determine what additional
               work, if any, should be undertaken by working group

  Done         Submit Fibre Channel Security MIB modules to IESG for
               consideration as proposed standard


Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Aug 2007 Jul 2008   <draft-ietf-imss-fc-fcsp-mib-03.txt>
               MIB for Fibre-Channel Security Protocols (FC-SP)

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC3831Standard  Jul 2004    Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Fibre Channel

RFC4338Standard  Jan 2006    Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution
                      Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel

RFC4439 PS   Mar 2006    Fibre Channel Fabric Address Manager MIB

RFC4438 PS   Apr 2006    Fibre-Channel Name Server MIB

RFC4625 PS   Sep 2006    Fibre Channel Routing Information MIB

RFC4626 PS   Sep 2006    MIB for Fibre Channel's Fabric Shortest Path First
                      (FSPF) Protocol

RFC4747 PS   Nov 2006    The Virtual Fabrics MIB

RFC4935 PS   Aug 2007    Fibre-Channel Fabric Configuration Server MIB

RFC4936 PS   Aug 2007    Fibre-Channel Zone Server MIB

RFC4983 PS   Aug 2007    Fibre Channel Registered State Change Notification
                      (RSCN) MIB