Here are the minutes from the message tracking BOF, which took place
from 1415-1515 Tuesday, December 9, 1997.

First, there was a presentation by the BOF leader:

Several companies have now implemented SNMP MIBs in accordance with an
Internet draft standard for tracking individual messages, their
characteristics, or the path they have taken through the messaging
network. The resulting MIB is useful for finding lost messages, but can
also be used for accounting, security auditing, message loop detection,
and per-message
performance statistics. This MIB picks up where the Mail and Directory
Management MIB (MADMAN) left off.

Next, all agreed that the group should produce two deliverables:

1) A model document that describes the problem.

    entity relationship model, including relationships between the
entities (e.g. SMTP message switch, message store).
    Limit this to what is necessary for tracking messages.

    security issues

    limit to RFC 822 messages sent over SMTP at the start, possibly
expand
    later

    limit to MTA

    don't exclude control functions

    don't conflict with model in madman

2) Standards track document (RFC) that specifies how message tracking
can be done using SNMP.

    needs elements of procedure

    additions & revisions to current draft
(draft-ietf-madman-trackmib-00.txt)

    other design proposals


Finally, the group agreed to a time Table for the deliverables:

    draft charter to list       Dec 18
    draft charter to Harald     Dec 25
    develop model 1st draft     Mar 1
    update mib draft            Mar 1