CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_



Reported by Jon Saperia/DEC

DECNETIV Minutes

At our meeting in Boulder we discussed/agreed on the following items:


  1. The general wording regarding a group's STATUS will be, for
     example; The implementation of the Network Management Group is
     mandatory for all systems which implement session layer
     communications.  For those groups which are required for all
     systems regardless; we will use the standard wording - The
     implementation of the Routing Layer Group is mandatory for all
     systems.

  2. Using the approach described above, we discussed the following
     groups and agreed as follows:
     System Group - Required if Session Layer is iplemented Network
     Managment Group - Required if Session Layer is implemented End
     Communications Layer Group - Required if Session Layer is
     implemented

       o Routing Group - Required
       o Circuit Group - Required
       o Adjacency Group - Required

     There are other groups that we did not discuss and will be proposed
     as Required unless they clearly do not make sense.

  3. Chuck Davin asked if we could work with people developing an X.25
     MIB to see if our X.25 section could be moved out.  Chris will
     investigate this.  If we can still effectively manage a decnet
     system with this change then we will move the X.25 section out.

  4. The phivExecPhysAddr object will be moved to the circuit group.

  5. All variables which use decnet versions such as the Management
     version will be treated not as sequences of INTEGERs but as
     DisplayStrings.

  6. All enumerated types will not start with 0, they will start with 1
     and a comment will be made in the DESCRIPTION field of each object
     when this change has been made.

  7. The phivSessionExecAddr object will be moved to the routing group.


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 8. The Session Layer group will be combined with the Systems Group.

 9. Several objects need to be put into tables, this will be done
    before we put the next revision out.

10. The object phivRouteMaxArea will be moved to the area group.

11. The SubAddr objects currently in the Routing group will be moved to
    the X.25 group.

12. The phivCircuitCommonType object will be modified to look like:



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     phivCircuitCommonType OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                  DDCMP POINT (0)
                  DDCMP CONTROL (1)
                  DDCMP TRIBUTARY (2)
                  X25 (3)
                  DDCMP DMC (4)
                  Ethernet (6)
                  CI (7)
                  QP2 DTE20 (8)
                  BISYNC (9)
                  FDDI (15)
                  }
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DEFINITION
                  "Represents the type of the circuit.  For X.25 circuits, the
                  value must be set to X25.  For DDCMP and Ethernet circuits it
                  is read only and is the same value as the protocol of
                  the associated line."
            ::= { circuit 5 }

 13. The follwing objects will be moved to the adjacency group:
          phivCircuitExecAdjacentNodeName
          phivCircuitExecAdjacentNodeAddr
 14. The phivLineCounterTimer object will be deleted.
 15. The phivLineDevice object will now be a DisplayString and the
     Communication DEVICE mnemonics section of the DESCRIPTION will be
     deleted.
     Nick will look through the level 1 routing information to see if
     this is required for end systems.


We did not have time to cover all items, but a great deal was
accomplished.  Our current goal is to have a draft we feel comfortable
putting in the drafts directory by the end of January.

Attendees

Chris Chiotasso          chris@roswell.spartacus.com
Anthony Chung            anthony@hls.com
James (Chuck) Davin      jrd@ptt.lcs.mit.edu
Steven Hunter            hunter@es.net
Nik Langrind             nik@shiva.com
Peter Lin                lin@eng.vitalink.com
Oscar Newkerk            newkerk@decwet.enet.dec.com
David Perkins            dave_perkins@3com.com
Kary Robertson
Jon Saperia              saperia@tcpjon.enet.dec.com



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