Next Generation Structure of Management Information (sming)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2002-05-30

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     David Durham  <David.Durham@intel.com>

 Operations and Management Area Director(s):
     Randy Bush  <randy@psg.com>
     Bert Wijnen  <bwijnen@lucent.com>

 Operations and Management Area Advisor:
     Bert Wijnen  <bwijnen@lucent.com>

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Description of Working Group:

This working group shall develop a standards-track specification for
the next generation data definition language for specifying network
management data.  As a starting point, the WG will use the SMIng
language developed in the IRTF Network Management Research Group.
SMIng represents a superset of the SMIv2 (Structure of Management
Information v2) and the SPPI (Structure of Policy Provisioning
Information).  The objective is to replace both the SMIv2 and the
SPPI with a single, merged language as the data definition language
for the monitoring, configuration, and provisioning of network
devices.

The language developed will enable the modeling of network
management  information in a manner that provides the benefits of
object-oriented design.  To achieve this, the language must allow
the design of highly reusable syntactic/semantic components
(templates) that can be reused by multiple IETF working groups for
convenience, consistency, and to maximize interoperability in device
management. A registration mechanism will also be described for
reusable components defined using the language so that their
existence and purpose may be archived.

The language will provide for the definition of a transport-independent 
model so as to allow a variety of implementation-specific technologies 
to be derived from a single definition.  To demonstrate this, the 
working group will define two technology specific transport mappings: 
one for SNMP, and one for COPS.

The language will also provide:

 - syntax optimized for parseability, human readability, and
   non-redundancy

 - conventions for representing inheritance and containment of
   defined data

 - enhanced attribute-level and association-level constraints

 - a maximal amount of machine-parseable syntax so that
   programmatic tools can aid in modeling and implementation

 - a language extension capability

This working group will also define typical usage scenarios for
the language and highlight its features.  Finally, it will
develop  a framework by which reusable components specified
using this language can be registered and made readily
available for continued reuse and improvement.

The working group will not define models for specific
technologies, except as required for illustrative examples.
Specific models are to be developed by the subject matter
experts using the SMIng in the appropriate technology
specific WGs.

 Goals and Milestones:

   Done         IRTF documents complete & submitted to IETF 

   Done         Submit Revised I-Ds including requirements I-D 

   Done         Meet at 50th IETF 

   Done         Submit revised I-D for requirements document 

   Done         WG Last Call on requirements document as Informational RFC 

   Done         Submit revised I-D for Data Definition Language and Usage 
                document 

   Done         Meet at 51st IETF 

   Sep 01       WG Last Call on Data Definition Language (syntax) documents as 
                PS 

   Sep 01       WG Last Call on Usage document as Informational RFC 

   Oct 01       Revised I-D for Mapping documents for SNMP and COPS 

   Nov 01       WG Last Call on Mapping documents for SNMP and COPS as PS 

   Nov 01       Registrar framework defined for reusable components as an I-D 

   Dec 01       Meet at 52nd IETF 

   Feb 02       Last call on Registrar Framework document as Informational RFC 

   Mar 02       Meet at 53rd IETF 

   Mar 02       Working Group closes 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
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Jan 01 Jun 02   <draft-ietf-sming-02.txt>
                SMIng - Next Generation Structure of Management Information 

Jan 01 Jun 02   <draft-ietf-sming-inet-modules-02.txt>
                SMIng Internet Protocol Core Modules 

Jan 01 Jun 02   <draft-ietf-sming-modules-02.txt>
                SMIng Core Modules 

Jan 01 Jun 02   <draft-ietf-sming-snmp-02.txt>
                SMIng Mappings to SNMP 

Feb 01 Jun 02   <draft-ietf-sming-copspr-01.txt>
                SMIng Mappings to COPS-PR 

Nov 01 Jun 02   <draft-ietf-sming-compl-00.txt>
                SMIng Compliance 

May 02 May 02   <draft-ietf-sming-ds-00.txt>
                Structure of Management Information:Data Structures 

Jun 02 Jun 02   <draft-ietf-sming-caps-mib-00.txt>
                Capabilities MIB 

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
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RFC3216 I    Dec 01    SMIng Requirements