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Reported by James W. Watt/Newbridge Networks Corporation

Minutes of the Frame Relay Service MIB Working Group (FRNETMIB)


Documents Discussed

   o Service Management Architecture for Virtual Connection Services
     (1 July)
   o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Services (2 July)


Issues Discussed

   o Frame Relay Forum (FRF)
     Andy Malis, Chair of the FRF, presented the work plan for the FRF
     effort.  The start and end dates of the FRF effort match those of
     the FRNETMIB Working Group and there are some intermediate
     meetings.
     The goal shared by both groups is to have a standard MIB by
     December of 1993.

   o Service Management Architecture
     Ken Rodemann gave a presentation based on the 2 July draft of his
     document.  The general reaction was positive, and in particular the
     ``(virtual-)circuit table'' was identified as a work item to be
     discussed with the ATOMMIB and IFMIB Working Groups.
     Discussion of the rest of the Service Management Architecture
     document will continue in the FRNETMIB Working Group.

   o Draft MIB
     Based on discussions of the 2 July draft, consensus was reached on
     the following:

      -  The PVC table was split into a ``flow'' (or connection) table
         and an end-point table.

      -  The per-PVC InUnits and OutUnits counters were renamed to
         InOctets and OutOctets for consistency with other MIBs and
         frPVCUnitSize was renamed to (something like) OctetResolution
         (see action item #2).

      -  The LPortNetAddress object was dropped as a duplicate of
         ifPhysAddr.

      -  A reference to ifPhysAddress was placed in the description of
         LPortNumPlan.

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      -  The frPVCConnectStatus trap needs to have words to prevent
         flooding a manager with traps when a whole link fails.  There
         is an added complexity with respect to the modeling of NNI
         links (see action item #3).

      -  The next draft of the MIB will be in SNMPv2.

      -  The focus of the MIB is primarily Customer Network Management
         (CNM) of PVCs for Frame Relay; however, it may be useful for
         other purposes.


Action Items

  1. Tracy Brown to issue a revised MIB draft (in SNMP V2 format) prior
     to the August FRF meeting.

  2. Tracy Brown to find consensus on where ``unit size'' should be in
     the MIB (end-point table or logical port table).

  3. Tracy Brown, Ken Rodemann and James Watt to clarify wording on trap
     suppression in MIB draft.


Attendees

Masuma Ahmed             mxa@sabre.bellcore.com
David Arneson            arneson@ctron.com
Fred Baker               fbaker@acc.com
Caralyn Brown            cbrown@wellfleet.com
Tracy Brown              tacox@mail.bellcore.com
Theodore Brunner         tob@thumper.bellcore.com
Steve Buchko             stevebu@newbridge.com
Chris Chiotasso          chris@andr.ub.com
David Fresquez           fresquez@vnet.ibm.com
Andrew Malis             malis@maelstrom.timeplex.com
Keith McCloghrie         kzm@hls.com
George Mouradian         gvm@arch3.att.com
Daniel Myers             dan@nsd.3com.com
Zbigniew Opalka          zopalka@agile.com
David Perkins            dperkins@synoptics.com
Aiko Pras                pras@cs.utwente.nl
Dan Romascanu            dan@lannet.com
Marshall Rose            mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
Jean-Bernard Schmitt     jbs@vnet.ibm.com
Tibor Schonfeld          tibor@qsun.att.com
Kaj Tesink               kaj@cc.bellcore.com
Dono van-Mierop          dono_van_mierop@3mail.3com.com
James Watt               james@newbridge.com
Peter Wilson             peter_wilson@3mail.3com.com


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