Management Services Interface (msi)

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Chair(s):
     Oscar Newkerk, newkerk@decwet.enet.dec.com
     Sudhanshu Verma, verma@hpindbu.cup.hp.com
Mailing Lists:
     General Discussion:  msiwg@decwrl.dec.com
     To Subscribe:  msiwg-request@decwrl.dec.com
Description of Working Group:

     The objective of the Management Services Interface Working
     Group is to define a management services interface by which
     management applications may obtain access to a heterogeneous,
     multi-vendor, multi-protocol set of manageable objects.
     The service interface is intended to support management
     protocols and models defined by industry and international
     standards bodies.  As this is an Internet Engineering Task
     Force Working Group, the natural focus is on current and future
     network management protocols and models used in the Internet.
     However, the interface being defined is expected to be
     sufficiently flexible and extensible to allow support for other
     protocols and other classes of manageable objects.  The
     anticipated list of protocols includes Simple Network
     Management Protocol (SNMP), OSI Common Management Information
     Protocol (CMIP), CMIP Over TCP (CMOT), Manufacturing Automation
     Protocol and Technical Office Protocol CMIP (MAP/TOP CMIP) and
     Remote Procedure Call (RPC).


Goals and Milestones:


Done          Initial version of the Internet Draft placed in the
              Internet-Drafts directory
Done          Revised version of the draft from editing meetings placed
              in the Internet-Drafts directory
Aug 1990      Initial implementation of the prototype available for
              test.
Done          Revised draft based on the implementation experience
              submitted to the RFC editor.



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