SNMP Version 2 (snmpv2) ----------------------- Charter Chair(s): Bob Stewart Network Management Area Director(s) Marshall Rose Mailing lists: General Discussion:snmp2@thumper.bellcore.com To Subscribe: snmp2-request@thumper.bellcore.com Archive: thumper.bellcore.com:~/pub/davin/snmp2-archive Description of Working Group: This Working Group is chartered to consider technical contributions to the SNMP evolution process and to produce a single recommendation as to which contributions (or combinations or modifications thereof) should define the next generation SNMP network management framework. The announced deadline for technical contributions to the SNMP evolution process is September 10, 1992. Any individual interested in contributing to this process should prepare and submit his/her contribution according to the requirements for detail, completeness, copyright, and format set forth in the original announcement. This Working Group is under no obligation to consider contributions that do not meet these basic requirements or contributions that are not submitted by the contribution deadline. This Working Group has the option of (a) rejecting any or all contributions as the basis for positive evolution, (b) accepting any or all contributions as candidates for standardization, or (c) modifying or combining any or all contributions to produce consensus proposals for standardization. The product of the Working Group will be a single recommendation to the IESG identifying those submitted specifications (or modifications thereof), if any, whose standardization as part of the SNMP framework is agreed to be warranted and desirable. The Working Group will not be chartered to produce tutorial, explanatory, advisory, or informational documents of any kind. In its deliberations, the Working Group will take special cognizance of architectural principles on which the historic success of SNMP has rested: (1) The SNMP framework minimizes the overall cost of a manageable network by minimizing the cost and complexity of those management system components that are most numerous. (2) The SNMP framework fosters ubiquity of deployment by admitting the widest possible range of implementation strategies. (3) The SNMP framework fosters operational robustness by realizing management system function as closely as possible to centers of responsible authority. (4) The SNMP framework fosters operational robustness by locating control of resources consumed by the management activity (e.g., bandwidth, processing) as closely as possible to centers of responsible authority. Moreover, the deliberations of the Working Group will take special cognizance of at least two aspects of evolutionary logistics: (1) A single transition from existing SNMP technology to the next stage of SNMP evolution is highly desirable; multi-stage or protracted transitions are less desirable. (2) Minimizing the number of distinct management technologies concurrently deployed in the Internet is highly desirable. Consistent with the community desire for timely, deliberate progress, the Working Group may be disbanded at the time of the IETF plenary meeting in the Spring of 1993 regardless of whether or not it has produced the single recommendation required by its Charter. This Working Group is not chartered to consider security aspects of the SNMP framework, as these are addressed as a matter of course by an existing IETF working group. Goals and Milestones: Done Post as an Internet-Draft the technical proposals to the SNMP Evolution Working Group. Done Closing date for technical proposals. Done First Working Group meeting. Done Working Group meeting in Washington DC IETF Plenary. Mar 93 Working Group meeting at the IETF Plenary. Mar 93 Submit a proposal to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Internet Drafts: No Current Internet drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC1443 PS May 93 Textual Conventions for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) RFC1444 PS May 93 Conformance Statements for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) RFC1442 PS May 93 Structure of Management Information for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) RFC1448 PS May 93 Protocol Operations for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) RFC1441 PS May 93 Introduction to version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework RFC1449 PS May 93 Transport Mappings for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) RFC1450 PS May 93 Management Information Base for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2) RFC1451 PS May 93 Manager to Manager Management Information Base RFC1452 PS May 93 Coexistence between version 1 and version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework