CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Mark Lewis/Telebit Corporation Minutes of the Modem Management Working Group (MODEMMGT) Summary The third meeting of MODEMMGT was attended by twenty or so people. The Network Management Area Director noted that the group was behind schedule and would be given until January 31, 1994 to reach consensus or the working group would be disbanded. The group discussed various ways to meet this deadline and agreed to pursue a phased approach. The group will focus on a MIB of core objects and defer other objects to a MIB of extensions. It was suggested that the group reconsider the work done by the CCITT (now ITU) known as V.im (now V.58). It was agreed that V.58 would be considered a super-set of objects from which the set of core objects would be taken. Objects could be renamed and be explicitly mapped to the corresponding V.58 object with notes in the description. Changes in structure would be made only where justified. The structure of the working group's draft of the core objects was analyzed. It was agreed that it would be reduced to five groups of objects. The objects within each group will be refined by the authors. The grouping of core objects is as follows: mdmIDGroup Identity of the modem mdmLineInterfaceGroup Configuration and state of line interface mdmDTEInterfaceGroup Configuration and state of DTE interface mdmCallControlGroup Call control configuration and state of last call mdmStatisticsGroup Statistics of the modem Internet-Draft Discussion o The group agreed NOT to include leased line functionality in the core MIB. o The mdmIDGroup corresponds to the VSeriesDcePackage in V.58 o The mdmDataCompressionGroup was dropped from the core MIB. o The mdmCallControlGroup and mdmCallStateGroup were merged into the mdmCallControlGroup like V.58 o The mdmSignalConverterGroup was dropped from the core MIB. o The mdmIDModel object was expanded to include the revision, serial number, hardware revision, and firmware revision like manufacturerID in V.58. o Objects mdmIDHardwareSerNum, mdmIDHardwareRev, mdmIDFirmwareRev are dropped from the draft. o mdmIDCountry was deferred to an extension MIB. o mdmLineCapabilitiesTable was considered. The documented technique is different from V.58. The merits of this deviation were argued but to resolved. Steve Waldbusser will defend the draft method in a discussion on the mailing list. Alan Clark will argue for a method more in line with V.58 on the mailing list. o The mdmStats group was compared to V.58. The working group wanted to deviate from V.58 and leave the statistics in a separate group. The Next Step The five groups of core objects will be divided among the authors for further editing. Each group will be treated individually on the mailing list. The groups must be carefully evaluated and extensively discussed on the mailing list. Thanks to those who have contributed time and expertise to this project. Attendees Jim Barnes barnes@xylogics.com Jeff Case case@cs.utk.edu Bill Cash cash@bangote.compaq.com Alan Clark aclark@hayes.com Manuel Diaz diaz@davidsys.com Christine Gressley gressley@uiuc.edu Cheryl Krupczak cheryl@empiretech.com Olav Kvittem Olav.Kvittem@uninett.no Mark Lewis Mark.S.Lewis@telebit.com Peram Marimuthu peram@wg.com Orly Nicklass orly@radmail.rad.co.il Bill Norton wbn@merit.edu Steven Onishi sonishi@wellfleet.com Gregory Pearson Jim Rees Jim.Rees@umich.edu Allen Rochkind Allen_Rochkind@3com.com Marshall T. Rose mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us Michael Scanlon scanlon@ftp.com Chris Shaw cshaw@banyan.com Steven Waldbusser waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu Honda Wu honda@nat.com