Design Team for documenting Requirements for Config Mgmt

["Bert Wijnen" <WIJNEN@vnet.ibm.com>]

Hi all,
after a few email back and forth between ADs and DT members, we have
come up with a sort fo charter and milestones that will help us
monitor and achieve the goals we discussed last week.

Attached is that charter.

Pls contribute as much as you can, keep an eye on what is happening
and speak up whenever you feel a need. This will help us identify
any issues soon and trigger us to try and work towards solutions.

Pls note, that YOU all are expected to send in any input you may
have ASAP, but no later than October 1st. It must be sent to

         mumble@ops.ietf.org

Thanks,
Bert
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Design Team for Requirements for Configuration Management

The design team has the following tasks:

1) Write a document that specifies the requirements for
   configuration management. This includes reuirements for a
   data model, information model, and protocols. The requirments
   should be specified such that current/future proposals
   can be evaluated.

2) Evaluate (and document such evaluation) the COPS-PR/SoPI
   and SNMP/SMI against these requirements.
   This task will produce a document that shows how well the
   current COPS-PR/SoPI and SNMP/SMI meet those requirements.
   In addition, potential changes will be listed to each of
   the 2 packages by which they would meet the requirements.

3) Evaluate implementation and deployment costs.
     -   Cost of implementation
     -   Time to implement
     -   Impact on Deployed systems
     -   Impact on management staffs

Milestones:

20 Sep 99 - Start.
            Attendees of meeting send requirements to the mailing
            list: mumble@ops.ietf.org
            (to subscribe send email to mumble-request@opts.ietf.org
             and put the word subscribe in the body)
            The sooner everyone sends in requirements, the better.

01 Oct 99 - No more requirements accepted,

08 Oct 99 - or earlier
            Design Team (DT) publishes requirements to mumble
            list so everyone can check them and comment

15 Oct 99 - or earlier
            Design Team (DT) publishes a first cut of the evaluation
            to the mumble list so everyone can check and comment

22 Oct 99 - or earlier
            Design Team submits document(s) to I-D repository
            under the names of:
                draft-ops-mumble-<docname>-00.txt

07 Nov 99 - Documents presented/evaluated at 46th IETF in mumble-BOF
            (name of BOF to be determined)

Design Team Members:

      Luis Sanchez     (ipsp)  - lsanchez@bbn.com
      Jon Saperia      (snmp)  - saperia@mediaone.net
      Keith McCloghrie (cops)  - kzm@cisco.com

Design Team Leader: Luis Sanchez

Notes:
- Would be great if Design Team can create/maintain a web page
  listing the submitted requirments.(Juergen may be able to
  help, he has done so for quite a few other design teams).
- Mailing list and comments are restricted to attendees/invitees
  of the "interim policy/rap/diffserv" meeting so as to be able
  to be productive and focused.
- There is no discussion of an SNMPv4. We're documenting a set
  of requirements and evaluating 2 tool-sets and we have to have
  no rumours about a possible SNMPv4.
- The team members can consult with anybody they like on any
  items/issues they want/need help with.
- The ADs (and IESG) will evaluate the situation after the 46th
  IETF meeting.


Bert