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Re: Draft Minutues OPS Area Meeting at 56th IETF



>>>>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Bert Wijnen wrote:
BW> Bert: Next Steps for SNMP and SMI
BW> 
BW>   maintenance mode, "step by step"
BW>      could be done with small design team or full WG process as
BW>      a generic SNMP/SMI maintenance, but small steps, short timeframe
BW> 
BW>   Go for incremental mode. Do "small steps".
BW>   Other groups were too ambitious.
BW>   Not all changes will need a working group.
BW>   Example: Integer64 and Unsigned64
BW>            could be done with small design team or full WG process as
BW>            We could do a generic "SNMP/SMI maintenance group".  
BW>   They get one item and are required to make fast progress -- 3 months.
BW>   repeat: small (and focused) steps!

Even this may be hard to achieve.  In the last discussion on the
SMIng list regarding the addition of Integer64 and Unsigned64 to the
SMI (which took place on 17 Feb 2003) Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:

JS> Note that we have beaten this horse (and similar horses) already so
JS> many times that I wonder why we have to do it yet again...
JS> 
JS> Note also that doing SMIv2.1 will get us back into all these debates
JS> which we were never able to end with rough concensus so even while
JS> SMIv2.1 seems simple and easy to do, the reality will be quite
JS> different.

I tend to agree with this pessimistic point of view, although I would be
delighted to be proven wrong.

Mike