I am all for progress, however I do not think we have sufficiently done our homework to have an interim meeting. Of the items listed on the agenda below the only item that I have seen significant discussion on is the reuse issue. I would like to see the same level of discussion on some of the other topics to understand where the group stands on those.
If after discussion on the list there still appears to be issues then I think the time is right to get together face to face to hash out the remaining work.
Cheers, /gww
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Durham, David [mailto:david.durham@intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 01:44
> To: sming@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: sming interim meeting date and location...
>
> Greetings,
> At the last sming meeting there was sufficient interest in having an
> interim
> meeting to coble out a single proposal for the next generation of the SMI.
> So, given that there isn't significant opposition to such an interim
> meeting
> from the wg (express any opposition on the mailing list please), here is
> the
> plan...
>
> Meeting Dates: June 6th, 7th and 8th 2002 starting at 1:00pm on the 6th.
> Location: Washington DC, CNRI (where the IESG secretariat is located).
> Airport: CNRI is about 5-10 minutes from the Washington Dulles airport.
>
> Exact directions still to come.
>
> Start of Draft agenda:
> - Terminology
> - N levels of nesting & arrays in arrays
> - Hierarchical oid naming
> - Scope of reuse
> - Indexing
> - Develop Common proposal
> o re-examine existing contributions
> o determine commonality
> o compare unique features
> o cost vs. benefits analysis
> - Backwards and forwards compatibility with SMIv2
> - And if we get all the features done, address syntax
>
>
> Please comment.
> Thanks,
> -Dave