RE: sming meeting minutes draft...

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

I'd like to get a few more details on this (I think we got them
at the meeting):
 
> Revisited Charter and Milestones. Updated charter was put on 
> the mailing list. No issues raised on the list, no issues 
> raised at the meeting either. According to the charter 
> milestones we are a year behind. The original milestones 
> assumed the nmrg documents which were complete, but the wg 
> chose to investigate the smi-ds route. We will still need a 
> few iterations on the smi-ds/v3 documents before they will be 
> complete. The current proposed list of documents in priority order is:
>  
> -        1. SMIv3 Language Definition: Andy Bierman
> -        2. Capabilities MIB: Andy Bierman: DONE
> -        3. SMIv3 Guidelines 
> -        4. Transition from SMIv2
> -        5. SMIv3 MIB Modules (core types)
> -        6. INET Modules (textual conventions)
> -        7. RFC 2580 Conformance Updates 
>  
> We need volunteers for the documents or the wg will shut 
> down, and the smi will not progress. Previous volunteers for 
> the guidelines and transition documents are waiting for the 
> language definition. In principle, people support the smi-ds 
> work, but we will need people to sign up to get the work 
> done. Likewise from the discussion at the wg meeting it seems 
> that there is a lot of waffling on how we proceed item by 
> item through the open issues listed below.  
>  
My understanding at the meeitng was that Andy un-volunteered for some
docs. And so I like to clearly understand who is currently volunteer
for what. I also like to see commitments as follows:

- Volunteers to commit to deliver a reasonable revision of the
  document they volunteer for
- From the WG to do serious review and to provide serious input
  for the editors and the chair, so that we can get to consensus.

The lack of WG participation and the lack of enthusiastic volunteers
for all documents does not bode well. And as David said, we're
already 1 year behind schedule.

Thanks, Bert