Pls close down EOS WG

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

When announcing the closing of the WG, I propose
to use the text below. I'll wait till Wed 3pm US Eastern
to see if any IESG member has concerns or suggestions.

I wonder if I should also express that my personal 
feeling/perception is that:

- Various IETF NM community members are too focused on their
  own technical (corner) interrests.
- Various people seem to have played delay tactics.

Maybe that will just evoke too much "political" and ad hominem
flames... and so maybe it is better to just keep that to myself.

Thanks,
Bert 

---- text to go with closing down of EOS WG ----

The EoS WG has been closed. The WG could not get to consensus
on the set of 5 small work-items and even today, more than
2 years after being chartered, there seems to be no consensus
and/or wide community support to drive to conclusion on any
work item. 

Below is some history.

- Chartered in Feb 2001
  In Feb 2001, the Evolution Of SNMP (EOS) WG was created to
  try and address 5 pretty small SNMP shortcomings.
  The Goals and Milestones were set agressively by the ADs
  and the WG chairs, but they were thought to be realistic.

- Supposed to be finished by Oct 2001
  The WG was supposed to finish their work by October 2001
  and we would then try to decide if a re-charter made sense.

- Activity during April-July 2001
  Various WG internet-drafts appeared during these months.
  But the WG was not able to converge and reach consensus on
  the solutions for the SNMP problems that it set out to address.

- In mid 2002 there was some renewed activity... with complete new
  individual internet-drafts that the WG considered.

- Before the fall 2002 IETF there was one new proposal on the table
                  Object Oriented Protocol Operations for
                 the Simple Network Management Protocol
  For which the current document name is: draft-ietf-eos-oops-00.txt

- At the fall 2002 IETF, the WG was warned that consensus and progress
  (and willingness to work on specs and implementations) was needed
  in order for the WG to survive.

- But this new work item has been lingering around for too many
  months as well, and there does not seem enough community consensus
  and support to put enough effort into it. 

- So the WG is being closed and the people working on the
  draft-ietf-eos-oops-00.txt can continue to do so as individuals 
  if they want to pursue it further. The WG mailing list will be
  kept around for a while and can be used for further discussions.