Re: [iesg-secretary #6318] WG Action: Evolution of SNMP Working Group (eos) to

["Jacqueline Hargest" <jhargest@foretec.com>]

Your request #6318 was resolved by jhargest:

IESG: FYI

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>To: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
>From: Mark Haas <mark.haas@clockware.com>
>Subject: Re: WG Action: Evolution of SNMP Working Group (eos) to

Bert,

If this means what I think it means, and I've just joined today to try and 
solve the SPAM issue, is there no hope for working groups to exist on this 
topic? I haven't even begun, and the group is closed.

Help?

Mark Haas



At 4/4/03 02:54 PM, you wrote:

>The Evolution of SNMP Working Group (eos) in the Operations and Management 
>Area
>of the IETF has concluded.
>
>The IESG contact persons are Randy Bush and  Bert Wijnen.
>
>+++
>
>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.
>
>  Bert Wijnen
>  co-AD for the IETF Operations and Management Area