RE: CAPWAP BOF follow up: nmrg - CAPWAP

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

> > At the IRTF NMRG meeting, a few people expressed concerns
> > that CAPWAP was re-inventing wheels and not looking 
> > anough at re-use of existing technology.
> > 
> > My wording of what I heard:
> >  "They (capwap) are potetentially defining everything from
> >   scratch while we already have a lot of this in MIB solutions.
> >   Need more reuse. A concern is that many people think that
> >   using SNMP makes no sense anymore."
> 
> as usual, i am hearing both sides of the song.  many folk are
> indeed saying "reinventing the wheel."  many others are saying
> "but this is different."  and 802.11 is pushing it.  so i asked
> bert to post this to iesg and iab so we can have a consensus
> before we move in either direction.
> 
One thing that is specifically mentioned is that a lot of 802.11 
acces points are currently monitored (and I believe even configured)
with SNMP and some MIB modules (partly IEEE based, partly vendor
specific). 

In the past, a few people (like Ran Atkinson) asked if we could
start a standardization effort of such MIB Modules. In Lucent
(now Agere) I did then get some internal MIB modules, and acopy
of the Agere module. Most of them did not even pass the SYNTAX
compile test. 
Anyway, I tried to motivate some of those people to come to IETF
and help create a WG (with active participants). But those people
did not come forward back then (some 2-3 years ago now)

Bert
> randy
>