Ethernet Interfaces and Hub MIB (hubmib) Charter

2.3.8 Ethernet Interfaces and Hub MIB (hubmib)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 52nd IETF Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah USA. It may now be out-of-date. Last Modified: 04-Dec-01

Chair(s):

Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>

Operations and Management Area Director(s):

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:

Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>

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Description of Working Group:

The Ethernet Interfaces and Hub MIB WG is Chartered to define a set of managed objects that instrument devices, MAUs and interfaces that conform to the IEEE 802.3 standard for Ethernet. This set of objects should be largely compliant with, and even draw from IEEE 802.3, although there is no requirement that any specific object be present or absent.

Close coordination with hardware standards development in IEEE 802.3 will be followed. The WG chair will support the communication with IEEE 802.3. When objects are added that require hardware support, IEEE 802.3 shall be informed, so that they consider to add them to their draft/standard.

The MIB object definitions produced will be for use by SNMP and will be adequately consistent with other SNMP objects, standards and conventions.

The WG will define new MIB objects to cover the following 802.3 technologies:

P802.3ae - 10 Gb/s Ethernet

P802.3af - DTE Power via MDI

Goals and Milestones:

Done		Meet at the 41st IETF to discuss implementation experience of RFC 2108 and RFC 2239, and to consider future extensions for Full Duplex operation and 1 Gigabit Ethernet Speeds
Done		Gather implementation experience feedback concerning RFC 2108 and RFC 2239
Done		Post Internet-Draft(s) for Full Duplex and 1 Gigabit Ethernet MIB extensions
Done		Meet at the 42nd IETF to discuss the Internet-Draft(s) and issue recomendations concerning advancement of RFC 2108 and RFC 2239 on the standards track
Done		Post revised Internet-Draft(s)
Done		Conduct WG Last Call on Internet-Draft(s)
Done		Submit final version of the Internet-Draft(s) to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards
Done		Submit revised version of the Internet-Drafts, following the Area Directorate review
Done		Submit final versions of the MAU MIB and Ethernet-like Interfaces MIB Internet-Draft(s) to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards
Done		Submit the Ethernet Chipsets document to IESG for consideration as an Informational RFC
Done		Begin identifying new work items for future work
Done		Issue WG Drafts for MIBs for P802.3ae & P802.3af
Done		Issue revised WG Drafts for MIBs for P802.3ae/P802.3af
Dec 01		Gather implementation experience concerning WG documents already on the standards track
Jan 02		Issue revised WG drafts for existing stds track documents if so required by the implementation reports
Jan 02		Forward Internet-Drafts to the AD/IESG Stds track considerations
Jan 02		WG Last Call All documents

Internet-Drafts:

Request For Comments:

RFC	Status	Title

RFC1515	PS	Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs)
RFC2108	PS	Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices using SMIv2
RFC2665	PS	Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types
RFC2666		Definitions of Object Identifiers for Identifying Ethernet Chip Sets
RFC2668	PS	Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2

Current Meeting Report

HUBMIB WG IETF 52, Salt Lake City

Monday afternoon session II

Notes

K.C. - Minutes taker

Dan Romascanu discussion leader

The agenda from the main agenda link is invalid. IETF isn't concerned.

The real hubmib agenda can be found at: <http://www.ietf.org/ietf/01dec/hubmib.txt>

+ IEEE 802.3 Status Report
+ two IEEE meetings since London
+ 802.ae
+ draft 34 in ballot between 11/17 and 12/3
+ Sponsor Ballot to follow
+ Standard expected 3/02 and 6/02
+ 802.3af
+ D3.0 in Ballot between 11/16 & 12/30
+ Standard expected between 9/02 and 11/02
+ Standard slightly behind time
+ Changes expected
+ 802.3ah (Ethernet first mile)
+ WG formed - 9/01
+ Four tracks:
+ · Fiber p2p
+ · Copper p2p
+ · Fiber p2mp
+ · OAM
+ Far from IETF involved still too early in IEEE
+ RFC’s
+ 1515 - should be obsolete by 2668 - was not.
+ 2108
+ 2665
+ 2666
+ 2668
+ Confusion is there due to duplication of rfc’s.
+ Next rfc on MAU mib will obsolete 1515 and 2668
+ Need implementation reports.
+ Enterasys wanted some issues answered before they implement implementation
+ reports.
+ Would be nice to get implementation reports of where
+ John Flick - Problems with hardware help decide that non-essential items will not be discussed.

· Etherlike MIBS

o What do we do with the test oids now that the table is gone? - Deprecate?

o What about multiple manager stations?

o rfc1229 Interfaces extensions mib->rfc1273->deprecated for no implementations. We now have test oids not in use. Recommended to deprecate and start a loopback test object. Will post new object to mailing list.

o Is the IFMTU clear. Someone requested clarification to this, but it seems clear. It was decided that the person who doesn’t understand it to give example. It was decided to leave as is until the person can produce the info.

o IfAdminStatus (down) needs to be clarified Mike Mcfadden brought up the issue in the bridge wg where multiple vendors have multiple reactions to this. Fiber was not tested. There needs to be clarification needed from IEEE. John will write text to ask and Dan will make the request.

o issue on rfc1643 - 2 current versions of the Ethernet mib. - do we move it to historic, full standard? Should we put in our current draft an explanation of why there are 2 drafts. Some vendors are using rfc1643 with private mibs.

· MAU MIB

o Some outstanding edits are still here. There are some issues in the WIS MIB and SONET that will affect some text.

o Some issues from the InterWorking labs test summit may affect this. We will have to wait until at least the end of January to get its information. Do we wait?

o Issues that could come up are misunderstanding in the implementation? Some packets and octets that could have misunderstanding. It was decided to wait for the test summit.

o Some SONET entry in the ifStackEntry stackables issues. This goes along with the WIS MIB work. Where do we do the clarification? Decided we would discuss this in the WIS mib meeting.

o discussed the implementation of the auto-negotiation duplex info. Some are implementing the MAU mib as is. Others are implementing this in the private mibs due to being cumbersome. GBIC swap may only be partly relevant to the configuration. Use a enumerated integer for setting? This is what some people are doing. John had posted to the wg how HP is doing their proprietary mib as a suggestion.

o Forcing the autonegotiation down configuration came up. Once again, not having implementation reports to review against doesn’t help solve the issue. We need more implementation reports. There are some vendors that have implemented the way as written.

o Dan proposed that we do the updates to the mib as posted previously by John as recommendation of the committee and let people see it. Mike H. suggested some new oid’s written to help out with this. People could help by reviewing the jack type enumeration.

o Power MIB

o latest draft published November 2001

o Misc spelling and compile warning errors were noted.

o Changes resulting from IEEEportPortPowerPairs object deleted.

o Delete off option of the power port detection control object

o add new objects to powerdetectionstatus object.

o delete powerportclassificationobject

o update naming of objects

o Reviewed some implementation notes from PowerDsine that will be added to next version.

o The IETF document status is stable. We don’t know what the IEEE is going to do. For this reason just respin the draft and wait for the IEEE to go on.

o Last-call may happen in Feb 02 depending on the IEEE.

The goal is to finish all for the IETF in Minneapolis. in March.

Goals and Milestones

Dec 01 - Gather implementation experience

Jan 02 - Issue revised drafts - Missed

Jan 02 - Forward drafts to AD/IESG - pushed to Feb.

Feb 02 - Last call in Feb.

Slides

Agenda
'draft-ietf-hubmib-power-ethernet-mib-01'