RE: Where do we go from here?

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 08:10 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
>At 07:58 PM 8/9/02 , Andy Bierman wrote:
>>I agree completely with Randy, that a comprehensive, well thought out
>>solution (a 10 year plan) is needed.  An ad-hoc, quick-and-dirty, incremental
>>approach to NM standards in the IETF has not worked, and will never work.
>>The old plan, based on SNMP, is not working.  It's time to update the plan.
>
>And, I agree with both of you.
>
>So, how do we start work on such a plan?

well, that's for the ADs to decide.  I don't think we need to do a fact-finding
mission for 1+ years, and not start any work until it's done.   A lot fact-finding
has already been done (e.g., OPS Roadshow, Operator Requirements
draft, OPS area meetings, IAB NM Workshop, and dilbert-vision mailing list).
I'm hoping the ADs will put a team or WG together to examine all this input
and make a binding recommendation.  This effort should take 6 months at most.
If certain pieces of the big picture are identified as such (maybe opaque data over 
SSH is part of the big picture, but it looks like a short-term approach to me) then
there's no reason not to start working on them right away.


>Margaret

Andy


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