RE: sming interim meeting date and location...

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 07:31 AM 4/4/2002, Glenn Waters wrote:

> I am all for progress,
> however I do not think we have sufficiently done our homework to have an
> interim meeting. Of the items listed on the agenda below the only item
> that I have seen significant discussion on is the reuse issue. I would
> like to see the same level of discussion on some of the other topics to
> understand where the group stands on those. 
>
> If after discussion on the list there still appears to be
> issues then I think the time is right to get together face to face to
> hash out the remaining work.

I think an interim meeting in early June is a good idea.
The WG is way behind schedule.  There have been far too few
people
contributing on the mailing list.  We should use the mailing
list
a lot more, so the homework gets done over the next 8 weeks.

I think it would be easier if the WG picked a single draft and
focused on perfecting that draft.  Progress can still be made
by addressing a generic issues list, but this is somewhat harder.
First we need to create an issues list, and then somehow document
the proposed solutions, comment on, and then revise those 
solutions,
until the issues are resolved. Random discussions on random topics
will not get it done. Dave's draft agenda below is a good start
at an issues list.


> Cheers, /gww 

Andy


> > -----Original
> Message----- 
> > From: Durham, David
> [mailto:david.durham@intel.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 01:44 
> > To: sming@ops.ietf.org 
> > Subject: sming interim meeting date and
> location... 
> > 
> > Greetings, 
> > At the last sming meeting there was sufficient interest
> in having an 
> > interim 
> > meeting to coble out a single proposal for the next
> generation of the SMI. 
> > So, given that there isn't significant opposition to
> such an interim 
> > meeting 
> > from the wg (express any opposition on the mailing list
> please), here is 
> > the 
> > plan... 
> > 
> > Meeting Dates: June 6th, 7th and 8th 2002 starting at
> 1:00pm on the 6th. 
> > Location: Washington DC, CNRI (where the IESG
> secretariat is located). 
> > Airport: CNRI is about 5-10 minutes from the Washington
> Dulles airport. 
> > 
> > Exact directions still to come. 
> > 
> > Start of Draft agenda: 
> >       -
> Terminology 
> >       - N levels of
> nesting & arrays in arrays 
> >       - Hierarchical oid
> naming 
> >       - Scope of
> reuse 
> >       - Indexing
> >       - Develop Common proposal 
> >               o re-examine existing contributions 
> >               o determine commonality 
> >               o compare unique features 
> >               o cost vs. benefits analysis 
> >       - Backwards and forwards compatibility with SMIv2 
> >       - And if we get all the features done, address syntax 
> > 
> > 
> > Please comment. 
> > Thanks, 
> > -Dave