RFC 1052 (rfc1052) - Page 2 of 14
IAB recommendations for the development of Internet network management standards
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RFC 1052 Internet Management April 1988 Specific Recommendations The IAB recommends that the Simple Network Management Protocol be adopted as the BASIS for network management in the short-term. Extensions may be required to the existing SNMP specification to accommodate additional data types or to deal with functional or performance issues arising as multiple SNMP implementations are deployed and applied, especially in multi-vendor applications. The SNMP working group constituted by the IETF is charged with considering requirements not met by the present SNMP definition, defining extensions, if necessary, to accommodate these needs, and preparing revisions of the SNMP specifications to address any new extensions. The IAB urges the working group to be extremely sensitive to the need to keep SNMP simple, to work quickly to come to concensus on any revisions needed and to promulgate expeditiously the results of its work in one or more RFCs within the next 90 days. The IETF chairman is responsible for resolving disagreements arising if they cannot be resolved within the working group and is instructed to escalate problems quickly to the IAB should resolution not be forthcoming. The IAB further recommends that the MIB working group begin its work equally expeditiously, taking as its starting inputs the MIB definitions found in the existing High-Level Entity Management Systems (HEMS) RFC-1024, the SNMP IDEA-11, and CMIS/CMIP IDEAs. It is the intention of the IAB that the MIB definitions be applied both to the SNMP system in the short term and CMIS/CMIP for TCP/IP in the longer term. The three working groups will have to coordinate their efforts carefully to achieve these objectives: 1. Rapid convergence and definition for SNMP. 2. Rapid convergence and definition for the TCP/IP MIB. 3. Provision for transitioning from SNMP to CMIP/CMIS. 4. Early demonstration of the CMIP/CMIS capability using the TCP/IP MIB. The IAB remains extremely interested in progress towards these goals and intends to have representation, whenever possible, in the various working group and IETF plenary activities. Cerf
