Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/21/92 INTERIM_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Jeff Case/UTenn Minutes of the Uninterruptible Power Supply Working Group (UPSMIB) The UPSMIB Working Group held its first meeting on October 16, 1992 in Dallas, Texas. This meeting was scheduled, as discussed at the formulative BOF, to coincide with the NETWORLD trade show held earlier that same week. This scheduling was at the request of the Working Group in order to maximize productivity while minimizing impact on travel budgets. The meeting began with introductions, circulation of the attendance sheet, and other administrative matters. The second portion of the meeting was devoted to data collection. The attendees were divided into data providers and data collectors. Approximately one data provider was allocated per vendor represented. Approximately one data collector was allocated per MIB group. Data was collected for the cross product of each represented product and each proposed MIB object class. Each was rated using the following key: UI: Unimplementable in this product. SM: Static (constant) determined at time of manufacture. SC: Static (constant) determined at time of configuration or via a set request. SD: Always returns a static constant default value (such as unknown or noneOfTheBelow). DR: Can be implemented dynamic read/only, i.e., to reflect current values of instrumentation in the running system. DW: Can be implemented dynamic read/write. NC: No comment -- no data provided. This data was collected to help assess the implementability of each object. There were, as anticipated, several side benefits from the effort. o First, it provided opportunities for Working Group members to work together on a shared goal -- it got the members talking to each other in a non-confrontational setting. As a result, members got to know one another better. 1 o Second, it caused members to consider each MIB variable closely and uncovered considerable vagueness in the semantic content of many of the description clauses. o Third, it identified meta-issues such as the difference between precision and accuracy. The matrix will be posted to the mailing list: ups-mib@cs.utk.edu (ups-mib-request@cs.utk.edu for administrative add/change requests). The third phase of the meeting was devoted to discussion of the results of the survey, group by group. The editor was directed to make changes in the objects in the next draft as a result of these discussions. Not all groups were discussed owing to the limited time available in a one day meeting. The final phase of the meeting was discussion of the future. The Group elected to not meet at the 25th IETF plenary due to a time conflict with the COMDEX show. A meeting at the COMDEX show was considered briefly but the Chair is unable to leave the plenary in order to meet with the Working Group in another city while the plenary is being held in Washington. The mailing list will be used to continue discussions and to decide on the next meeting date(s). Attendees Mark Allgeier John Bell garringer@compuserve.com Tom Brennan brennan@exide.com Jeff Case case@cs.utk.edu Yu Chin 76500.3160@compuserve.com Roger Draper rdraper@cerf.net Bill Elliot Theodore Greene William Humphreys Rich Johnson Steve Loboyko 72360.2436@compuserve.com Jess Marinez Lawren Markle Andrew McCartney Gary Mook Bob Nerz Rod Pullen s.shepard@deltec.com Doug Rademacher James Rigney 76500.3160@compuserve.com Adam Stolinski stolinsk@cerf.net Grek Wilterdink Pete Yoest Brian Young 2