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Hi Don,
Thanks for the response (and to the other members of the
COSMOS team who have responded to my query). I will use the cosmos-dev
list (which I've subscribed to) going forward, but wanted to be sure it was ok
with the COSMOS leadership before doing so (and had only the initial
committers list to go by in that respect).
Just by way of general background, I have played productive
roles in several earlier IETF O&M Area standardization efforts: WinSNMP
Moderator(IETF spin-off to an industry forum), SNMPv2c originator, AgentX Chair,
and SNMPv3 contributor. I am optimistic about the potential for success in
the MIB2RMDL effort based on industry need, previous work done in the IETF and
elsewhere wrt SNMP MIB to XML conversion, and the concrete progress already made
and/or roadmapped by the Muse and COSMOS projects.
Cheers,
BobN
Bob,
Thank you for
bringing this effort to my attention. At a minimum, I intend to follow
the mailing list. I can’t give you an official response, but I will give
you my personal opinions for now and let the project give you a more complete
formal answer later.
After reading the
presentation, I believe that the goals of MIB2RMDL align well with some COSMOS
data collection component requirements. In particular, a standard
mapping between SNMP MIBs and a SOA resource model is needed and I believe
that IETF is a much better choice to organize this standardization effort than
attempting to do something ourselves. A SNMP proxy based on Muse would
be even more useful as COSMOS has already committed to Muse and hopes to be
able to deliver such a proxy. My primary concern at this point is that
it may prove somewhat difficult to achieve broad consensus on a common
approach at the metamodel layer, but that is not my area of expertise so I
will leave that for others to ponder.
I suspect that you
will receive an official response of some sort within the next week, but for
now, the best way to contact the broader COSMOS community would be a post on
our development mailing list cosmos-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx.
Regards,
Don
Ebright
From: Natale,
Bob [mailto:RNATALE@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 5:41
PM
To: Ebright,
Don
Subject: Eclipse COSMOS,
Apache Muse, and IETF MIB2RMDL effort
I am contacting
you because of your participation on the COSMOS project. If possible
could you please:
1. Review the
IETF MIB to Resource Model Description Language (MIB2RMDL) info below and let
me know whether you think that collaboration between COSMOS and MIB2RMDL makes
sense.
2. Give me an
update wrt COSMOS progress.
3. Let me know
whether you see a productive relationship between Muse, COSMOS, and
MIB2RMDL.
At the IETF
O&M Area meetings in Prague (March 18-23), we held a mini-BOF on
the topic of standardizing a methodology to convert SNMP MIBs to SOA/WS
resource model artifacts (tagged as "MIB to Resource Model Description
Language" (MIB2RMDL), using "Language" very loosely in this context).
The purpose of the MIB2RMDL effort is to enable unified service/network/system
management from the SOA/WS management level by making the virtual library of
data models represented by SNMP MIBs and the management
instrumentation supporting them more directly accessible to SOA/WS
management applications.
The O&M Area
decided to proceed with further investigation of the MIB2RMDL idea, with the
first step being to establish an e-mail list for discussion of the proposal.
If you would like to participate or even just monitor the discussion, you can
subscribe at https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mib2rdml.
My hope is that
the discussion will lead to sufficient definition and further acceptance of
the MIB2RMDL proposal so that we can charter a formal Working Group at IETF-69
in Chicago
this July.
To jumpstart the
e-mail list discussion, I will produce and post an updated (-01) I-D in the
next week or so, incorporating input/feedback from the Prague meeting and
anything else that might develop on this list in the meantime. (Co-authors
welcomed.) The initial (-00) exploratory I-D is available at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-natale-snmp-mibs-to-ontology-00.txt,
but I recommend waiting for the -01 update.
If you know of
other individuals or groups who might be interested in or able to contribute
to this work, please forward this message to
them.
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