Evolution of SNMP (eos)
(concluded WG)

In addition to the charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at: Additional EOS Web Page

Description of Working Group

A small number of enhancements to the SNMP protocol would provide a
substantial improvement to the protocol in terms of utility and
efficiency. The enhancements must fall within the existing SNMP
architecture as defined in RFC 2571. The intent of the working group is
to focus on enhancements that may be easily defined and implemented
which should then promote rapid acceptance and deployment. New protocol
operations are within the realm of acceptable enhancements that may be
defined.

The initial work items include:

- A standards-track document defining the mechanism by which the
capabilities of a SNMP entity may be determined. This document should
also define the interoperability requirements of the SNMP protocol
when extensions are present and when they are absent;

- A standards-track document defining a mechanism for efficient
retrieval, creation, and deletion of rows in tables;

- A standards-track document defining a mechanism used to delete an
entire subtree of managed object instances. This could, for example,
be used to remove all information related to a particular username in
the SNMP administrative framework;

- A standards-track document defining a mechanism to provide for
compression of object identifiers to remove as much redundant
information as possible in the payload of the SNMP message; and,

- A standards-track document defining a mechanism for bulk transfer of
SNMP data.

Some of the documents may be combined if the working group so decides.

No additional work items may be taken on by the working group until
this
initial set of work is close to completion. Additional work will have
to
be approved by the IESG and the IAB.

Goals and Milestones