INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION STUDY GROUP 4
TELECOMMUNICATION
STANDARDIZATION SECTOR
STUDY PERIOD 2001-2004 TD 78 (Rev.2) (PLEN)

Question(s): Q12/4, Q17/4, Q19/4 5 - 14 February 2003

                                                                TEMPORARY DOCUMENT

Source: Study Group 4
Title: Liaison on Alarm MIB
                                                               
                                                                LIAISON STATEMENT

To: IETF disman WG chair (Randy Presuhn)
                                IETF Area Directors for Operations and Management
                                (Bert Wijnen, Randy Bush)
                                IETF email address for liaison statements

Approval: SG4
For: Information
Deadline:
Contact: Pontailler, C.
                                Alcatel
                                France
                                Tel: + 33 2 96 04 81 08
                                Fax: + 33 2 96 04 83 00
                                Email: catherine.ponatiller@alcatel.fr

We thank you very much for having sent us information about the IETF
disman WG alarm MIB and appreciate very much the work done in this
specification, as well as the presentations which were done during the
SG4 meeting, February, 2003.

We're encouraging consistency between all alarm management specification
work.

We've seen that the IETF alarm MIB has addressed concerns previously
sent by ITU-T, and encourage any further cooperation.
 
We've noted several points for further consideration and where future
cooperation would be beneficial

- Additional fields such as recommended actions, qualifiers
- Alarm model methodology definition via a generic and multi-purpose
definition instead of the current explanations based only on examples.

We're looking forward for further collaboration aiming at consistency
between alarm management standards, with respect to the goal of
producing alarm management standards of value to all network
technologies.
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