| most likely your customer was referring to the June 1/90 output from
the OSI/Network Management Forum (subset of OSI Management
Specifications solely focused on protocols and applications to permit
mgt sytem to mgt system interaction), affectionately referred to as
"NMF Release 1 Specifications".
R1 deals with standardized message sets (defining the envelope,
sequence of bits), CMIP protocols, limited set of OSI directives (ie.
get,set,clear,enable,disable,etc.) and the like. Future releases will
go up the value chain and deal with trouble tickets, accounting,
security, etc.
DEC is, only at a prototype level, taking these recommendations and
where feasible, implement the Conformant Management Enity ( an
interface to allow multivendor task-to-task comm over CMIP link) onto
DECmcc BMS. We have, again under AD guise, shown demo versions to
customers in show circuit (SUPERCOMM, COMNET).
As voting members of the OSI/NMF, we have a number of engineering and
marketing (moi) resources dedicated to fulfilling the NMF goal of
implementing " a definition of a common network management interface
that will allow their (all vendors) products to interoperate or
communicate with one another". End to end mgt is kind of what they're
striving for.
Our progress against R1 will permit us to exchange alarms,
configuration, and call/transaction data when finalized. delivery TBD.
I have set of overheads which can be used to explain our activities
(delivered at NETU) if you send mail to DELNI::WETMORE.
Rgds,
BW
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