The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Management Information Base for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) ' <draft-ietf-sip-mib-12.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Session Initiation Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Cullen Jennings and Jon Peterson. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sip-mib-12.txt Technical Summary: This document defines a portion of the Management Information Base (a MIB) including a set of objects used to manage Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) entities, including SIP User Agents, Proxies, Redirect (aka Location) Servers, and Registrars. Note that this MIB is restricted to management and monitoring activities. Following extended discussion, the working group chose not to pursuedevice configuration using the SIP MIB, and will rely instead on the SIP Configuration Framework being developed in the SIPPING working group. Working Group Summary: The SIP Working Group developed this document over a greater than six-year period, with the first draft appearing in March of 2000. One of the key decisions in its development was the choice to exclude device configuration functions from the MIB. This decision was reached after the SIP community decided to pursue a SIP-specific configuration model as outlined in "A Framework for Session Initiation Protocol User Agent Profile Delivery", draft-ietf-sipping-config-framework-08.txt. This decision significantly reduced the scope and complexity of the SIP MIB. While not all participants in the working group are convinced of the need for a SIP MIB, there seems to be a very strong consensus on the technical detail of the draft and a general agreement onits applicability. Document Quality: The document shepherd is aware of at least one pre-specification implementation of the SIP MIB developed by a major equipment provider. The SIPIT interoperability events have not included SIP MIB testing in their events. However, the industry is beginning to see requirements for SIP MIB compliance appear in large-scale Requests For Information and Requests For Proposal. The document has also received considerable attention from related standards development organizations, including PacketCable. Development of this specification was assisted greatly by the support of Dan Romascanu acting as the designated "MIB Doctor", with additional commentary received from David Harrington. The document's "Contributors" section also cites review by Tom Taylor, Kavitha Patchayappan, Dan Romascanu, Cullen Jennings, Orit Levin, AC Mahendran, Mary Barnes, Rohan Mahy, Bob Penfield, Charles Eckel and Dean Willis. Both Allison Mankin and Cullen Jennings oversaw the development as Area Directors. Dean Willis served as the WG Chair Shepherd. Dan Romascanu was the MIB doctor and Steven Bellovin did a security review. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
