The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Middlebox Communication ' <draft-ietf-midcom-mib-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Middlebox Communication Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Magnus Westerlund and Lars Eggert. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-midcom-mib-11.txt Technical summary: The midcom working group was chartered to develop a protocol to send requests from network endpoints/application participants to network devices, initially focusing on firewalls and NATs. The charter required that the working group reuse an existing IETF protocol if possible, and the working group followed an evaluation process described in RFC 4097. The protocol that best met the evaluation criteria was SNMPv2. The document being submitted for publication is the definition of a MIB to be used to communicate pinhole requests to a firewall and NAT table mapping requests to a NAT. Working group summary: There is working group consensus that this document is ready to be published. Protocol quality: The protocol has received extensive review by applications experts in the domain most likely to use a midcom protocol, by SNMP protocol experts, and by middlebox experts. We know of no existing implementations, and it is not clear that it will be implemented given the existence of competing protocols (for example, SIMCO). This protocol received particular attention in its early stages from David Harrington, Wes Hardaker, and Mary Barnes, and recently from its MIB Doctor, Juergen Shoenwaelder. The responsible AD was Magnus Westerlund and Melinda Shore the WG shepherd. Note to RFC Editor Section 13. Please move these 2 referneces to section 14. [RFC3303] Srisuresh, P., Kuthan, J., Rosenberg, J., Molitor, A. and A. Rayhan, "Middlebox communication architecture and framework", RFC 3303, August 2002. [RFC3304] Swale, R.P., Mart, P.A., Sijben, P., Brimm, S. and M. Shore, "Middlebox Communications (midcom) Protocol Requirements", RFC 3304, August 2002. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
