RE: Confirmming Meeting Consensus

> 
> During the meeting in Minneapolis, there was agreement
> in the room on a few points, an dI'd like to confirm
> that consensus on the mailing list.
> 
> In particular, we reached agreement at the meeting on
> the following points:
> 
>  - We will deprecate the Alias Mapping Table so that the Entity
>    MIB can advance to Draft Standard.
>  
>  - Future extensions to the Entity MIB should be handled as
>    separate MIBs that augment the Entity MIB.
> 

OK with the two above.
 
>  - The Entity State MIB is currently too complex and should be
>    simplified.

As the editor of the document was absent from the meeting I suggest that we hear her opinion. It is my impression that she is working to update the document, based on concrete comments received before the Vienna IETF. As far as I remember, the opinions in the meeting (including mine) were not necessarily addressing specific aspects of the perceived complexity, but rather mentioned the fact that the MIB design went far away from the original one column extension of the entPhisical table. To be useful, comments should be more specific, and address the Internet-Draft version that is out there. 

> 
> Please feel free to express your opinion on any of these
> points on the mailing list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Margaret
> 

Regards,

Dan
>