RE: RE: NCS Signaling MIB SC Objects

Dear all,

The summary list composed by Jean-Francois looks complete to us.

We are willing to provide further input at any time.

Regards,

David

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Jean-Francois Mule
> Sent: donderdag 29 april 2004 23:02
> To: Thomas Anders; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [ipcdn] RE: NCS Signaling MIB SC Objects
>
>
> Hi Thomas & all,
>
> I would like to summarize the list of open issues first. Once we
> agree that this is the list of issues we need to address, and
> reach consensus on how to solve it, we can figure out the best
> way to get it done.
>
> Here's a summary of the key issues raised by wg participants,
> please review & comment.
>
> 1/ Should the MTA MIB provide means to create dynamic DOCSIS SFs
> for NCS Signaling, or should it simply be left to the CM config file?
>
> 2/ Are the DOCSIS Service Class Name provisioning on the CMTS
> (and all the associated policies to authorize flows based on SCN
> and other rules) too open to vendor differentiation, hence
> opening up security risks?
>
> 3/ Should we clarify any specs and if yes, to specify what and where?
> Should some informative text be added on the Service Class
> operations for NCS Signaling & mandate that "some kind of"
> configuration parameters be provided to set up authorization
> policies. Should this be in the DOCSIS RFI 2.0
> SP-RFIv2.0-I04-030730 Section 10.1.3 Service Classes p 207? Does
> this belong to DQoS?
> Shoud some normative requirements be added on the E-MTA to define
> what operations the MTA needs to perform upon setting those MIB objects?
>
> 4/ Should we allow an MTA to support multiple Service Class Names
> simultaneously and define a more complex NCS SF MIB table to
> allow per CMS configuration?
>
> Did I miss or mistate anything?
> Jean-François