Bridge WG Status Report David Harrington Dan Romascanu This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button Select “Meeting Minder” Select the “Action Items” tab Type in action items as they come up Click OK to dismiss this box This will automatically create an Action Item slide at the end of your presentation with your points entered.

Agenda 5 min - Administrivia  Blue sheets  Minutes 5 min - Agenda bashing 20 min - WG Status Report 20 min - Transition mibs to IEEE WG 5 min - Administrivia

Status Summary Personnel Issues WG documents Standards advancement Transition mibs to IEEE WG

Progress on Personnel Issues WG Chair (Les Bell) unable to continue  New co-chairs Dave Harrington Dan Romascanu Editors (Les, KC, Vivian) unable to continue  New editors – to finalize documents Dave Levi (Extensions, RSTP-MIB) Juergen Schoenwalder (SMIv2) WG lack of participation  Corrected mailing list and archive links in charter  Transitioning mib module responsibility to IEEE WG

Progress on Documents Three years behind charter schedule  RFC1493 in SMIv2 due July 2001  Extensions (t,u,v) due August 2001  RSTP-MIB (1w) due August 2001  802.1x MIB (unscheduled) Updates needed for NITS and MIB Doctor comments  Request Tracking system (RT) used by chairs to track problems Being used widely by WG chairs and MIB Doctors  Updated boilerplates, references, etc.  Updated technical concerns  Merged VLAN ID TCs into Extensions document New work not being accepted  No new work until existing work completed

Progress on Documents Documents have been finalized  All three republished for IETF61  802.1x document dropped WG Last call starting on all three documents Proposed Standard status before IETF62 NEED REVIEWS

Progress on Standards Advancement Behind charter schedule  RFC1493bis to Full Standard – Sep01  RFC2674bis to Draft Standard – Sep01 Need advancement discussion on mailing list Need Reports  2674,bis implementation  1493,bis deployment

Progress on Transition Strategy Other presentation discusses motivations and progress Progressing as anticipated No new work being accepted by Bridge WG  Submissions should go to IEEE WG  Plan to close Bridge WG

Goals for Next Review No planned session for IETF62 or IETF63 Status reports for advancement and IEEE transition will be done on the mailing list By IETF62, status of documents should be finalized By IETF63, reports for advancement should be finalized By IETF64, IEEE will operate without IETF support

Action Items WG Last Call for three documents Submit for advancement to PS