[cosmos-dev] Re: Eclipse COSMOS, Apache Muse, and IETF MIB2RMDL effort

[Mark D Weitzel <weitzelm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

Thanks for the note.  I've scheduled
a few minutes on our weekly COSMOS architecture call to get some initial
input and feedback from the group.  Once you've completed your document,
it might make sense for you to attend one of these calls so we can have
a general discussion about this work.  We've got a face to face meeting
next week, so perhaps the week of the 14th or 21st would work.  In
the meantime, I'll encourage everyone on the COSMOS team to look over the
information that you've provided so we can all get up to speed and start
the discussion via e-mail.

Thanks,

-Mark W.



Mark Weitzel | STSM | IBM Software Group | Tivoli | Autonomic Computing
| (919) 543 0625 | weitzelm@xxxxxxxxxx

"Natale, Bob" <RNATALE@xxxxxxxxx>

04/28/2007 05:50 PM

To	Mark D Weitzel/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
cc
Subject	Eclipse COSMOS, Apache Muse, and IETF MIB2RMDL effort

Hi Mark,
 
I am contacting you because
of your participation on the COSMOS project.  If possible could you
please:
 
1. Review the IETF MIB to
Resource Model Description Language (MIB2RMDL) info below and let me know
whether you think that collaboration between COSMOS and MIB2RMDL makes
sense.
 
2. Give me an update wrt
COSMOS progress.
 
3. Let me know whether you
see a productive relationship between Muse, COSMOS, and MIB2RMDL.
 
At the IETF O&M Area
meetings in Prague (March 18-23), we held a mini-BOF on the topic of standardizing
a methodology to convert SNMP MIBs to SOA/WS resource model artifacts (tagged
as "MIB to Resource Model Description Language" (MIB2RMDL), using
"Language" very loosely in this context).  The purpose of
the MIB2RMDL effort is to enable unified service/network/system management
from the SOA/WS management level by making the virtual library of data
models represented by SNMP MIBs and the management instrumentation supporting
them more directly accessible to SOA/WS management applications.
 
The material presented in
Prague is available at http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07mar/slides/opsarea-7.ppt.
It's relatively short (13 slides or so) and employs the "repetition
is the key to learning" approach (familiar to many from Jeff Case's
many helpful tutorials on SNMP in past years). 
 
The O&M Area decided
to proceed with further investigation of the MIB2RMDL idea, with the first
step being to establish an e-mail list for discussion of the proposal.
If you would like to participate or even just monitor the discussion, you
can subscribe at https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mib2rdml.
 
My hope is that the discussion
will lead to sufficient definition and further acceptance of the MIB2RMDL
proposal so that we can charter a formal Working Group at IETF-69 in Chicago
this July. 
 
To jumpstart the e-mail list
discussion, I will produce and post an updated (-01) I-D in the next week
or so, incorporating input/feedback from the Prague meeting and anything
else that might develop on this list in the meantime. (Co-authors welcomed.)
 The initial (-00) exploratory I-D is available at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-natale-snmp-mibs-to-ontology-00.txt,
but I recommend waiting for the -01 update.
 
If you know of other individuals
or groups who might be interested in or able to contribute to this work,
please forward this message to them.
 
(MITRE is a non-profit and
vendor neutral federally funded research and development center -- www.mitre.org.)
 
Cheers,
BobN