The 6th NMRG meeting will be held in Twente (Netherlands) on March 16-17 2000. The meeting will be held at the University of Twente and start at 10:00 am (both days). The address of the meeting place is:

University of Twente
PO Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

The local host for this meeting is Aiko Pras. Please read the CTIT travel information for detailed travel directions to the meeting place. There are also places on the campus where you can stay over night without having to pay a fortune.

Agenda items for the meeting:

• SMIng extensions to formally define operations. I expect that we have a concrete proposal by the meeting which is based on , but fully integrated into SMIng. I would like to discuss any open issues where we do not yet have a good answer. Perhaps we can resolve some of them. I would also like to see a discussion about the relationship between SMIng and CIM in case some CIM experts can attend the meeting. The quesion here is whether there is something we can do to make mappings easier.

• Extension of the current SNMP architecture to support the invocation of operations via SNMP. We need to identify which new blocks (e.g. SNMP applications) need to be added to the current architecture (RFC 2571) to support operations and how these new blocks interact with existing blocks (e.g. access control).

• New SNMP protocol operations that support the invocation of operations. is a first step into this direction. We need to discuss and identify what the precise invocation semantics are that we need and which are implementable with reasonable effort. We also need to discuss how far we can or want to go wrt. support of larger "transactions".

Below is a map of the campus. The meeting will presumably be help in the INF-gebouw.
(Turn right after passing the main entrance and go straight ahead. Do not turn left at the KCT-gebouw. Instead go ahead until you see a parking lot on the left. Turn left and go straight to the INF-gebouw.)