Internet and Management Support for Storage (imss)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2007-04-24

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     David Black  <black_david@emc.com>

 Operations and Management Area Director(s):
     Dan Romascanu  <dromasca@avaya.com>
     Ronald Bonica  <rbonica@juniper.net>

 Operations and Management Area Advisor:
     Dan Romascanu  <dromasca@avaya.com>

 Technical Advisor(s):
     Keith McCloghrie  <kzm@cisco.com>
     Margaret Wasserman  <margaret@thingmagic.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
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     Archive:           http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/imss/index.html

Description of Working Group:

Fibre Channel is a high speed network technology primarily used for
storage networking (i.e., Storage Area Networks [SANs]). Two important
aspects of Fibre Channel interact with the Internet:
- Fibre Channel can encapsulate and carry IP protocol traffic
- Fibre Channel devices can be managed via SNMP

The Internet and Management Support for Storage WG (imss) is chartered
to address two areas, specifically:
- IPv4 over Fibre Channel has been specified in RFC 2625. A
corresponding specification for IPv6 is needed.
- An initial Fibre Channel Management MIB has been developed by
the IP Storage (ips) WG; extensions are needed to encompass
management of additional aspects of Fibre Channel, such
as zoning.

In the future, other storage related MIBs for other storage transports
such as INCITS T10 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or SCSI command specific
MIBs may be proposed. This group would work with the appropriate
technical committee(s) in a manner similar to that described for INCITS
T11 below.

As Fibre Channel standardization is handled by the INCITS T11 Technical
Committee (http://www.t11.org), a close working relationship with T11 
is essential to the WG's success. In particular:
- The IPv6 over Fibre Channel specification will be based on
draft-desanti-ipv6-over-fibre-channel-02.txt. This draft was 
originally developed within a T11 study group and T11 has officially 
recommended this draft to the IETF.
- The WG will not standardize management of Fibre Channel 
features ahead of their incorporation into appropriate T11 
Fibre Channel standards.
- The WG will work closely with T11, specifically Task Group 
T11.5, on the functionality and structure of the MIBs it 
develops for management of Fibre Channel.

In addition to working closely with the INCITS T11 Technical Committee,
this Working Group will work closely with IETF IPv6 Working Group as
appropriate. In particular, the IPv6 Working Group will be kept 
informed on the progress and status of the IPv6 over Fibre Channel 
specification. The IMSS Working Group Last Call announcement will be 
cross-posted to the IPv6 WG mailing list.

 Goals and Milestones:

   Done         Submit IPv6 over Fibre Channel draft to IESG for consideration 
                as Proposed Standard 

   Done         Submit Fibre Channel Fabric Address Manager MIB to IESG for 
                consideration as Proposed Standard 

   Done         Submit Fibre Channel Name Server MIB to IESG for consideration 
                as Proposed Standard 

   Done         Work with T11.5 to determine what additional MIB modules are 
                needed 

   Done         Submit Routing Information, FSPF and Virtual Fabrics MIBs to 
                IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard 

   Done         Submit Fibre Channel Zone Server, RSCN, and Fabric 
                Configuration Server MIBs to IESG for consideration as Proposed 
                Standard 

   Done         Review working group charter and determine what additional 
                work, if any, should be undertaken by working group 

   Dec 2007       2007 Submit Fibre Channel Security MIB modules to IESG for 
                consideration as proposed standard 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Aug 2007 Aug 2007   <draft-ietf-imss-fc-fcsp-mib-00.txt>
                MIB for Fibre-Channel Security Protocols (FC-SP) 

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC3831Standard  Jul 2004    Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Fibre Channel 

RFC4338Standard  Jan 2006    Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution 
                       Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel 

RFC4439 PS   Mar 2006    Fibre Channel Fabric Address Manager MIB 

RFC4438 PS   Apr 2006    Fibre-Channel Name Server MIB 

RFC4625 PS   Sep 2006    Fibre Channel Routing Information MIB 

RFC4626 PS   Sep 2006    MIB for Fibre Channel's Fabric Shortest Path First 
                       (FSPF) Protocol 

RFC4747 PS   Nov 2006    The Virtual Fabrics MIB 

RFC4935 PS   Aug 2007    Fibre-Channel Fabric Configuration Server MIB 

RFC4936 PS   Aug 2007    Fibre-Channel Zone Server MIB 

RFC4983 PS   Aug 2007    Fibre Channel Registered State Change Notification 
                       (RSCN) MIB