Protocol Action: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Middlebox Communication' to Proposed Standard

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Middlebox Communication '
   <draft-ietf-midcom-mib-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Middlebox Communication Working 
Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Magnus Westerlund and Lars Eggert.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-midcom-mib-11.txt

Technical summary:

The midcom working group was chartered to develop a protocol to
send requests from network endpoints/application participants to
network devices, initially focusing on firewalls and NATs.  The
charter required that the working group reuse an existing IETF
protocol if possible, and the working group followed an evaluation
process described in RFC 4097.  The protocol that best met
the evaluation criteria was SNMPv2.

The document being submitted for publication is the definition of
a MIB to be used to communicate pinhole requests to a firewall and
NAT table mapping requests to a NAT.

Working group summary:

There is working group consensus that this document is ready to