FW: WG Action: Next Generation Structure of Management Informatio n WG (sming) to conclude

FYI. Seems that this was not posted to the WG mailing list

Thanks,
Bert 

-----Original Message-----
From: The IESG [mailto:iesg-secretary <at> ietf.org]
Sent: vrijdag 4 april 2003 21:30
Subject: WG Action: Next Generation Structure of Management Information
WG (sming) to conclude

The SMIng WG has been closed. The WG could not get to consensus
on a new version of the SMI language and even today, some 2.5
years after being chartered, there seems to be no consensus
and/or wide community support to drive to conclusion on a
deliverable.

- In 1999 and 2000, the IRTF NMRG did a lot of work on a possible
  SMIng (Structure of Management Information Next Generation).
  The research group developed a complete new SMI language spec
  and also had implementations. In addition there were tools
  to convert to/from SMIv2 and tools to convert to/from other
  languages like IDL etc.

- In November 2000, the SMIng WG was chartered. The WG was 
  specifically limted to NOT try and develop a grandiose mother
  of all information/data modeling languages. Instead it was 
  chartered to enhance the SMIv2 and to try and cater for a
  data modeling language that would re-merge the SMI and SPPI
  back into one advanced data modeling language. The resulting