WIMS> CIM> Brief notes from conccall with CIM Core this morning

From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com
Date: Mon Jan 23 2006 - 12:40:55 EST

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    > Short notes on a few things I heard in the CIM Core concall today. (I
    > didn't have much opportunity to take notes for the first half hour,
    > but here are some things I remember.)
    >
    > Easy changes first: good idea. One, maybe two, CRs; maybe enums are
    > separate, since they're sizable and substantive.
    >
    > Don't bother with white papers. Draft directly into CR format, then
    > edit as needed.
    >
    > Don't bother with PWG private extensions. Propose phase 3 changes as
    > experimental. Then the implementation experience of two companies
    > will be needed to promote the changes to full status.
    >
    > Do UML diagrams first for the new class structure, and get agreement
    > on the structure before writing a lot of text.
    >
    > Core needs some overview of the printing model. (Printer MIB has a
    > good intro. Where is the similar overview for IPP?)
    >
    > Use Capabilities and Settings classes (CIM_xxxx) to express such for
    > printers. The usual division is
    > - What is the device capable of? (r/o in Capabilities)
    > - What has the manager requested of the device? (r/w in Settings)
    > - What is the device actually doing? (properties in the device class
    > itself)
    > (These classes are not completely straightforward, as I recall. I
    > will look for some examples.)
    >
    > Think about doing a profile in the long term. (A really good idea. I
    > will explain this and get an example for PWG to look at. I think we
    > should draft the profile along with the UML.)
    >
    > For the major changes, be sure to include some consideration of
    > - related element causing error
    > - health and status
    > - messages
    > - indications (event notifications in CIM, related to traps, alerts,
    > alarms, etc.)
    >
    > Send draft things, if we wish, to John Crandall and Jon_Hass@dell.com,
    > or to wg_cimcore@dmtf.org
    >
    > Gotta go.
    >
    > rick
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