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Re: [6lo] Focusing the charter

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 14 June 2013 18:14 UTC

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>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Herberg <ulrich@herberg.name> writes:
    Ulrich> The 6lowpan MIB may be useful, even though I am still
    Ulrich> wondering how SNMP can be used over link layers using
    Ulrich> 6lowpan (a discussion that was also started in COMAN). Maybe

    >> MIBs are not SNMP.  MIBs are a set of well defined counters (and
    >> other objects) defined in ASN.1.  SNMP is just one way of
    >> transporting queries about that ASN.1.

    Ulrich> I know. But are MIBs used by any protocol (in practice)
    Ulrich> other than SNMP?

NETCONF calls it's model YANG. (RFC6020)
The important part of a "MIB" discussion is not whether it's Counter32
or module foo{}.  

The important thing is that we agree on whether we are counting bytes or
packets for a particular counter, and if bytes, whether it includes the
layer-2 overhead or not. 

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