Re: Enumerations in draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-te-mib-08.txt
"Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk> Sat, 14 May 2005 18:53 UTC
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Subject: Re: Enumerations in draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-te-mib-08.txt
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 17:26:08 +0100
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Hi Tom, This is a very good point. We have been struggling with this for a while (I believe that Bert gave me a pointer, but I don't think I understood the issue properly before). Thanks to your explanation and the new text in the MIB guideline, we have taken care of the issue. Cheers, Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Petch" <nwnetworks@dial.pipex.com> To: "Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk>; <ccamp@ops.ietf.org> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 9:29 AM Subject: Enumerations in draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-te-mib-08.txt > This MIB contains several 'enumerations' except they are not enumerations but > text in > DESCRIPTION clauses - gmplsTunnelGPid gmplsTunnelSwitchingType > gmplsTunnelLSPEncoding - with RFC 3471 (not a MIB) as a reference. So these are > not defined anywhere in SMI; and as this points out, these values will be added > to in future RFC. > > I think these should be in a MIB under IANA control and there is already a way > to do just that, namely to put them in an IANA MIB (as opposed to a standards > track MIB) with the RFC specifying under what conditions the IANA MIB can be > updated (standards track, IESG, expert etc). > > This procedure is described in draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-04.txt which > also points to previous examples of this. And this issue has already surfaced, > albeit obliquely, on this list once before in the context of > IANAItuProbableCause which uses this procedure and is now published as part of > the Alarm MIB (RFC 3877). > > Not to do this now creates extra work in the future; when an implementor has to > create their own SMI and whenever these values need to be updated. > > Tom Petch > > >
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