Re: Enumerations in draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-te-mib-08.txt
"Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk> Fri, 18 March 2005 18:02 UTC
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From: Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>
To: Tom Petch <nwnetworks@dial.pipex.com>, ccamp@ops.ietf.org
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Subject: Re: Enumerations in draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-te-mib-08.txt
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:38:13 -0000
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Tom, Good advice. We'll look at how to do this. 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 8:29 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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- Re: Enumerations in draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-te-mib… Adrian Farrel