BGP MIB work

Susan Hares <skh@nexthop.com> Mon, 21 May 2001 18:58 UTC

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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:09:08 -0400
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At the March IETF, work on the following BGP-4 MIBs work was announced:

	 BGP 4 MIBs:
	 	 AS Confederations, Route Reflection, Communities
                	and Extended Communities, Optional Capabilities.

	 MPBGP related MIBs:
		 RFC 2858 - MP BGP including multicast
		 RFC 2547 - MPBGP for IPv6

  Sue Hares asked for volunteers to work on these MIBs, and a few brave
souls joined up. A few mib-experts were encouraged to join the MIB
group by Bert W.    The merry band of mib writers are busily hacking
their MIB definitions, and hope to have initial drafts out in June.

Anyone wishing to join this merry band of mib-ites will be applauded.


Sue Hares and Yakov Rekhter
skh@nexthop.com
yakov@juniper.net