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Re: [IETFMIBS] IANA maintained MIB

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Tue, 19 November 2013 22:59 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
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Subject: Re: [IETFMIBS] IANA maintained MIB
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:30:32PM -0500, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> 
> What's not clear is if the IANA- prefix is a requirement for the TCs that
> the BFD MIBs are creating.
> 

It does not hurt. What I personally find also really useful is to have
the module name begin with IANA- (most IANA modules do, the exceptions
prove the rule). (If all SMI parsers out there would properly resolve
name clashes using module names, the IANA prefix for TCs etc would not
be needed but the reality is not perfect.)

/js

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