[imss] Re: AD review of: draft-ietf-imss-fc-fspf-mib-01.txt

> > looks good. I would be OK with doing IETF Last Call and consider these
> > comments as initial IETF Last Call comments. At the other hand, IETF
> > LC right before/during an IETF will not get many people to pay
> > attention to this. Maybe you rather do a new rev first?
>  
> I'll do a new rev first, but it won't now get posted until after the IETF.

In starting to do the edits, I have found one other thing which it
might be appropriate to change at this time.

The present MIB, draft-ietf-imss-fc-fspf-mib-01.txt, defines the
object:

  t11FspfARegionNum OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX      T11FspfARegionNum
      MAX-ACCESS  read-write
      STATUS      current
      DESCRIPTION
             "The AR number of this switch in this Fabric."
      REFERENCE  "Fibre Channel - Switch Fabric - 4 (FC-SW-4), Rev 7.5,
                 May 2005, section D.3.1."
      DEFVAL     {0}
      ::= { t11FspfEntry 2 }

I was starting to update the REFERENCE clauses to refer to the latest
rev of FC-SW-4, but in doing so I find that Annex/section D.3.1 is
missing.  In fact, the whole of what was Annex D has been removed from
the latest revision (rev 7.7 of December 2005).  I knew that T11 was
deprecating the concept of an "FSPF-Backbone" which was defined as:

    The FSPF-Backbone Fabric consists of multiple Autonomous Regions
    (AR) that are interconnected by a backbone network.

What I didn't realise was that it would disappear from the FC-SW-4
specification so soon.

Without that Annex, the definition of t11FspfARegionNum no longer
makes any sense.

So, the question is:

- should the T11-FC-FSPF-MIB retain the definition of t11FspfARegionNum,
  and do so by referring to an out-of-date T11 specification, or,

- should the definition of t11FspfARegionNum be removed from the
  T11-FC-FSPF-MIB at this time ??

(Note that the edits that would be needed to remove it are obvious and
straight-forward, e.g., the T11FspfARegionNum TC which is only used by
t11FspfARegionNum would be deleted; t11FspfARegionNum would deleted
from both the MODULE-COMPLIANCE clause and from the t11FspfGeneralGroup
group.)

Keith.

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