Re: [IPFIX] [MIB-DOCTORS] [mpls] MPLS IEs in IANA's IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Entities registry

Hi,

IEs are not used by MIB modules. Not sure this is relevant but
according to SMIv2 rules, you can't rename a Textual Convention (TC).
All you can do is create a new one and deprecate the old one. The
question is whether doing this is worth anything.

/js

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:28:41AM +0200, Loa Andersson wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> I'm not sure about this - would changing the names require updating all
> existing deployed MIBs?
> 
> Can we get an mib doctor advice on this?
> 
> /Loa
> 
> On 2014-09-10 21:22, Gregory Mirsky wrote:
> >Dear All,
> >
> >in several places of describing MPLS Label element IEs the registry
> >still refers to the EXP field even though the RFC 5462 updated RFC 3032
> >and renamed it “Traffic Class” (TC). Below is the list of IEs that may
> >benefit from updating Description and Reference information:
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection2
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection3
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection4
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection5
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection6
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection7
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection8
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection9
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection10
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelExp (should this be deprecated and mplsTopLabelTc be
> >created instead?)
> >
> >·postMplsTopLabelExp (should this be deprecated and postMplsTopLabelTc
> >be created instead?)
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >         Greg
> >
> >
> >
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