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

We could argue whether the semantic was actually changed since the EXP 
bits were used for QoS.
Anyway, let's quote Jürgen: "The question is whether doing this is worth 
anything.". I'm not convinced...

Regards, Benoit
> Updating the description would be a problem if you change the semantics of
> the object.
>
> David Harrington
> ietfdbh@comcast.net
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MIB-DOCTORS [mailto:mib-doctors-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
>> t.petch
>> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 7:50 AM
>> To: Loa Andersson; Gregory Mirsky; ipfix@ietf.org
>> Cc: mpls@ietf.org; MIB Doctors (E-mail)
>> Subject: Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] [mpls] MPLS IEs in IANA's IP Flow Information
>> Export (IPFIX) Entities registry
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Loa Andersson" <loa@pi.nu>
>> To: "Gregory Mirsky" <gregory.mirsky@ericsson.com>; <ipfix@ietf.org>
>> Cc: <mpls@ietf.org>; "MIB Doctors (E-mail)" <mib-doctors@ietf.org>
>> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:28 AM
>>
>> Greg,
>>
>> I'm not sure about this - would changing the names require updating all
>> existing deployed MIBs?
>>
>> <tp>
>>
>> Yes. See RFC2578 s.10.  You cannot reuse an OID so this would need a new
>> OID; messy, best left as one of those quaint, historic anomalies that
>> litter our work.
>>
>> Updating the DESCRIPTION and REFERENCE is not a problem  (but issuing
>> any MIB module is a lot of work).
>>
>> Tom Petch
>> [not a MIB doctor]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
>>
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