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

Loa Andersson <loa@pi.nu> Fri, 19 September 2014 09:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IPFIX] [mpls] MPLS IEs in IANA's IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Entities registry
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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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Loa Andersson                        email: loa@mail01.huawei.com
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