Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] Doubt on naming convention
Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 05 September 2018 08:21 UTC
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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] Doubt on naming convention
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:59:58PM +0900, Glenn Mansfield Keeni wrote: > Hi, > Is there a rule or a convention for naming the MIB > definitions in the DEFINITIONS clause below? > > XXXXXX-YYYYY-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN > > More specifically does it have to > be all capitals? > Is > Multicast-VPN-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN > OK ? > Technically, Multicast-VPN-MIB is a legal name. Practically speaking, I count ~300 MIB modules in RFCs that have no lowercase characters in their module name and ~15 MIB modules in RFCs that have a lowercase character in their module name. And out of these, a common usage of lowercase letters is to indicate a version number, e.g. NTPv4-MIB, RIPv2-MIB, SNMPv2-CONF, SNMPv2-MIB, SNMPv2-SMI, SNMPv2-TC, SNMPv2-TM, SNMPv2-USEC-MIB. And the remaining modules tend to be rather old modules (or modules with a long history). RFC 4181 (BCP 111) says in Appendix C: - The module name should be of the form XXX-MIB (or XXX-TC-MIB for a module with TCs only), where XXX is a unique prefix (usually all caps with hyphens for separators) that is not used by any existing module. So the common convention is to all caps with hyphens for separators. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/>
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