Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] On this week IESG telechat. : Early MIB doctor review of draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-mib-04 and draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-mib

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <[e-mail]>]

These two documents also came on my plate at the request of IANA. The reason for locating these under the transmission subtree is not clear. RFC 4181 requires to do this for media-specific MIB modules – is softwire considered ‘media-specific’ work?

Regards,

Dan


From: MIB-DOCTORS [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Benoit Claise
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 5:35 PM
To: Dave Thaler
Cc: MIB Doctors (E-mail); Spencer Dawkins
Subject: [MIB-DOCTORS] On this week IESG telechat. : Early MIB doctor review of draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-mib-04 and draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-mib

Hi Dave,

Those two MIB modules are on the telechat this week, and I would like to get your green light.
Please let us know.

Regards, Benoit
Hi Dave,

We are now at version 7 and 6, respectively.
Are you happy with the MIB modules now?
And may I flag this one as done at http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/ops/trac/wiki/mib-doctors-review-history<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__trac.tools.ietf.org_area_ops_trac_wiki_mib-2Ddoctors-2Dreview-2Dhistory&d=BQMDaQ&c=BFpWQw8bsuKpl1SgiZH64Q&r=I4dzGxR31OcNXCJfQzvlsiLQfucBXRucPvdrphpBsFA&m=EmyVUD_iyiDij_d-DdLNVFK2XWSeKZ1aF6FTt-D5224&s=pT3kgKSva5ALjadCooEr-iafVt-72eDM0plEFfsnCN8&e=>

Regards, Benoit

Benoit asked me to do an early MIB doctor review of this document.  My

full comments are in the marked up copy at

http://research.microsoft.com/~dthaler/draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-mib-04.pdf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__research.microsoft.com_-257Edthaler_draft-2Dietf-2Dsoftwire-2Dmesh-2Dmib-2D04.pdf&d=BQMDaQ&c=BFpWQw8bsuKpl1SgiZH64Q&r=I4dzGxR31OcNXCJfQzvlsiLQfucBXRucPvdrphpBsFA&m=EmyVUD_iyiDij_d-DdLNVFK2XWSeKZ1aF6FTt-D5224&s=Ho63Okm-fo9bjIZHdCzzwvZRa87Ac4z9r3_vn7Sy8-s&e=>

(there’s also a .docx version if you replace the .pdf extension with .docx)



The doc is in a much better state than draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-mib is, and

so this was fairly easy to review (and my thanks to the authors for that).

Nevertheless, I did find a few issues, a short summary of which is:

1)      It does not yet meet all the requirements for MIBs in RFC 4181, mostly around

missing boilerplate

2)      The security considerations section needs (per RFC 4181) a brief discussion of

what objects, if any, might be considered sensitive.  For example, one might

argue the swmEncapsTable might reveal things about the internal network

topology.

3)      the smilint MIB checker reports several errors.  I’ve noted in my comments

how to fix them.  (I used http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/bin/smitools.cgi<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ibr.cs.tu-2Dbs.de_bin_smitools.cgi&d=BQMDaQ&c=BFpWQw8bsuKpl1SgiZH64Q&r=I4dzGxR31OcNXCJfQzvlsiLQfucBXRucPvdrphpBsFA&m=EmyVUD_iyiDij_d-DdLNVFK2XWSeKZ1aF6FTt-D5224&s=vSO3FAc4-xOytETyJWMkVWpuGL92s1VT1LJllaK0tf0&e=>)



-Dave