Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] Advice please: AUTH48 [LB]: RFC 6445 <draft-ietf-mpls-fastreroute-mib-21.txt>

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 05:58:11PM +0000, Adrian Farrel wrote:
> The RFC Editor has observed a number of problems in the MIB modules. The
> shepherd write-up says:
> 
> > (1.j) Has the Document Shepherd verified that sections of the
> > document that are written in a formal language, such as XML
> > code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc., validate correctly in
> > an automated checker?
> >
> > The document is a MIB and compiles clean.
> 
> The document editor has responded to the RFC Editor that these are just compiler
> warning and:
> 
> > These warnings can safely be ignored.  Making the changes necessary to
> > avoid those warnings will require significant changes to the MIB, and will
> > not be of any real substantive change for implementations
> 
> All the problems are SMICng warnings concerning the names of bits (see below).
> 
> It seems to me that changing the names of these bits would not have a
> significant impact on the document. Indeed, it would only take 15 seconds to
> apply.
> 
> There is some possibility that early implementations will suffer, but that is
> life.
> 
> What I don't know is whether these warnings are important in any way, or are
> just convention that we would normally stick to, but flunked during earlier
> review.

RFC 2578 says that these identifiers must be lower case. Smilint
considers this a rather fatal parse error. In other words, I think these
ought to be fixed.

/js

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