[OPSAWG] Fw: I-D Action:draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt

["Randy Presuhn" <[e-mail]>]

Hi -

As a result of discussion on the MIB doctors' list, I've put together an
internet draft with textual conventions for floating point numbers.  There
is currently some work in progress, such as
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipfix-psamp-mib/
which has a need for floats.  Rather than have a proliferation of
module-specific flavors of floats scattered through IETF (and
vendor) MIB modules, it would make sense to have
a standardized (small) set of options.  This draft is a step in that
direction. 

This probably should be standards-track, if we would like it to be used
by standards-track documents needing floats.

Would this WG be interested in taking this mercifully brief draft
as a WG item?

I believe it is very nearly ready for publication, given its very narrow
scope.  The only issue I am aware of is that while it tries to cite the
current version of the IEEE spec, the xml2rfc citation library only has
a very ancient version.

Randy

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> Subject: I-D Action:draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> 
> Title           : Textual Conventions for the Representation of Floating-Point Numbers
> Author(s)       : R. Presuhn
> Filename        : draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt
> Pages           : 7
> Date            : 2010-11-29
> 
> This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) module
> containing textual conventions (TCs) to represent floating-point
> numbers.
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt
> 
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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