Re: Comments on draft-ietf-bfd-mib-02.txt

["Thomas D. Nadeau" <[e-mail]>]

     This is along the lines of what Katz was suggesting
earlier WRT updating the diag section. I like the IANA
control idea.

     --Tom

> Looking at BfdDiag Textual Convention, I wonder if there is a  
> better way of
> doing this.  I suspect that this is a list of diagnostic values  
> that will evolve
> faster than the rest of the MIB module so rather than updating the  
> RFC every
> time, or letting it get out of date, you could extract the Textual  
> Convention
> from the normative part of the MIB and put it under IANA control  
> with whatever
> rules you consider suitable for updating it.
>
> This approach has been sucessfully adopted by disman with Alarm MIB  
> (RFC3877
> s.5), inter alia.
>
> Tom Petch
>