Re: draft-ietf-adslmib-gshdslbis-08

Thanks Mike.

The idea about a separate TC module won't be moved forward due to the
point you made.

Regards,

Clay

C. M. Heard wrote:

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Clay Sikes wrote:
[ ... overview of changes snipped ... ]

Next, I'm asking for two things:
1. Look over the changes and make sure I didn't break anything.
I especially need Bert, Randy, and Mike to review the changes.

All of my review comments seem to have been addressed. I
particularly commend the effort that you put into the Security
Considerations section; it looks like a lot of thought went into
that. The work that you put into the section on notification
throttling is also appreciated. As for the formatting/editorial
changes, it all looks for the better ... I did not see anything
that got broken.

2. Before we push this draft any further, I would like to propose
a significant change to the draft and am looking for anyone
who thinks the proposal is a bad idea. I would like to break
out the TCs such that they are in a separate TC-MIB module.
The reason is that it has taken a lot of time to update this
MIB module to support G.shdsl.bis. If there needs to be a
future update, and the annex list is a concern, the change may
go faster if only a TC Module needs to be updated. This would
require at least another spin of the draft along with creating
a dependency. In anyone feels that this a bad idea, please
let me know. I will not move forward on this if the group
feels it's a bad idea.

Unfortunately, moving TCs (or other any definitions) to a different
MIB module breaks backward compatibility with any MIB modules
(including, possibly, enterprise MIB modules) that IMPORT those TCs
from HDSL2-SHDSL-LINE-MIB. For this reason, it is usually not
considered acceptable to move definitions from one MIB module to
another. See RFC 2578, Section 10, next-to-last paragraph on p. 37.

Mike

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