Re: FW: bridgemib wg

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:26:42 +0200, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:30:34PM -0400, David B Harrington wrote:
> 
> > All these documents are pretty well completed. Mainly they need to be
> > modified to meet submission requirements, such as updating boilerplate
> > text and references. We need editors to finalize the documents.
> 
> If there is just some work needed to fix editorial issues in order to
> comply with the latest boilerplates and such, I am willing to do this
> for the BRIDGE-MIB. This MIB is wiedely implemented as far as I can
> tell and I would like to see an SMIv2 version of this MIB going to 
> Standard so that at some point we can actually move SMIv1 to historic.

Juergen,  If you can point me where to go with this, I can get to work on
updating according to the new boilerplate.  
 
> I do not really feel qualified to do a real technical review (but there
> should not be major technical changes anyway to move this forward to
> Standard). Of course, we still would need to put together a deployment
> report. I know that people usually dislike to write such reports, it
> really should not be a big deal to get something together since this
> MIB is used in all enterprise networks I have seen.

Like Les said, we did never get any reports. Enough shakeups in the hardware
industry might make this hard to get now.

> I am not having a strong opinion about the other MIBs. I think it is
> fine to move them over to the IEEE. But then we should take a formal
> decision on this and actually document it in an RFC, hopefully with
> a pointer where the IEEE MIBs can be picked up. Such a document should
> probably move the existing RFCed MIBs in the same action to Informational.

This was discussed earlier this year.  I think if we aren't going to publish the
mib, we might as well not publish the RFC and let this draft die.

K.C.

> Does this plan make sense? Dave? Bert?
> 
> /js
> 
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