RE: FW: bridgemib wg

> > 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.
> 
I think that would be goodness.

> 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.
> 
But it feels same as with BGP MIB, which was supposedly very widely
implemented and it took 4 or 5 years to get a report from (4) vendors.
Sih...

> 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.
> 
If we do close the work and pass it over, that would be useful.
It is not a requirment though. The WG has been idel too long, so
we can also close it without further work. If some people
want to writeup something quickly, that would be good.

> Does this plan make sense? Dave? Bert?
> 
Somewhat yes. See above.
Bert
> /js
> 
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