RE: FW: bridgemib wg

Since the doc is already at DS, let us go for the deploymemt report
and if we can show (via MIB walks) at the same time that it has
been implemented by multiple vendors, then I am willing to defend
that it can move to STD

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juergen Schoenwaelder [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: vrijdag 23 juli 2004 20:06
> To: Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> Cc: David B Harrington; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Bridge-mib] FW: bridgemib wg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:52:13PM +0200, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
>  
> > > 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...
> 
> Do you want vendor reports or deployment reports? This MIB really is
> everywhere. I have personally seem and exchanged packets with 
> implementations shippend in HP, 3Com, Cisco, Nortel, Lucent, Avaya, 
> Netgear, Riverstone and perhaps a bunch of other that I do not
> recall at the moment. And I have seen these deployed in at least 
> three different Universities (and a bunch of hotels - but they
> probably don't know and so they do perhaps not count). If it is
> not possible to get a _deployment_ report written for this MIB,
> then we indeed have a problem.
> 
> I will send out some messages on some news channels to see whether
> there are some folks to help us in this matter..
> 
> /js
> 
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