IMPORTANT -- Proposed change to Entity Sensor MIB

Hi All,

Bob Burget has proposed a change to the Entity Sensor MIB,
specifically:

To change 'entSensor' to 'entPhySensor' in all relevant
descriptors.

This change was proposed because of our current object name
overlap with Cisco's proprietary sensor MIB, which causes
problems for anyone who tries to implement both MIBs on the
same device and/or manage a device that includes both MIBs.

Using the same object names (even though the module name
is different) causes a problem for various tools that assume
that object names will all be globally unique.

Bert is checking with the IESG to determine whether the
proposed object name changes would require the MIB to be
re-cycled through the IESG, or whether they could be done
as part of the RFC editing process.

Before we make any changes, though, we'd like to know if the
group does or doesn't support making this change.  Choices
are:

	- Leave the MIB as-is.
	- Change the names only if it will not require
		re-submission to the IESG.
	- Change the names, even if re-submission to the
		IESG would be required.

Thoughts?

Margaret