FW: MAU MIB revision

Bert's response.

Regards,

Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: Wijnen, Bert (Bert) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 01 September, 2004 5:46 PM
To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: MAU MIB revision


> 
> Bert,
> @ San Diego a proposal was made in the hubmib meeting to 
> revise the MAU MIB so that it refers a IANA maintained TC for 
> MAU types. This would allow adding in the future new MAU 
> types as the Ethernet evolution requires without re-opening 
> the MAU MIB RFC each time. Some discussions followed and the 
> proposal seems to have received a consensus, both in the room 
> as on the list. We have a volunteer (Ed Beili) to edit the 
> new version of the document and a MIB doctor (Mike Heard) who 
> seems to be interested to support and review this work.  

I saw all of that.

> I would like to formally ask your AD approval to do this work. 
> If we need a formal recharter for this, the text item, and 
> the schedules would look like this:
>   Revise the MAU MIB so that it refers a IANA maintained TC for 
>   MAU types. This would allow adding in the future new MAU 
>   types as the Ethernet evolution requires without re-opening 
>   the MAU MIB RFC each time.
>
>   Initial Draft - October 2004
>   WG Last Call - December 2004
>   Submit to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Draft 
>   standard, replacing RFC 3636 - January 2005
>   We also need to update the current schedules as follows:
>   second WG Last Call - October 2004
>   Submit to the IESG for consideration as proposed standards - 
>   November 2004.

I think I can support that. Why don't you go ahead with the initial
work while I bring this up in IESG. I suspect I cannot do so till
Sept 16th. But that should not stop people from doing good work.

Bert
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dan
>