RE: Response to comments on OAM doc

"Romascanu, Dan \(Dan\)" <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:38:28 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.hubmib
Message-ID <AAB4B3D3CF0F454F98272CBE187FDE2F09E8CE03@IS0004AVEXU1.global.avaya.com>
I have no stronger feelings either. Please go ahead as your non-strong
feelings dictate :-)

Regards,

Dan


 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Squire [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:32 PM
> To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan); David T. Perkins; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Response to comments on OAM doc
> 
> 
> I would personally prefer to have the OAM MIB name be DOT3 
> rather than EFM, for two reasons:
> 
> 1) The other non-PHY specific functions seem to be named this way.  
> 2) I already made the change in a working draft:)
> 
> Not a strong feeling by any means, but it seems more appropriate.  
> 
> - Matt
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Romascanu, Dan (Dan) [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:36 PM
> > To: David T. Perkins; [email protected]
> > Cc: Matt Squire
> > Subject: RE: Response to comments on OAM doc
> > 
> > (speaking as a contributor)
> > 
> > Grrrrr ... I did not want to enter into a naming discussion at this 
> > stage, but it looks like we got into one anyway.
> > 
> > There is no overall convention for names of hubmib MIB 
> modules to be 
> > prefixed by DOT3. If there is a consistency to be reached, I would 
> > rather aim all EFM MIB module names to be prefixed by EFM.
> > 
> > Thus, the module names I would recommend to be used in the four 
> > documents are:
> > 
> > EFM-OAM-MIB
> > EFM-CU-MIB
> > EFM-EPON-MIB
> > EFM-EPON-DEVICE-MIB
> > 
> > The descriptors associated with the module identity and the other 
> > descriptors of MIB objects within the MIB modules should be a lower
> case
> > version of the module name prefix without hyphenation of course, as 
> > recommended in Annex C of RFC 4181.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David T. Perkins [mailto:[email protected]]
> > >
> > > 6.   MIB Definition
> > >
> > >   EFM-COMMON-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
> > >
> > > ]] This module name doesn't follow the naming conventions 
> ]] in the 
> > > [MIBguidelines] document. However, I can't determine ]] 
> if it should 
> > > be DOT3-OAM-MIB, or "EFM-OAM-MIB".
> > >
> > > MBS: It should be DOT3-OAM-MIB to me, so that's what I'll 
> change it 
> > > to.
> > >
> > >   <<text deleted>>
> > >
> > >      efmOamMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
> > >
> > > ]] Not sure if should be efmOamMIB or dot3OamMIB
> > >
> > > MBS: Changed to dot3OamMIB
> > >
> > >
> 
>