RE: AD review of draft-ietf-hubmib-wis-mib-04.txt

"C. M. Heard" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.hubmib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:

> > > > - It would be good to add the wg mailinglist info to the 
> > > >   DESCRIPTION clause of the MODULE-IDENTITY
> > > 
> > > I want to push back on this.  The link to the WG web page provides
> > > that information (including subscription information and the location
> > > of the mailing list archive) and more.  Providing a link, rather than
> > > repeating the information, directs the user to the most current
> > > information (mailing lists do move sometimes). [Incidentally, I intend
> > > to propose having a link to the WG web page in the MODULE-IDENTITY
> > > description as an official MIB reviewer's guideline, and I guess this
> > > will be discussed at more length on the MIB reviewer's list.]
>  
> Problem with that one is that once the doc turns into an RFC it lives
> forever, and a WG [will] (at some point) be closed down after which
> I believe that the WG charter page disappears. The mailing list often
> lives on at least for a while.

That point is well-taken, so I'll copy the mailing list information from the
WG web page into the DESCRIPTION clause of the MODULE-IDENTITY invocation.  
I'll leave the pointer to the WG page since it is still possible that it
could be helpful if the mailing list information goes stale.

//cmh
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