Re: RE: FWD: Restart ifmib WG?

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:

> Mike, were you guys not working on some MIB (I forget which one
> it is) that needs ifmib to go to full std? So I would try very very
> hard to get current mib to advance. If more work/changes is/are needed
> then I'd prefer to do it in such a way that current MIB can advance.
> That is of course assuming that we do not find any fatal flaws.

I don't think anyone is likely to quarrel with this point -- Andy
Bierman has already agreed that we should put any new IF-MIB extensions
into a separate supplemental MIB module.

But to answer your question:  one example of a MIB module that depends
on IF-MIB which we are trying to advance is the SONET-MIB (the AToMMIB
WG is trying to advance it to Draft Standard).  Like all media-specific
MIB modules, it normatively references the IF-MIB (by definition, since
it is a media-speciic extension thereof) and so could not be advanced
if IF-MIB recycles back to Proposed Standard.

Just for reference, I ran some grep tools on the MIB modules included
in the libsmi-0.4 distribution and it seems that the following ones
depend in the IF-MIB in a normative way, typically by importing
ifIndex, InterfaceIndex, or InterfaceIndexOrZero.  Note that this
excludes all SMIv1 MIB modules, MIB modules that import ifIndex from
RFC1213-MIB, and (to the extent I'm aware if it) MIB modules that won't
be advanced in any case because they are slated to be replaced by work
in progress.

ACCOUNTING-CONTROL-MIB
ADSL-LINE-MIB
ATM-ACCOUNTING-INFORMATION-MIB
ATM-MIB
CHARACTER-MIB
CIRCUIT-IF-MIB
DIAL-CONTROL-MIB
DIFFSERV-MIB
DISMAN-PING-MIB
DISMAN-TRACEROUTE-MIB
DLSW-MIB
DOCS-BPI-MIB
DOCS-CABLE-DEVICE-MIB
DOCS-IF-MIB
DOT12-IF-MIB
DS0-MIB
DS0BUNDLE-MIB
DS1-MIB
DS3-MIB
ENTITY-MIB
EtherLike-MIB
FLOW-METER-MIB
FR-ATM-PVC-SERVICE-IWF-MIB
FR-MFR-MIB
FRAME-RELAY-DTE-MIB
FRNETSERV-MIB
FRSLD-MIB
GSMP-MIB
HDSL2-SHDSL-LINE-MIB
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
IGMP-STD-MIB
INTEGRATED-SERVICES-GUARANTEED-MIB
INTEGRATED-SERVICES-MIB
INTERFACETOPN-MIB
IPATM-IPMC-MIB
IPMROUTE-STD-MIB
IPOA-MIB
ISDN-MIB
MAU-MIB
NHRP-MIB
PARALLEL-MIB
PIM-MIB
RS-232-MIB
RSVP-MIB
RTP-MIB
SMON-MIB
SONET-MIB
SNMP-REPEATER-MIB
TUNNEL-MIB
VRRP-MIB

That's quite a long list!

Mike