Re: FWD: Restart ifmib WG?

>>>>> C M Heard writes:

C> If you add these new objects to the IF-MIB then it will have to
C> recycle at proposed.  That would prevent any MIB modules that
C> depend on the IF-MIB in a normative way -- and there are plenty of
C> those -- from advancing past proposed standard.  It might,
C> therefore, be better to put these things into a supplemental IF MIB
C> module.

While I understand the logic here, I believe that for many people
outside of the IETF, this approach is just confusing. Most people I
have seen simply want the latest IF-MIB and not an ever growing set of
IF-MIBs (due to the way we apply the IETF standards process rules).

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>