Re: [IPFIX] [MIB-DOCTORS] [mpls] MPLS IEs in IANA's IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Entities registry

Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:53:36 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ipfix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

IEs are not used by MIB modules. Not sure this is relevant but
according to SMIv2 rules, you can't rename a Textual Convention (TC).
All you can do is create a new one and deprecate the old one. The
question is whether doing this is worth anything.

/js

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:28:41AM +0200, Loa Andersson wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> I'm not sure about this - would changing the names require updating all
> existing deployed MIBs?
> 
> Can we get an mib doctor advice on this?
> 
> /Loa
> 
> On 2014-09-10 21:22, Gregory Mirsky wrote:
> >Dear All,
> >
> >in several places of describing MPLS Label element IEs the registry
> >still refers to the EXP field even though the RFC 5462 updated RFC 3032
> >and renamed it “Traffic Class” (TC). Below is the list of IEs that may
> >benefit from updating Description and Reference information:
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection2
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection3
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection4
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection5
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection6
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection7
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection8
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection9
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelStackSection10
> >
> >·mplsTopLabelExp (should this be deprecated and mplsTopLabelTc be
> >created instead?)
> >
> >·postMplsTopLabelExp (should this be deprecated and postMplsTopLabelTc
> >be created instead?)
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >         Greg
> >
> >
> >
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