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

Updating the description would be a problem if you change the semantics of
the object.

David Harrington
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIB-DOCTORS [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> t.petch
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 7:50 AM
> To: Loa Andersson; Gregory Mirsky; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; MIB Doctors (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] [mpls] MPLS IEs in IANA's IP Flow Information
> Export (IPFIX) Entities registry
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Loa Andersson" <[email protected]>
> To: "Gregory Mirsky" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>; "MIB Doctors (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:28 AM
> 
> Greg,
> 
> I'm not sure about this - would changing the names require updating all
> existing deployed MIBs?
> 
> <tp>
> 
> Yes. See RFC2578 s.10.  You cannot reuse an OID so this would need a new
> OID; messy, best left as one of those quaint, historic anomalies that
> litter our work.
> 
> Updating the DESCRIPTION and REFERENCE is not a problem  (but issuing
> any MIB module is a lot of work).
> 
> Tom Petch
> [not a MIB doctor]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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