MALLOC MIB
"Dave Thaler" <[email protected]> Wed, 15 May 2002 19:26:09 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.malloc |
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I have addressed all but one of the comments of the "MIB doctor", and the last comment made me think a bit. We have an "exclusion" table in the MIB right now, that I believe originated from AAP. I'd like to propose removing the table. As far as I can tell, nothing in the MALLOC architecture (RFC 2908) or the MADCAP protocol (RFC 2730) requires implementing any such concept, and those are what this MIB instruments. As a reminder, the MIB currently contains 3 tables that are relevant to this question: Scope Table : contains the scope ranges known (e.g. Global, LinkLocal, IPv4 Local Scope, etc.) Allocation Range Table : contains the subranges legal to allocate from (e.g. the piece of LinkLocal Erik Guttman asked IANA for, all of IPv4 Local Scope except the scope-relative addresses, your own GLOP range, etc). Exclusion Table : "contains sub-ranges which are excluded from being allocated". The wording implies these are subranges of the scope, disjoint from subranges in the allocation range table. The description also used to say entries may be dynamically discovered via some protocol such as AAP (which we already removed from the MIB). I believe that the Exclusion Table should have been removed when AAP was removed, and that for today's uses, exclusions are unnecessary (since the Allocation Ranges are manually configured without needing to have a concept of exclusions, or are acquired as part of experimental protocols outside the scope of this MIB). Any objections? (Positive acknowledgements from any of Mark, Steve, and Pavlin would be greatly appreciated :) -Dave