MALLOC MIB

"Dave Thaler" <[email protected]> Wed, 15 May 2002 19:26:09 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.malloc
Message-ID <2E33960095B58E40A4D3345AB9F65EC1073840A2@win-msg-01.wingroup.windeploy.ntdev.microsoft.com>
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