Re: [eman] UUID required for all energy objects -> ENTITY-MIB v4?

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 03:49:48PM +0200, Benoit Claise wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> At the last IETF meeting, we concluded that we would need an UUID
> for every energy objects.
> See http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/81/minutes/eman.txt
> 
> We also concluded there were two ways to add this UUID
> 1. within the ENERGY-AWARE MIB to be fast
> 2. within the ENTITY-MIB v4 (because the UUID is not energy
> specific) with a compliance statement in the ENERGY-AWARE-MIB to
> implement a couple of MIB objects from the ENTITY-MIB v4. One of
> them being the UUID.
> 
> I haven't seen any work in the direction of option 2. So, right now,
> we're stuck with 1.
> Does anybody have been working on this? Does any of you have in
> interest in participating in such work?

The ENTITY-MIB version 3 has the entPhysicalUris object and it
can hold an RFC 4122 UUID in URN format. There is no need for an
ENTITY-MIB v4 to carry a UUID.

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