Re: Updating a published MIB

"Adrian Farrel" <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:00:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ops
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To add to Tom's mutterings...

This is why we should think more often and harder about using IANA-maintained
TCs.

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of t.petch
> Sent: 30 July 2013 09:54
> To: Olle E. Johansson; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OPS-AREA] Updating a published MIB
> 
> You will find a three page description of what you can and cannot do in
> RFC4181 pp.28-31. This refers back to RFC2578 which is the authoritative
> statement of what can and cannot be done.  And then there is the
> [email protected]
> mailing list which is where most of those with expertise in MIB modules
> lurk.
> 
> No, it is not obvious:-(
> 
> Tom Petch
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Olle E. Johansson" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 8:52 PM
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> The SIP MIB in RFC 4780 contains a SipTCTransportProtocol entry. The
> SIPcore group is about to add another transport (websockets), which
> means that we will have to update RFC 4780 with a new bit for websocket
> transports.
> 
> I've asked around and it seems to be a lack of information about the
> process of updating a published MIB. The IANA is not involved. And
> reading the wiki entry on OPS and MIB doctors seems to contain a lot of
> information about *new* MIBs but nothing on updates.
> 
> So my question is what the process is for changing parameters or adding
> new OIDs.
> 
> Thanks for your response! Apologies if I did miss something obvious.
> 
> /Olle
> 
> 
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