Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] FW: [802.1 - 4828] 802.1ap has beenapproved...

wrt. the access issue - the IEEE allowed access to the MIB modules and
the whole document for all the period of development of the IEEE 802.1ap
standard, and Bert and myself posted several of the ballot announcements
on the MIB Doctors list. I am pretty sure (but need to check with Tony
Jeffree, the IEEE 802.1 WG chair) that they will agree to grant access
to these documents for anybody who wants to work on the migration path.
I am not sure they will agree however to have the MIB modules and the
whole standard posted on the OPS area web site, or at least not in the
first six months after approval. The good news is that six months after
the approval the IEEE 802 approved standards become freely available
from http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/index.html  
 
Dan
 


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	From: David Harrington [mailto:[email protected]] 
	
	 
	-- getting access to the new MIB modules --
	 
	From the 802.1ap web page, the link requires a password. Can you
post the MIB modules to the MIB Doctor and OPS-area lists? It should
probably also be copied to the MIBs list, since many MIB implementers
might follow that rather than the whole ops-area list.
	 
	It appears the latest MIB link is for Draft 4.3, but are there
still outstanding comments to be resolved for Draft 4.3? i.e., is the
ZIP file with the MIB modules fully up-to-date?
	 
	Can the MIB modules be made available to the IETF SNMP community
without a password? I suggest posting the ZIP file on the OPS area web
site for a while, or posting a link to the publicly accessible MIB
modules on the mibs mailing list.
	 
	Since the IEEE MIB modules do not contain much information about
the changes to bridging, and this does affect IETF MIB modules, it would
be nice if 802.1 permitted freely available access to the entire updated
802.1 specification so the SNMP community can better understand the
changes to the MIB modules.

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