Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 updates

[Jeffrey Haas <jhaas at pfrc.org>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:24:18PM +0100, tom.petch wrote:
> A question; RFC4181 discourages this approach, preferring experimental (which I
> think inappropriate here).

The exact same RFC contains a clause which is one of the motives for not
doing experimental.  

:  Experience has shown that it is impractical to move objects from one
:  subtree to another once those objects have seen large-scale use in an
:  operational environment.  Hence any object that is targeted for
:  deployment in an operational environment MUST NOT be registered under
:  the experimental subtree, irrespective of the standardization status
:  of that object.

Unless I misunderstood our MIB doctor, I was encouraged to not request
experimental allocation.


-- Jeff