Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] Question on assignments under mib-2

["David B Harrington" <dbharrington at comcast.net>]

see rfc4181 for a discussion of this issue.

dbh 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mib-doctors-bounces at ietf.org 
> [mailto:mib-doctors-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joan Cucchiara
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:28 PM
> To: MIB Doctors (E-mail)
> Subject: [MIB-DOCTORS] Question on assignments under mib-2
> 
> MIB Doctors,
> 
> Background info for my question:
> I) After much discussion, the BGP4 MIBs in IDR are going to be
>    put under a new root under mib-2.
>    (mib-2 branch names are in: 
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/smi-numbers)
> 
> II) and, the prefix for the MIBs is going to be:   "bgp4V2"
> 
> III) After reviewing the mib-2 branch, there appears to be a pattern

> (lately) of
>    assigning MIBs directly under mib-2 such that each MIB in 
> a working group 
> is
>    given a direct assignment under mib-2, so the MIB, and 
> TC-MIB each get an
>    assignment directly under mib-2.   Since I don't know the
>    specifics of these assignments wanted to ask to about this.
>    (I do realize that this may not be an issue at all, thus, 
> option #3.)
> 
> Option #1:
> ----------
> My preference would be to have only one assignment under 
> mib-2 and then have
> all the MIBs in a working group use that assignment.  So for 
> "bgp4V2" MIBs
> this would be (as an example):
> 
> 
> Number   Name              Description           Reference
> XXX     bgp4V2MIB  bgp4 Version 2 MIBs   
> draft-idr-bgp4V2-tc-mib-00.txt
> 
> Directly under this bgp4V2MIB  there would be a few bgp4V2 MIBs:
> bgp4V2MIB  ::= { mib-2 XXX}  -- XXX is assigned by IANA
>     bgp4V2TcMIB  ::= { bgp4V2MIB YYY}  -- sub-id 1 is 
> requested for YYY
>     bgp4V2BaseMIB ::= { bgp4V2MIB ZZZ}   -- sub-id 2 is 
> requested for ZZZ
> --  future MIB possibility
> --    bgp4V2ExtensionsMIB ::= { bgp4V2MIB AAA }  -- sub-id 3 
> is requested 
> for AAA
> 
> 
> 
> Option #2
> (seems to be the pattern for mib-2 assignment based on my 
> quick review):
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
> so (for example):
> 
> Number  Name                        Description
Reference
> XXX     bgp4V2TcMIB           bgp4 V2 TC MIB 
> draft-idr-bgp4V2-tc-mib-00.txt
> -- in the above (option #1) example the name is bgp4V2BaseMIB
> YYY     bgp4V2MIB               bgp4 V2 MIB 
> draft-idr-bgp4V2-mib-00.txt
> ZZZ     bgp4V2ExtensionsMIB bgp4 V2 Extensions MIB 
> draft-idr-bgp4V2-extensions-mib-00.txt
> 
> bgp4V2TcMIB ::= { mib-2 XXX}
> bgp4V2MIB ::= { mib-2 YYY}
> bgp4V2ExtensionsMIB ::=  { mib-2 ZZZ}
> 
> 
> 
> Option 3:
> ---------
> doesn't matter.
> 
> 
> I don't want to break what appears (to me) to be a pattern
> for assigning under mib-2, but not really sure there is 
> actually a pattern 
> so wanted
> to ask.   Please let me know if what option is preferred.
> 
> Thanks,
>    Joan
> 
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