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

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at jacobs-university.de>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:28:10PM -0400, Joan Cucchiara wrote:

> 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.

Correct. In the past, some WGs tried to manage OID assignments under a
common "WG" node and this has lead to problems since there is nobody
really controlling this number space. So the simplest solution to
avoid such problems is to always register MIB modules under mib-2 and
then everything is controlled by IANA using a well defined process.

See also section 4.5 in RFC 4181 where this practice is described.

/js

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