[PWE3] Re: PW-TC-MIB and PW-MIB

On Oct 23, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Orly Nicklass wrote:

Tom,

There is naming confusion with the recent MIBs in draft version 06 that affects other MIBs rooted under the same name space.

I assume the desired root should be pwStdMIB and not pwMIB, or alternatively all should be rearranged.

I copied below few sections from PW-MIB and from the PW-TC-MIB that show the inconsistency:

draft-ietf-pwe3-pw-mib-06 has the following:

pwMIB MODULE-IDENTITY ...

         ::= { pwMIB 799 } -- RFC Editor: To be assigned by IANA
                              -- the value 2 is requested for this
                              -- specific Module. Please replace XXX
                              -- with the assigned value.

Dang, that is a typo: 799 should be "XXX"

   -- Top-level components of this MIB.

   -- Notifications
   pwNotifications OBJECT IDENTIFIER
                                 ::= { pwMIB 0 }
   -- Tables, Scalars
   pwObjects       OBJECT IDENTIFIER
                                 ::= { pwMIB 1 }
   -- Conformance
   pwConformance   OBJECT IDENTIFIER
                                 ::= { pwMIB 2 }

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draft-ietf-pwe3-tc-mib-06 has the following:

pwTcMIB MODULE-IDENTITY ...

::= { pwMIB XXXX } -- RFC Editor: please replace
                            -- XXXX with IANA assigne value.

                            -- See IANA considerations sect.

pwMIB OBJECT IDENTIFIER
         -- This object identifier needs to be assigned by IANA.
         ::= { transmission YYYY }

Yes, "XXXX" should be "YYYY"

11. IANA Considerations

IANA is requested to make a MIB OID assignment under the
transmission branch, that is, assign the pwStdMIB under
{ transmission TBD }.
-- RFC Editor: Please assign TBD based on IANA-requested assignment

In the future, PWE3 related standards track PW modules should be
rooted under the pwStdMIB subtree. The IANA is requested to manage
that namespace.

11.1 IANA Considerations for PW-TC-STD-MIB

This document also requests IANA to assign { pwStdMIB 1 } to the PW
MIB specified in this document.

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Other problematic issues in those drafts are not addressed in this mail, but they do exist and need some fixing.

Cool. Please post them ASAP. We are trying to close out the base MIBs

now so we need as much review as possible.

--Tom

Orly Nicklass,
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