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



David,
 
Following your reply I assume we should expect new drafts for TC and core MIB. I forward the mail to the group to try and close the
PwVlanCfg and the Statistics issue below.  The way we handle the statistics in the PW MIB should be the way in all other MIBs, so we better get consensus on the definition.
 
Orly
 

From: David Zelig [mailto:Davidz at corrigent.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:45
To: Orly Nicklass; Thomas D. Nadeau
Subject: RE: [PWE3] Re: PW-TC-MIB and PW-MIB

Orly,
First, thanks for your help in reviewing the MIB modules thoroughly. Please see inline
 
Thanks
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Orly Nicklass [mailto:orly_n at rad.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:15 AM
To: Thomas D. Nadeau; David Zelig
Subject: RE: [PWE3] Re: PW-TC-MIB and PW-MIB

 Hi,
 
I scan through the new version and I see that 3 issues left, 3, 6 and 10. Can we close those during the upcoming meeting off line?
 
I also have few new issues, questions... from recent drafts:
1-I think the IANA MIB for types should be in an independent document not with PW MIB to separate control of progressing of those documents in the standard track. The IANA types should not affect the PW MIB progress.
[DZ] While in some cases there is indeed separate document, RFC 4181 (section 3.5.1) make an example of RFC 1581 for such cases, where the initial IANA maintained MIB is inside the main document. The fact that there will be more types in the future will be handled by IANA independently to the progress of the i-d. 
  
 
2-TC-MIB:
-Description  says ...initial version, ....should say only ....version. The initial is stated in the REVISION clause.[DZ]  OK 
-PwVlanCfg--Vlan Tag can fit other services and not only Ethernet, can we make it more general to fit others too? Also, what about Priority Tag?[DZ]  This TC is for Ethernet only, and I need the special values for VLAN manipulations. If you see a need for another type of application, than a separate TC can handle it in the application specific MIB module. 
[Orly Nicklass] if it is for Ethernet only as stated, why do we keep it in the main TC doc?
 
-PwOperStatusTc-regarding dormant, resources can be occupied by higher or same priority Pws, not just higher.
    also, I do not think the notPresent is the right naming for the described case, it is more like notReady. Can you change that? it implies missing info in various tables etc.
[DZ] OK, Tom: OK with you? 
-PwStatus-I think we should rename the customer part of the enum with service end point to have it in compatible with psn naming.[DZ] OK 
-PwFragSize- can you change ."..to the value set."  to" ....size in bytes"?[DZ] OK 
-PwFragStatus-the word both in the last paragraph in the description better be removed as 3 things are there and not just two.[DZ]  OK 
 
3-PW-MIB
-The section of Conventions is redundant within the introduction, it appears twice.[DZ]  OK 
-last paragraph of 4.1, change "than" to "then"[DZ] OK 
-4.2-I think we should change notPresent to notReady same as in TC although I believe it is to match ifStatus, but the semantics is different.[DZ]  As before 
-4.2-pwVcOperStatus, Vc part should be removed[DZ]  OK 
-in IANA-PWE3_MIB, description, we better write initial version and not original version.[DZ] OK 
-the IANAPwTypeTC has FRDLCI twice , 1 and 25[DZ] : it is duplication also in the IANA document - 1 is for martini mode and I will change the name of the bit to frDlciMartiniMode[Orly Nicklass]  pls do.
 
-pwStdMib, the description has copyright twice, remove the first occurrence.[DZ] OK 
-..CurrentInPackets missing the  say on the MUST be equal  part as was done for other 32 bits counters.
[DZ]  
-Regarding the Statistics-it is more appropriate to have time elapsed on current data than on interval.
[DZ]  From our experience we should have both, The current elapsed time appears in the pw Table (pwTimeElapsed ), and there is a need at the interval level when time of day have changed or non-complete interval because of other reasons.
[Orly Nicklass] I think we should decide if we want to keep incomplete intervals. How do we treat that kind of data? we do not know the reason nor the validity of this data. I think such cases better be ignored. If the data is not good data it does not matter the period it represents.
 
- we can spare space by elimination non valid data, since in any case those can not be used. We can simply skip those bad intervals and not save the bad data. 
[DZ] The fact that it is bad interval does not mean that the data inside is not valuable, it just mean it is not reliable enough. for example: although the number of errors may not be accurate for some reason, it is important tot see that there were at least some errors. 
[Orly Nicklass] doesn't bad interval means problems anyway? maybe we should ask the group.
 
-Description of ....MoniSec is not clear, is it aligned with a day start or or somehow related to 96 intervals. It could be that time less than 24H is ok for 1st interval, but bad data for the others-there is no reference for such. [DZ] OK, I see the point, I will fix it. 
[Orly Nicklass]   ok 

From: pwe3-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:pwe3-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Orly Nicklass
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 00:35
To: Thomas D. Nadeau
Cc: davidz at corrigent.com; pwe3 at ietf.org
Subject: RE: [PWE3] Re: PW-TC-MIB and PW-MIB

Assuming the pwStdMIB is the root of all PW MIB and will be fixed in the two MIB modules at all relevant places, here are additional comments:
 
The order is not based on priority or importance of issues, it is based on page order:
 
TC draft:
1-in the TC MIB it will be wise to have the heading "PW-TC-STD-MIB" and in the PW MIB have "PW-STD-MIB", now they are mixed somehow with mpls wording.--done
2-The description of pwTcMIB includes reference to mpls TC, it should be removed (page 3)-done
 
3-text of dormant (4) status should be fixed a bit[Orly Nicklass] -I have not seen a change 
[DZ] Missed it...
4-for PWVlanCfg I think Unsigned32 is a better syntax (page 4)-done
5-Security section reference mpls by mistake, text should be fixed according to RFC 4181 (page 9)-done
6-Authors' Address section is odd, should be fixed (page 10)-done
7-IANA section , there is a statement:--done
"In the future, PWE3 related standards track PW modules should be
  rooted under the pwStdMIB subtree...."
I think you meant to say MIB modules not PW modules.
Also, there is some better wording examples in 4181, maybe you can realign with that.done
 
PW-MIB draft:
1-same as issue 1 above (heading)--done
2-section 4 on page 3, the PW MIB Structure, I think it is better to describes the layers as they are in the arch draft and not have the order mixed.-done by using ref.
3-section 4.1 should be clarify regarding the conditions and constrains of creating conceptual row manually or via signaling. The existing explanation is not very clear-done but typo err left 
 
4-pwindex that is being referenced in section 4.2 should be written as pwIndex.-done
5-section 5 for some reason discuss ENET-STD-MIB, was that the real intention? -done
6-section 5--its second paragraph references PW as ifIndex, I have not seen any explicit request to IANA to add such type.-[Orly Nicklass]   the text still reference PW as ifType ((2nd paragraph) will there be a request for such from IANA? .
[DZ] - there is a request in the IANA section, may be too hidden...
 
7-section 6-it will be  a good idea to add the actual value of the enum numbers in the example-not done
 
8-pwIndexNext, I think syntax of TestAndIncr is better here-[Orly Nicklass] not done for re-use gap.
 
9-the two priority objects use as default value 0 which is the highest priority. It is not clear what happen if few PWs have the same priority but resources are limited.-implementation specific
 
Is it implementation specific? Also, both use PW and VC, we better use just PW.-done
10-Many objects have special values for not applicable cases, do we really want to have those or use the option of no such for instances that are not relevant?-for discussion
[DZ]  I am basically OK with this (Tom: any inputs from other MIBs you have done in the IETF regarding this?). In the Ethernet case (PW-ENET) I could not did much because of the complexity of modes and the need for consistent view, but on the PW-MIB we can go over the items and decide it on a per case basis.
 
11-REFERENCE clause in few places use draft name, maybe it is better to use the title and not the draft name-done
12-Reference section better use title too and "work in progress" rather than ID version-done
13-Authors' Address section is odd, should be fixed -done
14-IANA section should be fixed-done
 
 
 
 


From: Thomas D. Nadeau [mailto:tnadeau at cisco.com]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 16:05
To: Orly Nicklass
Cc: pwe3 at ietf.org; davidz at corrigent.com
Subject: Re: [PWE3] Re: PW-TC-MIB and PW-MIB


On Oct 24, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Orly Nicklass wrote:

Tom,
 
Before we get to other issues, I think you missed my point regarding the root name.  XXX and YYY are minor typo that you happen to have.
The root name is either
pwMIB
or pwStdMIB.

    pwStdMIB.
 
In the IANA consideration section you refer to pwStdMIB, but it the modules you used pwMIB. If indeed you meant pwMIB, then the module identity should be different and so are the nodes coming off it as shown below.

    OK.

    --tom



 
see in line, I marked in RED the way I think it should be.


From: pwe3-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:pwe3-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Thomas D. Nadeau
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 15:15
To: Orly Nicklass
Cc:
pwe3 at ietf.org; davidz at corrigent.com
Subject: [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  [Orly Nicklass] --should be pwStdMIB and not pwMIB 
                              -- 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"[Orly Nicklass]  right 

   
   -- 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 }
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
draft-ietf-pwe3-tc-mib-06 has the following:
 
pwTcMIB MODULE-IDENTITY ...
 
  ::= { pwMIB XXXX }  -- RFC Editor: please replace [Orly Nicklass]  --should be pwStdMIB and not pwMIB 
                               

                            -- XXXX with IANA assigne value.
                            -- See IANA considerations sect.
 
  pwMIB OBJECT IDENTIFIER [Orly Nicklass]  --should be pwStdMIB and not pwMIB 
                               

         -- 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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