Re: [YANG] [sub]module name uniqueness

[Phil Shafer <phil at juniper.net>]

Andy Bierman writes:
>There are 1000s of SMI modules and generating a
>unique name with at most 64 unique characters has
>not been a real problem in 2 decades.

I'm no SNMP dude, so I'll take your word for it, but I've seen a
number of vendor mibs with names like "foo-mib", which seems to be
begging for a collision with something else's foo mib.

My guess would have been that this is fairly common.  Vendor A
invents "foo" technology, names the mib with the obvious "foo-mib".
Other vendors follow, naming their mibs with "foo-mib" so they look
like they invented "foo".  The IETF standardizes the foo mib and
ends up calling the standard "foo-mib", because, well, no one else
matters  ;^)

Thanks,
 Phil
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