Re: draft-ops-endpoint-mib-04.txt

[Keith McCloghrie <kzm@cisco.com>]

This MIB caused us some confusion this week.  Somebody wanted a TC for
generic Internet-layer addresses.  We naturally thought of this
end-point MIB.  Unfortunately, they had the possibility of needing IPX
addresses which are not supported by draft-ops-endpoint-mib-03.txt.
The closest they could find for TCs in a standard MIB, which met their
needs, was the InternetworkAddr and InternetworkAddrType TCs defined in

  ftp://ftp.atmforum.com/pub/approved-specs/af-mpoa-0092.000.pdf

The InternetworkAddrType TC defined there is more general-purpose in
that it's an enumerated value based on "Address Family Numbers" as
assigned by IANA (see http://www.iana.org/numbers.html#A).  Was there
ever any thought of using this more general mechanism for the
draft-ops-endpoint-mib-xx MIB ?

[Note that even though DNS names do not currently have an Address
Family Number, I would presume that whoever made the case to include
them in this MIB could also make the case to persuade IANA to assign an
Address Family Number to DNS names.]

Keith.