Welcome to the MIB Reviewers mailing list

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

When you receive this email, it means that you were already
subscribed or that I just subscribed you. That means, I do
consider you a one of my MIB Doctors who I can ask to do
MIB reviews. These are sometime prelimenary reviews, but
most of the time they are the reviews that take place
just before an AD (no matter which area) decides to accept
an I-D and requests IETF Last Call. 

Instead of asking people individually to do a specific review,
I'd like to try to post the MIBs that need review to this
list and then each of you MIB doctors can "claim" one if
you see one that interests you. I will then make the assignment.
Of course anyone who wants to do additional review can always do
so... the more eyes that look at a particular MIB, the better
chance (I hope) that we find all the serious issues.

In general, my selection is based on:
- the MIB Doctor who acts as IESG reviewer should not have been
  heavily involved in the development of the MIB to be reviewed
- if you have some expertise in the technology that the MIB is
  trying to model, then that is a pre
- it is not a requirement to be well versed in the technology
  that the MIB is trying to model. In principle you should be
  able to understand the MIB even as a novice. And you can 
  always ask questions to the authors/editors/wg, because I
  assume that they do have the technology-specific expertise.

Another use if this list I see is that if one of us is reviewing
a specific MIB and has questions that he/she wants to check with
peer-MIB doctors, then we can use this list.

What I have not yet decided is if it would be good to post a review
to this list first (for peer-cross-check) before we send it off
to the requesting authors/AD/WG. That might be a good thing to do
so that we get a better and more consistent review. Opinions welcome.

I am somewhat behind in MIB reviews. So over the next few days I
will post some requests for review from MIBs that have been in my
queue for too long.

Thanks,
Bert 
p.s. If you do not want to continue to be conbsidered a MIB-doctor
     or if you are not willing to do a review once in while, you
     can either unsubscribe from this list (majordomo@ops.ietf.org)
     or you can let me know privately.