RE: reviewer guidelines

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Harrington, David wrote:
> I think it would be good, for mibs that other SDOs ask the mib
> doctors to review, where the OIDs are not in the IETF mib
> subtree, to suggest that the SDO put a notice in the mib warning
> implementers (mainly application developers) to note that the
> OID is outside the IETF mib subtrees, and does not start with
> 1.3.6.1 as a result.

Is this really a problem?  I'm reluctant to ask people to clutter up
their MIB modules with notes like that, unless it addresses a real
problem.  I've been under the impression that OIDs of MIB objects
are generally resolved into numeric form automatically by MIB
processing tools.  A note would not help in that case.

//cmh