Re: reviewer guidelines

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Harrington, David" <dbh@enterasys.com>
> To: "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>; "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:27 PM
> Subject: RE: reviewer guidelines
...
> I have run into multiple applications that assumed all mib OIDs started
> with 1.3.6.1, and when they imported mibs into their internal databases,
> they didn't bother to record the 1.3.6.1 prefix. I would like to make
> application developers more aware of the fact this is a bad assumption.
>
> I would like to suggest to the mib authors to add one sentence to only
> those mib modules that 1) do not start with 1.3.6.1, 2) are (presumably)
> developed by other SDOs, and 3) are reviewed by the IETF mib doctors. I
> expect the number of mibs that meet those qualities to be very small,
> but growing.
...

The note needs to be addressed to the folks writing the code to
import the MIB modules.  If the import code and database design
can't cope with stuff outside 1.3.6.1, warnings in the MIB modules
themselves will be too late to do any good.

Randy