RE: printermib - problems other than compliances

["Harrington, David" <dbh@enterasys.com>]

Title: Re: printermib - problems other than compliances

Hi,

 

I concur with Juergen that lots of work has already been done on this mib, and I would support it remaining on the standards track.

 

If the document is going to continue to be reviewed by the MIB Doctors, I would like to see some ground rules for future cooperation established to make reviews easier and more timely.

 

dbh

-----Original Message-----
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder [mailto:schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:10 AM
To: heard@pobox.com
Cc: mreview@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: printermib - problems other than compliances

>>>>> C M Heard writes:

Mike> I've looked some more at this MIB, and there are so many
Mike> problems with this MIB module that I would consider it flatly
Mike> unacceptable for the IETF standards track.

While there are problems, I do not share your conclusion. There has
already quite some work gone into this document to improve it and what
really lacks here (and in other cases) is an _effective_ scheme of
active cooperation between MIB experts and technology experts.

I know that this MIB is already implemented in lots of printers and
there are no real technical issues with the objects themself as far as
I can tell - most issues are SMI style issues and so on. I strongly
support to fix these issues as good as we can and with that in place,
I strongly support to keep this on the standards track.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>