Re: guidelines section 4.5 (WG-assigned OIDs vs IANA-assigned OIDs)

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

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Andy Bierman wrote:
[ Excellent discussion snipped (thanks, Andy) ]
> Summary:
>    It was probably not the best idea to let the RMONMIB WG
>    administer its own number space, especially since this WG
>    has MIB experts in it and still screws up on a regular basis.
>    I would not recommend that this practice be encouraged for
>    other WGs.

In light of that, I propose that the third bullet of Section 4.5
be modified as follows:

   - The value assigned to the MODULE-IDENTITY descriptor MUST be unique
     and SHOULD reside under the mgmt subtree [RFC2578].  Most often it
     will be an IANA-assigned value directly under mib-2 [RFC2578],
     although for media-specific MIB modules that extend the IF-MIB
     [RFC2863] it is customary to use an IANA-assigned value under
     transmission [RFC2578].  In the past some working groups have made
     their own assignments from a subtree delegated to them by IANA, but
     that practice has proven problematic and is NOT RECOMMENDED.

Any objections?

//cmh