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

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

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> >    - 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?
> 
> Sounds good, but I suggest adding "(for IETF standards-track
> MIB modules)" immediately after "SHOULD".   Even though
> this is arguably covered by the intro material, there have been
> enough problems due to applications  that assume everything
> SNMP is somewhere in the 1.3 space, despite the lack of
> anything in the standards to support such a limitation.

I like that suggestion.

//cmh