Re: Volunteer for MIB Doctor review draft-ietf-ipsec-doi-tc-mib-07.txt

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

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> Anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bert 

Did you get any takers yet?  If not I will volunteer to do it,
provided that we can get the following issue worked out:

- the document defines the initial version of
an IANA-maintained MIB module and nothing else,

and yet

- it is being submitted for Proposed
Standard (according to what I see in
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/status.html).

Since the document does not contain the authoritiative version of
any MIB module, I don't see how it can be submitted for Standards
Track.  The authoritative version of the MIB module (i.e., the one
that will need to be cited in normative references) will reside on
the IANA web site, and not in this document.  Hence I think its
status should be Informational.

I've cc:'d the MIB Doctor's list to see if the other reviewers agree
with this assertion (or perhaps think that I am insane for making
it).

Regards,

Mike

P.S.  From a quick look at the draft it seems that the bulk of the
review time will not be spent on traditional MIB Doctor things but
rather on making the IANA considerations sufficiently clear (it may
very well be necessary to put the update rules in each separate
DESCRIPTION clause).  Might it not be advisable to get someone from
IANA to be involved in the review at a very early stage?