RE: MIB module terminology

["David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>]

HI,

This stuff is important. And the people that it affects the most
are people trying to gain an understanding of SNMP-based management.

I see big confusion understanding the concepts. Part of this is
due to some book and article authors incorrectly describing
SNMP-based management concepts, and part is authors of standards
documents taking short cuts.

So, for me, I believe that standards documents should have a somewhat
higher level of formality that used in conversations and email by
experts in SNMP-based management.

At 06:19 AM 4/28/2003 -0400, Harrington, David wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The only people I ever see get concerned by the plural "MIBs" or the distinction between MIB and mib module are the SNMP protocol designers. Everybody else in the world, including developers, field personnel, and operators, seem to understand that it MIB means mib module, and MIBs means multiple mib modules. 
>
>I vote we eliminate the CLR that says one must always distinguish MIB and MIB module.
>
>dbh
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wijnen, Bert (Bert) [mailto:bwijnen@lucent.com] 
> 
> ...  when I read some
>documents, it is really strange how they use the term MIB and MIBs.
>Specifically the plural "MIBs" get people confused I think. 

Regards,
/david t. perkins