Re: MIB module root assignment

[Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@lisanza.net>]

Hi,

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 04:34 PM, Glenn Waters wrote:
> For example using just 999999 is problematic -- for both the agent and 
> the manager that may have many of these 999999 branches. Does the 
> branch have to be under mib-2? Could we have a "developmental" branch 
> and place under that a unique number. IANA could be the authority to 
> hand out the unique number under developmental. The IANA process would 
> have to be real simple and they would have to pretty much say yes to 
> anyone.

There was/is an 'expirimental' branch which sometimes is used for this
purposes I can remember. I only do not know how the number retrieval
was done.

I do believe it is not a smart thing to use some number. Even if this
is a well-known number, but it will end up in multiple MIB modules.
Some keep just shipping implementations with 'pre-RFC' assigned
and randomly choosen branches.


regards,
Harrie