RE: FW: draft-ietf-tewg-mib-07.txt

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

> > Can some other MIB doctors look into this and maybe we
> > can have a discussion as to what we want to do.
> 
> I had a quick look at the TE MIB several months ago and I think I asked 
> questions quite similar to Dave's questions. The notion of a tunnel that 
> ends somewhere in an AS and thus the tunnel endpoint is an AS number 
> sounded rather strange to me. (I got involved because InetAddress 
> issues I think at that time and I did not agree to have an
> InetAddressType of for AS numbers.)
>  
Yep I remember that.
I sort of was left with the impression that they (specifically Kireeti)
had convinced you (us) that they needed ASes and unnumbered and such as
addresses, and so I steered them to define their TeHopAddress(Type) TCs.


> > These MPLS and TWEG MIB modules have been pestering us for a long time.
> > Unless we see a REAL BIG issue or FATAL FLAW I would prefer to get
> > them over with. And they have been targeting PS. 
> 
> The problem here is more a process issue - we never got the right people
> to talk to each other face to face in a constructive mood to find out 
> what these traffic engineering MIBs try to accomplish and how they fit 
> into the world of existing MIBs. So things just hang around and cause
> trouble whenever they hit another MIB doctor.
> 
We can blame them... we can blame ourselves (for not following up or
being persistent enough). But that does not help to resolve the
iessues.

I need to know if this is bad anuf to say "over my dead body" or
if we can approve this (let it go) now on stds track.
Or if that is too much, let it go as Informational or Experimental.
If the former, we can try to work a more ideal solution (soon)
ourselves and present that to those groups.
If the latter case I would say that we MUST commit to RSN define
the proper MIB objects and present/defend them to those people.

But thanks for chiming in and trying to help get to conclusion.
Bert
> /js
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