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Re: Where to root MIB modules

To: "Harrington, David" <dbh@enterasys.com>
Subject: Re: Where to root MIB modules
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:33:39 +0100
Cc: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>, "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:33:53AM -0500, Harrington, David wrote:
> 
> I think allowing a wg to assign the oids for their mibs, in a controlled
> manner, might be a good thing to consider.
> 

Experience tells us that IANA controlled assignements are a good thing.
I doubt that any reasonable MIB project is being delayed significantly
by the OID assignment. 

I sometimes see MIB projects hanging around for months with virtual no 
activity and then at the very end people wake up and start to complain 
about things that could have just been dealt with easily by putting 
more energy into document quality by careful editing and reviewing.

/js (who enjoys writing RFCs/IDs with xml2rfc)

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Juergen Schoenwaelder		    International University Bremen
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