RE: Where to root MIB modules

["Harrington, David" <dbh@enterasys.com>]

Hi Mike,

I'm trying to address issues that exist in reality, not just theory.

In theory, it shouldn't be necessary. How about in reality, given
existing tools?

In theory, the IETF can produce a Proposed Standard mib in about six
months (possibly sooner for things like IEEE 802 technologies where the
IEEE has already specified what the objects should be). If that was the
reality, I wouldn't have any need to make the proposal I'm making. 

dbh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. M. Heard [mailto:heard@pobox.com] 
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:09 PM
> To: mreview@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Where to root MIB modules
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Harrington, David wrote:
> > If a vendor decides to implement a prerelease version of an IETF
> > mib, and assigns enterpise OIDs to the objects, it is necessary
> > to change the descriptors to differentiate the names of their
> > proprietary objects from names of the standards-track objects.
> 
> In principle this should not be necessary;  all that should be
> needed is to change the module name.
> 
> //cmh
> 
> 
>