RE: Module names and MIB names

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com>]

Do away. If everything is a MIB, what is the value of suffixing the name?

Regards,

Dan



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> Sent: 19 February, 2004 12:34 PM
> To: Mreview (E-mail)
> Subject: Module names and MIB names
> 
> 
> The DISMAN WG has delivered 
>    draft-ietf-disman-alarm-mib-18.txt
> which includes two MIB Modules with just TCs.
> Their names are
> 
>    ITU-ALARM-TC
>    IANA-ITU-ALARM-TC
> 
> And the latest revision of smilint program flags it with a 
> warning that
> the module name does not have suffix of *-MIB.
> This is based on our (MIB doctors developed) MIB review guidelines:
>   
>    draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-02.txt
> 
> Specifically section 4.1 and appendix C.
> 
> Now.... this MIB document was developed by members of teh MIB 
> Doctor team
> and under a WG chair who is also in the MIB Doctor team.
> So this does not feel right.
> 
> We as MIB doctors eat our own dogfood, or we remove such guidelines.
> 
> So my question that I want answered by all MIB doctors is:
>   Do we keep this guideline or do we do away with it.
> 
> pls choose one of these two answers:
> 
>  - Do away with it. It is a CLR (Crappy Little Rule)
>  - Keep it. It is a CLR (Consistency Language Rule or some 
> such positive thing)
> 
> Thanks,
> Bert 
> 
>