RE: Time commitments for MIB review

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

I agree with most of the comments made by Harrie and David. A two weeks rule for arbitrary assigned MIB module reviews would not work, or lead at best to mechanical reviews vs. the guidelines. Assigning MIB advisors to WGs that know that they will have MIB work to do works better IMO. I for example am mostly looking nowadays at MIBs related to IP telephony, and this helps me feeling comfortable with the profile and focus of my company. This method has the advantage to allow the 'doctor' to better understand the technology, and be involved in MIB design earlier in the process. This involvement is required, as one of the challenges I observed WGs facing is the fact that they do not understand well how applications would use the SNMP MIBs, and this leads to badly designed and inflated MIB modules. 

So, on practical terms, I would rather look into dividing the 'MIB space' into specialty domains - routing, security, transport, VoIP, etc. and finding ideally two MIB advisors for each domain. Each WG would have a MIB advisor from the beginning of the process, and his peer would do a MIB doctor review towards the end. If some domains remain non-covered, we need to work to find or grow up the advisors, and use admin methods meantime.  

Regards,

Dan



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> Sent: 06 March, 2004 3:02 PM
> To: Mreview (E-mail)
> Subject: Time commitments for MIB review
> 
> 
> Dear MIB Doctors,
> 
> - The IESG (in general) and I (specifically for MIB reviews) have
>   the experience that is we post a "who volunteers for review of X"
>   to the review-group (like mreview) mailing list, that that most
>   of the time does NOT work. Occasionaly it does, but not very often.
> - Asking someone specific to review does work better.
> - The RTG directorate has an agreement that the ADs can just assign 
>   a document to a specific member of the directorate and that person
>   is then responsible to respond with a review within 2 weeks.
> 
> So I am wondering if that RTG agreement could work for us as well.
> 
> I have a long backlog of MIB documents that need MIB Doctor review.
> Over the next week or so, I would like to start assigning documents
> to the various MIB Doctors to try and clean out that backlog.
> 
> Comments? Thoughts? Other ideas to make the MIB review process 
> go faster?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bert 
> 
>