Re: Comment on draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-03.txt

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

Please send text.  Thanks, cmh

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Dave Thaler wrote:

> In section 4.6.1.7 (IpAddress), it would be good to provide more
> guidance on when it's acceptable to vary from the SHOULD.  (Same
> comment can be applied to 3291bis as well.)  Specifically one example
> is a MIB object which instruments an inherently IPv4-specific thing.
> 
> Since this has come up several times (e.g., VRRP MIB, MSDP MIB, etc.),
> it would be good to provide more explicit guidance to authors and
> reviewers.
> 
> -Dave