RE: Where to define IANAtunnelType TC

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

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
> 1. I agree with Bert that the TC does not belong to
> IANAifType-MIB. Actually the change in the model seems to be
> departing from mandating the modeling of a tunnel as an
> interface.

I support putting the TC into the IANAifType-MIB.

As previously discussed, the reason for putting the IANAtunnelType
TC into the IANAifType-MIB is to make it clear that new tunnel types
should NOT get new ifType values but rather should be allocated new
tunnel type values instead.  If both TCs are in the same MIB module
then it's relatively easy to get that message across.  If they are
in separate places then that message is likely to get lost.  As you
know, we've had trouble with people allocating new ifType values for
Ethernet interfaces despite the stated policy against that in the
last several iterations of the EthernetLike-MIB.

More later if I have time.

Mike