RE: Where to define IANAtunnelType TC

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.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.
> 
The best way to achieve proper allocation of ifTypes is to put
CLEAR INSTRUCTIONs for IANA into the DESCRIPTION claise of the
IfType TC. And same for tunnerType.

And as I think I have said before, if there are a few more volunteers
for reviewing requests for assignments, by all means let me know.

Bert
> More later if I have time.
> 
> Mike
> 
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