RE: Question on: draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2013-update-04.txt

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

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Glenn Waters wrote:
> In general the practice of "importing a (updated) specification"
> is a bad practice as most network management systems only keep a
> single version of a MIB module. Importing the latest version
> into the management system does not take into account the fact
> that there may different implementations on the boxes in the
> network and hence the tools break when working with older
> implementations along with the new specification.
> 
> What is required is a proper and full version control of the way
> we specify our MIB modules... which is way beyond the scope of
> this particular discussion.

The MIB module revision rules in RFCs 2578, 2579, and 2580 were
carefully crafted to ensure that an NMS and an agent using different
versions of a MIB module will interoperate.

//cmh