RE: Proposed "Last Call" version of draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines [ Corrected, for the 2nd time ]

["David B Harrington" <dbharrington@comcast.net>]

Hi,

I think having this second sentence weakens the first sentence a LOT.
All we really need is the ability to allow justified exceptions to the
basic CLR, not two CLRs.
I would prefer to simply not suggest using IPAddress at all, and any
exceptions can be covered by the SHOULD language of the first
sentence.

If we want to put this in at all, then I prefer Dave's proposed text
to Juergen's, since Dave's make it seem more exceptional.
"inherently IPv4-centric" is too ambiguous.

David Harrington
dbharrington@comcast.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Juergen
Schoenwaelder
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 3:40 AM
> To: C. M. Heard
> Cc: Mreview (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Proposed "Last Call" version of 
> draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines [ Corrected, for the 2nd time ]
> 
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:10:15PM -0800, C. M. Heard wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Dave Thaler wrote:
> > > The current guidelines doc says:
> > > 
> > > 4.6.1.7.  IpAddress
> > > 
> > >    The IpAddress type described in RFC 2578 Section 7.1.5 
> SHOULD NOT be
> > >    used in new MIB modules.  The 
> InetAddress/InetAddressType textual
> > >    conventions [RFC3291bis] SHOULD be used instead.
> > > 
> > > Proposed additional sentence:
> > > 
> > >    The IpAddress type MAY be used in cases where the 
> object is inherently
> > >    IPv4-specific and is either a scalar or appears in a 
> table which is
> > >    only applicable to IPv4.
> > 
> > I can live with this, if there is consensus that it is OK.
> 
> If we specifically allow IpAddress, why should we limit that 
> to scalars
> or columnar object? I therefore suggest to simplify and generalize
the
> statement:
> 
> 	The IpAddress type MAY be used in cases where the object is
> 	inherently IPv4-specific.
> 
> /js
> 
> -- 
> Juergen Schoenwaelder		    International University Bremen
> <http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/>	    P.O. Box 750 561, 
> 28725 Bremen, Germany
> 
>