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Re: draft-haas-forces-mib-01.txt



Thanks ! I have made the corrections and submitted draft-haas-forces-mib-02.txt

Regards,
-Robert

C. M. Heard wrote:

HI,

You should not be doing this:

     forcesMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
         LAST-UPDATED "200512011200Z"  -- Dec 1, 2005
         ORGANIZATION "Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES)
                       Working Group"
         CONTACT-INFO
             "Robert Haas (rha@zurich.ibm.com), IBM"
         DESCRIPTION
             "This MIB contains managed object definitions for the
             ForCES Protocol, as defined in draft-ietf-forces-protocol-05.txt."
         ::= { mib-2 33 } -- XXX this MUST be changed
----------------------^^

See RFC 4181 Sections 3.5.3 and 4.5.  The final paragraphs of those sections
contain the following admonitions:

  Note well:  prior to official assignment by the IANA, a draft
  document MUST use placeholders (such as "XXX" above) rather than
  actual numbers.  See Section 4.5 for an example of how this is done
  in a draft MIB module.

and

  Note well:  prior to official assignment by the IANA, a draft
  document MUST use a placeholder (such as "XXX" above) rather than an
  actual number.  If trial implementations are desired during the
  development process, then an assignment under the 'experimental'
  subtree may be obtained from the IANA (cf. Section 4.3).

We really did mean it!

FWIW, { mib-2 33} is assign to the UPS MIB (RFC 1628).

Thanks,

//cmh




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