Re: [Internet-Drafts@ietf.org: I-D ACTION:draft-schoenw-snmp-ether-00.txt]

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

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> the IEEE is interested in running SNMP directly over IEEE 802
> and so I ended up writing a document which intends to replace
> RFC 1089 in order to fit the SNMP over Ethernet transport into
> the current SNMP architecture. I am looking for feedback and
> comments. If you take away all the boilerplate stuff, the
> remaining text is really short.
... 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-schoenw-snmp-ether-00.txt

I have read this draft and it looks OK to me.  With regard to the
open issue listed in the (temporary) Appendix A, viz.,

   o  Need to check whether we want to reuse the type value which
      meanwhile belongs to Rensselaer Technology Park or whether
      we go for a new type value specifically allocated for this
      purpose.

my suggestion would be to continue to use Ethertype 0x814C, as
Ethertypes are relatively scarce resources.  This one was was
obviously obtained by Marty Schoffstall -- the contact address
listed for him in RFC 1089 is the same as the one listed in the IEEE
public Ethertype database for type 0x814C -- so I don't think there
is a question of misappropriation.  If it's possible to get in touch
with him or with the other the authors of RFC 1089, it should be
possible to get the contact information for Ethertype 0x814C 
suitably updated.

Mike Heard