RE: Fw: MIB Dr. Review of draft-ietf-vrrp-unified-mib-05.txt

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

I think I said this earlier. Anyway here it is again

I agree with Juergen that I do not think we need a fixed (CL) rule
for this. I personally prefer if obsoleted objects were moved together
towards the end of the MIB module, but that is just a preference.
For deprecated objects... it may be better to leave them inline.
But this is all personal preference and editorial I think.

Bert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org]On
> Behalf Of Juergen Schoenwaelder
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 13:23
> To: jcucchiara@mindspring.com
> Cc: mreview@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Fw: MIB Dr. Review of draft-ietf-vrrp-unified-mib-05.txt
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 07:04:48AM -0400, 
> jcucchiara@mindspring.com wrote:
>  
> > Just wanted to bring up the subject of placement for
> > deprecated objects.  This is no current guideline and
> > it appears as though, one of the ADs has been advised
> > several times to put deprecated objects at the end of the
> > MIB Module.
> > 
> > I'd like to reach a consensus on this and perhaps create
> > a MIB guideline.   The outcome is basically the same for the
> > MIB Module (assuming MIB tools do the right thing) but when reading
> > the MIB Module, there are certainly implications when 
> putting objects
> > near the end of the module.  In my experience, deprecated objects
> > are usually implemented,  because customers want them.
> > 
> > Any thoughts here?   If there is no strong interest and both ways
> > are acceptable, that would be good to know also.
> 
> I fail to see which problem is fixed by defining a guideline where to
> put deprecated objects in a MIB module - for me this does not really
> matter.
> 
> The only thing that is really important is to mention in the
> DESCRIPTION clauses _why_ objects have been deprecated (which might be
> just a pointer to the place where the details are described).
> 
> /js
> 
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