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RE: Telechat agenda topic: Does an IANA maintained MIB require an RFC?

To: harald@alvestrand.no
Subject: RE: Telechat agenda topic: Does an IANA maintained MIB require an RFC?
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:54:23 -0800
Cc: bwijnen@lucent.com, iesg@ietf.org, iana@iana.org
References: <7D5D48D2CAA3D84C813F5B154F43B155E65534@nl0006exch001u.nl.lucent .com> <381110000.1045649640@askvoll.hjemme.alvestrand.no>
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>If I wasn't aware of what's happening, [publishing the IANA-maintained MIB
>only on the IANA web page and not as an RFC] would violate my principle 
>of least surprise - having discussed a MIB for years, the RFC suddenly pops 
>out with no MIB in it.

On the other hand, I'm looking for the IANAifType-MIB -- is
it better for me to find RFC 1573 with values 1-54 defined,
or the version on the IANA web page with values 1-220?

>Besides, IANA web pages don't (yet) have the tradition of immutability and 
>wide availability that the RFC series has.

The non-immutability is exactly the point of having the IANA maintain it.

  Bill

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