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

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

Nope... it is an easy way to find all the IANA maintained
MIB modules, and that is not so easy. they are just a few
files underneath the assignments subsirectory.

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle S. Cotton [mailto:cotton@icann.org]
> Sent: donderdag 20 februari 2003 19:41
> To: Wijnen, Bert (Bert); Harald Tveit Alvestrand
> Cc: iesg@ietf.org; iana@iana.org
> Subject: RE: Telechat agenda topic: Does an IANA maintained 
> MIB require
> an RFC?
> 
> 
> Is this what you are looking for?
> 
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/smi-numbers>
> 
> If not, please let me know if something is missing
> so we can locate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michelle
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iesg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:iesg-admin@ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:07 AM
> To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand
> Cc: iesg@ietf.org; iana@iana.org
> Subject: RE: Telechat agenda topic: Does an IANA maintained 
> MIB require
> an RFC?
> 
> 
> Inline
>  
> > >
> > >> 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?
> > 
> > If I'm on the Stockholm-Bangkok flight, and looking for the 
> style of 
> > interface MIB definition, or what the "sip" interface value 
> means (it's 
> > SMDS :-), it's certainly better for me to find RFC 1573 in my 
> > RFC-archive-copy than to wait for the plane to land and 
> look for the next 
> > available timeslot with network access to do the work.
> > 
> > OTOH, if I'm looking for value 77 (lapd), RFC 1573 will be 
> > useless to me.
> > So I'd say "it varies".
> >
> I am going to start to make sure that whenevern an IANA maintained
> MIB shows up in an RFC, that we add a clear statement (probably
> in the description clause) that states that it is only the 
> initial version and that the authoritative version is at the IANA
> site, with a URL included.
>  
> > >> 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.
> > 
> > note: at the moment I can't find "the MIB repository" at 
> > http://www.iana.org/ or ftp://ftp.iana.org/.... I found the 
> > "ianaiftype-mib" file in the "assigments" page. There is no 
> > "mib" directory.
> > 
> > some aspects shouldn't be mutable.
> > 
> Well, they have always been in the assignments directory.
> Are we saying we'd like to see a subdir in assignments that 
> is just for mibs? 
> 
> Bert
> >                      Harald
> > 
> > 
> > 
>