Re: Fwd: [ipv6mib] So, where were we?

[Steve Moulton <moulton@snmp.com>]

On Wednesday, October 9 2002, "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Michael MacFaden wrote:
> > What has been fooling mgmt applications and users for years now is using ou
t
> > of date full standard mib modules such as ipRouteTable.
> 
> Yes, indeed, and we need to do something about that.
> 
> The Hubmib WG recently asked that RFC 1643 be reclassified as Historic
> in order to discourage continued implementation of the out-of-date full
> standard version of the EtherLike-MIB published in that document.  We
> can't very well ask for RFC 1213 to be reclassified as Historic because
> there still exist a large number of normative references to it, but we
> probably should publish a document stating that it is "Not Recommended" 
> for new implementations (as was done for SMIv1) and telling implementors
> where to find the up-to-date stuff.

We also can't ask for it to be reclassified until there are
standards to replace it with.  If any of the RFC 1213 replacement
MIB documents are at full standard, I am not aware of it.

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