RE: MIB identification guidance

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

Sounds good except for one thing, see below:

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> From: 	Juergen Schoenwaelder[SMTP:schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:13 PM
> To: 	Bob.Natale@AppliedSNMP.com
> Cc: 	sming@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: 	Re: MIB identification guidance
> 
> 
> >>>>> Bob Natale writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Bob> Ok, so you are saying that "approved by the IESG" is "the very
> Bob> beginning of its entry onto the Internet standards track" in this
> Bob> excerpt form RFC2578:
> 
> Bob>    "then at the very beginning of its entry onto the Internet
> Bob> standards track, the objects are moved under the mgmt(2)
> Bob> subtree."
> 
> Would the following text be better and clearer? I propose to use the
> new text in the SMIng SNMP Mapping document unless I hear objections.
> 
>    The mgmt(2) subtree is used to identify "standard" definitions. An
>    information module produced by an IETF working group becomes a
>    "standard" information module when the document is first approved by
>    the IESG and enters the Internet standards process.
> 
I think I would change "standards process" into "standards track"

Bert

>    The experimental(3) subtree is used to identify definitions which are
>    being used in experiments that are part of some research or
>    development effort. Definitions registered in the experimental(3)
>    subtree must be moved to the mgmt(2) subtree if the experiment results
>    in a "standard" information module. Note that such a re-registration
>    of definitions requires to change the module name as well.
> 
> Here is the old text from RFC 1578 for your convenience:
> 
>    The mgmt(2) subtree is used to identify "standard" objects.
>  
>    The experimental(3) subtree is used to identify objects being
>    designed by working groups of the IETF.  If an information module
>    produced by a working group becomes a "standard" information module,
>    then at the very beginning of its entry onto the Internet standards
>    track, the objects are moved under the mgmt(2) subtree.
> 
> /js
> 
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