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RE: MIB identification guidance
I need to check on that... I have not seen it work that way yet.
Bert
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> From: Bill Fenner[SMTP:fenner@research.att.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:58 PM
> To: bwijnen@lucent.com
> Cc: sming@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: MIB identification guidance
>
>
> >A document does enter the "standards track" when the IESG approves
> >it as a PS (proposed standard). The actual assignment happens just
> >before the RFC is published.
>
> Bert,
>
> My understanding that this changed last year, and the assignment now
> happens when the IESG approves the document. When people were getting
> antsy about implementing the multicast MIBs, which were approved by
> the IESG in July and published as RFC's in October, I suggested to the
> IESG and the IANA that the process be changed to allocate the OID when
> the document is approved. I was told that the process had been changed
> in exactly that way earlier in the year, and that the MIBs did have OIDs
> assigned to them already.
>
> Bill
>