Re: Module names in SMIng

["David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>]

HI,

With the proposal, it is easy to map the names to directories,
which makes management of the modules easy for tools.

The hyphen proposal doesn't have this property.

Regards,
/david t. perkins

At 10:55 AM 2/21/2001 -0800, Wes Hardaker wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:04:22 -0800, "David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com> said:
>
>David> I would like to propose a simple fix. It is to require that
>David> module names be defined DNS format and use the DNS name space
>David> administration.  (Thus, no new burden is required of IANA.) 
>David> However, DNS names can have their ownership lost and reassigned
>David> to another entity. This problem already exists with URIs, and
>David> possibly other uses.
>
>A counter proposal that wouldn't have problems with ownership loss
>would be the forced specification of the module name to include either
>the enterprise name or the enterprise number or the standards body
>name as a prefix.  (A similar, but unrequired, convention has been
>adopted by most WGs these days).  All IETF module names would be
>required to have IETF-WGNAME as the prefix, for example.  An
>enterprise would be required to have its name or number be in the
>prefix.  Since there is no unique enterprise string associated with an
>enterprise assignment, a number might be the only solution.  EG:
>ENT2021-SOME-MIB.
>
>-- 
>Wes Hardaker
>NAI Labs
>Network Associates