RE: GMPLS MIB I-D updates

[Marcus Brunner <brunner@ccrle.nec.de>]

--On Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:39 PM -0800 Kireeti Kompella 
<kireeti@juniper.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
>
>> >          I don't see the new MIBs as obsoleting the v1 MIBs.
>> > The existing MPLS MIBs will continue to be perfectly
>> > valid for existing implementations, as well as future ones that do not
>> > want to have anything to do with GMPLS.
>
> Speaking as an implementor, I would prefer that these MIBs *do*
> obsolete the v1 MIBs.  That doesn't mean that the v1 MIBs should
> be thrown away, just that (perhaps) they could be experimental instead
> of PS (repeat: the above comment is *not* as a WG chair).
>

I agree with Kireeti here. And what I have seen so far from the GMPLS MIBs 
there is really not much of a difference, and everything should still work 
for plain old MPLS anyway.

Marcus


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