Re: MIB Dr. review of draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-tc-mib-09.txt

["Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com>]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 9:08 AM, <jcucchiara@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> I think we have a disconnect somewhere...when I said
> that the use of the "TC" was not consistent, I meant with
> TCs in general (not just in GMPLS MIBs), so would prefer
> to see this removed.
>
> I looked at the use of the Textual Conventions in the
> GMPLS MIBs and saw that one still is the same as
> an Object (except in case) which was gmplsLabelType.
> (I do think there was more overlap originally but names have
> changed since then).

	There was, and I am fixing that now. Almost
done with the TE module and I will send them all over
for your review.  I updated the others yesterday.

> My suggestion would be to remove the "TC" suffix from the
> TCs and change the name of the overlapping gmplsLabelType object
> to something else (gmplsTypeOfLabel).
>
> I do realize this is a style issue, so not a show stopper, only a  
> humble
> suggestion.

	I understand your point and I respectfully declined
to change them, but agreed (based on Bert's post) to make
them consistent throughout the modules.

	--Tom


> Thanks,
>   Joan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas D. Nadeau <tnadeau@cisco.com>
> To: <jcucchiara@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <ccamp@ops.ietf.org>; Wijnen, Bert (Bert) <bwijnen@lucent.com>;  
> Dan
> Romascanu (E-mail) <dromasca@avaya.com>; Adrian Farrel (E-mail)
> <adrian@olddog.co.uk>; Bill Fenner (E-mail)  
> <fenner@research.att.com>; Alex
> Zinin (E-mail) <zinin@psg.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:19 PM
> Subject: Re: MIB Dr. review of draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-tc-mib-09.txt
>
>
> > As per Bert's reply to this, I have made
> > all of the TCs in the CCAMP/GMPLS TC and LSR MIBs to have
> > "TC" at the end of their names to keep them consistent.
> >
> > --Tom
> >
> >
> > > Hi Tom and Adrian,
> > >
> > > Due to the updates to the 2 other GMPLS MIB documents
> > > wanted to re-review this document.
> > >
> > > I did have one minor comment which was
> > > the naming convention used, specifically
> > > the use of the TC on the end of the names of these
> > > Textual Conventions.
> > >
> > >    GmplsFreeformLabelTC
> > >    GmplsLabelTypeTC
> > >    GmplsSegmentDirectionTC
> > >
> > > Could this "TC" be removed?  Sorry to not catch this
> > > earlier.
> > >
> > > The reason is that this is not consistent with
> > > other Textual Conventions.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >     Joan