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Re: Renaming the GMPLS TED/OSPF MIB



Hi Tom,

Yes, the I-D is indeed at an early stage with a lot of work remaining to be done.

I'm sure that Tomo will be grateful for all of your pointers.

Adrian
----- Original Message ----- From: "tom.petch" <cfinss@dial.pipex.com>
To: "Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk>; <ccamp@ops.ietf.org>
Cc: "Tomohiro Otani" <otani@kddilabs.jp>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Renaming the GMPLS TED/OSPF MIB


I had a look at this I-D (the word MIB caught my eye:-) and it would seem to
have some way to go, at least from an editorial point of view. eg
- the introduction isn't quite English as I know it to the point where I am unsure if I know what is being said about the role of this MIB module vis-a-vis
others
- no MIB boiler plate
- IANA considerations do not mention being under the transmission branch (is
that the right place for this?)
- use of transmission 9988 as a placeholder
- module name 'TED-DRAFT01-MIB '!
- no normative references
...........

all of which and more is covered in RFC4181. I would suggest a check by the authors against that RFC before taking this further. I also get some strange
characters such as little black blobs at the turn of every page.

I am also unclear where the I-D uses 'OSPF' whether it now means only OSPF or whether it means all such protocols and has not been updated to reflect the change of title ie I suggest looking carefully at all uses of 'OSPF' by itself
and only using that when OSPF alone is meant.

And when I understand the English better, I expect I will disagree on a
technical basis as well - eg [OSPFMIB UPDATE] (a rather clumsy reference IMO) does not update [OSPFMIB], it supersedes it so I suspect that there should be a normative reference to the former and no mention of the latter; in which case
the reference could be to RFCyyyy.

Tom Petch


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk>
To: <ccamp@ops.ietf.org>
Cc: "Tomohiro Otani" <otani@kddilabs.jp>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:31 PM
Subject: Renaming the GMPLS TED/OSPF MIB


Tomo,

As discussed in San Diego, could you please resubmit
draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-ospf-mib-01.txt as
draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-ted-mib-00.txt

This trivial piece of house keeping will keep us honest going forward.

Thanks,
Adrian