Re: MIB module numbering for TBD MIB roots

[Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>]

2.5 years ago when I brought this up on the mibs mailing list, nobody
really cared.  There was one suggestion to allocate an OID to root
them under ("transient = {internet 7}" was the suggestion; somehow that
message didn't make it into the archive.  The other answer that I remember
but can't find either in the archives or in my old mail was that you can't
legislate how people do bogus things.

On the versioning issue: I have a device that implements an old version
of the SMON-MIB, but rooted under {rmon} as the RFC is.  Since objects
had been rearranged between the draft that had been implemented and the
RFC, I assumed that the bogus OIDs being returned were an implementation
bug and so I spent quite a bit of time with technical support trying to
figure out the issue.  Their response was that they had implemented
a different version and sent it to me.

I guess I must be naieve to believe RFC 2578 when it says that
MIBs being designed by working groups live under experimental,
and then get moved to mgmt when they enter the standards track.

  Bill