Re: Fwd: [ipv6mib] So, where were we?

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Michael MacFaden wrote:
> What has been fooling mgmt applications and users for years now is using out
> of date full standard mib modules such as ipRouteTable.

Yes, indeed, and we need to do something about that.

The Hubmib WG recently asked that RFC 1643 be reclassified as Historic
in order to discourage continued implementation of the out-of-date full
standard version of the EtherLike-MIB published in that document.  We
can't very well ask for RFC 1213 to be reclassified as Historic because
there still exist a large number of normative references to it, but we
probably should publish a document stating that it is "Not Recommended" 
for new implementations (as was done for SMIv1) and telling implementors
where to find the up-to-date stuff.

//cmh