Subject: [Ipoverib] IPOVERIB Object Identifier Hierarchy Proposal

From: "Harnedy, Sean" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:38:09 -0500

For Discussion:
I am proposing the following hierarchy for assigning MIB modules within
the IPOVERIB OID name space.

IPOIB MIB Object Identifier Hierarchy
The IANA has defined an anchor node for the IPOIB effort as
infinibandMIB in experimental 117. The InfiniBand MIBs need to be
ordered in a hierarchy descending from this point. 

For example:

 o root-node
 |
iso[1]             
 |           
 +---+------+   
 |   |      |
[1] [2] identified-organization[3]
            |
 +-------+--+--+
 |       |     |
[1] ... [5]   dod[6]
               |
           internet[1]
               |
  +------------+-----+-----------------+----------------+
  |                  |                 |                |
directory[1]   management[2]    experimental[3]    private[4]
                                       |
                                infinibandMIB[117]
                                       |
             +-------------+-----------+-----------------+
             |             |           |                 |
          ibTcMIB[1]  ibIfMIB[2]  ibNextMIB[3]  ...  ibLastMIB[n]

The Textual Convention MIB (draft-ietf-ipoib-ibmib-tc-mib-00.txt)
currently defines the infinibandMIB object ID. All of the InfiniBand
MIBs then need to import this definition and then define their place in
the OID hierarchy (in the IMPORTS section, include infinibandMIB FROM
IB-TC-MIB). For example, the Textual Convention MIB defines {
infinibandMIB 1 }, the InfiniBand Interfaces MIB defines { infinibandMIB
2 }, and so on. New MIBs are administratively assigned the next
ascending value from this branch as the MIBs are specified and accepted
into the IPOIB Working Group charter.

The complete list for the Network Management Parameters database can be
found at www.iana.org/assignments/smi-numbers
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/smi-numbers>. This database includes
the ifType definitions and the SMI experimental codes.

IfType
199	infiniband	Infiniband	[Strahm]

and,

experimental number
117	infinibandMIB			[Strahm]

Thanks,

Sean Harnedy
Principal Software Engineer
InfiniSwitch Corporation.
134 Flanders Road
Westborough, MA 01581
1-508-599-6388
http://www.infiniswitch.com

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