Subject: MIB Doctor response to rfc4327bis

From: "Adrian Farrel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:27:42 -0000

FYI,

Bert has a few minor comments on this.
We will fold them into the version at the end of last call.

Adrian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <[email-masked]>
To: "Adrian Farrel" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>; "Bill Fenner" <[email-masked]>; "'Kireeti
Kompella'" <[email-masked]>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 3:01 PM
Subject: RE: Ping: Re: Heads up to MIB Doctors

> So... here is my (quick) review:
>
> - frontpage:  s/Replaces: /Obsoletes: /
>   also in abstract
>
> - When you do a revision of an existing MIB module, then
>   you MUST add a REVISION clause that lists the changes
>   you made. This instead of replacing the revision clause
>   in the earlier doc.
>   So OLD:
>    -- Revision history.
>    REVISION
>        "200601170000Z"  -- 17 January 2006
>    DESCRIPTION
>        "Initial version published as RFC XXXX"
>    -- RFC Editor. Please replace XXXX with new RFC number and remove
this
>    -- note.
>    ::= { transmission 227 }
>   NEW:
>    -- Revision history.
>    REVISION
>        "200601170000Z"  -- 17 January 2006
>    DESCRIPTION
>        "Revised version to fix:
>           ... list the changes made to the MIB module...
>         This revision published as RFC XXXX"
>    -- RFC Editor. Please replace XXXX with new RFC number and remove
this
>    -- note.
>    REVISION
>        "200601110000Z"  -- 11 January 2006
>    DESCRIPTION
>        "Initial version published as RFC 4327"
>    ::= { transmission 227 }
>
> By the way, the list of changes from an RFC that is being obsoleted
> (for MIB documents) often is done twice in the obsoleting RFC,
> namely changes to MIB module in the REVISION clause (as indicated
> above), and in a separate section. Revision clauses and sect 8 in
RFC4001
> are very good examples.
>
> Had you run this through the smidiff program from SMILINT, then you
would have seen:
>
> C:\smi\mibs\work>smidiff ../ietf/LMP-MIB ./LMP-MIB
> ./LMP-MIB:24 warning: contact of `LMP-MIB' changed
> ./LMP-MIB:24 warning: description of module identity definition
`LMP-MIB' changed
> ../ietf/LMP-MIB:53 revision `2006-01-11 00:00' removed
> ./LMP-MIB:57 warning: revision `2006-01-17 00:00' added
> ../ietf/LMP-MIB:24 info: previous definition of `LMP-MIB'
>
> I have attached the list of diffs, The rest of the changes look OK to
me.
> Hope this helps,
> Bert