[Old-standards] Re: RFC1269 - [was: RE: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired]

[Eliot Lear]

Bert,

I'll remove it from the list with the expectation that the new MIB will 
obsolete the old one.  However, I note that is currently not stated in 
the header of the draft.

Eliot


Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> W.r.t.
> 
>>>>RFC1269       Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway
>>>>              Protocol: Version 3
>>>
>>>
>>>Why would this be cruft?  The BGP4 MIB was just recently approved...
>>
>>Good thing too.  Take a good look at 1269.  I don't think it would pass 
>>a MIB compiler test today.  If you approved the BGP4-MIB, 
>>ought not that have obsoleted this guy?
>>
> 
> The new doc (in IESG evaluation status) is
> 
>   draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mib-15.txt
> 
> And its abstract says it all:
> 
> Abstract
> 
>    This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
>    for use with network management protocols in the Internet community
>    In particular, it describes managed objects used for managing the
>    Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 or lower.
> 
>    The origin of this memo is from RFC 1269 "Definitions of Managed
>    Objects for the Border Gateway Protocol (Version 3)", which was
>    updated to support BGP-4 in RFC 1657.  This memo fixes errors
>    introduced when the MIB module was converted to use the SMIv2
>    language. This memo also updates references to the current SNMP
>    framework documents.
> 
>    This memo is intended to document deployed implementations of this
>    MIB module in a historical context, provide clarifications of some
>    items and also note errors where the MIB module fails to fully
>    represent the BGP protocol.  Work is currently in progress to replace
>    this MIB module with a new one representing the current state of the
>    BGP protocol and its extensions.
> 
>    This document obsoletes RFC 1269 and RFC 1657.
> 
>    Distribution of this memo is unlimited.  Please forward comments to
>    idr at ietf.org.
> 
> 
> So 1269 will soon be made OBSOLETED
> 
> I will look at other MIB related documents next week.
> 
> Bert
> 
>