opaque docs [Re: rough consensus of what "population"?]

Juergen Schoenwaelder schoenw at ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Wed Mar 26 17:04:43 CET 2003


>>>>> Brian E Carpenter writes:

Brian> Personally, I found that it was the MIB that made diffserv
Brian> concrete, rather than any of the other standards track
Brian> documents. Only in the MIB did we need to be precise about
Brian> exactly what parameters have to be set and monitored in a
Brian> router to implement and monitor diffserv.

I totally agree with this observation, and it does not only apply to
diffserv. Writing or reviewing MIBs usually leads to many detailed
questions and sometimes technology experts find these questions to
some extend nasty since there is no agreed answer and it is sometimes
difficult to resolve the issue. So it happens that MIB authors make
decisions themself in order to move on and this is why MIB reviews by
the technology experts are extremely important.

I agree that there are problems in this space.

/js

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