The MPLS WG Archive

["Rao Vadlamani" <Rao.Vadlamani@adn.alcatel.com>]

Bert,

Pl. see my comments inlined.

Thanks
Rao


"Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" wrote:

> Inline
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Thomas D. Nadeau[SMTP:tnadeau@cisco.com]
> > Sent:         Sunday, March 25, 2001 3:07 PM
> > To:   Rao Vadlamani; mpls@UU.NET; te-wg@UU.NET
> > Cc:   cheenu Srinivasan; Arun Viswanathan
> > Subject:      Re: Two TE MIBs
> >
> >
> >          Hi,
> >
> > >Could someone clarify as to why there are 2 draft TE MIB's
> > >draft-ietf-mpls-te-mib-06.txt of Thomas D. Nadeu etal and
> > >draft-ietf-tewg-mib-00.txt of Kireeti ? If I understand, both are going
> > >for a IESG approval, too. If my understanding is correct both the MIBs
> > >are giving more or less the same information. except in the second MIB
> > >of kireeti, all the objects are only read-only and operator can't
> My understanding is that Kireeti was going to change MAX-ACCESS to
> read-create or read-write

That's indeed good.

>
> > >exercise control over them ? What's the motivation behind this ?
> > >Thanks in advance for the clarification and I am sorry to pose this
> > >question if this is already raised and discussed.
> >
> >          Beats me why there are two, but I am not going to beat
> > a dead horse and argue about it any longer though. This was discussed
> > at length late last summer, and I suggest you go back and re-read
> > the archive so that you can come to your own informed conclusion.
> > The outcome of the discussion at that time was that IESG agreed to
> > have two.
> >
> But we prefer to have no (or as few as possible) overlaps.
> Maybe we need to check how this can be achieved.
>
> My understanding at the time of a quick briefing was that they do different
> things. Specifically the MIB(s) developed in MPLS WG have lots of stuff
> to be able to "debug" MPLS. Also... the message I got was that the MIB
> from MPLS WG was to be run at each node, while the TE-WG MIB
> does not need to run at each node.

A single MIB can still do both the above said functionality, I guess.

>
>
> I will look into these MIBs in more detail over the next weeks.

I look forward to your comments.

>
>
> Bert
>
> >          --Tom
> >
> >
> >

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