Dear Hirochita Asai, Exactly, with two observations.
1. you need to prefix the new MIB module with IANA 2. You also need to add text about expanding the TC in the IANA considerations section. (see RFC 6933 as a working example) Thanks and Regards, Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Hirochika Asai [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:00 PM > To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan) > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] OPS-DIR review of draft-ietf-opsawg-vmm-mib-02 > > Dear Dan, > > Thank you. > > >>> 11. Page 20-21: Why is the VirtualMachineStorageType limited to two > >> media types only? Would not an IANA-administered TC be more > >> appropriate here? > >> Although few people are using, the type of floppy disk was missing. > >> Then we added it. > >> As for the IANA-administrated TC, if I understand correctly, > >> StorageType in SNMPv2-TC defines the storage types. However, they are > >> not what we expect as the media types of virtual storages attached to a > virtual machine. > > Two issues here: > > - maybe VirtualMachineStorageMediaType is a better name for the TC? > It has already been the name VirtualMachineStorageMediaType. > > > - my suggestion to make the TC IANA-administered would allow for new > media types to be added in the future without the need to modify the core > MIB module. Hopefully, this MIB module will be used many years ahead and > you cannot predict in advance what new media types will be invented or > become popular in the future. > > Do you recommend to separate VirtualMachineStorageMediaType from VM- > MIB like the following? > (Please find the attached for the revised draft.) > > NEW: > > VM-STORAGE-TC-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN > > IMPORTS > MODULE-IDENTITY, mib-2 > FROM SNMPv2-SMI > TEXTUAL-CONVENTION > FROM SNMPv2-TC; > (snip) > VirtualMachineStorageMediaType ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION > (snip) > END > > VM-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN > (snip) > > > Best, > Hirochika Asai > > -- > Hirochika Asai <[email protected]>, The University of Tokyo _______________________________________________ OPSAWG mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg
