Subject: Document Action: 'Republishing the IPV6-specific MIB modules as obsolete' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-mibs-obsolete-02.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 06:46:20 -0800

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Republishing the IPV6-specific MIB modules as obsolete'
  (draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-mibs-obsolete-02.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Suresh Krishnan and Terry Manderson.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-mibs-obsolete/

Technical Summary

   In 2005, the IPv6 MIB update group published updated versions of the
   IP-MIB, UDP-MIB, TCP-MIB and IP-FORWARD-MIB modules, which use the
   InetAddressType/InetAddress construct to handle IPv4 and IPv6 in the
   same table.  This document contains versions of the obsoleted
   IPV6-MIB, IPV6-TC, IPV6-ICMP-MIB, IPV6-TCP-MIB and IPV6-UDP-MIB
   modules, for the purpose of updating MIB module repositories.

Working Group Summary

  The document has the support of the WG. There is no points with
  controversy and/or rough consensus.

Document Quality

  There is ongoing discussion between the author and MIB doctors on whether the mechanism used in this document is the best way to deprecate a MIB module. 

Personnel

   Ole Troan is the document Shepherd. Suresh Krishnan is the responsible Area Director.