Subject: FW: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-00.txt

From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:36:59 +0100

WG chairs,

The MIB doctor/reviewers team is working on a document
that guides us in reviwing MIB related documents.

The idea here is twofold:

- Try to come to a consistent review of different MIB
  documents, even if done by different MIB doctors.
  Of course there are always personal flavors and
  subsjective comments... but with such a document,
  we should at least not bother people with inconsistent
  comments on various MIB and SMIv2 aspects.

- Serve as a guideline for MIB document editors/authors
  and WG chairs when developing such MIB documents.
  Taking into account these guidelines, the review process
  may go much faster and so your document can get approved
  faster as a result.

Hopefully this helps us with the process of MIB reviews.

This is an initial version, so we are not 100% in sync yet,
and various IETF people may have their own opinions on it
as well. So if you (or your WG members) have any comments,
feel free to send them to me, or send them to
[email-masked], where all the MIB doctors/reviewers
can read it.

Thanks,
Bert Wijnen
co-AD for the OPS area, specifically Network Management

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: donderdag 6 februari 2003 15:30
Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-00.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Operations & Management Open Area Working Group of the IETF.

	Title		: Guidelines for MIB Authors and Reviewers
	Author(s)	: C. Heard
	Filename	: draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-00.txt
	Pages		: 39
	Date		: 2003-2-5

This memo provides guidelines for authors and reviewers of IETF
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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:05:23 +0100