Chris,
In a recent discussion regarding the submission of the Job Monitoring MIB
as a Informational RFC, the question was raised as to the OID branch that
will be assigned to the MIB. I mistakely believed that I could answer
this question by looking at some existing Informational RFCs. It appears
that no MIB documents in this category exist.
We would certainly like to have the Job Monitoring MIB to have an OID in
the mgmt.mib subtree rather than the experimental or the private subtree.
Since it is likely that the Job MIB will be the first document to be
accepted as an Information MIB, what is the position of the IESG as to the
assignment of the base OID?
If this number is in the mgmt.mib subtree, it would certainly resolve most
of our fears as to submitting the MIB as an Informational RFC. If the
experimental or private subtree must be used, we will certain push harder
for this MIB to be a Standards Track document.
The other possibility discussed was adding the Job MIB as a subtree to the
Printer MIB. This is functionally not desirable, but would be proposed if
it becomes the only alternative.
Any help you can provide on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Ron Bergman
Dataproducts Corp.