JMP Mail Archive: Re: JMP> OID Assignment for an Informational RFC MIB

Re: JMP> OID Assignment for an Informational RFC MIB

Tom Hastings (hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 08:17:23 PDT

How are the SNA MIBs that IBM and Cisco produce given OIDs?

Are they under IBM's enterprise?

Could PWG be registered as an enterprise?

The PWG has already been registered as a domain name under "org".

If PWG was registered as an enterprise, then could the Job Monitoring MIB
be under private.enterprises.nnn?

Tom

----------------------------- [RFC 1902] -------------------------------

Network Working Group SNMPv2 Working Group
Request for Comments: 1902 J. Case
Obsoletes: 1442 SNMP Research, Inc.
Category: Standards Track K. McCloghrie
Cisco Systems, Inc.
M. Rose
Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
S. Waldbusser
International Network Services
January 1996

Structure of Management Information
for Version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)

[...excerpt]
4. Naming Hierarchy

The root of the subtree administered by the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA) for the Internet is:

internet OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso 3 6 1 }

That is, the Internet subtree of OBJECT IDENTIFIERs starts with the
prefix:

1.3.6.1.

Several branches underneath this subtree are used for network
management:

mgmt OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { internet 2 }
experimental OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { internet 3 }
private OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { internet 4 }
enterprises OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { private 1 }

However, the SMI does not prohibit the definition of objects in other
portions of the object tree.

The mgmt(2) subtree is used to identify "standard" objects.

The experimental(3) subtree is used to identify objects being
designed by working groups of the IETF. If an information module
produced by a working group becomes a "standard" information module,
then at the very beginning of its entry onto the Internet standards
track, the objects are moved under the mgmt(2) subtree.

The private(4) subtree is used to identify objects defined
unilaterally. The enterprises(1) subtree beneath private is used,
among other things, to permit providers of networking subsystems to
register models of their products.
----------------------------- [RFC 1902] -------------------------------

At 19:27 09/22/97 PDT, Ron Bergman wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
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