Technical Summary
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB),
the Aggregation MIB modules, for use with network management
protocols in the Internet community. In particular, the Aggregation
MIB modules will be used to configure a network management agent to
aggregate the values of a (user) specified set of Managed Object
instances and to service queries related to the aggregated Managed
Object instances.
Working Group Summary
An earlier version of this document was discussed in the SNMPEOS
Working group (several years back; the WG was closed in April 2003).
The WG did not accept the document as a WG item but also seemed to
have no problem if the author would go the "individual submission"
route, which he has now done.
Protocol Quality
This MIB modules in this memo have been checked for correct SYNTAX
by Bert Wijnen. They have also had a high level of MIB doctor review
by Glenn Waters (former WG chair of SNMPEOS).
I (Bert Wijnen) am still discussing if the fact that the document
goes for Informational while the MIB modules are registered under
experimental is an issue or not. I think not. Will try to conclude
before IESG telechat on Dec 1st.
Note to RFC Editor
We had extensive discussion within the MIB doctors team about
this document w.r.t. the fact that it is requesting publication
as an Informational document while the MIB module is requested
to be registered under the IETF Experimental OID branch.
That seems to be in conflict with each other.
The MIB doctors advise that the document be published as Experimental
(and then assign the MIB module under the the Experimental OID branch.
If that is unacceptable to the RFC-Editor and/or the author, then the
MIB doctors advise that the MIB module be registered under the
(enterprise specific) vendor OID branch of the authors employer.
Furthermore, in the MIB modules there are still two (minor) errors that
you may want to ask the author to fix:
C:\bwijnen\smicng\work>smicng taggr.inc
E: f(aggr.mi2), (212,21) Default value for "aggrCtlCompressionAlgorithm"
must be a name and not a number
*** 1 error and 0 warnings in parsing
and
C:\bwijnen\smicng\work>smicng aggr.inc
E: f(aggr.mi2), (212,21) Default value for "aggrCtlCompressionAlgorithm"
must be a name and not a number
*** 1 error and 0 warnings in parsing
IESG Note
The content of this RFC was at one time considered by the IETF,
and therefore it may resemble a current IETF work in progress or a
published IETF work. This RFC is not a candidate for any level of
Internet Standard. The IETF disclaims any knowledge of the
fitness of this RFC for any purpose and in particular notes that
the decision to publish is not based on IETF review for such
things as security, congestion control, or inappropriate
interaction with deployed protocols. The RFC Editor has chosen to
publish this document at its discretion. Readers of this RFC
should exercise caution in evaluating its value for implementation
and deployment. See RFC 3932 for more information.