Technical Summary
This documen defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
In particular, it describes managed objects for modeling
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol.
Working Group Summary
This document received commentary from multiple individuals that have had
prior SNMP MIB authoring and implementation experience. The document was
also reviewed in the context of additional BFD work besides providing
base MIB functionality for the above RFCs. This includes BFD
multi-point, BFD over LAG. It also has been reviewed as being the basis
MIB for the BFD MPLS MIB.
The working group, authors, and WG chairs discussed the issue of write-
access in its own right and in the context of the IESG statement on this
topic. The conclusion was that the level of write-access in this document
is correct, consistent with implementations of both agents and management
stations, and appropriate. If the majority of work on this document had not
pre-dated the IESG statement, things might have been somewhat different,
but it was felt that the current state of this document is correct.
Document Quality
As is typical with MIB documents, several vendors implement the contents
of the BFD MIB in various enterprise MIBs with greater or lesser
attention paid to the exact structure of this document. MIBs are seldom
fully finished at vendors until the publication of the MIB as an RFC
wherein all the code points are finalized with IANA and other
authorities.
In particular, the Textual-Convention draft covers various TCs that do
not share consistent implementations across the vendors. By publishing
an RFC, these code points will become normalized across the vendors.
Being a MIB document, review by the MIB doctors is always appreciated.
Personnel
Document Shepherd: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
Responsible AD: Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>