Textual Conventions for the Representation of Floating-Point Numbers
draft-ietf-opsawg-mib-floats-02

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IANA will assign a new SMI number for floatTcMIB is the prefix

iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2

as follows:

Decimal: tba
Name: floatTcMIB
Description: FLOAT-TC-MIB
Reference: [ RFC-to-be ]

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The IESG has received a request from the Operations and Management Area
Working Group WG (opsawg) to consider the following document:
- 'Textual Conventions for the Representation of Floating-Point Numbers'
  as a Proposed Standard

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
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Abstract


  This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) module
  containing textual conventions (TCs) to represent floating-point
  numbers.




The file can be obtained via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-mib-floats/

IESG discussion can be tracked via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-mib-floats/


No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.

The Operations Area Working Group has reached consensus on draft-
ietf-opsawg-mib-float-01 and are requesting it to be published as an
RFC. The RFC 4858 questions/considerations are addressed below:
1a) I will be the shepherd and I have personally reviewed the document
and believe it is ready
1b) There has been adequate review both in and out of the WG
1c) I have no concerns in general, nor specifically wrt to AAA,
security, XML, etc.
1d) I have no concerns about the content, and no IPR considerations
have been raised
1e) There is solid consensus
1f) There has been no extreme discontent
1g) All nit's nitted
1h) no normative references, only informative
1i) The IANA consideration section exists and is consistent
1k) The MIB definition in the document passes automated validation
checkers (minus the XXX as a place-holder for the RFC number)

Technical Summary
This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) module
containing textual conventions (TCs) to represent floating-point
numbers.

Working group summary:
There was nothing noteworthy in the working group process

Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me in the first
instance, or Scott.