Technical Summary
The Softwire mesh framework is a tunneling mechanism that enables
the connectivity between islands of IPv4 networks across a single
IPv6 backbone and vice versa. In softwire mesh, extended
multiprotocol-BGP (MP-BGP)is used to set up tunnels and advertise
prefixes among address family border routers (AFBRs). The softwire
mesh MIB provides a method to configure and manage the softwire
mesh objects through SNMP.
Working Group Summary
The working group had active discussion on the draft and the current
text of the draft is representative of the consensus of the working
group. There were no controversial discussions regarding this
document.
Document Quality
The document has received adequate review. The Document Shepherd has
no concerns about the depth or breadth of these reviews. There was a
MIB doctor review that raised a few issues that have since been
resolved.
Personnel
Suresh Krishnan is the document shepherd. Terry Manderson is the
responsible AD.
IESG Note
The MIB contained in the document produces two warnings with smilint
as described in Question 19 (and shown below). The MIB doctor review of this document in
version -03 did not contain any remarks about these warnings and I am
assuming this warning are benign. I just wanted to provide a heads
up to the OPS ADs.
mibs/SOFTWIRE-MESH-MIB:110: [5] {index-exceeds-too-large} warning:
index of row `swmEncapsEntry' can exceed OID size limit by 136
subidentifier(s)
mibs/SOFTWIRE-MESH-MIB:198: [5] {index-exceeds-too-large} warning:
index of row `swmBGPNeighborEntry' can exceed OID size limit by 135
subidentifier(s)