Internet Draft                                Thomas D. Nadeau
Intended status: Informational                BT
Expires: Nov 2010                             A S Kiran Koushik
                                              Cisco Systems Inc.

                                        Creation Date: 2010-03-07


                     SNMP Context Mapping MIB

                     draft-kkoushik-snmp-context-map-mib-02.txt

Status of this Memo

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Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document
authors.  All rights reserved.

Abstract

   This document defines a MIB module to manage the usage of SNMP
   contexts.  Specically, within for an SNMP agent which implements
   multiple copies/instances of some other MIB module, this MIB module
   provides a mapping between SNMP Contexts and the individual instances
   of that other MIB module.

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  SNMP Context mapping feature -  High-Level Picture  . . . . .  3
   4.  Protocol Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   5.  Object Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .  4
   6.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . 11
   7.  Example of usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   8.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12



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   8.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   8.2 Informative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   9.  Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
  10.  IANA Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
  11.  Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14

1.  Introduction

   With the advent of newer technologies, an increasing number of
   technologies which used to be defined such that only one instance
   could exist within a device, are now being implemented at a
   different granularity such that multiple copies/instances can exist
   in one device at the same time.

   An excellent example for this behavior is with the
   OSPF-MIB(RFC 1850). When it was originally designed, there was no
   concept of multiple OSPF instances running on the same system and
   there was no built-in mechanism to handle such circumstances.

   However according to Section 4.1.1 of RFC 4577, a PE router that
   attaches to more than one OSPF domain must run an independent
   instance of OSPF for each domain. Each OSPF instance is associated
   to a VRF(see section 3 of RFC4364. This means that OSPF-MIB must
   now support multiple VRF contexts and within each context the
   objects in the OSPF-MIB can be indexed by the same OID but
   represent different data.

   One way to overcome this issue would be to update the OSPF-MIB to
   have an additional variable in the INDEX clause. This would require
   depreacting and re-defining just about all objects in the MIB;
   in effect, a modified copy of the original MIB. This change can
   be severely disadvantageous to existing deployments.

   MPLS-LSR-STD-MIB[RFC3813], [BFD-MIB], BGP-MIB[RFC4273], [ISIS-MIB]
   and IP-FORWARD-MIB[RFC4292] are other MIBs which are also affected
   in the same way.
   Another example is with the BRIDGE-MIB[RFC4188] where each Bridge
   entity in a system can contain different subsets of data indexed
   by the same OID.

   A better way to overcome the issue is to use multiple SNMP contexts
   (see section 3.3.1 of RFC 3411).  However, as and when significant
   usage is made of SNMP contexts (e.g., for multiple MIBs and/or
   multiple domains), then there is a need for the contexts themselves
   to be manageable.  This document defines management information
   for this purpose.





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   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119
   [RFC2119].


2. Terminology

   This document uses terminology from the document describing the MPLS
   architecture [RFC3031] and from the document describing MPLS Layer-3
   VPNs (L3VPN) [RFC4364], as well as the SNMP architecture [RFC3411].

   Throughout this document, the use of the terms "Provider Edge (PE)
   and Customer Edge (CE)" or "PE/CE" will be replaced by "PE" in all
   cases except when a network device is a CE when used in the carrier's
   carrier model.


3. SNMP Context mapping feature -  High-Level Picture:

   The use of SNMP contexts as a solution to the problem of
   accessing SNMP MIBs on a per-context basis
   requires no modifications to existing MIBs. Instead, this solution
   requires that the Network Management Station (NMS) or any other
   manager desiring to manage an agent, be made aware that a
   VPN Identifier or a Bridge Identifier or some other data
   distinguishing identifier can be mapped to a SNMP Context field
   for every request.

   The MIB presented in this draft can be used to map a vacmContextName
   into any data distinguishing identifier which can retrieve data from
   the appropriate instance.

   Every SNMPv3 operation acts within the context of an SNMP Context.
   The name of that SNMP Context is carried in the message header
   and serves as part of the naming structure of MIB objects (see
   section 3.3.1 of RFC 3411). When all of an agent's management
   information is in the same SNMP Context, then the name of that
   Context need only be used implicitly. In contrast, when multiple
   SNMP Contexts are in use, then the name of a particular Context
   must be used explicitly to determine which items of management
   information are referenced by which OIDs.

   For older versions of SNMP, a mapping between the SNMP community and
   the  SNMP context can be maintained using the SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB.

4. Protocol Operations




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 TBD

5. Object Definitions

SNMP-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

    IMPORTS
        MODULE-IDENTITY,
        OBJECT-TYPE
            FROM SNMPv2-SMI

        SnmpAdminString
            FROM SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

        MODULE-COMPLIANCE,
        OBJECT-GROUP
            FROM SNMPv2-CONF

        RowStatus,
        StorageType
            FROM SNMPv2-TC
        PwIndexType
            FROM PW-TC-STD-MIB


snmpContextMappingMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
    LAST-UPDATED        "200802140000Z"
    ORGANIZATION        "Cisco Systems Inc."
    CONTACT-INFO        "
                         Kiran Koushik A S
                         Email: kkoushik@cisco.com

                         Thomas Nadeau
                         Email: thomas.nadeau@bt.com

                         Chinna Pellacuru
                         Email: pcn@cisco.com

                         "
    DESCRIPTION
        "
           Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). The initial
           version of this MIB module was published in RFC XXXX.
   -- RFC Editor: Please replace XXXX with RFC number & remove
   --                    this note.

           For full legal notices see the RFC itself or see:
           http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html

         A single SNMP agent sometimes needs to support multiple



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         instances of the same MIB module, and does so through the
         use of multiple SNMP contexts.  This typically occurs because
         the technology has evolved to have extra dimension(s), i.e.,
         one or more extra data and/or identifier values which are
         different in the different contexts, but were not defined in
         INDEX clause(s) of the original MIB module.  In such cases,
         network management applications need to know the specific
         data/identifier values in each context, and this MIB module
         provides mapping tables which contain that information.

         Within a network there can be multiple Virtual Private
         Networks (VPNs) configured using Virtual Routing and
         Forwarding Instances (VRFs). Within a VPN there can be
         multiple topologies when Multi-topology Routing (MTR) is
         used. Also, Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) can have
         multiple protocol instances running on the device.

         With MTR routing and VRFs, a router now needs to support
         multiple instances of several existing MIB modules, and
         this can be achieved if the router's SNMP agent provides
         access to each instance of the same MIB module via a
         different SNMP context (see Section 3.1.1 of RFC 3411).
         For MTR routing and VRFs, a different SNMP context is needed
         depending on one or more of the following: the VRF, the
         topology-identifier, and the routing protocol instance.
         In other words, the router's management information can be
         accessed through multiple SNMP contexts where each such
         context represents a specific VRF, a specific
         topology-identifier, and/or a specific routing protocol
         instance.  This MIB module provides a mapping of each such
         SNMP context to the corresponding VRF, the corresponding
         topology, and the corresponding routing protocol instance.
         Some SNMP contexts are independent of VRFs, independent of
         a topology, or independent of a routing protocol instance,
         and in such a case, the mapping is to the to the zero length
         string.

         We have also added the mapping to dot1dBasePort from BRIDGE-MIB
         and the vplsConfigIndex from VPLS-MIB as we feel that these
         data distinguishing identifiers will be applicable to a
         larger subset of the MIBs that are already defined.
         Similarly a mapping from the PwIndex from PWE3-PW-TC-MIB to the
         dot1dBasePort from BRIDGE-MIB has been defined here.

         As technology evolves more we may need additional
         identifiers to identify the context. Then we would need
         to add those additional identifiers into the mapping.
         We must caution that since there are huge number MIB modules
         defined, if even a small fraction of them needs to have
         multiple instances in SNMP contexts, then what this



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         paragaph proposes will NOT scale. We request the MIB
         users to judiciously choose the data distinguishing identifiers
         which map to a SNMP context.


         Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008).  This version
         of this MIB module is part of RFC XXX;  see the RFC
         itself for full legal notices.
      -- RFC Ed.: replace XXX with actual RFC number & remove this
      -- note
         "

    REVISION    "200802140000Z"
    DESCRIPTION
         "Initial version of the MIB module."
    ::= { experiment xxx }

    snmpContextMappingMIBObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER
        ::= { snmpContextMappingMIB 1 }
    snmpContextMappingMIBConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER
        ::= { snmpContextMappingMIB 2 }

    snmpContextMappingTable OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     SEQUENCE OF SNMPContextMappingEntry
        MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "This table contains information on which
             snmpContextMappingVacmContextName is mapped to
             which VRF, topology, and routing protocol instance.

             This table is indexed by SNMP VACM context.

             Configuring a row in this table for an SNMP context
             does not require that the context be already defined,
             i.e., a row can be created in this table for a context
             before the corresponding row is created in RFC 3415's
             vacmContextTable.

             To create a row in this table, a manager must set
             snmpContextMappingRowStatus to either 'createAndGo' or
             'createAndWait'.

             To delete a row in this table, a manager must set
             snmpContextMappingRowStatus to 'destroy'."
        ::= { snmpContextMappingMIBObjects 1 }

    snmpContextMappingEntry OBJECT-TYPE



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        SYNTAX     SNMPContextMappingEntry
        MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "Information relating to a single mapping of
             snmpContextMappingVacmContextName to the corresponding VRF,
             the corresponding topology, and the corresponding routing
             protocol instance."
        INDEX { snmpContextMappingVacmContextName }
        ::= { snmpContextMappingTable 1 }

   SNMPContextMappingEntry ::=
       SEQUENCE {
           snmpContextMappingVacmContextName  SnmpAdminString,
           snmpContextMappingVrfName          SnmpAdminString,
           snmpContextMappingTopologyName     SnmpAdminString,
           snmpContextMappingProtoInstName    SnmpAdminString,
           snmpContextMappingBridgePort       Unsigned32,
           snmpContextMappingVplsIndex        Unsigned 32,
           snmpContextMappingStorageType      StorageType,
           snmpContextMappingRowStatus        RowStatus,
           snmpContextMappingACType           INTEGER,
           snmpContextMappingPwIndex          pwIndexType

       }

    snmpContextMappingVacmContextName  OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     SnmpAdminString (SIZE(0..32))
        MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The vacmContextName given to the SNMP context.

             This is a human readable name identifying a particular
             SNMP VACM context at a particular SNMP entity.
             The empty contextName (zero length) represents the
             default context."
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 1 }

    snmpContextMappingVrfName  OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     SnmpAdminString (SIZE(0..32))
        MAX-ACCESS read-create
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The value of an instance of this object identifies
             the name given to the VRF to which the SNMP context
             is mapped to.

             This is typically a human-readable string. This is
             the same ASCII string used in the router's console
             interface to refer to this VRF.

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             When the value of this object is the zero length
             string it indicates that the SNMP context is independent
             of any VRF."
        DEFVAL     { ''H }   -- the zero length string
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 2 }

    snmpContextMappingTopologyName  OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     SnmpAdminString (SIZE(0..32))
        MAX-ACCESS read-create
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The value of an instance of this object identifies
             the name given to the topology to which the SNMP
             context is mapped to.

             This is typically a human-readable string. This is
             the same ASCII string used in the router's console
             interface to refer to this topology.

             When the value of this object is the zero length
             string it indicates that the SNMP context is independent
             of any topology."
        DEFVAL     { ''H }   -- the zero length string
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 3 }

    snmpContextMappingProtoInstName  OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     SnmpAdminString (SIZE(0..32))
        MAX-ACCESS read-create
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The value of an instance of this object identifies
             the name given to the protocol instance to which the
             SNMP context is mapped to.

             This is typically a human-readable string. This is
             the same ASCII string used in the router's console
             interface to refer to this protocol instance.

             When the value of this object is the zero length
             string it indicates that the SNMP context is independent
             of any protocol instance."
        DEFVAL     { ''H }   -- the zero length string
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 4 }


    snmpContextMappingBridgePort  OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     Unsigned32



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        MAX-ACCESS read-create
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "When snmpContextMappingACType is set to interface(1),
             The value of an instance of this object identifies
             the dot1dBasePort to which the
             SNMP context is mapped to.

             When the value of this object is zero
             it indicates that the SNMP context is independent
             of dot1dBasePort."
        DEFVAL     { 0 }
        REFERENCE "RFC 4188 - Section 4."
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 5 }


    snmpContextMappingVplsIndex  OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     Unsigned32
        MAX-ACCESS read-create
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The value of an instance of this object identifies
             vplsConfigIndex to which the SNMP context is mapped to.

             When the value of this object is zero
             it indicates that the SNMP context is independent
             of vplsConfigIndex."
        DEFVAL     { 0 }
        REFERENCE "draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-mib-00.txt"
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 6 }

    snmpContextMappingStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX       StorageType
        MAX-ACCESS   read-create
        STATUS       current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The storage type for this conceptual row.

             Conceptual rows having the value 'permanent' need not
             allow write-access to any columnar objects in the row."
        DEFVAL      { nonVolatile }
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 7 }

    snmpContextMappingRowStatus OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX       RowStatus
        MAX-ACCESS   read-create
        STATUS       current
        DESCRIPTION
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             deletion of a conceptual row in this table."
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 8 }

    snmpContextMappingACType OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX          INTEGER {
                               interface (1),
                               pseudoWire (2)
                        }
        MAX-ACCESS   read-create
        STATUS       current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The value of an instance of this object identifies
             whether this context is applicable to an
             attachmentCircuit which is an interface or a pseudoWire.

             If the value of this object is interface(1), then the
             snmpContextMappingBridgePort identifies the dot1dBasePort
             to which this context maps to.
             If the value of this object is pseudoWire(2), then the
             snmpContextMappingPwIndex identifies the dot1dBasePort
             to which this context maps to.
             When the value of snmpContextMappingVplsIndex is 0, then
             this object is not relevant."
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 9 }

    snmpContextMappingPwIndex OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX       PwIndexType
        MAX-ACCESS   read-create
        STATUS       current
        DESCRIPTION
            "When snmpContextMappingACType is set to pseudoWire(2),
             the value of an instance of this object identifies
             the PwIndex to which the SNMP context is mapped to.
             The dot1dBasePort to which this PwIndex maps to is
             defined in snmpContextMappingBridgePort.

             When the value of snmpContextMappingVplsIndex is zero
             it indicates that the SNMP context is independent
             of snmpContextMappingPwIndex."
        ::= { snmpContextMappingEntry 10 }


    -- Conformance

    snmpContextMappingMIBCompliances
        OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { snmpContextMappingMIBConformance 1 }

    snmpContextMappingMIBGroups
        OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { snmpContextMappingMIBConformance 2 }




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    -- Compliance

    snmpContextMappingMIBCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The compliance statement for entities which implement
             the SNMP-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB."
        MODULE
            MANDATORY-GROUPS {
                snmpContextMappingDataGroup
            }

        OBJECT        snmpContextMappingVrfName
        MIN-ACCESS    read-only
        DESCRIPTION  "Write access is not required."

        OBJECT        snmpContextMappingTopologyName
        MIN-ACCESS    read-only
        DESCRIPTION  "Write access is not required."

        OBJECT        snmpContextMappingProtoInstName
        MIN-ACCESS    read-only
        DESCRIPTION  "Write access is not required."

        OBJECT        snmpContextMappingBridgePort
        MIN-ACCESS    read-only
        DESCRIPTION  "Write access is not required."

        OBJECT        snmpContextMappingVplsIndex
        MIN-ACCESS    read-only
        DESCRIPTION  "Write access is not required."

        OBJECT        snmpContextMappingStorageType
        MIN-ACCESS    read-only
        DESCRIPTION  "Write access is not required."

        OBJECT        snmpContextMappingRowStatus
        MIN-ACCESS    read-only
        DESCRIPTION  "Create/delete/modify access to the
                      snmpContextMappingTable is not required."

        ::= { snmpContextMappingMIBCompliances 1 }



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    -- Units of Conformance

    snmpContextMappingDataGroup OBJECT-GROUP
        OBJECTS {
            snmpContextMappingVrfName,
            snmpContextMappingTopologyName,
            snmpContextMappingProtoInstName,
            snmpContextMappingBridgePort,
            snmpContextMappingVplsIndex,
            snmpContextMappingStorageType,
            snmpContextMappingRowStatus,
            snmpContextMappingACType,
            snmpContextMappingPwIndex
        }
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The collection of objects providing the context
             mapping data between the SNMP context to the
             VRF, topology, protocol instance, bridge port,
             and VPLS index."
        ::= { snmpContextMappingMIBGroups 1 }
END

6.  Security Considerations

   The MIB module described in this document in association with
   SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB and SNMPv3 framework is useful for accessing
   subsets of data based on various data distinguishing identifiers.

   There are objects in this MIB which are configurable via SNMP.
   If these are configured incorrectly, there can be potential
   data access violations.

   There are a number of management objects defined in these MIB modules
   with a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read-create. Such
   objects may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network
   environments. The support for SET operations in a non-secure
   environment without proper protection can have a negative effect on
   network operations. These are the tables and objects and their
   sensitivity/vulnerability.


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7.  Example of usage:


    In snmpContextMappingTable:

            snmpContextMappingContextName      "contextA"{Index}
            snmpContextMappingVrfName          "customerA"
            snmpContextMappingTopologyName     ""
            snmpContextMappingProtoInstName    ""
            snmpContextMappingBridgePort       0
            snmpContextMappingVplsIndex        0
            snmpContextMappingStorageType      (2)volatile
            snmpContextMappingRowStatus        1(active)

            snmpContextMappingContextName      "contextB"{Index}
            snmpContextMappingVrfName          "customerB"
            snmpContextMappingTopologyName     ""
            snmpContextMappingProtoInstName    ""
            snmpContextMappingBridgePort       0
            snmpContextMappingVplsIndex        0
            snmpContextMappingStorageType      (2)volatile
            snmpContextMappingRowStatus        1(active)


    In ospfHostTable from RFC 1850:


       [For OSPF Instance on VRF "customerA"]

        ospfHostIpAddress                    "1.2.3.4"{Index}
        ospfHostTOS                           8       {Index}
        ospfHostMetric                        "ab"
        ospfHostStatus                        "1(enabled)"
        ospfHostAreaID                        "1.1.1.1"


       [For OSPF Instance on VRF "customerB"]

        ospfHostIpAddress                    "1.2.3.4"{Index}
        ospfHostTOS                           8       {Index}
        ospfHostMetric                        "ab"
        ospfHostStatus                        "1(enabled)"
        ospfHostAreaID                        "1.1.1.2"

In the above case, we can use the context mapping to distinguish
data between different OSPF instances eventhough the OID indexes
are the same.

8.  References

8.1.  Normative References



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   [RFC4273]  Willis, S.,et all, "Definitions of Managed Objects
              for the Fourth Version of the Border Gateway Protocol
              (BGP-4) using SMIv2", RFC 4273, July 1994.

   [RFC4292]  Haberman, B., "IP Forwarding Table MIB",
              RFC 4292, Apr 2006

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key Words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC3031]  Rosen, E., Viswanathan, A., and R. Callon, "Multiprotocol
              Label Switching Architecture", RFC 3031, January 2001.

   [RFC3411]  Harrington, D., Presuhn, R., and B. Wijnen, "An
              Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management
              Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks", STD 62, RFC 3411,
              December 2002.

   [RFC3813]  Srinivasan, C., Viswanathan, A., and T.  Nadeau,
              "Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switching
              (LSR) Router Management Information Base (MIB)", RFC 3813,
              June 2004.
   [RFC4188]  Norseth, K., and Bell, E., "Definitions of Managed
              Objects for Bridges", RFC 4188, Sept 2006.

   [RFC4364]  Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
              Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, February 2006.

   [BFD-MIB]  Nadeau, T., and Ali, Z., "Bidirectional Forwarding
              Detection Management Information Base",
              draft-ietf-bfd-mib-03.txt, Oct 2006.

   [ISIS-MIB] Parker, J., "Management Information Base for IS-IS",
              draft-ietf-isis-mib-04.txt, Dec 2002.


8.2.  Informative References

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9.  Acknowledgments

    We would like to thank Keith McCloghrie for his insightful
    comments and expert suggestions.

    We would also like to thank Chinna Narasimha Reddy and Madhavi.

    Rohit Mediratta has contributed to the VPLS updates to this
    draft and we would like to thank him for that.

10. IANA Considerations

-- (Note to RFC-Editor:)
-- We request that you assign contiguous RFC numbers to the
--   IANA is requested to root MIB objects in the MIB module
--   contained in this document under the transmission subtree.
--

11.  Authors' Addresses

      Thomas D. Nadeau
      BT
      BT Centre
      81 Newgate Street
      EC1A 7AJ
      London
      Email: tom.nadeau@bt.com

      A S Kiran Koushik
      Cisco Systems Inc
      12515 Research Blvd, Bldg 4
      Austin TX 78759
      Email: kkoushik@cisco.com


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