A MIB Textual Convention for Language Tags
RFC 5131
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(December 2007; No errata)
Was draft-mcwalter-langtag-mib (individual in rtg area)
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Author | David McWalter | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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IESG | IESG state | RFC 5131 (Proposed Standard) | |
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Responsible AD | Bill Fenner | ||
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Network Working Group D. McWalter, Ed. Request for Comments: 5131 Data Connection Ltd Category: Standards Track December 2007 A MIB Textual Convention for Language Tags Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This MIB module defines a textual convention to represent BCP 47 language tags. The intent is that this textual convention will be imported and used in MIB modules that would otherwise define their own representation. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. The Internet-Standard Management Framework . . . . . . . . . . 2 4. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 McWalter Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 5131 LANGTAG TC MIB December 2007 1. Introduction This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. It defines a textual convention to represent BCP 47 [RFC4646] language tags. The LangTag TEXTUAL-CONVENTION defined by this RFC replaces the similar LanguageTag TEXTUAL-CONVENTION defined by RFC 2932 [RFC2932]. The old LanguageTag TEXTUAL-CONVENTION is used by some existing MIB modules. New MIB modules should use the LangTag TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, which has been created (and is to be preferred) for the following reasons: o Its syntax description is current, and is more comprehensive. o It is short enough to use as an index object without subtyping, yet is of adequate length to represent any language tag in practice. o It is provided in a dedicated MIB module to simplify module dependencies. It is not possible to apply changes in syntax and length to an existing textual convention. This is why the creation of a new textual convention with a new name was necessary. 2. Terminology 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 RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. 3. The Internet-Standard Management Framework For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to section 7 of RFC 3410 [RFC3410]. Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. MIB objects are generally accessed through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the Structure of Management Information (SMI). This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described in STD 58, RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC 2580 [RFC2580]. McWalter Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 5131 LANGTAG TC MIB December 2007 4. Definitions LANGTAG-TC-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN IMPORTS MODULE-IDENTITY, mib-2 FROM SNMPv2-SMI -- [RFC2578] TEXTUAL-CONVENTION FROM SNMPv2-TC; -- [RFC2579] langTagTcMIB MODULE-IDENTITY LAST-UPDATED "200711090000Z" -- 9 November 2007 ORGANIZATION "IETF Operations and Management (OPS) Area" CONTACT-INFO "EMail: ops-area@ietf.org Home page: http://www.ops.ietf.org/" DESCRIPTION "This MIB module defines a textual convention for representing BCP 47 language tags." REVISION "200711090000Z" -- 9 November 2007 DESCRIPTION "Initial revision, published as RFC 5131. Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007). This version of this MIB module is part of RFC 5131; see the RFC itself for full legal notices." ::= { mib-2 165 } LangTag ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION DISPLAY-HINT "1a" STATUS current DESCRIPTIONShow full document text