Technical Summary
Advancing a protocol to Draft Standard requires documentation of
the interoperation and implementation of the protocol. Historic
reports have varied widely in form and level of content and there
is little guidance available to new report preparers. This
document updates the existing processes and provides more detail
on what is appropriate in an interoperability and implementation
report.
Working Group Summary
This is not the product of an IETF working group. This document
has received significant review from members of the community,
and those reviewers have been supportive. Additional review is
needed from the broader community to ensure that opposing
views have been considered. That review is expected from IETF
Last Call.
Document Quality
The process described in this document has been executed to
create an implementation report for RFC 3852. The person who
created that report indicated the process was appropriate and
more effectively achieved the goals of implementation than a
report referencing each occurrence of RFC 2119 conformance
language. This report did not conform precisely to the
suggested report format, but in retrospect would have been
more readable if it had conformed precisely.
Personnel
Tim Polk is the responsible Area Director, and is acting as document
shepherd.
RFC Editor Note
Please make the following three modifications.
(1) In Section 5.3, please make the following substitution:
OLD:
MIBs are sometimes documented in implementation reports and examples
of that can be found in the archive of implementation reports.
NEW:
Management Information Base (MIBs, [RFC3410]) modules are
sometimes documented in implementation reports and examples
of that can be found in the archive of implementation reports.
(2) In section 5.5, please append the following as a third bullet point
in the list:
- MIB modules can be tested with generic MIB browsers, to confirm that
different implementations return the same values for objects under
similar conditions.
(3) In section 9.2, add the following informational reference
[RFC3410] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D., and B. Stewart,
"Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet-
Standard Management Framework", RFC 3410, December 2002.