The IPv6-Specific MIB Modules Are Obsolete
RFC 8096
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) B. Fenner
Request for Comments: 8096 Arista Networks, Inc.
Obsoletes: 2452, 2454, 2465, 2466 April 2017
Category: Informational
ISSN: 2070-1721
The IPv6-Specific MIB Modules Are Obsolete
Abstract
In 2005-2006, the IPv6 MIB update group published updated versions of
the IP-MIB, UDP-MIB, TCP-MIB, and IP-FORWARD-MIB modules, which use
the InetAddressType/InetAddress construct to handle IPv4 and IPv6 in
the same table. This document contains versions of the obsoleted
IPV6-MIB, IPV6-TC, IPV6-ICMP-MIB, IPV6-TCP-MIB, and IPV6-UDP-MIB
modules for the purpose of updating MIB module repositories. This
document obsoletes RFCs 2452, 2454, 2465, and 2466 (i.e., the RFCs
containing these MIBs) and reclassifies them as Historic.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
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Table of Contents
1. Motivation ......................................................3
2. Historic IPV6-TC ................................................4
3. Historic IPV6-MIB ...............................................6
4. Historic IPV6-ICMP-MIB .........................................40
5. Historic IPV6-UDP-MIB ..........................................54
6. Historic IPV6-TCP-MIB ..........................................58
7. Reclassification ...............................................63
8. Security Considerations ........................................63
9. IANA Considerations ............................................63
10. References ....................................................64
10.1. Normative References .....................................64
10.2. Informative References ...................................64
Author's Address ..................................................65
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1. Motivation
In 2005-2006, the IPv6 MIB update group published updated versions of
the IP-MIB [RFC4293], UDP-MIB [RFC4113], TCP-MIB [RFC4022], and IP-
FORWARD-MIB [RFC4292] modules, which use the InetAddressType/
InetAddress construct to handle IPv4 and IPv6 in the same table. The
RFC Editor marked these documents as obsoleting the corresponding
IPV6-MIBs, but the extracted content of these MIBs never changed in
MIB repositories, and the original RFCs (as is normal IETF policy)
never changed from being Proposed Standard.
Note that the timeline of these MIB modules is as shown below (and it
is the added support for IPv6 in the later revision of the original
modules that people often overlook).
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