The IPv6-Specific MIB Modules Are Obsolete
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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.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Not all documents
   approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
   Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.

   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8096.

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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).