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Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART Telechat review of draft-ietf-vrrp-unified-mib-10

2011-10-04 12:43:56
Thanks, Adrian--that makes sense.

Ben.

On Oct 3, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote:

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the review.

Minor issues:

-- Section 7,  first paragraph: "During the review of this document, It
emerged
that there are different possible interpretations of [RFC5798]. The Authors 
of
that document and the VRRP working group were unable to reach consensus on
which interpretation is correct."

That's rather unfortunate, since that RFC specifies the protocol this MIB is
_for_. I
wish we could do better. From my limited knowledge here, I am agnostic as to
whether the disagreement would make a substantive difference in the MIB. I 
put
this in the "minor" section in hopes that it does not--but people more versed
in
the protocol should think about this.

Yes, this is really unfortunate.

The WG (now closed) was unable to reach any firm conclusion. The authors of 
the
original spec were a bit vague and indecisive. 

We were left with no option other than for the authors of this document to:
- pick the interpretation they thought was most likely
- document the fact
- move on

My feeling is that the lack of decisiveness in the WG for an established
protocol (not widely deployed, but reasonably well implemented and deployed)
showed that this was not an important function in the protocol. In practice, 
it
did not matter which choice was made in the MIB module because no-one seemed 
to
care which choice was made in the protocol.

Thus, if VRRP was being advance on the protocol ladder, I would look for the
feature to be removed rather than for the issue to be resolved.

Cheers,
Adrian

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