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IANA Guidelines for the Registry of Remote Monitoring (RMON) MIB modules

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Network Working Group                                          B. Wijnen
Request for Comments: 3737                           Lucent Technologies
Category: Standards Track                                     A. Bierman
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                              April 2004


                  IANA Guidelines for the Registry of
                  Remote Monitoring (RMON) MIB modules

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.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document defines the procedures for IANA to administer and
   maintain the Object Identifier (OID) tree under the Remote Monitoring
   (rmon) root.  This memo also documents the currently assigned values.

1.  Introduction

   The RMONMIB Working Group so far has maintained its own registry for
   OID assignments for new MIB modules under the root OID for rmon
   [RFC 2819].  This has worked reasonably well, although errors had to
   be corrected at a late stage one or two times, and a few now defunct
   assignments have been made as well.

   It is also a somewhat non-standard way of doing things, because
   normally a new standards track MIB module will get a MIB root
   assigned at the time that the module is being published as part of an
   RFC.

   This document lists the currently assigned rmon OIDs.  It also
   describes the procedures and rules for new assignments and asks IANA
   to take over the responsibility for existing and future assignments.

   The current assignments are not all too logical.  Initially normal
   MIB OIDs were assigned under rmon, but at a later time the WG used
   the rmon root OID to create new MIB modules underneath it.  Some



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