2007/272 Project Clearview: IPMP Rearchitecture (Commitment)

[Sebastien Roy]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 09:51 -0500, James Carlson wrote:
> Peter Memishian writes:
> >    * Section 5.18: To ensure IPMP-unaware MIB applications won't trip over
> >      IPMP test address information, a synthetic EXPER_IP_AND_TESTHIDDEN
> >      MIB level has been added.
> 
> This will remove information that used to show up in the MIB, and thus
> cause a small loss of observability for IPMP machines managed by SNMP.
> 
> I think we should have ARC advice added to the opinion: management
> needs to be advised that while this is an improvement in accuracy of
> the data, it's also a regression, and that we need to have updates to
> the SNMP implementation to support IPMP (perhaps via a private MIB).

Do you think that we should discuss the changes in a meeting and hold an
in-person vote, or would an email vote as originally proposed be
adequate?  At this point, I'm not exactly sure who is in a position to
vote on this case as the PSARC membership landscape has changed since
the case was originally reviewed...

-Seb