The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Definitions of Textual Conventions (TCs) for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Management' (draft-ietf-bfd-tc-mib-08.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adrian Farrel and Alia Atlas. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-tc-mib/ Technical Summary This document defines two Management Information Base (MIB) modules that contain Textual Conventions to represent commonly used Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) management information. The intent is that these TEXTUAL CONVENTIONS (TCs) will be imported and used in BFD related MIB modules that would otherwise define their own representations. Working Group Summary This document received commentary from multiple individuals that have had prior SNMP MIB authoring and implementation experience. The document was also reviewed in the context of additional BFD work besides providing base MIB functionality for the above RFCs. This includes BFD multi-point, BFD over LAG. It also has been reviewed as being the basis MIB for the BFD MPLS MIB. Document Quality As is typical with MIB documents, several vendors implement the contents of the BFD MIB in various enterprise MIBs with greater or lesser attention paid to the exact structure of this document. MIBs are seldom fully finished at vendors until the publication of the MIB as an RFC wherein all the code points are finalized with IANA and other authorities. In particular, the Textual-Convention draft covers various TCs that do not share consistent implementations across the vendors. By publishing an RFC, these code points will become normalized across the vendors. Being a MIB document, review by the MIB doctors is always appreciated. Personnel Document Shepherd: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Responsible AD: Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>
