The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Exporting MIB Variables using the IPFIX Protocol' (draft-ietf-ipfix-mib-variable-export-10.txt) as Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Joel Jaeggli. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipfix-mib-variable-export/ Technical Summary This document specifies a way to complement IPFIX Data Records with Management Information Base (MIB) objects, avoiding the need to define new IPFIX Information Elements for existing Management Information Base objects that are already fully specified. An IPFIX Options Template and method are specified, which are used to export the extra information required to fully describe Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) MIB objects in IPFIX. Working Group Summary This draft was presented at IETF 85 in Atlanta, at that time it seemed the WG were near consensus. However, the draft's use of the IPFIX mechanisms seemed clumsy; the authors agreed to re-work it to use Extended Specifier Fields (EFS) instead. A revised version using EFS was presented at IETF 86, but it was clear that EFS was a significant extension to IPFIX. Paul Aitken - its lead author - agreed to re-work it again. The current version (-09) requires two new Options Templates and several new IPFIX Information Elements to describe SNMP objects properly; the IE Doctors are curently considering those. However, it does not need any extensions to the IPFIX protocol. Since the IPFIX WG closed down after IETF 88 there has been no discussion of the draft; at least that means that there have been no objections to it! Once the current IE Doctors discussion of it is complete, I believe we'll have something approaching consensus. Document Quality (IPR) This draft has Cisco IPR, i.e. "If technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of any Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard, any party will have the right to use any such patent claims under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the standard." Personnel Document shepherd: Nevil Brownlee Responsible Area Director: Joel Jaeggli
