On 1/10/06, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 9:45 AM -0500 1/10/06, Brian Rosen wrote: > >Do you have any idea how painful it is to build any kind of product that has > >good management simply because there is no library of MIBs, with references > >to documents? There isn't even a LIST of IETF MIBs. You can't figure out > >if a document has a MIB unless you actually look at the text (although many > >have a big hint in the title of the document). So yes, I believe better MIB > >tools would lead to better products, although it would be hard to prove it. > > Why does this need to be done in the RFCs or Internet Drafts > themselves? Why, for example, can't a human with a bit of training > extract all the MIBs from the current RFCs and put them into a > repository that is machine-accessible? Something like http://www.icir.org/fenner/mibs/mib-index.html and http://www.icir.org/fenner/mibs/extracted/ ? Bill _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf