Hi David,
Thanks for taking on the drudge work to make something useful and
beneficial.
Comments below.
Adrian
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Abstract
I think it would be useful if the abstract of this I-D was the abstract
*for* this I-D. That means that you should move the template abstract into
its own section.
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Foreword to template users.
Ditto. That is, could this foreword become a real part of the I-D, pushing
the template text into its own section?
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s/numerouse/numerous/
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Foreword to template users.
Should the reference to RFC2223(bis) be a citation with an entry in the
references section?
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s/conclusive/complete/ ?
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Foreword to template users.
Would be useful to include a note about the use of 'SAMPLE-MIB' in the
template.
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Section 1
The Introduction shown here is pretty skimpy. In fact, the Abstract has more
text :-(
Can we make some recommendations about what to include here?
Citations of protocol specs, architectures, and protocol-specific management
requirements?
References to other, related MIB modules?
Overview of why a MIB module is appropriate for this protocol and how the
module is to be used?
Highlights of anything 'different' about the module? For example, read-only.
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Section 2
Would it be helpful to highlight which sections are boilerplate and which
are open for author-modification?
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Section 5.1
Perhaps helpful to provide a [TO DO] to say what should be here.
For example,
[TODO] describe the textual conventions defined in the MIB
module, and their purpose.
[TO DO] it may be helpful to highlight any textual conventions
imported from partner documents.
(The latter, notwithstanding section 6)
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Section 6
It is not clear that...
Some management objects defined in other MIB modules are applicable
to an entity implementing this MIB. In particular, it is assumed
that an entity implementing the SAMPLE-MIB module will also implement
the 'system' group of the SNMPv2-MIB [RFC3418] and the 'interfaces'
group of the IF-MIB [RFC2863].
...is example text rather than required text.
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s/MIb/MIB/
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Section 12.
Many, but not all, of these references are template. Some are specific to
this I-D. Confusing?
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Missing?
- Worked example. Maybe not mandatory, but
very useful.
- Discussion of the use of rowPointer. Again, not
mandatory, but can be helpful to readers.
Cf. RFC3812 section 10.
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