Re: Draft-harrington-8021-mib-transition-00.txt

>>>>> On 7 Oct 2005, David B Harrington wrote, in a message to Mreview:
dbh> This is the current plan for transitioning the responsibility for
dbh> work on subsequent bridge-related MIB modules from the Bridge WG
dbh> to the IEEE 802.1 WG.
dbh> 
dbh> Please review this document.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this document.

I see one very big "red flag" at the beginning of Section 3.1:

   [discuss] We need to work out just how the transition of
   responsibility for existing MIB modules will happen.  The IETF will
   not want to give up all rights to the documents, and have the 802.1
   WG simply republish the existing documents under the IEEE name.

More years ago than I care to admit a very wise boss of mine stated
that "responsibility without authority is untenable".

In my considered opinion, if the IETF is going to transfer
maintenance responsibility for the following MIB modules to
the IEEE 802.1 WG:

BRIDGE-MIB (RFC 4188)
RSTP-MIB (draft-ietf-bridge-rstpmib-09.txt)
P-BRIDGE-MIB DEFINITIONS (draft-ietf-bridge-ext-v2-07.txt)
SOURCE-ROUTING-MIB (RFC 1525)

then the IETF and/or the IAB should make whatever grant of rights is
necessary so that the 802.1 WG will have exactly the same authority