Requested revision
| Standard: | 802.1Q, 802.1AB, 802.1AX | Clause: | See below |
| Clause title: | RATIONALE FOR REVISION: | ||
Rationale for revision
Previous maintenance request (#132) calls for the removal of D2.7 (Link Agg TLVs) from 802.1Q as these are also documented in 802.1AX-REV. However: - The TLVs are documented in AX-REV but the related managed objects in the 802.1AB MIB extension are still documented in 802.1Q - The MIB object in Q that represents the link agg capability/status (Table F-1 in AX-REV) make use of a textual convention taken from 802.1AB which no longer corresponds to the current definition of the field. This is a mess - really, when this TLV was extracted into AX-REV, the corresponding MIB objects should have been documented there. Also, while Table F-1 uses bit numbering from 1 to 8, the MIB object uses the BITS data type that naturally numbers from 0 to 7...
Proposed text
Various alternative possibilities: 1) Fix the textual convention in AB to match Table F-1. 2) Write a new textual convention in the extension MIB in Q-2014 Cor-1 that corresponds to Table F-1 and use that in the object defs in Q. 3) Deprecate the objects in Q (via Q-2014-Cor-1) and write a (very short) extension MIB to go in AX-REV. Option 2) is probably the most expedient solution, but leaves the long-term problem that the next time we change the TLV in AX we also have to fix Q.
Impact on existing networks
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Originator
| Name: | Tony Jeffree | Email: | tony@jeffree.co.uk |
| Affiliation: | Broadcom/HP | ||
| Submitted: | 2015-01-06 | ||