Transfer of Ethernet MIB work to IEEE 802.3

Benoit Claise, Dan Romascanu

History, Present and Future

• • • • • There was once a hubmib WG – RFC 2108 – Ethernet Repeater Devices – – – – – – – RFC 3621 - Power Ethernet MIB RFC 3635 - Ethernet-like Interface Types RFC 3637 - Ethernet WAN Interface Sublayer RFC 4836 - Ethernet Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) RFC 4837 - Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPON) RFC 4878 - Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Functions on Ethernet-Like Interfaces RFC 5066 - Ethernet in the First Mile Copper (EFMCu) Interfaces MIB WG terminated in 2006, mail list kept active, work transferred to IEEE 802.3.1

– Process similar to RFC 4663 but no RFC was written Some problems surfaced as result of RFC5066 transfer issues (in ADSLMIB WG) and as part of the IETF-IEEE relation context – Most solved in direct interaction with the IEEE 802.3.1 WG Proposal – write an informational document similar to 4663 for the Ethernet MIB transferred – Co-authored with IEEE 802.3.1 chair – A table mapping the old IETF MIB names with the corresponding new IEEE ones – – – Clarifications/rules on the IETF-IEEE interactions, mailing lists, reviews Clarifications on the intellectual property considerations Make the IETF RFCs Historical? – OPEN ISSUE Is the OPSAWG interested in taking this work as a chartered item?