It is my understanding that the document status, for a Standards Track
RFC, is not reported on the published specification and the status can
change without requiring a new RFC to be issued. Therefore, I do not see
where we would do any extra work by publishing our updated Printer MIB
today as a Proposed Standard.
The efforts to achieve Draft Standard status can proceed as planned if the
MIB is published or held. But publishing the MIB now has the advantage of
making it "official".
I support immediate publication of the MIB as a Proposed Standard.
Ron Bergman
Dataproducts Corp.
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 lpyoung@lexmark.com wrote:
> Don conveyed that some members of the Printer MIB working group at
> the Toronto PWG meeting expressed a desire to take the current draft
> to Proposed status instead of continuing to wait on Draft status.
> I wanted to open up this line of discussion for the entire working
> group.
>
> Chris and I are continuing to work on moving the Printer MIB forward to
> Draft status. The progress was been extremely slow. The HR MIB chairman
> has been distracted for several reasons and was not made much progress
> on moving the HR MIB forward. Last week he sent a note telling us that
> most of his distractions are behind him with a plan to move forward.
> One course of action could be to take the current draft to Proposed
> and then attempt to take the current draft to Draft after the HR MIB
> goes to Draft.
>
> The options are (as far as I know):
> 1. Continue on current course taking new Printer MIB to Draft.
> 2. Take current draft to Proposed and leave it there.
> 3. Take current draft to Proposed and then to Draft after HR
> MIB goes to Draft.
>
> I would like to hear opinions from the rest of the working
> group.
>
> Lloyd
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