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Applicability Statement for Reclassification of RFC 1643 to Historic Status
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group J. Flick
Request for Comments: 3638 Hewlett-Packard Company
Obsoletes: 1643 C. Heard
Category: Informational Consultant
September 2003
Applicability Statement for Reclassification of
RFC 1643 to Historic Status
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo recommends that RFC 1643 be reclassified as an Historic
document and provides the supporting motivation for that
recommendation.
1. Details
STD 50, RFC 1643 [RFC 1643], "Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Ethernet-like Interface Types", and its SMIv2 equivalent, RFC 1650
[RFC 1650], are applicable to half-duplex 10 Mb/s Ethernet interfaces
only. Subsequent to the 1994 publication of these documents, 100
Mb/s, 1000 Mb/s, and 10 Gb/s Ethernet interface types have been
developed, and full-duplex operation at 10 Mb/s has been
standardized. Updates to RFC 1650 have been produced to accommodate
these new technologies [RFC 2358] [RFC 2665] [RFC 2666] [RFC 3635].
These updates define new MIB objects to supplement those defined in
RFC 1643 and RFC 1650 and in addition deprecate some of the objects
in RFC 1643 and RFC 1650 that are no longer considered useful. They
also levy a requirement for implementations of the EtherLike-MIB to
support the MAU-MIB [RFC 2239] [RFC 2668] [RFC 3636] as well.
Flick & Heard Informational
