Re: Some editorial proposals fordraft-ietf-disman-event-mib-v2-04.txt

Hi Randy,

>Hi -
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>>From: "Benoit Claise" <[email protected]>
>>To: "Disman (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:00 PM
>>Subject: [Disman] Some editorial proposals fordraft-ietf-disman-event-mib-v2-04.txt
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>>1. Section 3. Relationship to Other MIBs
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>>   "Event MIB triggers maintain the RMON handling of thresholds and add the concept
>>   of booleans."
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>>I would propose:
>>   "Event MIB triggers maintain the RMON handling of thresholds and add the concept
>>   of booleans and existence."
>>AFAIK, RMON doesn't have the concept of "existence"
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>I don't think we need this.
>See the first paragraph of RFC 2021's definition of TimeFilter.
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Right, but whenever we referred to "RMON handling of thresholds", I 
thought we were referring to the RMON event/alarm (RFC2819), which 
doesn't have the notion of existence?

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>>2. Section 4.  MIB Sections
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>>   "The MIB has four sections: triggers, objects, events, and
>>   notifications.  Triggers define the conditions that lead to events.
>>   Events may cause notifications."
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>>I would propose:
>>   "The MIB has four sections: triggers, objects, events, and
>>   notifications.  Triggers define the conditions that lead to events.
>>   Events may cause notifications and/or may set a MIB object."
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>Ok, but "and/or" is an abomination.  
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ok.

>Also, why is "object" in the singular while
>"notifications" is plural?
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Corrected.

New proposal: Triggers define the conditions that lead to events.  
Events may cause notifications, may set MIB objects, or both.
Is this better?

Thanks for your comment.

Regards, Benoit.

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>>3. The MIB is full of mte*. I think the meaning of it is somehow hidden in the MIB:
>>-- Management Triggered Event (MTE) objects
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>>I would propose to modify the MIB description from :
>>    DESCRIPTION
>>     "The MIB module for defining event triggers and actions
>>     for network management purposes.
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>>    DESCRIPTION
>>     "The MIB module for defining Managed Triggered Event (MTE) and actions
>>     for network management purposes.
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>This seems helpful.
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>>Any objections?
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>>Regards, Benoit.
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>Randy
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