Re: changes to ping MIB conformance material

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:58:35PM -0700, Randy Presuhn wrote:
 
> Merging in another implementation report on the DISMAN-PING-MIB
> module has left me wondering whether it was a good idea to remove
> the pingCompliance and pingGroup OBJECT-GROUP.  I find that I
> have to go back to RFC 2925 to make sense of implementation reports,
> and that when someone says they implement the pingGroup, that
> has no meaning in terms of the current i-d.  This doesn't seem right.

FWIW, smidiff flags the removal as serious errors:

DISMAN-PING-MIB:1118 [1] group `pingGroup' has been deleted
DISMAN-PING-MIB:1163 [1] group `pingTimeStampGroup' has been deleted
DISMAN-PING-MIB:1017 [1] compliance `pingCompliance' has been deleted

You can deprecate or obsolete things, but not remove things since other
definitions might depend on things (e.g. agent capability statements).

/js

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