RE: Review of draft-ietf-ipcdn-pktc-mtamib-04.txt

"Dave Thaler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ipcdn
Message-ID <C9588551DE135A41AA2626CB645309370CBDCCAE@WIN-MSG-10.wingroup.windeploy.ntdev.microsoft.com>
Jean-Francois Mule writes:
> To close on one additional comment:
> Dave wrote:
> > 12) pktcMtaDevErrorOid, pktcMtaDevErrorValue, etc:
> >     why are OIDs of type SnmpAdminString rather than an
> > OBJECT IDENTIFIER
> >     type/subtype?  As is, the management station cannot do
> > simple things
> >     like expanding the OID into the defined string tokens in the
MIB.
[...]
> So, the resolution is:
>     - no object syntax change
>     - change the description of the pktcMtaDevErrorOid to indicate the
> following:
>          "Note that the syntax of this object is SnmpAdminString
>           rather OBJECT IDENTIFIER because the object value is
>           provided by an operator in the MTA configuration file
>           in the form of a character string."
>     - after more review of the pktcMtaDevErrorValue object, we do not
> believe the above text should be added to its description as this
> pktcMtaDevErrorValue object may contain all kinds of object values in
the
> case where the MTA can recognize the OID but cannot interpret the
given
> value.
[...]

This resolution looks fine to me.

-Dave
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