RE: [pkt-prov] MTA MIB Error OID table - a number of questions

To address this concern, the last veraion of the description clause with the softer language allowing the locatlization has been introduced (see the latest e-mail exchange on the topic).

Eugene.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Thaler
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:03 PM
To: Jean-Francois Mule; [email protected]
Cc: Eugene Nechamkin; PacketCable Provisioning and OSS Majordomo List; Leandro Rzezak
Subject: RE: [ipcdn] [pkt-prov] MTA MIB Error OID table - a number of questions

The problem I have with 
	> must all be equal to
	> 'TOO MANY ERRORS IN THE CONFIGURATION FILE'
is that nothing else in the DESCRIPTION clauses indicates that the text must be in English, and this introduces a MUST which is not localizable to other languages.

-Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Francois Mule [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; Dave Thaler; Sumanth Channabasappa; 
> PacketCable Provisioning and OSS Majordomo List; Leandro Rzezak
> Subject: RE: [ipcdn] [pkt-prov] MTA MIB Error OID table - a number of 
> questions
> 
> All,
> 
>   Eugene and I are updating the IETF IPCDN MTA MIB draft 06.
> 
>   We'd like to close one of the open items that did not get address in 
> the
> draft05 released in October: pktcMtaDevErrorOidsTable and what MTA 
> behavior should be when the number of errors exceeds the table size 
> limit of 1024.
> 
>   Based on the input received, we'd like to propose the following:
>  1. keep 1024 as a reasonable number of errors in a single config file  
> 2. if more than 1024 I had ping the list, >/dev/null": the MTA should 
> forget about any subsequent errors i.e. any error after 1024 does not 
> get stored in the table, and the last entry (1024th)'s is populated 
> with a reason indicating that there are more errors per the 
> suggestions received by Leandro and Sumanth on the list.
> 
> Proposed text changes:
> pktcMtaDevErrorOidIndex  OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX      Unsigned32 (1..1024)
>     MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
>     STATUS      current
>     DESCRIPTION
>         " This object is the index of the MTA configuration error
>           table. It is an integer value which starts at value '1'
>           and is incremented for each encountered configuration
>           file error or warning.
>           If the number of configuration errors exceeds 1024, all
>           errors beyond the 1024th one must be ignored - these
>           subsequent errors are not reflected in the
>           pktcMtaDevErrorOidsTable. In this case, the value of the
>           pktcMtaDevErrorOid, pktcMtaDevErrorValue, and
>           pktcMtaDevErrorReason objects for the 1024-th table entry
>           must all be equal to
>           'TOO MANY ERRORS IN THE CONFIGURATION FILE'."
>     ::= {pktcMtaDevErrorOidsEntry 1}
> 
> 
> Let us know if this change is acceptable or else, feel free to propose 
> text improvements or suggestions.
> Thanks,
> Jean-François
>