Re: draft-ietf-ipcdn-pktc-mtamib-05 - SMI question forpktcMtaDevErrorsTooManyErrors

Hi -

> From: "Jean-Francois Mule" <[email protected]>
> To: "Eugene Nechamkin" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:11 PM
> Subject: [ipcdn] draft-ietf-ipcdn-pktc-mtamib-05 - SMI question forpktcMtaDevErrorsTooManyErrors
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>           file was interpreted by the MTA as being .1.2.3.4.5, and

Please get rid of the leading "."
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> |         If the numbers of errors in the configuration file exceeds
> |         1024, then for all subsequent errors, the
> |         pktcMtaDevErrorOid of 1024th table's entry MUST contain

you mean "of the table's 1024th entry"

> |         a human readable representation of the
> |         pktcMtaDevErrorsTooManyErrors object, i.e. the string
> |          '1.3.6.1.2.1.XXX.1.1.4.1.0'.

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> |         pktcMtaDevErrorValue of 1024th table's entry MUST contain

again "of the table's 1024th entry"

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> |         pktcMtaDevErrorReason of 1024th table's entry must contain

ditto

> | pktcMtaDevErrorsTooManyErrors OBJECT-IDENTITY
> --                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> Question:
> Since this definition uses OBJECT-IDENTITY instead of OBJECT-TYPE,
>  we cannot use it in the MODULE-COMPLIANCE, hence cannot formerly
> mandate that vendors support it (other than in the DESCRIPTION clause of
> pktcMtaDevErrorOid. Is this the best way we can do this in SMI?


The MUST in the DESCRIPTION clause of pktcMtaDevErrorOid is
pretty definitive.  If the condition can occur in an implementation,
and that implementation does not use that value, then that implementation
is not conformant.

> Should we use something else?
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If the data type were, for example, an integer type, then one could
use the SYNTAX clause within the OBJECT clause to specify in
the conformance material that the value was absolutely required.
There's no way that I know of to do that with OBJECT IDENTIFIERs.

However, the MUST in the DESCRIPTION clause of the object
leaves no wiggle room that I can see, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Randy