RE: AD Review: draft06 draft-ietf-ipcdn-pktc-mtamib-06.txt ( Comment 13)

 
Because the message is becoming too big I am separating the responses for
each comment for better trackability (also modifying the title slightly).
 
# Comment 13
 
> - For pktcMtaDevEnabled a better name woul probably be
>       pktcMtaDevAdministrativelyEnabled
>   And how is the NMS going to see what the real Operational status is?
>   Is a AdminStatus and OperStatus (as in IF-MIB) not more appropriate?
Proposed resolution: no action
In general, we agree with the comment and our first reaction was, yes,
let's rename it and add an operStatus one.
But after looking at its definition in more details, syntax
(ThruthValue) and after c
onsidering a new operStatus object, we think
that:
        - pktcMtaDevEnabled is both an admin and operational status
          object, hence the name is probably ok,
        - it returns the operational status of the enable/disable
          switch when read.
Our proposal, after reviewing your comment is still to leave it as-is.
Is this ok? if not, can you elaborate?
 
> bw: The issue is that if you use one single object for both the admin's
desire of the status and
> at the same time for the actual operational status, then it gets difficult.

> If you issue an SNMP SET to enable, then if you accept it, then that means
that the value
> is to be changed to enabled. If however the value then later changes, then
I bet that the
> management station is at least very surprised. It is not for nothing that
the IF-MIB (after a long
> experience) has chosed to haev a Admin and Operational status in two
separate objects.
 
Let me put some more clarification on the issue which may address your
general concern with the Admin and Operational Status separation. One of the
reasons it would make sense to separate Admin and Operational status is the
potentail delay between the the SNMP SET changing the Admin Status and actual
Operational status of the device including the case when the device might be
not able to set the corresponding Admin status for some reasons internal to
the device. In case of EMTA Enabling/Disabling, the PacketCable Provisioning
spec does not allow such delays and requires the EMTA to disable/enable the
Telephony Services on the EMTA with very minimal delay (if at all). Hence,
from the operational prosective, the separation of the Admin and Operational
Statuses in PacketCable environment does not seem to be required.
 
Hope this clarifies. Please elaborate further otherwise.
 
Jean-Francois and Eugene.

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