Comments on draft-ietf-ipcdn-pktc-mtamib-07 during the IETF-64 meeting

 
During the presentation of the draft-ietf-ipcdn-pktc-mtamib-07 at
IETF-64 meeting, there were the following comments made on the presented
material:
 
    - the max length of the "pktcMtaDevRealmOrgName" currently defined
as being 255 does not correspond to the actual number of octets the MIB
object may contain which is calculated as max number of UTF-8 characters
(64) each of which may consist of up to 6 octets.
    - the value of the MIB object should not include the prefix 'O=' in
the Organization Name.
 
The current definition of the "pktcMtaDevRealmOrgName" in the draft-07
is as follows:
 
   pktcMtaDevRealmOrgName  OBJECT-TYPE 
       SYNTAX      SnmpAdminString(SIZE (1..255)) 
       MAX-ACCESS  read-create 
       STATUS      current 
       DESCRIPTION 
           " This object contains the X.500 organization name attribute

             as defined in the subject name of the service provider  
             certificate. The value of the organization name includes 
             the prefix 'O='." 
       REFERENCE 
           " PacketCable Security Specification." 
       ::= { pktcMtaDevRealmEntry 5 } 

 
 
To address these two comments, co-authors are proposing the following:
 
1. Add the following to the IMPORTS section of the MTA MIB:
 
    LongUtf8String  
            FROM SYSAPPL-MIB                 -- [RFC2287]
 
2. Modify the definition of the pktcMtaDevRealmOrgName to be the
following:
 
 
pktcMtaDevRealmOrgName OBJECT-TYPE 
    SYNTAX LongUtf8String 
         ^^^^^^^^^^^
    MAX-ACCESS read-create 
    STATUS current 
    DESCRIPTION 
        " This object contains the X.500 organization name attribute 
        as defined in the subject name of the service provider 
        X.509 certificate."
    REFERENCE 
        " PacketCable Security Specification." 
    ::= { pktcMtaDevRealmEntry 5 }
 
3. Add the following compliance statement to the MTA MIB compliance
section:
 
    OBJECT pktcMtaDevRealmOrgName
    SYNTAX LongUtf8String (SIZE (1..384))
    DESCRIPTION
        " Compliant devices are only required to support
        pktcMtaDevRealmOrgName values of 64 UTF-8 encoded 
        characters.
        The Organization Name of the X.509 certificate can
        contain up to 64 UTF-8 encoded characters as 
        specified in RFC 2459.
        Given that, in UTF-8, characters are encoded using
        sequences of 1 to 6 octets (RFC 2279), compliant 
        devices must support a maximum size of 384 octets for 
        pktcMtaDevRealmOrgName."
 
 
Please feel free to provide comments on proposed modifications.
 
Regards,
 
Eugene Nechamkin.

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