RE: Action item from yesterday's meeting

Mary,

--On 19.11.2004 17:09 h -0500 Mary Barnes wrote:

>
> I think I understand the concerns as presented by both sides of this issue.  However, the concerns raised by Suresh appear able to be addressed outside the scope of the MIB, based on Juergen's response (i.e. I don't see Suresh's requirements for making
> the change to be compelling).  That said, as Christian mentioned, if both models could be supported without a huge amount of effort in the current version of the MIB (and not impacting the current functionality provided by the MIB), I would also be
> okay with that.  Is this a simple change/extension or does it have a broader impact on the MIB?

Of course we can extend the semantics to support not just (A0,A3) as input,
but also as Suresh suggested (A0,A1) and (A2,A3).  We could for example add
a switch object that indicates which of the three choices is used by the
MIDCOM client.

This requires some extra effort of specification and implementation.
We need to specify the semantics of all three alternative procedures
for PRR and PER and of course have a more flexible (and error-prone)
implementation. Currently, there is only one procedure with writeable
input objects and read-only output objects, some of them related to
A1 and A2 (see MIB definition).  We would have to make the A1- and
A2-related objects writeable in general.  Then the value of the new
switch object would indicate which objects are writeable inpt objects
and which are output objects.  The implementation would loose the
safety of static access checks for output objects that we have now.

With no doubt we can realize the discussed extension but in order to
do so, we need a convincing reason that justifies the effort.
I do not think we have found such a reason yet.

We should further be aware of the fact that (typically) increasing
complexity implicitly reduces acceptance of the new standard at
potential implementers.

Thanks,

    Juergen
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> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melinda Shore
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [midcom] Action item from yesterday's meeting
>
> I'm intending to get this issue closed in the next week (or sooner,
> if possible).  Juergen and Suresh have presented their concerns, and
> if there are other people who have opinions or questions or even
> just want to indicate how they're leaning, that would be a big help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Melinda
>
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