Re: FRAMEWORK-FEEDBACK-PIB (RFC 3571) errata

Michael Kirkham <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:19:10 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oops.  I mean should import from COPS-PR-SPPI.  Also the warning is iffy 
because importing non-base types from MIBs is allowed - I think that's 
probably why I made it a warning.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Michael Kirkham wrote:

> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:17:07 -0800 (PST)
> From: Michael Kirkham <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: FRAMEWORK-FEEDBACK-PIB (RFC 3571) errata
> 
>
> Updating my MIB/PIB repository, I came across this item again.  Looking back 
> in the archive it seems I didn't bring it up the last time I saw it. MIB 
> Smithy generates the following warning and error for FRAMEWORK-FEEDBACK-PIB:
>
> FRAMEWORK-FEEDBACK-PIB.mib [FRAMEWORK-FEEDBACK-PIB] : warning : SMIv2 
> macros/base types cannot be imported in COPS-PR-SPPI modules, nor vise-versa.
> FRAMEWORK-FEEDBACK-PIB.mib [FRAMEWORK-FEEDBACK-PIB:Usage64] : error : 
> 'Unsigned64' data type is only supported by COPS-PR-SPPI.
>
> What happens here is it sees you've imported TEXTUAL-CONVENTION from 
> SNMPv2-TC and uses SMIv2 rules to validate the Usage64 TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, in 
> which the Unsigned64 data type is not allowed.  FRAMEWORK-FEEDBACK-PIB should 
> import TEXTUAL-CONVENTION from COPS-PR-SPPI-TC rather than SNMPv2-TC.  The 
> warning probably ought to be an error too, but it's somewhat iffy as it's not 
> specifically stated in the specs and there is overlap between the base types 
> and their encodings (except Unsigned64).
>
> --
> Michael Kirkham
> www.muonics.com
>

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