Re: Updating Conformance/Compliance ?

[Randy Presuhn <rpresuhn@dorothy.bmc.com>]

Hi -

> Message-ID: <3CB23F14.5099A532@crescentnetworks.com>
> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:08:36 -0400
> From: Joan Cucchiara <jcucchia@CrescentNetworks.com>
> To: mibs@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Updating Conformance/Compliance ? 
...
> In section 7.1 of rfc2580, it says "...Therefore, a change
> to a conformance group is not allowed if it has the potential to
> cause a reference to the group's original definition to be
> different from a reference to an updated definition.  Such changes
> can only be accomodated by defining a new conformance group..."
> 
> If (for example) two new objects are added to an existing MIB table,
> could these two new objects be also added to a conformance group?
> 
> According to the above, sounds like the the original conformance 
> group needs to be deprecated and a new conformance group 
> created which now includes these 2 new objects, is that correct?
...

A new conformance group would need to be created.
Whether the original conformance group should be
deprecated is a separate decision.  The creation
of a new conformance group does not automatically
require that the old one be deprecated.

 ------------------------------------------------------
 Randy Presuhn          BMC Software, Inc.  1-3141
 randy_presuhn@bmc.com  2141 North First Street
 Tel: +1 408 546-1006   San Jose, California 95131  USA
 ------------------------------------------------------
 My opinions and BMC's are independent variables.
 ------------------------------------------------------