Re: #21 Creation/Deletion [was: #12 Creation/Deletion]

[Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

Hi!

David Harrington writes:

David> Discussion:
David> draft-ietf-rap-sppi-06.txt has Install-ERRORS as part of the SPPI
David> grammar. Both SMI and SPPI discuss "read-create". rfc2578.txt discusses
David> using the MAX-ACCESS clause to indicate whether it makes protocol sense
David> to create an instance of an object. As I see it, both recognize the need
David> to be able to create "things" in the protocol. RFC2579 has the RowStatus
David> T-C which explicitly discusses how to delete a "thing" in the protocol.
David> SPPI, in the description of the ReferenceID, explicitly discusses
David> deleting an instance of a PRI. All of these discussions of
David> creation/deletion are found in the SMI/SPPI documents, not in the SNMP
David> or COPS/PR protocol documents.

Ok. I've added this and that:

    <p>
      Frank: Ok. So the first sentence of this requirement's
      description should be reworded to something like: SMIng should
      support a mechanism to define whether creation/deletion protocol
      operations for instances would make sense. This is already
      covered by issue 17.
    </p>

 -frank