Re: Methods, Inheritance, Exceptions, etc. (was: Re: Methods in S MIng ?)

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

Hi!

Glenn> I am also worried that a piece meal approach will not produce
Glenn> the best solution. That said, what changes would be required to
Glenn> the draft-ietf-eos-rowops-00.txt document to allow for methods?
Glenn> Rowops is already specifying a new set of PDUs -- could these
Glenn> PDUs be changed to meet the existing RowOps requirements and
Glenn> the SMIng requirements?

I would say: No, not without changing the RowOps requirements
significantly.

The RowOps are new _specific_ protocol operations. What they cause on
the agent side when they are sent by a command generater, is definied
_statically_ in the RowOps definition. Only parameters are transmitted.

In contrast, methods would be defined _individually_ in MIB modules.
They would require a new _generic_ protocol operation that allows to
transport not only parameters and results but also the identifier of
an operation.

 -frank