Re: DS MIB - please review this list...

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> Fred Baker writes:

Fred> Can you argue the case for the stricture, generally or (better)
Fred> in this application? Are you trying to build a compound object
Fred> or CHOICE (aka NetworkAddress) in an SMI which eschews both
Fred> compound objects and CHOICE-typed objects? If so, wouldn't it be
Fred> better to (finally) fix the SMI and leave this alone?

I think people are working on "fixing" the SMI. But that won't help in
the short-term.

So yes, the InetAddressType/InetAddress pair is a kind of a
discriminated union and that is why RFC 2851 says that the pair is
always instantiated as a pair.

/js

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