RE: BOUNCE mibs@ops.ietf.org: Non-member submission from ["Shawn A. Routhier" <shawn.routhier@windriver.com>]

["Dave Thaler" <dthaler@windows.microsoft.com>]

Shawn A. Routhier writes:
> In the SCTP MIB that I've been reviewing they include
> a series of tables that they plan to use for looking up
> an entry in the main table via a different key.  To me
> this seems like an ugly solution, however I don't see
> a better way to do it or any violation of the specifications.
> 
> Does anybody have any comments on this style of lookup table?

I've seen the same in several other MIBs, and as far as I know,
this is the best current practice.  When you need to be able
to look up the same info multiple ways, an extra table is added
which is used to look up the index in the main table.  (The
columnar objects of the main table shouldn't be duplicated in
the extra tables.)

-Dave