Re: Help/guidance on L2TPv3 MIB draft

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

>>>>> Margaret Wasserman writes:

Margaret> I never understood the value of the "fooNumber" variables to
Margaret> begin with...

[...]

This is just an example. There are other variables that might have
similar implications from an AgentX perspective which are not so
obviously questionable or problematic.

Margaret> Why would it be more useful to present them as a table?
Margaret> And, how would you index such a table?

I guess Bob wants to have them indexed by something which relates to
the sub-agent relationship, which means that the sub-agent structure
would not be transparent for management applications.

<note>
  I am not arguing for Bob's or Andy's position. I am just trying
  to make the discussion more useful to us. And we really should
  agree on a single mailing list if this thread continues.
</note>

Margaret> Not just idle speculation -- I'm working on a MIB right now
Margaret> that (for historical reasons) will probably continue to have
Margaret> one of these irritating little buggers...

Historical reasons translates to STATUS deprecated or obsolete as far
as I am concerned...

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>