Re: Updating the MIB security guidelines

["Tom Petch" <nwnetworks@dial.pipex.com>]

Yes, an extra 'then' improves things

-----Original Message-----
From: C. M. Heard <heard@pobox.com>
To: mibs@ops.ietf.org <mibs@ops.ietf.org>
Date: 02 January 2003 21:38
Subject: Re: Updating the MIB security guidelines


>On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Tom Petch wrote:
>> So how about
>
>       then
>        ^
>> "It is a customer/operator responsibility to ensure that the SNMP
>> entity giving access to an instance of this MIB module is properly
>> configured to give access to objects only for those principals
(users)
>> that have legitimate rights to access them."
>
>With the insertion ("It is then ...") it sounds fine to me.
>
>> Subsidiary thought; is "grant access" better than "give access"?  I
>> think that "grant" is more the terminology of security -  eg VACM
[RFC
>> 3415] - while "give" is more the terminology of SNMP applications.
>
>Either term is OK with me.
>
>//cmh

Tom Petch
nwnetworks@dial.pipex.com