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- To: "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>
- Subject: Re: [Entmib] entity mib support for tcif
- From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:10:29 +0200
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:24:57PM -0700, C. M. Heard wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) replied:
> Bert> Or..., the DESCRIPTION clause could say that all zeroes for
> Bert> the DateAndTime would mean
> Bert> "manufacture date unknown or nor supported"
> Bert>
> Bert> Just thinking aloud here.
>
> It seems to me that this would conflict with the DateAndTime
> DESCRIPTION clause in RFC 2579.
While true, it is existing practice in other MIB modules to use
'0000000000000000'H as a NULL value and I personally consider not
allowing this special value an oversight in the SMIv2 revision.
/js
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