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RE: Minutes from the sming wg interim meeting, June6-8,2002 in W ashington DC
Hi -
> Message-ID: <6D745637A7E0F94DA070743C55CDA9BA075E97@NHROCMBX1.ets.enterasys.com>
> From: "Harrington, David" <dbh@enterasys.com>
> To: "'Steve Waldbusser'" <waldbusser@nextbeacon.com>,
> "David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>
> Cc: sming@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Minutes from the sming wg interim meeting, June6-8,2002 in W
> ashington DC
> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 06:03:39 -0400
...
> As SNMP is being more widely accepted, other standards bodies are creating
> their own mibs, and are not always following all the crappy little rules we
> define. I have recently run into mibs from other organizations with 0
> sub-ids, so we need to be careful about relying on good OID-assignment
> behavior, and make sure the rationale behind any crappy little rules that
> would affect this are clearly and prominently documented.
...
Indeed, what RFC 2578 does have to say about the matter:
7.10
...
| Note that the final sub-identifier of any administratively assigned
| name for an object shall be positive. A zero-valued final sub-
| identifier is reserved for future use.
...
8.5
...
| administratively assigned name. In order to achieve compatibility
| with SNMPv1 traps, both when converting SMIv1 information modules
| to/from this SMI, and in the procedures employed by multi-lingual
| systems and proxy forwarding applications, the next to last sub-
| identifier in the name of any newly-defined notification must have
| the value zero.
This taken together leads me to believe that *embedded*
zero sub-identifiers are currently perfectly legal. The only
restriction on the use of zero is for the final sub-identifier
assigned in an OBJECT-TYPE.
Am I missing something?
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