Re: sming wg agenda proposal

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

>>>>> Andy Bierman writes:

Andy> MIB descriptors tend to be hard-to-read, almost random
Andy> abbreviations, in an attempt to create globally unique
Andy> identifiers with <= 32 chars.  I want to allow for simpler XML
Andy> names that are only unique within the scope of their parent
Andy> element. XML element names can have hyphens and SMI descriptors
Andy> can't.

SMIng did allow hyphens. SMIng did have class structures where each
class had its own naming scope - no need for globally unique names.
Globally unique names were only required in the SNMP protocol
mappings, to facilitate conversion to SMIv2. Mappings to other
formalisms could have used the shorter names.

We have thrown all this over the board to achieve "simplicity". Now we
talk about introducing additional names again to facilitate more human
friendly mappings to XML, which kind of acknowledges that there are
important mappings of our data structures for non-SNMP purposes...

/js

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