Object Identifier refinements.

[Michael Kirkham <mikek@muonics.com>]

[...After embarrassing myself on the snmpv3 list regarding object
identifier indices... :)]

I would like to suggest that object identifiers should be able to be
refined in SMIng in order to specify a limit to the number of
subidentifiers that can be present when an object identifier type object
is used as an index.  Otherwise, it is difficult for a validation tool to
determine the author's intentions -- ie., whether they expect the limit to
be the maximum number that will fit given the object's depth in OID space
and the other indices, or whether the author is forgetting to take the
128-subidentifier limit into account and is defining something illegal.
Allowing them to have refinements would allow a validation tool to a
potential conflict if an OID index has no refinement or know definitively
if there is a conflict if there is a refinement.

I poked around a bit and didn't see this capability in the IRTF or the
SMI-DS proposals.

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Michael Kirkham
www.muonics.com