Re: InetAddressType and InetAddress in INET-ADDRESS-MIB

[Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

Hi!

Bert> The current I-D draft-ietf-ops-rfc2851-update-00.txt contains this TC:

Bert> [...]                          In other words, the object identifiers
Bert>             for the InetAddressType object and the InetAddress object
Bert>             MUST have the same length and the last sub-identifier of
Bert>             the InetAddressType object MUST be 1 less than the last
Bert>             sub-identifier of the InetAddress object.

Bert> [...] So the question that I want to see answered is:

Bert> - How many tools/apps/code-generators do we know about that
Bert>   indeed make use of this rule
Bert> - How does this rule help any such tools
Bert> - How important are those tools so that they justify this extra
Bert>   MUST rule?

This does not answer your questions, however, it's related:
Libsmi *checks* for this rule and warns about violations.
An example (the only one I found from the current I-Ds) from
draft-nadeau-mpls-vpn-mib-00.txt:

./MPLS-VPN-MIB:398: `InetAddress' object should have an accompanied preceding `InetAdressType' object
./MPLS-VPN-MIB:406: `InetAddress' object should have an accompanied preceding `InetAdressType' object
./MPLS-VPN-MIB:416: `InetAddress' object should have an accompanied preceding `InetAdressType' object

 -frank