Re: Last Call: Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks to Proposed Standard

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 09:29 AM 10/11/2001 -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:

>The following groups are unconditionally optional, due to their omission
>from any MODULE-COMPLIANCE statements:
>
>etherStatsHighCapacityGroup
>etherHistoryHighCapacityGroup
>hostHighCapacityGroup
>hostTopNHighCapacityGroup
>matrixHighCapacityGroup
>captureBufferHighCapacityGroup
>
>Although RFC 2580 makes it clear that groups that are defined but not
>referenced are unconditionally optional, IMHO it's better to include
>all groups in a MODULE-COMPLIANCE statement to give the author a chance
>to describe under what circumstances they're optional.

I agree. I think there should be a GROUP clause present in a current
MODULE-COMPLIANCE macro for every current group, except
for the groups listed in the MANDATORY-GROUPS clause (of course).

>   Bill

Andy