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RE: FW: Updating the MIB security guidelines



Thanks for comments. I will pick up the minor comments.
But, w.r.t. this:
> > -- for all MIBs you must evaluate
> > 
> >    There are a number of managed objects in this MIB module with a 
> >    MAX-ACCESS claise of read-only and/or notify-only. Some of these
> 
> I think the evaluation which readable information is sensitive also
> applies to read-write and read-create objects since they are readable
> as well. So probably it is simpler to just say that the following
> evaluation has to be done for _all_ managed objects.
> 

That is what we indeed had in the old boiler plate, but I often found
that people would not differentiate between the read nad write
sensitivity/impacts and vulenerabilities. If I remember well then
the security ADs did make a remakr about that quite a while ago too.

But maybe I can come up with some text that encourages to do it right
in just this place (isntead of having it at different places.

Bert