Re: Draft MIB Review Guidelines

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 01:00 AM 11/8/2002 -0800, C. M. Heard wrote:
>Colleagues,

I have some concerns about the smilint requirements.
BTW, I use this tool all the time, and rely on it for Cisco
MIB reviews. There are some warning messages that I don't
usually fix, and some that I think smilint doesn't catch 
(but SMICng does catch).

I think we MUST fix errors ( < severity 5 ) and SHOULD 
fix warnings ( >= severity 5 ).

I have a question about the sev-6 warning 
"fooType differs from FooType only in case".
Is this mentioned anywhere in the SMI as something not to do?
I realize it may be questionable coding practice, but this
is the SMI, not C code.  Anyway, I don't make Cisco MIB authors
fix this and it shows up in some of our MIBs.

Also, I noticed that it doesn't check for the type name in the
SEQUENCE to be exactly the same as in the OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX clause.

>Mike

Andy