Re: Issue with MIB compilation requirement in "AD Review of I-Ds" (http://www.ietf.org/ID-nits.html)

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> C M Heard writes:

Mike> It would be better if we could get the mailer service to at
Mike> least omit the namelength-32 warnings, which IMHO are just
Mike> annoying noise.  Thus, it would be nice if the default assumed
Mike> by the mailer service could be "smilint -l 9 -s -i
Mike> namelength-32".

If there would be a document which says that the underlying SMIv2 rule
is considered to be not important anymore, then I am happy to just
remove this warning from smilint. (I am myself annoyed by it so I
usually turn it off anyway. In fact, the -i option was added some time
ago specifically to handle this case...)

In other words, rather than spending time to write down how to tweak
specific tools to not carefully check what is written down in the
SMIv2 specs, I would prefer a sentence which says that there is
consensus that this rule serves no purpose and then tools will just
get changed.

Does this make sense?

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>