Re: some IETF SMIv2 MIB metrics

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> I am playing a little bit with simple metrics for MIB modules. I just
> thought it might be useful to share some metrics I just computed for
> the SMIv2 MIBs published by the IETF.
[ ... ]
> # The following table shows the distribution of the number of references
> # to externally defined types in the set of loaded MIB modules.
> 
> MODULE                          TYPE                       EXT-USAGE
> SNMPv2-SMI                      Counter32                    38.7%
> SNMPv2-SMI                      Gauge32                       5.9%
> SNMPv2-TC                       RowStatus                     5.7%
> SNMPv2-TC                       TruthValue                    5.4%
> SNMPv2-SMI                      IpAddress                     4.0%
> SNMPv2-TC                       TimeStamp                     3.3%
> SNMPv2-SMI                      Counter64                     2.8%
[ ... ]

I'm curious as to why Integer32 and Unsigned32 are missing from this
table.  (It might also be useful to include predefined ASN.1 types
such as INTEGER, OCTET STRING, and OBJECT IDENTIFIER also.)

//cmh