Re: Enumerated INTEGER - start with zero or one (0 or 1) ?

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 04:31 PM 12/29/2002 +0100, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
>What is our collective thinking about this?
>
>While reviewing the RMON APM MIB module, I find that most
>enumerations start with 1, but a few start with 0 (zero)
>for (as far as I can tell) no good reason.
>
>RFC2578 sect 7.1.1. recommends that they start at 1.
>Should we encourage people to include an explantion in the 
>DESCRIPTION clause if they do not follow that recommendation?

I think the RMON enumerations should be changed to follow
the guidelines.  If I remember correctly, an acceptable
reason for using zero is to model external data that
already use the value zero.


>In any event, it would be good if we can make some clarification
>in the GUIDELINES doc, so that we have a consistent review of
>this topic.
>
>Thanks,
>Bert 

Andy