Re: usage of "macro invocation" terminology in the MIB review guidelinesdocument

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

>>>>> C M Heard writes:

Mike> In several places the draft "Guidelines for MIB Authors and
Mike> Reviewers" document that I posted last month uses "macro
Mike> invocation" terminology that was more-or-less copied from RFC
Mike> 2578, RFC 2579, and RFC 2580.  The phrases where this usage
Mike> appears are as follows:

[...]

Mike> Dave Perkins, in an off-line e-mail exchange, has suggested that
Mike> this terminology is unhelpful and should be avoided.  Some
Mike> replacements that have been kicked around are:

[...]

It is my understanding that this guidelines document describes
guidelines for using the SMIv2 and as such it should use the SMIv2
terminology (regardless whether we would choose the same terms today
or not).

/js

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