Re: Integer32 vs. INTEGER

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>
> To: "Andy Bierman" <abierman@cisco.com>; <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Integer32 vs. INTEGER
...
> I'd ask a more fundamental set of questions, which are:
>   1) why even allow INTEGER?
>   2) why not have type "Enum"
>
> With these in place, the MIB module language would be easier to
> understand. But oh, I forgot, "we" thought it would be too much
> work when converting from the SMIv1 format to the SMIv2 format
> to require that.
...

There's also that pesky detail that ASN.1 has an enumeration
type built in, but its tag is distinct from INTEGER.  (That Counter32
should get a tag of its own while the native ASN.1 enumeration
type is not used at all simply boggles the mind.)

Randy