Re: printermib - compliance statement(s)

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

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, C. M. Heard wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> > > - You have added new OBJECT-GROUPS to prtMIBCompliance.
> 
> I would never allow this.  It silently changes the meaning
> of any compliance statement or capabilities statement that
> references the group.  Those can (and in the case of
> capabilities statements, will) reside in other modules
> that are not subject to IETF change control.

Oops, I see that I misread what you wrote.  If they are **not**
adding objects to groups, then what they are doing at least won't
silently change the meaning of other MIB modules.  That's what
I was hollering about.  The other objections still stand, but a
waiver based on cost/benefit analysis would not be unreasonable.
You might ask them to them document it, though.

//cmh