Omission from reviewer's guide: one hour rule

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

On 28 Jan 2003, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote (on
comp.protocols.snmp):
> > The RFC 2578 mentions that one should use Counter64 only if Counter32
> > would have wrapped in an hour. Why is this so?
> 
> There are recently been some debate about this in the IETF and I guess
> this rule does apply in this form anymore. There will be a MIB reviewer
> guidelines document soon which will address among many other things this
> issue. In fact, there is already a published IETF MIB in RFC 3289 which
> solely uses Counter64 and I guess we will see more of them in the
> future.

I missed that one.  It was not on my radar screen :)

//cmh