RE: guidelines section 4.7 (index objects in notifications)

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. M. Heard [mailto:heard@pobox.com]
> Sent: donderdag 6 februari 2003 18:37
> To: Mreview (E-mail)
> Cc: Michael Kirkham
> Subject: Re: guidelines section 4.7 (index objects in notifications)
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Michael Kirkham wrote:
> > | 4.7.  Notification Definitions
> > ...
> > |  - Inaccessible objects MUST NOT appear in the OBJECTS clause.
> > 
> > I was also suggest that objects that are indices of columnar objects
> > already in the notification's OBJECTS clause SHOULD NOT 
> also appear in the
> > OBJECTS clause.  The value of such objects are implicitly 
> included in the
> > instance identifiers for for the columnar object in the 
> notification, so
> > it's just redundant waste of space.
> 
> While this is true, I haven't bothered to put it into the guidelines
> (and I don't normally bother to look for it in reviews) because there
> are very few readable index objects these days.  Do the MIB Doctors
> think it's worth having some text to cover this?  If so, I'll add it
> to the next version of the draft.
> 
I agree with your answer, and I feel it occurs so rarely that
I'd not mention it. If we see it we can still bring it up.

Bert
> Mike
> 
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