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Re: printermib - problems other than compliances
- To: "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
- Subject: Re: printermib - problems other than compliances
- From: "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:41:10 -0800 (PST)
- In-reply-to: <5.2.0.9.2.20030211101142.02dc5ec0@127.0.0.1>
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, David T. Perkins wrote:
> I reviewed the printer MIB long time ago. It, like a few others,
> has problems, but the implementors said "it's already in shipping
> devices and you can't change it, not even to fix it".
I'd be quite sympathetic to that. The problem now is that the current
printermib draft itself proposes to change a whole lot of things in
non backward-compatible ways.
//cmh