Re: DisplayString in guidelines 4.6.1.4 and Appendix D

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

[ in reply to comments/review <draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-00.txt> ]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> - sect 4.6.1.4, end of page 14
>   Mmm... the DisplayString is still current, although we
>   rarely want to allow people to use it anymore. We prefer
>   UTF-8 based TCs like SnmpAdminString.
>   Do we want to make a note of that? I think it would be
>   good. It is a thing that I see still far too often.

This escaped my radar because I tend not to be as tuned-in to i18n
issues as I ought to be.  I propose the following remedy:

(a) remove DisplayString from the list of TCs mentioned in 4.6.1.4;
(b) remove DisplayString from the list of "Commonly Used TCs" in
    Appendix D, and add a second note under the list of TCs from
    SNMPv2-TC:

   Note 1.  InstancePointer is obsolete and MUST NOT be used.
   Note 2.  DisplayString does not support internationalized text.
            New MIB modules SHOULD use SnmpAdminString instead.

Changes along these lines were what I suggested in my
reply to Harrie Hazewinkel's comments that appeared on
the mibs@ops.ietf.org list.

Do these changes adequately address the concerns?

Mike