RE: DisplayString in guidelines 4.6.1.4 and Appendix D

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

> I know I mentioned this before, but sometimes a lot of
> guidelines and rules have to ignored when the MIB under
> review is an SMIv1 to SMIv2 conversion.  I know that
> doesn't come up in IETF reviews very often, but it
> still happens from time to time in Cisco reviews. 
> 
> Since we (at Cisco) plan to enforce the guidelines
> in this document for our Enterprise MIB reviews, I
> think we should account for SMIv1 -> SMIv2 conversions.
> 
Mmmm... what a sad story. Here we are, 7 or 8 years after
IETF made writing MIB modules SMIv2 mandatory. And we're
still faced with "lots of" SMIv1->SMIv2 stuff?

Will we ever make progress?
Bert
> 
> >Mike
> 
> Andy
> 
>