RE: DisplayString in guidelines 4.6.1.4 and Appendix D

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

> SnmpAdminString is appropriae for some uses; DisplayString is
> appropriate for some uses. For instance, it was decided that 
> sysContact should continue to be given using DisplayString as
> a least-common denominator "standard" for administrator names,

I doubt that that was the reason. My recollection is that we 
did not want to change it while moving from DS to STD.
I personally thought making the change was OK, but the majority
of the SNMPv3 WG thought not. So we kept it and basically said
we'd have to do a SnmpAdminString based set of objects for
the current DisplayStrings in the system group and then 
deprecate the old objects.

> much as UDP/IPv4 is the least common denominator standard
> transport for SNMP. Just as UDP can be
> supplemented with TCP or other transport can be supplemented by a
> sysContact-like object in SnmpAdminString/UTF8 format.
> 
> DisplayString should not be verboten.
> 
Correct, but it's use will be minimal in new MIB modules I think.

Bert
> dbh
>