Re: Section 4.6.5 [was: 4.5] OID size limits

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>
> To: "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Section 4.6.5 [was: 4.5] OID size limits
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> All other things being equal, I'd prefer to see static SIZE restrictions
> to enforce the 128 subid cap.  But it's easy to see that there are cases
> where this will not work because it will be too strict.  Specifically,
...
> However, I don't want to be quite so specific the guidelines document
> for fear of crossing the line into CLR-dom.
...

Depending on the kind of access control policies envisioned for the
tables in question, a 128 subid cap may be not strict enough.  However,
I agree that there's danger of wandering into CLR-land, and think
that the text you propose is good enough and we should move on.

Randy