RE: FW: draft-ietf-sigtran-sctp-mib-09.txt

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

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> Thanks Mike. I think those are reasonable (and also to my
> undertsanding) only clarifying editorial changes. So once these
> are done, I think they will address the comments that were raised
> during IETF Last Call.
> 
> Let me also remind the authors, that we had agreed that
>    sctpAssocRemHostName OBJECT-TYPE
>      SYNTAX         OCTET STRING (SIZE(0..115))
>      MAX-ACCESS     read-only
>      STATUS         current
>      DESCRIPTION
>           "The peer's DNS name. This object needs to have the same
>           format as the encoding in the DNS protocol. This implies that
>           the domain name can be up to 255 octets long, each octet being
>           0<=x<=255 as value with US-ASCII A-Z having a case insensitive
>           matching.
> 
> Needed to be changed to allow for a size of (0..255). And I think
> this raises another issue that the index in sctpLookupRemHostNameTable
> will possibly go over 128 subIDs, so there should be some text in there
> that explains that users should be carefull not to use hostnames that
> are longer than 115 for now (e.g. while using SNMPv1/v2c or v3).

Indeed, it will require that some text similar to what was recommended for
the other conceptual row objects be added to the sctpLookupRemHostNameEntry
DESCRIPTION clause.  In this case the size limit will indeed be 115 octets
and the index object will be sctpAssocRemHostName.

In addition, the recommended text for the "Compiling Notes" section needs
to be changed like this:

FROM:
   warning: index of row `sctpAssocLocalAddrEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 141 subidentifier(s)
   warning: index of row `sctpAssocRemAddrEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 141 subidentifier(s)
   warning: index of row `sctpLookupRemPrimIPAddrEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 141 subidentifier(s)
   warning: index of row `sctpLookupRemIPAddrEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 141 subidentifier(s)

TO:
   warning: index of row `sctpAssocLocalAddrEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 141 subidentifier(s)
   warning: index of row `sctpAssocRemAddrEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 141 subidentifier(s)
   warning: index of row `sctpLookupRemHostNameEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 140 subidentifier(s)
   warning: index of row `sctpLookupRemPrimIPAddrEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 141 subidentifier(s)
   warning: index of row `sctpLookupRemIPAddrEntry' can exceed OID
      size limit by 141 subidentifier(s)

> Mike, is that OK with you too?

Sure.

//cmh