RE: Guidelines Document and Optional Groups

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

> 
> (*) Actually, the situation is not quite this simple.  Only
> snmpTrapOID is needed by all notification generators;
> snmpTrapEnterprise is only needed for proxies.  Probably each object
> should have been in a separate group, with snmpTrapOIDGroup
> mandatory in the SNMPv2-MIB's compliance statement and
> snmpTrapEnterpriseGroup mandatory in (a replacement for) the
> snmpProxyTrapForwardCompliance in the coex doc's SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB.
> But I fear that I am opening an unwelcome can of worms :-(
> 
I believe that proper grouping of objects and notifications is a very
difficult process in many cases. And I also suspect that most MIB designers
and MIB reviewers do not give it enough attention....

Now if that were all the problems we had... :-)

Bert
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